AGRICULTURAL AND MANUFACTURING DISTRESS. ARMY ESTIMATES. HOLY ALLIANCE. SLAVERY. LAW REFORM. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. EDUCATION. POOR LAWS. SCOTCH PARLIAMENTARY AND BURGH REFORM. SCOTCH MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE BILL. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE LIVERFOOL MECHANICS INSTITUTE. SPEECH AT THE GREY FESTIVAL. CHANGE OF MINISTRY IN 1834. BUSINESS OF PARLIAMENT. MALTREATMENT OF THE NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES. SPEECH ON THE CIVIL LIST. PRIVILEGE OF PARLIAMENT. In two handsome volumes, bound in embossed cloth or in law sheep. EXTRACT FROM THE PREFACE. The plan of the present publication is sufficiently obvious. The introductions to the different Speeches are intended to elucidate the history of the measures discussed, and of the periods to which they relate. But the most satisfactory, indeed the only accurate manner of giving the history of the times, must always be to give an account of the persons who bore the chief part in their transactions. In the attempts which these volumes contain, to represent individuals, for the purpose of recording the history of their times, all ambition of fine writing has been laid aside, and nothing, but the facts of each case, and the impressions actually left upon the writer's memory, has ever been regarded in the least degree. With one only exception, the sketches are the result of personal observation, and in general of intimate acquaintance; so that each individual may be said to have sitten for his picture. No sacrifice has ever been made to obtain the unsubstantial and unavailing praise of felicitous composition. Nor has any the least door been left open to feelings of a worse kind, whether amicable or hostile. The relations of friendship and enmity, whether political or personal, have been wholly disregarded, and one only object kept steadily in view-the likeness of the picture, whether critical or moral. It is conceived that some good service may be rendered to the cause of human improvement, which the author has ever had so much at heart, by the present publication, because its tendency is to fix the public attention upon some of the subjects most important to the interests of mankind. OF THE SELECT WORKS OF TOBIAS SMOLLETT; WITH A MEMOIR OF THE Life and Writings of the Author, BY SIR WALTER SCOTT. CONTAINING THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE, THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM, Bound in one or two volumes, and in various styles, to suit the purchaser. ALSO, UNIFORM WITH THE ABOVE, THE SELECT WORKS HENRY OF FIELDING; WITH A MEMOIR OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, BY SIR WALTER SCOTT, AND AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS BY ARTHUR MURPHY, ESQ. CONTAINING TOM JONES, OR THE HISTORY OF A FOUNDLING, THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH ANDREWS, AMELIA, THE HISTORY OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE JONATHAN WILD, THE GREAT. Bound in one or two volumes, to match Smollett's Works. THE LEATHERSTOCKING TALES. BY MR. COOPER. CONTAINING THE DEERSLAYER, THE PATHFINDER, THE PIONEERS, THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. In five volumes 12mo., handsomely bound in embossed cloth. LEA AND BLANCHARD HAVE JUST PUBLISHED THE LETTERS HORA СЕ OF WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD. IN FOUR VOLUMES, OCTAVO, HANDSOMELY BOUND, CONTAINING NEARLY THREE HUNDRED LETTERS, NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE ORIGINALS, FORMING AN UNINTERRUPTED SERIES, FROM THE YEAR 1735 TO 1797. CONTAINING HIS LETTERS TO GEORGE MONTAGU, ESQ-SIR HORACE MANN-RICHARD WEST, ESQ-LADY CRAVEN-GRAY (THE POET)—HON. H. SEYMOUR CONWAY-JOHN CHUTE, ESQ. -SIR DAVID DALRYMPLE-REV. WILLIAM MASON-LADY HERVEY-THE EARL OF HERTFORD-RICHARD BENTLEY, ESQ.-EARL OF STRAFFORDMRS. HANNAH MORE-DAVID HUME, ESQ.-COUNTESS OF AILESBURY— CAPTAIN JEPHSON-GEORGE COLMAN-MR. PINKERTON-THE MISS BERRYS, &c. &c. INCLUDING NUMEROUS UNPUBLISHED LETTERS, Now first collected and chronologically arranged. In this edition the names formerly only indicated by initials are inserted at full length. The whole with Notes, illustrative and explanatory, from MSS. and other sources. are added his REMINISCENCES ; To which FORMING, WITH THE LETTERS, AN ANECDOTICAL HISTORY OF A GREAT PART OF THE LAST CENTURY. By an arrangement with the former publishers of Walpole's Letters to GEORGE MONTAGU, Esq. these Letters are also included in the present only complete edition of the Letters of the EARL OF ORFORD. In former publications of Horace Walpole's Letters, the effect of these letters are greatly marred by the suppression of names, or by the obscure indications of them by initials only. Nearly half a century has, however, now elapsed since he lived; and when it is considered that he survived almost all of whom he wrote, it is clear that the delicacy which rendered this obscurity necessary on the first publication of his Letters, exists no longer. In the present edition, therefore, these provoking blanks are filled up; for which purpose the proprietor possesses advantages not at the command of any other. To enhance the value of the collection, a considerable number of Letters hitherto existing only in MS. are added, and the whole are now, for the first time, chronologically arranged and illustrated by anecdotical and biographical Notes, from manuscript and other sources. The most highly-valued contributor to the present complete collection of the epistolary writings of the Earl of Orford, is his lordship's latest correspondent, one of the ladies to whom he addressed his "Reminiscences of the Court of George II." To this lady the world will be indebted, not only for a series of Letters which have never seen the light, but for a variety of illustrative and interesting Notes, which she alone could supply. To these are added a curious commentary on the "Reminiscences," supplied by the letters of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, and now first published. "Horace Walpole may decidedly claim pre-eminence for ease and liveliness of expression. terseness of remark, and felicity of narration above almost all the epistolary writers of Britain. His 'Reminiscences of the Reigns of George I. and II.' make us better acquainted with the manners of those princes and their courts, than we should be after perusing a hundred heavy historians; and futurity will long be indebted to the chance which threw into his vicinity, when age rendered him communicative, the accomplished ladies to whom these anecdotes were communicated. The letters of Horace Walpole are indeed masterpieces in their way; they are the entertaining and lively register of the gay and witty who have long fluttered and flirted over the fashionable stage, till pushed off by a new race of persifleurs. Their variety, as well as their peculiar and lively diction, renders them very entertaining. We shall look in vain to history for such traits of character as those which Horace Walpole records of stout old Balmerino, when under sentence of death. We quote from Mr. Bentley's general edition of Walpole's Letters; a collection into one view and regular order of that vast correspondence, which, besides its unrivalled beauty and brilliancy, has the more important merit of being the liveliest picture of manners, and the best epitome of political history that not only this, but any country possesses."-Quarterly Review. "Walpole's Letters are full of wit, pleasantry, and information, and written with singular neatness and sprightliness. Letters are certainly the honestest records of great minds that we can become acquainted with; and we like them the more, for letting us into the follies and treacheries of high life, the secrets of the gay and the learned world, and the mysteries of authorship. We are ushered, as it were, behind the scenes of life; and see gay ladies and learned men, the wise, the witty, and the ambitious, in all the nakedness, or undress at least, of their spirits. Walpole is equally sprightly and facetious, whether he describes a king's death and funeral, or a quirk of George Selwyn; and is nearly as amusing when he recounts the follies and the fashions of the day as when he solemnizes into the sentimental "—Edin burgh Review. "One of the most useful and important publications that has issued from the press for the last quarter of a century. It is illustrated with notes, drawn up with consummate tact, and is, moreover, embellished with numerous portraits of many of the most celebrated wits, statesmen, and beauties of the last century. Such a work, so enriched with all that is necessary to render it complete, is one of the most valuable that any lover of sterling English literature can possess."-Sun. "As a book of reference, this edition of Walpole's Letters must henceforth take its place among the memoirs and histories of the time. As a book of gossip, it is perhaps the completest work of the kind in the English language."-The Times. "One of the very best works of its class. if not unique, in the English language; a work full of information, full of anecdote, and full of amusement, equally fit for the library of the scholar, the dilettante, the artist, the statesman, and the general reader."-Literary Gazette. "Walpole's letters are unequalled in our language; delightful in themselves, and a most amusing and instructive commentary on the history of parties, and of the country, from 1735 to 1797. This edition contains not only all the letters that have been published, but several hundred more which have hitherto existed only in manuscript, or made their appearance singly and incidentally in other works; the whole is arranged in chronological order."— Athenæum. "In this edition, besides the letters to Miss Berry, are some to the Hon. H. S. Conway. John Chute, Esq., many to Lady Suffolk-his brother-in-law, Charles Churchill-Captain Jephson-the Earl of Buchan-the Earl of Charlemont-Lord Hailes-Gibbon-Mr. Patt (afterwards Earl of Chatham)-George Hardinge-Mr. Pemberton, and other distinguished characters. Explanatory notes, in many parts, add to the value of the present collection, which now first published, enjoys two signal advantages over all its predecessors. It is the only complete edition of the incomparable letters of this prince of epistolary writers.' as he has been justly called; and the letters themselves are arranged in chronological order."— Dublin Evening Mail. "Horace Walpole never disappoints his reader; his letters are invariably pregnant with wit; none can raconter so delightfully as he, introduce an anecdote with so much point, or paint a character so epigrammatically, and so well. His fame is now fixed beyond the chance of accident, and will remain so until wit becomes obsolete, and dulness a desideratum. Those who have never yet read Horace Walpole's letters-and they must be still in their teens-have much enjoyment before them; those who are familiar with his style, including all who deserve to read, will here renew the pleasure they have so often experienced."Morning Herald. 92 |