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4045387A Fable for Critics — AdvertJames Russell Lowell

LIST OF ATTRACTIVE WORKS

RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY

GEORGE P. PUTNAM, 155 Broadway, New-York.


Irving's (Washington) Works.

New and Complete Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author. In 13 elegant duodecimo volumes, beautifully printed with new type, and on superior paper, made expressly for the purpose, bound in cloth extra. As follow:

THE SKETCH BOOK, in one volume.

KNICKERBOCKER'S NEW-YORK, in 1 volume.

TALES OF A TRAVELLER, in 1 vol.

BRACEBRIDGE HALL. in one volume.

THE CONQUEST OF GRENADA, in one volume.

THE ALHAMBRA, in one volume.

ASTORIA, in one volume.

THE CRAYON MISCELLANY, in one volume. Abbotsford, Newstead, The Prairies &c.

THE SPANISH LEGENDS, in one volume.

LIFE AND VOYAGES OF COLUMBUS, and The Companions of Columbus, in three volumes.

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN BONNEVILLE, in one volume.

Irving.—The Illustrated Sketch Book.

With 15 Original Designs by Darley, Engraved on Wood by the first Artists, elegantly printed on superfine calendered paper. 1 vol. square 8vo. Bound in extra cloth, $3 50; cloth, gilt edges, $4; Turkey morocco extra, $6.

Howitt.—Ballads and other Poems.

By Mary Howitt. 1 vol. 12mo. green cloth, 63 cents.

———The same, with fine portrait, gilt extra, $1.

Her poems are always graceful and beautiful.—Mrs. S. C. Hall.

We cannot commend too highly the present publication, and only hope that the reading public will relish "Mary Howitt's Ballads and other Poems," now for the first time put forth in a collected form.—Albion.

Hunt.—Imagination and Fancy;

Or Selections from the English Poets—illustrative of those first Requisites of their Art; with markings of the best passages, Critical Notices of the Writers, and an Essay in answer so the question, "What is Poetry" By Leigh Lunt. 12mo, green cloth, 63 cents, gilt extra, $1 25.

They are flashed all over with the rich lights of fancy; and so colored and bestrewn with the flowers of poetry, that, even while perplexed and bewildered in their labyrinths, it is impossible to resist the intoxication of the sweetness, or to shut our hearts to the enchantment they so lavishly present.—Francis Jeffrey.

Keats.—Poetical Works.

The Poetical Works of John Keats. 1 vol. 12mo, cloth, 87 cents; gilt extra, $1 25.

Keats.—Life, Letters, &c.

The Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. Edited by Richard Monckton Milnes. Portrait and fac-simile. 1 vol 12mo, green cloth, $1; gilt extra, $1 50.

Taylor.—Views a-Foot;

Or, Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff. By J. Bayard Taylor. New edition, with an additional Chapter, &c., and a Sketch of the Author, 9th edition. 12mo, cloth, $1 25; gilt extra, $1 75.