The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-14
THE BRITISH PERIODICALS AND THE
Ed FARMERS GUIDE. efV H


r EONARD SCOTT & Co., No. "a Gold street,
j 4 Mem York, continue TO publish the four Lead
log British Quarterly Reviews and Blackwood'H
Magazine, in addition to which they have recent
y commenced the publication Of a valuable Agri-
cultural work, called the ~ = M ijolg y6 sfai
+" FAsMER's GuIDE TO scIksrIrIc AND PaAcrrcAL
AGRICULTURE, 5l III s,s.t,,t
By Henry STEpHENs, r. r. s., OF Edinburgh, au-,
thor Of the "Book Of the Farm, "&c., &C.; insisted
by JOHN P. NosroN, n! A., New Haven Professor
of Scientific Agriculture in Yale College, &C., 60
This highly valuable work will comprise two
large royal octave volumes, continuing over 400
pages, with l6 or 20 splendid steel engravngs,,
and more than GOO engrayings on 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 ploughng, planting,
hayng, 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 il of incaculabe value to the student
Of agriculture. lises 80 IS at.a 30 .i,. r
The work s being published in semi-monthly
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the entire work in numbers, or which there will be
at least twenty-five.
The British Periodicals re-pubIished are as fol-
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The LONDON QuARrERLY REVIEW Conservatory
The EDINBURcn REVIEW (Whis), -aiei4ala7ga
The NoRTM BRIIIsn REVIEW Gree church,, Hoit
The WESTMINSTER REVIEW (Liberal.) sFrd y,
BLAcKwooD's EDIsBuRGH MAGAZINE (Tory).
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portion of their contents devoted to political sub
jects. II is their literary character which gives
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Christopher North, maintains its ancient celebrity,
and is, at this time, unusually attractive, from the
DO hill pIntI,
written for that magazine, and first appearing in
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States. Such works as "The Caxtons" and envy
New Novel" (bolh by Bulwer0 ',My Peninsular
Medal, 1.-THE Green Hand and other serials,
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