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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 Excerpt:...Johnson's admiration of the same writer is familiar to every reader of Bosweil; but it may not be so well known that Ann of Gierstein.1 Ayesha--(Morrier) Aims and Ends Arabian Night's Entertainment Alice Paulet. Arnold's Dramatic Stories. Ancient Regime (The)--(James) The Abduction The Affianced One The Abbess--(Trollope). The Anglo-Irish The Alhambra--(Irving) The Adventures of a staff Officer The Adventures of a younger Son The Adventures of a Kings Page The Adventures of a Young Rifleman The Adventures of a Cap Bonneville he has made eighty references to Richardson in his Dictionary. Adam Clarke was accustomed to say that the book which in his early days taught him much about his duty to God and his neighbour was Robinson Crvsoe. John Wesley edited an edition of Mr. Brookes's celebrated Fool of Quality, or the history of Henry, Earl of Morland. This edition is in the Public Library; Mr. W. in the preface says"the book is the most excellent in its kind of any that I have seen either in English or any other language. I recommend it therefore to all who are already, or desire to be, lovers of God and man." "The faculty of being amused and the craving after amusement," observes Sir John Hesrchel, like all our desires, was given to man for the highest and best of purposes. Even a sense of the ludicrous, the lowest of our intellectual faculties, may be made subservient to the same end of improvement, and provided it is not misdirected I see no harm in its indulgence." But these authorities must not be used to encourage a passion of continuous novel reading. A walk in the garden is both pleasant and salutary; but it is not desirable to live in it. Mr. Southey takes this view of cur present works of fiction, viz:--"Of Novels as they...