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8. The Book of the World, being an account of All Republics, Em- 

 pires, Kingdoms and Nations, in reference to their Geography, Statistics, 

 Commerce, &c, together with a brief Historical Outline of their Rise, 

 Progress and Present Condition, &c, by Richard S. Fisher, M.D., 2 vols. 

 8vo, 6 14 and 706 pp. New York, 1849. — This work, as the preface states, 

 is u intended to supply a standard of general reference and a source to 

 which the merchant and scholar may look for the most recent and best 

 authenticated account of the worid in its several parts." The first vol- 

 ume, after six pages devoted to general remarks upon the world, is oc- 

 cupied with an account of America, 332 pages of which relate to the 

 United Slates. The most recent travellers have been consulted with refer- 

 ence to Oregon, California and other parts of Western America. Exten- 

 sive statistical tables of population, commerce, navigation, navy, army, 

 churches, canals and railroads, &c, are appended to this part of the 

 work. The second volume comprises the countries of the Eastern 

 Continent and Pacific and Antarctic Oceans. The work is illustrated 

 wiih a chart of the mountains and rivers of the globe ; a chart of the 

 national flags of all nations; a chart of the United States, and a chart 

 of the world. 



9. Chemical Technology, or Chemistry applied to the Arts and 

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 and edited, with numerous notes and additions, by Dr. Ediviund Ro- 

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 notes and additions, by Prof. Walter R. Johnson. 2 vols. 8vo. Lea 

 & Blanchard : Philadelphia, 1849. — The second volume of this work 

 has just appeared, and is illustrated with 246 engravings on wood, in 

 the first style of the art. The great beauty and fullness of the illus- 

 trations, and the general style of priming, recommend the work on 

 the first glance at its pages. This volume treats of glass, alum and 

 vitriol, pottery, brick making, lime, mortar, gypsum, magnesia, and 

 fcarytes; and all the various modes and means of manufacture and use 

 are detailed, with chemical analyses and a general scientific as well as 

 practical view of the subject. As a specimen of the detail : — to glass 

 134 pages are devoted, treating of glass and its properties — composi- 

 tion of different kinds — materials and implements for manufacture 

 manufacture of the different kinds, with minute details and modes of 

 working for the various styles of articles — moulds for pressing glass, 

 and grinding — optical glasses — colored glass — manufacture of smalt 

 artificial gems — enamel — incrustations, gilding, silvering, &c. — glass 

 spinning, etching, &c. — soluble glass. The other topics are taken up 

 in a similar manner. 



10. Twelve Lectures on Comparative Embryology, delivered before 

 the Lowell Institute in Boston, December and January, 1848-9; by 

 Louis Agassiz, Prof. Zool. and Geol. in the Lawrence Scientific School, 

 Cambridge Lniversity. 104 pp. 8vo. Boston : Henry Flanders & Co., 

 1849. — These lectures were reported phonographically, by Mr. James 

 W. Stone., A.M., and we understand, from good authority, that they are 

 faithfully and correctly given. Professor Agassiz for a long time has 

 made this subject his special study, and the science is indebted to him 

 for many important discoveries. Embryology, or the science of egg 

 or animal development, opens to the student the innermost recesses ot 



