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shows how certain and easy this improvement may be 
made by the use of the perfectly legitimate means therein 
pointed out. Its revelations of the laws of human con- 
figuration, on which symmetry and beauty depend, are 
not less interesting and important than they are novel and 
surprising. 
It will be found deeply interesting to both sexes (but 
especially to women) and to all ages; and we commend it 
to all for whom health, strength and beauty have any at- 
trctions ; to parents, as a guide to the right performance of 
their all-important functions and duties ; to teachers, who 
may learn from it how to develop the minds and bodies 
of their pupils harmoniously together; to young women, 
who will not look in vain to its pages for the secrets of 
that womanly beauty and personal attraction which they 
very naturally desire to possess ; and to young men, who 
will find it a manual of rules for the development of those 
high qualities of physical vigor and manliness which will 
command the admiration of their own sex no less than 
the love of the other. Illustrated with twenty plates and 
a large number of cuts, executed in the best style. Ad- 
dress the publishers, as above. 
Sugar Making from Sorghum. — Messrs. Hedges, Free, 
& Co., of No. 6 Main street, Cincinnati, publish an in- 
teresting pamphlet of nearly 200 pages, containing 
“Experiments with the Sorghum Sugar Cane, Sugar 
Making,” &c., with descriptive catalogue of Sugar 
making apparatus and agricultural implements. 
Copies of this Catalogue will be mailed to any address 
on receipt of three letter stamps, by Hedges, Free & 
Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio 
Prairie Farming in America, with Notes by the Way 
in Canada and the United States. By Jas Caird, M. 
P., author of “English Agriculture,” “Lettern on the 
Corn Crops,” “High Farming,” &c., &c. 1859. 
This is a little book of travel and observation by an 
English gentleman, who seems to have a pecuniary 
interest in some of the prairie lands cf the West, There 
is considerable information scattered through it, and it is, 
upon the whole, quite readable and pleasmt. It is pub- 
lished by D, Appleton & Co., New York. 
Suggestions on Landscape Gardening. By Charles 
Follen, Architect and Landscape Gardener. 
Thorough Drainage. By J. Herbert Shedd, Civil En- 
gineer. 
Both the above papers are comprised in a small pamph- 
let, from the press of Phillips, Sampson & Co , Boston; 
and though the authors are,of necessity, obliged to condense 
their remarks into a very small space, they contrive to 
give us some very sensible hints and suggestions. 
Grapes: Cultivation of the Hardy ^.merican Grape Vine, 
with hints on How to Purchase, and What Varieties of 
Vines to Plant, &c. By Josiah Salter, a Practical 
Grape Grower of Twenty Years experience. 
This is a very excellent little treatise on Grape Culture 
as it should be practiced in the Northern and Middle States, 
and many of its lessons might be studied by our readers 
with profit. It may be had per mail for 15 cents in Post 
Office stamps. Address Josiah Salter, Rochester, 
New York. 
“Discourses on a Shameful Life,” and “A Dis- 
course ON the Evils of Gaming,” are two Sermons 
by the Rev. E. H. Chapin, D. D., of New York. The 
subjects under discussion are treated in the peculiarly 
forcible and eloquent manner of the author, and both 
Discourses are intended and well calculated to do good. 
Price 10 cents each. Published by Thatcher &• Hut- 
inson, 523 Broadway, New York, 
The “ Southern Field and Fireside ;” a Weekly Liter- 
ary and Agricultural Journal, W. W, Majw, Literary 
Editor, Dr, D. Lee, Agricultural Editor. Wm. N. 
White, Horticultural Editor. Jas. Gardner, Publisher. 
S2 per year. Augusta, Ga. 
This new journal is a very handsome Weekly of 8 pages, 
of the size and form of the New York Ledger. The first 
four numbers give abundant evidence of taste and ability 
in the different departments to which it is devoted, and 
we doubt not its interest and value as a Southern Family 
Paper will be well sustained. It starts under very fair 
and promising auspices, and we trust it will prove a suc- 
cess. Address the publisher, as above. 
The Microscopist’s Companion ; a Popular Manual of 
Practical Microscopy. Designed for those engaged in 
Microscopic Investigation, Schools, Seminaries, Col- 
'eges, etc., and comprising Selections from the best 
writers on the Microscope, relative to its Use, Mode of 
Management, Preservation of Objects, etc., to whiefi is 
added a Glossary of the Principal Terms used in Micro- 
scopic Science, By John King, M. D. Illustrated 
with one hundred and fourteen Cuts, Cincinnati; 
Robert Clarke & Co. 1859. 
The above is the title merely of a very useful and enter- 
taining work now in press, a fuller notice of which will 
be g'ven as soon as it is published. 
The Gardener’s Monthly improves with every num- 
ber, and will soon be indispensable to all cultivators who 
pretend to “keep up with the times.” It is published 
monthly at ^1 per annum. Address the editor, Thomas 
Meghan, Philadelphia, Pa., or the Agent, V. LaTaste, of 
this city. 
The Horticulturist has been so often praised in these 
columns that we need now only say that it is as “good as 
ever,” and that no fruit grower or florist can afford to do 
without it, $2 per annum. Address C, M. Saxton, 25 
Park Row, New York. 
Camels in Mobile. — The steamer Fashion brought to 
Mobile on her last trip twenty-one camels. The TYibune 
says ; 
They are natives of the Canaries. Eight of them are to 
be taken to Dallas, by Mr. B. M. Woolsey, of that coun- 
ty. The rest are for sale here. 
There can hardly be a doubt that these animals will be 
found very serviceable for certain kinds of work. For ex- 
ample, one of them can easily cary two bales of cotton on 
its back attherate of 25 mile? a day over a road which 
would be impassable to an empty wagon drawn by a pair 
of mules. The cost of keeping them is very little, and in en- 
durance, under labor or privation, no animal can excel 
them. They are as gentle, too, as a dog. 
