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NEW BOOKS.
CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD,
HAVE LATELY PUBLISHED,
WILL WATCH, from the Autobiography of a British Officer,
in 3 vols. 12mo.
“A very spirited performance. The character of the blind
old admiral, Phil Fluke, and his secretary, Corporal Royal, is
capital.”
—Lit. Gazette.
MEPHISTOPHILES IN ENGLAND, or the Confessions of a
Prime Minister. 2 vols. 12mo.
THE DISTRICT SCHOOL, or National Education. By J. Orville
Taylor. 1 vol. 12mo. The third edition.
SOUTHEY'S EARLY NAVAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.
1 vol. 12mo.
THE BEAUTIES OF THE AUTHOR OF THE SKETCH-BOOK,
KNICKERBOCKER, &c, &c. A small neat volume.
DACRE, a Novel, edited by the Countess of Morley. 2 vols.
12mo.
ANNE GREY, a Novel, edited by the author of Granby, in 2
vols. 12mo.
A DISCOURSE OF NATURAL THEOLOGY, showing the
nature of the evidence, and the advantages of the study. By
Henry Lord Brougham. 1 vol. 12mo.
BECKFORD'S RECOLLECTIONS of an Excursion to the
Monasteries of Alcobaca and Batalha. 1 vol. 12mo.
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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.
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to various friends, he has taken up almost every topic of interest
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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
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
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.
What words can never speak so well.”
Byron.
PENCIL SKETCHES.
LESLIE'S PENCIL SKETCHES: The second series of Pencil
Sketches, or Outlines of Character and Manners, by Miss
Leslie. 1 vol. 12mo.
“Still there are follies e'en for one to chase.”
—Byron.
Containing
| The Wilson House, | The Set of China, |
| The Album, | Laura Lovel, and |
| The Reading Parties, | John W. Robertson, or |
| The Ladies' Ball, | A Tale of a Cent. |
They have for sale the first series of the same, 1 vol. 12mo.
—containing
| The Escorted Lady, | Mrs. Washington Potts, |
| A Pic Nic at the Sea Shore, | The Travelling Tin Man, |
| The Miss Vanlears, | Frank Finlay, |
| Country Lodgings, | Uncle Philip, &c. |
| Sociable Visiting, |
MISS KEMBLE.—A JOURNAL, by Frances Anne Butler, 2
vols. 12mo.
THREE YEARS IN THE PACIFIC, including Notices of
Brazil, Chili, Bolivia and Peru, in 1 vol. By an Officer of
the United States Navy.
“The work embraces copious descriptions of the countries
visited; graphic accounts of the state of society; brief notices
of the history, state of the arts, climate and the future prospects
of those interesting parts of our continent; respecting
which the citizens of the United States are supposed to care
so much, but know so little.
“Full of novelty and valuable details. The American reader
will greatly add to his fund of ideas concerning South America,
by its perusal.”
—Chronicle.
“The author's graphic abilities—the pure acquaintance he
displays with the Spanish language, renders the book at once
pleasing and useful.”
—Gaz.
NEW AMERICAN NOVEL.
THE INSURGENTS, a new American and Historical Novel,
2 vols. 12mo.
“This story is founded upon the insurrection in Massachusetts,
during the year 1786, known more generally as `Shay's
War,' which was similar, in some of its features at least, to the
rising of the `Whisky Boys,' in Pennsylvania.
“The Yankee author, (for that he is a Yankee no one can
doubt, who observes with what vraisemblance he uses the vernacular
idiom of that people,) has given a very amusing detail of
the facts connected with that struggle, which cannot fail to
prove entertaining.”
—Sat. Evening Past.
“The characters are extremely well drawn—the Yankee talk
and manner well-preserved—and the historical narrative faithfully
followed. It is evidently the work of a full and well-disciplined
mind.”
—N. Y. American.
IRVING'S NEW WORK.
THE CRAYON MISCELLANY, Part 1, containing a Tour on
the Prairies, by the Author of the Sketch Book, &c. 1 vol.
12mo.
THE CRAYON MISCELLANY, Part 2, containing Abbotsford
and Newstead Abbey.
SKETCHES OF SOCIETY IN GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND. By C. S. Stewart, M. A., Chaplain of the United
States' Navy, author of “A Visit to the South Seas,” “A
Residence in the Sandwich Islands,” &c. Second Edition.
2 vols. 12mo.
ROOKWOOD, a Romance. By W. Harrison Ainsworth. From
the second London edition, in 2 vols. 12mo.
FORTUNES OF PERKIN WARBECK, a Romance by Mrs.
Shelly, author of “Frankenstein,” &c. &c. 2 vols. 12mo.
HORSE SHOE ROBINSON, a Tale of the Tory Ascendency,
by the author of “Swallow Barn,” 2 vols. 12mo. Second
Edition.
THE TWO FRIENDS, a Novel, by the Countess of Blessington,
in 2 vols. 12mo.
CHANCES AND CHANGES, a Domestic Story, by the author
of “Six Weeks on the Loire.”
“Since the days of the Vicar of Wakefield, we have encountered
nothing half so good.”
—New Monthly.
“It will be approved by every sound heart and mind.”
—Lit.
Gazette.
THE HISTORY OF IRELAND, by Thomas Moore, Esq., in
3 vols.—The first volume is now ready.
GRUMMETT'S LOG. Leaves from my Log Book, a Tale of
the Sea, by Flexible Grummett, P. M. 1 vol.
“It will compare in interest, and correctly drawn portraitures
of the `deep, deep sea,' and the things therewith associated,
to `Tom Cringle,' `Peter Simple,' &c., works of almost
unrivalled cleverness.”
—Boston Ev. Gazette.
“Grummett's Log may be ranked among the best of the
nautical works.”
—Boston Journal.
“It is a second `Jacob Faithful,' the nautical scenes are of
absorbing interest.”
—Sat. Even. Visiter.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JACK KETCH. With illustrations
from designs by Meadows.
“The characters throughout are well sustained; Misty, the
poor patient schoolmaster, with his nose pink with dram-drinking—Wisp—Haynes,
the conscience-stricken rogue—Snavel the
dishonest attorney, and Mr. Wilmot, who avenged his knavery,
have all individuality and distinctness. The confession of James
Wilson too, is a fearful story.”
—Atheneum.
SLIGHT REMINISCENCES of the Rhine, Switzerland, and a
Corner of Italy, in 2 vols. 12mo.
CATECHISM OF PHRENOLOGY, illustrative of the Principles
of the Science, by a Member of the Phrenological Society
of Edinburgh, with a Plate, from the 6th Glasgow
edition, 1 vol. 12mo.
HISTORY OF THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
comprising a view of the invasion and settlement of the Barbarians,
by J. C. L. De Sismondi, 1 vol. 8vo.
HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND, in 1688,
comprising a view of the reign of James II., from his accession,
to the enterprise of the Prince of Orange, by the late
Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh, and completed to the settlement
of the crown, by the editor, to which is prefixed, a
notice of the life, writings, and speeches of Sir James Mackintosh,
1 vol. 8 vo.
MY COUSIN NICHOLAS, or the Bulwinkles of Underdown
Hall, a Tale in 2 vols. 12mo.
“A strange story, like a castle of cards, trick over trick, and
ends with an utter downfall.”
—Athenæum.
THE BOOK OF SCIENCE, adapted to the comprehension of
young people. Illustrated by many curious and interesting
experiments and observations, and including notices of the
most recent discoveries. Embellished with numerous engravings
on wood.
Part one, Mechanics.
Part second, Hydrostatics and Pneumatics.
Part third, Chemistry.
“The present little volume is so written, that, with moderate
attention, a youth may obtain a very clear knowledge of each
branch of natural philosophy.—The volume is printed uniformly
with the `Boy's Own Book,' and may be said to be a suitable
successor to that little work. The compiler deserves great
credit for the arrangement, and also for the simple, at the same
time, correct and familiar style of conveying information. We
cannot do better than recommend parents to present to their
children this elegant little production.”
—Repository of Arts.
“Our readers will, doubtless, remember the `Boy's Own
Book,” the present volume is a sequel to that amusing little
work. It is got up with extreme care, and illustrated with an
immense number of figures, of extraordinary neatness of execution.”
—Atlas.
THE MAYOR OF WINDGAP, by John Banim, in one vol.
CANVASSING, a novel, in one vol. 12mo., by John Banim.
CLINTON BRADSHAW, or the adventures of a Lawyer, 2
vols. 12mo. (in the press.)
FLORA AND THALIA, or gems of Flowers and Poetry, being
an alphabetical arrangement of flowers, with appropriate
poetical illustrations. Embellished with numerous coloured
plates. By a lady. 1 vol. 18mo. (in the press.)
THE MORAL OF FLOWERS, a splendid volume, beautifully
illustrated with coloured engravings. (In the Press.)
DR. BIRD'S NOVELS.
CALAVAR, OR THE KNIGHT OF THE CONQUEST, a
Romance of Mexico, by Dr. Bird, in 2 vols. 12mo. Second
Edition.
“Suffice it to say that Calavar throughout is a romance of very great interest.
It will interest the imaginative from its spirited and stirring scenes
of battle and blood; it will please the poetic from the splendour and beauty
of its descriptions, and it will charm every lover of fiction by the masterly
and graphic scenes which it will continually present to him.”
—New York
Com. Advertiser.
“We shall be exceedingly mistaken if the work does not at once place the
author in the very highest rank among the writers of America.”
—Knicker-bocker.
“It cannot fail to strike the reading public with astonishment and delight.”
—Journal of Belles-Lettres.
“The precise epithet by which to designate the style of this novel, is one
which very few writers have deserved—it is masterly.”
—Com. Herald.
“Creditable to American genius and literary power.”
—Nat. Gaz.
“Few productions have afforded us greater pleasure than this; and few
works seem to us so deserving of popularity as the romance whose merits
we have now recommended not too forcibly on our readers.”
—American
Traveller.
“The work may fairly rank among the highest efforts of genius, and we
do not scruple to pronounce it superior to anything of the kind which has
yet emanated from the American press.”
—Baltimore Gazette.
“But there is nothing of all this to be found in Calavar—not a premonitory
symptom of blank verse, nor a spasm of poetic phrenzy; on the contrary,
the whole tone of the composition is subdued, chastened, and thoroughly
elaborated—evincing with the fervour of genius, the good taste of an
elegant mind, and the patient labour of a highly accomplished intellect.”
—Hall's West. Month. Magazine.
THE INFIDEL, OR THE FALL OF MEXICO, a Romance,
by the Author of Calavar, in 2 vols. 12mo. Second Edition.
“We have read these volumes through with unwavering interest,—they
evince power of a high order and thorough preparation of the work undertaken.
“They embody the very spirit of the times, in which the story is laid, and
reproduce the men and the scenes as though they were living before our
eyes.”
—New York American.
“We have read Dr. Bird's new romance with very great pleasure, and a
large increase to our previously conceived opinion of his talent. It is a
grand, spirit-stirring work—rich in vigour, interest and excitement; and
one moreover, that will not pass away and be forgotten.”
—New York Com.
Advertiser.
“Those who have not yet had an opportunity of reading the new novel of
the Infidel, by Dr. Bird, may be envied by those who have had the pleasure
of perusing the graphic and spirit-stirring scenes it contains. We have
too little space at our disposal to-day to speak of it at any length, or do
more than recommend it as superior even to Calavar, which is already
stamped with the highest public approbation.”
—Waldie's Library, May 19th,
1835.
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