NEW BURLINGTON STREET, JANUARY, 1833. MR. BENTLEY (SUCCESSOR TO MR. COLBURN) HAS JUST PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING NEW WORKS. COLONEL MACKINNON. DEDICATED BY PERMISSION TO HIS MAJESTY. In Two Volumes 8vo. with numerous Embellishments, FROM THE FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT UNDER GENERAL MONCK, In Two Volumes 8vo. with fine Portrait, INCLUDING HIS CORRESPONDENCE, &c. BY LADY HARRIET HOSTE. In Two Volumes, post 8vo. price 18s. TWO YEARS AND A HALF IN THE COMPRISING THE JOURNAL OF A CRUISE TO ENGLAND, AND IN MR. BENTLEY'S LIST THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. In Two Volumes 8vo. with Portrait engraved by FINDEN, from an original painting by RAEBURN, Maps, &c. price 30s. THE LIFE OF SIR DAVID BAIRD, BART. BY THEODORE HOOK, ESQ. Including his Correspondence with the Duke of Wellington, Marquis of Wellesley, Lords Melville and Castlereagh, Sir John Moore, and other distinguished characters, from the Originals in the possession of Lady Baird. "Three parts of the globe were alternately the scenes of the exploits of Baird, whose character was compounded of many of the finest qualities which can adorn the soldier and the man; frank, energetic, generous, and intrepid. In tracing his career, Mr. Hook has had access to the private papers and correspondence confided to him by Lady Baird. It will rank with the best biographies extant."-United Service Journal, Dec. "Both on account of the extent and importance of the services of the gal lant General, this Work assuredly forms one of the most valuable accessions to our genuine literature lately published. Some of the details (especially the assault of Seringapatam, and the march across the Desert) are really romantic."-Age. "The biography of Baird forms one of the most interesting narratives that has appeared for many years past, replete as it is with descriptions of the most perilous adventure and enterprise."-Morning Herald. "Combining greater individuality, and vicissitude of service, this Work possesses all the attraction of Collingwood's Memoirs."-Literary Gazette. "The materials out of which the author has formed his narrative, are full and unexceptionable. He has clear notions of the character of the eminent soldier whose life he delineates; and he seems to have made himself acquainted with the business of war, and not a little with the many nations into whose countries the destinies of Britain precipitated her warriors. He is equally at home in England as in India."-Athenaum. DUCHESS OF ABRANTES. The FOURTH VOLUME of the ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the MEMOIRS OF MADAME JUNOT. WRITTEN BY HERSELF. Comprising an interesting Account of General Junot's Secret Mission to Madrid and Lisbon. With numerous Anecdotes of the Nobility of Spain and Portugal, &c. "The gossip of the Duchess is always delightful, and this work is so full of interesting matter, that it would be difficult, if we opened the Work at hazard, to light upon any thing unworthy of notice."-Athenæum. "These Memoirs furnish an admirable view (admirable because to the life) of the interior of Napoleon's early court-of the spirit that reigned there of the characters that exhibited in it-of the genius of the First Consulate, and the First Consul. No where do we get a nearer or more intelligible view of Napoleon as a man."-Spectator. OF NEW WORKS. MEMOIRS OF MADAME JUNOT. "The best account of the early career of Napoleon yet given to the world." -Literary Gazette. "Who has not passed some of the most agreeable hours of his life in lounging over these graceful records of an elegant epoch ?"-New Monthly. In Two Volumes 8vo. HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN STAGE. INCLUDING ANECDOTES OF ENGLISH PERFORMERS IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1752 TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY WILLIAM DUNLAP, ESQ. Author of " Memoirs of George Frederick Cooke," &c. "It deserves to be popular, and treats of an amusement and recreation in which nine-tenths of civilized mankind take pleasure."-Literary Gazette. PRESENT STATE OF HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. A VISIT TO GERMANY AND THE BY SIR A. B. FAULKNER. "Very lively and entertaining Volumes-the production of a gentleman familiar with classical literature, a superior musical amateur, and generally so well-informed as to be able both to appreciate justly and describe cleverly the objects presented to his attention during a tour of considerable interest and duration."—Literary Gazette. In Two Volumes, post 8vo. price 21s. THE EAST INDIA SKETCH-BOOK; "We strongly recommend this work to all who wish to learn the exact state of society in our Indian Empire; all who wish to learn the chances of that life, the nature of the services exacted from officials, civil or military, and the value of the rewards received. The Sketch-Book fills up a gap left by Mundy and Skinner. There is much real life in these sketches; the writer has seen a great deal, and suffered, we apprehend, not a little. The two objects of amusement and instruction, and the whole execution of the work, confirm an opinion we have often expressed, that the quantity of talent of a literary kind now being developed in our Oriental countries, is very great."-Spectator. " Graphic pictures of Indian life."—Athenæum. "A very entertaining companion to persons who have been in India, or who propose to visit it."-Atlas. MR. BENTLEY'S LIST EAST INDIA SKETCH-BOOK. "We recommend the perusal of this work to every cadet and voyager about to proceed to that alluring country,-India."-Courier. "Life in India has often been painted, but never with more agreeable versatility and truth."-Sunday Times. "Very various, entertaining, and instructive volumes."-Sun. NEW SPORTING ADVENTURES. In Two Volumes 8vo. with numerous Plates and Vignettes, WILD SPORTS OF THE By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo." “ A work altogether after our own hearts.”——Spectator. WEST. "One of those amusing productions which possess interest for readers of every class, and particularly acceptable to those who take delight in sports by 'flood and field.""-Literary Gazette. "Every species of 'Wild Sport' peculiar to the British Isles is inimitably described, and seasoned with anecdotes, sketches, and tales, alternately humorous and pathetic, but all true to nature."-United Service Journal. "None but a thorough-bred sportsman could write this book, and very few sportsmen could write such a book. Where can a nobler field be found for the imagination than that opened to the man attached to rural pastimes? To muse beside a sparkling stream-to wander among highland solitudesto feel the excitement of the chase, and afterwards the delicious repose which evening and the fire-side bring to the weary hunter-these must be felt to be understood, and few of those who feel them can express the luxury of their sensations. The outbreakings of an enthusiastic sportsman are apparent in every page. Spirited events succeed each other rapidly. We are carried away in imagination, we traverse moors and wildernesses with the dramatis persona, and by flood and field' have every thing as faithfully before us as if all was reality itself."-Sporting Mag. for November. "It contains comic traits of Irish character, and its pictures of society have the merit of truth and fidelity."-Athenæum. "The author's adventures are highly amusing, but to sportsmen they will be doubly interesting, as he describes many novel expedients to capture the finny tribe, and to secure game of almost all kinds, from the noble red-deer to the timid hare, and from the lordly eagle to the grouse. The work is agreeably varied by characteristic anecdotes."- Weekly Dispatch. "One of the most amusing and soul-stirring works-to the sportsman at least-ever published."-Bell's Life in London. "It is impossible for the reader to lay down these volumes before he has read them through."-Courier. "In his piscatory descriptions, the author evinces as much truth and feeling as even Isaac Walton himself."-Sun. ، ، Wild Sports of the West-not of Europe or of Asia, but of Irelandthe wild range of Connaught-a district unknown to travellers, peculiar in itself, full of natural wonders-vast, desolate, and sublime. Details of hunting, shooting, fishing; merry tales and tragic stories, quaint anecdotes, and racy touches of character, alternately enliven its pages."-Atlas. OF NEW WORKS. In Three Volumes post 8vo. THE LIFE OF A SAILOR. BY A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY. "Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, Survey our empire, and behold our home."-Byron. "The actual adventures of a Post Captain in the Royal Navy, in various parts of the world. The career of the sailor is full of strange vicissitudes; and whether we view him in calm or storm, in fire or fight, from the roughest specimen before the mast to the intellectual perfection of the quarter-deck, his story is always replete with the most eventful interest."-Courier. "Three most various and amusing volumes. They will be best characterized as maritime travels, told as our travellers used to tell their adventures, simply and earnestly. Lord Byron, Sir Peter Parker, Bolivar, Paez, are names to attract any reader; and the scenes are north, south, east, and west. This work embodies the real adventures of a Post Captain in the Navy, and does its author much credit. He has seen a deal of service, and describes what he bas seen with great animation."-Literary Gazette, "A British naval officer must necessarily have enjoyed admirable opportunities of seeing both nature and the external foreign world; and if he has a happy command of language, fearful are the accidents by flood and field that present themselves for description. Captain Chamier has had a full share of adventure, and undoubtedly possesses a facility of style and a playful manner. If ever there was a story to excite sympathy, and interest the feelings, and awake the imagination of the reading world, it is a story of sharks in this autobiography."-Spectator. In Two Volumes 8vo. with Two Portraits, price 24s. THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF MEMOIRS OF GENERAL LAFAYETTE, BY B. SARRANS. PRIVATE SECRETARY TO GENERAL LAFAYETTE. "This Work gives an entire biography of the venerable General who has acted a distinguished part in three Revolutions; but its chief interest hinges on the details which it supplies on the part which he and his friends played in the last. Its disclosures have all the attractions of novelty, and will enable us better to judge of the feelings and views of existing persons and parties than any contemporary work with which we are acquainted."Times. "The staple of these interesting volumes consists of unpublished letters, private thoughts, communications within closed doors, and memoranda of occurrences which took place behind the scenes, where characters appear in a sort of undress, and circumstances present themselves without exaggeration or distortion. Those very lights which history so much requires, and generally wants, are here collected with laudable industry.—Caledonian Mercury. "A most interesting and valuable work-interesting in every point of view."-Sunday Times. |