WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE JESUITS IN ENGLAND. THE NOVIȚIATE: Or, A YEAR AMONG THE ENGLISH JESUITS: a Personal Narrative. "This is a remarkable book—a revealer of secrets, and full of materials for thought. It is written with every appearance of strict and honourable truthfulness. It describes, with a welcome minuteness, the daily, nightly, hourly occupations of the Jesuit Novitiates at Stonyhurst, their religious exercises and manners, in private and together; and depicts, with considerable acuteness and power, the conflicts of an intelligent, susceptible, honest-purposed spirit, while passing through such a process. If our readers should be disposed to possess themselves of this volume, it will be their own fault if the reading of it be profitless."-British Quarterly Review "This is as singular a book of its kind as has appeared since Blanco White's Letters of Doblado,' with the advantage of dealing with the Jesuits in England instead of Popery in Spain. It will be found a very curious work."-Spectator. * * * ... "If it be desirable to know what is that mode of training by which the Jesuit system prepares its novices for their duties, this is the book to inform us, for it is a chronicle of actual experience. . . . The work of Mr. Steinmetz is throughout marked by great fairness, . . . he neither conceals nor exaggerates: a spirit of candour pervades the whole narrative. .. Could we know the experience of other novices, we should find that all have undergone, with more or less of intensity, the process so vividly described in this volume. It is written in an extremely animated style. The author's thoughts are original, and the passages relating to his personal history and feelings are agreeably introduced, and add to the interest of his narrative. It is a sufficient proof of his accuracy that, though the Jesuits have many pens in this country, not one has been hardy enough to impugn a sentence of his statements.”—Britannia. "Mr. Steinmetz writes a most singular and interesting account of the Jesuit seminary, and his way of life there. He seems to be a perfectly honest and credible informer, and his testimony may serve to enlighten many a young devotional aspirant who is meditating 'submission' to Rome, and the chain and scourge systems. There is nothing in the least resembling invective in the volume."-Morning Chronicle "At a time when Jesuitism seems to be rising once more, any work on this subject comes very opportunely. How the writer became a member of this mysterious body gives a key to the character of the man himself and the spirit of his book. This narrative is well written, and as interesting as we expected."-Weekly Chronicle. "An unvarnished account of the Jesuits' College at Stonyhurst, its discipline and routine of observances and customs,--of these we have the most minute details, and the whole is a faithful picture of a remarkable condition of life. From this curious book you may form some idea of the Jesuits and their course of proceeding.”—Literary Gazette. "This is a curious volume, of no little interest and eloquence, written by a scholar and an enthusiast."-Atlas. "There is internal evidence that this is a genuine narrative, and a very singular one it is; full of very curious and striking matter. The Essay on the Constitutions, Confessional Morality, and History of the Jesuits,' will amply reward the task of perusal."-Globe. "The work has all the interest of a romance, and yet we do not believe that any portion of it is fictitious. The author writes well, and evinces a strong and disciplined mind. The picture he draws of Jesuitism is a fearful one. The reader will find abundant matter for grave consideration in this most singular and striking volume."-John Bull. "A more remarkable work it has seldom been our fortune to peruse. We hear and read much of the Quietism and Passive obedience inculcated amongst the Jesuit body; but here we become personal spectators of these principles in action. Mr. Steinmetz appears to be a most remarkable character. He may be received as an unbiassed witness. We repeat it, Mr. Steinmetz's book is most valuable; earnest and truthful in its tone, and extremely interesting in its detail."-New Quarterly Review. "The volume presents a true and valuable picture of Jesuit education in England, and on that ground every Protestant will find the volume worthy of an attentive perusal."-British Churchman. 豬 SMITH, ELDER AND CO., CORNHILL. 5 FIRST SERIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES. TALES OF THE COLONIES; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF AN EMIGRANT. By CHARLES ROWCROFT, Esq., a late Colonial Magistrate. The Fourth Edition. In foolscap 8vo., price 6s. cloth.-This work was originally published in 3 vols. post 8vo. at 17. 11s. 6d., in which size two large editions have been sold. "Tales of the Colonics' is an able and interesting book. The author has the first great requisite in fiction-a knowledge of the life he undertakes to describe; and his matter is solid and real."-Spectator. "This is a book, as distinguished from one of the bundles of waste paper in three divisions, calling themselves 'novels.'"-Athenæum. "The narration has a deep and exciting interest. No mere romance, no mere fiction, however skilfully imagined or powerfully executed, can surpass it. The work to which it bears the nearest similitude is Robinson Crusoe, and it is scarcely, if at all inferior to that extraordinary history."-John Bull. "Since the time of Robinson Crusoe, literature has produced nothing like these Tales of the Colonies.' "-Metropolitan Magazine. marvellous. Romantic literature does not supply instances of wonderful escape more The book is manifestly a mixture of fact and fiction, yet it gives, we have every reason to believe, a true picture of a settler's life in that country; and is thickly interspersed with genuine and useful information." Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. "The contents of the first volume surpass in interest many of the novels of Sir Walter Scott."-Westminster Review. "An exceedingly lively and interesting narrative, which affords a more striking view of the habits of emigrant colonial life than all the regular treatises, statistical returns, and even exploratory tours which we have read. It combines the fidelity of truth with the spirit of a romance, and has altogether so much of De Foe in its character and composition, that whilst we run we learn, and, led along by the variety of the incidents, become real ideal settlers in Van Diemen's Land."-Literary Gazette. SECOND SERIES OF TALES OF THE COLONIES. THE BUSHRANGER OF VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. By C. RowCROFT, Esq., Author of "Tales of the Colonies." In 3 vols. post 8vo. price 17. 11s. 6d. "These volumes have the same qualities that gained so much popularity for the Author's previous work 'Tales of the Colonies.' No one has depicted colonial life, as manifested in the settlements of Australia, with so much vigour and truth as Mr. Rowcroft. He rather seems to be a narrator of actual occurrences than an inventor of imaginary ones. His characters, his manners, and his scenes are all real. He has been compared to De Foe, and the comparison is just."-Britannia. "These volumes form a second series of Tales of the Colonies,' and the pages are marked by the same vigorous and graphic pen which procured such celebrity for the first series. The interest, generally well sustained throughout, is occasionally of the most absorbing and thrilling kind. Altogether, there is a freshness about these volumes which brings them out in strong contrast to the vapid productions with which the press is teeming."-Globe. "The story contains all the merits of the Tales of the Colonies' as regards style; being simple and Crusoite, if we might use the term, in its narrative. Mr. Rowcroft possesses invention to an extraordinary degree, in the manner in which he manages the escapes of the bushranger,-and he produces, by the simplest incidents, most interesting scenes ;-pictures of nature and of a society totally different from anything to be found elsewhere."-Weekly Chronicle. FANNY THE LITTLE MILLINER; OR, THE RICH AND THE POOR. By CHARLES ROWCROFT, Esq. In one vol. 8vo., handsomely bound in cloth gilt, with Plates, price 148.-The twelve parts may be had separately, price 1s. each, sewed. 6 WORKS PUBLISHED BY MR. JAMES'S RECENT NOVELS. THE STEP-MOTHER. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq. In 3 vols. post 8vo., price 17. 11s. 6d.―Just published. Lately published by the same Author, ARRAH NEIL; OR, TIMES OF OLD. Three vols. post 8vo., price 17. 11s. 6d. THE SMUGGLER, a Novel. Three vols., price 17. 11s. 6d. NEW & ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF MR. JAMES'S WORKS. Now publishing in Quarterly Volumes, medium 8vo. cloth, with engraved This handsome series of Mr. James's Works has been carefully revised by the Author; and is "got up in that superior style, and agreeable size of type, which renders it fit for every age and every library.” Vol. 9, containing DARNLEY; or, THE FIELD OF CLOTH OF GOLD, on the 1st of July. Vol. 10, containing CORSE DE LEON, on the 1st of October. "Messrs. Smith, Elder and Co., of Cornhill, have just published the first volume of a New Edition of the Works of this gentleman, which has the advantage of the latest revisions and corrections of the author. The writings of James are so well known to the readers of fiction, that it is unnecessary to call their attention to them, or to say anything which previous criticism may have left unsaid. The present edition is well got up, the type is clear, sharp, and legible, and the size of the volume convenient for the reader, and appropriate for the shelves of a bookcase. The book, as it is, will form a pleasing addition to the collections of readers of modern literature, of the class to which it belongs."-Times. "We are glad to see our prognostication respecting the New Edition of Mr. James's Works, more than fulfilled by the rapid absorption of a very large first edition, and a second in the course of speedy disappearance. This is as it should be, with a writer whose vraisemblance is always so perfect; and even what he invents so like truth, that we can never fancy we are reading fiction: nor, indeed, are we, in the historical portions of his publications,-and these form the far greater division,-which are all drawn from diligent research, deep study, and elaborate comparison."-Literary Gazette. "Mr. James is a pure and pleasing writer, and we are glad to see that his Works are now to be thrown into a handy, handsome, and accessible shape."-Scotsman. "This is a most admirable edition of the Works of this popular author, convenient in size, and handsome in appearance. It, moreover, possesses the advantage of being revised and corrected by the author,-no small recommendations, since, the generality of Mr. James's Works being connected with history, a careful perusal of his productions increases their value, and renders them a source of amusement, through the medium of instruction."-Atlas. 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