HORACE MANN.

A few Thoughts for a Young Man when Entering upon Life. A Lecture. Although this little work has been published but a few weeks, many thousand copies have been sold.

1 vol. 16mo. cloth, 25 cents.

For plainness of speech, for strength of expression, and decision in stating what the writer believes to be the truth, this lecture may be matched against any thing that ever came from the press.

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

This admirable address should be in the hands of every young man in the country, and we predict for it more success than any work of the kind ever issued by an American publisher. — CAMBRIDGE CHRONICLE.

Mr. Mann has already distinguished himself as a zealous laborer in the great cause of Education. The lecture before us will add to his fame. It is eloquent and impressive; filled with noble thoughts and sound maxims; eminently calculated to aid in forming the character of the true Christian gentleman. We should like to see it in the hands of every young man in the country. - PHIL. BULLETIN.

HENRY B. HIRST.

Endymion, A Tale of Greece.

1 vol. 16mo, 50 cents.

Penance of Roland, and other Poems.

1 vol. 16mo, 50 cents.

ROBERT BROWNING.

The Complete Poetical Works.

Now first collected.

2 vols. 16mo. $2, cloth $2.25, gilt $3.00.

Next to Tennyson, we know of hardly another English poet of the day who can be compared with Browning. The grandest pieces in the volumes are Pippa Passes," and "A Blot in the Scutcheon." The latter, in the opinion of Charles Dickens, is the finest Poem of the century. Once read, it must haunt the imagination for ever; for its power strikes deep into the very substance and core of the soul.-E. P. WHIPPLE.

To us he appears to have a wider range and greater freedom of movement than any other of the younger English poets.

Many English dramas have been written within a few years, the authors of which have established their claim to the title of poet. But it is only in Mr. Browning that we find enough of freshness, vigor, grasp, and of that clear insight and conception which enable the artist to construct characters from within, and so to make them real things, and not images, as to warrant our granting the honor due to the Dramatist.-JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

It is humiliating to the panegyrist of American poetry to have thrust before him a brace of volumes from an English pen, almost unknown on this side the water, and without an appreciative popularity on the other; which, in range and depth of thought, in sustained vigor of execution, in strong and healthy imagination, cast our highest efforts into shade, and administer rebuke alike to our idleness and our complacency. When we look upon the productions of those who pass for our best poets- upon their short and feeble efforts, addressed to the popular heart for present popular favor; when we see by how easy a path they have achieved their eminence, we may well have serious apprehensions for our literary future.

The poems by Browning belong to the highest order of the "Art of Arts." Disdaining the temptation to labor for the praise of the popular voice, he has chosen his walk among the higher regions of thought, and cast the glowing and plastic treasures of his intellect into a mould which never has been, till now, popular. His poems demonstrate strength in the writer, and call for strength in the reader.-SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN.

The author is a new candidate for fame, of whom we know nothing except that he is a gentleman about forty, residing now at Florence, with his wife, formerly Miss E. B. Barrett, the poetess, the author of "The Lay of the Brown Rosary," "The Cry of the Children," and other productions of great merit. Following the hint of the Boston Transcript, the editor of which, a competent judge, certainly, highly commends Browning, we read first the ballad "How they Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix." And certainly that is a grand production, which for strength, originality, word-painting, has seldom been equalled. We wonder how the few terse and sonorous lines could be wrought out. We will not venture to express all we felt on reading the marked stanzas; but let any one, who has life and spirit in himself, peruse them, and as they sound or rush through his brain and almost stop his breath, he will be prepared to admit that no terms of praise could well be charged with extravagance. The sudden repose; the entire picture (a glorious subject for the pencil) in the last verse, when the race is over, is a marvellous finish to the whole piece. -N. Y. INQUIRER.

These two volumes have that delicious appearance, in print, paper, and general style of publication, so attractive in an English edition, and which of itself constitutes a most tempting feature in a work, aside from its merits. Clear, distinct, beautiful and eye-delighting, there is no tawdry finery about it, and nothing to stamp it as a thing for show and not for use. Its simple elegance invites admiration, but does not deter from familiarity. The first voluine contains Paracelsus, Pippa Passes, King Victor and King Charles, and Colombe's Birthday-four Dramas. The second presents us with four tragedies and a variety of Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Browning is a growing poeta thinking man, and a man of genius, of rare dramatic power, possessing many elements of strength and greatness. He is already favorably known to a large number here as a poet, by his occasional pieces which have found their way into the newspapers and magazines; but these charming volumes will introduce him more extensively, and exhibit him in all his power and with more exalted merit. He is undeniably a poet of the highest order, and we trust that the publishers will receive their reward for presenting so fine an edition of his works to the American public. BOSTON DAILY ADVERTISER.

Mr. Browning is one of the "bright and shining lights" in the new school of English poetry; and, though not familiarly known to the mass of readers on this side of the Atlantic, yet few living authors are more deeply admired by those who have most studied his pages. As specimens of typographical beauty, these volumes rival the London edition, and are worthy of all praise.

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YANKEE BLADE.

JOHN G. SAXE.

Humorous and Satirical Poems.

2d Edition, 1 vol. 16mo. 50 cts.

Mr. Saxe is a genuine and very devoted disciple of Democritus. He loves laughter as an Arab does a warm bath, and is almost incessantly bathing his soul in it. He lives and moves in it; manufacturing it in his conversation and making both threads of his song the warp and woof-of it. Mr. Saxe has no more humor than Dr. Holmes, but is verily the wittiest poet alive.

BUFFALO COм. ADV.

His lines are brimful of puns, and lightning-like turns of thought and word, and every thing is as finished, as polished, as complete as possible. The very word to be used is used, and there is no jot of obscurity or dimness. Every thing is bright, clear, and telling. "The Proud Miss McBride," and "The New Rape of the Lock," are not inferior in merit, though of lesser length, to Hood's famous "Miss Kilmansegg.". "-BOSTON POST.

Mr. Saxe has struck upon a vein, for which few of our dealers in verse have exhibited an aptitude. He gives us the comical phase of things, preserving always a serene good humor. He writes with vigor, ease, and a sort of bonhomie, which at once places him and his reader on good and friendly terms. There is a pungency full of sparkle and point in his stanzas. BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.

GEORGE LUNT.

The Age of Gold, and other Poems.

1 vol. 16mo. 50 cts.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY.

The Angel World, and other Poems.
By the Author of "Festus."

1 vol. 16mo. 50 cts.

The principal poem is full of beauties, and seems to us, on a hasty perusal, to be far above "Festus," in point of moral eminence at least. The commencement is worthy of the subject, and the description of a Young and Shining Angel," who steps into the throng of bright immortals, seems to us to embody all that is holy and beautiful in poesy.

In his air

Sat kingly sweetness, kind and calm command,
Yet with long suffering blended; for the soil
Of dust was on his garb and sandalled sole:
Dust on the locks of fertile gold which flowed
From his fair forehead rippling round his neck;
Bedropt, defiled with cold and cave-like dew.
One hand a staff of virent emerald held

As 'twere a sapling of the tree of life,

And one smoothed in his breast a radiant dove
Fluttering its wings in lightnings thousand-hued,
The sole companion of his pilgrimage.

Silent he stood and gazed.

The shorter Poems seem to us quite worthy of the author's distinguished celebrity. Somebody said of Bailey, we think it was Elliott, the Corn Law Poet, that there was matter enough in the author of "Festus" to set up fifty poets; and Alfred Tennyson wrote not long ago that he could scarcely trust himself to say how much he admired Bailey's poems for fear of falling into extravagance. We have no doubt that the judgment of these two great authorities will be fully endorsed by the readers of "The Angel World" throughout our country. - BOSTON TRANSCRIPT.

No writer of the present day has given to celestial spirits a more radiant and pure embodiment, has presented them to the mind's eye in more fitting garb and mien, than has this poet in the present volume. The full organ tones of prayer and praise are his too, in a surpassing degree, although in unity and sustained power they fall below those of Milton. Some of the minor poems are very beautiful, and all give evidence of the poetic fire. "An Ancient Legend," and "The Ring," especially the latter, are fine specimens of ballad writing. - PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT.