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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



1. Edinburgh Cabinet Library. — Marralive of Discovery and 



Adventure in the Polar Regions and Seas. Vol. I. 

 Narrative of Discovert/ and Adventure in Africa. Vol. II. Pub- 

 lished by Oliver & Boyd. 1830. 

 This we consider one of the best, and certainly the most ele- 

 gantly got up, and the cheapest too, of the series of similar works 

 at present in progress of publication in this country, on the Con- 

 tinent of Europe, and in the New World. The narrative is writ- 

 ten with spirit and in good taste, by Mr Hugh Murray; the 

 scientific department, by Professors Jameson and Leslie, and 

 Mr James Wilson. Professor Leslie's estimate of the climate of 

 the Arctic Regions is interesting ; Professor Jameson's memoirs 

 contain the first connected views hitherto published of the de- 

 scriptive and speculative geology of the Arctic Regions, and of 

 central and southern Africa ; and Mr Wilson, in his zoological 

 sketch, makes us agreeably acquainted with the more remark- 

 able animals of the African Continent. 



2. Wilson's American Ornithology. 

 Of this very delightful and fascinating book, an edition, un- 

 der the superintendence of the Regius Professor of Natural His- 

 tory of our. University, is in progress of publication for " Con- 

 stable's Miscellany *." The plates which accompany the expen- 

 sive original work will not be engraved for the Edinburgh edi- 

 tion. Professor Jameson being of opinion that the publication 

 of these would so much increase its price, as to prevent its be- 

 coming a household book throughout the country ; which, we 

 doubt not, will be the case in its present form. " Illustrations 

 of WilsorCs Ornithologif are announced ; but with these, neither 

 Professor Jameson nor the proprietors of Constable's Miscellany 

 have any connexion. 



• It may interest our readers to know that the present system of popular 

 and cheap works on science and literature, originated with the late Archibald 

 Constable, Esq. The scheme was considered absurd by all his friends ; but 

 he appears to have known the public taste better than they ; for Constable's 

 Miscellany, an excellent work, has served, in some degree, as a general mo- 

 del for the popular works now publishing by all the great booksellers not only 

 in Britain, but also in France, Germany, and Italy. 



