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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England. Collected and edited by James Spedding, M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge; Robert Leslie Ellis, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; and Douglas Denon Heath, Barrister-at-Law, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Vol. II. Boston. Brown & Taggard. 12mo. pp. 503. $1.50.
XI. and XII. Boston: Brown & Taggard. 1860. We have already spoken of the peculiar merits which make the edition of Messrs. Heath and Spedding by far the best that exists of Lord Bacon's Works. It only remains to say, that the American reprint has not only the advantage of some additional notes contributed by Mr.
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The distinguished name of Saffi is travestied by being misprinted Gaffi, and there are other blunders of the same sort, in which the Riverside Press has but too faithfully followed the English edition. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. Boston: Brown and Taggard. 1860. Carlyle's Essays need at the present day no introduction or commendation to American readers.
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