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Subjects.	Painters.	Engravers.
TITLE	T. SULLY	JOHN CHENEY.
THE DYING GREEK	F. P. STEPHANOFF	J. B. FORREST.
DON QUIXOTTE	C. R. LESLIE	J. B. DANFORTH.
CHILDHOOD	T. SULLY	JOHN CHENEY.
THE PAINTER'S STUDY	W. S. MOUNT	A. LAWSON.
A PORTRAIT	T. SULLY	J. B. FORREST.
BARGAINING FOR A HORSE	W. S. MOUNT	JOS. ANDREWS.
ISABELLA	T. SULLY	JOHN CHENEY.
THE GHOST-BOOK	COMEGYS	J. I. PEASE.

“The Gift for 1840 is decidedly the best and most elegant, not

only of its particular family, but of the race to which it belongs.
The binding is peculiarly rich and tasteful; and all the engravings
with one exception, are remarkably beautiful. Of the literary contents
we can also speak in terms of almost unqualified praise—
much better than anything we have read in any of the English
Annuals.”

—New York Commercial Advertiser.

“Its exterior is superbly beautiful—the paper and typography
elegant—and the graphic embellishments a little superior, in our
judgment, to those of any of its cotemporary Annuals.”

—Boston
Courier.

“The number of the Gift for the coming year, presents attractions
equal, if not superior to those of any Annual which we have
ever seen issued from an American press. The binding is chaste,
and superb; and the engravings, nine in number, are, without a
single exception, of the highest finish and beauty, while some are
surpassingly fine.”

—Lady's Companion.

“A most superb affair, and with the exception of a few of the
more costly English publications of the same kind, we have seen no
superior to it.”

—Boston Post.

“Among the Annuals for 1840, the “Gift” stands decidedly the
first, It is superbly bound—printed on clear white paper, in the
most beautiful and faultless style—and its nine embellishments are
finished specimens of engraving, and furnish a fine illustration of
the perfection to which the arts are brought in this country.”

—Bost.
Mer. Journal.

“This graceful and prettily got up volume, does credit to our
transatlantic rivals, in both the points of view in which its pretensions
lie. Its literature is as various and worthy of commendation
as that of most of those with which it has had to compete from our
side of the Atlantic, and its pictorial claims are of corresponding
merit and attraction.”

—New Monthly.

“This, the 4th volume of the “Gift,” is, in all respects, superior
to its predecessors, and is a remarkably beautiful and excellent
book. The plates, with a single exception, are engraved by American
engravers, from original pictures, painted by American painters.”

—Gentleman's Magazine.

“The Gift, for 1840, is, we think, a superior number in all its
components parts, and may challenge competition with any Annual
that has been issued in this country. The engravings, which are
truly beautiful, are all original, and several of them are from paintings
by Sully.”

—U. S. Gaz.