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The .second Series Of Sketches In Prose And Verse, By

G. H. RICHARDSON, contains some pretty poetry of the Annual genus, and a few pleasing though not very natural tales of a similar kind, with an essay or two on graver matters, as......

Stephens . Incidents Of Travel.

FAMILIAR as we have become, through the medium of books and prints, with the colossal monuments of Egyptian grandeur and the interesting features of the Holy Land,—countries......

Progress Of Publication.

Journal of an Expedition from Sincapore to Japan, by P. PARKER, M.D. This volume contains a plain narrative of a voy- age to Loo Choo and Japan, in a vessel fitted out by......

The Steam - Engine, By Hugo Reid, Is A Very Admirable Little

book—scientific, learned, and perfectly lucid, so that with a little attention anybody can understand fully the somewhat complicated matters of which it treats. The volume opens......