PROTESTANT Reeves & Turner, Second Edition, EXILES FROM FRANCE IN THE REIGN OF LOUIS XIV.; or, The Huguenot Refugees and their Descendants in Great Britain and Ireland. By Rev. D. C. A. AGNEW. Corrected and Enlarged Edition. 2 vols. small 4to, cloth, 14s. (Large Paper, 21s.) A Third Volume, with Index to all the Names, is in the Press, and will shortly be issued. "Anything in reference to the Huguenots and their descendants is always welcome, for they have stamped the impress of their faith and their perseverance upon the laws and customs of more than one country. Go to what colony or dependency we will, we are sure to find some descendant or other of those men who fled from France during the troublous times to which our author refers, occupying a position of mportance, respected for his faith and the integrity of his principles. The author has been at great pains to prove his facts, and the result is that the work is one of the most complete that has yet appeared upon the subject with which he deals. The references to contemporaneous history, the men of that period, and the places of public resort, are in the highest degree interesting and instructive. No student of history should be without this work."-EUROPEAN MAIL. THE NEW LONDON JEST-BOOK: A Collection of Choice Jests. Edited by W. C. HAZLITT; with Preface, interesting Introduction on "Jests in General," and Copious Index. Post 8vo, cloth gilt extra, 4s.; bound in limp green morocco, gilt edges, 8s. 6d. A few Copies printed on Large Paper, small 4to, half Roxburghe, 7s. 6d. "The present collection, exclusive of a considerable body of matter which will be found to be new to the general reader, embraces the best portion of nearly thirty jest-books, which have been specially examined for the purpose, and of which the contents were little known, except to those who have made this branch of literature their particular study. As to his (Mr Hazlitt's) jokes, they are quite worthy of a place on the shelf." -LITERARY WORLD. "A good collection of jests and anecdotes is therefore a most desirable thing, and we have to congratulate Mr Hazlitt on the capital volume now before us. Altogether, Mr Hazlitt's volume is a capital one, and we neartily recommend it to our readers. The book is admirably printed, and reflects the greatest credit on the enterprising publishers."-NORTH BRITISH DAILY MAIL. "So far as we have seen, Mr Hazlitt does not commit this carelessness (i.e., repeating the jests, as in Mark Lemon's Jest-Book), and he restricts his jests to 1040 in number."- FIGARO. 185 Fleet Street and 196 Strand, London. Reeves & Turner, "This is a lively little book, full of fun to overflowing, and stored with a number of jokes and droll incidents new to English ears; in the interesting preface we learn that many of the stories attributed to Ben Jonson, Sheridan, Matthew, Dickens, and Sydney Smith are the purest of fabrications."-STANDARD. "There is a sort of freemasonry in the fun under notice that makes it common to humanity wherever it is located; we are by no means opposed to the interests of the followers of Galen, but we can cordially recommend this little work as an agreeable antidote to lowness of spirits and such like evils that flesh is heir to. The work is neatly bound in fcap. 8vo, and contains some 400 pp., which are full of witticisms."-EUROPEAN MAIL. 66 66 The Novelty Book of the Period, price 21s. and 31s. 6d. CURIOSITIES OF STREET LITERATURE; comprising, in fac-simile, Cocks," or Catchpennies," a large and Curious Collection of Street-Drolleries, Squibs, Histories, Comic Tales in Prose and Verse, Broadsides on the Royal Family, Ballads, Dying Speeches, Confessions, &c., with an Introduction on Street Literature, by CHARLES HINDLEY, with numerous crude Woodcuts, printed on fine toned paper. 4to, half-bound morocco, Roxburghe style, 21s. (Only 250 copies printed.) Printed on one side only, on fine French Linear writing paper, in imitation of the Catnach tea-like paper of old, half-bound, morocco, gilt top, £1, 11s. 6d. (Only 100 copies printed.) "The introduction to this really curious volume will give some idea of its object. In selecting and arranging Street Papers, every care has been taken to print them verbatim et literatim. They bear the printer's name and address, where used, and in many cases the woodcuts have been borrowed or purchased to present them in their original style."—CITY PRESS. "This work is now complete, and forms a large and handsome quarto volume, and as the number of copies printed has been judiciously limited, it promises soon to become as scarce almost as the originals from which it was arranged. The incidents which it records conjure up many memories of the past, which will find no place in the ordinary history of the present generation. We may be sure that Mr C. Hindley will find his collection readily snapped up by searchers after curiosities."-BRIGHTON OBSERVER. "Mr C. Hindley has done 'some service to the state' by collecting these curious specimens of the literature of the streets. To a future Macaulay, who desired to convey to his readers some notion of the tastes, manners, and morals of the population of our large towns, they would prove invaluable. This work is one that will be welcomed by those to whom the study of mankind in all its phases is a matter of interest.' -BRIGHTON HERALD. 185 Fleet Street and 196 Strand, London. Reeves & Turner, SIR WILLIAM DRUMMOND'S EDIPUS JUDAICUS. New and Revised Edition, with 16 plates and cuts, 8vo, cloth, 12s. 6d. (Only 250 copies printed.) TABLE OF CONTENTS:-Six Dissertations-(1st), On the 49th Chapter of Genesis; (2d), On the 14th Chapter; (3d), Concerning the Tabernacle and Temple; (4th), On the Book of Joshua; (5th), Sketch of a Commentary or Dissertation on the Book of Judges; (6th), Concerning the Paschal Lamb. Nigger Lectures for Penny Readings, &c. PROFESSOR JULIUS CÆSAR HANNIBAL'S NIGGER LECTURES AND PRACTICAL DISCOURSES: Together with American Spice Nuts. Many quaint Cuts, pp. 220, sewed, 1s. The above Volume contains 50 Lectures on a variety of personal and other subjects of general interest. Together with Humorous Smart Sayings, Jokes, and interesting Anecdotes. "This little book is what Jonathan would call A SCREAMER.”—SUNDAY TIMES. THE ROXBURGHE LIBRARY. Edited by W. C. HAZLITT. Eight vols. small 4to, £6, 6s. (only 170 copies printed); or large paper, demy 4to, £15, 15s. (only 30 copies printed), uniformly bound in half morocco, Roxburghe style, and printed at the Chiswick Press. The Volumes of the Small Paper Edition may be purchased separately as under. 1. The Romance of Paris and Vienne, from the Unique Copy printed by W. Caxton in 1485, with a Preface, Glossary, and Notes, fac-simile page, 15s. 2. The Complete Works of William Browne, of Tavistock, Author of "Britannia's Pastorals," now first collected, with a Memoir and Notes, fac-similes, in 2 vols., £1, 11s. 6d. 3. Inedited Tracts (1579-1618); Illustrating the Manners, Opinions, and Occupations of Englishmen during the 16th and 17th centuries, now first republished from the Original Copies, with a Preface and Notes, woodcuts, 18s. 185 Fleet Street and 196 Strand, London. Reeves & Turner, 4. The English Drama and Stage under the Tudor and Stuart Princes, A.D. 1543 to A.D. 1664, Illustrated by a Series of Documents and Treatises, chiefly inedited, with an Introduction and Notes, woodcuts, 15s. 5. The Poems of George Gascoigne, now first collected, with Memoir and Notes, portrait, plates, and fac-similes, 2 very thick volumes, £2, 2s. 6. The Poems of Thomas Carew, now first collected, and Edited with a Memoir of the Author and Notes, fine portrait ! after Varin and fac-simile of writing, 18s. New Edition, HONE'S (WILLIAM) ANCIENT MYSTERIES DESCRIBED, especially the English Miracle Plays, founded on Apocryphal New Testament Story, extant among the unpublished Manuscripts in the British Museum, including notices of Ecclesiastical Shows, &c., with several Illustrations from Etchings, by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. RIGHT HON. LORD ERSKINE'S SPEECHES, while at the Bar, from the 5 volume 8vo Edition. With a Prefatory Memoir now added by E. WALFORD, Esq., M.A. 2 vols. 8vo, cloth, 16s., or half calf gilt, 24s. "The golden age of English oratory, which extends over the last quarter of the eighteenth and the first quarter of the nineteenth centuries, produced no speaker, either in Parliament or at the Bar, superior in persuasive force and artistic finish to Thomas Lord Erskine."-TIMES. "Our admiration for his unrivalled power of expression must not cause us to forget that he possessed also a clear and vigorous understanding. Let us once more repeat that the highest merit of his speeches was the strict subordination of genius to practical good sense. ."-SATURDAY REVIEW. 66 The object of which is to popularise the great advocate's efforts, which are now universally admitted to be among the highest, if not the highest of their kind. In another paper we shall notice some of the beauties and characteristics of Erskine's speeches."-LAW TIMES. "In such times Lord Erskine was the able, the eloquent, the successful, the intrepid advocate of Reform and Reformers. 'His speeches,' writes Lord Campbell, 'will preserve his name as long as the English language endures.' To us it seems that a double interest attaches to his speeches. They are to be studied as models of eloquence, as containing vigorous arguments on behalf of true constitutional principles," &c.LITERARY WORLD. 185 Fleet Street and 196 Strand, London. Reeves & Turner, Tenth Edition, HONE'S (WILLIAM) THE APOCRYPHAL NEW TESTAMENT: Being all the Gospels, Epistles, and other Pieces now extant, attributed in the first four centuries to Jesus Christ, His Apostles, and their companions; and not included in the New Testament by its compilers. With Prefaces, Tables, and Notes. 8vo, cloth, 3s. 6d. CONTENTS:-1. The Gospel of the Birth of Mary-The Protevangelion-The Two Gospels of the Infancy-The Gospel of Nicodemus. 2. The Epistles of Christ and Abgarus-Epistles of Paul and Seneca– Epistles of Paul to the Laodiceans– Acts of Paul and Thecla. 3. The Apostles' Creed in its ancient state, and in its present state. 4. The Two Epistles of Clement to the Corinthians-The General Epistle of Barnabas-The Seven Epistles of Ignatius-The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians-The Shepherd of Hermes. Besides the Coventry Mysteries and other religious plays, various stories in scarce literature, and works of early painters and engravers, are founded on narratives in the Apocryphal New Testament; and hence it is especially useful to collectors of pictures and prints, and to readers who examine curious subjects. In a theological point of view, the work being a collection of all the books that remain out of the immense number of spurious and apocryphal writings in the first four centuries, is necessarily of a mixed character. Although such pieces as are either proved, or uniformly believed to have been written since, are excluded. REEVES' HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW. Edited by W. F. FINLASON, Esq. Contains a complete History of Oral or Traditional Law, before there was any Act of Parliament passed, and showing its use from Customs and Traditions, with Acts, &c., to the Reign of Elizabeth. 3 vols. 8vo, cloth, £2, 2s.; single volumes, 14s. This is the next most necessary book to read after "Blackstone." Warren, in his "Ten Thousand a Year," says, "I must advise you for information to go to the fountain-head, and for that purpose recommend you 'Reeves' History of English Law."" "It is a book of high character, but less read, perhaps, than it deserves."-Mr SERJEANT STEPHEN IN HIS EDITION OF "BLACKSTONE." "Mr Finlason has contributed much valuable matter in addition to that which he found in the pages of his author. This he has done in the shape of notes, wisely leaving his author's text to speak for itself. The publication of this work is especially opportune, at a time when we are simplifying the knowledge of law by expunging obsolete Acts of Parliament from the statute book. Such statutes may still retain much historical interest, and we are indebted to writers who, like Reeves and 185 Fleet Street and 196 Strand, London. |