because they were so much at variance with the prevailing ideas |
around him, and reopened those fountains of romance which
nature has planted in every generous bosom, but which are so
often closed by the cares, the anxieties, and the rivalry of the
world."-SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON: Hist. of Europe, 1815-1852, i.
(1852) ch. v. See, also, Alison's Essays, Edin., 1850, iii. 521.

"Now, the particular power by which Mr. Tennyson surpasses all recent English poets is precisely that of sustained perfection of style. Others have equalled or excelled him in other respects, but we look in vain among his modern rivals for any who can compete with him in the power of saying beautifully the thing he has to say; and this, not only in single sentences and passages, but for page after page and poem after poen, without flagging and apparently without effort."-Edin. Rev., July, 1859. "Tennyson is endowed precisely in points where Wordsworth wanted. There is no finer ear, nor more command of the keys of language. Colour like the dawn flows over the horizon from his pencil, in waves so rich that we do not miss the central form. Through all his refinements, too, he has reached the public-a certificate of good sense and general power, since he who aspires to be the English poet must be as large as London,-not in the same kind as London, but in his own kind. But he wants a subject, and climbs no mount of vision to bring its secrets to the people. He contents himself with describing the Englishman as he is, and proposes no better. There are all degrees in poetry, and we must be thankful for every beautiful talent. But it is only a first success when the ear is gained. The best office of the best poets has been to show how low and uninspired was their general style, and that only once or twice they have struck the high chord."-RALPH WALDO EMERSON: English

Traits, Lon., 1857, 144-145.

"M. Tennyson excelle dans la peinture des sentiments tendres et délicats; sa sensibilité naturelle se traduit en beaux vers élégiaques, pleins, harmonieux; le caractère religieux et moral de sa poésie a beaucoup contribué à sa popularité. Avec plus d'imagination et de souci de la forme, il continue modestenient l'école méditative des lakistes. On l'a surnommé le plus classique des romantiques anglais."-Dict. Univ. des Contemporains, par G. Vapereau, Paris, 1858, 1649.

Rev. W. R. Alger.) See, also, MoILE, NICHOLAS THIR-
NING; TAYLOR, MRS. TOм; TEMPLE, NEVILLE.

In the (London) Reader of Jan. 31, 1863, we read,
"There is good news in the world of literature. Mr. Tenny.
son's new poems, 'Boadicea' and 'Enoch the Fisherman,' are
complete. The latter is a dramatic subject, worked out in
powerful and even, it is said, harrowing detail."

We are now enabled to supplement the above, as follows: 9. Enoch Arden, and other Poems, Lon., Moxon, 1864, fp. 8vo; last ed., Strahan, 1869, fp. 8vo. It was in 1865 translated into German, (said to be good,) and into French, (said to be bad;) and in 1867 Professor Selwyn published Enoch Arden, Poema Tennysonianum, Latine Redditum, 4to, Moxon. It was dramatized at the Boston Theatre, Jan. 30, 1865. See reviews of Enoch Arden in N. Brit. Rev., Aug. 1864; Westm. Rev., Oct. 1864; Blackw. Mag., Nov. 1864: Macmillan's Mag., 1864; Lon. Reader, 1864, ii. 186, 328, 354, 543, 768; Lon. Quar. Rev., No. ccxxvii., Jan. 1866; (new) Lon. Quar. Rev., No. xlv., art. vi.

10. The Holy Grail, and other Poems, Lon., Strahan, Dec. 15, 1869, fp. 8vo, 40,000 ordered in advance; Bost., Fields, Osgood & Co., Dec. 1869, 16mo, three editions. In same vol. with first, The Idylls of the King, Complete, Lon., Strahan, Jan. 1870, fp. 8vo. Arranged in the order in which the author wishes them to be read, viz.: I. The Coming of Arthur; II. Geraint and Enid; III. Merlin and Vivien; IV. Lancelot and Elaine; V. The Holy Grail; VI. Pelleas and Etarre; VII. Guinevere; VIII. The Passing of Arthur.

"The whole may now be pronounced, we are not afraid to say, a poem unequalled, in its great, finished, and happy design, since the time of Milton. Its brilliancy of execution often fades; its

Like all great and many small poets, Tennyson has wings drop earthward here and there; but in its harmonious and

his host of imitators:

"The great model of most verse-writers in our time is the Laureate. We wrong many of them, however, to use the word model,' for it is incentive enough if they read him and admire his poetry. They sit down forthwith to do something in that style. His muse and his music are alike irresistible. . . . Shakspeare did not tyrannize over the Elizabethans half so much as Tennyson does over the young mind of the present. . . . The art of imitating Tennyson, then, is the fatal facility of our time. No blame can be awarded to the singer for introducing so many mocking-birds. It is something to be grateful for, that his song is so pure, his influence so free from harm. It is something to rejoice over, that he has taken the place of Byron with our verse-writers. It is curious to notice how the imitations rise in the scale of excellence as the Laureate's own works ripen towards perfection."-Lon. Athen., 1861, ii. 241. "Tennyson's diction and melody are in perfect harmony with his imaginative faculty. To describe his command of language by any ordinary terms expressive of fluency or force would be to convey an idea both inadequate and erroneous. It is not only that he knows every word in the language suited to express his every idea: he can select with the ease of magic the word that is of all others the best for his purpose. Nor is it that he can at once summon to his aid the best word the language affords: with an art which Shakspeare never scrupled to apply, though in our day it is apt to be counted mere Germanism and pronounced contrary to the genius of the language, he combines old words into new epithets; he daringly mingles old colours to bring out new tints that never were on sea or shore. His words gleam like pearls and opals, like rubies and emeralds. ... Such a poet cannot soon be popular with the million; but as the last and most exquisite culture of educated minds, as the ultimate sublimation of thought and beauty, as the most refined expression of the most refined civilization that ever dawned upon the world, his works must continue to exercise a mighty influence upon the leading intellects of those nations which lead the world."-BAYNE: Essays in Criticism: First Series.

In addition to the authorities already cited, see Howitt's Homes of English Poets; Illustrious Personages of the Nineteenth Century; Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., v.; George Brimley's Essays; Gilfillan's Lit. Port., Second Ser.; John Sterling's Essays and Tales; Charles Kingsley's Miscellanies; New Spirit of the Age, by R. H. Horne, &c.; Tuckerman's Thoughts on the Poets, and his Characteristics, Second Series, (The Reformer;) Spalding's Hist. of Eng. Lit.; Masson's Brit. Novelists, Lect. I.; Breen's Mod. Eng. Lit., (Plagiarism;) Leigh Hunt, in Griswold's Prose and Poetry of Eng.; Poe's Literati, (Fifty Sugges., xxxv.;) Marsh's Lects. on the Eng. Lang., Lects. VI., XXIV.; a Review of Tennyson's Poems in the Remains of A. H. Hallam: Lon. Athen., 1847, 1003, and 1862, ii. 814; Lon. Gent. Mag., 1851, ii. 628; N. Brit. Rev., Aug. 1853, (Theories of Poetry, &c.;) Blackw. Mag., Mar. 1854, (The Two Arnolds; Alexander Smith's Poems,) and Feb. 1856, (Modern Light Literature-Poetry :) Irish Quar. Rev., No. 5; Oxf. and Camb. Mag., Jan., Feb., and Mar. 1856; Putnam's Mag., July, 1856, 98; Presb. Quar. Rev., Mar. 1858; Lon. Rev., Dec. 1859; Lon. Controversialist, 1861; Lon. Lit. Budget, Oct. 11, 1862, 283; N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1863, 139, (by

fulfilled design, in its fortunate and faultless scheme and arrangement, it has no equal since 'Paradise Lost."-Lon. Times, Jan. 1870.

"Our judgment would be held at fault if we were to assert that The Holy Grail' is in every respect up to the high standard of the Idylls of the King.' Good Homer never nods,-though such weakness has been assigned to him on authority from which one does not assent save deferentially, but he is not always equally exciting."-Lon. Athen., Dec. 1869.

See, also, Lon. Quar. Rev., No. celv., Jan. 1870; and The Legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, Compiled and Arranged by J. T. K., 1861, er. 8vo, 4th ed., 1870; MALORY, SIR THOMAS; WESTWOOD, THOMAS; WRIGHT, THOMAS, No. 58. It is a singular coincidence that just at the time of the publication of Tennyson's Holy Grail the Rev. W. W. Skeat discovered in the Vernon MS. in the Bodleian Library a fragment of 800 lines of an early history, in alliterative verse, of The Holy Grail. It is without beginning or end, but it describes chiefly the wondrous shield prepared by Evalashor Mordreins (Slow-of-Belief) for his descendant Sir Galahad. Its position in the romance is ascertained by reference to Lonelich's translation of Robert of Borron's History of the Holy Grail, edited by J. F. Furnivall, 1861-63, 2 vols. 4to, (Roxburghe Club.) The newly-discovered fragment is to be published by the Early English Text Society.

LATE LONDON EDITIONS OF TENNYSON'S POEMS.

I. Poems, with Illustrations, new ed., Routledge, 1863, sq. 8vo: 1866, sq. 8vo. II. Works, Moxon, 1868, 4 vols. 8vo, (Standard edition.) III. Idylls of the King, new ed., Moxon, 1863, 12mo. IV. Welcome to H.R.H. the Princess Alexandra; Illustrated by Owen Jones, Day, 1863, sm. fol., 218. V. A Selection from the Works of Alfred Tennyson, 8 Parts, 1864, and in 1 vol. 16mo, 1865, (Moxon's Min. Poets, No. 1.) See Lon. Reader, 1865, i. 32. VI. Enoch Arden, Illustrated by Arthur Hughes, Moxon, 1866, fp. 4to. VII. Elaine, with 9 Illustrations by Doré, Moxon, 1866, fol., 21., 63s., 105s. VIII. Vivien, with 9 Illustrations by Doré, Moxon, 1867, fol., 258. Photographs from the designs, 1867, fol., 638. IX. Guinevere, with 9 Illustrations by Doré, Moxon, 1867, fol., 258. X. Vivien and Guinevere, with 18 Illustrations by Doré, Moxon, 1867, fol., 428. Photographs from the designs, 1867, fol., 126s. Photographic Illustrations to Vivien and Guinevere, plates, 78. 6d. ea.; col'd, 12. 6d. ea. XI. Enid, with 9 Illustrations by Doré, 1869, fol., 218. XII. Enid, Vivien, Elaine, and Guinevere, with 37 Illustrations by Doré, 1869, 738. 6d. With French text, by F. Michel, Paris, Hachette, Dec. 1869, £5, or in 4 vols., £1 58. ea. XIII. The Miller's Daughter, Illustrated, Routledge, 1867, imp. 8vo. XIV. Lockesley Hall, Illustrated, 1868, 4to. XV. Poems, Strahan, 1869, fp. 8vo. XVI. In Memoriam, Strahan, 1869, fp. 8vo. XVII. Maud, Strahan, 1869, fp. 8vo. XVIII. The

A new song by Mrs. Alfred Tennyson, the Laureate's wife, entitled The Alma River, was published and set to music by the author in 1864. In 1869 Mr. Tennyson left Terry, Charles. 1. New Zealand: its Advantages Farringford House, in the Isle of Wight, and sought a and Prospects as a British Colony, Lon., 1842, 8vo. 2. new home in the vicinity of Petersfield, Hampshire, one Scenes and Thoughts in Foreign Lands, 1848, fp. 8vo. of the most beautiful of the southern counties of Eng- Terry, Daniel, an eminent actor, b. in Bath, England. land, 1780, d. 1829. The Antiquary; a Drama, 1830. Tennyson, Charles, brother of the preceding, and From Scott's Antiquary. See a biographical notice of

Terry in Cunningham's Biog. Hist. of Eng., viii. 378, | and refer also to Lockhart's Life of Scott.

Terry, Edward, chaplain to Sir Thomas Roe, M.P., (q. v.,) and subsequently for about thirty years Rector of Great Greenford, Middlesex, d. 1660. 1. Voyage to East Indies, and Abode within the rich and most spacious Empire of the Great Mogul, &c., Lon., 1655, 18mo. Hunter, in 1813, £6 15s. 6d. See that it has the map and plates by Vaughan. New ed., 1777, 8vo. It was added to the English translation of The Travels of Sig. Pietro della Vale, 1665, fol., and an abridgment will be found in Purchas's Pilgrimes, Part 2, book ix.

"Our own quaint but delightful old traveller, the Rev. Edward Terry."-Blackw. Mag., xvii. 586.

2. Character of King Charles II., &c., 1660, 4to. He also published a number of sermons and theological treatises. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon., iii. 506. Terry, Miss Ellen F., and Brayton, Miss Mary Clark, of Ohio. Our Acre and its Harvest: Historical Sketches of the Soldier's Aid Society of Northern Ohio, Cin., 1869, 8vo. The general narrative is by Miss Brayton, the stories of Special Relief are by Miss Terry.

"Both ladies have discharged their functions admirably. Their pages are full of the eloquence and pathos of real truth, and no good patriot can read their account with dry eyes."New York Tribune.

Terry, G. W. The Alphabet Annotated, and Hints upon Slip-Slop, Lon., 1853, r. 4to.

Terry, Isaac. Sixteen Sermons, Cant., 1746, 8vo. Terry, John, Rector of Stockton, Wilts, published the following, in opposition to Romanism. 1. Theological Logic; or, The Tryal of Truth, Oxon., 4to, in three parts: i., 1600; ii., 1602; iii., 1625. 2. Serm., John xvii. 17, 1617, 4to. 3. Defence of Protestancy, 2d ed., 1635. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon., ii. 410.

Terry, John Orville, of Orient, Long Island. The Poems of J. O. T., consisting of Song, Satire, and Pastoral Descriptions, &c., N. York, 1850. See Duyckinck's Cyc. of Amer. Lit., ii. 694.

Terry, Rose, a contributor to Harper's Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, Our Young Folks, &c., published a volume of Poems, Bost., Dec. 1860, 16mo.

Terry, Samuel H. The Retailer's Manual: embodying the Conclusions of Thirty Years' Experience in Merchandizing, Newark, (New Jersey,) 1869, cr. 8vo. Terry, T. H. The Dying Christian, Lon., 1869,

12mo.

Teschemacher, J. R. Tables for the Arbitration of Exchanges, &c., Lon., 1802, 1804, 4to.

Teschemacher, James E., d. 1853. 1. Concise Application of the Principles of Structural Botany to Horticulture, Bost., 1840, 16mo. 2. Essay on Guano, 1845, 8vo. 3. Chemical Field Lectures for Agriculturists; from the German of Dr. Julius Stöckhardt; Edited, with Notes, Camb., Mass., 1852, 12mo.

Tesdale, Christopher. Serm., Ps. cxxxii. 6, Lon., 1644, 4to.

Tesh, Edward. Armour of Patience, &c.; from the French, Lon., 1558, 8vo.

Testard. See SEGARD.

Tetlow, Richard John. Historical Account of the Borough of Pontefract, York, Leeds, 1769, Svo. Teulon, T. A. Exposition of the Book of Revelation, Lon., 18mo.

Tew, E. "It is well with the Child," Lon., 1861. Tew, Edward, D.D., Rector of Boldon, Durham. 1. Serm., 1737, 4to. 2. Serm., Newc.-upon-Tyne, 1737, '50, 4to. 3. Serm., 1756, 4to.

Tew, Edward, translated Gray's Elegy into Greek: Bee GRAY, THOMAS, (p. 727;) Pursuits of Lit., Dial. the Third, note 8.

Texeda, Ferd., a native of Spain. 1. Hispanus Conversus, seu Narratio Conversionis suæ in Romana Ecclesia; with an English version, Lon., 1623, 4to. 2. Scrutamini Scripturas, 1624, 4to. 3. Miracles Unmasked, 1625, 4to. See Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 1069.

Texier, Charles, and Pullan, R. Popplewell. Byzantine Architecture: Examples of Edifices erected in the East during the Earliest Ages of Christianity; with Historical and Archæological Descriptions; 70 lithographic plates, some in gold and colours, and many wood-cuts, Lon., 1864, fol., £6 68.

Thacher. See, also, THATCHER. Thacher, James, M.D., b. at Barnstable, Mass., 1754, officiated as Surgeon in the principal battles of the American Revolution, subsequently practised at Plymouth, Mass., and d. there, May 24, 1844. 1. American New Dispensatory, Bost., 1810, 8vo; 2d ed., 1813, Svo;

4th ed., 1821, 8vo. 2. Observations on Hydrophobia,
Plymouth, 1812, 8vo. 3. American Modern Practice,
Bost., 1817, 8vo; 2d ed., 1821; 1826, Svo. 4. American
Orchardist, 1822, 12mo; 2d ed., 1825. 5. Military Jour-
nal during the American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783,
&c., 1823, 8vo; 2d ed., 1827, 8vo; 3d ed., Hartford, 1854.
"A partial work."-Lowndes's Bibl. Man., 1806.
6. Practical Treatise on the Management of Bees,
Bost., 1829, 12mo. 7. American Medical Biography,
&c., 1828, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo, pp. 436, 280. An excellent
work, to which we have been frequently indebted in the
preparation of this Dictionary. It should be accom-
panied by American Medical Biography, by Stephen W.
Williams, M.D., Greenfield, Mass., 1835, 8vo, pp. 664,
(q. v., 565-580, for a notice of Dr. Thacher,) and Lives of
Eminent American Physicians and Surgeons of the Nine-
teenth Century, by Samuel D. Gross, M.D., Phila., 1861,
Svo. 8. Essay on Demonology, Ghosts, Apparitions, and
Popular Superstitions, 1831, 12mo.
Town of Plymouth, 1832, 12mo; 2d ed., 1835, 12mo. 10.
9. History of the
Observations relative to the Execution of Major John
André as a Spy in 1780, Bost., 1834, Svo, pp. 15. See
SARGENT, WINTHROP, No. 5. He also contributed to Mem.
Amer. Acad. Arts and Sci., Collec. Mass. Hist. Soc., N.
Eng. Mag., and to medical periodicals.

Thacher, Rev. Moses. Anti-Masonic Addresses and Letters, Bost., 1829-32: see Cat. Pub. Lib. Boston.

Thacher, Oxenbridge, graduated at Harvard College, 1738, d. 1765, aged 45, being then one of the four Representatives in the General Court for the town of Boston. He published a pamphlet on the Gold Coin, 1760, and the Sentiments of a British American, occasioned by an Act to lay certain Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations, Bost., 1764, 8vo, pp. 16. See Life and Works of John Adams.

Thacher, Peter, b. in Salem, Mass., 1651, graduated at Harvard College, 1671, for several years a tutor there, was ordained pastor of the church in Milton, near Boston, 1681, and retained this connection until his death, Dec. 17, 1727. He published several theological treatises and single sermons, 1708-23. See Sprague's Annals, i., Trin. Congreg., 196–197.

Thacher, Peter, b. in Boston, Mass., 1677; graduated at Harvard College, 1696, and pastor at Weymouth, and subsequently at Boston; d. Feb. 26, 1738. He published several single sermons, &c., 1711-30. See Sprague's Annnals, i., Trin. Congreg., 266–268; Cat. Lib. Mass. Hist. Soc., ii. 475.

Thacher, Peter, b. 1688; graduated at Harvard College, 1706; was ordained pastor of the church at Middleborough, Mass., 1709, and d. there, April 22, 1744. He published an account of the revival of religion in Middleborough, in Prince's Christian History, where is a notice of his life by Mr. Prince.

Thacher, Peter, D.D., son of Oxenbridge Thacher, (supra,) was b. at Milton, Mass., 1752; graduated at Harvard College, 1769; was minister at Malden, Mass., Sept. 19, 1770, until Dec. 8, 1784, and of Brattle Street Church, Boston, Jan. 12, 1785, until his death, at Savannah, Georgia, Dec. 16, 1802. He published many sermons and a number of pamphlets, &c., q. r. in Sprague's Annals, i., Trin. Congreg., 718-723, and Cat. Lib. Mass. Hist. Soc., ii. 475-476. See, also, SULLIVAN, JAMES, LL.D., No. 1; Hist. Mag., June, 1861, 179.

Thacher, Peter Oxenbridge, son of the preceding, was b. at Malden, Mass., 1776; graduated at Harvard College, 1796, and was Judge of the Municipal Court of Boston from 1823 until his death, Feb. 22, 1843. 1. Address before the Members of the Bar of the County of Suffolk, Bost., 1831, 8vo, pp. 40. 2. Charges, 1831-37: see Cat. Lib. Mass. Hist. Soc., ii. 477. 3. Observations on some of the Methods known in the Law of Massachusetts to secure the Selection and Appointment of an Impartial Jury in Cases Civil and Criminal, 1834, 8vo, pp. 23. 4. Reports of Criminal Cases tried in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston before P. 0. Thacher, 1823-1843, Edited by Horatio Woodman, of the Boston Bar, 1845, 8vo. For notices of P. O. Thacher, see WILLIAMS, JOHN MASON, No. 6: Quincy's History of Boston Athenæum, 45; Sidney Willard's Memories of Youth and Manhood.

Thacher, Samuel Cooper, brother of the preceding, was b. at Boston, 1785; graduated at Harvard College, 1804, and became Librarian there, 1808; succeeded Dr. J. T. Kirkland (called to the presidency of Harvard College, 1810) as pastor of the New South (Unitarian) Church, Boston, May 15, 1811, and retained this connec

tion until his death, at Moulins, France, Jan. 2, 1818. | History of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 1. Apology for Rational and Evangelical Christianity; containing his Speeches, Correspondence, &c., 1827, 2 a Discourse, Bost.. 1815, Svo. 2. Unity of God; a vols. 4to, £3 128. Serm., Liverp., 1816, 8vo; 2d Amer. ed., Worces., 1817, "An honest chronicler."-Amer. Quar. Rev. 8vo. 3. Serinons, with a Memoir by Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood, Bost., 1824, 8vo. Reviewed in Chris. Exam., 172. See, also, Lon. Athen., 1859, i. 311. Unfavourably reviewed in Lon. Month. Rev., Oct. 1827, From Lord i. 136. (by G. Ticknor.) 4. Evidence necessary to establish the Doctrine of the Trinity, 1828, 12mo. He pre-repub. in his Essays) we have already quoted, (CHATMacaulay's review (Edin. Rev., Jan. 1834, 508-544, and

8vo, and contributed largely to the Monthly Anthology, &c. See N. Amer. Rev., vii. 106, (by Dr. W. E. Channing,) Ixiv. 181, (by S. Willard:) Quincy's Hist. of Boston Athenæum, 46; Sidney Willard's Memories of Youth and Manhood; T. Parsons's Memoirs of Theophi-Roman Emperors, 1843, 2 vols. 8vo, 218.; red. to 10s. 6d.; lus Parsons, 1859, 342; Sprague's Unitarians, 1865, 435. Thacher, Stephen. Oration at Kennebunk, Bost.,

4. The Irish Sketch-Book, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, Thackeray, Rev. Francis. 1. Defence of the with Numerous Engravings on Wood drawn by the AuClergy of the Church of England, Lon.. 1822, 8vo. See thor, 1843, 2 vols. p. 8vo; N. York, 1844, 8vo; 1847, 8vo; Lon. Quar. Rev., xxix. 524, (by Robert Southey.) 2.2d ed., Lon., 1845, 2 vols. p. 8vo; new ed., Lon., 1857, cr.

8vo; 3d ed., so called, 1860, cr. 8vo; 4th ed., so called, 1863, cr. 8vo; Phila., 1864.

"Mr. Titmarsh, though an honest, is far from an unprejudiced, man."-Lon. Athen., 1843, 457.

"Taken as a whole, the book is capital."-Lon. Spec., 1843. Also favourably reviewed in Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1843, 314, 334, 350.

"Mr. Thackeray's inimitable Sketch-Book. . . The most enlightening book of its class."-J. PARTON: Life of Andrew Jackson, 1860, i., xiv. 34.

5. Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, by way of Lisbon, Athens, Constantinople, and Jerusalem, &c., by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, author of "The Irish Sketch-Book," with Illustrations from Designs by the Author, Lon., Jan. 1846, p. 8vo; 2d ed., Sept. 1846, p. 8vo; N. York, 1846, 12mo; 1854, 12mo; 3d ed., Lon., 1865, p. 8vo.

"It is wonderful what a description of people and things, what numerous pictures, what innumerable reimarks and allusions, it contains."-Douglas Jerrold's Magazine.

Favourably reviewed in Lon. Athen., 1846, 89, 118, (see, also, 879,) and Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1846, 75.

6. Mrs. Perkins's Ball; Depicted in Twenty-three Plates; containing Portraits of the Principal Persons Present, with their Characters, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, (Christmas Book,) Lon., Dec. 12, 1847, fp. 4to, 78. 6d. ; col'd, 108. 6d.; 2d ed., Jan. 1847; 4th ed., 1864, sq. 16mo. See Lon. Athen., 1846, 1290, No. 10.

The works which follow, with the exception of those ascribed to M. A. Titmarsh, were published under Mr. Thackeray's own name.

7. Vanity Fair: Pen and Pencil Sketches of English Society, with Illustrations on Steel and Wood by the Author, Svo, in monthly parts: i., Jan. 1, 1847, xx.-xxi., July 1, 1848: together, Vanity Fair; a Novel without a Hero, in 1 vol. 8vo, July 19, 1848; N. York, 1848, 8vo; Leipzig, 1848, 12mo; again, 3 vols.; without illustrations, Lon., 1853, cr. 8vo; 1854, cr. 8vo; 1856, cr. 8vo; 1865, cr. Svo; N. York, 1865, 3 vols. p. 8vo; Cambridge, Mass., 1865, 3 vols. cr. 8vo.

"Immeasurably superior, in our opinion, to every other known production of his pen."-Edin. Rev., Jan. 1848, (87,) art. ii., (same in Liv. Age, xvi. 271.)

"By far the best, the fullest of natural and amusing incident,

and of characters with bold and firm outlines and fine and consistent details. . . . One of the most remarkable books of this age, a book which is as sure of immortality as ninety-nine hundredths of modern novels are sure of annihilation."-Edin. Rev., Jan. 1854, (99,) art, vi.

"One of the most amusing, but also one of the most distressing, books we have read for many a long year. We almost long for a little exaggeration and improbability to relieve us of that sense of dread truthfulness which weighs down our hearts, not for the Amelias and Georges of the story, but for poor kindred human nature."-Lon. Quar. Rev., Dec. 1818, (84,) art. v., (same in Liv. Age, xx. 497.)

"Mr. Thackeray's pathos has an effect that is really refreshing. It reminds one of the exquisite touches which occur in Fielding's Amelia."-Lon. Times, 1848.

See, also, Fraser's Mag., xxxviii. 320; Lon. Athen., 1847, 785; 1848, 794, 1099; Liv. Age, xviii. 412, (from Lon. Spec.;) Amer. Whig Rev., viii. 421, (by C. A. Bristed:) Dem. Rev., xxiii. 377; Knick. Mag., xxxii. 259; E. P. Whipple's Essays and Rev., ii. 406.

8. "Our Street," by M. A. Titmarsh; with Sixteen Plates by the Author, (Christmas Book,) Lon., Dec. 20, 1847, sq. 8vo, 58.; col'd, 78. 6d.; 1864, sq. 16mo, 38. See No. 10.

"In most respects a more enticing book than Mrs. Perkins's Ball."-Lon. Athen., 1848, 37.

"Full of life and reality."-Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1848, 12mo. 9. The Book of Snobs, (for the first time collected, from Punch, with upwards of sixty illustrations by the author,) Jan. 1848, sm. 8vo; N. York, 1852, 16mo; with No. 11, in 1 vol., Leipzig.

10. Dr. Birch and his Young Friends, by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, with Sixteen Illustrations by the Author, (Christmas Book,) Lon., Dec. 19. 1848, sm. 4to, 58.; col'd, 78. 6d.; N. York, 1853, 16mo; Lon., 1864, sq. 16mo, 38. See Lon. Athen., 1848, 1322; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1848, 835.

New editions of Nos. 6, 8, and 10 were published together in 1 vol., sq. 12mo, Dec. 1856, 78. 6d., in 1862, 78. 6d., and in 1864, 88.

11. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, (with illustrations by the author,) N. York, 1848, 8vo; Lon., 1849, sq. 16mo. See No. 9. Repub. from Fraser's Magazine. See Fraser's Mag., xxiv. 324, 389; Lon. Athen., 1849, 137; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1849, 190.

12. The History of Pendennis; his Fortunes and his Misfortunes, his Friends and his Greatest Enemy, with Illustrations by the Author, 8vo, in monthly Parts: i.,

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Nov. 1848-xxiv., 1850: together, (vol. i., Dec. 31, 1849, 8vo;) 2d ed., 1850, 2 vols. 8vo; N. York, 1850, 2 vols. 8vo; Leipzig, 3 vols.; without illustrations, Lon., Nov. 1855, cr. 8vo; N. York, 1867, diamond ed., (Doolady ;) 1867, 12mo, (Harpers.)

"Though Pendennis is full of true, brilliant, deep things,though it contains many passages of clear and wholesome English, such as must rejoice all who are weary of the spasmodic and superb style of narration,-it cannot be described as an advance on Vanity Fair."-Lon. Athen., 1850, 1273, (same in Liv. Age, xliii. 594.) See, also, 1848, 1099.

"Pendennis has generally been thonght inferior to Vanity Fair, and we are not inclined to dispute the verdict of the pub lic."-Edin. Rev., Jan. 1854, (q. v., art. vi.)

xxi. 364;) Fraser's Mag., xliii. 75: Lon. Times, (by S. See, also, N. Brit. Rev., xiii. 180, (same in Eclec. Mag., Phillips;) Amer. Whig Rev., xiii. 395.

13. Rebecca and Rowena: a Romance upon Romance, &c., by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, with Illustrations by Richard Doyle, (Christinas Book,) Lon., Dec. 20, 1849, sm. 4to, 58.; col'd, 78. 6d.; again, 1856. A mock continuation of Scott's Ivanhoe. See Lon. Athen., 1849, 1329.

14. The Kickleburys on the Rhine; a New PictureBook, Drawn and Written by Mr. M. A. Titmarsh, with fifteen plates, (Christmas Book,) Dec. 21, 1850, sm. 4to, 58.; coloured, 78. 6d.; Leipzig, 1 vol.; Lon., 1866, sq. 16mo, 58.; col'd, 78. 6d. See Lon. Athen., 1850, 1340; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1850, 961. 2d ed., with a Preface entitled An Essay on Thunder and Small Beer, Jan. 11, 1851. The Essay (see Lon. Athen., 1851, 47, and Liv. Age, xxviii. 473) was provoked by the strictures of the London Times on the first edition. New ed., 1856.

15. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of her Majesty Queen Anne; Written by Himself, Lon., Oct. 1852, 3 vols. er. 8vo; N. York, 1852, 8vo; Leipzig, 1852, 2 vols. 18mo; 2d ed., Lon., Dec. 18, 1852, (dated 1853.) 3 vols. cr. 8vo; 1855, 3 vols. cr. 8vo; 1857, cr. 8vo; in French, by A. F. L. De Wailly.

"Esmond is a reproduction of the manners, feelings, thonghts, and even style which prevailed from one hundred and eighty to one hundred and forty years ago. It is a wonderful tour de force. . . . We cannot, however, avoid thinking that this merit has been purchased too dearly. The reader feels always that he is listening to falsetto tones; that he is looking at the imitation of an imitation. If Esmond had been confined within as short limits, it might have taken rank with the Defence of Natural Society. But a parody three volumes long becomes tiresome." -Edin. Rev., Jan. 1854, (xcix.,) art. vi.

"There is a higher literary power and kindlier and truer humanity in this work than in any of its author's former productions."-Fraser's Mag., 1852.

"I have read, enjoyed, been interested, and, after all, feel as much ire and sorrow as gratitude and admiration. And still one can never lay down a book of his without the last two feelings having their part, be the subject or treatment what it may."-CHARLOTTE BRONTE: Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronté, (q. v.)

"Esmond will, we think, rank higher as a work of art than either Vanity Fair or Pendennis; because the characters are of a higher type and drawn with greater finish, and the book is more of a complete whole: not that we anticipate for it any thing like the popularity of the former of these two books, as it is altogether of a graver cast, the satire is not so pungent, the canvas is far less crowded, and the subject is distant and unfamiliar; and, may be, its excellences will not help it to a very large public."-GEORGE BRIMLEY: Essays.

See, also, Lon. Athen., 1852, 1199, 1401; Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1852, 823.

16. The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century; a Series of Lectures delivered in England, [1851,] Scotland, and the United States of America, Lon., June 11, 1853, cr. 8vo; 2d ed., June, 1853, er. 8vo; Leipzig, 1 vol.; N. York, (with a Seventh Lecture-On Charity and Humour,) 1853, 12mo; 1858, 12mo; new ed., Lon., 1858, cr. 8vo; with No. 22, N. York, 1867, 12mo. First delivered in Willis's Rooms, London, May 21, 1851 et seq.: see Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1851, 379, 412, 426, 444, 468; 282, (from Lon. Spec., Lon. Exam., Lon, Times, &c.) Lon. Athen., 1851, 551; Liv. Age, xxx. 11, 135, 237,

Models of writing, if not of biography. . . . There is no man of taste who will not recognize in these sketches a master's touch, the work of a true humourist, and of a man accomplished in his art."-Westm. Rev., July, 1853, (lx. :) Contemp. Lit. of Eng. See, also, April, 1853, Oct. 1860.

"Mr. Thackeray in his English Humourists resembles little Mr. Thackeray as a satirist. He is as indulgent to his real as he is severe towards his imaginary characters.... The best of the lectures is, we think, that on Fielding."-Edin. Rev., Jan. 1854, (xcix.,) art. vi.

difference, without looking forward to the announcement of "None will read these lectures, whether in agreement or in

some future series from their shrewd and suggestive discourser." Lon. Athen., 1853, 764.

See, also, 732, 1862, ii. 739; Brit. Quar. Rev., Oct. 1854, (same in Liv. Age, xlv. 303,) by David Masson,