THE FAMILY LIBRARY. J. & J. HARPER, New-York, have in press, and will shortly publish, the remaining volumes of the Family Library, which will be executed in strict uniformity of style with the present part of the work. THE HISTORY OF THE JEWS: Nos. I. II. & III. By the Rev. H. H. Milman. In 3 vols. 18mo. Illustrated with original Maps and Woodcuts. The following are but a few of the numerous testimonies of approbation which Mr. Milman's History of the Jews has received in Europe. "The Editors have been most fortunate in engaging on this work the pen of a scholar, both classical and scriptural, and so elegant and powerful a writer, as the Poetry Professor. Few theological works of this order have appeared either in ours or in any other language. To the Christian reader of every age and sex-and we may add of every sect-it will be a source of the purest delight, instruction, and comfort; and of the infidels who open it merely that they may not remain in ignorance of a work placed by general consent in the rank of an English classic, is there not every reason to hope that many will lay it down in a far different mood "Blackwood's Magazine, Though the subject is trite, the manner of treating it is such as to command our deepest attention. While the work has truth and simplicity enough to fascinate a child, it is written with a masterliness of the subject and an elegance of composition that will please the most refined and fastidious reader. "-Edinb. Saturday's Post. "It cannot help being one of the most deeply interesting works of the day: it is inva luable to the Christian scholar."-Birm. Journal. "The most popular history of the sons of Israel that has hitherto been published. The highest enconium we can pass upon the work under notice is to urge its purchase, from a conviction of its striking and permanent worth."-Berkshire Chronicle. "The work is admirably adapted for the instruction of youth."--Sheffield Courant. "We are acquainted with no work which we can more heartily recommend to our readers; to the younger part of them especially, we are sure it will prove a most acceptable present."-Literary Gazette. "The narrative of the various and highly interesting events in that period flows on in a chaste style; and a thorough knowledge of his subject is evident in every page. The work is spirited, well arranged, and full of information, and of a wise and well cultivated religious spirit."-Athenæum. "It is not too much to say, that to the Christian reader, of every age and sex, it will be a source of the purest delight, instruction, and comfort."-Cork Southern Reporter. "It is one of those rare publications which unite all the attraction of novelty, and all the beauties of finished and spirited composition. We cannot close without strongly recom mending the History of the Jews as a work equally entertaining to age and instructive to youth, alike acceptable to the ignorant, and to be perused with pleasure by the learned." Tyne Mercury THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE: Nos. IV. & V, with copperplate Engravings, and Woodcuts from designs of G. CRUIKSHANK. From - the 2d London Edition. Neatly bound in canvas. 2 vols. (nearly ready.) March 1, 1830. "We anticipate a prodigious circulation for this attractive work. It is drawn up with consummate ability. Indeed, we have seldom perused a work more uniformly interesting in its details."-Sun. "We are pleased to find that each succeeding number of the Family Library is worthy of the promise virtually held out by the elegant appearance of the first numbers, and the literary talent which they display. The present is among the most interesting of those that have yet appeared."-Manchester Courier. "We are very glad to see that this work has reached a second edition. It is a very delightful piece of biography, and constitutes one of the best works for the Library with which we are acquainted."-Yorkshire Gazette. "The first volumes of this work secured for it the attention and patronage of the public; and the continued ability displayed in these succeeding numbers, has gained it an introduction into most of the family libraries,' not only in England, but in Europe. Suiting itself to the hardship of the times, this work is published in a form and at a price which render it accessible to all classes of the reading public."-Suffolk Herald. "After the merited praise that has already been given to this work, it cannot be supposed that we have any thing particularly original to offer respecting it. We are glad to find that the public have duly appreciated its merits, and that a new edition has been called for." Bristol Mirror. "The great history, always interesting, was never better told. The whole work is highly creditable to the author and publishers. As it deserves, it has already reached a second edition."-Kent Herald. "So great has been the avidity with which the two first volumes of the Family Library have been bought up, that it has been found necessary to republish them."-Man. Courier. "Of the Life of Napoleon Buonaparte' an unusually large impression was speedily called for; and a new edition, consisting of ten thousand copies, has just appeared. This little work has been justly lauded by all parties, for the tone of grave and generous candour which it maintains throughout. It is, in truth, a masterly epitome of all that has been proved to be true, concerning the career of the most extraordinary man of the last thousand years."-Cork Southern Reporter. "It is written with great judgment, clearness, and conciseness, and leaves nothing to be wished for, either in the matter or manner of its composition."-John Bull. "Judging by the present specimen, the Family Library' must become a favouits to all classes, and benefit society in general."-Birmingham Journal. "These volumes may safely be committed to the hand of youth, by whom they will be strongly relished for the amazing interest, variety, and fullness of the details."-Sun. "It seems to us to be a book which must take, and we heartily wish it all the success it merits."-Durham County Chronicle. "We never met with more solid information compressed within so small a space; and yet the brevity of the style never runs into obscurity. On the contrary, we should be much at a loss to point out such another specimen of narrative clearness in the whole range of contemporary literature. Two volumes so rich in information and interest, so much to be devoured by youth, and so worthy to be consulted by the maturest reader, would constitute certainly one of the cheapest of all possible cheap books. Of a work already so widely known it would be ridiculous to multiply specimens in these pages; but one passage will be complained of by ne one; Nunc legan' qui nunquam legebant, quique legebant nunc legant. We have readers in regions to which even the cheapest books do not easily find their way and in many an Indian can'onmen' the striking paragraphs which follow will be perused for the first time on our pages."-Blackwood's Magazine. "This is a much better book than any other in English on the same subject." Athenæum. "We need scarcely express the pleasure this work has afforded us."-Gent.'s Mag. "A publication of such high merit cannot be too extensively circulated." Glasgow Free Press. "This is a book that must be popular."-Scotsman. |