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COCKBURN'S LIFE OF LORD JEFFREY.

LIFE OF LORD JEFFREY, with a selection from his correspondence. By LORD COCKBURN, one of the Judges of the Court of Sessions in Scotland. "Those who know Lord Jeffrey only through the pages of the Edinburgh Review get but a one-sided, and not the most pleasant, view of his character."

"We advise our readers to obtain the book, and enjoy it to the full themselves. They will unite with us in saying that the self-drawn character portrayed in the letters of Lord Jeffrey is one of the most delightful pictures that has ever been presented to them."-Evening Bulletin.

"Jeffrey was for a long period editor of the Review, and was admitted by all the other contributors to be the leading spirit in it. In addition to his political articles, he soon showed his wonderful powers of criticism in literature. He was equally at home whether censuring or applauding; in his onslaughts on the mediocrity of Southey, or the misused talents of Byron, or in his noble essays on Shakspeare, or Scott, or Burns."-New York Express.

One volume, demi-octavo. Price, $1.25. WILLIAMS' TRAVELLER'S AND TOURIST'S GUIDE

THROUGH THE UNITED STATES, CANADA, &c.

This book will be found replete with information, not only to the traveller, but likewise to the man of business. In its preparation an entirely new plan has been adopted, which, we are convinced, needs only a trial to be fully appreciated. Among its many valuable features are tables showing at a glance the distance, fare, and time occupied in travelling from the principal cities to the most important places in the Union; so that the question frequently asked, without obtaining a satisfactory reply, is here answered in full. Other tables show the distances from New York, &c. to domestic and foreign ports by sea; and also, by way of comparison, from New York and Liverpool to the principal ports beyond and around Cape Horn, &c. as well as via the Isthmus of Panama. Accompanied by a large and accurate map of the United States, including a separate Map of California, Oregon, New Mexico, and Utah. Also, a Map of the Island of Cuba, and Plan of the City and Harbor of Harana, and a Map of Niagara River and Falls. Pocket form; price, 75 cents.

THE LEGISLATIVE GUIDE: Containing directions for conducting business in the House of Representatives; the Senate of the United States; the Joint Rules of both Houses; a Synopsis of Jefferson's Manual, and copious InIdices; together with a concise system of Rules of Order, based on the regulations of the United States Congress. Designed to economize time, secure uniformity and despatch in conducting business in all secular meetings, and also in all religious, political, and legislative assemblies. JOSEPH BARTLETT BURLEIGH, LL.D.

By

This is considered by our Judges and Congressmen as decidedly the best work of the kind extant. Every young man in the country should have a copy of this book. In one volume, 12mo. Price, $1.00.

A BOOK FOR EVERY FAMILY. THE DICTIONARY OF DOMESTIC MEDICINE AND HOUSEHOLD SURGERY. By SPENCER THOMPSON, M.D., F.R.C.S., of Edinburgh. Illustrated with numerous cuts. Edited and adapted to the wants of this country by a well-known practitioner of Philadelphia.

In one volume, demi-octavo. Price, $1.50.

GREAT TRUTHS ILLUSTRATED BY GREAT AUTHORS.

A Dictionary of over Four Thousand Aids to Reflection-Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c., in Prose and Verse. Compiled from Shakspeare, and other great writers, from the earliest ages to the present time.

A new edition, with American additions and revisions. One volume, demi-octavo. Price, $1.50.

STANSBURY'S EXPEDITION TO THE GREAT SALT LAKE.

An Exploration of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah, containing its Geography, Natural History, Mineralogical Resources, Analysis of its Waters, and an Authentic Account of the Mormon Settlement. Also, a Reconnoissance of a New Route through the Rocky Mountains. With seventy beautiful Illustrations, from drawings taken on the spot, and two large and accurate Maps of that region. By HoWARD STANSBURY, Captain Topographical Engineers.

Two volumes, royal octavo. Price, $4.00.

A DICTIONARY OF SELECT AND POPULAR QUOTATIONS,

WHICH ARE IN DAILY USE. Taken from the Latin, French, Greek, Spanish, and Italian Languages. Together with a copious Collection of Law Maxims and Law Terms, translated into English, with Illustrations, Historical and Idiomatic. New American edition, corrected, with additions. One volume, 12mo. Price, 75 cents.

A COMPLETE DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS:

Comprising the most excellent and appropriate passages in the old British Poets; with choice and copious Selections from the best modern British and American Poets. Edited by SARAH JOSEPHA HALE. As nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light

Of Nature and of beauty.-Bailey's Festus. The publishers extract, from the many highly complimentary notices of the above valuable and beautiful work, the following:

"We have at last a volume of Poetical Quotations worthy of the name. It contains nearly six hundred octavo pages, carefully and tastefully selected from all the home and foreign authors of celebrity. It is invaluable to a writer, while to the ordinary reader it presents every subject at a glance."-Godey's Lady's Book.

is one for which her fine taste, her orderly habits of mind, "The plan or idea of Mrs. IIALE's work is felicitous. It and her long occupation with literature, have given her peculiar facilities; and thoroughly has she accomplished her task in the work before us."-Sartain's Magazine.

"It is a choice collection of poetical extracts from every English and American author worth perusing, from the days of Chaucer to the present time."-Washington Union. "There is nothing negative about this work; it is posi tively good."-Evening Bulletin.

Beautifully illustrated with engravings. In one superroyal octavo volume, in various bindings.

THIERS' CONSULATE AND EMPIRE OF
NAPOLEON.

THE HISTORY OF THE CONSULATE AND
EMPIRE OF FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON.
By M. A. THIERS, late Prime Minister of France,
Member of the French Academy and of the In-
stitute. Translated from the French by D. Forbes
Campbell and H. W. Herbert. With Notes and
Additions. Two volumes, octavo, cloth, $2.50.

From the Advertisement by the Author.

"I have now completed, after fifteen years of assiduous labor, the History of the Consulate and Empire, which I began in 1840. Not one of these fifteen years, excepting that during which political events required me to be absent from France, have I allowed to escape without having devoted my whole time to the difficult task I had undertaken. It is possible, I acknowledge, to work with greater rapidity; but my respect for the office of historian is such that the fear of hazarding an inaccurate assertion exposes me to the most vered the proof of the doubted fact, if such exist, or have serious perplexity. I have then no rest until I have discoattained the conviction that no such proof is to be found. .... Under the influence of such scruples I have read repeatedly and have with my own hand made an inventory of the innumerable papers contained in the archives of the state; 30,000 letters composing the personal correspondence

WASHINGTON AND THE GENERALS OF THE of Napoleon; the letters no less numerous of his ministers,

AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Two volumes complete in one, demi-octavo, $1.50.

generals, aides-de-camp, and even police-agents, and finally the greater part of the manuscript memoirs retained in the bosom of private families."

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