“Far remote from the eastern and the voluptuous--from the visionary and refining--from the pale colouring of drawing-room life, and the subtle delicacies of female sentiment and wit, the genius of Captain Marryatt embodies itself in the humour, the energy, the robust and masculine vigour of bustling and actual existence; it has been braced by the sea breezes; it walks abroad in the mart of busy men, with a firm step and a cheerful and healthy air. Not, indeed, that he is void of a certain sentiment, and an intuition into the more hidden sources of mental interest; but these are not his forte, or his appropriate element. He is best in a rich and various humour--rich, for there is nothing poor or threadbare in his materials. His characters are not, as Scott’s, after all, mere delineations of one oddity, uttering the same eternal phraseology, from the ‘prodigious’ of Dominie Sampson, to ‘provant’ of Major Dalgetty--a laughable, but somewhat poor invention: they are formed of compound and complex characteristics, and evince no trifling knowledge of the metaphysics of social life.” * * * * * In Two Volumes, 12mo. THE KING’S OWN; A TALE OF THE SEA. By the Author of “THE NAVAL OFFICER,” “PETER SIMPLE,” etc. “An excellent novel.”--_Edinburg Review._ “Captain Marryat may take his place at the head of the naval novelists of the day.”--_United Service Journal._ “The adventures of the hero, through bold and stirring scenes, lose not a jot of their interest to the last, while the naval descriptions of sights and deeds on shipboard may be compared with any similar production of which we have any knowledge.”--_Atlas._ “A very remarkable book, full of vigour, and characterized by incidents of perfect originality, both as to conception and treatment. Few persons will take up the book without going fairly through it to the catastrophe, which startles the reader by its unexpected nature.”--_Literary Gazette._ “Replete with genius. The work will go far permanently to fix the name of Captain Marryat among the most popular and successful writers of fiction of the age.”--_Felix Farley’s Bristol Journal._ “A work, perhaps, not to be equalled in the whole round of romance, for the tremendous power of its descriptions, for the awfulness of its subjects, and for the brilliancy and variety of the colours with which they are painted.”--_Spectator._ * * * * * In Two Volumes, 12mo. THE PACHA OF MANY TALES. By the Author of “PETER SIMPLE,” &c. * * * * * ADVENTURES OF JAPHET IN SEARCH OF HIS FATHER. By the Author of “JACOB FAITHFUL,” “KING’S OWN” &c. (_In Press._)