“Mr. Editor:—­I wish, without any idea of puffing, to say a word or two upon the ‘Library of English Poets’ that is now published at Philadelphia, by Lippincott, Grambo & Co.  It is certainly, taking into consideration the elegant manner in which it is printed, and the reasonable price at which it is afforded to purchasers, the best edition of the modern British Poets that has ever been published in this country.  Each volume is an octavo of about 500 pages, double columns, stereotyped, and accompanied with fine engravings and biographical sketches; and most of them are reprinted from Galignani’s French edition.  As to its value, we need only mention that it contains the entire works of Montgomery, Gray, Beattie, Collins, Byron, Cowper, Thomson, Milton, Young, Rogers, Campbell, Lamb, Hemans, Heber, Kirke White, Crabbe, the Miscellaneous Works of Goldsmith, and other masters of the lyre.  The publishers are doing a great service by their publication, and their volumes are almost in as great demand as the fashionable novels of the day; and they deserve to be so:  for they are certainly printed in a style superior to that in which we have before had the works of the English Poets.”

No library can be considered complete without a copy of the above beautiful and cheap editions of the English Poets; and persons ordering all or any of them, will please say Lippincott, Grambo & Co.’s illustrated editions.

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  As nightingales do upon glow-worms feed,
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  Of Nature and of Beauty.

  Bailey’s Festus.

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The publishers extract, from the many highly complimentary notices of the above valuable and beautiful work, the following: 

“We have at last a volume of Poetical Quotations worthy of the name.  It contains nearly six hundred octavo pages, carefully and tastefully selected from all the home and foreign authors of celebrity.  It is invaluable to a writer, while to the ordinary reader it presents every subject at a glance.—­Godey’s Lady’s Book.

“The plan or idea of Mrs. Hale’s work is felicitous.  It is one for which her fine taste, her orderly habits of mind, and her long occupation with literature, has given her peculiar facilities; and thoroughly has she accomplished her task in the work before us.”—­Sartain’s Magazine.

“It is a choice collection of poetical extracts from every English and American author worth perusing, from the days of Chaucer to the present time.”—­Washington Union.