Lays and ballads from English history, etc . and veryneatly Illustrated Edition. Cloth, 14 ex-quiftte engravings by T. D. Scott, 2s. A feries of Fables, each with a firing of morals, woven onewithin another, and connected by a leading Story, alluringthe attention and inducing the mind, without a paufe, tomatter the whole fystem of Ethics. We would fain, if poffible, excite the readers intereit forthis, the moft delightfully entertaining of Oriental Fictions. Itenjoys an unbounded popularity in the Eaft, read again andagain, with renewed -p\ezi{ure.—Retrq/pecJive Review. In other Works, when on
Lays and ballads from English history, etc . and veryneatly Illustrated Edition. Cloth, 14 ex-quiftte engravings by T. D. Scott, 2s. A feries of Fables, each with a firing of morals, woven onewithin another, and connected by a leading Story, alluringthe attention and inducing the mind, without a paufe, tomatter the whole fystem of Ethics. We would fain, if poffible, excite the readers intereit forthis, the moft delightfully entertaining of Oriental Fictions. Itenjoys an unbounded popularity in the Eaft, read again andagain, with renewed -p\ezi{ure.—Retrq/pecJive Review. In other Works, when one has read one Fable, he has doneand is fatisfied ; whereas here, when a Fable has been read,the curiofity is excited to go through another, fo that by theexcellent contrivance of the author, the fame fet of morals isinculcated, in a variety of beautiful relations. Allegories, well chofen, are like fo many tracks of lightin a difcourfe, that make everything about them clear andbeautiful. —^4 ddifon. MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOIVER STREET. 43 Q t. SpecUnen of Illustrations to Popular Tales, page 44. PLEASANT HOURS. 2s. 6d. PLEASANT HOURS in Foreign Lands,a feries of 8 fhort Romances, tranflated fromthe German and French. Clothyfronti/fiiece,2s. 6d. Contents : Tale of Auvergne, Soldier in Spite of Him-felf, Broken Cup (by Zfchokke , Artift Dream of Gloiy,Martin the Cooper by Hoffman), Cardan the Galley Slave,Church of the Glafs of Water, &c PLUTARCH, LIVES, ROMANS. is. 6d. PLUTARCHS LIVES of CELEBRA-TED ROMANS, with Additions, from Nie-buhr, Gibbon, Fergufon, Adams, alfo fromLivy, Tacitus, Salluft, Juflin, &c, is. 6d. Contains thofe germs or elements which in after ages pro=duced Philofophers, Legiflatois, and Warriors. A valuable treafur- of ancient learning, illufbrative not onlyof Grecian and Roman affairs, but alfo of the Hiftory of Phi-lofophy. They abound with proofs of indefatigable induftry and pro-found erudition, and will always be read with pleafure, from 44 MR. LUMLEY, 40,
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