Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-05-18
New Publications.

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Our friend Mr. Clough, of the firm of D. Kim
ball & Co., Providence, the American agent o
D Appleton & Co.'S publications, has placed upor
our table the third number of the encyclopedia o
Wit and Humor," by VIM. E. Burton, Esq. Thi
work is what it aims to be-a complete collection
of all the best comic and humorous writings il
English and American literature, and, as nom
has better faculty of w.t." or a keener appre
citation of genuine humor than Mr.. Burton, Sc
no man could be better fitted to compile such
work. 1t is gotten up in Messrs. Appleton
Co.'s best style, and issued In monthly parts, a
Is cents per number.
Mr.. Clough informs us that the Messrs. Apple
ton are preparing for the press, ard will ISSUE
about the LIST of July, new and valuable ma
tional work, entitled the encyclopedia of Amer
lean Eloquence,' which will contain the grea
speeches and addresses, forsenic and parlamen
tary, of the most eminent orators of America
with illustrative notes, and biographical Sketches
The work will be published in two volumes, Syo
in the same elegant style as their abridgment
of the Debates in Congress" by Mr.. Benton,
and soiH be sold to Subscribers only.
Mr.. Clough is well known in these parts as
/
honr and orders for any of the works of D. APP
pleton & Co., entrusted to him will be in safe
hands.
GREAT NATIONAL WoRK-IAltsStratea Life Of
Westinghouse. P. Putnam & Co. are now issu.
ing a splendid illustrated edition of Irving's
Life of Washington, to be comprised in three vol.
umes, of fourteen semi-monthly parts each. The
Il =. l.
to be twenty. five cents each. 1t will he splendid
ly illustrated by the first artists in the country.
each part to contain at least thrtytwo pages, and
one steel engraving and every other part will
have two steel plates. Among the illustrations
already engraved, or nearly completed, are near
thirty portraits of the generals of the revolution
airy army, eight different engravings of Washing
ton from different pictures, busts, &C., and two
of Mrs. Washington. There are also sundry il
Illustrations, on STEEL of historical scenes, chiefly
from original designs, including the "Fortifying
of Bunker Hill,' Boston from Dorchester
Heights in l776,' >" Battles of Trenton, German.
town, Monmouth, &c. No expense will be spared
to make the engrayings creditabe to American
art, and fully satisfactory to amateurs of fastidi-
GUS taste. 1t is work that every family would
like to own. The first number is out, and comes
fully up to the promises of the publishers.
c. B. Russell & Bro, II fremont street, Bos-
ton, are general agents for New England, and
their travelling agent, Sumner Thompson, is now
in Worcester, and will be here regularly, once in
four weeks, to receive subscriptions for this and
other valuable works.
AN AMERICAN MERCHANT IN EUROPE, ASIA,
AND AUSTRALIA A Series of Letters from
Java, Singapore, China, Bengal, Egypt, the
Holy Land, the Crimea and its Battle Grounds,
England, Melbourne, Sydney, &c, &c. by
George Francis Train, of Boston. With an
introduction by Freeman Hunt, a. M, edltor
of Z" Merchants Magazine, &c. vol. limo.
iS57.
The author of this work is an enterprising
Young Boston merchant, who went out to Aus
ralia in 1858, and established the successful house
/ of George F Train Co., at Melbourne, and is
still connected with it. This work gives lively
account of the wonderful growth of that colony
during his residence Of three years there, and
the results his observations in the various other
regions traversed by him on his journey The ed
itor justly says, the letters
appear as written for the daily journals, with
all their evidence of haste on their head From
such DEFICIENCIES they are redeemed by the intel
| hgence, difficult of access, which they embody,
by their graphic history Of tlsrise and progress Of
that new world, destined to WELD the sceptre Of
the Southern seas, by their statistical knowledge
by the glow and sprightliness of their descrip-
tions, which they relate"
For sale by John Keith & Co.
SALMAGUNDI: or the Whim, Whams, and Opin.
ions of Launcelot Langstaf Esq., and others
vol. lSmo. New York; G. P. Putnam & Co
1857.
THE SKETCH BOOK: by Washington Irving. 1
vol l8mo. New York; g. P. Putnam & Co.
1857.
TALES OF A TRAVELLER by Washington Irv
ing. vol lSmo. New York G. P. Putnam
& Co., 1851
1t would be idle for us attempt any criticism OF
works like these, which have passed the ordea
in this country and Europe, and have taker
their place among the standard works Of the age
The wit and genial humor of Irving as exhibited
in Salmagundi, and his rarely cultivated taste
and uuthfulness to nature and to feeling, as ex-
hibited in his Sketches and Tales, have made
: him a universal favorite wherever his works are
known. The publishers of these works have
therefore done acceptable act, in putting
them in cheap and neat form, such as will recon.
mend them to general circulation, and enable
the coming generation to be as familiar with these
, faSorite works as the last has been. They are
sold by John Keith & Co.
Medicated Inhalation in the Treatment of Pull
! mory Consumption, Bronchitis. Asthma, Ca
tarrh, and Cer5ymen's Sore Throat compris
ing all the Recent Discoveries and Improve
ments in this Mode Of Practice, together witt
the Remedies used. By IL. p. Dillenback, M
d. Illustrated with numerous cases and en-
cravings. ! vol 8 vo. Boston Geo. G. Ran
& Avery. 1857.
DR.. Dillenback has become distinguished as on
Of the ablest advocates and most extensive prac
titioners Of the system Of medicated inhalatio
for diseases Of the throat and lungs-a system
which, like all new systems in medicine, has me
with jealous opposition from large portion of tn
profession. The work before us is a scientific Dc
fence Of the system, Invested, as much q
possible, Of the technicalites Of science, so as
adapt it to the comprehension Of the gener,
reader. AS such, it has strong claims both 0
the public and the profession, for, in questio
so essentially vital to the we'll being Of the con
munity, it is important that it be thoroughly il
VestRated and well understood.
The work, we suppose, may be obtained at tn
, book stores.
The editor of the Plymouth Rock
, appointed Collector Of that port, and the put
!. Usher and printer is appointed postmaster.