EDITOR S TABLE. 



€;atal05ucj5, |3ami)1jUls, $ct., on our ®ai)It. 

 A perfect shower of periodicals, books, &c., &c., occupy our table: — viz.- 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 A Circular, showing briefly the Necessity, Effects, Practice and Profit of Land Drainage. — 

 Wilmington, Del. 



Agricultural papers have long labored to disseminate the true theory of drainage 

 among us, and probably they have convinced many farmers of its great importance. 

 Another step is necessary : tiles for the purpose must be made abundant and reasonably 

 cheap, and farmers must be told -where they can procure them vrithout too much cost. 

 One example is worth a hundred descriptions ; so that every person who demonstrates to 

 his neighbors the value of drainage — to his neighbors does a positive good. This has 

 been done in various places ; the tiles are now sold at most agricultural warehouses, but 

 they do not afford the vender a large profit, and you must ask for them, and perhaps 

 meet with discouragement in procuring them ; it is well therefore to go to head-quarters 

 fur a bulky article of little interest to the storekeepers. A letter with a stamp enclosed to 

 John S. Ililles, Wilmington, Delaware, will procure this valuable pamphlet, and the tiles 

 can be had from the same gentleman. 



Address delivered before the Philadelj)hia County Bledical Society. By Thomas F. Betton, 

 31. D., President of the Society. 



Characterized by his usual correctness of style and argument, and containing some 

 home-truths, that coming from a regular graduate and extensive and popular practitioner, 

 ought to sink deep into the minds of Trustees and Professors of Universities. 



Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M. D., Physician 

 to the Institution. 



A succinct account of one of the most ably conducted institutions in the Union. Dr. 

 Kirkbride's reports are always satisfactory and to the point. 



Catalogue of the Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Philadelphia. 



The members of this institution are earnest in their endeavors to disseminate a taste 

 for the fine arts, and so far deserve our praise. Their expenditures are liberal, and their 

 collection consequently extensive. We wish them every success. 



Catidogue of Pure Bed Short Horns, oimed by B. tj- C. S. Haines, Elizabethtoicn, N. J. 



This catalogue of valuable stock has been printed at considerable expense, and con- 

 tains portraits and genealogies of great interest. It may be had on application to the 

 proprietors. 



Annual Revieto of the Commerce, Slanvfactures, Public and Private Improvements of Chicago, 

 with a notice of the System of Railroads, and a Topographical Vieiu of the City and Vicinity, with 

 reference to its capacity for Drainage, and the adaptation of its soil to the growth of vegetables and 

 fruits. 



This curious pamphlet wo shall forward to one of our European correspondents, who 

 asked us once if we had ever been at Chick-a-go ! to show him what Americans can do 

 when they get a chance at a good " location" for a city. It will astonish him even more 

 than it has us. 



Books for the Country. — Published by C. M. Saxton .J- Co., 152 Fulton street, Neio York. 



Suitable for school, town and private libraries. Gratis. 



Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society in Boston, April, 1S55. 



Neat and valuable. 



