The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-08-11

g.. "a Mace before the reader brief sketches of
tbo early career of those who have fought their
,.v to eminence and distinction in the various
waiks of life and thus to develop, in the mind
of youth, noble tastes and high principles, as
cell as to encourage, stimulate, and sustain,
,bat spirit of industry, which is essential to the
attainment of any position worth striving for"
Truly. commendable object! The book
shows much thought and a nice discrimina-
ton
fUE UNITED STATES ILLUSTRATED, IN views o'
City and Country with Descriptive and historic'i
Articles Edited by Charles A. Dana The bast-
Vol. |, No. /; The West, Vol /, No i. N. YORK :;
Hermann ]. Meyer.
This promises to be superb publication.
1t is Mr. Meyers purpose to issue, within the
wear. two yolumes-one devoted to the East, the
other 10 the West--of ten numbers each, con-
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tures by eminent artists Of the most prominent
objects of interest, both in scenery and archi-
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craving of the Battle Of Banker HILL from
Trumbull's great PICTURE The present num-
bsrs contain views of the Presidents House, in
Washington; Niagara Falls; Barhydts Lake
near Saratoga, and Bunker Hill Monument
Lake Ithasca, source of the Mississippi; Falls
Of St. Anthony, two plates) and San Francis
co. The prices will be, for single numbers,
each fifty cents; two copies to one address,
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dress, thirty five cents per number; ten copies
to one address, thirty cents per number.
Tuv Ir1usTRATnp WEEKLY RECORD OF THE New
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Edited by b. Siman, Jr., and C. B. Goodrich
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This journal purposes to perform the same
ofh,e for the New York Exhibition as did the
London Art Journal Gn supplemental for last
years Exhibition, viz: Publish fine wood cut
engrayings of the various works Of art and sci
ence exhibited accompanied by letter-press de-
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US will be beautiful publication. Price 25
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The HISTORY OF THE RESTORATION OF MONARCHY
IN FRANCE. BY Alphonse dc Lamartine, author
of The History of the Girondists." VOL ". New
York: Harper Brothers For sale by Farnham
Washington, D. @.
With the volume before us this brilliant
book is concluded. No historian of modern
times-not even Macaulay-has done 60 much
toward relieving history from the appellation
of "dry reading" His books are charged with
poetic and magnetic enthusiasm, that takes
one by the button hole" (metaphorically) at
the opening chapter, and does not release him
till the colophon is reached; every page is
ablaze with splendid imagery, and alive with
surprising eloquence. But how far the i'm
preston left upon ones mind by this is conso-
nant with truth we cannot say.
SECOND Book IN LATIN Containing Syntax, and
Reading Lessons in Prose- forming sufficient Latin
Reader with Initiative Exercises and a Voeabu-
larry By John McClintock, d. D., late Professor
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York Harper 4 Brothers For sale by Franck
Taylor, Washington, d. c.
We have been too much hurried to give this
book thorough examination but the fact
that Proi McClintock is the author, says more
Tor its excellence than could half a column of
Communication from u.s.
THE kSIc1,sBocKER. July, 1853.
This Magazine has Aeen SO long and so in
disputably the "good wi.en that needs no
bush" that it is almost atsuri for one to
trouble his brain for new suit e phrases in
which to deck his compelled encomiupas.
HuSr's MERCHANTS MAGAZINE and COMMERCIAL
Review Conducted by Freeman Hunt Vol %,
No. l. July, 1853
host OF excellent articles are indexed in
this number Financial History of the Reign
of Louis Philippe, Part 2, translated from the
French of NJ Dumop, late Minister of Finance;
Mercantile Biography-George Hudson, the
Railroad King" Traits Of Trade-laudable
and iniquitous - about Credit speculations ;
Commercial Cities and Towns Of the United
States, No "a The City of Savannah, by JOS
F. Greenough, of New York, late of Georgia ;
&c, &C., &c
dRAHAM's AMERICAN MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Aug.
Where is our July number We know
Graham TO be modest man--evcn to self.de-
probation, sometimes-but we hope he will not
carry 1t to the extreme Of surprising that a
N'af'S In his visits will pass undecided or un-
spoken Of The number now in hand lie admit
raoly made up We notice an exquisite poem
by Boxer" Lida.D
APPLsToN's MECHANICS MAGAZINE, and Engineers
Journal Vol 3, No. z. July 1853.
The excellence Of this work seems to increase
with age. This number opens with large
autograph of the Inclined Engine of the ferry
boat Manhattan, with letter-press description
and full list Of articles upon various branches
Of Mechanism and Engineering.
MEYERS UsIvERsUN. Vol. 2, Part ]. Price, Is
cents. New York Hermann J. Meyer
Mr. Meyer commences the second volume Of
This beautiful work with fresh inducements TO
patronage. He says To all subscribers Of
volume 2, a most superb premium plate, en-
gtaved on steel-s1e, imperial-folio of the
Mad Of Saragossa after the celebrated picture
~ " Westal, engraved by C. Mayer, will be de-
n'ersa' gratis with the last part Of the vol
Iu'e The number before us contains enga-
"ns' Of Columbia Bridge, Susquehannah !;
''e"eTy OF the San Juan River, Central Amer