OPINIONS OF THE PRESS

ON

MR. SHEIL'S "SKETCHES."

"THESE volumes will delight the student and charm the general reader. They will in no respect suffer by contrast with the essays of Macaulay and Stephens, Mackintosh and Sydney Smith, and other brilliant literary worthies."-MESSENGER.

"We cordially recommend these sketches as interesting in matter and brilliant in composition. Their literary merit is very great. The sketches of the Irish Bar paint the characters of the leading persons in Irish politics with graphic fidelity. The revelations of the Jesuits are very remarkable."—ATHENÆUM.

"The Irish and the English Bar receive an illustration that gives an individual and collective interest to every paper; and the same may be said of those devoted to a detail of the political principles and the career of such as are selected by the brilliant author for analysis and description. Many portions have an attraction peculiar to themselves; and, while to many the names here recorded are familiar, and will recal many an extraordinary trial and stirring debate, there are strange vicissitudes and disastrous turns of fortune delineated, and criminal trials recorded which, in their vastness of outrage and horror, outdo all to be found in the wide limits of romance, and once more proving 'truth to be far stranger than fiction.'"-DISPATCH.

"The book is as lively a delineation of Sheil himself as of the men who sat to him."-EXAMINER.

"These sketches are all, without exception, drawn from personal observation; and they evince both that nice discrimination of character and those powers of description which we should expect from so accomplished a person as our late ambassador at Florence. We do not hesitate to say that they throw considerable light upon the political history of Ireland during the last thirty years, and more especially upon the alarming period which preceded Catholic Emancipation."-BRITANNIA,

SKETCHES OF THE IRISH BAR.

WITH A

SELECTION FROM OTHER PAPERS,

LEGAL, LITERARY, AND POLITICAL.

BY

WILLIAM HENRY CURRAN, ESQ.

THE PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE

OF

THE BRITISH EMPIRE.

BY SIR BERNARD BURKE,

ULSTER KING OF ARMS.

CORRECTED TO THE PRESENT TIME

FROM THE PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS OF THE NOBILITY.

1 Vol., with 1500 Engravings of the Arms.

"The best genealogical and heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage, and the first authority on all questions affecting the aristocracy."-GLOBE.

In this comprehensive and authentic record of the titled classes, the memoirs of the various noble families, traced through all the vicissitudes of English history, throw much light on our annals, and are all-important to the historical reader. Every fact illustrative of a family's rise, every achievement shedding lustre on the race, every detail tending to the full development of the genealogical narrative, are here combined. No descendant is omitted-however remotely connected, his ancestry may here be traced.

THE MODERN ORLANDO.

BY DR. CROLY.

Second Edition, One Vol. Post Octavo, 5s. bound.

Give the world your thoughts, Make your pen a pencil, your ink

"Travel! travel! travel! The mind stagnates at home. The flower dies unless it is transplanted. Hear all things-see all things-write all things, and write them on the spot. fresh, fast, and fair, as they come. colours, your paper a canvas, and Nature your sitter. Say what you think; tell the truth,-and fear not. Cherish woman, and castigate man. Be bold of heart, quick of eye, and pleasant of tongue. Carlo mio-where then is the true poet to be found? By the Madonna, I know not. Let the world, which decides every thing, decide that too. I follow none,-I ask none to follow me. This is the only boast of your friend Ludovico.-Farewell! may all the Graces hover round your pillow, Carlo mio."-LETTERE SCELTE, V. 2.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Dr. Croly has only done justice to himself in putting his name to the wittiest poem of its day. Throughout, the satire is sharp but not illnatured; the reflections deep, and the sketches of men, manners, and things, as true as if recorded by a social and physical daguerreotype."

BRITANNIA.

"The Modern Orlando' is a series of adventures, exhibiting a kind of tour through all the remarkable scenes and showy cities of Europe, interspersed with characteristic stories and occasional sketches of the leading personages of the day."

"If Byron's 'Don Juan' had never been written, the 'Modern Orlando' might have been justly regarded as one of the most splendid effusions of the age."-NAVAL AND MILITARY GAZETTE.