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8 Whether it be owing to our own prepossession, or to the skill of the writer, we find its execution immeasurably superior to that of any similar work that has of late years issued from the press.—Brighton Gazette. We have here a recurrence of that pleasing excitement, through all the reading world, which was wont to attend the appearance of each new “ Waverley novel.” The voice of the mighty minstrel again rises, as it were, from the grave, and we cease for a time in the midst of the anxious and feverish contentions of faction, to listen to the tones which delighted and astonished our earlier years. ‘This volume, indeed, unexpectedly possesses all the interest of a new sweep from the lyre which was supposed for ever dumb.—Dundee Chronicle. Also, the same work in two vols. octavo, bound in embossed cloth. THEODORE HOOK’S NEW NOVEL. GURNEY MARRIED: A SEQUEL TO GILBERT GURNEY. BY THE AUTHOR OF “SAYINGS AND DOINGS,” “JACK BRAG,” &c. . In Two Volumes, 12mo. MEMOIRS OF Chavics Matycws, COMEDIAN. BY MRS. MATHEWS. * A man so various, that he seem’d to be Not one, but all mankind’s epitome.” —Drypben. Proteus for shape, and mocking-bird for tongue. In Two Volumes, Royal 12mo. ELVIRA: THE NABOB’S WIFE. BY MRS. MONKLAND. Author of “Village Reminiscences,” &c. In Two Vols. 12mo.
