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“His work reads like a romance—scenes out of Boccacio —
the actors are indeed real, and brought vividly before us: but
the great revolution which has since taken place, has divested
life of its variety, reduced princes and potentates, feudality and
privilege, the pomp of courts, and the splendor of the church,
to a common standard.”

—London Lit. Gaz.

A TWELVE MONTHS' RESIDENCE IN THE WEST-INDIES,
during the transition from Slavery to Apprenticeship,
with incidental notices of the state of society, prospects, and
natural resources of Jamaica and other islands. By R. R.
Madden, M. D. author of “Travels in the East,” &c. 2 vols.
12mo.

“It displays the well known and popular powers of that
acute, observant, and descriptive writer. In the form of letters
to various friends, he has taken up almost every topic of interest
or curiosity, of political importance, or humorous illustration
of manners, which his peregrinations brought under his notice;
and the whole forms a miscellany of information and amusement,
which must prove most agreeable to the public.”

—London
Lit. Gaz.

A MANUAL OF PHRENOLOGY, being an analytical summary
of the system of Doctor Gall, on the faculties of man
and the functions of the Brain, with plates, in 1 vol. 12mo.

This work is founded on information communicated to the
author, by Dr. Gall himself. It met with great success in France,
and rapidly passed through several editions. In presenting the
present translation, the publishers have endeavoured to make it
more generally useful, by making such reference to the later
works of Spurzheim, as will readily enable the reader to appreciate
the different views of these celebrated phrenologists, on
the situation and importance of certain of the organs; and
have added several additional plates, in further elucidation of
the text.

THIRTY YEARS' CORRESPONDENCE between John Jebb,
D. D. F. R. S., Bishop of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadore,
and Alexander Knox, Esq. M. R. J. A., edited by the Rev.
Charles Foster, B. D. Perpetual Curate of Ash next Sandwich,
formerly domestic Chaplain of Bishop Jebb, in two
vols. 8vo.

“We have read many books on many subjects; but we are
free to confess that it has very seldom fallen to our lot to take
up one so full of matter as this one, in which there was so much
to awaken and satisfy thought. The two men between whom
the correspondence was carried on, were eminent for talent and
for their enlarged, pure, fervent and well digested religious
views and feelings, and they were scholars of the good old-fashioned
English model. Their learning was various and extensive,
but more than that, it was profound; the fruits, not of
much reading merely, but of laborious and persevering thought,
study and analysis; and it is beautiful to see the way in which
such men treat a subject. How they bring out all its hidden
points—what light they throw upon its intricacies—with what

apparent ease they dissect it and expose its minutest ramifications—and
how they bring it, bound and helpless as it were, to
the reader, giving him the absolute mastery over it, and enabling
him to pronounce judgment on it, with a certainty and clearness
as perfect as though it were nothing more than a simple point
of calculation, which a mere resort to the first rules of arithmetic
was sufficient to determine.

—N. Y. Com. Adv.

BELFORD REGIS, or Sketches of a Country Town, by Mary
Russell Mitford, author of “Our Village,” &c. in two vols.
12mo.

The name of the authoress furnishes ample warrant for the
assertion that time will not be thrown away in the perusal of her
volumes. The heart as well as the head is the object to which
Miss Mitford directs her efforts at instruction and improvement,
and these efforts have hitherto not been made in vain.

INDIAN SKETCHES, taken during an Expedition to the Pawnee
Tribes, by John T. Irving, junr. in 2 vols. 12mo.

Contents.—Indian Life; Indian Females and Feasts; Indian
Habits; Grand Pawnee Village; The Otoe Council; The Indian
Guard; Indian Dogs; The Rival Chief; Indian Feasts; The Kickapoos;
The Indian Country; The Alarm; Departure of Otoes for
the Hunting Grounds; The Chase; A Man of the World; Domestic
Grievances; An Otoe Warrior; The Otoe Messenger;
The Konza Chief, &c. &c.

THE MONIKINS, edited by the author of “The Spy,” in two
vols. 12mo.

“Then thou knowest her?” said the Knight. “Not I,” answered
the Squire; “but the person who told me the story,
said it was so true and certain, that if ever I should chance to
tell it again, I might affirm upon oath that I had seen it with
my own eyes.”

—Sancho Panza.

THE CONQUEST OF FLORIDA, by Hernando de Soto. By
Theodore Irving, in 2 vols. 12mo.

The author of this work is a nephew of Washington Irving,
to whom it is dedicated with affection and taste, and the success
with which he has treated a subject abounding in romantic incident,
daring adventure, fanatical superstition and enthusiastic
faith, prove him not unworthy of the relationship. Having access
to the valuable archives at Madrid, he has so skilfully selected
and arranged the materials connected with the discovery
and conquest of our southern peninsula, as to invest his history
with a degree of interest possessed by few productions of a
similar character. His story, itself replete with all the excitement
and novelty of romance, is told in an easy, natural and

flowing style, very much resembling the attractive and captivating
narration of his uncle, from whom he derived important
assistance in his labours. We would commend the books to
what they well deserve—the early and attentive perusal of the
public.

THE STRANGER IN AMERICA; comprising Sketches of the
Manners, Society and National Peculiarities of the United
States, by Francis Lieber. 1 vol. 8vo. (republished in London.)

“The author of these volumes is probably the person best
fitted to write on America. In truth, we have read no work,
but one on the same subject, in which there is so much interesting
matter.”

—London Morning Herald.

A Second Edition, neatly bound in morocco, with gilt edges,
and Plates beautifully coloured, of

THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS.

“By all those token flowers that tell
What words can never speak so well.”

Byron.