From: The Dial, Vol. II No. IV (April 1842)
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Published: E. P. Peabody 1842 Boston
THE year 1841 has been distinguished, with us, above any of its predecessors, by the republication of valuable works, both ancient and modern. Not only are the latest and poorest bubbles blown in the old world re-blown in the new, but the heavy tomes, over which Wisdom has grown pale, and the iron hand of Diligence become weary in the composition, are also presented to us. Not many years ago, if we remember rightly, a bookseller asked the aid of the legislature of his State to enable him to issue Mather’s Magnalia, not daring to trust two octavos alone.
Among the valuable works, we would name The Works of Lord Bolingbroke, 4 vols. 8vo., The Letters of Horace Walpole, 4 vols. 8vo., Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons, 2 vols. 8vo., Lingard’s History of the Anglo-Saxon Church, 1 vol. 8vo., The Speeches of Lord Brougham, 2 vols. 8vo., and the complete Works of Lord Bacon, in 3 vols. royal 8vo. In these volumes, we have all the works of Lord Bacon, arranged after the manner of Basil Montague’s edition, accompanied with his life of that philosopher, and furnished with an index more convenient than that in the English edition. Here we have the substance of seventeen English octavo volumes, for about a fifth part of the cost of the original edition, and in a very readable form. We love to see elegant books, but not the less those of a plainer sort, which can find their way to a farmer’s fireside. We learn that another edition of Bacon is in course of publication amongst us in numbers, designed for still wider circulation. At some future period, we hope to return to Mr. Montague’s edition of Bacon, and consider the merit and influence of the Baconian method in philosophy.
Some other books we would notice more particularly.
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