INTERESTING JUVENILE BOOKS. Published by ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, New-York. 9 THE JUVENILE COMPANION, AND FIRESIDE READER. Consisting of Historical and Biographical Anecdotes, and Selections in Poetry. BY REV. J. L. BLAKE, D. D. The Juvenile Companion has a handsome Frontispiece and is bound in morocco ; thus, being designed for family use. It is also well fitted for School Libraries. This volume is designed to teach virtue by example, upon the principle of Mrs. Barbauld, that truth is better than fiction, in the accomplishment of this object.— “Is it true?-A child asks, when you tell him a wonderful story that strikes his imagination." This remark of that accomplished lady, although having an intimate relation to an important fact in intellectual philosophy, has not been sufficiently regarded in books designed for the young. The writer of fiction has the unlimited command of events and characters; yet, the single circumstance of truth-that the events related really came to pass-counterbalances, with respect to interest, all the privileges of the former, and in a mind accustomed to exertion, will throw the advantage on the side of the historian. Opinions of the Juvenile Companion. "I think it better calculated than any book with which I am acquainted, to interest and instruct the youthful reader. Its merits only need to be known to bring it into extensive use." "I consider it one of the best books that I have seen. It cannot fail of meeting the approbation, so far as its merits are known, of all interested in the rising generation." "The judicious selection and happy arrangement both of prose and poetry, the purity and simplicity of diction, the historical facts, and above all the moral sentiments inculcated, inspire the belief, that the author's expectations will be realised." "The moral uses of the lessons have, we think, been kept steadily in view; and the natural vivacity of the narratives, facilitates an easy and animated style of reading.” HUTTON'S BOOK OF NATURE LAID OPEN. REVISED EDITION. BY REV. J. L. BLAKE, D. D. "What read we here!-existence of a God! Natives of æther! sons of other climes!" It is the object of the present little volume to lead the youthful mind especially, to the contemplation of the wisdom and goodness of God, as seen in his works. It is believed that this object has been most successfully pursued. Even matured and well cultivated intellects will find the present work highly interesting. 10 LIFE OF BRANT, THE INDIAN WARRIOR. Published by ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, New-York. LIFE OF JOSEPH BRANT-THAYENDANEGEA, INCLUDING The Border Wars of the American Revolution, and Sketches of the This work supplies an important vacuum in American History. That noble and ill fated race of men to which Brant belonged, is fast wasting away, and ere long but few traces of them will remain. The individual, therefore, who toils in gathering up and moulding into a durable form these interesting memorials, may be esteemed a public Benefactor. From the numerous notices of this work in the periodical press, the following condensed selections are made: The intelligent Editor of the Philadelphia Gazette, thus speaks of it: We have read enough of it to see, that should the author never write another line, he has done enough in that to enrol his name among the best Historians of the land, From the Albany Daily Advocate. The author has discovered great diligence, research, and talent in the execution of his design, and it must be a standard work in relation to the subject of which it treats. From the Newark Daily Advertiser. There are in it several admirable engravings, including two portraits of Brant, from original Paintings, one of which was taken in London by Romney, and another of his distinguished son and successor. The vignette of the engraved title page is one of the most spirited Indian Portraits that we have seen. From the New-York Review. It records strong and peculiar traits of National and individual character; while the laborious and persevering researches of the author has brought together a mass of historical documents, personal anecdotes, original letters, and extracts from manuscript journals, which but for his ingenious labors, had perhaps never seen the light. From the New-York Daily Express. We have read this book with great interest. It is by no means confined to the Life of Brant. Most of the border strifes of the Revolution are given. The thrilling tales of that trying period are narrated. An account is given of all those Indian and Tory incursions, by which every settlement in Western New-York was laid wasteof the inroads of those men, in whose deeds, in the language of De Witt Clinton, were left inscribed with the scalping-knife and tomahawk in characters of blood on the fields of Wyoming and Cherry Valley, and the banks of the Mohawk. LIFE OF BRANT, THE INDIAN WARRIOR. From the Albany Daily Advertiser. 11 There is a vast collection of invaluable materials for history in these volumes; gathered with the most patient research, and the most laudable perseverance; and thrown together in a form that cannot fail to be eminently useful. From the United States Magazine and Democratic Review. Mr. Stone explored successfully a rich and productive mine of facts. Though called the "Life of Joseph Brant," it is a more extensive and important work; including, in part, the Border Wars of the American Revolution, and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harman, St. Clair, and Wayne, and other matters connected with the Indian relations of the United States and Great Britain. We heartily recommend this work to the patronage of the reading public, as replete with entertainment and instruction, and entitled to a place in every well stored Library. From the London Atheneum, of October 6th, 1838. We commend Mr. Stone for his diligent research, and congratulate him on the good fortune which has attended his labors; he has, by a careful and discriminating reference to contemporary authorities, public and private, published and in manuscript, compiled a memoir which may worthily take its place on our shelves, and will be invaluable hereafter in America. From the Cincinnati Daily Gazette, November 17, 1838. It is comprised in two large octavo volumes, and is contrived to embrace a great variety of important historical outlines and details, interspersed with incidents and anecdotes, of deep interest, especially in matters that relate to the Indians LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. BY JAMES BOSWELL. WITH NOTES AND ADDITIONS. BY JOHN WILSON CROKER, LL. D. 2 VOLS. ROYAL 8vo. This edition of the life of Johnson, contains a Portrait of the great Lexicographer himself-one of his Biographer-and one of the celebrated Mrs. Piozzi. It has been pronounced a Manual of Amusement, a Repository of Wit, Wisdom, and Morals, and a lively and faithful history of the manners and literature of England, during a period hardly second in brilliancy and superior in importance, even to the Augustan age of Anne. From the New-York Constellation. Such has been the industry of Croker, that, in forming his biography on the basis of Malone's edition, he has incorporated the substance, and in some instances the copy verbatim, of no less than seventeen works, from the pens of Mrs. Piozzi, Miss Boothby, Arthur Murphy, Sir J. Hawkins, and other friends and memorialists of Johnson. From the Albion. The additions and notes, by Croker, are all in the first style of excellence, and tend to the further elucidation of a character who labored so long and zealously in the cause of learning, and at the same time devoted his gigantic talents to the promotion of the purest morality. 12 BYRON AND JOHNSON. Published by ALEXANDER V. BLAKE, New-York, THE WORKS OF LORD BYRON. INCLUDING HIS LETTERS, JOURNALS, &c. WITH A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE. ARRANGED BY FITZ GREENE HALLECK, ESQ. The Head of Byron, engraved for this edition, is from a painting by an American artist, and was considered by Byron and his friends as the best ever taken. The other illustrations are also of the first order. That of Lady Byron has been much admired. Notwithstanding several other editions of the works of this distinguished English Bard have been brought before the public, this one is still a favorite. The sales of it last year were at least one hundred per cent. above what they had been in previous years. Opinions of the Periodical Press? The collection has been arranged with great care and labor by one of our favorite and justly celebrated Poets-Fitz Greene Halleck, who from his early and intimate acquaintance with the works of Byron, was eminently qualified to undertake the editorship. It is said he was more than one year engaged in the arrangement, correction of errors, and preparation of Notes. From the Albany Evening Journal. This volume contains upwards of fifteen hundred of Lord Byron's Letters, which, in our judgment, are a literary treasure of as great a value as his Poetic productions. THE WORKS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D. WITH AN ESSAY ON HIS LIFE AND GENIUS. BY A. MURPHY, ESQ. 2 VOLS. ROYAL 8vo. The complete Works of this great English Lexicographer and Moralist, in the present Edition, are designed to match with the Publisher's Edition of the works of Lord Byron. It is believed to be the first complete American edition of Dr. Johnson's writ ings. To see at once the value of these volumes and the variety of their contents, it is only necessary to enumerate the several subjects. For instance; the first volume contains Mr. Murphy's Essay; the Rambler, consisting of 208 Papers-the Adventurer, of about 30-the Idler, of 104-Rasselas-Tales of the Imagination-Letters selected from the collection of Mrs. Piozzi and othersIrene, a Tragedy-Miscellaneous Poems, to the number of fifty. The second volume contains the celebrated Lives of the Poets-Lives of eminent Persons-Political Tracts -Philological Tracts-Miscellaneous Tracts-Dedications-Opinions on Questions of Law-Reviews and Criticisms-Journey to Hebrides, and Prayers and Meditations. There is a likeness of Johnson in one of the volumes, and a fanciful engraving in the other, of the egress of Rasselas from the "Happy Valley." |