Author of 'Adam Bede,' 'The Mill on the Floss,' Scenes of Clerical Life,' and 'Silas Marner." Morning Post. In this It is in its completed form that the reader recognizes the full beauty of "Romola." work the reader will recognise all those qualities which have commanded fame for its author. a poem, it is an essay, it is a grand faithful picture, each by turns, and through all it is a story of human love and anguish. There is a singular absence of passion in this work, and the reader feels that it is all the more true for that absence; for the two souls with which it deals were, the one too grand, the other too mean for passion; and in her delineation of these, and their eternal contrast, never forced yet ever sustained, there is skill attainable only by genius of such a scope and order.' Saturday Review The No reader of "Romola" will lay it down without admiration, and few without regret. conception of the character of Savonarola which is here given, is profound, subtle, and probably true. It would be difficult to convey more vividly the strange union of deception and noble truthfulness which was prominent in him.... The authoress makes us feel that we are in the hands of a thinker who has thought far down into the depths of the religious mind, and who has seriously and anxiously desired to ascertain what is the place of religious thought in the facts of life.' Spectator. A work which is likely to be permanently identified with English literature, in which England and Italy may feel a common pride. .... It will never be George Eliot's most popular book; it seems to us, however, much the greatest she has yet produced.' Athenæum. Those who have read "Romola" in its monthly course, should begin the story afresh, now that it is complete, and appears in a connected form; otherwise they may be unable to recognize the many rare merits and beauties which it contains. Those who do not seek the mere amusement of an exciting story will find noble things in "Romola "--eloquent and beautiful pages-subtle utterances and lovely thoughts.' Reader. "We must pronounce "Romola' to be a performance of which no other woman of genius among us would have been capable than precisely George Eliot.' Westminster Review. 'We do not hesitate to say that it is its author's greatest work.' National Review. The most powerful of George Eliot's novels since" Adam Bede," and the best historical novel since the best of Sir Walter Scott's. THE SECOND EDITION. Now Ready. With Two Illustrations. Post 8vo. STORY OF ELIZABETH. Fraser's Magazine. "The Story of Elizabeth" affords this season an almost solitary instance of a simple, touching, life-like tale, which possesses interest without any physical horrors, and amusement without the aid of melodrama. Take it all in all, "Elizabeth is the lightest, brightest, cleverest little book that has beet 'published for a long time. Blackwood's Magazine. A story unique among the novels of the day; a fresh bouquet all dewed and thorned with real prickle But if there are thors, upon the rose-stalks, and great blobs of morning tears upon the leaves.. there is fragrance, and promise not to be mistaken; and so vivid a picture of a girl's heart, made by the fittest of all painters, an artist on the spot and behind the scenes, has an interest still greater than that of a story, to all who may be concerned in the caprices or peculiarities of that generally interesting species of humanity.' Reader. The whole book breathes a new atmosphere; and even critics disposed to censure some details, must find it impossible not to admire and enjoy the grace and freshness of the whole sketch. The Author of "The Story of Elizabeth" is a genuine inventor. Other writers may have pictured to themselves the results of a mother's jealousy, but no other writer has made a graceful and charming tale flow from the lie of a jealous mother.' Spectator. The English, no less than the substance of this little tale, indicates real genius. It is not only fresh and bright, but, what is not common in combination with a fresh, sparkling style, it is rich and mellow, and reminds us of Mr. Tennyson's happy description of the old vintage. It is rare, indeed, to find a style which is steeped in the colours of many literary generations, and yet so full of vivacity and youth as this.” SMITH, ELDER, AND CO., 65, CORNHILL. 1863.] QUARTERLY LITERARY ADVERTISER. 53 MESSRS. 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THE ANCIENT KINGDOMS OF THE EAST. Now ready (to be Completed in 3 Vols.), with Maps and 230 Illustrations, THE FIVE GREAT MONARCHIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD; Vol. 1.-CHALDEA, ASSYRIA. 8vo. 16s. Now ready. BY REV. GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A., it, Professor Rawlinson has availed himself of every accessible source of information, and of all the assistance derivable from the advance of critical and archæological science. We read accordingly in this volume the history of Chaldæa and Assyria written afresh. Their monuments are no longer dumb, their language has be come once more intelligible.'-British Quarterly Review. This carefully written and beauti- | is unnecessary to say that, in producing fully illustrated work here follows up the course so successfully pursued by the author in his Bampton Lectures and his translation of Herodotus, in showing the exact coherence and harmony between profane history and that of the Bible, of which he is a devout vindicator. 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This volume is devoted to the Monarchies Chaldæa and Assyria, and it 'As the expert geologist has found in the successive strata of our globe the records of its early revolutions, and the relics of its primeval tenants, so the adventurous traveller and persevering antiquary have exhumed from beneath entombing mounds instructive wrecks of forgotten cities, deciphered their inscriptions, and learned the vicissitudes, manners, and characteristics of the peoples who inhabited them. It is time to arrange the views of the past which we have thus obtained. This useful task has been undertaken by the author of the volume before us, who proposes, by uniting our previous knowledge with information derived from modern dis[Continued 1863.] QUARTERLY LITERARY ADVERTISER. 55 THE FIVE GREAT MONARCHIES-continued. coveries, to take in two more volumes a complete survey of the five great eras in Asiatic antiquity, the Chaldæan, the Assyrian, Babylonian, Median, and Persian. Excavations have laid open memorials of the ancient Chaldæans, similar to those by which Nineveh has illustrated the period of Assyrian greatness. They have furnished the author with materials which he has applied to describe the manners of the people, their mode of life, their arts, their science, their religion, and their history. He has derived from them many curious and interesting details.'-Morning Post. "Mr. Rawlinson has not failed to produce a work of great and special value, in which his abilities and attainments, exercised in a domain which he and his distinguished brother have made peculiarly their own, have been turned to excellent account. The learned Professor has laboured patiently, exhaustively, conscientiously. His subject grows in interest, and the materials in abundance. The work is full of interest, and will go far to raise another bulwark to the faith, on the sure basis of laborious research and conscientious argument.'-Record. In Mr. Rawlinson's volume we have an orderly and coherent arrangement of whatever is known, or supposed to be known, of the language, writing, art, science, religion, history, people, cli 'Professor Rawlinson's volume is enriched with a very large number of woodcuts, the largest proportion of which are due to his own indefatigable pencil. We cannot speak too highly of these drawings. Not only are they most valuable as an illustration of his text, but we say, from long observation, that they are the most faithful representations of the original sculptures which we have seen. Professor Rawlinson's work is a most valuable contribution to the history of Western Asia.' - Reader. The first volume of what promises to be a very valuable work, as conveying to the general reader, in a comparatively brief compass, the chief results of the important researches recently made in various Eastern lands.'-Home and Foreign Review. 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