"This book will do good in our colleges. Every student will want a copy, and many will be stimulated by its perusal to a more vigorous and enthusiastic pursuit of that higher and more solid learning which alone deserves to be called 4 classical.' The recent tendencies have been to the neglect of this, and we rejoice in this timely effort of minds so well qualified for such a work."--_Christian Reflector._ "The volume is, in every way, a beautiful affair of its kind, and we hazard nothing in recommending it to the literary world."--_Christian Secretary, Hartford._ "The design is a noble and generous one, and has been executed with a taste and good sense, that do honor both to the writers and the publishers."--_Prov. Journal._ CHAMBERS'S CYCLOPÆDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A SELECTION OF THE CHOICEST PRODUCTIONS OF ENGLISH AUTHORS, FROM THE EARLIEST TO THE PRESENT TIME: CONNECTED BY A CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. EDITED BY ROBERT CHAMBERS. ASSISTED BY ROBERT CARRUTHERS AND OTHER EMINENT GENTLEMEN. _Complete in two imperial octavo volumes, of more than fourteen hundred pages of double column letterpress, and upwards of three hundred elegant illustrations._ _This valuable work has now become so generally known and appreciated, that there need scarcely be any thing said in commendation, except to those who have not yet seen it._ _The work embraces about One Thousand Authors, chronologically arranged and classed as Poets, Historians, Dramatists, Philosophers, Metaphysicians, Divines, etc., with choice selections from their writings, connected by a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Narrative; thus presenting a complete view of English Literature, from the earliest to the present time. Let the reader open where he will, he cannot fail to find matter for profit and delight, which, for the most part, too, repeated perusals will only serve to make him enjoy the more. We have indeed infinite riches in a little room. No one, who has a taste for literature, should allow himself, for a trifling consideration, to be without a work which throws so much light upon the progress of the English language. The selections are gems--a mass of valuable information in a condensed and elegant form._ EXTRACTS FROM COMMENDATORY NOTICES. _From W. H. Prescott, Author of "Ferdinand and Isabella."_ "The plan of the work is very judicious. * * * It will put the reader in the proper point of view, for surveying the whole ground over which he is travelling. * * * Such readers cannot fail to profit largely by the labors of the critic who has the talent and taste to separate what is really beautiful and worthy of their study from what is superfluous." "I concur in the foregoing opinion of Mr. Prescott."--_Edward Everett._ "It will be a useful and popular work, indispensable to the library of a student of English literature."--_Francis Wayland._