The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-07
New Publications.

lcoHooRAPHIc ENCycLoP kDIA. - The present
month will witness the completion of this great
work, which has already acquired high and de-
served position as copious library Of human know
ledge The original estimate was to limit the text
TO two thousand pages, but the work progressed
an enlargement was deemed necessary TO tho
rough explanation of the plates, and one thousand
two hundred pages have therefore been added at
the mere cost Of production The total cost is but
thirty dollars and for this five hundred plates OF
twelve thousand figures, and three thousand two
hundred letter-press pages supplied; the latter
containing fourteen distinct text books, and includ-
ing very elaborate tables of contents and indexes.
Mr.. Garrigue, of New York, the enterprising pub
Usher announces that after the end of this year the
parts will be Withdrawn from the market, and only
complete copies furnished. He has also issued a
scale OF charges for binding the Encyclopedias, OF
which subscribers will do well to avail themselves
without delay. The prices Of binding the whole
set range from $40 to $40.
On sale by TAYLOR & MAURY, booksellers, Penn.
sylvania avenue, near Ninth street.
FOREST LIFE AND FOREST TREES, comprising Win
ter Camp Lille among the Loggers, and Wild
Wood Adventure, with Descriptions of Lumber
ing Operations on the various Rivers of Maine
and New Brunswick. By JOHN S. SPRINGER
New York: HARPER Brothers 1851.
Anagreeable book enough, and the descriptions
and statistics of lumber operations are quite inter-
esting In regard to foresttrc we have read the
authors observations with pleasure; but think the
volume should have embraced fuller information
on this subject He should have at least described
the mode OF planting and propagating the various
kinds OF forest trees, the preparation of the seed,
/ the transpantaon of the seedlings, &C., &c-a
kind of information which is much sought for now,
ia IN tba nf4s
Der by the increased production Of it, and when
many of the fertile prairies of the West are unset
tied in consequence of the badness of the land
The book is embellished with number of engrav-
ings.
The work, SO far as completed, can be obtained
of TAYLOR and MAURY.
The KNIcKERBocKER, for October, is rich as
usual with piquant wit, entertaining scholarship,
and poetica fancies. The price of this sterling
periodical has been reduced to three dollars per an
nurn-a fact which will doubtless greatly extend
its circulation
Published by SAMUEL HUEsroN, .l39 Nassau
street, New York;
The lNTERNATIoNAL.-This is decidedly among
the best literary magazines of the day. A corps
of able writers well maintain it's excellence. The
October number has finished likeness of the
late j. Fenimore Cooper
Published by STRINoER & TOWNSEND, New York,
and to be had of TAYLOR & MAuRY, agents, Penn
sylvania avenue near 9th street, Washington.
HARPER's New MoNTHLV-The glossy pages
of this well-stored periodical always welcome
to our table. The October number is quite inte-
resting and handsomely embellished. Now that
the long winter evenings are approaching, this
and similar magazines indispensable fire.
side luxury.
TAYLOR & MAuRY, booksellers, are the agents.
LITTELL's LIVING ACE, No. 356, contains able
articles from the Edinburg Review, Blackwood,
Chambers's Journal, the London Examiner, Chron-
icle, and Times, the other side of the water and
from the New York Commercial Advertiser, Tri-
bune, Evening Post, and New Orleans Picayune, on
this.
To be had of TAYLOR & MAURY and SHILLING
TON.