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10 folks used to loiter away the summer evening, till the approach of the thrifty and prolix Mrs. Norris, who was much addicted to unseasonable lecturing, would compel them to a precipitate departure! Wit without malice, humour without grossness, refinement of touch without apparent effort, and repose of manner without insipidity ;—these are the main characteristics of Miss Austen’s productions, who in her own circumscribed sphere has never yet been rivalled, and most likely never will be so. c Her fables appear to us, in their own way, nearly faultless. * * * She conducts her conversations with a regard to character hardly exceeded by Shakspeare himself. Like him, she shows as admirable a discrimination in the character of fools, as of people of sense: a merit which is far from common. * * * Those who delight in the study of human nature, may improve in the knowledge of it, and in the profitable application of that knowledge, by the perusal of such fictions as those before us.” —Quarterly Review. ILLUSTRATED EDITION COMPLETE. OLIVER Twist. BY BOZ. IN ONE HANDSOME ROYAL OCTAVO VOLUME. PRINTED ON FINE PAPER. WITH TWENTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS, DESIGNED BY CRUIKSHANK, ENGRAVED BY YEAGER, AND PRINTED ON CREAM-COLOURED PAPER ; To match their fine edition of the Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens, (Boz.) LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Oliver asking for more. Oliver escapes being bound Apprentice to the Sweep. Oliver plucks up a spirit. Oliver introduced to the respectable old gentleman. Oliver amazed at the Dodger’s mode of going to work. Oliver recovering from the fever. Oliver claimed by his affectionate friends. Oliver’s reception by Fagin and the boys. Master Bates explains a professional T'echnicality. The Burglary. Mr. Bumble and Mrs. Corney taking Tea. Mr. Claypole as he ap mathielae is master was out. Oliver Twist at Mrs. Maylie’s Door.
