The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-17 00:00:00

Establishment Question; classical translations and disquisi-
tions of the highest order of learning and taste ; criticism
in abundance, on contemporary works and authors, on paint-
ing, sculpture, music, the drama, forming together a com-
plete conspectus of the literature and art of the time ; poetry,
tales, biographical sketches, antiquities, pleasantries, jeux-
d'esprit and all such other matters, grave or gay, as can be
expected in miscellanies of this kind, executed generally in
such a munner as to reflect credit on the genius, invention,
research, or wit of their writers, and calculated throughout
to nourish every virtuous feeling and religious sentiment,
and otherwise advance the moral welfare and happiness of
mankind. _ _ _

In these twentrvolumes will be found eighty-one separate
full. length Portraits ofliterary individuals. These alone are
worth the price asked for the twenty volumes :
Ainsworth, W. IL—B6ranger, 'Pierre de—Blessington,
Countess of—Bowles, Rev. Wm: Lisle—Brewster, Sir David
—Brougham and Naux, Lord—Bridges, Sir Egerton—Buck-
stone, John Baldwin—Bulwer, Edward Lytton—Campbell,
Thomas—Carlyle, Thomas—Cobbett, William—Coleridge,
Samuel T—Croker, John Wilson—Croker, Thomas Crofton
--Cruikshaijk, George--Cunningham, Allan--D'lsraeli,
Benjamin--D'lsraeli, Isaac=-D'Orsay, Count— Dunlop,
I,Villiam—Egerton, Lord Francis—Faraday, Michael—Galt,
John—Genius, Our Man of—Gleig, Rev. George R.—God-
win, William—Goethe, Johann W. Von—Hall, Anna Maria
—Hill, Thomas—Hobhouse, Sir John C.—Hogg, James—
Hook, Theodore—Hint, Leigh—lrving, Washington—Jer-
dan, William—Knowles, Sheridan—Lamb, Charles—
Landon, Letitia E.—Lardner, Dyonisius—Lockhart, John
Gibson—Lodge, Edmund-.—Lyndhurst, Lord---Mac-
nish, Robert---Maginn, William--Martineau, Harriet
—Mitford, Mary Russell—Mulgrave, Earl of—Moir, David
M.—Molesworth, Sir Wm.—Montgomery, Robert—Moore,
Thomas—Morgan, Lady—Moriar, James—Munster, Earl of
—Norton, Caroline—O'Bri , ifenry—O'Cc?uaelt r•T;J
e tarn s., S4IOL-"trait3ate-1.-
.Sir-jciSh--:-Riissell, Lord lOhn-
-ISadler,llfichael Thomas—Scott. Sir Walter—Smith, Rev.
Sydney—Smith, James—Soane, SirJohn—Talfourd, Serjeant
—Talleyrand, Prince de—Thorburn, Grant—Trueba,•Don
Telesforo de-Ude, Louis E.—Watts, Alaric A.—Westma-
cott, Charles M.—Wilson, John—Wordsworth, William.
Besides three large Plates of Groups, containing. Portraits,
not to be found in the above.
Complete sets from the commencement in 1830 to end of
1839, 20 Volumes. Original cost in numbers £l5 ; reduced
to £7 10s. Additional, if bound in green cloth and lettered,
Is. ; or half calf, double lettered bands, &c., 2s. 6d. per vol.
The Number for JANUARY, 1840 (besides its accustomed
variety of articles), will contain a paper of great interest, and
of unusual length, entitled
PREFACE TO OUR SECOND DECADE.

I. Sketch of Politics, from the English to the French Re-
volution—ll. The Peace of 1815, and its Consequences to
1820-111. The Case of Queen Caroline—lV. The Prospe-
rity and Panic of 1825—V. Canning ; or the Disunion of the
Tories—Vl. The Duke of Wellington, their breaking in 1822,
and dispersion in 1830—VII. The Whigs—Vlll. Our Course
of Criticism—lX. Our Politics and Theology.—X. Our
General Literature ; our Portrait Gallery, and its Necro-
logy—XL Our Quarrels and Libels—Xll. Prophecy of a
Return of the Tories, and a Programme of what we will do,
and what we will not do, in that case. . _

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