INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING WORKS. 
* LIVES of SACRED POETS. Containing Introductory 
Sketch of Sacred Poetry. George Wither, Francis Quarles, 
Giles Fletcher, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw. By 
R. A. WILLMOTT, Esq., Trinity College Cambridge. 4 s. 6d. 
The writer of these Lives has endea- 
voured to present as ample a view as the 
limits of a volume would permit, of the 
state of Sacred Poetry in the reigns of 
Elizabeth, James the First, and Charles 
the First. Among the poets and distin- 
guished individuals, of whom Biogra- 
phical and Critical Sketches are given, 
may be enumerated R. Southwell; H. 
Constable ; B. Barnes; Francis Davison, 
the author of some exquisite Versions 
from the Psalms ; Donne ; W. Browne, 
the sweetest disciple of Spenser’s Pas- 
toral School; Sir John Denham ; Hey- 
wood, the author of the Hierarchie of 
the Blessed Angels ; G. Sandys ; Lord 
Bacon, the friend of Herbert; Hobbes, 
the philosopher, and Ben Jonson, his 
associate in the translation of the Ad- 
vancement of Learning ; the celebrated 
Lord Herbert, of Cherbury ; the accom- 
plished aud learned Selden ; Arch- 
bishops Williams and Laud; Lord Pem- 
broke, the lover and loved of poets ; 
Cowley, the affectionate friend of Cra- 
shaw, &c. 
* LIVES of EMINENT CHRISTIANS. By the Rev. 
R. B. HONE, M.A., Curate of Portsmouth. Two vols. 9s. 
The paths of good men are commonly 
so full of peace, and the sorrows which 
befall them, so mercifully softened and 
blessed by a sacred influence, that few 
Contents: The Lives of Bishop Wilson; Archbishop Usher; 
Dr. Hammond; John Evelyn; Bernard Gilpin; Philip de 
Mornay; Bishop Bedell ; and Dr. Horneck. 
more pleasing or successful ways of re- 
commending the fear and love of God 
have been found, than the publication 
of religious biography. 
LIGHT IN DARKNESS; or, the RECORDS of a VIL- 
LAGE RECTORY. 3s. 6d. 
Happy the man that sees a God employed 
In all the good and ill that chequer life.-— Cowper. 
Contents. Introductory Chapter ; The Village. — The Retired Trades- 
man. — The Good Aunt. — The Family at the Hall. —The Village School- 
master. — The Village Apothecary. — The Deserted Wife. 
* READINGS in POETRY. A Selection from the Works 
of the best English Poets, from Spenser to the present times ; and 
Specimens of the American Poets. With Literary Notices of the 
Writers, and brief explanatory Notes. 4s. 6d. 
Care has been taken to select such 
pieces and passages as best illustrate 
the style of the respective Authors, and 
are, at the same time, not beyond the 
average capacity of youthful students. 
It is scarcely necessary to add, that the 
most scrupulous attention has been paid 
to the moral character of the extracts. 
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