A Number will appear on the 1st of each month, containing Four
Plates, one of which will be coloured. Imperial 8vo., price 3s.; and
in imperial 4to., price 6s.; to be completed in Twenty-four Parts.
A more detailed prospectus, and list of Mr. Shaw's other works, may
be had of the Publisher, or through any Bookseller.
WILLIAM PICKERING, 177. Piccadilly.
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Just published, price 4s. 6d.
PINACOTHECAE HISTORICAE SPECIMEN; sive Illvstrivm qvorvundam ingenia,
mores, fortvnae, ad Inscriptionvm formam expressae. Avctore F.
KILVERT, A.M. Pars Secvnda.
"I am struck with the successful endeavour, in each case, to say
much in few words.--those words remarkably select, and expressive,
and appropriate,--exhibiting the noble characteristics of the Latin
language, as compared with every other, ancient or modern. This is a
rare excellence, and, therefore, I mention it first. But it is not
the greatest merit of your performance. There is a truth in the
delineation of character, and a devotion to rectitude and virtue in
your moral estimate, quite as remarkable as the felicity of diction
by which the varieties of each portrait are denoted. You have also
escaped the snare to which brevity (according to Horace's well-known
line), is exposed--obscurity."--_From a letter of the late Bishop of
Llandoff._
London: GEORGE BELL, 186.
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