ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO FRIKNDS, CORRKSPONDENTS AND 

 STRANGERS. 



Remarks. — This method of acknowledgment has been adopted, 

 because it is not always practicable to write letters, even in cases 

 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; for it is often 

 equally impossible to comniuud 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 unintermitiiug 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, both at home and abroad. It 

 is still my endeavor to reply to all letters which a[)pear to require an 

 answer; although, as a substitute, many acknowledgments are made 

 in these pages, which may sometimes be, as now, in part, retrospec- 

 tive. — Ed. 



DOMESTIC. 



United States Military and Naval JNIagazine, July and Aug. 1834. 

 Exch. 



Knickerbocker, New York, St;pt. 1834. Exch. 



Western Monthly Magazine, Cincinnati, for Sept. and Oct. 1834. 

 Exch. 



Med. Mag. Boston, Sept. and Oct. 1. Exch. 



Joiynal of the Geological Society of Philadelphia. 8vo from p. 

 39 to 112. From Dr. Harlan. 



African Repository, Vol. X, No. 7. Sept. 1834, Washington. 



Rev. Mr. Vanarsdalen's Discourse on international peace. June, 

 1834, Hartford, pp. 40. 



Cat. of Princeton College, 1834. From Prof. Henry. 



Rev. Dr. W. B. Sprague's Oration on La Fayette. July, 1834, 

 Albany, pp. 34. 



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