In Demy 8vo, Pica Type, Extra Cloth Boards. EDITED BY REV. G. GILFILLAN. Now ready, Vols. 1 & 2. Milton's Poetical Works. 3. Thomson's Poetical Works. And on 1st Oct. will be published Herbert's Poetical Works. FORMING THE YEARLY ISSUE TO SUBSCRIBERS OF SIX VOLUMES FOR ONE GUINEA. Prospectuses containing full details of the Scheme may be obtained from most Booksellers, or from the Publisher, on application. Non-Subscribers can obtain the Volumes separately at 4s. 6d. each. Subscribers' Names received by all Booksellers for the Yearly Issue of Six Vols. for £1, 1s. The Publisher has pleasure in submitting the following Extracts from Notices which have appeared of the Vols. already issued. LEEDS INTELLIGENCER. It is a noble and handsome volume, and is published, by subscription, at a remarkably low price. The whole series will form a national poetical library of great beauty and worth. PLYMOUTH JOURNAL. We are presented with an "estimate" of the genius of Milton, at once concise and comprehensive, clear, vigorous, and just. Did Mr Gilfillan's fame rest upon this essay alone, it would unquestionably entitle him to a place amongst our best critics. EDINBURGH ADVERTISER. When we say, in conclusion, that six of these volumes are to be delivered to the subscribers every year for no higher price than one guinea, we think we have said more of this work than could be said of any other with which we are acquainted. BATH CHRONICLE. The work deserves a place in every library; and, in saying this, we speak not of the text, but of the fine taste with which it is edited, and the beauty of the edition. PEEBLES-SHIRE ADVERTISER. We hail this edition as likely to supply a long-felt desideratum. The well-known literary abilities of the editor are sufficient guarantee for the accuracy and care with which the volumes will be produced. In fine, we recommend all who are anxious to possess a good library edition of the Poets, to subscribe for this edition, as at once elegant and remarkably cheap. BATH AND CHELTENHAM GAZETTE. The "Life" is elegantly and carefully written. We quite agree with the opinion quoted in the prospectus, that the undertaking is " distinguished by novelty and largeness of design, and by liberality of terms," and therefore needs but publicity to insure success. FIFE HERALD. This is the beginning of an enterprise to give a complete, uniform, and splendid, yet low-priced, edition of our English poets. . The first volume has appeared; and certainly both publisher and editor have done their respective parts admirably. WARWICK ADVERTISER. The two volumes before us are the first issue of the series; and from their combined elegance and cheapness, together with the editorial care bestowed upon the text, they certainly justify the publisher in anticipating a sale of no ordinary magnitude. ABERDEEN JOURNAL. The life of Milton in the present volume is a vigorously-written narrative, mixed with short critical digressions and literary illustrations, that make it very pleasant and instructive reading. BATH HERALD. This work is the commencement of an undertaking which, for novelty and liberality of design, is perhaps unprecedented in the annals of literary enterprise. 2 PERTHSHIRE COURIER. We never lifted our pen to recommend any publication with more pleasure than this reprint of the British poets. ... We hope to hear that all ages, as well as every class of society, will appreciate a publication which we again say we have much pleasure in commending to all, as we are sure we can do so with much safety. NEWCASTLE CHRONICLE. The Publisher will have the honour, if the project is successfully consummated in the style in which it has been begun, of having published decidedly the best of all the series it is now the fashion to call "Libraries." SCOTTISH PRESS. Gilfillan possesses many of the qualifications which go to form the literary, and especially the poetical, critic and commentator;-an intense admiration of the grand and the good-a fine sense of character as shewn in writing or in action-and an ideal system of literary composition which only needs realisation by himself and others to elevate the standard of public taste. His Life of Milton, prefixed to the present volume, is, with perhaps an exceptional phrase or two, admirable; much of it is eloquent, and all of it seems just. LIVERPOOL TIMES. The scheme is good, and so liberal, too, that one wonders, even in this day of cheap books and literature, how volumes of such handsome character can be produced for a sum so low. Really, it is a boon which, we hope, and indeed feel assured, will be largely appreciated. EDINBURGH GUARDIAN. The publisher is deserving of the highest praise for the enterprise and good taste manifested, and, so far as can be judged from the first volume, the editor also is entitled to considerable credit for the manner in which he has performed his share of the work, and more particularly for the improvements in the punctuation. NORFOLK NEWS. We have looked for its appearance with considerable interest, and justice compels us to say that Mr Nichol has honourably fulfilled his pledge to the public, and produced a marvel of beauty and cheapness in this age of low-priced literature. DUMFRIES STANDARD. The editor has performed his part well-the biographical sketch of Milton is in his best vein. The foot-notes are excellent, and are a great help in many places to a proper understanding of the text. We trust Mr Nichol will be so encouraged that he may be enabled to present the public with the only satisfactory edition of the "Popular Poets and Poetry of Britain." Such a thing has never existed. CUMBERLAND PACQUET. When we add the fact, that the mechanical department of the publication is conducted with all the attention, not only to usefulness but even to elegance, which the appliances of the age enable the publisher to bestow upon it, and that the volumes are offered at a price almost unprecedentedly low even in the present day, it will be obvious that the spirited projectors are entitled to demand, at the hands of the reading public, that very extensive patronage which alone can render their scheme commercially remunerative. GREENOCK ADVERTISER. The plan is in itself so excellent and spirited, and the volume before us so admirable a specimen of the style and execution of the work, that we cannot doubt that the reading public will eagerly do what they have in their power to promote the complete prosperity of the publisher's exceedingly liberal enterprise. CHELTENHAM EXAMINER. Every admirer of true poetry, and every advocate of cheap literature, must look with approval upon an attempt thus to familiarise the great mass of the English people with the writings of these immortal authors. REFORMER'S GAZETTE. We have been favoured with the first volume of a new edition of the British Poets, which is now in course of being published by Mr Nichol of Edinburgh, and which, if we may judge from the present specimen, will constitute the best and cheapest edition of that portion of our literature ever given to the public. KELSO CHRONICLE. So far as we can remember, there has been nothing equal in its general features to the series of volumes which Mr Nichol proposes to lay before the readers of the English classics, and which has been so worthily begun with the poetry of John Milton. EDINBURGH: J. NICHOL. LONDON: J. NISBET AND CO. DUBLIN: W. ROBERTSON. |
