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%Queen Elizabeth.%
Full of instructive and heart-stirring incident, displayed by the hand of
a master. We doubt whether old Queen Bess ever before had so much justice
done to her within the same compass. Such a pen as Jacob Abbott wields,
especially in this department of literature, has no right to lie
still--_Albany Express_.
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%Charles the First.%
We incline to think that there never was before so much said about this
unfortunate monarch in so short a space; so much to the purpose; with so
much impartiality; and in such a style as just suits those for whom it is
designed--the "two millions" of young persons in the United States, who
ought to be supplied with such works as these. The engravings
represent the prominent persons and places of the history, and are well
executed. The portrait of John Hampden is charming. The antique title-page
is rich.--_Southern Christian Advocate._
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%Hannibal the Carthaginian.%
A new volume of the series projected by the skillful book-manufacturer,
Mr. Abbott, who displays no little tact in engaging the attention of that
marvellous body "the reading public" in old scholastic topics hitherto
almost exclusively the property of the learned. The latter, with their
ingenious implements of lexicons and scholia, will be in no danger of being
superseded, however, while the least-furnished reader may gain something
from the attractively-printed and easily-perused volumes of Mr.
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