Sedgwick,
Prof. A. Gray,
Leigh Hunt,
Chas. Fenno Hoffman,
Mrs. E. Oakes Smith,
Thomas Carlyle,
George H. Calvert,
Mrs. C. M. Kirkland,
R. Monckton Milnes,
J. Bayard Taylor,
Mary Howitt,
Mrs. Jameson,
S. Wells Williams,
W. M. Thackeray,
Charles Lamb,
A. J. Downing,
Thos. Hood,
Elliot Warburton_.
The following new works are now ready, or will be published this season:
I.
Sophisms of the Protective Policy.
Translated from the French of F. Bastiat. With an introduction by
Francis Lieber, LL.D. Professor in South Carolina College, Editor of the
Encyclopedia Americana, &c. 12mo. 75 cents.
"It is a book not for the million but for millions, and we
believe if a copy could be put into the hands of every
school-boy in the Union, the next generation would be
inconceivably wiser, richer, and happier than the
present."--_Mirror._
II.
Grecian and Roman Mythology:
With original illustrations. Adapted for the use of Universities and
High Schools, and for popular reading. By M. A. Dwight. With an
introduction by Tayler Lewis, Professor of Greek, University of New
York. 12mo. (On 1st September.)
Also a fine edition in octavo, with illustrations.
* * * This work has been prepared with great care, illustrated with
20 effective outline drawings, and is designed to treat the
subject in an original, comprehensive, and unexceptionable
manner, so as to fill the place as a text book which is yet
unsupplied; while it will also be an attractive and readable
table book for general use. It will be at once introduced as a
text book in the University of New York and other colleges and
schools.
III.
Eureka: a Prose Poem.
Or the Physical and Metaphysical Universe.
By Edgar A. Poe, Esq. Handsomely printed, 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents.
"A most extraordinary Essay. We shall be greatly surprised if
this work does not create a most profound sensation among the
literary and scientific classes."--_New York Express._
IV.
Oriental Life Illustrated.
Being a new edition of Eoethen, or Traces of Travel in the East. With
fine illustrations on Steel. 12mo. elegantly bound, $1 50.
* * * This new and unique volume, superbly illuminated by Mapleson,
and comprising original articles by distinguished writers, will
be the most elegant and recherche book of the kind ever
produced in this country. It will be
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