The Publisher and Editor have peculiar pleasure in acknowledging the ready and hearty approval of their efforts by the press. It is seldom that any undertaking has been so warmly received, or the manner in which it has been executed so generally approved. This appreciation of their purpose will stimulate them to still greater exertions in the prosecution of their design--to produce this portion of the standard literature of our country in a style more befitting the merits of the authors than any hitherto attempted, and to secure for this series that it shall be worthy of recognition as THE LIBRARY EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS. Edinburgh, _November_ 1853. LIBRARY EDITION OF THE BRITISH POETS, _In Demy 8vo, Pica Type, Extra Cloth Boards._ EDITED BY REV. G. GILFILLAN. Now ready, Vols. 1 & 2. Milton's Poetical Works. " " 3. Thomson's Poetical Works. " " 4. Herbert's Poetical Works. " " 5. Young's Night Thoughts. And on 1st Feb. 1854, the Poetical Works of Goldsmith, Collins, and T. Warton. FORMING THE FIRST YEARLY ISSUE TO SUBSCRIBERS OF SIX VOLUMES FOR ONE GUINEA. ISSUE FOR THE SECOND YEAR-- THE POETICAL WORKS OF BUTLER--COWPER--BLAIR--BRUCE--LOGAN--BEATTIE, and FALCONER. Prospectuses containing full details of the Scheme may be obtained from most Booksellers, or from the Publisher, on application. Non-Subscribers can obtain the Volumes separately at 4s. 6d. each. Subscribers' Names received by all Booksellers for the Yearly Issue of Six Vols. for L1, 1s. _The Publisher has pleasure in submitting the following Extracts from recent Notices which have appeared of the Vols. already issued:_-- Literary Gazette. Coleridge said, that for a man fully to appreciate George Herbert, he must be "an affectionate and dutiful son of the Church, and from habit, conviction, and a constitutional predisposition to ceremoniousness in piety as in manners, find her forms and ordinances aids of religion, not sources of formality." Mr Gilfillan has none of the qualifications here described, yet never was the character of Herbert more highly appreciated, nor his poetry more unreservedly admired, than by this Presbyterian editor. The editorial work is done with true Christian liberality, and with the sympathy of a man of genius. The present volume forms one of the new series of the "English Poetical Classics," published by Mr Nichol of Edinburgh. In typography and appearance they are very superior, and they are issued at a price of unusual cheapness. The series will form a beautiful and valuable library edition of the English Classic Poets. Scottish Review.