Of republications of mark, the first and most important is
the tenth edition of DISRAELI'S Curiosities of Literature ; which Mr. Moxo:e has brought out in a single volume, and in the style of MURRAY'S single-volume edition of BYRON. The success of this work is an answer to criticism. A collection that has lived so long and sold so well must have been done popularly. More learning and judgment might have been displayed ; it would not have been difficult to find a man with less of the spirit of' parti- sanship, or of dogmatism without the power that justifies it ; but half a century says there is much in the book, though some men might have put more, or of a higher quality.
The Useful Knowledge gentlemen are doing a good tiling in republishing, in the " Library of Entertaining Knowledge," several works of real value and original character. A late number of their series commenced Mr. LANE'S Egypt ; the pre- sent begins Mr. DAVIS'S Chinese, or a General Description of the Empire of China and its Inhabitants, a book which combines the results of scholastic research with original observation, and both in an untrodden field and very difficult of access.
To these moderns, Mr. STeveNscst, a bookseller of Cambridge, has added (considerate man I.) The Heart's Ease, or a Remedy against all Troubles, by Bishop P.ATRICIC,—a worthy who was trained in the days of the earlier STUARTS, flourished in those of the later, and died in the reign of the last, Queen ANNE; and who has poured forth many quaint, sound, and pithy reasons for ceasing to grieve, which would be effectual if words could do the work of time, change the nature of things, or alter our own.
Mr. CLARK of Edinburgh is also continuing his useful vocation ; and has sent forth in his student's " Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts'. the Honourable E. EVERETT'S Discourses on the Import. ance of Scientific Knowledge; and begun one of the profoundest critical works even penned, and which, so far as regards thought, may rank next to the Poetics of ARISTOTLE—Sir Joshua Rey- nolds's Discourses. To these be has also added the first volume of a translation of Dr. BILLROTH'S Commentary on the Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians ; an illustrative work, grammatical, critical, and philosophical.
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