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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO FRIENDS, CORRESPONDENTS 



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 j 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, 

 w^ould 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 uninlermitting 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, boih 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 parr, retrospec- 

 tive,— liJJ. 



DOMESTIC. 



A System of Modern Geography for Schools and Academies, by 

 Nathaniel G. Huntington, A. M. Hartford, Conn., 1S35. From 



the publishers. 



Report of the Engineer upon the preliminary Surveys for the 

 Hartford and New Haven Rail Road. From A. C. Twining, Esq. 



Civil Engineer. 



Details of the American Revolution from a manuscript obtained 

 by Ithiel Town, Esq., in London, in the year 1830. New York, 

 1835. From Mr. Town. 



