The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-01-12
Literary Notices.

THE PARLoR MAGAzINE.-A new candidate for
public favor, in the shape OF neatly got up.quaro
PERIODICAL containing engravlngs, stories, sketches
and reports of balls, concerts, &c. Published at
No. 2 Ann street.
| CAMrBEI.L's FOREIGN SEMI-MoNTnr.y MAGAZINE.
| "A very valuable miscellany. Philadelphia, %
| Chestnut street.
EASY NAT.--A good temperance story. Redding
e. Co., Boston.
TON BURKE OF 'ouRs."-The cheap reprint by
Carey 81 Hart is out Burgess IL Stringer are the
publishers in this city.
CATHOLIC MAGAzINE.-A very well got up and
excellent review and magazine This volume is
embcllished by beautiful portrait Of DR.. Carroll,
first Archbishop of Baltimore. Baltimore, Murphy,
| I46 Market street.
M'CUILocH's GAzErTEER--Part Wallpaper Il
Brothers, 50 Cliff street. The seventh number of
this very valuable work has Just been issued. 1t
contains large and very handsome map OF the
British Provinces in America, with adjacent parts
of the United States Itsavery complete and use
full chart OF the Gazetteer itself we need say
nothing, for It's eminent merits are universally
known.
The COMPLETE WORKS OF HANNAH Month";
eight numbers.-lIarperN Brothers, So Cliff street.
The last number Of this edition of one of the
tablished standards among English authors has Just
been published. 1t is at cheap and 20 yaIua
bic, that we trust II may be very widely circulated,
for know work likely TO be at once more
pleasing and profitable than this
GIBBoN's DECLINE AND FALL or THE ROMAN EN-
FIRE, WITH NorEs REV II. ". MuMAN-No. g.
Harper " Brothers.lf such works as this, of esta
bllshed fame and undoubtcd value, were the only
ones To which had been gwen almost boundless
circulation by the cheap system of publication,
one would have occasion TO deplorc It's introduce
ton. The work of Gibbon Will remain a living
monumcn, of Engand's intellectual glory when her
military exploits shall have become things OF me-
mory Its great power, IFS wonderful comprchcn-
siveness and the learning displayed, make II
of the most remarkable works ever written. IL de-
rves additional value from The labors of the editor
and ~ offered in numbers by the Iiarpcrs, must
prove acceptable 10 the public.
Az ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON IIUNAs PuYsio-
Looy-By T. Magendic. Translated, enlarged
and illustrated by John Revere, NJ D.,
Prof Of Medicine in the New York Unit
verity--I Vol. syo., pp 539 Harper X Brothers
Two editions of tins valuable and scientific work,
he first Of which was published in is22, were ra-
pdly cxhdused-and the Editor has now prepared
one far complete Than either of the others
To the excellent treatise OF the celebrated French
Psychologist, he has added discussions of his
on collateral topics, numerous cuts and pictorial
Illustrations, selected from the highest authorities,
and has aimed Ia adapt the work perfectly 10 the
wants OF the profession, well as to the actual
state OF medical science. Magendie is the au-
thor OF the System of Experiments in Physiology
which has so cncctuay and benefcaly changed
the character OF the science within few years past;
and the celebrity OF his name well as the lnirn-
SIC value OF the work, must give II currency and
hearty welcome with the medical profession