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10. The JYew Universal Gazetteer, by Edwin Williams, is a small 

 and valuable volume. Perhaps there is not another of its size which 

 contains so much information, so well, and so concisely expressed. 

 Mr. Williams is remarkable for condensing facts and descriptions into 

 the smallest compass, without being abrupt, and for a terse style, ap- 

 propriate to works of this kind. The type is clear, although small, 

 and, as a book of reference, it is particularly convenient for its port- 

 able size. 



The statistical tables, comprising thirty pages at the end of the 

 volume, are interesting and useful. They contain the latest censuses 

 of the United States, Great Britain, France and Ireland, and refer 

 also to the tonnage, imports and exports, the colleges, post-roads, 

 rail-roads and canals of the United States ; also Martucci's popula- 

 tion of China, comparative heights of mountains, lengths of rivers, 

 and sizes of lakes, the number of Indians in the different states and 

 territories, with many other valuable particulars. 



Mr. Williams has just published " The Book of the Constitution," 

 containing various important documents and resolutions respecting 

 the true character and powers of the general government. 



1 1 . Flinfs History and Geography of the Valley of the Missis- 

 sippi, Sfc. 2d edition:' Cincinnati, 1832. — The author, Rev. Timo- 

 thy Flint, is already favorably known, by a previous edition of this 

 work, and by other works relating especially to the " great valley of 

 the west." 



An emigrant himself, he is identified with all the varied interests 

 which constitute the rapidly increasing prosperity of this noble and 

 interesting section of the United States ; and being one of its most 

 favored sons, he has contributed his best services to develop its re- 

 sources, to extend investigation, and to diffuse a knowledge of inter- 

 esting facts. 



With a mind filled, almost to enthusiasm, with his subject, familiar 

 with facts, accurate in his observations, and intelligent and indepen- 

 dent in his deductions, he is peculiarly fitted to appreciate and re- 

 cord the great moral and physical transformations which are now in 

 progress in the west. 



Having been an observer of man and nature, in every part of this 

 great valley, and an eye-witness of most of the scenes he describes, 

 they are depicted with faithfulness, and a freshness and fervor sel- 

 dom found in works of this kind, and we doubt not the anticipations 



