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interest of a romance, from the graphic style in which |he 

 has described his adventures and sufferings, and the strange 

 people and countries which he visited : but Major Head has 

 secured for Bruce the credit of a trustworthy authority, in 

 addition to the reputation of an entertaining narrator. 



THE COTJET AND CAMP OF BUONAPARTE. 



With a full-length portrait of Prince Talleyrand, 

 and other Portraits. 



This volume is a suitable and indispensable companion to 

 the Life of Napoleon. It contains the cream "of many 

 hundred volumes," in the shape of Memoirs, Lives, Narra- 

 tives, Anecdotes, &c., connected with Buonaparte, with which 

 the press of France has for fifteen years been teeming. It 

 presents rapid, but vigorous sketches of the Emperor's 

 Brothers, Wives, Sisters, Ministers, Marshals, and Generals; 

 and those who wish for competent knowledge of " Napoleon 

 and his Times," will find no work in the English language 

 which conveys such information in a more concise shape or 

 a more lively manner. 



THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTO- 

 PHER COLUMBUS. 



By WASHINGTON IRVING. Abridged by him from his larger 

 Work. With Portraits, Maps, &c. 



This little work has become a universal school-book in 

 America. It contains all that is most important in the 

 original, in a form more condensed, and more within the 

 reach of the general reader ; while the story is told with the 

 same spirit and grace as in the great work. As a book of 

 entertainment, it will bear comparison with any biographical 

 sketch of the age. 



LIVES OF EMINENT BRITISH PHYSICIANS. 



With fine Portraits and Woodcuts. 



The Lives of Physicians furnish a theme by no means 

 deficient in interest and value. From them have proceeded 

 some of the greatest benefactors of the human race ; their 



