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COLTON'S LIFE AND TIMES OF HENRY CLAY, 2 vols.
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HUME'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Abdication of James II, 1668. "Boston Library Edi. tion." With a complete index to the whole work. 6 vols. 12mo; cloth, MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, being a continuation of Hume to the present time. 12mo, uniform with the above; cloth, 1 00 GIBBON'S HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, with Notes, by Rev. II. II. Milman, and a completo Index to the whole work. "Boston Library Edition." Complete in Bix vols. uniform with IIume and Macaulay. Cloth, CARLYLE'S ESSAYS, being a Series of "Latter Day Pamphlets," by Thomas Carlyle. 8 numbers complete in one volume, 12mo; cloth,

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LAMARTINE'S HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLU
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COMBE'S CONSTITUTION OF MAN, 12mo,

FOWLER'S PHRENOLOGY, 12mo,

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ALCOTT'S FAMILIAR LETTERS TO YOUNG MEN, on va→ rious subjects. 12mo, muslin,

ALCOTT'S LETTERS TO A SISTER, or Woman's Mission, uniform with the above, 12mo, muslin,

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YOUNG WOMAN'S BOOK OF HEALTH; by Dr. William
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FAMILIAR LECTURES ON THE TEN COMMANDMENTS; by Dr. Alcott,

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YOUNG MAN'S BOOK, or Lectures for the Times; by W. W.
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LIFE OF COMMODORE PAUL JONES.-87 beautiful Illustrations; cloth, gilt,

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JENKIN'S POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK, with portraits; 1 vol. oct. shp.
JENKIN'S LIFE AND TIMES OF SILAS WRIGHT, late
Governor of New York. shp. 12mo,
DONIPHAN'S EXPEDITION, AND CONQUEST OF CALI-
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The Life of Gen. Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, brought down to his inauguration. Steel portrait, 12mo., muslin; a new edition, by H. Montgomery.

*** 18,000 of the above work have been sold by us.

"The Life of GEN. Z. TAYLOR."-H. Montgomery, Esq., editor of the Auburn Daily Advertiser, has found leisure, amid the multitude of his engagements, to get up the most respectable looking and carefully prepared biography of the old General we have yet seen. It makes a neat volume, and is printed on excellent paper and new type, and bound in the very best style. It cannot fail to find a tremendous sale a result due alike to the book itself, and the enterprise of its busy publishers.— Albany Evening Journal.

"LIFE OF GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR, by H. Montgomery," is the latest and most complete of the numerous volumes purporting to be 'Lives' of the General. The author of this work-likewise editor of the Auburn Journal — is already known as a forcible and pleasing writer, handling his subject with a masterly hand; these characteristics are fully developed in the book before us. The stirring incidents of General Taylor's life, and the recent battles on Mexican soil are well portrayed the very fair and impartial style of narration being a rare quality in depicting battle scenes. The book will repay an attentive perusal.-N. Y. Tribune.

THE LIFE OF MAJOR GENERAL ZACHARY TAYLOR. By II. Montgomery.Another and still another "illustrated" Life of the great American, (would that he had as many lives as the publishers give him,) the American whom Carlyle would recognise as "a hero" worthy of his pen's most eloquent recognition; THE MAN OF DUTY in an age of Self. An American in everything; in valor, in strong muscular Bense; in simplicity and directness and cordiality of feeling; an American in every thing, save in devotion to our new political God of Expediency.

The volume before us is put forth in Auburn, by the editor of the Auburn Daily Advertiser, whose vigorous, fluent style, and skill in compressing his materials, must make his elegant volume very generally acceptable. Many of the traits ascribed to General Taylor have been assimilated by some of his admirers to the leading military characteristics of Frederick the Great. But, unlike Frederick, Taylor is anything but a martinet in discipline; and, though his movements of small bodies of troops against vast odds, are characterized by the vigorous will and iron determination of Frederick, the arbitrary disposition of the Prussian despot is wholly alien to his tolerant and candid nature. Taylor's affectionate and almost parental relation to his soldiers, perhaps, alone first suggested the parallel, as we find it hinted in the following stanza of some verses upon one of his battles, quoted by Mr Montgomery :

"OLD ZACH!' 'OLD ZACH!' the war cry rattles
Among those men of iron tread,

As rung 'OLD FRITZ' in Europe's battles
When thus his host Great Frederick led."

Literary World.

The American Lady's System of Cookery, com. prising every variety of information for ordinary and Holiday occasions. By Mrs. T. J. CROWEN.

The "American System of Cookery" is a capital book of its class, and for which we bespeak the good word of all thrifty housekeepers. It introduces us into a wil derness of sweets, where no rude surfeit reigns! The almost innumerable variety of good things, clearly and orderly set forth, is most apetizing for the hungry reader, just before dinner.

Here is an American housewife, sensible and thrifty, who has laid down directions for making all sorts of dishes, baking all kinds of cakes and pies, manufacturing every variety of confectionery, preserving, pickling, &c., so plainly that a housekeeper of a week's standing can easily act upon her directions, and yet taken so comprehensive a scope, that the very best and most skilful will find something new. We take for granted, that as the latest, it is the best book of its class.

The writer of this volume has previously published a similar work, on a smaller scale-"Every Lady's Book"-of which more than two hundred thousand copies are said to have been sold. If this is not popularity, we know not what is.-Literary

World.

The "American System of Cookery," is the title of a goodly sized duodecimo, pub. lished in New York. The authoress of this work has obtained considerable celebrity, by a work which she entitled "Every Lady's Book," and we believe she will add to her deserved credit by the present volume, which comes home to the stomach of every man. The receipts are abundant and practical.-North American.

Of all the reforms, none is more loudly called for than one in American Cookerythat being one in which everybody is interested. That the national health would be better, if the national kitchen were more philosophically and phyorologically mana ged, there seems to be no doubt anywhere. Even morals suffer, beyond question, through the influence of crude, ill-selected aliment. Who knows but the Mexican war may be traced to an ill-cooked, ill-assorted, contradictory, and irritaling cabinet dinner?

A Lady of New York tells us how to make a great many nice, wholesome things, and we beg our readers not to imagine we speak rashly, or even theoretically, upon this all-important subject-we have tasted, and we testify without a misgiving. "The proof of the pudding,” etc.—Union Magazine.

Thus our wife settles the question. The same author's "Every Lady's Book," she said, might be useful for some folks, but the real simon pure, Yankee, American Cook Book, was the thing exactly, just such a book as she should have made, if she had cooked it up herself. She says it is made on common sense principles; the rules are exactly such as sensible folks folow in this democratic land, who regard taste, health, and economy. Our wife as a with some Cook Books, one has to deduct half the spice, shortning and gar. Our Jonk, however, as our wife declares, is practicable, and is to be followed to the letter.Central Washingtonian News.

This book is compiled by person of practical knowledge of the subject, who, as stated in the preface, has been for the last eight years emploveu ir collecting infor mation on the subject of the work, and in reducing to practice the receipts obtained. -Evening Post.

By the spiciness of the preface, and by the very funny epistle with which to authoress of this oook sends us a copy, we cannot doubt her to be a woman farest; and as Mrs. Chikt nas applied her genins to the making of such a book, we can ne lieve even a song Book may be better for genius in the writer.-Home Journu

This appears 'c De the most complete and satisfactory collection of receipts in to culinary art when the skill and enterprise of American ladies, devoted to the subject, have produc It contains a large amount of matter in a volume of very good size, as a manual, and we have confidence, from the decided testimony of those who have tested ita nier:ts, in recommending it to house-keepers.-Protestant Churchman.

AND TO THE FRIENDS OF OUR FREE INSTITU

TIONS GENERALLY.

THE

SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT

AND COMPEnd of the CONSTITUTIONAL AND CIVIL

JURISPRUDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES,

WITH A BRIEF

TREATISE ON POLITICAL ECONOMY.

BY ANDREW W. YOUNG.

TWENTIETH EDITION.

The subjects embraced in the above entitled work, are

I. The Principles of Government, in which are illustrated the nature, objects, and fundamental principles of Civil Government and Laws.

II. The Government of the United States, comprising the Constitution, with a brief commentary, showing the nature and design of his several provisions, as expressed by the framers; and an abstract of the laws for carrying into effect the powers of the gen eral Government, and organizing its several departments.

III. The Civil Jurisprudence of the United States, being an epitome of the common Jaw of the country, prescribing the rights, duties and responsibilities of citizens in the domestic and social relations.

IV. Political or Public Economy, in which the elementary principles of this science are familiarly explained.

V. The Constitution of the State of New York, adopted November 3d, 1846.

While the interests of Education are deservedly receiving much attention, it is not a little remarkable that the Science of Government has hitherto been so generally neg. Jected.

A knowledge of our Constitutional and Civil Jurisprudence can scarcely be too high. ly estimated. The very idea of free government, pre-supposes the knowledge, without It people cannot know how to govern. The elective franchise is valuable only as it is exercised intelligently.

Questions of public policy, not merely affecting the common interests of our country, but involving constitutional principles and even liberty itself, are not unfrequently do cided at the ballot box. Yet multitudes of our citizens presume to exercise the prerogative of freemen without knowing what the duties and responsibilities of freemen are. The poll lists of our State are annually swelled by thousands of new voters, who have never given the Constitution so much as a single reading! Can our liberties be sale in such hands 1 Can parents reconcile it with a sense of duty to turn their sons upon a community thus unprepared for the great business of self-government ? UNIFORM PRICE-$1,25 in Im. Morocco Binding. Orders should be addresscd, post paid, to

GEO. H. DERBY & CO.,

Publishers, Buffalo, N. Y.

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YOUNG'S SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT.

From the Buffalo Com. Advertiser.

We should unjustly undervalue the intelligence conferred under our present schoolsystem, if we supposed this book is written in a style beyond the easy comprehension of those who have enjoyed the benefits of such an education; and we contidently recommend it for the use of schools and families as a work of excellent objects, well realized in the performance. It may be perused with advantage by nearly all persons, not excepting such Washington letter writers, politicians, and newspaper writers as deem themselves amendable to sound reasoning and common sense.

From his Ex. Wilson Shannon, Governor of the State of Ohio.

I have examined with some care, Mr. YOUNG's "Introduction to the Science of Government," and approve both of the matter and manner of arrangement. It is a work containing a great deal of highly useful and important information, and its introduction into our common schools cannot fail to be attended with good results. Such a work is greatly needed at this time in our common schools. It is with great pleasure I recommead it to the patronage and favorable consideration of tho public.

From the London (Eng.) Telegraph.

WILSON SHANNON

INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF GOVERNMENT-By Andrew W. Young, Buffalo, United States.

A digest of American Law, compiled for the use of Schools. Its study by the youth of the United States is a remarkable indication of the social revolution that is being worked out in the other hemisphere. Our law students, at the termination of their ar ticles, would consider such a class book, adapted to the circumstances of the English constitution, as invaluable; and we cannot give a better idea of this introduction to the science of political economy, than to compare it to a condensed edition of "Blackstone's Commentaries" for the use of Schools.

From Thomas I. Biggs, D. D., President of Cincinnati College.

1 have examined with some considerable care, Mr. YOUNG'S "Introduction to the Science of Government," &c.; and, without disparagement of any kindred work, I think it due to this production to say that, in my opinion, it has peculiar claims upon public attention. The author has certainly accomplished his design to furnish a work to be both a class-book for seminaries of learning and for domestic instruction. The plan of the work and the arrangement of topics, evinces a clear and comprehensive view of his whole subject. The style is plain, familiar, and perspicuous, his expositions of the various technical terms and phrases employed in the work, are intelligible and instructive. I wish the work success.

THOMAS I. BIGGS.

From C. P. McIlvaine, Bishop of the State of Ohio.

The work by Andrew W. Young, entitled "Introduction to the Science of Government," &c., I have had a brief opportunity of examining. It is intelligently and perspicuously written. The interpretation of Constitutional law seems to me to be just. A studious effort is manifest to make all its instructions plain to readers of youthful minds, as well as those of limited education. Such a book is very desirable in this country, and I have pleasure in recommending this as culculated to do good.

CHAS. P. McILVAINE.

The above are but few of the many valuable recommendations the "Science of Government" has already received. It is therefore unnecessary to give more-let it suffice that the Book is all that it professes to be and is in reality one of the cheapest books in the world.

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