it may not be improper to observe, with respect to that gentleman, that he now resides in quality of companion at a relation's house, being very well liked, and seldom sitting at the side-table except when there is no room at the other, for they make no stranger of him. His time is pretty much taken up in keeping his relation, who is a little melancholy, in spirits, and in learning to blow the French-horn. My eldest daughter, however, still remembers him with regret; and she has even told me, though I make a great secret of it, that when he reforms she may be brought to relent. But to return, for I am not apt to digress thus: when we were to sit down to dinner, our ceremonies were going to be renewed. The question was, whether my eldest daughter, as being a matron, should not sit above the two young brides; but the debate was cut short by my son George, who proposed that the company should sit indiscriminately, every gentleman by his lady. This was received with great approbation by all, excepting my wife, who I could perceive was not perfectly satisfied, as she expected to have had the pleasure of sitting at the head of the table, and carving the meat for all the company. But notwithstanding this, it is impossible to describe our good humor. I cannot say whether we had more wit among us now than usual, but I am certain we had more laughing, which answered the end as well. One jest I particularly remember: old Mr. Wilmot drinking to Moses, whose head was

turned another way, my son replied, "Madam, I thank you." Upon which the old gentleman, winking upon the rest of the company, observed that he was thinking of his mistress. At which jest I thought the two Miss Flamboroughs would have died with laughing. As soon as dinner was over, according to my old custom, I requested that the table might be taken away, to have the pleasure of seeing all my family assembled once more by a cheerful fireside. My two little ones sat upon each knee, the rest of the company by their partners. I had nothing now on this side of the grave to wish for-all my cares were over, my pleasure was unspeakable. It now only remained that my gratitude in good fortune should exceed my former submission in adversity.

PICTORIAL LIFE OF NAPOLEON,

History of Napoleon Bonaparte, translated from the French of M. Laurent de L'Ardeche, with five hundred spirited illustrations, after designs by Horace Vernet, and twenty original portraits engraved in the best style. Complete in two handsome volumes, octavo, about five hundred pages each. This LIFE OF NAPOLEON, which is now offered to the public, is built up and composed from the same Original authorities as those consulted by previous historians and biographers; with the assistance, also, of the substantive works of the latter, and of all important works since published, or now in course of publication. From careful abstracts and references; from a dispassionate balancing of the single and collective facts, statements, opinions and conjectural probabilities, occasionally found in direct opposition among authorities of equal influence and validity, the author has sought to attain a fixed equilibrium of general truth. It has not been attempted to give a History of France in the stormy time of the Revolution, or in the successive periods of the Directory, the Consulate, or the Empire. The violent feelings of the English public having now passed away, a period has already commenced for the exercise of a temperate judgment. The author has also endeavoured not to forestall time, broach theories, or dispense censure or praise. The deep-searching and far-spreading investigations, into which an attempt to form an opinion concerning the consequences and results of his actions would lead, could not be undertaken without a comprehensive study and voluminous exposition of the moral and political world and its various mutations; they consequently form no part of the present design.

PICTORIAL ROBINSON CRUSOE.

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by DANIEL DE FOE, with a Memoir of the Author, and an Essay on his Writings, illustrated with three hundred spirited Engravings by the celebrated French artist GRANDVILLE, forming one elegant volume, octavo, of 500 pages.

"Was there ever any thing written by mere man that the reader wished longer, except Robinson Crusoe, Don Quixotte, and the Pilgrim's Progress ?"-Dr. Johnson.

"How happy that this, the most moral of romances, is not only the most charming of books, but the most instructive."-A. Chalmers.

"No fiction in any language was ever better supported than these Adventures of Robinson Crusoe." -Dr. Blair.

"Crusoe has obtained a ready passport to the mansions of the rich, and the cottages of the poor, and communicated equal delight to all ranks and classes of the community. Few works have been more generally read, or more justly admired; few that have yielded such incessant amusement, and, at the same time, have developed so many lessons of practical instruction."-Sir W. Scott.

PICTORIAL VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.

The Vicar of Wakefield, By OLIVER GOLDSMITH, elegantly illustrated with 108 Engravings, making a beautiful volume, octavo, of about 350 pages.

"This tale is the lasting monument of Goldsmith's genius, his great legacy of pleasure to generations past, present, and to come."-Examiner.

"Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightful writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream. His ease is quite unconscious. Every thing in him is spontaneous, unstudied, unaffected, yet elegant, harmonious, graceful, and nearly faultless."-Hazlitt.

GEMS FROM TRAVELLERS.

Illustrative of various passages in Holy Scripture, with nearly one hundred exquisite Engravings. Among the authorities quoted will be found the following distinguished names: Harmer, Laborde, Lane, Madden, Clarke, Pococke, Chandler, Malcom, Hartley, Russell, Jowitt, Carne, Shawe, Morier, Neibuhr, Bruce, Calmet, H. Blunt, Belzoni, Lord Lindsay, &c. &c.

This exquisite volume, so beautiful as an ornament to the centre table, will assist to a clearer perception of the beauty, propriety and truth of the Holy Scripture, than any other work ever published.

INCIDENTS OF A WHALING VOYAGE.

To which is added Observations on the Scenery, Manners, and Customs, and Missionary Stations of the Sandwich and Society Islands, accompanied by numerous plates. By FRANCIS ALLYN OLMSTED. One handsome volume, 12mo.

The various publications before the public, illustrating our marine and naval history, have never, we believe, as yet entered into the minutiae of a whaling voyage-a whale ship, its equipments, dis cipline, and course of operations in the internal economy and varied contingencies,-until the appearance of the present volume, by one who has some pretensions to science, both in the philosophy of nature and education. The work indeed only presents the events of a single voyage, but is blended with so much of incidental history, abounding in facts relative to the Islands of the Pacific, the Mis sionary stations there, and the effects of civilization upon the untutored natives of the South, together with the illustrations of the whale fishery, as to embody a mass of intelligence, interesting to the ordinary reader as well as to the philosophical inquirer. The author is a son of Professor Olmsted, of Yale College, who, in the pursuit of health, in a long voyage, has noted the observations to which we refer."-N. Y. Courier.

MRS. AUSTIN'S GERMAN WRITERS. Fragments from German Prose Writers, translated by Mrs. Austin. Illustrated with Biographical and Critical Notes. 1 vol. 12mo. Elegantly printed on fine white paper.

"Those who wish to close a book with the comfortable feeling that no new idea has been suggested, and no old one disturbed, will regard this as very questionable praise; but those who read in order to be made to think, will, I hope, derive some satisfaction from the fragments thus thrown together. The choice of these passages has been determined by considerations as various as their character and their subjects. In some it was the value of the matter, in others the beauty of the form that struck me; in some the vigorous, unaffected good sense, in others the fantastic and mystical charm. Some recalled familiar trains of thought which meet us in a foreign literature like old friends in a far country, others altogether new and strange."-Vide Preface.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SOCIETY,

IN THE BARBAROUS AND CIVILIZED STATE.

An Essay towards discovering the Origin and Course of Human Improvement. By W. COOKE TAY LOR, LL.D., &c., of Trinity College, Dublin. Handsomely printed on fine paper. 2 vols. 12mo. "A most able work, the design of which is to determine from an examination of the various forms in which society has been formed, what was the origin of civilization, and under what circumstances those attributes of humanity, which in one country become the foundation of social happiness, and in another perverted to the production of general misery. For this purpose the author has separately examined the principal elements by which society, under all its aspects, is held together, and traced each to its source in human nature. He has then directed attention to the development of these prin ciples, and pointed out the circumstances by which they were perfected on the one hand, or corrupted on the other."

"We perceive by the preface that the work has had throughout the superintendence of the very learned Archbishop Whately."-Literary Gazette.

PALMER'S TREATISE ON THE CHURCH.

A TREATISE ON THE CHURCH OF CHRIST. Designed chiefly for the use of Students in Theology By the Rev. William Palmer, M. A., of Worcester College, Oxford. Edited, with Notes, by the Right Rev. W. R. Whittingham, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Maryland. 2 vols. 8vo., handsomely printed on fine paper.

"The treatise of Mr. Palmer is the best exposition and vindication of Church Principles, that we have ever read; excelling contemporaneous treatises in depth of learning and solidity of judgment as much as it excels older treatises on the like subjects in adaptation to the wants and habits of the age. Of its influence in England, where it has passed through two editions, we have not the means to form an opinion; but we believe that in this country it has already, even before its reprint, done more to restore the sound tone of Catholic principle and feeling than any other one work of the age. The author's learning and powers of combination and arrangement, great as they obviously are, are less remarkable than the sterling good sense, the vigorous and solid judgment, which is everywhere manifest in the treatise, and confers on it its distinctive excellence. The style of the author is distinguished for dig nity and masculine energy, while his tone is everywhere natural; on proper occasions, reverential; and always, so far as we remember, sufficiently conciliatory.

"To our clergy and intelligent laity who desire to see the Church justly discriminated from Roman. ists on the one hand, and dissenting denominations on the other, we earnestly commend PALMER'S TREATISE ON THE CHURCH."-N. Y. Churchman.

HARE'S PAROCHIAL SERMONS. Sermons to a Country Congregation. By Augustus William Hare, A.M. late Fellow of New Colege, and Rector of Alton Barnes. 1 vol. royal 8vo.

"Any one who can be pleased with delicacy of thought expressed in the most simple languageany one who can feel the charm of finding practical duties elucidated and enforced by apt and varied illustrations-will be delighted with this volume, which presents us with the workings of a pious and highly-gifted mind."-Quarterly Review.

VALUABLE PUBLICATIONS.

MAGEE ON ATONEMENT AND SACRIFICE.

Discourses and Dissertations on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice, and on the Principal Arguments advanced, and the Mode of Reasoning employed by the Opponents of those doctrines, as held by the Established Church. By the late Most Rev. William Magee, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. 2 vols. royal 8vo., beautifully printed.

"This is one of the ablest critical and polemical works of modern times. Archbishop Magee is truly a malleus hereticolum. He is an excellent scholar, an acute reasoner, and is possessed of a most extensive acquaintance with the wide field of argument to which his volumes are devoted-the profound Biblical information on a variety of topics which the Archbishop brings forward, must endear his name to all lovers of Christianity."-Orme.

DEVOTIONAL LIBRARY.

The greatest care is taken in selecting the works of which this collection is composed. Each volume is printed on the finest paper, elegantly ornamented, and bound in a superior manner, and uniform in size. Bishop Doane says of this collection, "I write to express my thanks to you for reprints of the Oxford Books; first, for such books, and secondly, in such a style. I sincerely hope you may be encouraged to go on, and give them all to us. You will dignify the art of printing, and you will do great service to the best interest of the country. In a letter received from Bishop Whittingham, he says, "I had forgotten to state my very great satisfaction at your commencement of a series of Devotional Works, lately republished in Oxford." The publishers beg to state while in so short a time this library has increased to so many volumes, they are encou raged to make yet larger additions, and earnestly hope it may receive all the encouragement it deserves.

The following volumes have already appeared:

THE EARLY ENGLISH CHURCH.

Or Christian History of England in early British, Saxon, and Norman Times. By the Rev. Edward Churton, M.A. With a Preface by the Right Rev. Bishop Ives. 1 vol. 16mo. elegantly ornamented LEARN TO DIE.

Disce Mori, Learn to Die: a Religious Discourse, moving every Christian man to enter into a serious Remembrance of his End. By Christopher Sutton, D.D., late Prebend of Westminster. 1 vol. • 16mo., elegantly ornamented.

SACRA PRIVATA:

The Private Meditations, Devotions, and Prayers of the Right Rev. T. Wilson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Soder and Man. First complete edition. 1 vol. royal 16mo., elegantly ornamented.

MEDITATIONS ON THE SACRAMENT. Godly Meditations upon the most Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By Christopher Sutton, D.D., late Prebend of Westminster. 1 vol. royal 16mo., elegantly ornamented.

HEART'S EASE;

Or a Remedy against all Troubles,

WITH A CONSOLATORY DISCOURSE,

Particularly addressed to those who have lost their friends and dear relations. By Symon Patrick, D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Ely. 1 vol. royal 16mo., elegantly ornamented.

A DISCOURSE CONCERNING PRAYER And the frequenting Daily Public Prayers. By Symon Patrick, D.D., sometime Lord Bishop of Ely. Edited by Francis E. Paget, M.A., Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Oxford. 1 vol. royal 16mo., elegantly ornamented.

THOUGHTS IN PAST YEARS.

A beautiful collection of Poetry, chiefly Devotional. By the Author of "The Cathedral." 1 vol. royal 16mo., elegantly printed.

These volumes will be followed by others of equal importance.