EXTRACTS FROM LITERARY NOTICES. reader, its variety of matters, its research and order, must afford the highest gratification and enjoyment. To the lady in her boudoir it will be a text book of constant beauties and delight; and we know of no work so likely to give tone and cheerfulness to the mind of the invalid, as one that without weariness can be laid down and resumed at pleasure, affording at once the highest consolation that religious instruction can impart, and the most exquisite of moral aphorisms and divine truths. Though not professing to be a Giftbook, it would be difficult to find a present that could be so gratifying to give, or acceptable to receive, as 'Many Thoughts,' for it is a volume that no one can open without receiving pleasure and profit from the perusal. . . . If we devoted a column to a review of this work, we could hardly say more in its praise, and should only return to the tenour of our alreadyexpressed commendation."-Era. "This beautifully-printed volume displays great reading and industry on the part of the compiler, and will prove an invaluable mine of thought to the clergy, or, in fact, to any person engaged in literary work."Bookseller. "A work like this must be valuable. Half the labour of literary and studious men consists in searching for information; and it is no small benefit to be able to put our finger on passages appropriate to what we are writing upon, either as mottoes or illustrations. Such a use may be successfully made of Mr. Southgate's elaborate compilation, the largest of the kind we know of. In the composition of sermons, a conscious dulness may often be relieved by some bright idea collected from a volume like this, which might thus be made more useful to a preacher | than many more technical aids."-Clerical Journal. This volume is a Cyclopædia of Quotations, and a monument of the industry and perseverance of the compiler. The reader of a catalogue meeting with Many Thoughts,' will picture to himself a neat little book, containing perhaps 500 or 600 selected maxims, condensed, terse, yet comprehensive and profound; but on ordering the volume, we know not whether he will be more surprised or delighted to behold a goodly tome ranging over ancient and modern literature. It is not so much a book as a Library of Quotations."Patriot. "This is a marvellously substantial volume of ⚫ selections from the writings of well-known authors,' by Henry Southgate. It serves the purpose of a Dictionary of Quotations, and being analytically arranged, is a readable book besides, giving the opinions and fancies, in prose and verse, of authors, ancient and modern, on each subject referred to."— Chambers' Journal. "As a specimen of literary elegance, or as a composition fraught with taste, discreet selection, extensive reading, and laborious research, this superb work will be regarded with admiration. It is a storehouse of imagery, a prize-show of the richest, newest fruit, plucked by an able judge and careful collector, whose penetration is visible, though unsuspected, and whose labour and study percolate the work."— Court Circular. "This volume, without exception, constitutes the best Treasury of Reference extant, 'selected' by one able to select judiciously. The mind of almost all nations and ages of the world is recorded here in an abstract and epitome of sentiments, which, suggested by perception, and corroborated by experience, the Past has bequeathed as a legacy to the Present and Future. Gems which have shone in the various crowns of genius, dazzle us by their coruscations when set before us in this coronet of intellect. Within these pages are enshrined the mental relics of the great and good, whilst over them imagination may conceive to hover those virtuous spirits who leave the halo of their glory in the sentiments of imperishable truth. All that patient analysis, sound observation, and extensive reading could effect to render this volume perfect, has been indefatigably administered. An excellent plan of arrangement has been adopted, to facilitate reference of the student; and while the mind is conducted through a picture-gallery of the first masters,' the selections of their genius are presented without the least confusion. The printer has nobly co-operated with the writer in elaborating this most splendid work, which presents as perfect a specimen of typographical as it does of literary beauty."-John Bull. "Upwards of 700 pages in double columns, printed in a small but neat and clear type, of the best words of the best authors on all sorts of subjects, arranged so that the writer or orator may find readily what has been said by great writers upon any topic under discussion. This is not a law-book; but, departing from our usual practice, we notice it because it is likely to be very useful to lawyers. Such a Cyclopædia of Literature must be useful to everybody. In speech or pamphlet, at parish meetings, or with election mobs, an apt quotation always tells; and hence Mr. Southgate's volume is entitled to a place in the lawyer's library. Scarcely a subject could be named upon which something apt will not be found here, either in poetry or prose, or both."-Law Times. Such a work was needed: there is no other source to which we can apply in reference to writers comparatively modern. The collection will prove a mine, rich, and inexhaustible, to those in search of a quotation."-Art Journal. EXTRACTS FROM LITERARY NOTICES. THE PROVINCIAL PRESS. "We have no hesitation whatever in describing Mr. Southgate's as the very best book of the class. There is positively nothing of the kind in the language that will bear a moment's comparison with it." -Manchester Weekly Advertiser. "Those who remember the success which attended Southey's Doctor, and afterwards of his CommonPlace Books, will be inclined to appreciate a work that excels these in arrangement and facility of reference."-York Herald. "It seems surprising, when we look through the accumulated labours of Mr. Southgate, how he could ever have possibly got through his gigantic task."Nottingham Review. "The quotations are not mere sparkling paragraphs, such as might be selected from the pages of a scrap. book. They abound in that thought which is the mainspring of mental exercise, and their arrangement frequently evinces a power of analysis which insensibly moulds the mind of the reader into a habit of orderly and patient investigation. It is a matter of no small convenience to possess the quintes sence of a library in so portable a form."-Liverpool Courier. "Of course no man would sit down to read through this book consecutively; but, if he did, he would assuredly participate of the cream of our English Literature, flavoured with accessions from that of all time, by the most patent process whereof we are aware."Weymouth Southern Times. "No one need seem unread in our best poetry and prose who has the work; and for purposes of apposite quotation it cannot be surpassed."-Bristol Times. "The selections throughout seem to us to be made with extreme care and consummate taste. The pos sessor of this volume has only to turn to the index, and he will find it the entrance to a garden of sweets."-Bath Express. "We have seen several dictionaries of quotations, but not one that can approach in the smallest degree the compilation just published, which, it is apparent, must have occupied years of jottings and diligent research. The wide field of English and American literature seems to have been explored with a keen appreciation of the beautiful and the true; and all that is worthy of treasuring is brought into orderly management, and rendered available for instant appropriation. Nor is the work wanting in choice extracts from the effusions of the ancient writers and foreign celebrities."-Stamford Mercury. "There is no mood in which we can take it up without deriving from it instruction, consolation, or amusement. We heartily thank Mr. Southgate for a book which we shall regard as one of our best friends and companions."-Cambridge Chronicle. "Does an author desire a heading for his chapter, or to give variety and effect to a perhaps otherwise dry and dull essay,-no matter what subject he is treating, he will, in Mr. Southgate's Treasury, find material to his purpose. Does an orator, whether in the pulpit or at the bar, need a sonorous or apposite quotation to illustrate a text, to prop an argument, or to give roundness and polish to a sentence, a dip amidst the leaves of the volume will rarely be unsuccessful. Nor will its contents be less attractive to the general reader, whether he seek instruction or amusement, or both."-Norfolk Chronicle. "Although the handsome and portly volume is said to contain 12,000 citations from various authors, we have noted in it three things of a surprising nature: the first is, that we do not miss one sterling quotation which might be ordinarily looked for in a work of this nature; the next is, that the great proimparts an air of novelty to 'old familiar faces;' fusion of new and unexpected extracts, nevertheless, and the third is, that it is impossible to pick out a single passage in the work which does not, upon the face of it, justify its selection by its intrinsic merit."-Dorset Chronicle. LONDON: GRIFFIN, BOHN, AND CO., STATIONERS' HALL COURT. THE ANNOTATED EDITION OF THE ENGLISH POETS. BY ROBERT BELL, AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF RUSSIA,' 'LIVES OF THE ENGLISH POETS,' ETC. In Volumes, 2s. 6d. each, in cloth. THE HE necessity for a revised and carefully Annotated Edition of the English Poets may be found in the fact, that no such publication exists. The only Collections we possess consist of naked and frequently imperfect Texts, put forth without sufficient literary supervision. Independently of other defects, these voluminous Collections are incomplete as a whole, from their omissions of many poets whose works are of the highest interest, while the total absence of critical and illustrative Notes renders them comparatively worthless to the Student of our National Literature. A few of our Poets have been edited separately by men well qualified for the undertaking, and selected Specimens have appeared, accompanied by notices, which, as far as they go, answer the purpose for which they were intended. But these do not supply the want which is felt of a Complete Body of English Poetry, edited throughout with judgment and integrity, and combining those features of research, typographical elegance, and economy of price, which the present age demands. The Edition now proposed will be distinguished from all preceding Editions in many im portant respects. It will include the works of several Poets entirely omitted from previous Collections, especially those stores of Lyrical and Ballad Poetry in which our Literature is richer than that of any other Country, and which, independently of their poetical claims, are peculiarly interesting as illustrations of Historical Events and National Customs. By the exercise of a strict principle of selection, this Edition will be rendered intrinsically more valuable than any of its predecessors. The Text will in all instances be scrupulously collated, and accompanied by Biographical, Critical, and Historical Notes. An Introductory Volume will present a succinct account of English Poetry from the earliest times down to a period which will connect it with the Series of the Poets, through whose Lives the History of our Poetical Literature will be continued to the present time. Occasional volumes will be introduced, in which specimens, with connecting Notices and Commentaries, will be given of those Poets whose works are not of sufficient interest to be reproduced entire. BELL'S ENGLISH POETS. The important materials gathered from previously unexplored sources by the researches of the last quarter of a century will be embodied wherever they may be available in the general design; and by these means it is hoped that the Collection will be more complete than any that has been hitherto attempted, and that it will be rendered additionally acceptable as comprising in its course a Continuous History of English Poetry. By the arrangements that will be adopted, the Works of the principal Poets may be purchased separately and independently of the rest. The Occasional Volumes, containing, according to circumstances, Poetry of a particular Class or Period, Collections illustrative of Customs, Manners, and Historical Events, or Specimens, with Critical Annotations, of the Minor Poets, will also be complete in themselves. As the works of each Poet, when completed, will be independent of the rest, although ultimately falling into their places in the Series, they will be issued irrespective of chronological sequence. This arrangement will present a greater choice and variety in the selection from time to time of poets of different styles and periods, and at the same time enable the Editor to take advantage of all new sources of information that may be opened to him in the progress of publication. General Title-pages will be finally supplied for combining the whole Collection into a Chronological Series. Already Published. POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN DRYDEN, including the most complete collection of his Prologues and Epilogues hitherto published, with Memoir and Notes, Critical and Historical. Three vols. 78. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF THE EARL OF SURREY, of Minor Contemporaneous Poets, and of Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. With Notes and Memoirs. 2s. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF WILLIAM COWPER, together with Illustrative Selections from the Works of Lloyd, Cotton, Brooke, Darwin, and Hayley. Notes and Memoirs. Three vols. 78. 6d. SONGS FROM THE DRAMATISTS. From the first regular Comedy to the close of the Eighteenth Century. With Notes, Memoirs, and Index. 28. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF SIR THOMAS WYATT. With Notes and Memoir. 28. 6d. With Memoir and Notes. 2s. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN OLDHAM. POETICAL WORKS OF JAMES THOMSON. With Memoir and Notes. Two POEMS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. With Memoir and Notes. 2s. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF SAMUEL BUTLER. With Memoir and Notes. Three vols. 78. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT GREENE and CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE With Memoir and Notes. 28. 6d. EARLY BALLADS, Illustrative of History, Traditions, and Customs. With Introduction and Notes. 28. 6d. ANCIENT POEMS, BALLADS, and SONGS OF THE PEASANTRY OF ENGLAND. With Introduction and Notes. 2s. 6d. POETICAL WORKS OF BEN JONSON. With Memoir and Notes. 2s. 6d. 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