Shaw's English Literature-Lately Published. OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By THOMAS B. SHAW, Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum, St. Petersburg, Second American Edition. With a Sketch of American Literature, by HENRY T. TUCKERMAN, Esq. In one large and handsome volume, royal 12mo., of about five hundred pages. $1.15. The object of this work is to present to the student, within a moderate compass, a clear and connected view of the history and productions of English Literature. To accomplish this, the author has followed its course from the earliest times to the present age, seizing upon the more prominent "Schools of Writing," tracing their causes and effects, and selecting the more celebrated authors as subjects for brief biographical and critical sketches, analyzing their best works, and thus presenting to the student a definite view of the development of the language and literature, with succinct descriptions of those books and men of which no educated person should be ignorant. He has thus not only supplied the acknowledged want of a manual on this subject, but by the liveliness and power of his style, the thorough knowledge he displays of his topic, and the variety of his subjects, he has succeeded in producing a most agreeable reading-book, which will captivate the mind of the scholar, and relieve the monotony of drier studies. Its merits I had not now for the first time to learn. I have used it for two years as a textbook, with the greatest satisfaction. It was a happy conception, admirably executed. It is all that a text-book on such a subject can or need be, comprising a judicious selection of materials, easily yet effectively wrought. The author attempts just as much as he ought to, and does well all that he attempts; and the best of the book is the genial spirit, the genuine love of genius and its works which thoroughly pervades it and makes it just what you want to put into a pupil's hands.-Professor J. V. Raymond, University of Rochester. Of "Shaw's English Literature" I can hardly say too much in praise. I hope its adoption and use as a text-book will correspond to its great merits.-Prof. J. C. Pickard, Ill. College. BOLMAR'S COMPLETE FRENCH SERIES. Blanchard and Lea now publish the whole of Bolmar's Educational Works, forming a complete series for the acquisition of the French language, as follows: BOLMAR'S EDITION OF LEVIZAC'S THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL GRAMMAR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE. With numerous Corrections and Improvements, and the addition of a complete Treatise on the Genders of French Nouns and the Conjugation of the French Verbs, Regular and Irregular. Thirty-fifth edition. In one 12mo. volume, leather. $1.00. BOLMAR'S COLLECTION OF COLLOQUIAL PHRASES, on every topic necessary to maintain conversation; arranged under different heads; with numerous remarks on the peculiar pronunciation and use of various words. The whole so disposed as considerably to facilitate the acquisition of a correct pronunciation of the French. In one 18mo. volume, half bound. 38 cts. BOLMAR'S EDITION OF FENELON'S AVENTURES DE TELEMAQUE. In one 12mo. volume, half bound. 55 cts. 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In one 12mo. volume, half bound. 50 cts. The long and extended sale with which these works have been favoured, and the constantly increasing demand which exists for them, renders unnecessary any explanation or recommendation of their merits. HERSCHELL'S ASTRONOMY. OUTLINES OF ASTRONOMY. BY SIR JOHN F. W. HERSCHEL, BART., F.R.S., &c. A New American, from the Fourth and Revised London Edition. In one handsome crown octavo volume, with Plates and Wood-cuts. $1.60. The present work is reprinted from the last London Edition, which was carefully revised by the author, and in which he embodies the latest investigations and discoveries. It may therefore be regarded as fully on a level with the most advanced state of the science, and even better adapted than its predecessors as a full and reliable text-book for advanced classes. A few commendatory notices are subjoined, from among a large number with which the publishers have been favored. A rich mine of all that is most valuable in modern Astronomy.-Professor D. Olmstead, Fale College. As a work of reference and study for the more advanced pupils, who yet are not prepared to avail themselves of the higher mathematics, I know of no work to be compared with it.-Prof. A. Caswell, Brown University, R. I. This treatise is too well known, and too highly appreciated in the scientific world, to need new praise. A distinguishing merit in this, as in the other productions of the author, is that the language in which the profound reasonings of science are conveyed is so perspicuous that the writer's meaning can never be misunderstood.-Prof. Samuel Jones, Jefferson College, Pa. I know no treatise on Astronomy comparable to "Herschel's Outlines." It is admirably adapted to the necessities of the student. We have adopted it as a text-book in our Col. lege.-Prof. J. F. Crocker, Madison College, Pa. As far as I am able to judge, it is the best work of its class in any language.--Prof. James Curley, Georgetown College. It would not become me to speak of the scientific merits of such a work by such an author; but I may be allowed to say, that I most earnestly wish that it might supersede every book usod as a text-book on Astronomy in all our institutions, except perhaps those where it is studied mathematically.-Prof. N. Tillinghast, Bridgewater, Mass. CHEMICAL TEXT-BOOK FOR STUDENTS. ELEMENTARY CHEMISTRY, THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL. From the Seventh London Edition. EDITED BY ROBERT BRIDGES, M. D. In one large royal 12mo. volume, containing 600 pages, clearly printed on small type, with 197 Illustrations on Wood. Cloth, $1.50; leather, $1.65 We know of no better text-book, especially in the difficult department of Organic Chemistry, upon which it is particularly full and satisfactory. We would recommend it to preceptors as a capital "office-book" for their students who are beginners in Chemistry. It is copiously illustrated with excellent wood-cuts, and altogether admirably "got up."-N. J. Medical Reporter. A standard manual, which has long enjoyed the reputation of embodying much know ledge in a small space. The author has achieved the difficult task of condensation with masterly tact. His book is concise without being dry, and brief without being too dog matical or general.-Virginia Medical and Surgical Journal. The work of Dr. Fownes has long been before the public, and its merits have been fully appreciated as the best text-book on Chemistry now in existence. We do not, of course, place it in a rank superior to the works of Brande, Graham, Turner, Gregory, or Gmelin, but we say that, as a work for students, it is preferable to any of them.-London Journal of Medicine. A NEW AND COMPLETE CLASSICAL ATLAS.-(Just Ready.) CONSTRUCTED BY WILLIAM HUGHES, AND EDITED BY GEORGE LONG. Containing fifty-two Colored Maps and Plans, on twenty-two large imperial quarto BEAUTIFULLY ENGRAVED ON STEEL, IN THE CLEAREST AND MOST FINISHED STYLE. In one very handsome volume, strongly half bound. $3.00. LIST OF PLATES. 1. THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE AN- 2. THE WORLD AS KNOWN TO 3. EMPIRE OF ALEXANDER THE GIONS. 4. THE PROVINCES OF THE RO- 5. BRITANNIA. 6. GALLIA. 7. HISPANIA. 8. ITALIA (NORTHERN PART). 10. PLAN OF ROME. 11. THE ROMAN TERRITORY AND 12. SICILIA. 13. SYRACUSE.-THE BAY OF NA- PANIA. THE TWO PORTS OF BRUN- 14. MACEDONIA, THRACIA, ILLY- 16. PART OF ATTICA, WITH BOEO- 17. PLAN OF ATHENS.-ATHENS 18. PELOPONNESUS, WITH ATTICA 19. THE COASTS AND ISLANDS OF 20. ASIA MINOR AND THE NORTH- 21. PALAESTINA, WITH PART OF 23. MAURITANIA, NUMIDIA, AND 24. ARABIA PETRAEA AND PART OF EGYPT, INCLUDING THe Delta. -- It will be observed that, in addition to a very thorough series of maps of all |