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 WORKS recently published by REST FENNER.

NEW TRANSLATION OF PASCAL's LETTERS.

PROVINCIAL LETTERS, containing an Exposure of the Reasoning and Morals of the Jesuits. By BLAISE PASCAL, ori-. ginally published under the name of Louis de Montalte. Translated from the French, To which is added, a View of the History of the Jesuits and the late Bull for the revival of the Order in Europe, 8vo. price 128. in boards.

"Abstracting from his (PASCAL's) great merits in Mathematies and in Physics, his reputation rests chiefly on the Provincial Letters, a work from which Voltaire dates the fixation of the French language, and of which he says, Moliere's Comedies do not excel them in wit, nor the compositions of Bossuet in sublimity."-DUGALD STEWART.

The fame and character of this work rendered it worthy of translation, and this task has now been so ably performed, that it might pass for an original English classic."—Monthly Mag. Feb. 1817.

Mr. JONES'S HISTORY OF THE WALDENSES.

The HISTORY of the WALDENSES, connected with a Sketch of the Christian Church, from the Birth of Christ to the Eighteenth Century. In two volumes. By WILLIAM JONES, 2d edition, corrected and greatly enlarged. 248. boards.

"The Work before us, contains a great variety of curious and highly interesting particulars. The Author states facts correctly, without the slightest attempt to misrepresent. The philosophic Priestley, as well as Messrs. Milner and Haweis, have each trod the same ground, but each comes far short of Mr. Jones in ingenuousness:-varions well written episodes add greatly to the value of the Work, which is enlivened by a number of very interesting auecdotes."-Monthly Review, June, 1814.

A NEW DICTIONARY OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS.

A DICTIONARY of RELIGIOUS OPINIONS; or a brief Account of the varions Denominations into which the Profession of Christianity is divided; alphabetically arranged. By WILLIAME JONES, Author of a History of the Waldenses. 12mo. 5s. Bd. boards.

"The description of each sect is given with very tolerable accuracy and candour, and we can fairly say, that it is upon the whole the BEST BOOK of the kind which we have yet seen.". British Critic, June, 1815.

REPORT OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON EDUCATION.

REPORT from SELECT COMMITTEE of the House of Commons, appointed to enquire into the Education of the Lower Orders in the Metropolis: with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 9th, 14th, 19th, and 20th June, 1816, With Addenda and a digested Index, thick 8vo. 15s. boards.