ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS, FRIENDS 
AND STRANGERS. ; 
Remarks.—This method of acknowledgment has been adopt- 
ed, because it is not always practicable to write letters, where 
they might be reasonably expected; and still more difficult is it 
_ to prepare and insert in this Journal, notices of all the books and 
pamphlets which are kindly presented, even in cases, where such no- 
tices, critical or commendatory, would be appropriate ; for it is often 
equally impossible to command the time requisite to frame them, or 
even to read the works; still, judicious remarks, from other hands, 
would usually find both acceptance and insertion. 
In public, it is rarely proper to advert to personal concerns; to 
excuse, for instance, any apparent neglect of courtesy, by pleading 
the unintermitting pressure of labor, and the numerous calls of our 
fellow-men for information, advice, or assistance, in lines of duty, 
with which they presume us to be acquainted. 
The apology, implied in this remark, is drawn from me, that I may 
not seem inattentive to the civilities of many respectable persons, au- 
thors, editors, publishers, and others, both at home and abroad. It 
is still my endeavor to reply to all letters which appear to require an 
answer ; although, as a substitute, many acknowledgments are made 
in these pages, which may sometimes be, as now, in part, retrospec- 
tive. —Ed. 
Books, Pamphlets, §c. 
DOMESTIC. 
A Discourse on Temperance and Stimulants in a warm climate, 
by E. H. Barton, M.D. New Orleans, 1837. From the author. 
Familiar View of the aa and Tendency of Usury Laws. 
New York, 1837. J.R. Hurd 
Catalogue of Chatham ‘Academy—October, 1837, to January, 
1837. Wm. H. Williams, the Princ 
Annual eae of the Common Sil Academies and Colleges 
of Baie iis, by Th. H. Burrowes, Superintendent. From the 
a de on co Schools, with peti instructions, &c. 
y . G. Burrowes. Harrisburg, Penn. 1837. The author. 
Vaaiensoe of General Washington from Di stigma of a 
to a fire by Joseph Ritner, Gov. of Pennsylvania. From 
Mr. Burrowes. . i 
