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 
pampblets which are kindly presented, even in cases, where such no- 
lices, 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 Jabor, 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. 4 
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 ene pages, which may sometimes be, as now, in part, retrospec- 
tive.—Ed. 
DOMESTIC. 
A Catechism of Medical Jurisprudence, by Stephen W. Wil- 
liams, M. D. 
American Almanack for 1835, by J. E. Worcester. 
Discourse before the Young Men’s Colonization Society of Penn- 
sylvania, Oct. 24, 1834, by iE, Tyson. From Elliott Cresson. 
Elements of Chemistry, by Dr. L. D. Gale, 1835. 12mo. pp. 323, 
over 100 engravings. From the author. 
Report from the Secretary of the Treasury on the keeping and dis- 
bursing of the public money. From E. Jackson, M. C. 
Report on our Relations with France, Jaa. 6, 1835. Two cop- 
~ ies, one from N. Smith, M.S. and one from Jos. Trumbull, M. C. 
A letter tothe Rev. Noah Porter on Dr. Bellamy’s doctrines. 
Avon, 1834. 
Reformed Alphabet and Orthography, by Lewis Marquirier. St. 
Louis, 1834. 
Hon. J. Q. Adams’s Oration on La Fayette, 31st Dec., 1834. 
Three copies, one from Walter Lowrie, one from Jos. Trumbull, 
~M. C. and the other from N. Smith, M. S. 
