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A Sketch of the Progress of Naval Little Rosy's Voyage of Discovery, What Makes Me Grow? or, Walks Undertaken in Company with her Cousin Captain Wolf and Other Sketches NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & CO., PUBLISHERS, 90, 92 & 94 GRAND STREET. Any work published by D. Appleton & Co. will be mailed, post-free, or sent by express, prepaid, to any part of the United States, upon receipt of the advertised price. Catalogues will be furnished upon application. D ARWIN'S "Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex," now in press, is likely to create a greater sensation than his previous work. A few scientific gentlemen, who have examined the advance-sheets as they came from England, pronounce it a wonderful book in its research, in its collection of surprising facts, in the luminous way its theories are advanced, and the profound interest which the author has thrown around the whole subject. The first volume of this work will appear early in the year, and will be followed by the second volume within a few weeks thereafter. A new work by Prof. Tyndall, on "Electricity and Light," is in press by D. Appleton & Co. In press, also: "The Beginnings of Life: including an Account of the Present State of the Spontaneous Generation' Controversy." By H. C. Bastian, M. D., F. R. S., Professor of Pathological Anatomy in University College, London. The year 1871 is the centenary of Sir Walter Scott's birth. This fact will stimulate a discussion into the merits of this great author, and his present influence in literature, and serve to freshen an interest in his works. The edition of the Waverley Novels published by D. Appleton & Co., which is uniform with their edition of Dickens, is more compact, and we believe cheaper, than any other. The entire set, in cloth, is published at $10.50. "Valerie Aylmer," the new Southern novel, is a success. A new work from the same author's pen may soon be expected. A new European Guide-book has just been issued by D. Appleton & Co., which is comprehensive, compact, and as accurate as the utmost care could make it. It is a guide to England, Scotland, and Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, Northern and Southern Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Russia, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. It contains a map of Europe, and nine other maps, with plans of twenty of the principal cities, and one hundred and twenty engravings. "In the preparation of this guide-book," says the preface, "the author has sought to give, within the limits of a single portable volume, all the information necessary to enable the tourist to find his way, without difficulty, from place to place, and to see the objects best worth seeing, throughout such parts of Europe as are generally visited by Amer. ican and English travellers. With few exceptions, the author has travelled over the routes he has described, and has given the results of his own bona-fide researches." Last year D. Appleton & Co. issued a new, uniform edition of Grace Aguilar's novels, in handsome but low-priced 12mo volumes, and with illustrations. The success of these has induced the same publishers to now undertake a new edition of Miss Yonge's novels. The "Heir of Redclyffe " and "Heartsease" will appear in January. APPLETONS' JOURNAL, Volume IV., bound in cloth, gilt back and side, is now ready. The halfyearly volume of this work exhibits, with great effect, the surprising quantity and variety offered in this popular periodical. "Emi New yearly subscribers to APPLETONS' JOURNAL for 1871, remitting, direct to the publishers, the full subscription-price of four dollars, will receive, as a premium, ten elegant steel engravings, handsomely printed on fine plate paper. The series consists of: "Noon on the Sea-Shore," by J. F. Kensett; "Sunday Morning," by A. B. Durand; "Sunday Afternoon," by James Hart; grants Crossing the Plains," by F. O. C. Darley; A very useful little manual for students is "The River Road," by A. F. Bellows; "West"What to Read, and How to Read," containing a Point, and the Highlands," by Harry Fenn; "A classified list of books in each department of study, Morning in the Tropics," by F. E. Church; "Lake with hints and suggestions to the reader. The lists George," by J. W. Casilear; "The Quiet Nook," are divided into first class, second class, and third by A. F. Bellows; "Indian Rock," by W. S. Has- class, which arrangement enables the reader to eltine. These engravings are of the best execu- take up first the most important in any series, and tion. They are engraved from noted paintings by continue at his option with the subsidiary volumes. distinguished artists, and make a very choice collection of American landscapes, such as ordinarily could not be bought for the full price of the year's subscription to the JOURNAL. Notice should be taken that these engravings cannot be given to clubs, or to any subscribers where we do not receive the full amount of four dollars. EDUCATIONAL MAKE IT PRACTICAL. DEPARTMENT. NE-SW. Canes Venatici, Ursa Major, Lynx dromeda. # Look for Capella a little west or north-west of the zenith; and Betelgeuse, or a Orionis, very near the meridian, about one-third of the way from the zenith to the southern horizon. A little west of Betelgeuse is Bellatrix. As the asterisk denotes that the constellations To be attractive, the study of Astronomy must be practical. The facts a student learns about Venus and Jupiter, Arcturus and Sirius, are impressed on the mind with tenfold force, if he knows where to find them in the sky. The Great Bear and the Serpent, the Eagle and the Dolphin, excite but little interest, unless one recognizes them as they march through the heavens, and Cassiopea between which it is placed are separated by the and Andromeda are voted bores unless we have zenith, it will be seen at once that we have here the honor of their personal acquaintance. an accurate Directory of the heavens for the evenLOCKYER'S "Elements of Astronomy" recog-ings in question. In this and many other ways, nizes this fact, and gives directions so explicit for finding various objects of interest in the heavens that even without a telescope the subject is endowed with marvellous fascination. With the aid of two comprehensive charts of the celestial hemispheres which are appended to the volume, and which answer every purpose of a costly celestial globe or atlas, the stars are readily distinguished and the constellations traced; and, to facilitate the task still further, the constellations visible on some fifty evenings throughout the year, at certain hours, are enumerated in the order in which they appear from north to south, from east to west, from north-east to south-west, and from south-east to north-west. Thus, from page 189 we quote the list of constellations visible on certain evenings of January and February :: Lockyer has managed to infuse life and power into the dry bones of the subject. He describes the mode of using astronomical instruments, and gives a graphic account of recent investigations with the spectroscope, and the conclusions respecting the constitution of the sun, stars, and nebulæ, to which it has led. Carefully distinguishing between the real and the apparent movements of the heavenly bodies, he is believed to give a clearer insight into the laws and relations of our universe than any other author. Should this notice fall into the hands of any teacher or school-officer who desires an opportunity of examining the American edition of Lockyer's Elements, with a view to its introduction if approved, he can secure a copy by return mail, post-paid, by remitting to the publishers, D. Appleton & Co., 90 cents. TWELVE GOOD REASONS. We give below twelve good reasons for using QUACKENBOS'S ARITHMETICS, which we are sure |