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“It contains the least prejudiced and most acute notices we have read of the
habits and modes of thinking of Englishmen, and the merits and defects of the
country and society.”

“A work that will be fondly treasured by every true lover of nature.”

“We hazard but little in predicting that this volume will be a favorite with
a large class of readers. It is written by a true lover of nature, and one who
most pleasantly records his actual observations.”

“Upon its high interest we need not enlarge; the personal adventures of the princess, her journeyings
on foot and on horseback, in disguise and in her own character, her mental and bodily sufferings, her hopes
and her despair, are a romance, and seem to belong to another age. They recall the wanderings and the
perils of our own Charles Edward, with all the additional interest which must attach to the daring and
the suffering of a woman.”

“Of the many publications which have recently issued from the press, calculated
to give a popular and attractive form to the results of science, we look upon
this volume as by far the most valuable. Mr. Babbage's name is well known
in connexion with the general subject of which he has here undertaken to treat.
But it will be difficult for the reader who does not possess the volume itself, to
understand the happy style, the judgment and tact, by means of which the author
has contrived to lend almost the charm of romance to the apparently dry
and technical theme which he has chosen.”

“The author is a man of solid sense, friendly to this country, and his remarks
have the value and interest of which his character and inquiries authorized
the expectation.”

“The author is a gentleman of classical education, a shrewd observer, a lively
writer, whose natural manner is always agreeable; whose various matter is
generally entertaining and instructive; and whose descriptions are remarkably
graphic. The greater portion of his pages have yielded us both profit and
pleasure.”

“The tone of feeling and reflection which pervades the work is in the characteristic
mood of the writer, considerate, ardent, and chivalrous; his principles,
as might be expected, are sound and independent, and his language is frequently
rich in those beauties which distinguish his previous writings. To us it appears
a work which will not discredit its illustrious subject.”

“Miss Baillie's Plays on the Passions have been long known as among the
best in the language. No one who reads them can entertain a doubt of the character
of the writer's affections. Such works could never have been dictated by
a cold heart.”

“We are among the most earnest admirers of her genius, her literary attainments
and skill, her diction, her success, her moral designs, and her personal
worth. Some of her tragedies have deservedly passed into the stock of the principal
British and American theatres. They are express developments and delineations
of the passions, marked by a deep insight into human nature, great
dramatic power of treatment, a fertile spirit of poetry, and the loftiest and
purest moral sentiment.”

“A work of first-rate importance in the science to which it relates, and which
must henceforth take its place in the library of every student in Geology.”

“Mr. De la Beche's Geological Manual is the first and best work of the kind,
and he has performed his task with a perfect knowledge of all that has been
ascertained in Geology, and with considerable judgment and taste in the manner
of doing it. So much geological science was never before compressed in so
small a space.”

“This artist will gratify all reasonable expectation; he is neither ostentatious,
nor dogmatical, nor too minute; he is not a partisan nor a carper; he admires
without servility, he criticises without malevolence; his frankness and
good humor give an agreeable color and effect to all his decisions, and the object
of them; his book leaves a useful general idea of the names, works, and deserts,
of the great masters; it is an instructive and entertaining index.”

“We have made a copious extract in preceding columns from this interesting
work of our countryman, Rembrandt Peale, recently published. It has received
high commendation from respectable sources, which is justified by the portions
we have seen extracted.”

“Mr. Peale must be allowed the credit of candor and entire freedom from affectation
in the judgments he has passed. At the same time, we should not omit to
notice the variety, extent, and minuteness of his examinations. No church,
gallery, or collection, was passed by, and most of the individual pictures are
separately and carefully noticed.”

“Such is the outline of a life, which, in Mrs. Thomson's hands, is a mine of interest;
from the first page to the last the attention is roused and sustained, and
while we approve the manner, we still more applaud the spirit in which it is
executed.”

“In all respects a most appropriate volume for the Cabinet Library. We
shall take an opportunity in another notice, to give some of the many interesting
passages in the volume that offer themselves for quotation.”

“The book is unquestionably the best Life of Ralegh that has ever been
written.”

“This is a piece of biography which combines the fascinations of romance
with the deeper interest that attaches to historical narrative.”