SOUTHEY'S

COMMON-PLACE BOOK.

First Series.

CHOICE PASSAGES.

COLLECTIONS FOR ENGLISH MANNERS AND LITERATURE.

What wisdom and poetry lie scattered about the pages! On one we see the amplitude of his learning; on another, the author's peculiar strain of sentiment; his pure Saxon English in a third. The common-place book of a reader of such out-of-the-way lore as Southey loved could not fail to be replete with amusement and possibly substantial information.-Critic (London).

JOHN WOOD WARTER, B.D.

Second Edition.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

1850.