Columbus Whig. (Columbus, Miss.) 1843-18??, 1844-04-11

/ ~ = - 1@.sf1iS WI UAES# OF NEW and
! Y seIui Books, now IN course of publication
4 ON THE CHEAPPLAN.
Eacn volume Will contain $50 pages and nm.
wards. and can be forwarded by mail TO anv
Pats O the United States. Price in paper co.
vers, 70 cents; bound in boards, 81 l.2 cents
"a cloth and gilt lettered, 50 cents,
JAMES HOW ATT & Co.
Publishers, ia broadway, New York. have
made extensive arrangements for DnbIis6inos
during the present spring and sumner months
several hundred volumes Of New and UsefuI
BOOKS, IN the various department of Medicine.
History, Education, Bellies Letters, Poetry ana
Romance, by che BEST writer's. This will I'M
/ questonabiy firm the most interesting library
OF Books ever published IN this country: and the
very small price charged for each volume win
obtain for them, as issued, very large and
rapid sale. They would can attention to the
| MODERN STANDARD DRAMA.
LIBRARY EDITION.
/ EDITED BY EPES SARGEANT.
Containing selection Of the best PLAYS Of
Modem Authqks, with ExempIatory~ Notes and
Observahoss, > Costumes ofsharacters and
stage Dlrecrfonsss to yg4tOppleted in 50
weekly numbers, at 10 Ia .cenfR each.
| The series MiTl be composed b. incipalIv OF
such modern dramas of celebrity as. in consn.
quence ofthe restrictions of copy RIGHT in En-.
glaHu, have not yet appeared in any collection
OF specimens of the British drama The dra.
ma:lc chiefd 9uureS OF Ta'fourd, Crov. Shell.
Maturin, Buiwer, Tnbin, Knog,les, Mortnn'
D'lsraei. Leigh Hunt, Mllman, Jerold. and
others, certainly possess that degree of inter
| est, that no well-selected library should be
without them;and yet few ofthose works have
ever been presentedto he American public
| IN shape suitable for preservation.
| 1t is proposed in the present series TO rem
Iodx 10Gn1
SYST, of an entire drama, of character to please
in the closer as well as on the stage, and ac-
| comPanied by introductory remarks, historical
and critical.
The stage-marks and directions including a
description OF the costumes, the characters.
will be given; but NJ noinstance will there be
departure from the text of tire author. The
series will thus not only be servicable to the
actor but satisfactory to the general reader.
The Typography of the series Will be new,
large and uniform; and every number compri-
ses distinct and entire work in itself
JUST PUBLISHED,
No. 1.-The DRAWING ROOM LIBRARY,
Edited by Epes Sargent
I HE LIGHT OF THE LIGHTHOUSE,
AND OTHER POEMS.
Now for the fret time collected, by Epes,
Sergeant, 5wItlf an Illustrative engraving on
stee, Designed by ] G.. Chapman.
Prospects Of Ike Drauing Room Library.
The works included in this series Will be Ell
Their original or such as are not to be procured
except at extravlgant prices, in any other
shape. There Is class of product ms, both
IN prose and verse, which may be called fell
cities in literature but which never find their
way to the shelves of our bookstores, pre- oC-
cupied as they are with the cheap novels, whose
! name is Legion.
Id, IF IL
mind for better things--for higher specimen
achievements IN the doing of thought--tor
| more invigoratlng, If not more palatable intel,
lect@al natrument begin to appear. To min,
lster to this tase-to contribute to the supply
of its demands will be the object of the
'Drawing Room Library
By way ofpfesentIng our credentials N en-
teriDg upon he task of editor, and not as a
sample of what we intend to give. we COM
mence the series with collection Of our own
Poems. It being the first whlch can be laid to
our charge. Our other writings in prose and
| verse, WIZ appear in future numbers. But in
| the meanW hiIe the series viii be enriched with
works of a permanent interest, which cannot
but impJrt to l. lasting value.
| The "Drawing- Room Library" will be pub
| lished every week, In numbers, containing DIS
| tinct works, at II l-2 cts:eeach A title page
and table of contents will be given, when num-
| bers enough to make a neat, uniform volume
have appeared. But as every number Wmi be
| independent in itsel, the purchaser can consult
his own taste in regard to those works which
| he includes in his bound collection. and mail
subscribers can remit for one or more numbers
of the work as they may desire. For one
! dollar eight numbers will be sent. Price II LIZ
cents.
BIOGRAPHICAL SERIES.
| To be completed in about fJfy numbers, each
number, or UOlunleS, TO contain $50 pages
and up,cardS Published semi monthly, al
/ 25 cents per rolunle,
This series will consist of deeply interesting
memoirs or emiaent persons, male and female
| such as have never before been presented in
a popular form. They will possess all the
charms of work Of fiction, with the addition
al advantage Of being true. Now ready
No. I.-THE LIFE OF MADAME OAR.
BLAY, formerly Miss. BurneY0 authorcs o
"Evelina,'' &C., IN two volumes at % cents
each.
| No. 2.-rHE LIFEOF GOETHE
| From his own photographed papers, and the
notes of his contemporaries, IN volumes, a
Is cents each vol
Ne,o Works recently published By J. Monan 6
Co, ia Broadway !.
ANIMAL NJ AGNETISM OR R1ESMERIShl
Its History, Pheno meDa, and Present Condt
ton, containing Practical instructions, aud thf
latest discoveries in the science, principally
derived from a recent work by William Lang
with supplement, containing new an import
ant facts never before published in the UNI &c
States; by Rev. Chauncey liare Townshend
author of "Facts in Mesmerism," &c. Price q
cents.
| THE MODERN STANDARD DRAMA,
edited by Epes Sergeant, author of.'Velssc'
Tradgedy," &c. To be published in fifty week
" numbers-Now ready.
No. LION, Tradegy in Eve acts b.
Thomas Noon .Talfourd, Sergeant at Law
From the Authors latest edition. With stag
direction Description of Costume &c 10 II
cents.
No. 2-FLAZIO. a TradgedY. In five acts
BY Rev. IT. II. Millman. From the -AuIhoa
latest edition. With the Stage Directions. l.
IL cents.
No. 8. THE LADY OF LYONS By ST
Edward Lyttcn Bulwe-. 1912 cents.
No. 4-RICHELIEU. By Sir Edward Ly''