Whether it be owing to our own prepossession, or to the skill of the writer, we
find its execution immeasurably superior to that of any similar work that has of late
years issued from the press.—Brighton Gazette.
We have here a recurrence of that pleasing excitement, through all the reading
world, which was wont to attend the appearance of each new “ Waverley novel.”
The voice of the mighty minstrel again rises, as it were, from the grave, and we
cease for a time in the midst of the anxious and feverish contentions of faction, to
listen to the tones which delighted and astonished our earlier years. ‘This volume,
indeed, unexpectedly possesses all the interest of a new sweep from the lyre which
was supposed for ever dumb.—Dundee Chronicle.
Also, the same work in two vols. octavo, bound in embossed cloth.
THEODORE HOOK’S NEW NOVEL.
BY THE AUTHOR OF “SAYINGS AND DOINGS,” “JACK BRAG,” &c.
COMEDIAN.
BY MRS. MATHEWS.
* A man so various, that he seem’d to be
Not one, but all mankind’s epitome.” —Drypben.
Proteus for shape, and mocking-bird for tongue.
In Two Volumes, Royal 12mo.
BY MRS. MONKLAND.
Author of “Village Reminiscences,” &c.