MISCELLANEOUS.
The ALHAMBRA; a Series of Tales and Sketches of the Moors
and Spaniards. By the author of the Sketch-Book. In 2 vols.
“We have read a part of Washington Irving's new Sketch Book, the scene of
which is Spain, the most romantic of European countries, and the best known
by the gifted author. His style has lost nothing of its peculiar charm,—his descriptions
are as graphic as usual, and enlivened with racy anecdotes and happy
reflection. We shall probably soon furnish a specimen of this work, from the
whole of which we expect gratification.”
—Nat. Gazette.
The BRAVO. By the author of the “Spy,” “Pilot,” “Red
Rover,” &c. In 2 vols. 12mo.
“Let us honestly avow in conclusion, that in addition to the charm of an
interesting fiction to be found in these pages, there is more mental power
in them, more matter that sets people thinking, more of that quality that
is accelerating the onward movement of the world, than in all the Scotch
novels that have so deservedly won our admiration.”
—New Monthly Mag.
“This new novel from the pen of our countryman, Cooper, will win new
laurels for him. It is full of dramatic interest—“hair-breadth escapes”—
animated and bustling scenes on the canals, in the prisons, on the Rialto,
in the Adriatic, and in the streets of Venice.”
—N. Y. Courier & Enquirer.
“Of the whole work, we may confidently say that it is very able—a performance
of genius and power.”
—Nat. Gazette.
“The Bravo will, we think, tend much to exalt and extend the fame of
its author. We have hurried through its pages with an avidity which must
find its apology in the interesting character of the incidents and the very
vivid and graphic style in which they are described.”
By the same author.
The HEIDENMAUER, or Pagan Camp. In 2 vols.
SALMONIA; or, Days of Fly Fishing; by Sir H. Davy.
“We are surprised, in meeting with an American reprint of this delightful
volume, that a work so universally popular has not been before republished in
this country.”
—N. Y. American.
“One of the most delightful labors of leisure ever seen; not a few of the
most beautiful phenomena of nature are here lucidly explained.”
—Gent. Mag.
The NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. By the late
Rev. Gilbert White, A. M., Fellow of the Oriel College,
Oxford, with additions, by Sir William Jardine, Bart. F. R. S.
E. F. L. S. M. W. S., author of “Illustrations of Ornithology.”
“`White's History of Selborne,' the most fascinating piece of rural writing
and sound English philosophy that has ever issued from the press.”
—Athenæum.
The MECHANISM OF THE HEAVENS, by Mrs. Somerville.
In 18mo.
“We possess already innumerable discourses on Astronomy, in which the
wonders of the heavens and their laws are treated of; but we can say most
conscientiously that we are acquainted with none—not even La Place's own
beautiful expose in his System du Monde,—in which all that is essentially interesting
in the motions and laws of the celestial bodies, or which is capable of
popular enunciation, is so admirably, so graphically, or we may add, so unaffectedly
and simply placed before us. * * * Is it asking too much of Mrs.
Somerville to express a hope that she will allow this beautiful preliminary
Dissertation to be printed separately, for the delight and instruction of thousands
of readers, young and old, who cannot understand, or are too indolent
to apply themselves to the more elaborate parts of the work? If she will do
this, we hereby promise to exert our best endeavors to make its merits known.”
—Literary Gazette.
