Wirt's Life of Patrick Henry.

This distinguished biographer gives an accurate account of a most eminent man.

Philadelphia, 1836, $1 25.

III. GEOGRAPHY, VOYAGES, TRAVELS,

&c.

"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's documents; so shall you come easily by what others have laboured hard for; prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual."-Isocrates to his friend Democritus.

M'Culloch's Universal Gazetteer.

"If extensive and accurate information with respect to the present condition of the world is desired, it is believed that this great work, with its improvements, will afford the opportunity of obtaining it, with least pessible expense of time, trouble, and means."-Editor's Preface.

2 vols. 8vo, $5 00, Harper & Brothers, New-York. Encyclopædia of Geography, by Hugh Murray.

It is now publishing from the English original, an able and valuable work. The author has studiously collected the most recent, authentic, and accurate accounts of the extent, nature, features, population, productions, industry, political constitution, literature, religion, and social state of the various regions of the globe, with the leading details as to their districts and cities.

Malte Brun's Universal Geography.

This system of universal geography is the most complete of all the geographical systems. An English translation has been made from the original Danish, and it has passed through several editions in the United States, one of which contains many corrections by J. G. Percival.-Enc. Am. 10 vols., $36 00, Boston.

Butler's Classical Geography.

A very complete work, indispensable to the classical student.

Cook's Voyages.

As a navigator Cook was of the highest order, whether we

contemplate the discoveries he made or the means by which they were accomplished.-Edinb. Enc.

2 vols. 4to, $22 00, London.

Dampier's Voyages.

They are written by himself in a strongly-descriptive style, bearing all the marks of fidelity, and the nautical remarks display much professional, and even philosophical, knowledge.-Enc. Am.

3 vols. 8vo, $4 00, London.

Hawkins's Voyages.

They took place about 1562. He is branded, on the page of history, as the first Englishman, after the discovery of America, who made a merchandise of the human species. -Enc. Am.

Parry's Voyages.

In the arduous situations in which Mr. Parry was placed, he displayed not merely the skill of an officer, but the qual ities of a man of talent.-Enc. Am.

2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents.

Ross's Voyages.

The whole enterprise is a monument of perseverance, hardiness, and courage, as well as of intelligence and skill, highly honourable to the English nation.-Enc. Am. 2 vols. 8vo, $4 50, London, 1819.

Wrangel's Expedition to the Russian Polar Sea. A delightful book.

Lord Macartney's Embassy to China, 1792, 1793, 1794.

2 vols.

Barrow's Travels in China, as attached to the same Embassy.

2 vols. 4to, $8 00, London.

Lord Amherst's Embassy to China, by Ellis,

1816.

These three productions give us the best account, by Intelligent and sagacious observers, of the manners and

customs, and arts, and learning, of a mean and semi-barbarous race, without any due sense of the oligations of hu manity, justice, or truth.-Chancellor Kent.

Anson's Voyage.

This work is elegantly written, and was, during the last generation, the most popular nautical production.-Chancel lor Kent.

8vo, $2 00, London.

La Perouse's Voyage round the World.

(Translated from the French.)

This was one of the most unfortunate of all the efforts at nautical discovery, and awakens the deepest sympathy. 2 vols. 8vo, $5 00, London, 1798.

Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery in the North Pacific.

This great voyage was performed with admirable skill, discipline, perseverance, and success.-Chancellor Kent. 3 vols. 4to, $15 00, London.

Waddell's Voyage towards the South Pole. Captain Waddell penetrated the Antarctic Sea to lat. 74, which was three degrees farther south than Cook or any preceding navigator had penetrated.-Chancellor Kent. Morrell's Voyages in the Southern Hemisphere, in America, Africa, and Asia.

They were performed with admirable skill, and with enthusiastic spirit and enterprise.-Chancellor Kent. 8vo, $1 50.

Two Years before the Mast.

This voice from the forecastle has been listened to wher ever ships sail and our language is spoken. It is truly a spirit-stirring voice.

18mo, 45 cents.

C. S. Stewart's Visit to the South Sea.

The work does great credit to the talent, literary taste, intelligence, philanthropy, and piety of the author-North

American Review.

2 vols., $175.

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Moore's Views of Society in France, Switzerland, and Germany.

Few travellers were better qualified to observe and record the state of society than Dr. Moore.

2 vols. 8vo, $2 50, London, 1783.

Count Ségur's Russian Expedition, or the Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte.

We could not indicate a man who, from the nature of his literary habits and tastes, and the vivacity of his character, would be deemed more able to describe all that he had observed.-American Quarterly Review. 2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents, New-York.

Chateaubriand's Travels.

Chateaubriand travelled through Greece and Rhodes to Jerusalem, from whence he went to Alexandria, Cairo, and Carthage, and returned, by way of Spain, to France in 1807. He is distinguished for his talents for description.—Enc. Am. 8vo, $150, New-York, 1814.

Journal of the Landers.

This work is one of the most interesting in its kind which has appeared in modern times. Independently of the very spirited, running style of travellers, quite as good-humoured as they are energetic, and of the novelty attached to the descriptions, it is sufficient to immortalize the journal and its author alike, that it records the discovery of the termination of the Niger.-North American Review.

2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents.

Bruce's Travels in Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia, to discover the Sources of the Nile,

1768-73.

The first and last are very interesting. He was an intrepid and faithful traveller, and modern writers bear testimony to his general accuracy.-Chancellor Kent.

18mo, 45 cents.

Travels of Anacharsis, by Barthelemie.

Under the form of an ingenious fiction, Barthelemie has contrived to produce a most instructive commentary on his favourite subject, the Antiquities of Greece; and by the ele

gance of his style, the liveliness of his narrative, and the justness of his reflections, he has rendered his work attractive to the unlearned as well as to the learned reader.-Edinb. Enc. 5 vols. 4to, $10 00, Paris.

Lewis and Clark's Travels.

Mr. Jefferson gives Lewis the following character: "Of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose which nothing but impossibilities could divert from its direction; intimate with the Indian character, customs, and principles; guarded, by exact observation of the vegetables and animals of his own country, against losing time in the description of objects already possessed," &c., &c. -Enc. Am.

2 vols. 18mo, 90 cents, New-York.

Humboldt's Narrative.

This work has justly been called by a competent judge "a work of gigantic extent and richness to which the modern literature of Europe can hardly offer a parallel."-Enc. Am. An abridgment was published, 18mo, 45 cents, H. & B., New-York.

Fisk's Travels in Europe.

This instructive volume has had a wide circulation, and has well deserved it.

8vo, $3 25.

Miss Sedgwick's Letters from Abroad.

Miss Sedgwick has far exceeded her predecessors: for they only described characters and scenes; while she, to continue the metaphor, has carried her researches into the parlours, nay, into the very pantries of private individuals. Miss Sedgwick occupies a high position in America, not merely as an ornament of its world of light literature, but as a moral teacher.-London Athenæum.

2 vols. 12mo, $1 90.

J. S. Forsyth's Italy.

There are countries of the globe which possess a permanent and peculiar interest in human estimation. They are those where the most momentous historical events occurred and civilization first dawned. Foremost among them stands