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%Queen Elizabeth.%

Full of instructive and heart-stirring incident, displayed by the hand of a master.  We doubt whether old Queen Bess ever before had so much justice done to her within the same compass.  Such a pen as Jacob Abbott wields, especially in this department of literature, has no right to lie still—­Albany Express.

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%Charles the First.%

We incline to think that there never was before so much said about this unfortunate monarch in so short a space; so much to the purpose; with so much impartiality; and in such a style as just suits those for whom it is designed—­the “two millions” of young persons in the United States, who ought to be supplied with such works as these.  The engravings represent the prominent persons and places of the history, and are well executed.  The portrait of John Hampden is charming.  The antique title-page is rich.—­Southern Christian Advocate.

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%Hannibal the Carthaginian.%

A new volume of the series projected by the skillful book-manufacturer, Mr. Abbott, who displays no little tact in engaging the attention of that marvellous body “the reading public” in old scholastic topics hitherto almost exclusively the property of the learned.  The latter, with their ingenious implements of lexicons and scholia, will be in no danger of being superseded, however, while the least-furnished reader may gain something from the attractively-printed and easily-perused volumes of Mr. Abbott.  The story of Hannibal is well adapted for popular treatment, and loses nothing for this purpose in the present explanatory and pictorial version.—­Literary World.

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%Maria Antoinette.%

In a style copious and yet forcible, with an expression singularly clear and happy, and in language exceedingly chaste and at times very beautiful, he has given us a plain, unvarnished narrative of facts, as he himself says, unclogged by individual reflections which would “only encumber rather than enforce.”  The present work wants none of the interest inseparably connecting itself with the preceding numbers of the same series, but is characterized throughout by the same peculiar beauties, riveting the attention and deeply engraving on the mind the information with which they every where teem.—­Evening Mirror.