THE PARTICULAR ATTENTION OF LADIES IS CALLED TO THE FAMILY SEWING MACHINE, MANUFACTURED BY THE Grover & Baker Sewing Machine Co. WHICH POSSESSES THE FOLLOWING DECIDED AND PRICE BOX CLOSED. 1. It is contained and operated in a handsome Rosewood Box, which can be closed and locked 2. It occupies less than a square foot in space, is light and portable, and can be transported or 3. Cotton is used on these machines as it is purchased-on spools - without rewinding; saving a 4. The trouble and perplexity of filling and attending to a shuttle (as in other machines) is, in this 5. It can be used by hand or foot at pleasure; conveniences for the latter power always accompany 6. It is very simple, yet strong, in construction; easily learned and kept in order; can be run at 7. The stitch is always distinct, even, and regular, and for general beauty, strength, and elasticity 8. This machine embroiders beautifully. 9. THE PRICE IS ONLY SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. Family Machines also arranged in Tables, Cabinets, &c., &c., with drawers, and every convenience The extensive patronage and popularity enjoyed by these machines is the best evidence of their SALESROOMS: 18 SUMMER ST. (Mercantile Building), BOSTON. 495 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 161 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA. THE "MONTHLY" ADVERTISER. REMOVAL. Removal to Summer Street. 1 DANIELL & CO. HAVE REMOVED TO THEIR NEW STORE, Nos. 7 and 9 Summer Street. In moving from our old Store, we cannot refrain from expressing our thanks to our friends and customers whom it has been our happiness to meet from year to year, for their generous patronage, and trust that, by unceasing efforts to give them goods at low prices, we shall make it for their interest to continue to do business with us in our NEW STORE. One fixed principle with us is to allow no goods to be recommended beyond their real worth, or allow our customers to be deceived in their purchases. Our long experience enables us to procure our stock in the best way, and sell it at the lowest prices. WE HAVE OPENED A NEW AND BEAU- LONG AND SQUARE SHAWLS. LINEN GOODS, Manufactured for us from pure flax. AND EVERY a 2 THE “MONTHLY" ADVERTISER. The Great Book of the Year Is the New Tale by the Authoress of "The Lamplighter." MISS CUMMINS has chosen for the title of her new book the name of the principal heroine, the beautiful and accomplished MABEL VAUGHAN, and has written a story which for elegance of diction and thrilling interest has rarely been equalled by an American lady. The question has been repeatedly asked, "Can Miss Cummins write another book equal to The Lamplighter?" We can answer this question now with perfect assurance, not only from our own personal knowledge, but from the unqualified testimony of two literary gentlemen of Boston, who have read the work with great care, and with absorbing interest, both of whom pronounce it a süperior book to the first, and assure us that the Authoress of "The Lamplighter," instead of losing position, will add immensely to her previously well-earned and world-wide reputation. Many writers, flushed with the saccess of their first efforts, resume authorship in such haste as to leave no time for the recreation and recuperation required by both body and mind. Not so with the authoress of "The Lamplighter"; she has shown her good judgment in waiting two years and a half, and, by so doing, will undoubtedly take a position in advance of the one she now occupies. MABEL VAUGHAN, like "The Lamplighter," will soon become a familiar household name, and her charming character a model for imitation. We are printing Twenty Thousand Copies for the first edition. It makes a handsome 12mo volume of 500 pages, for $1. JOHN P. JEWETT & Co., Publishers, 289 Washington Street, Boston. ALLEN'S BRITISH INDIA. India, Ancient and Modern, Geographical, Historical, Political, Social, and Religious. This valuable work by Dr. D. O. ALLEN, who was for twenty-five years a resident of India, is acknowledged to be the most complete and reliable work on British India ever published, either here or in England. It possesses uncommon interest at the present time, while the eyes of the world are turned towards that country. PUBLISHED BY JOHN P. JEWETT & CO., BOSTON, Mass. In one splendid 8vo volume. Price, $ 2.00. The learned Editor of the Anglo-Saxon, in a recent notice, speaks thus of this able work: "The want of a reliable work on India has long been felt, especially in this country; and the present unsettled and unsatisfactory state of affairs in the East has increased the desire for information. The opportune issue of 'Allen's India, Ancient and Modern,' from the house of Messrs. JOHN P. JEWETT & Co., has therefore supplied a desideratum, and the demand for the work has already called forth a second edition. "This work is the result of many years' labor. The author was a diligent collector of facts, during a residence of twenty-five years in that interesting country. Being a member of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, and corresponding member of the American Oriental Society,' he had access to the best sources d information, and his comprehensive work of over six hundred octavo pages is good evidence of the manner in which he improved his opportunities for gathering the materials for the publication now so favorably received by the public. "The geographical, historical, political, social, and religious aspects of the country are each presented in systematic order. The successive periods of the history of the country are treated separately, commencing with fragmentary sketches of the aborigines, and followed successively by the introduction of Hinduism, Mohamme danism, and finally by European discovery and conquest, and the operations of the East India Company. The Armies, European and Native, their discipline, pay, affection and disaffection,—are classified and described, impartially. The Government officials, from Governor-General, whose salary is $125,000 per annum, with about an equal sum for expenses, down to the magistracy, are enumerated, and their respective positions, authority, and salaries noted. In fact, the whole machinery of that ponderous association, the East India Company,' from its original to the present period, is faithfully laid before the reader. "Dr. Allen resolved upon a difficult task when he undertook to write a History of India; but he has done the subject justice. It is not, as all the works on India are which have preceded it, either a Treatise on British India, or on some definite period of the history of the country, but a full and comprehensive History of all India, and a very full map of the country accompanies the work. At this time, when the eyes of the world are turned to that remarkable country with intense interest, the publication of this work is doubly desirable. Its reception in Europe has been very flattering, not only by the critics of the British Press, but by the public generally." The Editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser closes a very discriminating notice as follows:"We have never felt more deeply, than after the perusal of some of the chapters and notes in the latter part of this book, the great delicacy of the questions which continually present themselves in the relations of the con verts to Christianity, nor the embarrassing position in which both missionaries and government are occasionally placed, in the attempt to reconcile the inevitable consequences of the past, and the necessities of the present, with the requirements of enlightened institutions. Some of the steps taken by the Company have unquestionably left a deep stain upon the English name, and Dr. Allen is not slow to denounce them. But he also shows very plainly the influence of the European power in suppressing many of the evils under which the native population have suffered for centuries, and the nature of those reforms which have rendered the change of masters, on the whole, an advantage to the great mass of the Indian people. Dr. Allen's book is published in this city by Messrs. John P. Jewett & Co. We warmly commend it to the attention of the public." Importers and Dealers in CARPETINGS, Of every Variety of Fabric and Quality, HAYMARKET SQUARE, BOSTON. GEORGE F. DAVIS, SAMUEL T. WRIGHT, WILLIAM H. SMITH. SAMUEL T. CROSBY, IMPORTER OF RICH JEWELRY AND SILVER WARE; Fine Watches, Clocks, and Plated Wares; 3 HIS very successful Company, having accumulated a large surplus cash-capital, are issuing Policies at reduced rates of Premium. 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