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WORKS BY JOHN STUART MILL, M.P. FOR WESTMINSTER.

An EXAMINATION of SIR WILLIAM HAMIL TON'S PHILOSOPHY, and of the Princip Philosophical Questions dises-ed in n Writings. Second Edition, revise!.......... ........Svo. 14. The subjects discussed in this volume are various and interesting. They relate to the relativity of knowledge, the philosophy of the conditioned, consciousness, the belief in an external world, the primary qualities of matter, the law of inseparable association, the doctrine of unconscious mental modifications, the theory of causation, logic, and formal logic, the natural prejudices and fallacies counte. nanced by HAMILTON, the theory of pleasure and pain, free will, and the study of mathematics... The volume is one which readers even moderately interested in philosophical discussion will find full of suggestion. They will in all cases see these topics discussed with admirable clearness and perfect temper.' PALL MALL GAZETTE.

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A more careful, searching, or destru tive piece of criticism has seldom appeared. Mr. MILL has travelled through the writings of Sr WILLIAM HAMILTON and Mr. MANSEL with all the zeal of the most humble and enthusiastic disciple, and has produced against them both an indictment which it requires a considerable effort to read, but which will repay stu ly. It is, as might have been expected from its author's reputation, perfect y fair and courteous. Mr. MILL continually takes occasion to praise Sir WILLIAM HAMILTON'S Derveis English, bis extraordinary learning, and his extre fairness in controversy, and he does full justice ta Mr. MANSEL'S clearness of statement. The book altogether is as creditable as it is instructive." SATURDAY REVIEW.

PRINCIPLES of POLITICAL ECONOMY, with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy. Sixth Edition..................2 vols. 8vo. 3 %.

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PRINCIPLES of POLITICAL ECONOMY. By JOHN

STUART MILL, M.P. People's Edition..................................

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MISS BERRY'S JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE.

Just published, in 3 vols. 8vo., with 3 Portraits, price 42s.,

EXTRACTS

OF THE

JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE

OF

MISS BERRY,

FROM THE YEAR 1783 to 1852.

EDITED BY LADY THERESA LEWIS.

OPINIONS OF THE

'GOOD things are always in season, however long delayed; and Lady THERESA LEWIS's edition of the journal and letters of Miss BERRY is as welcome as roses in August or peaches in October... The correspondence of Miss BERRY with Lord ORFORD is the part of this work which will attract the greatest attention from many readers. Much of it is new to the public, and is full of WALPOLE'S best nature. We must give our readers some account of this in another notice, as well as a notification of the contents of the last volume. The first and second volumes contain each a wealth of gossip and comment on passing events which will make them precious to those who seek to reproduce for themselves or others the first half of this century and the last quarter of the eighteenth. The small events of daily life, the adventures of travelling, the amusements, the fashions, words, feelings of those days, before steamboats, railways, cheap postage, popular education, and penny newspapers existed, are all brought vividly to mind by these volumes.' GLOBE, Sept. 25.

MISS BERRY bequeathed all her papers to the late Sir FRANKLAND LEWIS, and, not long before her death, informed his daughter-in-law, Lady THERESA LEWIS, that she had done so, adding that, in case of his death, and of his not having had time to deal with these MSS., she wished her to promise to take charge of them. This promise Lady THERESA LEWIS has fulfilled, and by careful selection from as many papers as filled two large trunks she has produced three volumes of interesting extracts from the journals and correspondence of a lady who died in the year 1852 at the age of eighty-nine, and who in her youth had HORACE WALPOLE for a faithful admirer. Miss BERRY was editress of the original letters of Lady RACHEL RUSSELL, which she prefaced with noble appreciation of her life; her interest was always strong in life and literature;

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and by her abilities and her position in society, and by her special inclination to observe, shown in her Comparative View of Social Life in England and France from the Restoration,' she was a person very likely to set down in journal and letters such notes of her social experience as would be worth publishing for the instruction and amusement of a later generation.' EXAMINER, Sept. 23.

ALL who are acquainted with WALPOLE'S letters will not fail to remember what new life, and zest, and spirit, freshen the correspondence (which had begun to languish) as soon as the name of BERRY brightens his epistles. Light, grace, music, beauty, nature, and truthfulness, seem all to come back again, or at all events to appear with the young girls whom WALPOLE loved to call in happy playfulness his two wives. Their presence lends a peculiar charm to the letter-writer's closing pages...The chief value of these volumes consists in the illustrations they give, social and political, moral and religious, of a long and eventful period, forming important parts of two centuries. The journals and letters, whether treating of home or foreign topics, are marked by calmn good sense and accurate judgment, rather than by dashing wit and dazzling brilliancy, and, in very many respects, they are the better for these more sober characteristics. ... For the very full portraits of CAROLINE of BRUNSWICK and the PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, and the very curious things said of and about them, we must refer to these volumes. Those ladies have never been better linned, shadows as well as light, the comic as well as the tragic sides.... All the Paris scenes, the life, manners, the morals, costume, and characters, are charmingly portrayed. Nor do these volumes lack contributions from correspondents illustiative of such matters in other lands. . . . Of the merit of these volumes we need say nothing more.' ATHENAEUM, Sept. 23.

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[Oct.

ILLUSTRATED EDITION.

In the Autumn will be published, in crown 8vo, price 12s. 6d.,
cloth, gilt edges,

THE RECREATIONS

OF A

COUNTRY PARSON.

BY A. K. H. B.

FIRST SERIES. NEW EDITION.

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MR. LEIGHTON'S LIFE OF MAN SYMBOLISED.

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At the end of October will be published, in One Volume, 4to., price 31s. 6d., bound in richly-ornamented covers appropriate to the Work, designed by the Artist, and with Index-edge in Colours and Gold; or price 56s. elegantly bound in morocco by RIVIÈRE,

THE

LIFE OF MAN Symbolised by the Months of the Year,

IN

THEIR SEASONS AND PHASES,

WITH PASSAGES SELECTED FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN AUTHORS.

BY RICHARD PIGOT.

ACCOMPANIED BY A SERIES OF TWENTY-FIVE FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS, AND MANY HUNDRED MARGINAL DEVICES, DECORATIVE INITIAL LETTERS AND TAIL-PIECES, ENGRAVED ON WOOD FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS

BY JOHN LEIGHTON, F.S.A.

THIS Volume will consist of Twelve Sections, into which the Life progress of nature, from the germination of the seed to the decay of the tree.

The progressive developments of the physical and moral attributes of Man are shown in each Month concurrently with the growth of the Year; and the varying phases of his Passions, Pursuits, and Aspirations are exhibited in excerpt passages from Ancient and Modern Writers. These are cited in the typographical characters of their respective periods, appropriately and suggestively illustrated by many hundreds of marginal devices, initial vignettes, and tail-pieces.

Each page of the book will be enclosed in a framework, which serves as a setting for proverbs and other aphorismatic sentences, in harmony with the text. Each Section will be preceded by two full-page Engravings, of which, including the General Frontispiece, there will be Twenty-five, printed within red rules. Twelve of them, illustrating the Life of Man from the Cradle to the Grave, also embody the Progress of the Seasons, and the varying Aspects of Nature, as seen under an English sky. The other Twelve comprise a Series of Medallion Portraits, from the Infant to the Patriarch, combined with Floral Emblems and other Symbolical Attributes, in keeping with the central subject.

Subjects of the Twelve Cardinal Illustrations.

FRONTISPIECE-All the World's a Stage.

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[Oct.

A BOOK-GIFT SUITABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS.

Recently published, in crown 4to, price 638. in cloth, gilt top;

or price 51. 58. bound in morocco by Rivière,

THE NEW TESTAMENT

Of Our Lord and Saviour

JESUS CHRIST.

Illustrated with Borders, Ornaments, and Initial Letters copied from Italian MSS. of the 15th and 16th Centuries, and by numerous other Engravings on Wood from the Early Masters, viz.

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FROM THE 'SATURDAY REVIEW.'

A volume which is second in point of art to no contemporary publication. . . . . It is a book which will always be a treasure to bibliographers, and which wil be reckoned in future generations as one of the choicest typographical monuments of this age

FROM 'THE TIMES.'

"This edition of the New Testament is the finest thing that has ever been done in wood engraving; and no volume of equal artistic merit has for many years been published in this country. It is a great work, which will hereafter be often cited as one of the master-pieces of the printing-press..... It is difficult at first sight to believe that the engrav ings which embellish this magnificent work are on wood, the touches are so delicate and the effects so identical with those which it has hitherto been thought possible to produce only on steel. . . . . To appreciate the thorough honesty of the work in every page it should be sen through a magnifying glass.'

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FROM THE GUARDIAN.'

As a specimen of English workmanship in the arts of wood-engrav ing and printing-arts which have ever called for and rewarded the application of invention, taste, and skill, as much as those which especially claim to be the fine arts-it will take rank as one of the most remarkable examples of the perfection to which they have been brought. Printing and engravings alike show the same combination of strength, evenness, and complete ness of finish. All the parts correspond. There is no contrast between high and origina design in one department of the work and coarse and uneven execution in another. Every where there is the same care, the same conscientiousness, the mastery over work: and the result is a book which hardly has its like in goodness, variety, and perfection of adornment, among the productions of the English press.'

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