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London, England, 1834-08-01 00:00:00

BOOKS JUST PUBLISHED,

I.
KENNEDY'S HOMER'S ILIAD, with copious
Elementary English Notes, Indexes, and a Latin Version.
Second Edition, 3 vols. cloth lettered, 275.
This new edition has been carefully revised and corrected by the
Author, many critical and philological notes have been added, and
where it was found expedient, the more important Scholia have
been translated and incorporated with the commentary.
11.
RUDIMENTS of GREEK GRAMMAR, compiled chiefly
from the Grammars of Buttman, Matthim, Gail, Neilson, &c. &c.
By the Rev. T. D. HINCKS, M.R. I. A. Fourth Edition, 3s. 6d.
BAILLIE'S OVID METAMORPHOSES (selections from),
a new and correct edition ; to which is added, a Selection from the
Epistles, with copious English Notes, Ordo, and a Prose Version.
12m0., bound, ss.

In this edition all the Fables usually read at Schools have been
retained, and the Ordo, which was heretofore placed along the
margin of the text (and which was a matter much complained of
by Teachers), has been printed at the end of the work, and nume-
rous errors which abounded in former editions have been corrected.
John Cumming, Dublin; and Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria-
lane, London.

Just ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with plates,
-WANDERINGS IN NEW SOUTH WALES,
BATAVIA, PEDIR COAST, SINGAPORE, and
CHINA ; being the

JOURNAL OF A NATURALIST
In those Countries during'lB32, 1833, and 1834.
By GEORGE BENNETT, Esq., F.L. S.,
Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street,
Publisher in Ordinary to his Majesty.

This day was published, in 2 vols. Bvo.,
EUROPEAN COLONIES
In VARIOUS PARTS of the WORLD,
Viewed in their Social, Moral, and Physical ConditiOn.
By JOHN HOWISON, Esq.
Author of " Sketches of Upper Canada."
" In this work Mr. Howison leads his reader to every quarter
of the globe where the foot of a British Colonist has trodden, and
brings him to a full acquaintance with it and its inhabitants, in a
manner which may almost be said to leave us nothing more to de-
sire, such is his accuracy of description and justness of views. On
every thing he has looked with the eye of intelligence—of genius."
-Morning Herald.
Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street

This day was published, in 2 vols. Bvo., with two Portraits,
MEMOIRS OF HENRY SALT, ESQ., F.R.S.
His Britannic Majesty's late Consul- General in Egypt.
Including his CORRESPONDENCE.
By JOHN JAMES HALLS, Esq.
" One of the most important works of the season, possessing
the two-fold attraction of a book of travels in a highly interesting
country, and the history of a man of first-rate science and enter•
prise. _United Service Gazette.
" This work will be read with unmixed pleasure.
interesting history of a chequered life. "—Atlas.
" Through Mr. Salt's zeal, personal exertion, influence with
the Pasha, and great pecuniary liberality, many of the hidden
treasures of Egypt have been brought to light. "_Quarterly Rev.
Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street.

It is a very

NICHOLSON'S CODE OF MECHANICAL SCIENCE,
Form:4o A
COMPLETE ENCYCLOPEDIA of PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE.
Published in one large volume, octavo, third edition, 11. 1 ls. 6d.
half-bound; or in 30 Weekly Numbers, price Is. each each.
THEOPERATIVE MECHANIC and BRITISH
MACHINIST; comprehending a complete and systematic
development, both of the Theory and Practice of the Productive
Arts in their present state of unrivalled perfection ; and exhibiting
the actual construction and practical uses of all the rnachinary and
implements now used in Great Britain, with the real processe
adopted'in perfecting the national manufactures of every description.s
By JOHN NICHOLSON, Esq., Civil Engineer.
This work will display, in a cheap and succinct form, and in a
correct and comprehensive manner, the actual state of scientific im -
provement as at present applied to the productive industry of this
empire ; not as the same knowledge now exists in books, bikt as
actually found in workshops and manufactories of the highest cha-
racter ; it is, therefore, equally valuable to the intelligent -work-
man, the scientific master manufacturer, and the ingenious pro-
jector. The volume contains nearly one thousand pages of print,
and is illustratad by one hundred copperplate engravings, com-
prising one thousand subjects of mechanical science.
London': printed for Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, Paternoster-row.

SHAW'S EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER.
This day is published, closely printed, in I volume, 9s. cloth
EVERY MAN HIS OWN LAWYER ; or
a PRACTICAL and POPULAR EXPOSITION of the
LAWS of ENGLAND. Containing the requisite Legal Informa-
tion relative to every possible Circumstance and Situation in 'which
Persons can be placed in the ordinary Occurrences of Trade and
Social Life, particularly those relative to
Wills and Codicils, Executors, Ad- Partnerships, Masters, Apprentices,
min istrators, and Legatees. I Servants, and Workmen.
Auctioneers, Appraisers, Contrac. Felonies, Forgeries, Embezzlement,
tors, Principal, Agent, or Factor.l and Blasphemy.
Clergy, Churchwardens, Overseers,'Bankrupts, Insolvents, Trustees,
Constables, Highway, and Poor. and Bills of Exchange.
Landlord, Tenants, and Lodgers, Hawkers and Pedlars, Carriers,
Arrests, and Distress. Warehousemen, and Wharf-
Marriage, Seduction, Adultery, ingers.
Divorce, and kligamy. Average Arbitration, Award, and
Husband and Wife, Parent and Set.off:
Child, Guardian and Ward. Real Property, Innkeepers, and
Insurance on Lives, Fire and Game Laws.
Marine.

Including the important Acts of last Session.
By JAMES SHAW, Esq., Author of " The Parochial Lawyer.
London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-row.

AlsO, by the'same A- uthor,
The CONSTABLE'S and POLICE OFFICER' COMPA
NION and GUIDE ; containing the Duties, Powers, Responsi.
bilities, Indemnity, Remuneration, and Expenses of those Officers.
Price 4s.

THE PAINTER'S AND GLAZIER'S GUIDE.
Just published, neatly printed on fine wove paper, and illustrated
with upwards of One Hundred Plates, Fifty of which are accu-
rately Coloured, the whole forming a handsome Volume, in 4to.
and may be had complete, price 21. 14s. bound and lettered; or,
in 50 Numbers, by one or more •tt. a time, price Is. each, the
DECORATIVE PAINTERS' and GLAZIERS'
GUIDE ; containing the most approved Methods of imi-
tating Oak, Mahogany, Maple, Rose, Cedar, Coral, and every other
kind of Fancy Wood ; Verd Antique, Dove, Sienna, Porphyry ;
White, Veined, and other Marbles, in Oil or Distemper Colour ;
Designs for Decorating Apartments, in accordance with the various
styles of Architecture; Directions for Stencilling, and Process for
Destroying Damp in Rooms, with Instructions and Patterns for
Painting Transparent Blinds; also, a complete body of information
on the Art of Staining and Painting on Glass ; Plans for the Erec-
tion of Apparatus for Annealling it ; and the Method of Joining
Figures together by Leading, with Examples from Ancient Win-
dows.

W
B NATHAIEL HITOCK,
Assisted by the most expeNrisasecl PracticTal Artizans in every
Department of Decorative Painting and Glazin.
London : Published by Sherwood, Gilbert, and Pipegr, Pater-
noster-row ; . sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen in the United
Kingdom.

*4fr " A work containing nmerous well-coloured and explana-
*
tory plates ; a work which neitheur the Decorative Painter,'Glazier,
nor even the Varnisher, should be without; a work whose copious-
ness of detail, and accuracy of practical information on the various
subjects of which it treats, has no rival; here the Painter, the
Varnisher, the Glazier, and the Glass-stainer, will-find what no
other book contains, namely, directions for the practical application
of their respective arts. "—Tingry's Varniheer's Guide.

A rumour having been current that Baron Heurte-
loup, Surgeon of the Lithotriptick Hospital, had unsuccess-
fully operated upon a nobleman lately deceased, we are autho-
rised by the Committee of such Hospital to state, that the
Baron had not the honour of attending his Lordship.
CURE FOR Low SPIRITS.----011 Wednesday last,
John Lowett was committed to the Wakefield House of Cor-
rection for six months, as a punishment for cruelly treating his
wife, who is only seventeen years of age, and not twelve
months married. Lowett said that the young woman was
subject to lowness of spirits, and that he "used to give her a
slight beating now and that again, merely to revive her !"
Halifax Guardian.