The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-03
THE BRITISH PERIODICALS AND THE
FARMERS GUIDE.

T EONARD SCOTT g. Co., No. 81 Gold street,
| 4 Ne,o York, continue to publish the four lead
ing British Quarterly Reviews and Backwoods
Magazine; in addition to which they have recent
ly commenced the publication of valuable Agr-
cultural work, called the
" FARMERS GUIDE SCIENTIFIC AND PRAcTIoAL
AGRICULTURE"
By Henry STEPHENS, +. X. s., Of Edinburgh, au-
thor of the "Book Of The Farm, &C., &C.; assisted
by JOHN p. NoRToN, 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 l8 or 20 splendid steel engravings,
and more than 600 ensravings on wood, in the
highest style of the art, illustrating almost every
implement of husbandry in use by the best
farmers, the best methods Of ploughing, 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 ncalcuIable value to the student
OF agriculture
The work is being published in semi-monthly
! numbers of "a pages EACH exclusive OF the Steel
engravings, and is sold at 25 cents each or IS for
the entire work in numbers, Of which there will be
| at least twenty-five.
The British Periodicals re-published are as fol-
lows, viz
THE LONDON QUARTERLY REVIEW CONSERVATIVE,
The EDINBURGH REVIEW (Whig),
The NORTH BRIrIsH REVIEW Gree church,,
The WESTMINSTER REVIEW (Liberal.)
BLAcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE (Tory)
Although these works are distinguished by the
! political shades above indicated, yet but small
portion Of their contents is devoted to political sub
jects. 1t Is their literary character which gives
them their chief value, and in that they stand con
fessedly far above all other journals other class
Btackwood, tilunder 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
its columns both in Great Britain and in the United
States. Such works ''The Caxtons" and 'sMy
| New Novel" Doth by Bulwer,) "My Peninsular
Media, "The Green Hand ;" and other serials,
ofwhlch numerous rival editions are issued by the
Leading publishers IN this country, have be ref
printed by those publishers from the pages o.
Backwood, after il has been issued by .Nessrs Scot
s. Co., so that subscribers to the reprint of that
Magazine may always rely on having the earliest
eresding OF these fascinating tales.
TERMS
Per ann
For any one Of the four Reviews $500
For any two do 500
For any three do. 100
| For all four Of the Reviews, 800
! For Blackwood's Magazine, 300
For Backwood and three Reviews, 900
For Lakewood and the four Reviews, 1000
For Farmers Guide Complete in % Nos.) 500
fragments TO be made in all cases in .adpanee)
CLUBBING.
discount of t,centy fus per cent. from the above
prices will be allowed to Clubs ordering four or
more copies of any one more of the above
works Thus: copies Of Backwood or Of one
Review will be sent 10 address for 80 copies
ofthe four Reviews and Blackwood for $50 and
so on.
- Orders from Clubs must be sent direct 10 The
publishers, as no discount from these prices can be
allowed to AGENTS
| Money, current in the States where issued, will
be received at par
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always addressed, postpaid or franked, to the
Publishers.
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! 70 FULToN STREET, New York,
| Entrance 81 Gold st.
| I5Subscriptions received in Washington by
Frank Taylor, Taylor & Maurey, and w. Adam,
Booksellers.