New Works--Now ready or in preparation. Putnam's Library of American History; Consisting of Rare Tracts illustrative of American History. Edited, with The Optimist. BY REV. F. L. HAWKS, D.D.~~ BY H.T. TUCKERMAN, ESQ. In one volume 12mo. (In March.) A New Work on California. BY BAYARD TAYLOR, Author of "Views a-Foot," &c., &c. With Illustrations by the Author. In two volumes 12mo. New Researches at Nineveh. BY AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, ESQ. In one volume 8vo, uniform with "Nineveh and its Remains." French and English Counting-House Manual. Manual of Commercial Correspondence, English and French; or, A Selection of Commercial Phrases, taken from a number of Letters, Accounts, Catalogues, Prices Current, and other Papers. BY A MERCHANT. In one volume 12mo, cloth. (Now ready.) Elements of Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical; Adapted to the present state of Analysis. To which is added, their applica Professor of Mathematics in Columbia College, New-York. Excursions in Europe and the United States. BY WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 12mo, cloth. (In April.) Nineveh and its Remains; With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldæan Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yezidis, or Devil-Worshippers; and an Inquiry into the Manrem and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians. BY AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, ESQ., D. C. L. WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTE BY PROF. E. ROBINSON, D. D., LL. D. ustrated with 13 Plates and Maps, and 90 Woodcuts. 2 vols. 8vo. Cloth. $450. "We cannot doubt it will find its way into the hands of scholars and thinkers at once, and we shall be surprised if it does not prove to be one of the most popular, as it certainly is one of the most useful issues of the season."-Evangelist. "As a record of discoveries it is equa iy wonderful and important; confirming in many particu tars the incidental histories of Sacred Writ, disentombing temple-palaces from the sepulchre of ges, and recovering the metropolis of a wonderful nation from the long night of oblivion."- Com Advertiser. Cravels, Adventures, and Discoveries---Su the East. CONTINUED. Ninweh and its Remains.-Continued. "Taking this only as a book of travels, we have read none for a long time more interesting and instructive."-Quarterly Review. "We repeat that there has been no such pieture in any modern book of travels. Park is not braver or more adventurous, Burkhardt is not more truthful, Eothen not more gay or picturesque than the hero of the book before us."London Examiner. "This is, we think, THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF THE PRESENT AGE, whether with reference to the wonderful discoveries it describes, its remarkable verification of our early bilbical history, or of the talent, courage, and perseverance of its author. We will only ad'l in conclusion, that in these days, when the filfilment of prophecy is engaging so much tention, we cannot but consider that the work of Mr. Layard will be found to afford mary extraordinary proofs of biblical history."- London Times. "Of the historical value of his discoveries, too high an estimate can hardly be formed."-N. Y. Recorder. "It has been truly said, that the narrative is like a romance. In its incidents and descriptions it does indeed remind one continually of an Arabian tale of wonders and genii."-Dr. Robinson in Introductory Note. "The work of Mr. Layard has two prominent and distinct characters. Its narration of wonder. ful discoveries is of high and absorbing interest; but as a book of modern travels, abounding in living and piquant descriptions of the manners and habits of a people always regarded with intense interest, it is second to none."-Democratic Review. "The book has a rare amount of graphic, vivid, picturesque narrative."-Tribune. "The work of Layard is the most prominent contribution to the study of Antiquity, that has appeared for many years."-Christian Inquirer. "Not one excels in interest the account of Nineveh and its Ruins, given by Mr. Layard."Washington Intelligencer. "As we follow the diggers with breathless interest in their excavations, and suddenly find ourselves before a massive figure carved with minute accuracy, now lifting its gigantic head from the dust of 3000 years, we are ready to cry out with the astonished Arabs, Wallah, it is wonderful, but it is true!"-Independent. Egypt and Its Monuments, As Illustrative of Scripture History. BY FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D. D., LL. D., &c, &c. Illustrated with Engravings from the Works of CHAMPOLLION, ROSELLINI, WILKINSON, and others, and Architectural Views of the Principal Tem ples, &c. One vol. 8vo., uniform with Layard's Nineveh.' This work presents a comprehensive and authentic, and at the same time popular view of all that has been brought to light by modern travellers, illustrative of the manners and customs, arts, architecture, and domestic life of the ancient Egyptians-with reference to other ancient remains in the "Old and New World." The following are some of the architectural illustrations, beautifully executed in tant. by Sarony & Major: Sphinx and Pyramids, Great Temple of Karnac Interior of a Tomb, Statues of Memnon, Thebes, Interior of Great Temple, Abso-Simbel, go Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries---Ju the East. CONTINUED. Egypt and its Monuments; Or, Egypt a Witness for the Bible. BY FRANCIS L. HAWKS, D. D., LL. D., &c., &c. Illustrated with Engravings from the works of Champollion, Rosellim, Wilkinson, and others; and Architectural Views of the principal Temples, &c. 1 vol. 8vo, uniform with "Layard's Nineveh," cloth, $2 50; half mor. gilt edges, $3 50. SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. "It wil. have a lively interest; not for the Bible student only, but for all who take interest in historical research."-N. Y. Com. Advertiser. "A valuable contribution to our Sacred Literature."-Newark Daily Advertiser. "It supplies a desideratum in the Literature of the Bible."-Buffalo Commercial. "An intelligible, true, and readable book on Egypt, beyond what the experiences of a single traveller could furnish the materials of."-Boston Transcript. "The volume will constitute a valuable addition to Christian Literature."-N. Y. Recorder. "The volume of Dr. Hawks will be welcomed by many readers as a valuable contribution to the stock of information, hitherto to be obtained only in the costly volumes of Wilkinson and others. There probably exists no other volume of the same size containing so much information on Egypt."-Cambridge Chronicle. "The volume is intensely interesting, and will abundantly repay a careful perusal."—Christian Alliance. "The entire work is filled with most instructive facts, gathered from recent discoveries in monu. mental literature, valuable alike to the theological student and general reader."- Universalist Review. "In the treatment of this subject, Dr. Hawks's admirable faculty of lucid arrangement and distinct statement has full play; and he proceeds, too, with a calm confidence of the strength of his positions, that cannot fail to inspire his readers-such of them especially as have been somewhat startled by the bold assertions of the infidel school of Egyptologists and their train of ignoran imitators-with a similar confidence."-Methodist Quarterly Review. Or, Sketches of Travel in Egypt and the Holy Land. BY REV. J. A. SPENCER, M. A Editor of the New Testament in Greek, with English Notes. Member of the New-York Splendidly Illustrated with Original Drawings. 8vo, pp. 500. Uniform wi 66 CONTENTS. EGYPT.-Alexandria.-The Nile and the Pyramids.-The Pyramids and their Builders.-Life on the Nile.--Philae, Syene, Elephantine, Esneh.-Necropolis of Thebes.-Luxor and Karnak.Dendera, Es-siout, Beni-hassan.-The Metropolis of Egypt.-Mosks, Citadel, Heliopolis.→→ Coptic Church, Public Men and Events. THE HOLY LAND.-Life in the Desert.-Palestina, the Hill Country-The Holy City.-Gethsemane, the Mount of Olives.-Calvary and the Holy Sepulchre.-Bethlehem and its Vicinity. -The Dead Sea and the Jordan.-Judea, Samaria, Jacob's Well, Nabulus.-Sebaste, Tabor Tiberias, Nazareth.-Mount Carmel, St. Jean d'Acre, Tyre.-Sidon, Beirut and its Vicinity — Appendix, Notes, &c. Travels, Adventures, and Discoveries---In the East. CONTINUED. Visits to Monasteries in the Levant. BY THE HON. ROBERT CURZON. One vol., post 8vo. Illustrated with 17 spirited Engravings. $150. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. Monastery of Meteora, Interior of Greek Monastery, Koord, or Native of Koordistan. Negress waiting to be sous, Bedouin Arab, Egyptian in Nizam Dress, Interior of Abyssinian Library, Mendicant Dervish, Church of Holy Sepulchre, Monastery of St. Barlaam, Tartar, or Government Messenger, Turkish Common Soldier, Promontory of Mount Athos, Monastery of Simo-Petri, Turkish Lady. "A volume of more than ordinary interest, relating a series of most curious and often amusing adventures. The field occupied by the volume is almost entirely new."-Commercial Advertiser. "A very curious and unique work. We recommend it to those who are fond of cheerful inci-" dent of travel, through lands possessing the greatest interest."-Washington Union. "His wanderings in the Levant extend over a period of nearly ten years, abounding in adventures, many of them attended with extreme peril, which are told with inimitable naiveté and skill. There is an elegance and picturesque simplicity in his language equally rare and delightful. The book is profusely illustrated by wood engravings in the highest style of art, executed in London. It is issued simultaneously with Murray's English edition, and the author receives his share of the profits arising from its sale here."-Tribune. Oriental Life Illustrated: Being a new Edition of " Eöthen, or, Traces of Travel brought Home from the East." Illustrated with fine Steel Engravings, viz., TRAVELLING IN THE DESERT, LUXOR, KARNAC, Nazareth, the PYRAMIDS. 12mo, cloth, extra gilt, $1 50. "Nothing so sparkling, so graphic, so truthful in sentiment, and so poetic in vein, has issued from the press in many a day."-London Critic. Journey from Cornhill to Cairo. BY MICHAEL ANGELO TITMARSH. One vol. 12mo, green cloth, 50 cts. It is wonderful what a description of people and things, what numerous pictures, what inas merable remarks and allusions it contains."-Douglas Jerrold's Magazine. |