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2. Chambers’ Encyclopedia: a Dictionary of Univ ersal ayy oa 
Jor the people. Illustrated with maps and numerous engravi 
8vo. Vols. I and II. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. ow. & ray 
CHAMBERS, Edinburgh. 1860.—This excellent Eneyelopedia is on the basis 
of the German Conversations Lezicon. It is to be comple ted in six or seven 
the text and colored maps on steel. Its scientific articles are varied and 
generally able, ese | natural history, physics, astronomy, topography, 
geography and medicine. e maps are models of clearness and ele- 
—— in that style of illustration, which they understand so well in Edin- 
essrs, Chambers have earned a well deserved reputation for 
It will, by the terms of its prospectus, be the cheapest general encyclope- 
dia ever published, as va as one of the aati comprehensive. It con- 
strictly to the on 209m idea ote an eneyeopei which was first realized 
in English by Epnram Cuameers in his Universal Dictionary of Knowl- 
edge (1728), the basis after the 6th edition, (in 1750) of Dr. Ree’s Cyclo- 
pedia. We cordially commend the new Chambers’ Encyclopedia as 
worthy of a place in every collection of Sok for “pico 
. New American Cyclopedia. Appletons, N. Y. 1.—This able 
and useful work has reached its 11th volume, iiings with the word 
; . to close it with the 16th volume. Among 
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‘ Mineralogy, the first due, as we infer, to Dr. Reuben, and the last to 
Mr. Hodge, both authors of numerous scientific articles of merit in this 
Cyclopedia. It is to be regretted that a work in general so excellent 
should not include in its plan of publication those simple illustrations 
without which it is hardly possible to make Wis certain subjects, 
especially in physics and natural history. During the hoursedevoted to 
hrough these vo 
looking t lumes, lingering with sats to read not a 
few of their instructive a. we have been pressed with the 
great amount of discriminating labor and cabwleige involved in the 
Sir. me of so puis a anne of subjec 
5 ond Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Middle and 
Seathive Counties of Arkansas, made during the years 1859 and 1860, 
. Owen, Principal Geologist assisted by Roperr Peter, Chemi- 
eal Assis tant, Leo Lesquerevx, Botanist, and Epwarp Cox, Assistant 
Geologist. Philadelphia : C. Sherman aN Printers. 1860. 8vo, 
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