Recommendations of the Family Library.

THE following opinions, selected from highly respectable Journals, will enable those who are unacquainted with the Family Library to form an estimate of its merits. Numerous other notices, equally favourable, and from sources equally respectable, might be presented if deemed necessary. "The Family Library.-A very excellent, and always entertaining Miscellany."-Edinburgh Review, No. 103.

"The Family Library.-We think this series of books entitled to the extensive patronage they have received from the public. The subjects selected are, generally, both useful and interesting in themselves, and are treated in a popular and agreeable manner: the style is clear, easy, and flowing, adapted to the taste of general readers, for whom the books are designed. The writers are mostly men of high rank in the literary world, and appear to possess the happy talent of blending instruction with amusement.....We hesitate not to commend it to the public as a valuable series of works, and worthy a place in every gentleman's library."-Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge.

"We take the opportunity again to recommend this valuable series of volumes to the public patronage. We know of no mode in which so much entertaining matter may be procured, at so cheap a rate, as in the Family Library."--N. Y. Daily Advertiser.

"The Family Library should be in the hands of every person. Thus far it has treated of subjects interesting to all, condensed in a perspicuous and agreeable style...... We have so repeatedly spoken of the merits of the design of this work, and of the able manner in which it is edited, that on this occasion we will only repeat our conviction, that it is worthy a place in every library in the country, and will prove one of the most useful as it is one of the most interesting publications which has ever issued from the American press."-N. Y. Courier & Enquirer.

"It is needless at this late period to commend to public attention and encouragement the collection of delightful works now in a course of publication under the appropriate title of the Family Library."-N. Y. Eve ning Journal.

"We have repeatedly expressed our unwavering confidence in the merits of this valuable series of popular and instructive books. The Family Library has now reached its sixteenth number, with the increasing favour of the enlightened American public; and we have heard of but one dissenting voice among the periodical and newspaper publishers who have frequently noticed and applauded the plan and the execution of the Family Library. A censure so entirely destitute of reason cannot injure a class of publications pure in sentiment and judicious and tasteful in composition."-The Cabinet of Religion, &c.

"The names of the writers employed are a sufficient surety that the merit of the Family Library will suffer no decline."-N. Y. Evening Post. "The Family Library is a collection which should be sought after by every one desirous of procuring the most valuable new works in the cheapest and most convenient form."-N. Y. Daily Sentinel.

"Those who condense and arrange such works for publication, and they also who promulgate them, richly deserve the thanks and patronage af all enlightened communities in the country. The Family Library promises to be a most useful and cheap repository of the most important events of profane, ancient, and modern history.....A series of volumes, well conducted, and published with such stirring contents, cannot fail to surpass all dry encyclopedias, or diffuse and elaborate histories or biographies, miserably translated, and extended to the very stretch of ver bosity "-Philadelphia Gazette

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"A greater desideratum to the English reader cannot well be brought to public notice."-Bell's Weekly Messenger.

The Family Classical Library may be reckoned as one of the most Instructive series of works now in the course of publication.”—Cambridge Chronicle.

"A series of works under the title of the Family Classical Library is now in the course of publication, which will, no doubt, arrest the attention of all the admirers of elegant and polite literature-of that literature which forms the solid and indispensable basis of a sound and gentlemanly education."-Bath Herald.

"We are inclined to augur the most beneficial results to the rising generation from the plan and nature of this publication; and we doubt not that under the able superintendence of Mr. Valpy, the value of the present work will not exceed its success as a mere literary speculation. It ought to find a place in every school and private family in the kingdom."--Bristol Journal.

"The design of this publication is highly laudable: if it be patronised according to its deserts, we have no hesitation in saying that its success will be very considerable."-Edinburgh Advertiser.

"If we had been called on to state what in our opinion was wanted to complete the several periodicals now in course of publication, we should have recommended a translation of the most approved ancient writers, in a corresponding style. This undertaking, therefore, of Mr. Valpy's, most completely meets the view we had entertained on the subject. We strongly recommend the production to the notice of schools, as its perusal must tend to implant on the minds of the pupils a love for ancient lore. In Ladies' Seminaries the series will, indeed, be invaluable the stores of antiquity being thus thrown open to them."-Plymouth and Devonport Herald.

"Economy is the order of the day in books. The Family Classical Library will greatly assist the classical labours of tutors as well as pupils. We suspect that a period is arriving when the Greek and Latin authors will be more generally read through the medium of translations.”—Cheltenham Journal.

"We avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity of introducing to the notice of our readers a work which appears to promise the utmost advantage to the rising generation in particular. There is no class of people to whom it is not calculated to be useful-to the scholar, it will be an agreeable guide and companion; while those to whom a classical education has been denied will find in it a pleasant and a valuable avenue towards those ancient models of literary greatness, which, even in this age of boasted refinement, we are proud to imitate."-Aberdeen Chronicle.

"The Family Classical Library will contain the most correct and elegant translations of the immortal works of all the great authors of Greece and Rome; an acquaintance with whose writings is indispensable to every man who is desirous of acquiring even modern classical attainments." Liverpool Albion.

"This volume promises to be an invaluable acquisition to those but partially acquainted with the Greek and Latin languages: such of the fair sex more especially as direct their laudable curiosity in the channel of classic literature must find in translation the very key to the knowledge they seek. The mere trifle for which the lover of literature may now furnish his library with an elegant and uniform edition of the best trans lations from the classics, will, it cannot be doubted, ensure the Family Classical Library a welcome reception."-Woolmer's Exeter Gazette.

"This work will supply a desideratum in literature; and we hope it will meet with encouragement. The translations of many of the ancient authors, who may be looked on as the great storehouse of modern literature, are out of the reach of the English reader; and this publication will render them accessible to all."-Yorkshire Gazette

NEW RELIGIOUS BOOKS, FOR GENERAL READING.

J. & J. HARPER NEW-YORK,

HAVE NOW IN THE COURSE OF REPUBLICATION,

THE

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY.

THIS PUBLICATION WILL BE COMPRISED IN A LIMITED NUMBER OF
VOLUMES, AND IS INTENDED TO FORM, WHEN COMPLETED,
A DIGESTED BYSTEM OF RELIGIOUS AND

ECCLESIASTICAL KNOWLEDGE

THE FIRST NUMBER (NOW PUBLISHED) CONTAINS

THE LIFE OF WIC LIF.

BY CHARLES WEBB LE BAS, M.A.

Professor in the East India College, Herts; and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

ONE VOLUME. EMBELLISHED WITH A PORTRAIT OF WICLIF.

VOLUMES IN PREPARATION.

THE CONSISTENCY OF THE WHOLE SCHEME OF REVELA. TION WITH ITSELF, AND WITH HUMAN REASON.

BY P. N. SHUTTLEWORTH, D.D.

Warden of New College, Oxford. (In Press.)

HISTORY OF THE INQUISITION.
BY JOSEPH BLANCO WHITE, M.A.
Of the University of Oxford.

HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPAL COUNCILS.
BY J. H. NEWMAN, M.A.

Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY (continued).

THE LIVES OF THE CONTINENTAL REFORMERS.

No. I. LIFE OF MARTIN LUTHER.

.BY HUGH JAMES ROSE, B.D.

Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge.

THE LATER DAYS OF THE JEWISH POLITY: with a copious Introduction and Notes (chiefly derived from the Talmudists and Rabbinical Writers). With a view to illustrate the Language, the Manners, and general History of the NEW TESTAMENT.

BY THOMAS MITCHELL, ESQ. A.M.

Late Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN IRELAND. BY C. R. ELRINGTON, D.D.

Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Dublin.

THE DIVINE ORIGIN OF THE CHRISTIAN REVELATION demonstrated in an analytical Inquiry into the Evidence on which the Belief of Christianity has been established.

BY WILLIAM ROWE LYALL, M.A.

Archdeacon of Colchester, and Rector of Fairstead and Weeley in Essex.
HISTORY OF THE REFORMED RELIGION IN FRANCE.
BY EDWARD SMEDLEY, M.A.

Late Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF EASTERN MANNERS, SCRIPTURAL PHRASEOLOGY, &c.

BY SAMUEL LEE, B.D. F.R.S. M.R.A.S.

Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Cambridge.

HISTORY OF SECTS.

BY F. E. THOMPSON, M.A.
Perpetual Curate of Brentford.

SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF LITURGIES: comprising a Particular Account of the LITURGY of the CHURCH of ENGLAND.

BY HENRY JOHN ROSE, B.D.

Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge

HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN SCOTLAND. BY MICHAEL RUSSELL, LL.D.

Author of the "Connexion of Sacred and Profane History.

THE LIFE OF GROTIUS.

BY JAMES NICHOLS, F.S.A.

Author of "Arminianism and Calvinis compared."