Chapter I: Wish He Had Paid It First (2)

Which, said the great Bentley, in a sermon preached before the University of Cambridge, on the 5th of November, 1715, "is a known expression in profane authors, opposed sometimes, [Greek: tois sophois], _to the wise_, and ever denotes the most, and generally the meanest of mankind." "Besides the mirth devoted character," (_the wooden spoon_,) says the writer first quoted, there "are always a few, a chosen few, a degree lower than the [Greek: Hoi polloi], constantly written down alphabetically, who serve to exonerate the '_wooden spoon_,' in part, from the ignominy of the day; and these undergo various epithets, according to their accidental number. If there was but one, he was called _Bion_, who carried all his learning about him without the slightest inconvenience. If there were two, they were dubbed the _Scipios; Damon and Pythias; Hercules and Atlas; Castor and Pollux_. If three, they were _ad libitum_, the _three Graces_; or the _three Furies; the Magi_; or _Noah_, _Daniel_, and _Job_. If seven, they were _the seven Wise Men_; or _the Seven Wonders of the World_. If nine, they were the unfortunate _Suitors of the Muses_. If twelve, they became the _Apostles_. If thirteen, either they deserved a round dozen, or, like the Americans, should bear thirteen stripes on their _coat and arms_. Lastly, they were sometimes styled _constant quantities_, and _Martyrs_; or the thirteenth was designated the _least_ of the _Apostles_; and, should there be a fourteenth, he was _unworthy to be called an Apostle_!" An unknown pen has immortalized the [Greek: Hoi polloi], by the following--

ODE TO THE UNAMBITIOUS AND UNDISTINGUISHED BACHELORS.

"Post tot naufragia tutus."--VIRG.

Thrice happy ye, through toil and dangers past,
Who rest upon that peaceful shore,
Where all your fagging is no more,
And gain the long-expected port at last.

Yours are the sweets, the ravishing delights,
To doze and snore upon your noontide beds;
No chapel-bell your peaceful sleep affrights,
No problems trouble now your empty heads.

Yet, if the heavenly muse is not mistaken,
And poets say the muse can rightly guess,
I fear, full many of you must confess
That you have barely _saved your bacon_.

Amidst th' appalling problematic war,
Where dire equations frown'd in dread array,
Ye never strove to find the arduous way,
To where proud Granta's honours shine afar.

Within that dreadful mansion have ye stood,
When _moderators_ glared with looks uncivil,
How often have ye d--d their souls, their blood,
And wished all _mathematics_ at the devil!

But ah! what terrors on that fatal day
Your souls appall'd, when, to your stupid gaze,
Appear'd the _biquadratic's_ darken'd maze,
And problems ranged in horrible array!

Hard was the task, I ween, the labour great,
To the wish'd port to find your uncouth way--
How did ye toil, and fag, and fume, and fret,
And--what the bashful muse would blush to say.

But now your painful terrors all are o'er--
Cloth'd in the glories of a full-sleev'd gown,
Ye strut majestically up and down,
And now ye fag, and now ye fear no more.

But although many men of this class are not gifted with that species of perception suited to mathematical studies, however desirable it may be that the mind should be subject to that _best of all correctives_, the abstruse sciences, they are often possessed of what may be justly denominated "great talents." A remarkable instance of this fact was manifested in the person of a late fellow of Trinity (now no longer so--"for conscience-sake,") who wrote a tragedy whilst still a boy of sixteen or seventeen, that was produced at Covent Garden with success, obtained the only vacant _Craven scholarship_ in his freshman's year (always considered a high test of classical ability,) and carried off other classical university prizes. Yet he, when he came to be examined for his degree, though he sat and wrote out _whole books of Homer_ from memory, he was unable to go through the first problem of Euclid: for when told that he _must_ do something _in mathematics_, he wrote down, after a fashion, the A's and B's, but without describing the figure, a necessary accompaniment. Of the omission he was reminded by the examiner--"Oh! _the picture, you mean_," was his reply, and, drawing a triangle of a true _isosceles_ cut, instead of an _equilateral_ one, he added thereto, _a la heraldique_, by way of supporters, two _ovals_ of equal height, which completed his only mathematical effort. His learning and talents, however, procured him his degree and a fellowship. To others, mathematics are an inexhaustible source of delight, and such a mind it was that penned _The Address to Mathematics_, in "The Cambridge Tart," beginning--

"With thee, divine Mathesis, let me live!
Effuse source of evidence and truth!"

PORSON gave a singular proof of his "fondness for Algebra," says the _Sexagenarian_, by composing an equation in Greek, the original being comprised in one line. When resident in college, he would frequently amuse himself by sending to his friends scraps of Greek of a like character, for solution. The purport of one was, "Find the value of _nothing_." The next time he met his friend, he addressed him with, "Well, have you succeeded in finding the _value of nothing_?" "Yes," replied his friend. "What is it?" "Sixpence I gave the gyp for bringing your note," was the rejoinder.

The late Professor Vince meeting a fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, the next morning after a high wind had blown down several of the fine old trees in the walks, some of three centuries' standing, he was addressed with, "a terrible storm last night, Mr. Professor." "Yes," he replied, "it was

A RARE MATHEMATICAL WIND."

"Mathematical wind!" exclaimed the other, "how so, Doctor?" "Why you see it has _extracted a great many roots_!" A Johnian one day eating _apple-pie_ by the side of a Johnian fellow, an inveterate punster, he facetiously observed,

"HE WAS RAISING APPLE-PIE TO THE Tth POWER:"

Another fellow walking down the hall, after dinner, and slipping some distance on _smooth flags_, looked over his shoulder and observed to one following him--"_An inclined plane_."

Another Cantab, when a student of Bene't, now rector of H----, Suffolk, sung his song of "divine Mathesis:"--

Let mathematicians and geometricians
Talk of circles' and triangles' charms,
The figure I prize is a girl with bright eyes,
And the circle that's formed by her arms.

* * * * *

THE CLASSICAL TRIPOS AND THE WOODEN WEDGE.

This class of Cambridge honours, for which none can become candidates but those who have attained mathematical distinction, was instituted by a Grace of the Senate, in 1822. As its title implies, it is divided into three classes. The first examination took place in 1824, when the Cantabs were saved the labour of _gestation_, by the last man in the third class being named _Wedgewood_, which was transposed by some wag to _wooden wedge_--and by that _soubriquet_, equivalent to the _wooden spoon_, all men so circumstanced are now designated in the colloquial phraseology of the University. It is but justice to Mr. W. to add, however, that he also attained the high mathematical distinction of eighth wrangler of his year. By the same decree of the Senate

A PREVIOUS EXAMINATION

Was established at Cambridge (answering to the Oxford "Little-go,") by which all students are required to undergo an examination in Classics and Divinity, in the Lent term of the second year of their residence. The successful candidates are divided into two classes only: but there is always a select few who are _allowed_ to pass, after an extra trial of skill: these are lumped at the end, and have been designated "_Elegant Extracts_." Some wag furnished Jackson's Oxford Journal with this

SYLLOGISTIC EXERCISE FOR THE LITTLE-GO MEN.

No cat has _two_ tails.
A cat has _one_ tail _more_ than no cat.
_Ergo_--A cat has three tails.

The following song (in the true spirit of a non-reading man) is from the pen of a learned seceding Cantab, the late Dr. John Disney, who, after graduating at Peter-House, Cambridge, LL.B., and for some time officiating as a minister of the Established Church, resigned a living "for conscience sake," and closed his career as Minister of the Unitarian Chapel, in Essex-street, Strand:--

Come, my good College lads! and attend to my lays,
I'll show you the folly of poring o'er books;
For all you get by it is mere empty praise,
Or a poor meagre fellowship, and sour looks.

_Chorus._

Then lay by your books, lads, and never repine;
And cram not your attics,
With dry mathematics,
But moisten your clay with a bumper of wine.

The first of mechanics was old Archimedes,
Who play'd with Rome's ships as we'd play cup and ball,
To play the same game I can't see where the need is,
Or why we should fag mathematics at all.
Then lay by your books, lads, &c.

Great Newton found out the binomial law,
To raise X -|- Y to the power of B;
Found the distance of planets that he never saw,
And we most probably never shall see.
Then lay by your books, lads, &c.

Let Whiston and Ditton star-gazing enjoy,
And taste all the sweets mathematics can give;
Let us for our time find a better employ,
And knowing life's sweets, let us learn how to live.
Then lay by your books, lads, &c.

These men _ex absurdo_, conclusions may draw,
Perpetual motion they never could find;
Not one of the set, lads, can balance a straw,
And longitude seeking is hunting the wind.
Then lay by your books, lads, &c.

If we study at all, let us study the means
To make ourselves friends, and to keep them when made;
Learn to value the blessings kind heaven ordains,
To make others happy, let that be our trade.

_Finale._

Let each day be better than each day before,
Without pain or sorrow,
To-day or to-morrow,
May we live, my good lads, to see many days more.

* * * * *

A DREADFUL FIT OF RHEUMATISM.

Two Cantabs, brothers, named Whiter, one the learned author of _Etymologicum Magnum_, the other an amiable divine; both were remarkable, the one for being six, the other about five feet in height. The taller was eccentric and often absent in his habits, the other a wag. Both were invited to the same party, and the taller being first ready, slipped on the coat of the shorter, and wended his way into a crowded room of fashionables, to whom his eccentricities being familiar, they were not much surprised at seeing him encased in a coat, the tail of which scarcely reached his hips, whilst the sleeves ran short of his elbows; in fact, it was a perfect _strait jacket_, and he had not been long seated before he began to complain to every body that he was suffering from a dreadful fit of _rheumatism_. One or two suggested the _tightness_ of his coat as the cause of his pain; but he remained rheumatic in spite of them, till his brother's approach threw the whole party into a fit of convulsive laughter, as he came sailing into the room, his coat-tails sweeping the room, _en traine_, and his arms performing the like service on either side, as he exclaimed, to his astonished brother, "Why, Bob, you have got my coat on!" Bob then discovered that his friends' hints bordered on the truth, and the two exchanged garments forthwith, to the amusement of all present.

* * * * *

DR. PARR AN INGRATE.

The Doctor was once staying with the late great and good Mr. Roscoe, when many of the most distinguished Whigs were his guests also, out of compliment to whom the Doctor forbore to indulge in his customary after-dinner pipe. At length, when wine and words had circulated briskly, and twilight began to set in, he insisted upon mounting to his own room to have a whiff _solus_. Having groped his way up stairs, somewhat exhausted with the effort, he threw himself into what he took to be an arm-chair. Suddenly the ears of the party were assailed with awful moans and groans, as of some one in tribulation. Mr. Roscoe hastened to learn the cause, and no sooner reached the stairs' foot, than he heard the Doctor calling lustily for his man John, adding, in more supplicatory accents, "Will nobody help a Christian man in distress! Will nobody help a Christian man in distress!" Mr. Roscoe mounted to the rescue, but could not forbear a hearty laugh, as he beheld Dr. P. locked in the close embrace of a large old-fashioned grate, which he had mistaken for an arm-chair, and from which he was in vain struggling to relieve himself.

* * * * *

MON DIEU--LE DIABLE.

When Robert the Devil was first produced at Paris, and the opera going folk were on the _qui vive_ for the promised appearance of the Prince of Darkness, a certain Cantab, the facial line of whose countenance bordered on the _demoniacal_, went to see him make his bow to a Parisian audience, and happened to enter the same _loge_ from whence a Parisian belle was anxiously watching the _entrée_ of Monsieur Le Robert. Attracted by the creaking of the _loge_ door, on suddenly turning her head in its direction, she caught a glimpse of our Cambridge friend, and was so forcibly struck with the expression of his countenance, that she went into hysterics, exclaiming, "Mon Dieu! Le Diable!"

* * * * *

SOME CRITICAL CIVILITIES.

The famous editor of Demosthenes, John Taylor, D.D. being accused of saying Bishop Warburton was no scholar, denied it, but owned he always thought so. Upon this Warburton called him "The Learned Dunce." When Parr, in the British Critic for 1795, called Porson "a giant in literature," and "a prodigy in intellect," the Professor took it in dudgeon, and said, "_What right has any one to tell the height of a man he cannot measure?_" A Dutch commentator having called Bentley "Egregius" and "[Greek: Ho panu]," "What right, (said the Doctor) has that fellow to quote me; "_does he think that I will set my pearls in his dunghill_?" Baxter, in the second edition of his Horace, said the great Bentley seemed to him "rather to have buried Horace under a heap of rubbish than to have illustrated him." And

BENTLEY SAID OF JOSHUA BARNES,

Who, to please his religious wife, composed a Greek ode to prove King Solomon wrote Homer's Iliad, that he was

"[Greek: Honos pros lyran]--_Asinus ad Lyram_:"

Joshua replied, that they who said this of him had not understanding enough to be poets, or wanted the [Greek: Ho nous pros lyran].

* * * * *

SIR BUSICK AND SIR ISAAC AGAIN.

I have before spoken of these two Cambridge knights and rival physicians, but there yet remains to be told of them, that on their meeting each other, perchance, in the street or the senate house, the latter addressing his rival in an ironical speech of condolence, to the effect, "I regret to hear you are ill, Sir Busick." "Sir, _I sick_!" (Sir Isaac) retorted the wit, "I never was better in my life!" Many of my readers have no doubt seen the anecdote of Voltaire's building a church, and causing to be engraved on the front thereof, the vain record,

"_Voltaire erexit hoc Templum Deo_."

A similar spirit seized a Mr. COLE of Cambridge, who left money either to erect the church or the steeple of St. Clement's, in Bridge-street, of that town, on condition that his name was placed on the front of it. The condition was complied with to the letter, thus, by the tasteful judgment of some Cambridge wag:--

COLE: DEUM.

An admirably turned pun, which, I may add, for the benefit of my English readers, signifies, _Worship God_. I have already noticed the _mathematical_ "_Pons Asinorum_" of our mother of Cambridge. One of her waggish sons has likewise contrived, for their amusement, a _classical Pons Asinorum_, known as

THE FRESHMAN'S PUZZLE.

I knew a Trinity man of absent habits, who actually, after residing two years in college, having occasion to call upon an old school fellow, a scholar of Bene't (_id est_, Corpus Christi College,) before it was _rebuilt_, was so little acquainted with the localities of the university, that he was obliged to inquire his way, though not two hundred yards from Trinity. Such a man could scarcely be expected to know, what most Cantabs do, that Qui Church, which is situated about four miles from Cambridge, "rears its head" in rural simplicity in the midst of the _open fields_, seemingly without the "bills of mortality;" for not so much as a cottage keeps it in countenance. This gave occasion for a Cambridge wag to invent the following puzzle:--

"Templum QUIstat in agris,"

Which has caused many a freshman a sleepless night, who, ignorant of the _status_ QUI, has racked his brains to translate the above, _minus_ a QUOD _pro_ QUI.

* * * * *

A SLY HUMOURIST.

Edmund Gurnay, B.D., Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1601, was a sly humourist. The Master had a great desire to get the garden to himself, and, either by threats or persuasion, get all the rest of the fellows to resign their keys; but upon his application to Gurnay, he absolutely refused to part with his right. "I have got the other fellows' keys," quoth the master. "Then pray, master, keep them, and you and I will shut them all out." "Sir, I expect to be obliged; am I not your master?" "Yes, sir (said Gurnay;) and am I not your fellow?" At another time he was complained of to the bishop, for refusing to wear the surplice, and was cited to appear before him, and told, that he expected he should always wear it; whereupon, he came home, and rode a journey with it on. This reminds one of

A STORY OF A NOBLE OXONIAN,

Then Mr. afterwards Lord Lyttleton, to whom the epithet of "_Reprobus_," they say, might have been applied with more justice than it was to the famous Saxon Bishop, St. Wulstan, by the monks of his day. Humour was his lordship's natural element, and whilst resident at Christ Church, Oxford, he dressed himself in a bright scarlet hunting coat, top-boots and spurs, buckskin breeches, &c., and putting his gown over all, presented himself to the head of his college, who was a strict disciplinarian. "Good God! Mr. Lyttleton," exclaimed the Dean, "this is not a dress fit to be seen in a college." "I beg your pardon," said the wag, "I thought myself in perfect costume! Will you be pleased to tell me how I should dress, Mr. Dean?" The dean was at this time Vice-Chancellor, and happened to be in his robes of office. "You should dress like me, Sir," said the Doctor, referring to his black coat, tights, knee-buckles, and silk stockings. Mr. Lyttleton thanked him and left, but to the Doctor's astonishment, he the next day presented himself at the Deanery, drest in Vice-Chancellor's robes, &c., an exact fac-simile of the dean himself, and when rebuked coolly observed, that he had followed the dean's directions to the letter.

IT IS RELATED OF THE SAME OXFORD WAG,

That having a party to supper with him, and being anxious to play the Dean some harmless trick, as his delight was to annoy him, he seized a potato off the dish, stuck it on a fork, and bolted off with it to the deanery, followed by some of his boon companions. This was at one, two, or three in the morning, when all the rest of the college, and of course the Dean, were locked in the embrace of Somnus. Mr. Lyttleton, however, resolving to have his joke, began thundering away at the Dean's knocker, till roused at last, he put his head out at the window, and in a rage demanded the wants of the applicant. "Do you think, Mr. Dean," said Mr. L., holding up to his view the _forked_ potato with the coolest effrontery imaginable; "Do you think, Mr. Dean, that this is a potato fit to put upon a gentleman's table?" Dr. Westphalinge, Canon of Christ Church, afterwards Bishop of Hereford, and one of the Commissioners sent to Oxford to abolish _Popish practices_, by Elizabeth, says Bishop Godwyn,

WAS A PERSON OF SUCH CONSUMMATE GRAVITY,

"That during a familiar acquaintance with him for many years, he never once saw him laugh,"--"_Nunquam in risum viderim solutum_." As an antidote to such eternal gravity, I can scarcely do better than append the following Aristophanic morsel, attributed to Porson, and cry "Hold, enough!" Chorus of Printers' Imps--"Enough!"

INVENTORY OF GOODS FOR SALE.

[Greek: Blankêtoi, kyltoi, duo bolsteres, êde pilôbêr
Kai en matresson, kai leukon kaliko kirten,
Kai mia karpettê, kai cheston maiganoion
Eis kaunterpannos, kai graton kasto sidêzon
Êde duô bouroi, duo tabloi, kai duo dittô.
Touelloi dôsen, dôsen phaukoi te, niphoi te
Sautpan kai steupan, spitton kai smôkon iakon
Gridiron, pheirpan, tongoi, phendêr te, pokêr te,
Koppêz kai boilêr kai killêr êde syeltob.
Kai en baskêton kata bakchous, kai duo pottyx,
Kai en drippinpan, kuleres duo, kai salamandêr
Kai duo p**pottoi, spittinpan, peip te to bakchô.]

THE END.

* * * * *

CHESNUT STREET,
JUNE, 1835

NEW WORKS
LATELY PUBLISHED,
AND
PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION,
BY
E. L. CAREY & A. HART, PHILAD.

In Three Volumes, 12mo.

JACOB FAITHFUL;
OR, LIFE ON THE WATER.
COMPLETE.

By the Author of "PETER SIMPLE," "KING'S OWN," &c.

"It is replete with amusement and oddity. Poor Jacob was born on the water. 'It was,' says he, 'in a floating sort of a box, called a lighter, and upon the river Thames, that I first smelt the mud.'"--_Baltimore Gazette._

"Equal in merit to Peter Simple, and perhaps even more entertaining, are the adventures of Jacob Faithful, another of the whimsical creations of Captain Marryatt's prolific brain."--_Saturday Courier._

"It is full of character and incident, and will, we doubt not, be a universal favourite."--_Lit. Gaz._

In Three Volumes, 12mo.

PETER SIMPLE;
OR, ADVENTURES OF A MIDSHIPMAN.
COMPLETE.

By the Author of the "KING'S OWN," "NAVAL OFFICER," &c.

"The quiet humour which pervades the work is irresistibly amusing, and the fund of anecdote and description which it contains, entertaining. The humour sometimes approaches to downright burlesque, and the incident to extravagance, if not improbability; but, altogether, as a book of amusement, it is excellent."--_Baltimore Gazette._

"Those who are the most competent to judge, say that Captain Marryatt is altogether superior to any other writer of naval sketches or descriptions, living or dead."--_N. Y. Commercial Advertiser._

"This is the best work that Captain Marryatt has produced."--_Atlas._

"'Peter Simple' is certainly the most amusing of Captain Marryatt's amusing novels; a species of picture quite unique; a class by themselves, full of humour, truth, and graphic sketches."--_Literary Gazette._

"This is an admirable work, and worthy of the noble service it is written to illustrate."--_Spectator._

CELEBRATED TRIALS,
AND
CASES OF CRIMINAL JURISPRUDENCE OF ALL AGES AND COUNTRIES.

In One large volume, 8vo., containing 600 closely printed pages.

CONTENTS.

John Thurtell and Joseph Hunt, for the murder of William
Ware, at Hertford, January, 1824.

Henry Fauntleroy, Esq., for forgery, at the Old Bailey,
October 30, 1824.

Anna Schonleben (Germany), for poisoning, 1808.

John Docke Rouvelett, for forgery, 1806.

John Holloway and Owen Haggerty, for the murder of John Cole
Steele, on Hounslow-heath, February 22, 1807.

The unknown Murderer, or the Police at fault (Germany), 1817.

Thomas Simmons, for murder, Oct. 20, 1807.

Major Alexander Campbell, for the murder of Captain Alexander
Boyd, at Armagh, in a duel, 1807.

James Stuart, for the murder of Sir Alexander Boswell, in a
duel, 1822.

Martha Alden, for murder, 1807.

Francis S. Riembauer, for assassination, 1805.

Eliza Fenning, for an attempt to poison Mr. Olibar Turner and
family, April 11, 1815.

William Jones, for murder.

Abraham Thornton, for the murder of Mary Ashford, 1817.

Castaing, the physician, for murder, at Paris, November,
1817.

John Donellan, Esq., for the murder of Sir Theodosius Edward
Allesly Boughton; before the Hon. Sir Francis Buller, 1781.

Sir Walter Raleigh, for high-treason, in the reign of James
I., A.D. 1602.

James O'Coigley, Arthur O'Connor, John Binns, John Allen, and
Jeremiah Leary, for high-treason; at Maidstone, 1798.

Miss Ann Broadric, for the murder of Mr. Errington, 1795.

William Corder, for the murder of Maria Marten, 1827.

William Codlin, for scuttling a ship, 1802.

Joseph Wall, for the murder of Benjamin Armstrong, at Goree,
1802.

Vice-admiral Byng, for neglect of duty; at a court-martial,
held on board his majesty's ship the St. George, in
Portsmouth harbour, 1757.

Richard Savage, the poet, James Gregory, and William
Merchant, for the murder of James Sinclair, 1727.

Admiral Keppel, for neglect of duty, July, 1778, at a
court-martial.

Sir Hugh Palliser, Vice-admiral of the Blue, for neglect of
duty, 1779.

Sarah Metyard and Sarah M. Metyard, for murder, 1768.

John Bishop, Thomas Williams, and James May, for the murder
of Charles Ferriar, 1831.

Sawney Cunningham, executed at Leith, 1635, for murder.

Sarah Malcolm, for the murder of Ann Price, 1733.

Joseph Baretti, for the murder of Evan Morgan, 1769.

Mungo Campbell, for murder, 1721.

Lucretia Chapman, for the murder of William Chapman, late of
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 1832.

Lino Amalto Espos y Mina, for the murder of William Chapman,
at the same court, 1832.

John Hatfield, for forgery, 1803.

Trial by combat, between Henry Plantagenet, duke of Hereford
and Lancaster, and afterwards king of England by the title of
Henry IV., and Thomas Mowbray, duke of Norfolk, earl-marshal
of England, 1897.

Captain John Gow and others, for piracy, 1729.

William Burke and Helen McDougal for murder, 1828.

Charles Macklin (the author), for the murder of Thomas
Hallam, May 1735.

Mary Young, _alias_ Jenny Diver, for privately stealing,
1740.

George Henderson and Margaret Nisbet, for forging a bill on
the dutchess of Gordon, 1726.

John Chide, of Dalry, for the murder of the Right Hon. Sir
George Lockhart, of Carnwith, lord-president of the court of
sessions, and member of his majesty's privy council, 1689.

William Henry, duke of Cumberland, for adultery with Lady
Grosvenor, 1770.

Robert and Daniel Perrean, for forgery, 1775.

Margaret Caroline Rudd, for forgery, 1775.

Henry White, Jr., for a libel on the duke of Cumberland,
1813.

Philip Nicholson, for the murder of Mr. and Mrs. Bonar, at
Maidstone, 1813.

Mr. William Cobbett, for libel, in the court of King's Bench,
1810.

John Bellingham, Esq., for the murder of the Right Hon.
Spencer Perceval, chancellor of the exchequer, in the lobby
of the House of Commons, May 11, 1811.

Mary Stone, for child murder, preferred by her sister, at
Surry assizes, 1817.

Arthur Thistlewood, James Ings, and others, for high-treason,
at the Old Bailey, 1820.

Thomas, earl of Stafford, for high-treason, 1643.

_Trial of the Rebels in_ 1745:

Lords Kilmarnock, Cromartie, Balmerino, and Lovat.--Charles
Ratcliffe, Esq.--Townley and Dawson.--Fletcher and
Syddall.--Dr. Cameron.

Rob Roy Macgregor, and other Macgregors, 1700 to 1746.

Alexia Petrowitz Czarowitz, presumptive heir to the crown of
Russia, condemned to death by his father, 1715.

Joseph Hunton, a Quaker, for forgery, 1828.--His execution.

Captain Witham Kidd, for murder and piracy, 1701.

Remarkable case of witchcraft, before Matthew Hale, 1662.

The Salem Witches.

_Sufferers for pretended Witchcraft in Scotland._

Alison Pearson.--Janet Grant and Janet Clark, 1828.--John
Cunningham, 1590.--Agnes Sampson, 1591.--John Fien,
1591.--Euphan M'Calzene, 1591.--Patrick Lawrie,
1606.--Margaret Wallace, 1620.--Isobel Young,
1629.--Alexander Hamilton, 1630.--John Neil, 1630.--Janet
Brown and others, 1640.

The Samuelston Witches--Isobel Elliot, and nine other women,
1678.

Impostor of Barragan, 1696.

Trial by combat, between Sir John Annesley, Knight, and
Thomas Katrington, Esq., 1380.

James George Lisle, _alias_ Major Semple, for stealing, 1795.

Queen Emma, trial by fire-ordeal.

John Horne Tooke, for high-treason, 1791.

Joseph Thompson Hare, for mail-robbery in Virginia, 1818.

Richard Carlile, for a libel, 1819.

_Circumstantial Evidence_.

Jonathan Bradford.--James Crow.--John Jennings.--Thomas
Harris.--William Shaw.

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

TRAVELS TO BOKHARA,
AND VOYAGE UP THE INDUS.

BY LIEUT. BURNES.

"Mr. Burnes is the first European of modern times who has navigated the Indus. Many years have passed since the English Library has been enriched with a book of travels, in value at all comparable with this. Mr. Burnes is evidently a man of strong and masculine talents, high spirit, and elegant taste, well qualified to tread in the steps of our Malcolms and Elphinstones."--_London Quarterly Review._

"Though comparisons may be and often are odious, we do not think we shall excite one resentful feeling, even among the travellers whose productions we have reviewed during a course approaching twenty years, when we say that so interesting a publication of that class as the present, has not fallen under our notice."--_London Literary Gazette._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE SKETCH-BOOK OF CHARACTER;
OR,
CURIOUS AND AUTHENTIC NARRATIVES AND ANECDOTES RESPECTING
EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS:

Exemplifying the Imperfections of circumstantial Evidence;
illustrative of the Tendency of Credulity and Fanaticism; and
recording singular Instances of voluntary human Suffering and
interesting Occurrences. (_Nearly ready._)

CONTENTS.

EXTRAORDINARY INDIVIDUALS.

Arnaud du Tilh,
The Demetriuses of Russia,
Madam Tiquet,
Francoeur, the Lunatic,
Reneé Corbeau,
Madame Rovere,
The Diary of Luc Antonio Viterbi, who starved himself to death,
The Italian Sleep-walker,
William Lithgow, the Traveller
Richard Peeke,
James Crichton,
Mother Damnable,
Valentine Greatraks,
James Naylor,
Henry Jenkins,
John Kelsey,
Lodowick Muggleton,
Mrs. Aphra Behn,
Aspasia,
Madame du Barré,
Phebe Brown,
The Mysterious Stranger,
George Bruce,
Mull'd Sack, a notorious Robber,
Sir Jervas Yelvis,
Archibald Armstrong, the Jester,
The Two Brothers,
Anne George Bellamy,
Susanna Maria Cibber,
Joseph Clark,
Titus Oates, _alias_ Bob Ferguson,
Thomas Venner,
Colly Molly Puff,
Eugene Aram,
Matthew Hopkins, the Witch-finder,
Jeffery Hudson,
Blasil de Manfre,
Henry Welby,
Catharine, Countess Dowager of Schwartzburgh,
Richard Savage,
Lewis de Boissi,
Reverend Father Arthur O'Leary,
John Oliver,
John Overs,
John Bigg,
Mrs. Corbett,
Charlotte Maria Anne Victoire Cordey,
Daniel Dancer, Esq.
Rev. George Harvest,
S. Bisset, the animal Teacher,
Roger Crab,
Rigep Dandulo,
Augustine Barbara Vanbeck,
The Chevalier D'Eon,
Widow of Ephesus,
Mary Frith,
Anne Day,
Countess of Desmond,
Colonel Thomas Blood,
Jane Lane,
Mary Carleton,
Jack Adams,
Samuel Boyce,
Peter the Wild Boy,
Charles Price, _alias_ the Social Monster,
George Alexander Stevens,
Peter Isaac Thelluson,
George Villiers,
Hon. Mrs. Godfrey,
Lady Godiva,
John Philip Barretier,
Oliver Cromwell's Porter,
Robert Hill, the Learned Tailor of Buckingham,
Hendia,
Charlotte Hutton,
Mrs. Day,
The Abbe Sieyes,
Countess of Strathmore
Elizabeth Perkins,
Margaret Lamburne,
Ninon De L'Enclos,
Madame Des Houlieres,
Mrs. Levy,
Louisa,
Mrs. Lloyd,
Lucretia,
Madame de Maintenon,
Catherine de Medicis,
La Maupin.

CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.

John Calas,
Elizabeth Canning,
Le Brun,
Richard Coleman,
Jonathan Bradford,
James Crow,
John Orme,
John Jennings,
Girl at Liege,
Thomas Harris,
John Miles,
A man tried and convicted for the murder of his own father,
William Shaw,
Sirven,
Monsieur D'Anglade and his family,
Joan Perry and her two sons,
La Pivardiere,
Duke Dorgan, a story of Irish Life,
William Richardson.

CREDULITY AND FANATICISM.

A Female Monster, (effects of ignorance and superstition,)
Yetser, the Fanatic,
The Holy Relics,
Jerome Savonarola,
Sabbatei-Sevi,
Anthony,
Simon Morin,
Robert Francis Damiens,
Assassination of the King of Portugal,
Francois Michel,
St. Pol de Leon,
Mr. Stukeley, (eccentric Self-delusion),
Peter Rombert, the Fanatic of Carolina.

VOLUNTARY HUMAN SUFFERING.

Simeon Stylites,
Panporee,
Indian Widows,
Funeral Rites,
Conscientious Murder,
Conscientious Hindoo,
Female Infanticide,
Processions of Penitents in Spain and Portugal,
Penance by Proxy,
The Indian Penance of Five Fires,
Matthew Loval.

INTERESTING OCCURRENCES.

The Miners of Bois-Monzil,
Jaques du Moulin, (the uncertainty of human testimony,)
Remarkable discovery of a Murder,
Charles the Twelfth,
Whimsical Marriage,
Algerine Conspiracy,
Extraordinary Adventure,
Otway's Orphan,
Prison Escapes,
Charbonniers,
Porral and others,
Grivet,
Reign of Terror,
Remarkable Trial for Murder,
Singular Adventure,
Heidegger,
Jemmy Taylor.

In One Volume, 12mo.

MAGPIE CASTLE.

BY THEODORE HOOK.
AND OTHER TALES.

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

LEGENDS AND STORIES OF IRELAND.

BY SAMUEL LOVER.

"Here is a genuine Irish story-book, of the most amusing character. Mr. Lover shows us how to tell a tale in the real Irish manner. We see the people; we hear them; they are dramatized as they exist in nature; and all their peculiarities are touched with a master's hand."--_Lit. Gaz._

In Three Volumes, 12mo.

THE PORT ADMIRAL.

By the Author of "CAVENDISH."

"A work full of interest and variety. The scenes are traced with a powerful hand."--_Sunday Times._

"These volumes will make a stir in what an old writer calls the 'wooden world.' They touch too severely upon blemishes in the discipline, manners, opinions, and principles of our maritime government, not to be eagerly examined and perhaps sharply discussed by naval men."--_Athenæum._

In One Volume, 8vo.

CAPTAIN ROSS'S LAST VOYAGE.

Narrative of a Second Voyage in search of a North-west Passage, and of a Residence in the Arctic Regions, during the Years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833. By Sir JOHN ROSS, C. B., K. S. A., &c. Including the Reports of Commander J. C. ROSS, and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. _With a large Map._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE KING'S OWN;
A TALE OF THE SEA.

By the Author of "THE NAVAL OFFICER," "PETER SIMPLE" etc.

"An excellent novel."--_Edinburg Review._

"Captain Marryat may take his place at the head of the naval novelists of the day."--_United Service Journal._

"The adventures of the hero, through bold and stirring scenes, lose not a jot of their interest to the last, while the naval descriptions of sights and deeds on shipboard may be compared with any similar production of which we have any knowledge."--_Atlas._

"A very remarkable book, full of vigour, and characterized by incidents of perfect originality, both as to conception and treatment. Few persons will take up the book without going fairly through it to the catastrophe, which startles the reader by its unexpected nature."--_Literary Gazette._

"Replete with genius. The work will go far permanently to fix the name of Captain Marryat among the most popular and successful writers of fiction of the age."--_Felix Farley's Bristol Journal._

"A work, perhaps, not to be equalled in the whole round of romance, for the tremendous power of its descriptions, for the awfulness of its subjects, and for the brilliancy and variety of the colours with which they are painted."--_Spectator._

In One Volume, 12mo.

AN ACCOUNT OF
COLONEL CROCKETT'S
TOUR TO THE NORTH AND DOWN EAST,

In the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. His Object being to examine the grand manufacturing Establishments of the Country; and also, to find out the Condition of its Literature and Morals, the Extent of its Commerce, and the practical Operation of "_The Experiment_."

WITH A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR.

In One Volume, 12mo.

COLONEL CROCKETT'S
LIFE OF VAN BUREN.

THE LIFE OF MARTIN VAN BUREN, Heir-apparent to the "Government," and the appointed Successor of General Andrew Jackson. Containing every authentic Particular by which his extraordinary Character has been formed. With a concise History of the Events that have occasioned his unparalleled Elevation; together with a Review of his Policy as a Statesman. By DAVID CROCKETT.

In Two Volumes 12mo.

THE NAVAL SKETCH-BOOK.

BY CAPTAIN GLASCOCK.

"In 'The Naval Sketch-book' there are dozens of 'delicious bits,' which, we are sure, will delight our readers."--_John Bull._

"The book abounds with animated sketches of naval opinions and character, described to that style which only a thorough-bred seaman can handle."--_Times._

"We do not think that there ever was a more _sailorly_ publication than this."--_Literary Gazette._

"Unquestionably Captain Glascock is inferior to none as a humorous and talented naval writer. His descriptions are true to nature, and his dialogues full of life and entertainment; in short, his _Sketches_ have all the characteristics of a true British seaman."--_Naval and Military Gazette._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE BLACK WATCH.

BY T. PICKEN.
By the Author of the "DOMINIE'S LEGACY."

"One of the most powerful and pathetic fictions which have recently appeared."--_Times._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

TALES OF A PHYSICIAN.

BY W. H. HARRISON.

Containing--THE VICTIM, THE CURATE, THE GOSSIP, THE FATE OF
A GENIUS, DISAPPOINTMENTS, THE NEGLECTED WIFE, THE JEW, THE
STRANGER GUEST, THE SMUGGLER, COUSIN TOMKINS THE TAILOR, THE
LIFE OF AN AUTHOR, REMORSE, THE SEXTON'S DAUGHTER, THE OLD
MAID, THE PREACHER, THE SOLDIER'S BRIDE, THE MORTGAGEE.

"We cannot withhold from these tales the praise which is due to elegant composition, when intended to promote the cause of morality and religion. In point of elegance, simplicity, and interest, few are so attractive."--_Record._

"Graceful in language, displaying cultivated taste."--_Literary Gazette._

"We welcome it with pleasure--they are told in a pleasant style, and with great feeling."--_Athenæum._

"Evidently the production of an experienced essayist: there is not only considerable power of invention manifested in them, but the diction is always pure, and at times lofty. We should say, he will occupy a very high station among the writers of the day."--_British Traveller._

"We cannot withhold from the author of the work before us the warm praise due to its pious design, and decidedly instructive character. The 'Tales of a Physician' are written with very considerable talent. The idea is a happy one."--_Eclectic Review._

"A vein of amiable and highly moral feeling runs through the whole volume."--_Monthly Review._

"The book is well written--an amusing addition to the works of the season."--_New Monthly Magazine._

"There is a high moral tone throughout."--_Spirit and Manners of the Age._

(_Nearly ready_.)

THE HIGHLAND SMUGGLERS.

BY J. B. FRAZER.
Author of the "KUZZILBASH."

In One Volume, 12mo.

LETTERS AND ESSAYS,
IN PROSE AND VERSE.

BY RICHARD SHARP.

"Messrs. Carey & Hart have reprinted the Letters and Essays of Richard Sharp, in a beautiful little volume. These excellent productions fully deserve the distinction of neatest dress. They are _sterling literature_."--_National Gazette._

"What a pleasant volume! It is the delightful and instructive writing of a cultivated mind upon ordinary occasions and subjects; and the sound sense and elegant literature with which they are treated afford a great treat for judgment and taste to appropriate."--_Literary Gazette._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE PACHA OF MANY TALES.
By the Author of "PETER SIMPLE," &c.

ADVENTURES OF
JAPHET IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER.
By the Author of "JACOB FAITHFUL," "KING'S OWN," &c.

(_In Press._)

In Three Volumes, 12mo.

TOM CRINGLE'S LOG.

COMPLETE.
A NEW EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.

"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and we can safely say that no author of the present day, not even excepting our own Cooper, has surpassed him in his element."--_U. S. Gazette._

"The sketches are not only replete with entertainment, but useful, as affording an accurate and vivid description of scenery, and of life and manners in the West Indies."--_Boston Traveller._

"We think none who have read this work will deny that the author is the best nautical writer who has yet appeared. He is not Smollett, he is not Cooper; but he is far superior to them both."--_Boston Transcript._

"The scenes are chiefly nautical, and are described in a style of beauty and interest never surpassed by any writer."--_Baltimore Gazette._

"The author has been justly compared with Cooper, and many of his sketches are in fact equal to any from the pen of our celebrated countryman."--_Saturday Evening Post._

"A pleasant but a marvellously strange and wild amalgamation of water and earth is 'Tom Cringle;' full of quips and cranks, and toils and pranks. A fellow of fun and talent is he, with a prodigious taste for yarns, long and short, old and new; never, or but seldom, carrying more sail than ballast, and being a most delightful companion, both by land and sea. We were fascinated with the talents of Tom when we met him in our respected contemporary from the biting north. His Log was to us like a wild breeze of ocean, fresh and health-giving, with now and then a dash of the tearful, that summoned the sigh from our heart of hearts; but now that the yarns are collected and fairly launched, we hail them as a source of much gratification at this dull season. _Tom Cringle and a Christmas fire! may well join in the chorus of 'Begones dull care!_'--The 'Quenching of the Torch' as one of the most pathetic descriptions we over read. The 'Scenes at Jamaica' are full of vigour. As a whole, we have no hesitation in pronouncing 'The Log' the most entertaining book of the season. There has been a sort of Waverley mystery thrown over the authorship of these charming papers; and though many have guessed the author, yet we take unto ourselves the credit of much sagacity in imagining that we only have solved the enigma:--there are passages in 'Tom Cringle' that we believe no living author except Professor Wilson himself could write; _snatches of pure, exalted, and poetic feeling, so truly Wilsonian, that we penciled them as we read on, and said, There he is again, and again, and again; to the very last chapter_."--_New Monthly Magazine._

THE CRUISE OF THE MIDGE.
By the Author of "TOM CRINGLE'S LOG."

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE MAN-OF-WAR'S-MAN.
By the Author of "TOM CRINGLE'S LOG."

"No stories of adventures are more exciting than those of seamen. The warrior of Tom Cringle's Log is the most popular writer of that class, and those sketches collected not long since into a volume by the same publishers, in this city, were universally read. A large edition was soon exhausted. The present is, we believe, an earlier production, and has many of the same merits."--_Baltimore Gazette._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE PORT ADMIRAL;
A TALE OF THE SEA.
By the Author of "CAVENDISH."

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

LIVES OF THE ENGLISH PIRATES,
HIGHWAY-MEN, AND ROBBERS.

BY CHARLES WHITEHEAD.

"These are truly entertaining volumes, fraught with anecdote, and abounding in extraordinary adventures."--_Naval and Military Gazette._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

CAVENDISH;
OR, THE PATRICIAN AT SEA.

_The following Notice is from the pen of Mr. Bulwer._

"The peculiar characteristics of Captain Marryatt are shared by some of his nautical brethren; and the author of 'Cavendish' has evinced much ability and very vigorous promise in the works that have issued from his pen."

"We should find it very difficult to be very angry with the 'Patrician,' even if he had fifty times his real number of faults, on account of the jovial, easy, reckless, off-hand style of character that seems to belong to him. Our sea portraits multiply so fast, and advance so rapidly in excellence, that we become fastidious, and insist upon a likeness where formerly we were contented with a caricature. 'Cavendish' partakes of both.... Into these thousand or rather ten thousand scrapes, we cannot follow him, but the reader may, much to his advantage. The Navarine narrative, in particular, will be read with an interest proportioned to the truth and spirit with which it is told."--_New Monthly Magazine._

New and cheap Edition, in Two Volumes, 12mo., of the

MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ,
THE CELEBRATED AGENT OF THE FRENCH POLICE.

"But it is not our province or intention to enter into a discussion of the veracity of Vidocq's Memoirs: be they true or false; were they purely fiction from the first chapter to the last, they would, from fertility of invention, knowledge of human nature, and ease of style, rank only second to the novels of Le Sage. The first volume is perhaps more replete with interest, because the hero is the leading actor in every scene; but in the subsequent portions, when he gives the narrative of others, we cannot but admire the power and graphic talent of the author. Sergeant Bellerose is scarcely inferior to the Sergeant Kite of Farquhar and the episodes of Court and Raoul, and that of Adele d'Escara, are surpassed in description, depth of feeling, and pathos, by no work of romance with which we are acquainted."

_From the Boston Traveller._

"MEMOIRS OF VIDOCQ.--He who reads this book, being previously unacquainted with the mystery of iniquity, will find himself introduced at once into a new world: but it is a world which must be known only to be avoided. Never before was such a mass of depravity opened to the mind of inquiry in a single volume. It was well said by Byron, "truth is strange, stranger than fiction." Whoever passes through the details of this singular exposition, supposing it to contain correct delineations of fact, will be satisfied of the justness of this remark.

"The details of the varied scenes through which he has passed in private and public life, surpass all the creations of fancy, and all the delineations of fact, from the wonderful relations of the Arabian Nights to the renowned exploits of Mr. Lemuel Gulliver; and from the extraordinary sufferings and escapes of the celebrated Baron Trenck to the still more marvellous exploits of the famous Mr. Thomas Thumb.

"It would seem, on following this singular writer through his adventures, as if all the crimes of which human nature is capable, all the horrors of which the universe has heard, all the astonishing incidents which history can dovelop or imagination portray, all the cold-blooded malice of the assassin, and all the varied machinations of the most ingenious and systematic practitioners in the school of vice, in all its varied departments, had been crowded into the life of a single individual, or come beneath his cognizance. The lover of mystery, who delights to "sup upon horrors," the admirer of romance, who is pleased with the heightened pictures of the most fanciful imagination, and the inquirer into the policy of crime and its prevention, may here have their utmost curiosity satiated.

"Vidocq, during the early portion of his life, was personally initiated into all the mysteries of crime, and becoming afterward a pardoned man, and an active and successful agent of the French police in the city of Paris, "girt with its silent crimes," as well as its tumultuous depravities, becomes a fit person to delineate its scenes of vice, depravity, and guilt. His work is a study for the novelist, the annalist, the philosopher, and the Christian. But it is a work which should be read with a guarded mind; with it disposition to profit by its lessons, and to avoid scenes which have little enjoyment, and which invariably end in misery."

In Two Volumes 12mo.

THE HAMILTONS.
By the Author of "MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS."

"This is a fashionable novel, and of the highest grade."--_Athenæum._

"Mrs. Gore is undeniably one of the wittiest writers of the present day. 'The Hamiltons' is a most lively, clever, and entertaining work."--_Lit. Gaz._

"The design of the book is new, and the execution excellent."--_Exam._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

TOUGH YARNS;

A SERIES OF NAVAL TALES AND SKETCHES, TO PLEASE ALL HANDS,
FROM THE SWABS ON THE SHOULDER DOWN TO THE SWABS IN THE HEAD.

BY THE OLD SAILOR.

"Here, most placable reader, is a title for thee, pregnant with fun, and deeply prophetic of humour, drollery, and all those joyous emotions that so opportunely come to oil the springs of the overworn heart, and prevent the cankering and rust from wearing them away and utterly destroying their healthful elasticity."--_Metropolitan._

"The Old Sailor paints sea scenes with vigour and gusto; now-and-then reminding us of 'Tom Cringle,' and with a strong sense of the comical that approaches Smollet."--_Spectator._

"Here we have the 'Old Sailor' once more, and in all his glory too! The public will join with us in hailing the reappearance of the 'old' boy. He stands at the head of the naval humorists of the nineteenth century. We have rarely seen an affair so richly humorous: it is one of the most amusing and best written volumes of naval fiction we have ever seen."--_Observer._

In Three Volumes, 12mo.

THE COQUETTE.
By the Author of "MISERRIMUS."

"The 'Coquette' is a most amusing library book. Several of the characters are exceedingly well drawn: indeed, they are obviously sketches from life, and there is a sparkling vivacity throughout the whole work."--_New Monthly Magazine._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

THE MISERIES OF MARRIAGE;
OR, THE FAIR OF MAY FAIR.

By the Author of "PIN MONEY," &c.

"Mrs. Gore certainly stands at the head of the female novelists of the day. But we subjoin the opinion of Mr. Bulwer."--_U. S. Gazette._

"She is the consummator of that undefinable species of wit, which we should call (if we did not know the word might be deemed offensive, in which sense we do not mean it) the _slang_ of good society.

"But few people ever painted, with so felicitous a hand, the scenery of worldly life, without any apparent satire. She brings before you the hollowness, the manoeuvres, and the intrigues of the world, with the brilliancy of sarcasm, but with the quiet of simple narrative. Her men and women, in her graver tales, are of a noble and costly clay; their objects are great; their minds are large, their passions intense and pure. She walks upon the stage of the world of fashion, and her characters, have grown dwarfed as if by enchantment. The air of frivolity has blighted their stature; their colours are pale and languid; they have no generous ambition; they are little people! they are fine people! This it is that makes her novel of our social life so natural, and so clear a transcript of the original."--_The Author of Pelham._

In One Volume, 12mo.

SOME PASSAGES IN THE LIFE OF
SIR PUMPKIN FRIZZLE, K. C. B.
AND OTHER TALES.

"Decidedly one of the most amusing productions of the year. In addition to the adventures of _Sir Pumpkin_, there are several capital stories, which cannot fail to be popular."

In One Volume, 8vo.

MEMOIRS OF THE
BEAUTIES OF THE COURT
OF CHARLES THE SECOND.

BY MRS. JAMESON.
Author of "DIARY OF AN ENNUYEE," "CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN," &c.

"NEW WORK.--Messrs. Carey & Hart, Philadelphia, have in press a popular book, 'The Beauties of the Court of King Charles the Second,' written by Mrs. Jameson, whose father had been employed by the princess Charlotte to paint cabinet pictures of those too celebrated ladies. The princess died before they were completed, and the consequence was, they were never paid for. The circumstances of the family required some use should be made of the paintings to produce a remuneration; and Mrs. Jameson undertook the delicate task of the letter press, the portraits being engraved in the highest style of art. The London copy costs about twenty-five dollars: the American edition will be an octavo without the portraits. Nell Gwynn, the Duchess of Hamilton, &c. are not unknown characters in history. Mrs. Jameson has executed her department in a remarkably graceful manner."--_Journal of Belles Lettres._

MEMOIRS OF
GREAT MILITARY COMMANDERS

BY G. R. P. JAMES,
Author of "DARNLEY," "HENRY MASTERTON," &c.

Including Henry V. of England; John, Duke of Bedford;
Gonzales de Cordova; Ferdinand, Duke of Alva; Oliver
Cromwell; Marshal Turenne; The Great Condé; General Monk;
Duke of Albemarle; Duke of Marlborough; The Earl of
Peterborough; Marquess of Granby; General Wolfe, &c. &c.

"That Mr. James should have been eminently successful in portraying the lives of illustrious military commanders is not surprising; for it is well known that martial achievements have long been his favourite study."--_Morning Post._

"A more interesting series of memoirs could not be presented to the curiosity of readers, inasmuch as in the lives of such men romantic adventures of the most exciting kind co-exist with the strictest truth."--_Courier._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

ALLEN BRECK.

BY GLEIG,
Author of the "SUBALTERN."

"The most striking production of Mr. Gleig."--_U. S. Journal._

"One of the most powerful and highly wrought tales we ever read."--_Edinburg Review._

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

NIGHTS-AT-MESS.

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

LIFE OF A SOLDIER
BY A FIELD-OFFICER.

"A narrative of twenty-seven years' service in various parts of the world, possessing all the interest of the wildest fiction."--_Sun._

IN PREPARATION,

THE GIFT;
A CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S PRESENT,
FOR 1836.

Edited by MISS LESLIE, author of "PENCIL SKETCHES," &c.

Among the contributors will be found Washington Irving, Mrs.
Butler, J. K. Paulding, G. W. Simms, Miss Sedgwick, Miss
Leslie, &c. &c.

LIST OF THE PLATES.

A Portrait of Miss Kemble, engraved by _Cheney_.
Smuggler's Repose, " _Tucker_.
The Orphans, " _Welch_.
Soliciting a Note, " _Ellis_.
John Anderson, my Jo! " _Lawson_.
Prawn Fishers, " _Graham_.
Death of the Stag, " _Tucker_.
Mirkwood Mere, " _Graham_.
A Portrait, " _Illman_.

In Two Volumes, 12mo.

TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE
IRISH PEASANTRY

FIRST SERIES.

"Admirable--truly, intensely Irish: never were the outrageous whimsicalities of that strange, wild, imaginative people so characteristically described; nor amidst all the fun, frolic, and folly, is there any dearth of poetry, pathos, and passion. The author's a jewel."--_Glasgow Journal._

"To those who have a relish for a few titbits of rale Irish story-telling,--whether partaking of the tender or the facetious, or the grotesque,--let them purchase these characteristic sketches."--_Sheffield Iris._

"The sister country has never furnished such sterling genius, such irresistibly humorous, yet faithful sketches of character among the lower ranks of Patlanders, as are to be met with in the pages of these delightful volumes."--_Bristol Journal._

"This is a capital book, full of fun and humour, and most characteristically Irish."--_New Monthly Magazine._

"Neither Miss Edgeworth, nor the author of the O'Hara Tales, could have written any thing more powerful than this."--_Edinburgh Literary Gazette._

In two Volumes, 12mo.

TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE
IRISH PEASANTRY.

THIRD SERIES.

"This work has been most extravagantly praised by the English critics: and several extracts from it have been extensively published in our newspapers. It is altogether a better work than any of the kind which has yet appeared--replete with humour, both broad and delicate--and with occasional touches of pathos, which have not been excelled by any writer of the present day. An Edinburgh critic says that 'neither Miss Edgeworth, nor the author of the O'Hara tales, could have written any thing more powerful than this.'"--_Baltimore American._

In two Volumes, 12mo.

PIN MONEY;

By MRS. CHARLES GORE,
Authoress of "HUNGARIAN TALES," "POLISH TALES," etc.