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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt:... 8, New Borlington Street, January, 1859. ME. BENTLEY'S LIST OF NEW WORKS, NOW READY. HAK8 C. ANDERSEN. To Be or Not to Be. By Hans Christian Andersen, Author of 'The Improvisatore.' Crown 8vo. 5s. "This work is charmingly written."--Alhena-um. HISS AUSTEN. Novels of Miss Austen: Emma, Sense And Sensieility, Prede And Prejttdioe, Mansfield Park, Northanger Aeeey, and Persuasiot. A Library Edition, in 5 Tola, small 8vo, with Ten Illustrations, 15. "Miss Austen has a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. Her exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me."--r Walter Scott. Anne Sherwood. A Novel. 8 vols, post 8vo, 10. "Written in a style of bold and powerful invective that might have become a female Juvenal. It is a most remarkable novel."--Press. "Its deep, passionate energy, is like Charlotte Bronte's 1 Jane Eyre.'"--JoMn Butt. GEORGE BANCROFT. History of the American Revolution. By George Bancroft. 3 vols, 8vo, 31#. 6d. "This work most take its place as an essentially satisfactory history of the United States. Mr. Bancroft's style is original and national, breathing of the mountain and the prairie. A strain of wild and forest-like music swells up in almost every lino. The story is told richly and vividly. In his hands American scenery is full of fine effects. Steeped in the colours of his imagination, a thousand incidents, thought dull before, appear now animated and pictorial. In his narrative all is movement. His men glow with human purposes--his story sweeps on with the exulting life of a procession."--Athenau n. T. HAYNES...