f prime value. Though
many of them are inscribed to persons else quite unknown to fame, with
a good number of them it is otherwise; and they serve, by the
information which they embody, to show that Fuller was on terms of
familiar intimacy with a whole host of notabilities in Church and
State. Of these personages, and so of many others with whom Fuller
associated, Mr. Bailey, heedful of the adage _noscitur a sociis_, has
compiled very satisfactory sketches, derived in all cases from the
most trustworthy authorities. In addition to a Life of Fuller, he has
thus gone far to give us a sort of biographical dictionary of the
leading men, political and ecclesiastical, who rallied round the
unfortunate First Charles, and who used their most strenuous diligence
to save his desperate cause from shipwreck.

One who has already made acquaintance with Fuller's writings must feel
animated, under the guidance of the new light now thrown upon them, to
renew that acquaintance; and he to whom the wise and witty old worthy
is as yet a stranger must, unless obdurately insensible, be moved to a
suspicion that he ought to remain a stranger no longer. To Mr. Bailey
we are beholden alike for a biography of the first excellence, and for
a sterling contribution to the history of an era which possesses
undying interest for every Englishman, be he conservative, liberal or
republican; and for every intelligent American as well. We are given
to understand that the author has now in contemplation the publishing
of Fuller's sermons, of which there has never been a collective
edition, and of which several are among the rarest books in our
language. The design is one which challenges the furtherance of every
lover of good literature; and the _Life_, which, in parting, we
emphatically commend to our readers, should avail to secure for it the
encouragement it unquestionably merits.

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The Greville Memoirs: A Journal of the Reigns of King George
IV. and King William IV. By Charles C.F. Greville.
Bric-a-Brac Series. New York: Scribner, Armstrong & Co.

Books Received.

The Bhagavad Gita. Translated from the Sanskrit by J. Cockburn
Thompson. Chicago: Religio--Philosophical Publishing House. S.S.
Jones.

A Practical and Critical Grammar of the English Language. By Noble
Butler. Louisville, Ky.: J.P. Morton & Co.

The Puddleford Papers; or, Humors of the West. By H.H. Riley. Boston:
Lee & She