19 MARCH 1831, Page 18

The public have shown their estimation of the Narrative of

Discovery and Adventure in the Polar Seas and Regions, by Professors LESLIE and JAMESON and Mr. MURRAY, by calling for a new edition of the work in a few months. We are not sur- -prised—it is the best-compiled volume of any of the numerous abridgments and résumés that have appeared since the commence- ment of the different Popular Series. It is the work of men who are thoroughly conversant with their subject, and who have only to sit down and communicate knowledge long since stored up. To this edition there are added new facts respectmg- the late misfortunes in-the Whale-fisheries, together with a new chapter on North- eastern expeditions.