WORKS PUBLISHED IN
APPLETON'S
MINIATURE CLASSICAL LIBRARY.
This unique Library will comprise the best works of our veneratedauthors;published in an elegant form, with a beautiful frontispiece, tastefullyornamented.
The following are now ready:
THOMPSON.—THE SEASONS. BY JAMES THOMSON.
"Place the 'Seasons' in any light and the poem appears faultless—andaboveall, the sentiments are so pure, toe lessons in virtue so attractive,thereligion so natural, graceful, and winning, that the reader cannot failtobecome better and wiser by the perusal of that which producessensations ofthe most supreme pleasure."—S.C. Hall.
GEMS FROM AMERICAN POETS; Consisting of selections fromthe most esteemedauthors.
"Above a hundred and twenty specimens of popular American poetsadorn thepages, most of them worthy of being so chosen, and some of thememinentlysweet and beautiful."—London Lit. Gaz.
HANNAH MORE'S PRIVATE DEVOTIONS; With selections fromvarious authors.
CLARKE'S SCRIPTURE PROMISES.—In this edition everypassage of Scripturehas been compared and verified.
GOLDSMITH.—ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS. BY OLIVERGOLDSMITH, M.B.
GOLDSMITH.—THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH.
"Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightfulwritersin the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream. His ease isquiteunconscious. Everything in him is spontaneous, unstudied, unaffected,yetelegant, harmonious, graceful, and nearly faultless."—Hazlitt.
JOHNSON.—THE HISTORY OF RASSELAS, PRINCE OF ABYSSINIA. A TALE.BY SAMUELJOHNSON, LL.D.
The fund of thinking which this work contains is such that almosteverysentence of it may furnish a subject of long meditation.
COTTIN.—ELIZABETH, OR THE EXILES OF SIBERIA. BY MADAME COTTIN.Theextensive popularity of this little tale is well known.
TOKEN OF AFFECTION
— OF FRIENDSHIP.
— OF REMEMBRANCE.
— OF THE HEART.
— OFLOVE.
Each volume consists of appropriate poetical extracts from the bestwritersof the day.
PURE GOLD FROM THE RIVERS OF WISDOM. A collection ofshort extracts onreligious subjects, by Bishop Hall, Sherlock, &c.
ST. PIERRE.—PAUL AND VIRGINIA;FROM THE FRENCH OF J.B.H. DE ST. PIERRE
MOORE.—LALLA ROOKH, AN ORIENTALROMANCE. BY THOMAS MOORE, ESQ.
WILSON.—SACRA PRIVATA. Theprivate meditations and prayers of the RightRev. THOMAS WILSON, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man; accommodated togeneral use.
POLLOCK.—THE COURSE OF TIME.BY ROBERT POLLOCK, A.M.
YOUNG.—THE COMPLAINT: OR NIGHTTHOUGHTS. BY EDWARD YOUNG, D.D.
MORE.—PRACTICAL PIETY; Or,the Influence of the Religion of the Heart onthe Conduct of the Life. BY HANNAH MORE.