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General Therapeutics, or Principles of Medical Practice, with
tables of the chief remedial agents, and their preparations; and
of the different poisons and their antidotes. By Robley Dunglison,
M. D. Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica, Hygiene,
&c. &c. In 1 vol. 8vo.

Elements of Physics, or Natural Philosophy, General and Medical,
explained independently of Technical Mathematics, and
containing New Disquisitions and Practical Suggestions. By
Neill Arnott, M. D. From the last London edition, with Additions
by Isaac Hays, M. D.

“Dr. Arnott's work has done for Physics as much as Locke's Essay did for
the science of mind.”

—London University Magazine.

“We may venture to predict that it will not be surpassed.”

—Times.

“Dr. A. has not done less for Physics than Blackstone did for the Law.”

—
Morning Herald.

“Dr. A. has made Natural Philosophy as attractive as Buffon made Natural
History.”

—French Critic.

“A work of the highest class among the productions of mind.”

—Courier.

American Ornithology, or Natural History of Birds, inhabiting
the United States, by Charles Lucien Bonaparte; designed as a
continuation of Wilson's Ornithology. With numerous plates.
Vols. I. II. III. and IV.

* * * Gentlemen who possess Wilson, and are desirous of rendering the work
complete, are informed that the edition of this work is very small, and that
but a very limited number of copies remain unsold.

A Treatise on Pulmonary Consumption, comprehending an Inquiry
into the Cause, Nature, Prevention, and Treatment of Tubereulous
and Scrofulous Diseases in general. By James Clark, M. D.
F. R. S., &c. In 1 vol. 8vo.

“Dr. Clark's Treatise on Consumption is the best that has yet been published
in this country, or on the continent. It shows an intimate knowledge
of the approved methods of diagnosis, and of the morbid anatomy so successfully
investigated by the continental pathologists, and by Professor Carswell;
while it displays an acquaintance with the resources of the system, and the
power of therapeutic agents, only possessed in this country and in Germany.”

—Lancet, August, 1835.

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. In 1 vol. 8vo.

Youth's Book of the Seasons; or Nature familiarly developed.
With numerous wood cuts. 1 vol. Embossed cloth.

Elements of Optics. By David Brewster. First American edition,
with Notes and Additions, by A. D. Bache, Professor of Natural
Philosophy and Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.
12mo.

A General View of the Progress of Ethical Philosophy, chiefly
during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Sir James
Mackintosh, M. P. In 8vo.

“The best offspring of the pen of an author who in philosophical spirit,
knowledge and reflection, richness of moral sentiment, and elegance of style,

has altogether no superior—perhaps no equal—among his contemporaries.
Some time ago we made copious extracts from the beautiful work. We could
not recommend the whole too earnestly.”

—National Gazette.

A Treatise on Astronomy. By Sir John F. W. Herschel, F. R. S.,
&c. 1 vol. 12mo. A new edition, with questions.

“The present treatise is in no wise inferior to its predecessor: it is characterized
by the same agreeable and elegant style, the same facility of illustration—added
to which it possesses unrivalled precision and accuracy of demonstration.”

—Literary Gazette.

“Christian Year.” By the Rev. John Keble, Professor of Poetry
in the University of Oxford: with an introduction, and occasional
notes, by the Rt. Rev. George W. Doane, Bishop of New Jersey.

“The Christian Year, a collection of little poems.”—“By the Rev. John
Keble, a name well known, and justly dear to Oxford.”—“We scarcely ever
remember to have read so exquisite an invocation of religion in poetry.”

—
British Critic.

A Treatise on Mechanics. By Capt. Kater, and the Rev. Dionysius
Lardner. With numerous engravings.

“A work which contains an uncommon amount of useful information, exhibited
in a plain and very intelligible form.”

—Olmsted's Nat. Philosophy.

A Treatise on Hydrostatics and Pneumatics. By the Rev. D.
Lardner. With numerous engravings.

“It fully sustains the favourable opinion we have already expressed as to
this valuable compendium of modern science.”

—Lit. Gazette.

Elements of Mechanics. By James Renwick, Esq. Professor of
Natural and Experimental Philosophy, Columbia College, N. Y.
In 8vo. with numerous Engravings.

“We think this decidedly the best treatise on Mechanics, which has issued
from the American press, that we have seen; one, too, that is alike creditable
to the writer, and to the state of science in this country.”

—American Quarterly
Review.

A Geological Manual. By Henry T. de la Beche, Esq., F. R. S.,
F. G. S., Member of the Geological Society of France, &c. In
one vol. 8vo. with 104 wood cuts.

“The management of the work is clever, while there is great merit in the
original remarks, and a vast fund of information throughout.”

—Atlas.

A New Abridgment of Ainsworth's Dictionary, English and
Latin, for the use of Grammar Schools. By John Dymock, LL. D.
A new American edition, with corrections and improvements, by
Charles Anthony Jay, Professor of Languages in Columbia College,
&c. &c.

The Tuggs at Ramsgate and other Tales, by Boz. (In the press.)

The Confessions of an Elderly Gentleman, by the Countess of
Blessington. (In the Press.)

Lives of the Cardinal de Richelieu, Count Oxenstiern, Count
Olivarez, and Cardinal Mazarin. By G. P. R. James, author of
Richelieu, One in a Thousand, &c. &c. &c. 2 vols. 12mo.

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