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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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