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HAVE RECENTLY PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING

VALUABLE WORKS.

I. PRIVATE MEMOIRS of NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, from the French of M. FAUVELET DE BOURRIENNE, Private Secretary to the Emperor. In 2 vols. 8vo.

"We know from the best political authority now living in England, that the writer's accounts are perfectly corroborated by facts."-Lit. Gaz.

II. INTRODUCTION to the STUDY of the GREEK CLASSIC POETS, for the use of Young Persons at School or College.

Contents of Part I.-General Introduction; Homeric Questions; Life of Homer; Iliad; Odyssey; Margites; Batrachomyomachia; Hymns; Hesiod-by Henry Nelson Coleridge. Nearly Ready.

"We have been highly pleased with this little volume. This work supplies a want which we have often painfully felt, and affords a manual which we should gladly see placed in the hands of every embryo under-graduate. We look forward to the next portion of this work with very eager and impatient expectation."-British Critic.

III. ANNALS of the PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS. By the Author of CYRIL THORNTON. In 3 vols. 12mo. with plates.

IV. REPORTS on LÓCOMOTIVE and FIXED ENGINES. By J. STEPHENSON and J. WALKER, Civil Engineers. With an Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Rail Road, by H. BooтH. In 8vo. with plates.

V. NOTES on ITALY, during the years 1829-30. By REMBRANDT PEALE. In 1 vol. 8vo.

"This artist will gratify all reasonable expectation; he is neither ostentatious, nor dogmatical, nor too minute; he is not a partisan nor a carper; he admires without servility, he criticises without malevolence; his frankness and good humour give an agreeable colour and effect to all his decisions, and the object of them; his book leaves a use. ful general idea of the names, works, and deserts of the great masters; it is an instructive and entertaining index."-Nat. Gaz.

"We have made a copious extract in preceding columns from this interesting work of our countryman, Rembrandt Peale, recently published.. It has received high commendation from respectable sources, which is justified by the portions we have seen extracted."-Commercial Advertiser.

VI. COUNT ROBERT of PARIS, a Romance of the Lower Empire. By the Author of WAVERLEY. In 2 vols. 12mo. Nearly ready.

VII. FRAGMENTS of VOYAGES and TRAVELS, including ANECDOTES of NAVAL LIFE; intended chiefly for the use of Young Persons. By BASIL HALL, Capt. R. N. In 2 vols. royal 18mo.

"His volumes consist of a melange of autobiography, naval anecdotes, and sketches of a somewhat discursive nature, which we have felt much pleasure in perusing."

"The title page to these volumes indicates their being chiefly intended for young persons, but we are much mistaken if the race of gray beards will be among the least numerous of the readers of midshipmen's pranks and the humours of the green room.' To us the following is irresistible."-Lit. Gaz.

VIII. SONGS of the AFFECTIONS. By MRS. HEMANS. Royal 18mo. IX. DESTINY, or the CHIEF'S DAUGHTER. By the Author of "MARRIAGE," and "The INHERITANCE." In 2 vols. 12mo.

"There remains behind, not only a large harvest, but labourers capable of gathering it in. More than one writer has of late displayed talents of this description, and if the present author, himself a phantom, may be permitted to distinguish a brother, or perhaps a sister shadow, he would mention, in particular, the author of the very lively work entitled 'Marriage.'"-Conclusion of " Tales of My Landlord.”

X. The PERSIAN ADVENTURER. By the Author of the KuzzILBASH In 2 vols. 12mo.

"It is full of glowing descriptions of Eastern life."---Courier.

XI. VOYAGES and ADVENTURES of the COMPANIONS of COLUMBUS. BY WASHINGTON IRVING, Author of the Life of Columbus, &c. 1 vol. 8vo. "Of the main work we may repeat that it possesses the value of important history and

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the magnetism of romantic adventure. It sustains in every respect the reputation of Irving." "We may hope that the gifted author will treat in like manner the enterprises and exploits of Pizarro and Cortes; and thus complete a series of elegant recitals, which will contribute to the especial gratification of Americans, and form an imperishable fund of delightful instruction for all ages and countries."-Nat. Gaz.

"As he leads us from one savage tribe to another, as he paints successive scenes of heroism, perseverance, and self-denial, as he wanders among the magnificent scenes of nature, as he relates with scrupulous fidelity the errors, and the crimes, even of those whose lives are for the most part marked with traits to command admiration, and perhaps esteem -every where we find him the same undeviating, but beautiful moralist, gathering from every incident some lesson to present in striking language to the reason and the heart."Am. Quarterly Review.

XII. A CHRONICLE of the CONQUEST of GRENADA. BY WASHINGTON IRVING, Esq. In 2 vols.

"On the whole, this work will sustain the high fame of Washington Irving. It fills a blank in the historical library which ought not to have remained so long a blank. The language throughout is at once chaste and animated; and the narrative may be said, like Spenser's Fairy Queen, to present one long gallery of splendid pictures."-Lond. Lit. Gaz. New Editions of the following works by the same Author. The SKETCH BOOK, 2 vols. 12mo.

KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY of NEW YORK, 2 vols.
BRACEBRIDGE HALL, 2 vols. 12mo.

TALES of a TRAVELLER, 2 vols. 12mo.

XIII. A TREATISE on the CULTURE of the SUGAR CANE, with Practical Directions for the MANUFACTURE of its PRODUCTS. By G. R. PORTER, Esq. In 8vo. with plates.

XIV. LESSONS or THINGS intended to IMPROVE CHILDREN in the PRACTICE of OBSERVATION, REFLECTION, and DESCRIPTION on the SYSTEM of PESTALOZZI. Edited by JOHN FROST, A. M. 1 vol. 18mo. XV. CABINET OF HISTORY.

Vols. 1, 2. HISTORY of SCOTLAND. By Sir WALTER SCOTT,

8, 6. HISTORY of ENGLAND. By Sir JAMES MACKINTOSH. 2 vols. 4. OUTLINES of HISTORY.

5. HISTORY of the NETHERLANDS. By J. C. GRATTAN.

7, 8. HISTORY of FRANCE. By EYRE EVANS CROWE, 2 vols. Nearly

ready..

XVI. CABINET LIBRARY.

Vol. 1. The MARQUIS of LONDONDERRY'S NARRATIVE of the LATE WAR in GERMANY and FRANCE.

"No history of the events to which it relates can be correct without reference to its statements."-Literary Gazette.

"The events detailed in this volume cannot fail to excite an intense interest."-Dublin Literary Gazette.

"The only connected and well-authenticated account we have of the spirit-stirring scenes which preceded the fall of Napoleon. It introduces us into the cabinets and presence of the allied monarchs. We observe the secret policy of each individual; we see the course pursued by the wily Bernadotte, the temporizing Metternich, and the ambitious Alexander. The work deserves a place in every historical library."-Globe.

2. JOURNAL of a NATURALIST.

Plants, trees, and stones, we note;

Birds, insects, beasts, and rural things.

"We again most strongly recommend this little unpretending volume to the attention of every lover of nature, and more particularly of our country readers. It will induce them, we are sure, to examine more closely than they have been accustomed to do, into the objects of animated nature, and such examination will prove one of the most innocent and the most satisfactory sources of gratification and amusement. It is a book that ought to find its way into every rural drawing room in the kingdom, and one that may safely be placed in every lady's boudoir, be her rank and station in life what they may."-Quarterly Rev. No. LXXVIII.

"We think there are few readers who will not be delighted, (we are certain all will be instructed,) by the Journal of a Naturalist.'"-Monthly Review.

"This is a most delightful book on the most delightful of all studies. We are acquainted

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with no previous work which bears any resemblance to this, except White's History of Selborne,' the most fascinating piece of rural writing and sound English philosophy that ever issued from the press."--Athenæum.

"The author of the charming volume before us has produced one of the most interesting volumes we remember to have seen for a long time."-New Monthly Mag. June, 1829. 3. MILITARY MEMOIRS of the DUKE of WELLINGTON. By Captain MOYLE SHERER. Nearly ready.

XVII. A DISCOURSE on the REVOLUTIONS of the SURFACE of the GLOBE and the Changes thereby produced in the ANIMAL KINGDOM. By Baron G. CUVIER. Translated from the French, with Illustrations and a Glossary. In 12mo. with plates.

XVIII. OUTLINES of HISTORY, from the Earliest Records to the Present Time. Prepared for the Use of Schools, with Questions, by JOHN FROST, A. M. "We have glanced over, with much satisfaction, the second American edition of a work entitled, 'Outlines of History; embracing a concise history of the World, from the earliest period to the pacification of Europe, in 1815,' which is just published by Messrs. Carey & Lea. This edition contains some important additions, and a set of questions for examination of students, arranged by John Frost, A. M. The main object of the work is, by giving a selection of interesting and striking facts from more elaborate histories, properly and carefully arranged, with chronological tables, to render the study of general history less dry and repulsive than it has been heretofore. This, we think is fully accomplished. Very great care appears to have been bestowed on the selections, and in arranging the chronological tables, as well as in the classification of the historical matter into parts and chapters. The work will sufficiently recommend itself to all who examine it."--Sat, Eve. Post. XIX. ATLAS of ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY, consisting of 21 Coloured Maps, with a Complete Accentuated Index. By SAMUEL BUTLER, D. D., F. R. S. &c. Archdeacon of Derby.

By the same Author.

XX. GEOGRAPHIA CLASSICA: a Sketch of Ancient Geography, for the Use of Schools. In 8vo. Nearly ready.

XXI. ENCYCLOPÆDIA AMERICANA; a Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, and Politics: brought down to the Present Time, and including a Copious Collection of Articles in American Biography. On the basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations Lexicon. Edited by Dr. FRANCIS LEIBER, assisted by EDWARD WIGGLESWORTH, Esq.

This work will be completed in twelve large octavo volumes, price two dollars and a half each, strongly bound in cloth. Six volumes are already published, and the seventh is nearly ready.

XXII. The WATER WITCH, or the SKIMMER of the SEAS. By the Author of the PILOT, RED ROVER, &c. In 2 vols.

"We have no hesitation in classing this among the most powerful of the romances of our countryman."-U. States Gazette.

"We could not break from the volumes, and may predict that they will excite the same interest in the minds of almost every reader. The concluding chapters produce intense emotion."--National Gazette.

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New Editions of the following Works by the same Author. NOTIONS of the AMERICANS, by The PILOT, a Tale of the Sea, 2 vols. Travelling Bachelor, 2 vols. 12mo. The WISH-TON-WISH, 2 vols.

12mo.

The RED ROVER, 2 vols., 12mo.
The SPY, 2 vols. 12mo.

The PIONEERS, 2 vols. 12mo.

12mo.

LIONEL LINCOLN, or the LEA-
GUER of BOSTON, 2 vols.
The LAST of the MOHICANS, 2
vols. 12mo.

The PRAIRIE, 2 vols. 12mo.

XXIII. JOURNAL of the HEART, edited by the Authoress of FLIRTATION. "This is a most charming and feminine volume, one delightful for a woman to read, and for a woman to have written."-Literary Guzette.

XXIV. The ARMENIANS, a Tale of Constantinople. By J. MACFARLANE. In 2 vols.

"The author will appreciate our respect for his talents, when we say that he has done more than any other man to complete the picture of the East, dashed off by the bold pencil of the author of Anastasius."-Ed. Lit. Journ.

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