NOTES ON ITALY, during the years 1829-30. 

 By Rembrandt Peale. In 1 vol. 8vo. 



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 he is neither ostentatious, nor dogmatical, nor too mi- 

 nute ; he is not a partisan nor a carper ; he admires with- 

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 frankness and good humor give an agreeable color and 

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 leaves a useful general idea of the names, works, and de- 

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 No* church, gallery, or collection, was passed by, and most 

 of the individual pictures are separately and carefully 

 noticed." — Am. Qvartcrly Revieic. 



FRAGMENTS of VOYAGES and TRAV- 

 ELS, INCLUDING ANECDOTES of NAVAL 

 LIFE ; intended chiefly for the Use of Young 

 Persons, By Basil Hall, Capt. R. N. In 

 2 vols, royal 18mo. 



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 the humors of the green room.' " — Lit. Gazette. 



A TOUR IN AMERICA. By Basil Hall, 

 Capt. R. N. In 2 vols. 12mo. 



SKETCHES of' CHINA, with Illustrations 

 from Original Drawings. By W. W. Wood. 

 In 1 vol. 12mo. 



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 years 1826-7-8 and 9, has enabled him to collect much 

 very curious information relative to this singular people, 

 which he has embodied in his work; and will serve to 

 gratify the curiosity of many whose time or dispositions 

 do not allow them to seek, in the voluminous writings of 

 the Jesuits and early travellers, the information contained 

 in the present work. The recent discussion relative to 

 the renewal of the East India Company's Charter, has 

 e.xcited much interest; and among ourselves, the desire 

 to be further acquainted with the subjects of 'the Celes- 

 tial Empire,' has been considerably augmented." 



EXPEDITION TO THE SOURCES of the 

 MISSISSIPPI, Executed by order of the 

 Government of the United States. By Ma- 

 jor S. H. Long. In 2 vols. 8vo. With Plates. 



HISTORICAL, CHRONOLOGICAL, GEO- 

 GRAPHICAL, AND STATISTICAL AT- 

 LAS of NORTH AND SOUTH AMERI- 

 CA, AND THE WEST INDIES, with all 

 their Divisions into States, Kingdoms, &c. 

 on the Plan of Le Sage, and intended as a 

 companipn to Lavoisne's Atlaa In 1 vol. 

 folio, containing 54 Maps. Third Edition, 

 improved and enlarged. 



ATLANTIC SOUVENIR, for the different 

 years, 1832, 1831, &c. 



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SALMONIA; or. Days of Fly Fishing; by 

 Sir Humphry Davy. 



" One of the most delightful labors of leisure ever 

 seen ; not a few of the most beautiful phenomena of na- 

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The MECHANISM of the HEAVENS : by 

 Mrs. Somerville. In 18mo. 



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ON THE PENITENTIARY SYSTEM IN 

 THE UNITED STATES, and its applica- 

 tion in France. With an Appendix on Pe- 

 nal Codes, and Statistical Notes. By G. De 

 Beaumont and A. De Toqueville, Counsel- 

 lors in the Royal Court of Paris, and Mem- 

 bers of the Historical Society of Pennsylva- 

 nia. Translated from the French : with an 

 introduction, notes, and additions. By Fran- 

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 the subject." 



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TALES AND CONVERSATIONS, or, THE 

 NEW CHILDREN'S FRIEND. By Mrs. 

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 land and France. In 2 small volumes. 



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THE BOOK of the SEASONS. By 

 William HovtriTT. 



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 no work at once so interesting and instructive as the 

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 full of nature and truth — in which reflection and experi- 

 ence derive aid from imagination — in which we are 

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 time we have been reading." — JVeio Monthly Magazine. 



" The Book of the Seasons is a delightful book, and 

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