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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 now 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 Gazatte.
TOUR OF A GERMAN PRINCE, (Puckler Muskau,) through
the Southern and Western parts of England, Wales, Ireland,
and France. In 8vo. Second American edition.
“It contains the least prejudiced and most acute notices we have read of the
habits and modes of thinking of Englishmen, and the merits and defects of the
country and society.”
—Globe.
CONVERSATIONS WITH LORD BYRON ON THE SUBJECT
OF RELIGION. By J. Kennedy, M. D. 12mo.
GLEANINGS IN NATURAL HISTORY, with Local Recollections.
By Edward Jesse, Esq. To which are added, Maxims
and Hints for Anglers. From the second London edition.
“A work that will be fondly treasured by every true lover of nature.”
—New
Monthly Mag.
“We hazard but little in predicting that this volume will be a favorite with
a large class of readers. It is written by a true lover of nature, and one who
most pleasantly records his actual observations.”
—Lit. Gaz.
The DUCHESS OF BERRI, IN LA VENDEE, comprising a
Narrative of her Adventures, with her private papers and
secret correspondence, by General Dermoncourt, who arrested
her royal highness at Nantes. In 1 vol. 12mo.
[This edition exclusively contains the important documents and papers which would have led to the
seizure of the work in France, had they been published there.]
“Upon its high interest we need not enlarge: the personal adventures of the princess, her journeyings
on foot and on horseback, in disguise and in her own character, her mental and bodily sufferings, her hopes
and her despair, are a romance, and seem to belong to another age. They recall the wanderings and the
perils of our own Charles Edward, with all the additional interest which must attach to the daring and
the suffering of a woman.”
—Athenæum.
The ECONOMY OF MACHINERY AND MANUFACTURES.
By Chares Babbage. 18mo.
“Of the many publications which have recently issued from the press, calculated
to give a popular and attractive form to the results of science, we look upon
this volume as by far the most valuable. Mr. Babbage's name is well known
in connexion with the general subject of which he has here undertaken to treat.
But it will be difficult for the reader who does not possess the volume itself, to
understand the happy style, the judgment and tact, by means of which the author
has contrived to lend almost the charm of romance to the apparently dry
and technical theme which he has chosen.”
—Monthly Rev.
OUSELEY'S REMARKS ON THE STATISTICS AND POLITICAL
INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.
“The author is a man of solid sense, friendly to this country, and his remarks
have the value and interest of which his character and inquiries authorized
the expectation.”
—National Gazette.
TWO YEARS AND A HALF IN THE NAVY, or, Journal
of a Cruise in the Mediterranean and Levant, on board
the U. S. Frigate Constellation, in the Years 1829, 1830,
and 1831. By E. C. Wines. In 2 vols. 12mo.
“The author is a gentleman of classical education, a shrewd observer, a lively
writer, whose natural manner is always agreeable; whose various matter is
generally entertaining and instructive; and whose descriptions are remarkably
graphic. The greater portion of his pages have yielded us both profit and
pleasure.”
—Nat. Gaz.
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