The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-07-15
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given.
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MARCO PAUL's VOYAGES AND ADVENTURES BY
Jacob Abbott New York: Harper 4 Brothers.
For sale by Taylor & Maury
Mr.. Abbott has a warm side for young folk,
and has peculiar faculty for adapting himself
to their comprehension. This series of works
is composed of six neat, handsomely illustra-
ted volumes, containing Marco Pauls Adyen-
lures in New York, on the Erie Canal, in
Maine. in Vermont in Boston, and at the
Springfield Armory. The design is to cOmmu-
nicate practical information through the at
tractive medium of adventures and personal in
cidents
BoHN's HAND-BooK or WAsHINGToN. Washington
Casimir Bohn and Taylor Maury.
Visiters at Washington would do well to sup
ply themselves with this satisfactory compen-
dunn. 1t will save them great deal of trouble
and time as a guide book. 1t contains accurate
descriptions of all objects of public interest and
is illustrated with twenty engravings of public
buildings, &c.
The ABBEY OF INNIsMoYLE. By Grace Kennedy
Philadelphia T. b. Peterson For sale by Shil-
lington & Co.. Washington, d. C.
This popular book, said to be the best of
Grace Kennedy's, has gone through six Ameri-
can editions. The autheress is we'll known and
appreciated by the public.
BLEAK HOUSE. No. 4. By Charles Dickens New
York Harper Brothers For sale by Frank
Taylor Washington, d. C.
Number four is out. Will the publishers
please send us the third number A hiatus in
such story is not to be endured
HARPER's New MONTHLY. July, 1852 For sale as
above.
The Harpers announce that they have had
in preparation for several months, and will
commence in the August number, "a series of
papers, of special interest to the religious com
munity, under the general title of Memoirs of
the Holy Land, written by Jacob Abbott, and
illustrated by maps sketches of scenery, and
personal incidents, and the finest series of pic
torial embellishments ever given in any maya
zine in any part of the world
ZErHyRs FROM ITALY AND Sicily. BY William NJ
Gould. New York; d. Appleton & Co For sale
by r. Farnham, Pennsylvania avenue, Washing.
ton, d. c.
The most original thing about the book "a
lis title We used to like books of travels, but
we are growing tired of them. Everybody who
goes abroad seems to think the world would 10
greatly wronged if it were not made acquaint-
ed with what he saw, and said, and did, during
his travels Mr.. Gould's work is as good We
doubt not as the majority of the class to which
it belongs but the People are surfeited
HIsroRY or THE RESTORATION or MONARCHY IN
FRANCE. BY Alphonse dc Lamartne. Vol II.
New York: The Harper. For sale by Franck
Taylor, Pa. avenue, Washington, ID. C.
The second volume Of this work, already no
ticed in our paper, comprises the important
events of 1914 and 1915. The battle of
Waterloo, the preliminary movements and the
events of the day, furnish rich materials for
the poetic pen of the historian Ample
justice is done TO the genius and constancy Of
Wellington
LIFE AND LETTERS OF NrEBUBR. BY the Cbevalier
Bunsen and Professors Brands and Loebcll Pub
lshed and for sale above.
The basis of this work is q compilation OF
extracts from Niebnhr's Letters by Madame
Hensler his sister law, to whom most OF
them were addressed With the thread oil
running through them, and accom-
panying explanations theypresent full view
of the official MS well as literary life OF the Ia
nous historian.
The HypRopATHIc ENCYCLOPEDIA. BY H. l.
ThraIl, M. ID. New York: Fowlers Wells f"'
sale by r. Farnham. Washington, d. c.
This is perhaps the most comprehensive syS-
tenn of Hydropathic theory and practice yet
published. It appears in two volumes, OF near
ly thousand pages illustrated with numerous
1t is divided into eight parts as
follows; Anatomy, Physiology Hygiene Diet
etics, Theory and Practice, Pathology and me
Surgery and Midwifery; ana 'nese
subjects are treated in style that makes inc
work guide book for students anu i"'',,,e'
DESTROYS of becoming acquainted WIN the wa
ter Cure. The price is $2'oo'
Tuv CLASSICAL MANUAL An Epitome Of Ancient
biography, Greek and Roman Mythology AM"
o,;,;e, and Chronology Compiled by james .
. R.ird. Dublin. Philadelphia Blanchard a
Ia. For sale by Taylor Maury, Washington
DC.
There is great deal of information, neces'
.ary to the classical student condensed in this
small volume, and it will serve AZ an excellen'
volume for reference for others
OUTLINES OF ESoLisn LITERATURE. BY Thom''
b, Shaw, b. A. Published and for sale ~ above
Mr.. Shaw is Professor Of English Literature
ia the Imperial Alexandrian Lyeeum Of ..
Petersburg, and his work has already gone
through one edition in this country i"0
present edition contains in addition, Ske'''
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