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 Now Ready, small 8vo, price only 5j. &d. the Volume, bound, CHATEAUBRIAND'S MEMOIRS OF HIS OWN TIME. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. " Chateaubriand's History of His Own Time becomes a classic as soon as published. The genius of the author is not less conspicuous in his personal history than in his imaginative writings. The price of the book is so moderate that every one may obtain it. We need not say that it will be an invaluable acquisition to every collection, small or large." — Britannia. "The appearance of this curious and amusing work, from the pen of so distinguished a man as Chateaubriand, is a great acquisition to our literature. The Memoirs of this celebrated author were continued up to the period of his death in July last. It is calculated they will extend to five volumes, each containing a division of his career. The first will embrace the period from his birth, in 1768, till his return to France, in 1800; the second, the epoch of the Consulate; the third may be con- sidered a life of Napoleon from his birth to his abdication ; in the fourth, the History of His Time is continued to 1830; and the fifth comprehends the latest period of his career, concluding with his remarkable piece on L'Avenir du Monde. When completed, it will certainly be one of the most important and instructive books of the present day." — Mortiing Herald. " A work of peculiar and extraordinary interest. We very much doubt whether this last work of one v.fhose productions have been trans- lated into every civilized tongue, and have moved the admiration and the sympathy of millions, be not the very finest, as it is absolutely the most affecting, which even Francis Rene Chateaubriand ever produced. Here we have not the lyric of a moment, but the epic of his life; not a few passing treasures gathered at random, but the accumulated gaza of his entire experience. It is the work in which its author's deservedly celebrated genius was most at home ; and, therefore, the work in which he was most unfettered and most powerful. It has, besides, another and a higher interest. It is his last legacy to the literary world — it is a voice from the grave. It is full of words of force, beauty, solemnity, and wisdom. We look with impatience to the continuation of what we must pronounce to be one of the most interesting of extant auto- biographies." — Morning Poit. HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.