JOURNAL OF CIVILISATION. 

On the Eighth of May, 1841, will be published, to be continued 
on each succeeding Saturday, 
IN IMPERIAL 8v0, BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH WOOD-CUTS, 
THE JOURNAL OF 
CIVILISATION. 
PUBLISHED UNDER THE SWPERINTENDENCE OF THE SOCIETY FOR 
THE ADVANCEMENT OF CIVILISATION. 
SPIRIT of inquiry, observation, and research is one of 
the most prominent characteristics of the present age. 
Instead of a solitary traveller here and there, looking on man in 
his greatly diversified condition, and then recounting his adyen- 
tures in his own circle, there is a multitude traversing the globe, 
prying into the state of its inhabitants, and laboriously describ- 
ing it to others. Never were our facilities for studying human 
nature so many; and yet, though daily on the increase, they are 
unhappily available only to a very limited extent. 
It is an indisputable fact, that many travellers record their 
discoveries in memoirs read before our learned societies, frag- 
ments of which only meet the eyes of the few in the pages of their 
“Transactions ;” while others publish them in volumes so large 
and costly, as to render their use equally exclusive. In some 
