Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-11-19

New Publications..
CarIyle's Frederick the Great.
w. T.BERRY &c CO., Public square,
HAVE JUST REcEITED
HISTORY OF FRIEDRICH THE SECOND,
FREDERICK THE GREAT,
THOMAS CARLYLE,
AHth0r Of History Of e French Repoption,' y 'Cfoss-
loeIrs Letters and Speeches " SartOr Resd,tEs, dc.
Vols and II, with Portraits and Maps, IL mo-
Nnsln.
To be completed in Vols.


tFfom the Saturday Rriec, (LOndOn.) Oct 2s.l
With patient industry only less remarkable than
his creative power, he has produced work which,
in addition to higher qualities amusing Wa
verify novel, and accurate a German mono
graph
[F|oBs tie Nelc York Times, Nor. 5A, 1855
His "Iife Of Frederick the Great" has long been
eagerly anticipated and that it has been publish
ed il is seized upon with much avity though Il
were new novel by p, liver Dickens .
There no abatement Of the old Caryean strength,
or humor quaintness with which the reading world
is already SO familiar which many have tried in
vain 10 initiate. and which stil remains unique and
impossible to all but their inventor and master.
tkiOrN tte ". Z. B,ening Post Non. 9Th, 1855
II the two volumes which are n succeed shall equal
the two which we have read, Cariyles LIZ. OF Fred
erick the Great must be regarded his work
The author has explored field which has never been
inteligenty aud thoroughly traversed by a compe-
tent historian and-the result historical resurrec-
ton of scenes and in the eighteenth century
which few readers were prepared TO anticipate.
From tle v. 7. Tribune, Oct sob, 1851
No labor be compared to tic literary toll, OF
which the marks are conspicuous every page OF
these volumes. such handling antique musiy doc
uihehls, such tnfasiig OF husks Tar lew grams 0
corn such eye destroy ing soul depressing pertnacity
of research as their composition has evidently de-
manded of the author, almost place the miraculous
diligence OF GIbbon himself a discount seldom
indeed is the inspiration OF a man of genius hap
PLY combined with the logged faithfulness OF a
drudge.
[FTOm tie National Rerieso (London oct. 1881
OF the richness of Mr.. Carlyle's book in firmly
drawn and vivid pictures OF men aud things-or its
fantastic humor and rugged manly pathos no idea
can be gathered except from its own pages .
There is characteristics of Mr. Carlyle's which
rises him above the level of all contemporary histo-
riins solemn sense of the my stery and wonder Of
human life and Of the universe in which il placed is
never absent from him In his dealings with the Sin
hnitely little" that makes large part OF history,
he never loses sight OF the fntiniiey great" that
struggles Incidentally for expression through IT, Ii
is this thai his writings their turn of
quaint pathus, their stern or mOurnfu irony
their startling aud grotcsque contrasts
From the Brooklyn TiBaes Nor I'd 1851
The present biography is the product Of years of
the most profound research, a research conducted
with the earnestBess of enthusiast who is in love
with his theme, instead Of the Flooding dullness OF
the boot making Dryasdusts. The subject is thor
oughly exhausted.
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w. r. KERRY 81 CO., Public Square.
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