s respect he relieves the study of agricultural
science from the abstruseness of technical science, and thus renders
himself easily comprehended by all classes of readers.

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From the New-York Evening Post.

The author's object is to improve the soil through the mind--not so
much to place in the hands of farmers the best methods of raising
large crops--for these he refers them to Leibig's Agricultural
Chemistry, and to treatises of the like description--but to make them
feel how useful, agreeable, and ennobling, is the profession of
agriculture, and, above all, how profitable the business must become
when skilfully and economically carried on. These money-making
considerations are, we suspect, the best moral guano that can be
applied to the farmer's spiritual soil. The author writes well of the
countryman's independence, the good effect of fresh salubrious air
upon his health, and the moral influence of his every-day intimacy
with nature upon his mind.

"The Farm and the Fireside" is a kind of Bucolical annual--to be read
in seasons of leisure--intended for the Phyllises and Chloes, as well
as for the Strephons and Lindors. Dr. Blake has enriched it with
curious anecdotes of domestic animals, and of the best way of raising
and selling them. He describes model-farms, and the large incomes made
from them. He expatiates on the advantages of matrimony in rural life,
expounds the true theory of choosing a helpmate, discusses the
advantages of Sunday-Schools, and recommends neatness of attire and
punctuality in bathing. In short, this volume is as diversified in its
aspect as the small garden of a judicious cultivator, where, in a
limited space, useful cabbages, potatoes, and all the solid esculent
greens, grow side by side with choice fruits and pleasant flowers.

IMMENSE SALE!

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LEWIE;

OR,

THE BENDED TWIG!

BY COUSIN CICELY

Author of "SILVER LAKE STORIES."

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