The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-01
THE BRITISH PERIODICALS AND THE
FARMERS GUIDE.

r EONARD SCOTT g. Co., No. "a Gold street,
i .Nsc York, continue to publish the four lead
ing British Quarterly Reviews and BIackwood's
Magazine; in addition to which they have recent
ly commenced the publication of valuable Agri-
cultural work, called the
"FAnMERs GUIDE TO SCIENTIFIC AND PRAcTIcAL
AGMCULTURE,"
BY HENRy SrErHENs, f. r. s., Of Edinburgh, au-
thor of the Book Of The Farm" &C., &C.; assisted
by john z. NoRroN, M "A, New Haven Professor
of Scientific Agriculture in Yale College, &C., &c
This highly valuable work will comprise two
large royal octave volumes, containing over 400
pages, with 10 or 90 splendid steel engravings,
and more than 600 engravings OH wood, in the
highest style of the art, illustrating almost every
implement of husbandry now in use by the best
farmers, the best methods Of ploushng, planting.
haying, harvesting, &c, &c, the various domes-
tic animals In their highest perfection; in short
the pictorial feature Of the book is unique, and
will render it Of incalcuable value to the studen,
of agriculture.
The work is being published in semi-monthly
numbers of 81 pages each, exclusive Of the Steel
engravngs, and is sold at 95 cents each, or As for
the entire work in numbers, OF which there viii be
at least twenty-five.
The British Periodicals re-published are as fol-
lows, viz
The LONDON QuARrERLY REVIEW CONSERVATIVE,
The EDINBuRGH REVIEW (Whig),
TIE North BRIrIsn REVIEW Gree Church),
| TIE WESTMINSTER REVIEW (Liberal)
bLAcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE (Tory)
Although these works ara distinguished BY the
political shades above indicated, vet but a small
portion of their contents is devoted to political sub
Jects. IL is their literary character which gives
them Their chief value, and in that they stand con
fesaedly far above all other journals OF their class
btackloood, stli under the mastery guidance of
Christopher North, maintains its ancient celebrity
and is, at this time, unusually attractive, from the
serial works of Bulwer and other literary notables,
written for that magazine, and first appearing in
It's columns both in Great Britain and in the United
States Such works as "The Caxtons" and uNiv
New Novel; Doth by Bulwer,) "My PENINSULA
Medal, " 1.-The Green Hand, ;" and other serials.
OF which numerous rival editions are issued by the
leading publishers in this country, have to be ref
printed by those publishers from the pages o.
Biackwood after Il has been issued by .Mess. Scot
= Co., so that subscribers to the reprint of that
Magazine may always rely on having the earliest
rea0jng of these fascinating tales.
For any one of the four Reviews $500
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For all four ofthe Reviews, 500
! For Backwood s Magazine 900
For Blackwood and three Reviews, 900
For Blackwood and the four Reviews, 1000
| For Farmers Guide Complete in % Nos.) 500
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| so on
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