higher class of Fiction, commencing
with a

TALE OF MODERN LIFE,

by MR. LEITCH RITCHIE, which will be continued in weekly chapters till
completed; also a

MONTHLY REVIEW OF THE LIBRARY AND STUDIO,

in addition to a Monthly Record, still more carefully drawn up than
formerly, of the

PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND THE USEFUL ARTS.

Among expected contributions of importance, may be mentioned a series of
Articles on

THINGS AS THEY ARE IN AMERICA,

by MR. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, who is at present travelling in the United States
and Canada, for the purpose of personal inquiry observation.

It will be the constant study of the Editors to maintain in the New Work
all those general features which for Twenty-two Years have given their
Journal its extensive popularity--a cheerful Light Literature,
comprehensive Information, sound Ethics, and enlightened views of a
Progressive Social Economy, without the admixture of controversial matter
of any kind.

Issued in Weekly Numbers, at 1-1/2d.
-------- Monthly Parts. at 7d. and 8-1/2d.
-------- Half-yearly Volumes. at 4s. 6d.

The Second Series of CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL will form complete work,
in Twenty Handsome Volumes, well adapted for Popular as well as Private
Libraries, for Emigrants, and for Presents; price 3l. 7s. in sheets, or 4l.
10s. bound in cloth. Price of each volume separately, in cloth, 4s. 6d.

Published by W.& R. CHAMBERS, 3. Bride Passage, Fleet Street, London.
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Glasgow; and all Booksellers.

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This Day, Fourth and Cheaper Edition, 3 vols. 10s.

THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE. By the Author of "Henrietta's Wish," "The Kings of
England," &c.

London: JOHN W. PARKER & SON. West Strand.

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NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION OF MR. BURKE'S WORKS AND CORRESPONDENCE.

In 8 vols. 8vo., price 4l. 4s.

THE WORKS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE.

This Edition contains.--1. MR. BURKE'S CORRESPONDENCE between the year 1744
and his decease in 1797 (first Published from the original MSS. in 1844, by
Earl Fitswilliam and Sir Richard Bourke), containing numerous Historical
and Biographical Notes and original Letters from the leading Statesmen of
the period, and forming an Autobiography of this celebrated Writer.--2. The
WORKS of MR. BURKE, as edited by his Literary Executor, the late Bishop of