NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

And far in heaven, the while,

The sun, that sends that gale to wander here,
Pours out on the fair earth his quiet smile,-
The sweetest of the year.

Where now the solemn shade,
Verdure and gloom where many branches meet;
So grateful, when the noon of summer made

The vallies sick with heat?

Let in through all the trees
Come the strange rays; the forest depths are bright;
Their sunny-coloured foliage, in the breeze,
Twinkles, like beams of light.

The rivulet, late unseen,
Where bickering through the shrubs its waters run,
Shines with the image of its golden screen,
And glimmerings of the sun.

But, 'neath yon crimson tree,

Lover to listening maid might breathe his flame,
Nor mark, within its roseate canopy,

Who have leisure and means to do what they grace over the rudeness of society. then shall doubt their utility? Or what will, and good taste enough to love what is virtuous intellectual exercise is there, beautiful. The contrast, rather the comwhich is to be despised as unprofitable? parison, instituted between the two great "Philosophy," says an eminent writer, epic poets of Italy, pleased us perhaps more "teaches us to regard all human pursuits than any other part of this article. The as equally vain." Philosophy, say we, merits of each are allowed him; and the should rather teach us to regard them as faults of each are fairly stated; and this the almost equally profitable. author has done as only he could have done, who had studied them for himself, and learned to appreciate and enjoy their excellence. There are translations of parts THE first article in the XLV. number of Pulci's Morgante, of Ariosto's Satires, is a review of General Sumner's letter to and of the Ricciardetto of Fortiguerra, President Adams, respecting the Militia which, we suppose, should be accredited to System, with his answer; and of Captain the writer of the article. They are, espe Partridge's observations upon the same sub- cially the last, so very good, that we canject. The writer recommends that the na- not help hinting to the writer, that he may tional government should arm the militia perhaps employ a part of his leisure pleasat the expense of the nation; that Scott's antly and profitably in preparing for the system of discipline, now used by the Unit-public translations of larger portions of ed States army, should be adapted to the Italian literature. The dramatic poetry of militia; and that some kind of classification Italy did not fall within the scope of this Depart should be adopted, by which the severer labour and greater expense of time should fall upon the younger class. He states with force and accuracy the reasons which make those plans of occasional encampment of bodies of militia, which have often been and probably often will be urged upon the general and state governments, impolitic and inexpedient. We understand that the writer of this article is an officer in the regular army of the United States; and it is gratifying to see a professional soldier speaking with so much candour and good sense of an instrument of warfare which his brethren are rather too apt to despise. He has however fallen into one error, unless we be greatly mistaken.

He sup

Her blush of maiden shame.

And leave thee wild and sad!

Ah, 'twere a lot too blest

Forever in thy coloured shades to stray;

Amidst the kisses of the soft southwest
To rove and dream for aye;

And leave the vain low strife

Oh, Autumn! why so soon the hues that make thy forests glad; writer's plan; and he alludes to Alfieri's Thy gentle wind and thy fair sunny noon, writings slightly and seldom. This we regret, for if there be one European author of modern days, who must be read with admiration by every American, acquainted with his language, it is Alfieri. His high respect for the institutions of our native land is well known; and no one can read his tragedies-especially the best of them— without acknowledging how truly and deeply they sympathize with what should be the habitual and ruling feelings of a citizen of this country. There are mistakes of the press in the French and Italian quotations, which disfigure the pages quite too much.

The fourth article, upon Agriculture, is poses the religious sects, now exempted by sensible and very well written. But there law from militia duty, would not complain should be in this work, or elsewhere, a were they taxed with the fine for the non-fuller exposition of the errors of the econperformance of this duty. We think, that omists, which, as the writer of this article no one at all acquainted with the princi- states, Adam Smith did certainly adopt. ples and habits of these sects can doubt We have not room to speak more particthat they would complain, and that the fine ularly of other articles. If some of the could only be collected by legal distress. lighter publications of the day had been A very large sum is annually levied by dis- noticed, the number would certainly be tress upon the Quakers, in England, for more amusing,-though perhaps less innonpayment of tythes and nonperformance structive. of military duty.

The third article is upon the Life and Genius of Goethe. It is well written and interesting; and discovers an extent and intimacy of acquaintance with the literature of Germany which is highly creditable to the writer. We have no doubt that he speaks not only scholarly but wisely; but are not sufficiently well versed in the mysteries of the German tongue, to vouch for the accuracy of his criticisms.

The fifth article is a learned and beautifully written essay upon Italian Narrative Poetry. It is very long, occupying indeed fifty-three pages; but we believe no readers will think it too long;-they certainly will not, who hold that the intellect of this country is nowise deficient in strength, and rejoice at every new proof, that it will, ere long, receive due culture. We doubt not that the ornament of elegant literature will be sought and won by those amongst us who

I

That makes men mad—the tug for wealth and
power,
The passions and the cares that wither life,
And waste its little hour.

NAHANT.

Nahant, majestic Queen of promontories;
Who ridest in the raging of the deep
Like a sea-monster; by what potent hand
Were thy unyielding crags deep-morticed
In sockets caverned to the inmost earth.
What strife of chaos or what shock of worlds,
Sea-born, pressed upward thy amphibious bulk,
Through the burst marble of the ocean's floor.
Ages and ages ere man looked on thee,
Have thy rude battlements rung to the wreck
Of continents of ice. Impregnable,

B.

Thou seem'st to stand a footstool for the weight
Of that gigantic angel whom the world
Cannot uphold alone. From thine oft shocked verge
look upon the violent strife of waters,
As thundering they dash on thee, and split
And fly to atoms at thy touch, silvering
Thy Atlantean shoulders with their spoil.
I love to look at thee by pale moonlight,
When the dun Ocean, wearied out with rage,
Submissive, lays his head upon thy lap,
And slumbers, while his rustling silver curls
Fringe with their shining ringlets thy dark feet.
But when the awakened waters shudder
In their dismaying sense of coming storms,
Then is thy greatest glory. Then amidst
The scorching lightning and the thunders' din,
The howl of frenzied elements, the sigh
Of apprehensive and alarmed nature,
Thou standest like to one that trusts in God!
How noble is the Ocean in his wrath?
Swoln with the lashes of tempestuous winds,
Headlong the green surge rushes upon thee;
And upward pouring with a thorough search
Fills every hollow-till the massy bulk
Of the black wave, rising and threatening stands,
And then with one o'erwhelming, bursting stroke,
Grinds the drenched granite in its giant arms!
Thy strong rocks tremble, and the glittering spray
Darts upward like the gleams of northern morn,
And spreads around a cloud of silver dust;
Then suddenly the exhausted waters fall
Relaxing from their gallant hold to drop
Into the bosom of their baffled host.

Deep-founded rock! thou curbstone of the sea,
If there is aught unchangeable, 'tis thou!
But with the march of time, Niagara

And there will pass a very few brief years
Ere all who people this fair land shall lie
In the same grave which holds her earliest sons.

lustre, transparency, hardness, &c. &c. To these succeed the most perfect crystals,

Has moved, and what was once her home hears now The oak shall grow upon the well ploughed glebe-illustrating the primary forms of Werner,

Her voice from far; and thou too must depart;
But the great day that tears thee from thy hold
Will leave a chasm whence must soon come forth
Nature's last groan!
O. W.

Spirits of Air!

Who woke that heavenly strain
Warm with seraphic fire;
Spirits of Air! O sweep again
Your viewless lyre.

Song of the Spirits.

We are borne along on the passing gale,
That softly is fanning our silken sail,
On its trembling wings as we float along;
Mortal! list to the Spirits' song.

From the distant land where the happy dwell,
Where whispering lovers their fond vows tell,
Where no sigh is heard save the sigh of love,
Breathed by the Spirits who hither rove :—

From the land where the jessamine ever
blooms,

And the Camalate* breathes its sweet per-
fumes,

Where light by day and by night there is none,
Save the light that beams from beauty's throne:

Where Spring and Summer forever reign,
And the fairest flowrets bedeck the plain,
Where blasts of the death-wind never blow,
And the golden waters forever flow.

Mortal! we've come on the zephyr's wings,
And have waked our wild harps' murmurings,
Our journey of love to thee to tell ;
Mortal! 'tis told-farewell-farewell.

G.

The wild vine leap upon the nectarine's trunk,
And strangle it with a too close embrace-
The thistle shall o'errun the beautiful mead-
The bison feed upon the cities' site-
The adder coil him in the lady's bower
And hiss upon the mastodon, as he
Comes from his exile of a thousand years.
And these shall be because such things have been,
For nature is immutable and keeps
No changeful course.

FROM THE ITALIAN OF TASSO.
There blooms no floweret of the plain,
Whose petals boast so fair a stain,

As thy sweet lips, my love!
Nor does the zephyr whispering nigh,
Nor all the woodland melody,
The murmur of the bubbling spring,
Such transport o'er my spirit fling,

As thy sweet song, my love!
May nought disturb its melody,
Save the soft kiss and gentle sigh
Of thee-and me, my love.

INTELLIGENCE.

J.

G.

CABINET OF MINERALS AT CAMBRIDGE.

and Hauy, the modifications of these forms, and the effect of truncations, bevelments, &c.-A suite of models of crystals, in wood, terminates this first division of the cabinet.

The second division is the Systematic Arrangement of the different substances according to their chemical composition; this method has been adopted as it is intended to combine the instruction in chemistry with mineralogy.

The third division comprises the Geolog ical part of the collection; in this the rocks are arranged in the relative order in which they are presented to us by nature; and in connexion with each are seen the minerals composing the rock, and those which are more or less accidentally present in it, together with the metallic ores and fossil remains.

The fourth division is Geographical, commencing with the mineral productions of the United States, arranged according to the States.

The last division is intended to embrace all the products of the Mineral kingdom employed in the Arts and Manufactures, in The liberality of several gentlemen of their natural state, and in the different staBoston, and their desire to promote the ges of preparation. This department is one study of Mineralogy and Geology in this of peculiar interest and importance in this vicinity, have lately been displayed in the country, and can only be rendered compurchase of an extensive and valuable col-plete by the liberality of artists and manlection of minerals, which they have pre- ufacturers, who, it is hoped, will not be sented to the University at Cambridge. backward to transmit to the University such This collection is now added to that pre- specimens as will best illustrate the differgether with the specimens formerly transmitted by the French Government, and the late Dr Lettsom, with the additions made by Dr Waterhouse, will constitute one of the most complete and valuable mineralogical cabinets in the United States.

*The flower by which the heaven of Indra is sented by Andrew Ritchie, Esq. and to-ent stages of all the processes connected perfumed.

LINES FROM A TRAVELLER'S PORT FOLIO.
I stood upon the lofty Alleghany.
It was a summer morning-the bright sun
Shone o'er the mountain tops on the fair vales,
Which lay stretched out beneath his gladdening
beam.

Calm, peaceful vales, such as the aged love
To rest their wearied limbs upon when life
Draws near its close--such as young lovers seek.
And there I stood upon that mountain's brow,
And looked upon the morning;-far away
On either hand, and where the Ohio glides
Serenely to the bed of other waters,
Lay fields of brightly shining summer grain,
Where lusty arms plied nimble reaping hooks,
And bright-eyed virgins, as of olden time,
Them followed, and the yellow sheaf upreared.
And there were pastures fair beneath mine eye,
And o'er them grazed innumerous herds and flocks,
The wealth of the strong man, who years ago
Built his rude cabin by the beetling brow
Of these eternal mountains, and sat down,
And lopt the sycamore, and felled the oak,
And had him sons and daughters born amidst
The shouts and battl songs of savage tribes.

And still I stood upon that mountain's brow,
And still it was the morning. O'er me past
A breath from out the deep and fearful glen,
Which lay beside me, fringed with meagre pines-
The shrubbery of the bleak mountain top.
Within me was a voice which bade me look
Upon the ages which had passed away;-
Upon the time when those far-spreading vales
Were peopled by another Ice of then;
The builders of the proud sepulchral pile
And architects of works of use unknown.
"Tis thus the potent finger of decay
Saps the foundation of all earthly things,

The collection embraces (with the exception of a very few of the rarest substances) all the late discoveries, and many of those specimens, the localities of which are exhausted, and many of which are now rarely met with even in the large collections of Europe. The suite of Ores is peculiarly rich, as is likewise the volcanic department; and the gems and precious stones are numerous. The specimens are all well characterized, and the crystallizations are remarkably fine.

This collection is arranged in the spacious room formerly used as Commons Hall, being 45 feet in length, 363 feet wide, and 173 feet high.

The specimens are placed in cases with glass doors, against the walls of the room, which, to the height of ten feet, are completely covered by them; a large proportion of the most beautiful specimens are arranged upon eight glazed tables, and the residue in nearly 200 drawers.

One of the tables is appropriated to the EXTERNAL CHARACTERS of mineral substances, on which are disposed the most distinctly characterized specimens, illustrating all the technical terms of the science, the different varieties of colour, of fracture,

with each substance. Thus, here will be seen the different ores, as when first taken from the earth, and the same in all the degrees of purification, &c.—the clays in all the stages of manufacture-the substances used in colouring, in the manufacture of glass, &c. &c.

Mineralogists throughout the country, it is hoped, will avail themselves of the permission granted by the Corporation of the University, to exchange duplicate specimens.-Boston Journal of Philosophy, &c.

NEW FRENCH NOVEL.

A companion to Ourika, called Gunima, from the pen of M. Hyppolite, has lately made its appearance at Paris. Gunima is a young and handsome negress, whose heart is wounded by the darts of love, and who cherishes a profound and passionate attachment to a youthful white. Like Ourika she is subjected to many severe trials; but, unlike her, she ultimately triumphs. She meets with a heart that answers to her own, and from that grateful heart she obtains a marked preference over a white female, proud of her colour, and of the combined advantages of youth, beauty, and fortune, by whom Gunima had long been treated with the highest disdain. The scene belongs to the Cape of Good Hope, at the house of a rich Dutch merchant, who is accustomed to deliver up his slaves to the dreadful samboe (a whip composed of strips of the hide of the rhinoceros or the sea

cow) of a brutal and ferocious driver. The son of this merchant, who has recently arrived from Europe, where he has imbibed feelings and habits of humanity, which cause him to see with indignation the cruel treatment inflicted on the slaves, declares himself protector of these unfortunate creatures, especially of two young Hottentots, brother and sister, Igamma and Gunima, whom his father consents to give up to him. We will not follow the young white, and his black female companion, in a perilous expedition against the lions, panthers, and elephants of the desert, and against the Bosjesmans, the most ferocious of all the savage nations of Southern Africa. We will leave to the curious reader the pleasure of becoming acquainted with the African Hebe (the 1 name she receives as a slave), whose regular features, inexpressible sweetness, settled melancholy (inspired by the sense of her misfortunes, and her humiliation), ingenuous tenderness, intrepid courage amidst innumerable vicissitudes, adventures, and dangers, and absolute devotion to the man whom she loves, form a striking contrast, and one infinitely to her advantage, to the cold egotism, the asperity, and the insensibility of the beautiful Constance, her haughty rival.

MOUNT ROSA THE HIGHEST IN EUROPE. Dr Brewster has published, in his new "Edinburgh Journal of Science," from the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Turin,

a translation of an account of the first as

cent of the southern suminit of Mount Rosa, by MM. Zumstein and Vincent. Having determined, by means of the barometer, that the elevation of the southern summit, which they had gained for the first time, was 13,920 Paris, or 14,83564 English feet above the level of the sea, they ascertained, by a trigonometrical measurement thence made, that the elevation of the highest summit of the mountain was 1680 Paris feet above it, or 15,600 (16,6264 English) above the level of the sea. Thus Mount Rosa is in reality the highest in Europe; the height of Mont Blanc, according to Prof. Tralles, being only 14,793 Paris, or 15,7084 English feet.

PERKINS' STEAM-ENGINE. "The Bibliothèque Universelle for March 1824, contains an elaborate paper on Mr Perkins' Steam-Engine, by a friend of Mr Perkins, which was carried to Geneva, and communicated to the editors, by Mr Church, the American Consul, who had made a voyage to London for the express purpose of secing Mr Perkins' apparatus. This paper contains the most complete description of the above engine which has yet appeared, and it presents, we believe, the first attempt to explain its operation on philosophical principles. We have been anxious, therefore, more particularly on the latter ground, to examine it, having hitherto looked in vain for any rational account of Mr Perkins' plans, or of those advantages arising from them which have been so con

fidently asserted as a matter of fact, but, low as 40°. 2. Although the water expos-
which we confess we have been from the ed in this manner to the intense heat of
beginning doubtful of, from what is already the furnace, remains permanently cold, yet,
known of the nature and principles of heat if any crack or opening should take place
and of steam. Having read the paper, how- in the bottom of the boiler within which the
ever, we really see nothing advanced in it water is pressed with a force of at least
which tends in the least to alter the opinions 400 lb. on the inch, yet no water will issue
we had previously formed; and those who at the opening. The reason assigned for
expect in it any reasons to satisfy their cu- this, we are unable to comprehend, or to
riosity or belief, will undoubtedly be dis-render intelligible. 3. It is proposed to
appointed. In place of that clear and "pump back the heat" into the boiler, after
philosophical exposition of causes and ef- it has done its office of impelling the piston in
fects, which such a subject demands, and the cylinder; to pump it back into the gene-
certainly admits of, if any real discovery rator, and to cause it in this way to act again
has been made, we are here presented with and again upon the piston; so that, in this
such a mass of mere theories and assump- manner, the author, in the fervour of his
tions, together with such fanciful paradoxes, imagination, thinks it but reasonable to ex-
and downright absurdities, as we believe pect, that an apparatus of this kind may be
have seldom been brought forward in the constructed, which, when once sufficiently
shape of philosophy. Instead of proceed- heated, will continue to move forever, and
ing with a plain statement of experiments, to drive machinery of itself, without any
and of consequences deducible from them, farther consumption of fuel. On looking
or advancing clearly and boldly forward into his description of this part of the ap-
from principles already known, to some paratus, we find the plan consists merely in
great and striking conclusion, the author is heating the water of the generator by the
continually halting in his career, and be- waste steam from the cylinder,-a plan
wilders himself in a maze of obscure and which has been already frequently propos-
unintelligible speculation, ingeniously con- ed, and which is indeed practised to a cer-
trived, one would think, to puzzle himself tain extent in every steam engine in the
and his readers. He appears to entertain, kingdom."
in some respects, very correct views on the
nature of heat, and its expansive force; but
he has taken up some strange notion re-
garding its power of compressing a confin-
ed liquid, such as the water in a generator,
and of forcing or squeezing out of it, "as
This, and several other notions of a similar
from a sponge," the heat which it contains.
kind, seem to have confused his whole ideas
of the subject he attempts to explain; so
that, though his remarks on other points
are, in many respects, sensible and judi-
cious, yet on these topics he appears inca-
pable of reasoning with his accustomed ac-
curacy and vigour of judgment. We are
often at a loss to know what he would
be at; and all his endeavours to prove
what he wishes to demonstrate, are vain.
He occasionally proceeds so clearly and
methodically with his principles, that you
are prepared for some important conse-
instead of which you are landed
quences;
in some ingenious paradox,-some palpable NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE AND
inconsistency, some result which turns out,
after all, mere assertion or assumption, or
not deducible from the premises; or, lastly,
some obvious truth, in which you are sur-
prised the author can discover any thing
new or important.

Having only just received this paper, our limits do not permit us to enter more fully into the particulars of it in the present number. We shall just state, therefore, in proof of what we have said, one or two, as a specimen of the propositions maintained there. 1. It is said, that, in the generator, or high-pressure boiler, the heat is greatest at the top, and decreases towards the bottom, against which the flame and heat of the furnace are chiefly directed; so that while the temperature of the upper part of boiler is at 400°, that of the lower part next the fire may, in extreme cases, be so

The above statement is copied from the Edinbugh Philosophical Journal into the Boston Journal of Philosophy and the Arts. The editors of the Boston Journal in republishing it, refer their readers to an account of Mr Perkins' Engine in a former number, Mr Perkins and his invention are spoken also copied from the Edinburgh, in which of in terms of high commendation. They also remark, in justice to Mr Perkins, that "he is not to be considered answerable for all the absurdities which are published, in various forms, in the accounts of his engine, by people who are ready to admire whatever they do not understand." For a careful and judicious examination of the principles upon which the new discovery of Mr Perkins purports to be founded, and an exposition of the fallacy of some points which he has assumed, we beg leave to refer to an article in the same Journal, Vol. I. p. 294.

SURGERY.

We noticed in one of our late numbers a change in the editorial department of this work; the following notice of the plan on which it will in future be conducted, accompanied the Journal for October.

"The general plan and principles of the work will continue the same that they have hitherto been, and no exertions will be spared on the part of its conductors, to render it worthy of a continuance of the liberal patronage it has received. Each number will in future contain,

"1. A department for original communications, which will comprehend such papers as have been usually placed in the first part of the numbers. It is desirable that this department should be made the depository for as much information as possible relating to the history and treatment of the

either of these subjects is entitled to the who contributed under the fictitious name of Peter
premium of fifty dollars, or a gold medal of Feldmann, to his liberation from the Prisons of
the same value.
Olmutz. Translated from the French Manuscript.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS
FOR OCTOBER.

By J. & J. Harper—New York.
Elements of the Etiology and Philosophy
of Epidemics. In two Parts. By Joseph Mather
Smith, M. D.

By H. C. Carey & I. Lea—Philadelphia.
Tales of a Traveller. Part II. & III. By
Author of "The Sketch

By Cummings, Hilliard, & Co.—Boston:
No. II., Vol. 2, of the Boston Journal of
Philosophy and the Arts.
Institutes of Natural Philosophy, The-Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
oretical and Practical. By William Enfield,
LL. D. Fourth American edition, with improve-

ments.

from that of Buttmann, for the use of Schools.
A Greek Grammar, principally abridged

diseases of New England. Every section
of country has something in the features of
its diseases, and consequently something in
the treatment they require, peculiar to it-
self. Every physician also meets occa-
sionally with a common disease under a
form somewhat new, requiring, of course,
a modification of its treatment. Communi-
cations relating to these peculiarities, and
to these occasional modifications of disease,
would be highly valuable and interesting;
very much more so than the narration of
any cases, however curious and extraordin-
ary, since the general deductions which we
make from our whole practice, are worthy
of much more confidence than those deriv-
ed from any single cases. Essays of the
kind here alluded to, are particularly soli-
cited, whilst, at the same time, other com-
munications upon anatomical, physiological,
and practical subjects, and accounts of im-
portant cases, will be extremely acceptable.
"2. The second department will contain
Miscellaneous Notices upon the various
subjects connected with medicine, both ori-
ginal and selected; including abstracts of
such cases as do not appear of sufficient
A Letter to John Lowell, Esq., in Reply
importance to be detailed at length; intel-printed by the Professors and Tutors of Harvard
to a Publication entitled "Remarks on a Pamphlet
ligence with regard to new remedies; no- University, touching their Right to the exclusive
tices of operations in this city and else- Government of that Seminary." By Edward Ev-
where, &c. &c.
erett. 8vo. pp. 102.

"3. This will consist of Reviews of New Publications, which are intended to be principally analytical.

A Summary of the Law and Practice of
Real Actions. By Asahel Stearns, Professor of
Law in Harvard University.

Seventeen Discourses on Several Texts
of Scripture; addressed to Christian Assemblies in
Villages near Cambridge. To which are added,
First American Edition; with a Life of the Author.
Six Morning Exercises. By Robert Robinson.

By Oliver Everett-Boston.

By Glazier & Co.-Hallowell, Me.
Elements of Arithmetic, translated from

"4. Selections from other Journals, ei- the French of M. Bezout, and adapted to the use ther foreign or American.

"5. Intelligence.

"6. A List of New Medical Publications, and of works proposed and in the press. This list is intended to embrace both domestic and foreign works, in order to give as complete a view as possible of the medical literature of the day, and to enable the directors of libraries, and physicians who are forming private collections, to select more easily the works they may wish to import. Authors and publishers, who wish to have their works inserted in this list, are earnestly requested to send the title, number of pages, &e. of their books, to the editors, as soon as they issue from the press.

of American Schools. In this work the principles of arithmetic are developed with great clearness, according to the analytic method; and the operaauthor is unrivalled among Mathematicians. To tions explained with a perspicuity, for which the the original text of Bezout some additions have been made from the writings of Raynaud, La Grange, Lacroix, and others; and a Systematic Arrangement of Rules, a method essential for praction to all applications of numbers which have tical usefulness, has been preserved. And in addibeen made by the latest writers on the subject, it contains an Illustration of the Method of forming Powers and extracting Roots, and an Explanation of the Theory of Logarithms, with their uses. The Nathaniel Haynes, A. B., Tutor in Mathematics at whole interspersed with numerous Examples. By Gardiner Lyceum.

By Dorr & Howland-Worcester, Mass.

The Ladies' Companion. Containing, First, Politeness of Manners and Behaviour, from the French of Abbé de Bellegarde. Second, Fenelon on Education. Third, Miss More's Essays. Fourth, Dean Swift's Letter to a Young Lady Newly Married. Fifth, Moore's Fables for the Female Sex, carefully Selected and Revised. By a Lady in the County of Warcester, Mass.

By Clark & Lyman-Middletown, Conn.
Elegant Lessons; or the Young Lady's
Preceptor. Being a series of Appropriate Reading
Exercises in Prose and Verse, carefully selected
from the most approved Authors, for Female Schools
the Principles of Correct Reading, with a brief Dis
and Academies. Including some Remarks upon

the different kinds and constructions of Poetic Feet.
sertation on Poetry as a Reading Exercise; and
By Samuel Whiting, Esq.

By C. Wiley-New York.
Memoirs of Gilbert Motier La Fayette.
By Gen. H. L. Villaume Ducourdray Holstein,

Book," "Bracebridge Hall," &c.
Body and Soul; consisting of a series of
Lively and Pathetic Stories.

A Treatise on the Law of Partnership.
By Basil Montague, Esq. With Notes and Refer-
ences to American Decisions, by a Member of the
Philadelphia Bar. 2 vols. Royal 8vo.
Digest of American Reports. Which
contains the Reports of Maryland, North Carolina,
Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennes
see. Vol. III. By T. J. Wharton, Esq.

Collection of Living Plays. 8 vols. 24mo. An Address, delivered before the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, at its meeting, July 20, 1824. By Matthey Carey, Esq.

By E. Littell-Philadelphia. Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, from the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka, performed during the years 1820, '21, '22, and '23. By Captain John Dundas Cochrane, R. N.

the Improvement and Preservation of the Sight;
The Economy of the Eyes; Precepts for
Plain Rules, which will enable all to judge exactly
when, and what Spectacles are best calculated for
their Eyes; Observations on Opera Glasses and
Theatres, and an account of the Panerotic Magni-
liam Kitchiner, M. D. Author of "The Cook's Or
fier, for Double Stars and Day Telescopes. By Wil
acle," "The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging
Life," "The Pleasure of Making a Will," &c. &c.

Science, No. XXVII. for September 1824.
The Museum of Foreign Literature and

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