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Works Published by Henry Colburn,

BRAMBLETYE

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HOUSE; or, Cavaliers and Roundheads. A Novel. By one of the Authors of "Rejected Addresses." The Third Edition. In 3 vols. post 8vo. price 31s. 6d.

"We would by no means rank the Author of 'Brambletye House' among imitatora. He has too much genius, too much boldness, too much originality, to be put among such a class. He is rather to be regarded as an intrepid, and not an unsuccessful competitor, who has had the courage to face the mighty Champion of the North, and challenge him to the contest in his own field, and with his own favourite weapons. He has sought out the giant in his own strong hold, where he reigned with undisputed sway, and where hitherto none had dared to approach him, and there he has fairly thrown down the gauntlet: none we know of has come so near his great rival in generous competition. There is the same, or at least something of the same, brilliancy and force and picturesque completeness in the descriptive parts, the same rapidity in the movements, the same distinctness and individuality and truth in the characters, the same vivacity in the dialogue, and the same power of exciting and keeping up of interest. Like our great Scottish Novelist, too, he has shown wonderful versatility of talent, and the grave, the comic-the humble and the sublime-what excites pleasure, and what overwhelms with terror and awe, seem equally natural to him."

XXII.

Edinburgh Magazine,

MATILDA: a Tale of Fashionable Life. New Edition, in

2 vols. small 8vo. 14s.

VIVIAN GREY.

XXIII.

Second Edition. 2 vols. post 8vo. 18s.

"Decidedly the cleverest production of the class to which it belongs."

London Magazine, July 1826. "We must allow that the author has copied, with considerable fidelity, the tone of drawingroom life, and transmitted to us with great truth, by means of a few felicitous strokes, a number of portraits, which will easily be recognized as resemblances of living originals,"

XXIV.

Monthly Review, July 1826.

THE GERMAN NOVELISTS: Tales selected from ancient and modern Authors in that Language, from the earliest period to the close of the Eighteenth Century; with Critical and Biographical Notices. By THOMAS Roscoe, Esq. In 4 vols. post 8vo. Price 38s.

"The first volume of this very interesting work is occupied by the ancient Legends of Germany, among which will be found the Veritable Historie of the Execrable Sins and Punishment of Dr. Faustus.' The second contains a great diversity of popular local traditions, collected and narrated by Otmar, Gottschalck, Eberhardt, Busching, the brothers Grimm, Lothar, and La Motte Fouqué; furnishing abundant food for the wonder and the delight of the reader. The third presents us with specimens of the Tales of Musæus and Schiller; including, among those of the latter great writer, his Story of The Apparitionist !' The fourth volume contains selections from the National Novels of Tieck, Langbein, and Engel, chiefly characteristic of modern manners and society in Germany. It will, we doubt not, be acknowledged, that Mr. Roscoe has accomplished his interesting, but laborious task, with great credit to his own skill and research; and has produced one of the most valuable books to be found in the whole circle of fiction."-Morning Chronicle.

XXV.

SANDOVAL; or, The Freemason. A Tale of the Spanish Revolution. By the Author of "Don Esteban." In 3 vols. post 8vo. 28s. 6d.

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"This is a novel quite of the higher order of those which aspire to make imaginative composition ministrative to the genuine purposes of history: that is to say, to make us acquainted with the genuine manners, characters, and state of society in the age and country to which they refer. It is the production, if we are rightly informed, of a Spanish refugee of some rank, and high estimation, whose narration is very far from being altogether fiction; and who, indeed, with respect to the essentials of his very interesting story, might say with Eneas, All which I saw, and part of which I was.' The account of the rise and progress of Political Freemasonry in Spain, and its connexion with the events of the recent revolutions in that unhappy country, will be perused with attention, even by the historian; and the pictures of the state of society there, and characteristics of the population, so remote from any thing of which we have any conception here, might, without assistance from the deep interest of the story, seize upon and retain the attention of the reader, through a longer production than that with which the author has favoured us.” Panoramic Miscellany, April 1826.

New Burlington Street.

XXVI.

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A NEW SERIES of ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENTS, selected from the Original Oriental MS. By Jos. VON HAMMER, and now first translated into English by the Rev. GEORGE LAMB, 3 vols. small 8vo. 18s.

* And here is a new collection of the records of fairy revels-new at least to us, although challenging equal antiquity and genuineness with its predecessor:-three fresh volumes filled with the exploits of goules and gnomes and genii, and beautiful youths and bewitching damsels, and all the paraphernalia of Arabian Magic."-Literary Gazette.

XXVII.

TO-DAY IN IRELAND. a Series of Tales: containing the Carders; Connemara; Old and New Light; and the Toole's Warning. Second Editiou. 3 vols. post 8vo. 27s.

XXVIII.

THE SPIRITS of the AGE; or Contemporary Portraits. Second Edition, revised. 1 vol. post 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Contents. Mr. Jeffrey, Mr. Gifford, Mr. Southey, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Thomas Moore, Mr. William Godwin, Mr. Jeremy Bentham, Mr. Cobbett, Mr. Coleridge, Mr. Leigh Hunt, Mr. Wordsworth, Sir James Mackintosh, Mr. Brougham, Sir F. Burdett, Rev. E. Irving, Lord Eldon, Mr. Wilberforce, Mr. Malthus, Mr. Crabbe, the late Mr. Horne Tooke, &c. &c.

XXIX.

MEMOIRS of the COUNTESS DE GENLIS, illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Written by HERSELF. Vols. VII. and VIII. Being the Conclusion of this Interesting Work. Embellished with a Portrait of the Author in her Younger Days. Price 16s.; and in French 14s.

LETTERS from SPAIN. (The Rev. Jos. Blanco White.) vol. 8vo. Price 14s.

XXX.

By DON LEUCADIO DOBLADO.
The Second Edition, revised. In 1 large

"This Gentleman (the author) is the son of an Englishman, who settled in Spain. He was educated in a Spanish University, and became a priest of the Catholic church in Spain. In pro. cess of time, however, his eyes were opened to the degrading effects of that faith, more espe cially under the circumstances of Spanish management. He left Spain, came over to England, renounced Catholicism, and was received as a minister of the Protestant church, in whose service he has ever since continued to be surrounded with every species of respect. This is the person who has undertaken to describe the country of his birth and education, to that of his ancestry and his adoption; and it would certainly be no easy matter to devise a set of circum. stances more likely to prepare a man for the fit execution of such a task.

"Nobody, most assuredly, who has not read Mr. White's book, can have anticipated any thing like the impression which a careful perusal of it is calculated to leave behind."

XXXI.

Blackwood's Magazine.

A PICTURE of GREECE in 1825: as exhibited in the Personal Narratives of JAMES EMERSON, Esq., COUNT PECCHIO, and W. H. HUMPHREYS, Esq., who have lately returned from that Country. In 2 vols. post 8vo. with a Portrait of the Greek Admiral Miaoulis. 18s.

XXXII.

GAIETIES and GRAVITIES, a Series of Sketches, Tales, and Vagaries. By one of the Writers of "Rejected Addresses," and Author of "Brambletye House." Second Edition, revised. In 3 vols. post 8vo. 27s.

XXXIII.

ABSENTEEISM. By LADY MORGAN. 1 vol. post 8vo.

6s. 6d.

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Works Published by Henry Colburn.

XXXIV.

EVELYN'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS; now first collected and edited, with Notes. By WILLIAM UPCOTT, of the London Institution, and forming a Supplement to the EVELYN Memoirs. Printed uniformly in 1 vol. royal 4to. with Plates. Price 31. 10s. in boards.

The miscellaneous writings of the Philosopher and Naturalist Evelyn (most of which are extremely rare) are here presented to the public in a quarto volume, to range with his "Diary and Correspondence." These works, with his noble Discourse on Forest Trees, under the title of "Sylva," comprise the whole body of Evelyn's productions. The tracts forming the present volume are, more or less, on subjects of great interest, including lively pictures of the manners and amusements of his time; Memoirs, political, domestic, and religious; Treatises on Morals, Horticulture, Art, Science, Commerce, &c.; in all of which the sound intellect of this "amiable and high-minded English Gentleman" will be traced.

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SYLVA; or, A Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propaga tion of Timber; with an Historical Account of the Sacredness and Use of Standing Groves. To which is added, The TERRA, a Philosophical Discourse of Earth. By JOHN EVELYN, F.R.S., with Notes by A. Hunter, M.D. F.R.S. &c. The Fifth Edition, revised, in 2 vols. royal 4to. printed uniformly with "Evelyn's Memoirs," and embellished with 46 Plates. Price 41. 10s. boards.

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"A diligent perusal of this noble work may animate our nobility and gentry to improve their estates, by the never-failing methods therein recommended. All persons, indeed, who are owners of land, may find infinite delight, as well as profit, in this book, 'To these,' says Evelyn, my earnest advice should be,—that at their first coming to their estates, they would seriously think of the propagation of wood; for I observe there is no part of husbandry which men commonly more fail in, neglect, and have cause to repent of, than that they did not begin planting betimes.'"

XXXVI.

SECRET MEMOIRS of the COURT of FRANCE, during the Residence (above 30 years) of the MARQUIS DE DANGEAU. Now first translated from the French; with Historical and Critical Notes, by an ANONYMOUS COURTIER of the same period. In 2 vols. 8vo. 28s.

"The Memoirs of the Marquis de Dangeau are cnrious, and certainly include a great deal of valuable information. Those who have a taste for this kind of writing, and some previous knowledge of the personages to whom it relates, will be pleased at meeting so many of their old friends, and amused with the transactions, great and small, which Dangeau records of them; while those who look still deeper into the work will find a great deal of chronological and some historical information, with many important views of the manners and morals of the age, of the character of the Sovereign and his Ministers, and of the secret springs and personal motives of many considerable events."-Quarterly Review.

XXXVII.

A NEW FRENCH EDITION of the MEMOIRES de DANGEAU, with a Supplement, by M. LE MONTEY, containing the curious AUTOGRAPH NOTES, by an Anonymous Courtier of the same period. In 3 vols. 8vo. price 28s.

XXXVIII.

THE DIARY of an ENNUYEE.

vol. post 8vo. 10s. 6d.

XXXIX.

Second Edition. In 1

REJECTED ARTICLES! 1 vol. post 8vo. 10s. 6d.

"The title of this little volume pretty accurately suggests the nature of its contents. Like its poetical predecessor, it is a collection of satirical imitations; and aims at a similar display of wit at the expense of some of the popular prose writers. On the whole, if this volume affords readers in general the amusement it has afforded us, the public will think the sooner Mr. Colburn has his wits about him to make another such, the better.'"-Globe.

"The volume is full of pleasantry and apt meaning."-Sunday Monitor.

se imitations are in prose, and formed on the plan of the Rejected Addresses; it is The papers, if some of them are not really written by the persons to whom they re exceedingly clever copies of their style and ways of thinking."-Literary

On Monday, the 1st of January, 1827, will be published (to be continued
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PART I.

(Price 8s. or with the ENGRAVINGS COLOURED, 10s. 6d.)

OF THE

LONDON ENCYCLOPÆDIA ;

OR

Universal Dictionary

OF

SCIENCE, ART, LITERATURE, AND PRACTICAL MECHANICS;

INCLUDING AN

ENGLISH LEXICON,

ON THE BASIS OF DR. JOHNSON'S LARGER DICTIONARY, But re-modelled; the Definitions being simplified and the Authorities chronologically arranged.

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Prospectus.

Encyclopædists, with other writers of dictionaries, have been placed by high authority among the pioneers of literature,' a species of auxiliaries peculiarly necessary when science is on the advance. It is theirs to remove the obstacles which impede her progress in penetrating unexplored regions; and if they share not in the splendour, they secure the permanence of her

victories.

When science in any country becomes stationary, and reposes amongst privileged orders of men, in colleges and cloisters, Encyclopædias either do not exist, or fall into desuetude. It is when the thinking faculty of a nation is roused, and its institutions are favourable to the diffusion of knowledge, that the sphere of such works is created; that their importance to the best interests of society becomes acknowledged; and that, from their adaptedness to meet the intellectual craving thus excited, they are eagerly sought for, and promptly supplied.

The literary history of Great Britain, in a very striking manner, illustrates the truth of these remarks. The first Cyclopædia that appeared amongst us, though almost resembling the original chaos, and scarcely exhibiting even

"The baby figure of the giant mass
Of things,"

marked the commencement of a new æra, and opened to the rapidly increasing numbers of our reading population the richest stores of intellectual wealth. This was followed, at various intervals, by others more erudite and comprehensive; each professing to offer greater advantages than its predecessor,

and asserting a stronger claim to public patronage. In the present day there are no fewer than six principal Encyclopædias, diversified in their specific character and object, and of very different gradations in the scale of merit; yet are they all valuable accessions to our literature. They have united to enlarge the circle of knowledge, and to extend its benefits to great multitudes, who would otherwise have remained in comparative ignorance.

The duty which, on the present occasion, especially devolves upon the Editors of this work, and to which they would strictly confine themselves is, to shew that there is ground yet unoccupied, and of very large dimensions, which requires to be cultivated by the introduction of another Encyclopædia;

and at the same time, to state the claims of their projected undertaking to supply this public want.

The most unthinking, as well as the most prejudiced, must be struck with the fact, that the period in which we live is extraordinary and momentous. Amongst the great body of the people an unparalleled revolution is at work: they have awoke from that ignorance in which they had slept for ages, and have sprung up in their new character of thinking beings, qualified to inquire and to discuss; and despising both the despotism and the bigotry that would prohibit or impede their improvement. This mighty movement of the general mass is felt even by those in superior classes, who, while they once imagined that learning was their prescriptive right, yet often contented themselves with very inconsiderable portions of it.-They feed that they must now go forward, or be trodden down; that to retain their rank and character in public estimation, their minds must be better cultivated, their sphere of knowledge more widely extended. The intellectual spirit is moving upon the chaos of minds, which ignorance and necessity have thrown into collision and confusion, and the result will be a new creation. Nature (to use the nervous language of an old writer) will be melted down and recoined,' and all will be bright and beautiful.

In every new project of this description, there must be two things kept especially in view it must be comprehensive, and it must be cheap. It ought to be in itself, an independent and principal work; those who purchase it should be placed above the necessity of procuring any other.

The LONDON ENCYCLOPEDIA aspires to take the very first place, as a compendious Dictionary. It will be the study of its writers, to blend conciseness of manner and copiousness of matter; to be full and yet brief. Where elaborate works must be consulted, references will be given to the best on every subject. To every principal science, art, pursuit, or trade, a distinct treatise will be devoted; to which, a short separate index will be at once subjoined. Next to plenitude of information, easy and expeditious reference will be considered Thus the arrangement will be alphabetical; the convenience of the reader will in all cases be consulted; all that is elementary will be amply provided; and where professional and complete knowledge of a science is wanted, every means of obtaining it will be pointed out. So that to all classes of students, it will afford the readiest and best method of acquiring the knowledge of which they are in pursuit; while to the traveller, the voyager, the colonial resident, the artisan, the mechanic, and tradesman, it offers peculiar advantages.

The work will be completed in twenty volumes, royal octavo, each page containing printed matter equal to that of any preceding quarto Encyclopædia; and its conductors stand pledged to publish the whole in a much shorter period than that in which any similar undertaking has ever appeared: thus avoiding the delays, the contradictions, the changes of plan and contributors, ever incident to works of this kind when long protracted.

It may be added, that the whole work has been for some time under revision, and can now be confidently anticipated from its beginning to its close; that it is committed to one principal Conductor or Editor, who has been previously engaged in a similar work; and that the entire property of it is in one mercantile house.

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