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March 1854.
A CATALOGUE OF NEW AND STANDARD WORKS,
PUBLISHED BY SMITH, ELDER AND CO., 65, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Works in the Press
I. MR. RUSKIN'S LECTURES ON ARCHITECTURE AND PAINTING.
With Illustrations drawn by the Author.
One Volume, crown 8vo. {Just ready.)
II. THE LAWS OF WAR.
PART I. RELATING TO COMMERCE AND SHIPPING.
PART II. THE ARMY, NAVY, AND MILITIA.
BY H. BYERLEY THOMSON, ESQ., B. A.,
Barrister at Law. 8vo.
III. FOUR YEARS AT THE COURT OF HENRY VIII. Being the Despatches of Sebastian Guistinian, Venetian Ambassador to England;
Translated from the Italian by Rawdon Brown.
In One Volume.
IV. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY OF THE HIMALAYA. By CAPTAIN RICHARD STRACHEY, Bengal Engineers. One Volume, 8vo, with Numerous Illustrations.
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V. MODERN GERMAN MUSIC. By HENRY F. CHORLEY, Esq. Two Volumes, post 8vo. (Now ready.)
VI. COUNTERPARTS; or, THE CROSS OF LOVE. By the Author of " Charles Auchester. " Three Volumes, post 8vo. (Nearly ready.)
VII. NANETTE AND HER LOVERS. By TALBOT GWYNNE. Author of "The School for Fathers," "Silas Barnstarke," &c. One Volume, crown 8vo. (Now ready.)
VIII. HOLME GRANGE; or,. THE MODERN RUTH. By W.D. WATSON, Esq. Author of "Trevethlan," &c. Foolscap 8vo. (Nearly ready.)
IX. THE HEIR OF VALLIS. By WILLIAM MATHEWS, Esq. Three Volumes, post 8vo. (Now ready.)
X. TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN ASSAM. By CAPTAIN JOHN BUTLER. One Volume, 8vo, with Plates.
XI. A POPULAR EXPOSITION OF THE MERCANTILE LAW OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. By LEONE LEVI, Esq., F.S.S., Author of "The Commercial Law of the World."
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I. THE RUSSO-TURKISH CAMPAIGNS of 1828-9: With an account of the present state of the Eastern Question. By COLONEL CHESNEY, R.A., D.C.L., F.R.S., Author of "The Expedition to the Euphrates and Tigris." Second Edition. One thick Volume, post 8vo, with Maps. Price 12s. cloth.
"The Military Memoir of Colonel Chesney is full and clear; occasionally presenting the active struggles of combat, but more generally exhibiting the strategy-- the moves of the game. Iti this consists the principal value of the work."-- Spectator.
"The best historical companion the reader can possess during the campaigns about to open."--Athenaeum.
"The only work on the subject suited to the military reader."--United Service Gazette.
II. THE BHILSA TOPES; or, Buddhist Monuments of Central India. By MAJOR CUNNINGHAM. One Volume, 8vo, with Thirty-three Plates, price 30s. cloth.
"Major Cunningham's most valuable and instructive book ought to help to awaken a popular interest in Indian antiquities, as the study of the Buddhist monuments leads directly to the elimination of historical truths of the most interesting kind. Of the Topes opened in various parts of India, none have yielded so rich a harvest of important information as these of Bhilsa, opened by Major Cunningham and Lieut. Maisey; and which are described, with an abundance of highly curious graphic illustrations, in this most interesting book."--Examiner.
"The work of Major Cunningham contains much that is original, and preserves the results of very important investigations. The variety of representations in bas-reliefs is unusually large. Not only are religious and military pageants, ceremonies, and battels depicted, but domestic scenes of a highly interesting character. "-- Athenaeum.
III. BALDER. A POEM. By the Author of "The Roman." One Volume, crown 8vo, price 7s. 6d. cloth.
"The writer has fine qualities; his level of thought is lofty, and his passion for the beautiful has the truth of an instinct."--Athenaeum.
"We know of few poems evidencing more philosophic grasp and more poetic pith than 'Balder.'" -- Critic.
"The richest volume of recent poetry."--Hogg's Instructor.
IV. DOINE; or, the National Songs and Legends of Roumania. Translated from the Originals, with an Introduction, and Specimens of the Music. By E.C. GRENVILLE MURRAY, Esq. One Volume, crown 8vo.
"The Doine are national songs of Roumania, which have been collected in "Wallachia, and are now offered to the public in an elegant English dress. They are extremely pretty and characteristic; and no one can glance at them without feeling a deep interest in a people who can feel so tenderly and nobly. The volume is tastefully executed. "--Athenaeum.
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V. MAUDE TALBOT. By HOLME LEE. Three Volumes, post 8vo, price 31s. 6d.
"A well-wrought and really admirable work of fiction, of a solid and very thoughtful kind; the thoughtfulness is all thrown into the form of character and incident. The story has been carefully matured; the plot is well managed and extremely inte-resting; there is abundance and variety of incident; the style is graphic and terse, and the feeling everywhere excellent. Great skill is shown in the development of character; the persons of the tale are very distinct and real."--Examiner.
VI. AVILLION, AND OTHER TALES. By the Author of "Olive," "The Head of the Family," &c. Three Volumes, post 8vo, price 1l. 11s. 6d. cloth.
"'Avillion' is a beautiful and fanciful story; and the rest make agreeable reading. There is not one of them unquickened by true feeling, exquisite taste, and a pure and vivid imagination."--Examiner.
"These volumes form altogether as pleasant and fanciful a miscellany as has often been given to the public in these latter days. "--Athenaeum.
"In a nice knowledge of the refinements of the female heart, and in a happy power of depicting emotion, the authoress is excelled by very few story-tellers of the day."-- Globe.
VII. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY. Two Essays which obtained the Prizes offered by Lady Noel Byron. By MICAIAH HILL and C.F. CORNWALLIS. One Volume, post 8vo, price 6s. cloth.
"This volume is the best existing manual of the subject. The first Essay may be said to compass the whole round of the subject, with its statistics presenting a manual of the standing facts and arguments. The other is remarkable for a vigorous portraiture of the general causes of juvenile delinquency; and it has a novelty and force which throw a new light upon the subject."--Spectator.
"We commend this volume to universal attention. In it is compactly yet very fully written the story of that savage horde among the civilized, which has now by a wise discipline to be transformed." --Examiner.
VIII. THE TRUE LAW OF POPULATION, Shown to be connected with the Food of the People. By THOMAS DOUBLEDAY. Third and Enlarged Edition, 8vo, price 10s. cloth.
"A very able and ingenious book."--Inquirer.
"A book of sterling value and deep interest."--Morning Advertiser.
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IX. THE INSURRECTION IN CHINA. By Dr. YVAN and M. CALLERY. With a Supplementary Account of the Most Recent Events. BY JOHN OXENFORD. THIRD EDITION, ENLARGED. Post 8vo, with Chinese Map and Portrait, 7s. 6d., cloth.
"A curious book, giving a lucid account of the origin and progress of the civil war now raging in China, bringing it down to the present day."--Blackwood's Magazine.
"Their narrative is animated by traits of Chinese manners, opinions, and ideas, and by lively reminiscences of the country and some of the actors with whom the authors were personally acquainted."--Spectator.
"The book can scarcely fail to find a curious and interested public."--Athenaeum.
"An interesting publication, full of curious and valuable matter."--Examiner.
"The volume is instructive and attractive in a high degree."--Illustrated News.
"The Revolution in China is the greatest revolution the world has yet seen."-- Times.
X. THE CROSS AND THE DRAGON; or, The Fortunes of Christianity in China; with notices of the Secret Societies of the Chinese. By J. KESSON. One Volume, post 8vo, price 6s. cloth.
"A painstaking and conscientious book."--Spectator.
"A very readable outline of the subject."--Athenaeum.
"A learned and excellent little book."--Glasgow Commonwealth.
XI. MEMORANDUMS MADE IN IRELAND. By SIR JOHN FORBES, M.D., Author of "The Physician's Holiday." Two Vols., Post 8vo, with Illustrations, price 1l. 1s. cloth.
"A complete handbook of the sister island. If there be any, who, knowing nothing of its social and political condition, meditate a tour in Ireland, the pleasure and profit to be derived from the journey will be much enhanced by a careful study of Dr. Forbes's very sensible observations."--New Quarterly Review.
"The book is excellent, and, like all the writings of its author, points to a good purpose. It is honest, thoughtful, liberal, and kindly. By readers of all grades Dr. Forbes's volumes will be read with pleasure."--Examiner.
"Dr. Forbes is evidently possessed of a candid mind, and though he has dealt with polemical matter, he does not write in a sectarian spirit."--Athenaeum.
XII. AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, AND THE COUNTRY ADJACENT. Post 8vo, with a View and Coloured Map, price 6s. cloth.
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I. THE STONES OF VENICE. By JOHN RUSKIN, Esq., Author of "Modern Painters," "Seven Lamps of Architecture," &c. Now complete, in Three Volumes, imperial 8vo, with 53 Plates, and numerous Woodcuts, drawn by the Author. Price 5l. 15s. 6d., in embossed cloth, with top edge gilt.
Each Volume may be had separately, -viz. --
Vol. I. --THE FOUNDATIONS, with 21 Plates. Price 2l. 2s.
Vol. 1l. --THE SEA STORIES, with 20 Plates. Price 1l. 2s.
Vol. III. --THE FALL, with 12 Plates. Price 1l. 11s. 6d.
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"The 'Stones of Venice' is the production of an earnest, religious, progressive, and informed mind. The author of this essay on architecture has condensed into it a poetic apprehension, the fruit of awe of God, and delight in nature; a knowledge, love, and just estimate of art; a holding fast to fact and repudiation of hearsay; an historic breadth, and a fearless challenge of existing social problems; whose union we know not where to find paralleled."--Spectator.
"One of the most important works on aesthetics ever published in this country; and which not only equals in profundity any single work put forth in modern times upon art, but surpasses in importance any that has heretofore been written upon the subject; inasmuch as the writer is gifted with the rare tact to make profound truths plain to common understandings."--Daily News.
"No one who has studied art in Venice will go through this book without such pleasure as belongs to a revival of some of bis warmest admirations, and the refreshment of his most delicious associations. It is full of fine things, and of true things."-- Athenaeum.
"This works shows that Mr. Ruskin's powers of competition and criticism were never in greater force. His eloquence is as rich, his enthusiasm as hearty, his sympathy for all that is high and noble in art as keen as ever. The book, like all he writes, is manly and high-minded, and, as usual, keeps the attention alive to the last." -- Guardian.
"No one who has visited Venice can read this book without having a richer glow thrown over his remembrances of that city; and for those who have not, Mr. Ruskin punts it with a firmness of outline and vividness of colouring that will bring it before the imagination with the force of reality." -- Literary Gazette.
"The whole is eloquent and thoughtful, and creative of thought in others. This book is a noble innovation upon the old dead talk of architects, and amateurs in architecture."--Examiner.
"The reputation which Mr. Ruskin has earned by his former works will probably receive a great accession of lustre from the 'Stones of Venice.' This work, as we had a right to expect from, the age and evidently growing powers of the author, may be justly described as his most valuable performance, and fitted to become the most popular of all his productions."--British Quarterly Review.
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II. MODERN PAINTERS. Imperial 8vo. Vol. I. Fifth Edition, 18s. cloth. Vol. 1l. Third Edition, 10s. 6d. cloth.
"Mr. Ruskin's work will send the painter more than ever to the study of nature; will train men who have always been delighted spectators of nature, to be also attentive observers. Our critics will learn to admire, and mere admirers will learn how to criticise: thus a public will be educated."--Blackwood's Magazine.
"A generous and impassioned review of the works of living painters. A hearty and earnest work, full of deep thought, and developing great and striking truths in art."--British Quarterly Review.
"A very extraordinary and delightful book, full of truth and goodness, of power and beauty."---North British Review.
"One of the most remarkable works on art which has appeared in our time."-- Edinburgh Review.
*** The Third Volume is in preparation.
III. THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE. With Fourteen Etchings by the Author. Imperial 8vo, 1l. 1s. cloth.
"By the 'Seven Lamps of Architecture,' we understand Mr. Ruskin to mean the seven fundamental and cardinal laws, the observance of and obedience to which are indispensable to the architect who would deserve the name. The politician, the moralist, the divine, will find in it ample store of instructive matter, as well as the artist. "--Examiner.
IV. PRE-RAPHAELITISM. 8vo., 2s. sewed.
"We wish that this pamphlet might be largely read by our art-patrons, and studied by our art-critics. There is much to be collected from it which is very important to remember."--Guardian.
V. THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER; or, The Black Brothers. With 22 Illustrations by RICHARD DOYLE. 2s. 6d.
"This little fairy tale is by a master hand. The story has a charming moral, and the writing is so excellent, that it would be hard to say which it will give most pleasure to, the very wise man or the very simple child."--Examiner.
VI. NOTES ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF SHEEP-FOLDS. 8vo., 1s.
"A pamphlet on the doctrine and discipline of the Church of Christ."--Britannia.
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I. LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH HUMOURISTS OF THE i8th CENTURY. By W.M. THACKERAY, Esq.,
Author of "Esmond," "Vanity Fair," "Pendennis," &c Second Edition, revised by the Author. In One Volume, crown 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth.
"To those who attended the lectures, the book will be a pleasant reminiscence, to others an exciting novelty. The style--clear, idiomatic, forcible, familiar, but never slovenly; the searching strokes of sarcasm or irony; the occasional flashes of generous scorn; the touches of pathos, pity, and tenderness; the morality tempered but never weakened by experience and sympathy; the felicitous phrases, the striking anecdotes, the passages of wise, practical reflection; all these lose much less than we could have expected from the absence of the voice, manner, and look of the lecturer." -- Spectator.
"What fine things the lectures contain! What eloquent and subtle sayings, what wise and earnest writing! How delightful are their turns of humour; with what a touching effect, in the graver passages, the genuine feeling of the man comes out; and how vividly the thoughts are fainted, as it were, in graphic and characteristic words." -- Examiner.
"This is to us by far the most acceptable of Mr. Thackeray's writings. His graphic style, his philosophical spirit, his analytical powers, his large-heartedness, his shrewdness and his gentleness, have all room to exhibit themselves."--Economist.
"These Lectures are rich in all the best qualities of the author's genius, and adapted to awaken and nourish a literary taste thoroughly English." -- British Quarterly Review.
"One of the most amusing books that we have read for a long time, and one that we think will occupy a lasting place in English literature."--Standard.
II. ESMOND. By W.M. THACKERAY, Esq., Second Edition, 3 Vols., crown 8vo, price 1l. 11s. 6d. cloth.
"Mr. Thackeray has selected for his hero a very noble type of the cavalier softening into the man of the eighteenth century, and for his heroine one of the sweetest women that ever breathed from canvass or from book, since Raffaelle painted and Shakespeare wrote. The style is manly, clear, terse, and vigorous, reflecting every mood, pathetic, grave, or sarcastic--of the writer." -- Spectator.
"Once more we feel that we have before us a masculine and thorough English writer, uniting the power of subtle analysis with a strong volition and a moving eloquence--an eloquence which has gained in richness and harmony."--Athenaeum.
"In quiet richness, 'Esmond' mainly resembles the old writers; as it does also in weight of thought, sincerity of purpose, and poetry of the heart and brain." -- Fraser's Magazine.
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I. VILLETTE. By CURRER BELL, Author of "Jane Eyre," "Shirley," &c In Three Volumes, post 8vo, price 1l. 11s. 6d. cloth.
"This book would have made Currer Bell famous had she not been already. It retrieves all the ground she lost in 'Shirley,' and it will engage a wider circle of readers than 'Jane Eyre,' for it has all the best qualities of that remarkable book. There is throughout a charm of freshness which is infinitely delightful: freshness in observation, freshness in feeling, freshness in expression."--Literary Gazette.
"This novel amply sustains the fame of the author of 'Jane Eyre' and 'Shirley' as an original and powerful writer. 'Villette' is a most admirably written novel, everywhere original, everywhere shrewd, and at heart everywhere kindly." -- Examiner.
"The tale is one of the affections, and remarkable as a picture of manners. A burning heart glows throughout it, and one brilliantly distinct character keeps it alive." --Athenaeum.
"Of interesting scenes and well-drawn characters there is abundance. The characters are various, happily conceived, and some of them painted with a truth of detail rarely surpassed."--Spectator.
II. SHIRLEY; a Tale. By CURRER BELL. A new Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth.
"The peculiar power which was so greatly admired in 'Jane Eyre' is not absent from this book. It possesses deep interest, and an irresistible grasp of reality. There is a vividness and distinctness of conception in it quite marvellous. The power of graphic delineation and expression is intense. There are scenes which, for strength and delicacy of emotion, are not transcended in the range of English fiction. --Examiner.
"'Shirley' is an admirable book; genuine English in the independence and uprightness of the tone of thought, in the purity of heart and feeling which pervade it, in the masculine vigour of its conception of character."-- Morning Chronicle.
"'Shirley' is very clever. The faculty of graphic description, strong imagination, fervid and masculine diction, analytic skill, all are visible. Gems of rare thought and glorious passion shine here and there throughout the volumes."--Times.
III. JANE EYRE: an Autobiography. By CURRER BELL. Fourth Edition. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth.
"'Jane Eyre' is a remarkable production. Freshness and originality, truth and passion, singular felicity in the description of natural scenery and in the analyzation of human thought, enable this tale to stand boldly out from the mass, and to assume its own place in the bright field of romantic literature. We could not but be struck with the raciness and ability of the work, by the independent sway of a thoroughly original and unworn pen, by the masculine current of noble thoughts, and the unflinching dissection of the dark yet truthful character."--Times.
IV. WUTHERING HEIGHTS and AGNES GREY. By ELLIS and ACTON BELL. With a Selection of their Literary Remains, and a Biographical Notice of both Authors, by CURRER BELL. Crown 8vo, 6s. cloth.
V. POEMS. By CURRER, ELLIS, and ACTON BELL. 4s. cloth.
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I. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SILAS BARNSTARKE. By TALBOT GWYNNE. One Volume, crown 8vo., price 10s. 6d. cloth.
"Mr. Gwynne has adopted the nervous and succinct style of our forefathers, while narrating the career of a lover of money. The reader will find little to impede his interest in following the career of this bad man to its bad end."---Athenaeum.
"In many ways this book is remarkable. Silas and his relations stand forth so distinctly and forcibly, and with so much simplicity, that we are far more inclined to feel of them as if they really lived, than of the writers of pretended diaries and autobiographies. The manners and ways of speech of the time are portrayed admirably." -- Guardian.
"The gradual growth of the sin of covetousness, its temporary disturbance by the admixture of a softer passion, and the pangs of remorse, are portrayed with high dramatic effect, resembling in some scenes the gigantic majesty of ancient Tragedy." -- John Bull.
"A story possessing an interest so tenacious that no one who. commences it, will easily leave the perusal unfinished."--Standard.
" A book of high aim and unquestionable power. "--Examiner.
II. THE SCHOOL FOR FATHERS; An Old English Story. By T. GWYNNE. Crown 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. cloth.
"The pleasantest tale we have read for many a day. It is a story of the Tatler and Spectator days, and is very fitly associated with that time of good English literature by its manly feeling, direct, unaffected manner of writing, and nicely managed, well-turned narrative. The descriptions are excellent; some of the country painting is as fresh as a landscape by Constable, or an idyl by Alfred Tennyson.". --Examiner.
"'The School for Fathers' is at once highly amusing and deeply interesting--full of that genuine humour which is half pathos--and written with a freshness of feeling and raciness of style which entitle it to be called a tale in the Vicar of Wakefield school."--Britannia.
"Few are the tales so interesting to read, and so admirable in purpose and style, as 'The School for Fathers.'"--Globe.
III. THE SCHOOL FOR DREAMERS. By T. GWYNNE. Crown 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. cloth.
"The master-limner of the follies of mankind, the author of 'The School for Fathers,' has produced another tale abounding with traits of exquisite humour and sallies of sparkling wit."--John Bull.
"'The School for Dreamers' may be credited with life, humour, and vigour. There is a spirit of enjoyment in Mr. Gwynne's descriptions which indicates a genial temperament, as well as a shrewd eye." --Athenaeum.
"A story which inculcates a sound and sensible moral in a manner equally delightful and effective."-- Morning Post.
"A powerfully and skilfully-written book, intended to show the mischief and danger of following imagination instead of judgment in the practical business of life." --Literary Gazette.
"An admirable and caustic satire on 'equality and fraternity' theories."-- Britannia.
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"The authoress has supplied a great desideratum both in female biography and morals. The style is clear, the matter solid, and the conclusions just."--Globe.
"A more noble and dignified tribute to the virtues of her sex we can scarcely imagine than this work, to which the gifted authoress has brought talents of no ordinary range, and, more than all, a spirit of eminent piety."--Church of England Quarterly Review.
"The same range of female biography is taken by no other volume; and an equal skill in the delineation of characters is rarely to be found. The author has accomplished her task with intelligence and feeling, and with general fairness and truth." --Nonconformist.
"Miss Kavanagh has wisely chosen that noble succession of saintly women who, in all ages of Christianity, are united by their devotion to the sick, the wretched, and the destitute."--Guardian.
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"Which among us will be ever tired of reading about the women of France? especially when they are marshalled so agreeably and discreetly as in the pages before us."--Athenaeum,
"The subject is handled with much delicacy and tact, and takes a wide range of examples. The book shows often an original tone of remark, and always a graceful and becoming one."---Examiner.
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AMABEL. By MARY ELIZABETH WORMELEY. Three Volumes, post 8vo. Price 1l. 11s. 6d.
"This fiction displays ability of a high kind. Miss Wormeley has considerable knowledge of society, much skill in depicting its persons and salient features, with the penetration to pierce below the surface. The characters are well conceived, and sustained: many of the latter parts possess considerable and rapid interest, and the composition is buoyant and animated."---Spectator.
"To enforce the moral that love, the principle, not the passion, infused into our duties, works its own reward, is the task undertaken by the writer of this pathetic and deeply affecting story." -- Globe.
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I. TWO THOUSAND MILES' RIDE THROUGH THE ARGENTINE PROVINCES: with an Account of Buenos Ayres, the Rio de la Plata, Monte Video, &c. By WILLIAM MCCANN, Esq. 2 Vols., post 8vo, with Illustrations. Price 24s. cloth.
"The animated narrative of an observant and sensible man; containing much general information of value to commercial men, and a full history of the recent civil war."--British Quarterly Review.
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