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The Companion: After Dinner Table Talk.

By CHETWOOD EVELYN, Esq. With a Portrait of Rev. Sidney Smith, Esq. 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents.

"A pleasure book for a leisure hour, made up principally from various Authors, with a sprinAling of anecdote and striking thoughts gathered in conversation, and occasionally an original article, not unworthy of its place with the rest. The Author, we should infer, is one who likes to rummage in the corners and odd places of English literature, and certainly he has gleaned with 'udgment wherever his reading has led him."-Evening Post.

Illustration of Washington Irving's Dolph Heyliger.

Designed and etched by J. W. EHNINGER. 4to. Cloth, $4 00.

"We have here one of Irving's most humorous and characteristic stories illustrated with appropriate feeling and nice appreciation of the intent of the Author. The designs are all well coinposed, and the figures, with very rare exceptions, remarkably well drawn."-Courier & Enquirer.

A Series of Etchings in Outline.

Suggested by Hood's "BRIDGE OF SIGHS." By J. H. EHNINGER. 4to., cloth, $2 50

"Mr. Ehninger has here produced that which will compare favorably with the works of many who claim for themselves a high place among American artists. His conception of the subject he has chosen is certainly very truthful and imaginative. The whole production is highly creditable to so young an artist."-Courier & Enquirer.

A Commentary on Ecclesiastes.

By Prof. MOSES STUART. One volume, 12mo., cloth, $1 00.

"The carefulness and thoroughness of investigation, and mature scholarship which mark his other works, are apparent on every page of this."-Cincinnati Christian Herald.

"A useful contribution to sacred hermeneutics, and will doubtless tend to make Ecclesiastes better understood, than is generally the case."-Christian Banner.

Elements of Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical.

Adapted to the present state of Analysis. To which is added, their application to the principles of Navigation, Surveying, Nautical Astronomy, and Geodesy. With Logaritl:mic, Trigonometrical, and Nautical Tables. For the use of Colleges and Academies. New Edition, greatly improved. By Rev. C. W. HACKLEY, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy in Columbia College, N. Y. One volume, 8vo. Cloth, $2 00. Sheep, $2 25.

Also, an EDITION IN TWO PARTS. Paper covers, $1 each.

PART I. TRIGONOMETRY, Plane and Spherical.

PART II. NAVIGATION, SURVEYING, ASTRONOMY, GEODESY, &c., Plane and Spherical. With Tables.

"A book that must attain the highest standing among its class. It gives a more extensive and more searching application of the science to Surveying, Navigation, Nautical Astronomy, Geodesy, &c., than perhaps any single existing treatise, and decidedly a greater variety of well selected examples on each subject than can be found in any similar work."-Mathematical Mi8. (Professor Gill.)

"A most valuable contribution to scientific instruction, which no other volume, or half dozen of them, can supply the place of.”—Professor Gillespie, of Union College.

Elements of the Differential and Integral Calculus.

Arranged by ALBERT E. CHURCH, Professor of Mathematics in the United States Military Academy. 1 vol. 8vo., half bound, $1 50.

"This is an improved edition of Church's work on the Calculus. They teach mathematics with great exactness, and success at West Point, and the present edition is enriched by various modifications suggested by experience in the recitation room."-New-York Evening Post.

"No one in the country is probably better fitted than Prof. Church, by ability, experience, and a knowledge of the difficulties encountered in imparting instruction in this branch of mathematical science, to prepare a work which shall remove or obviate them. This treatise must be used ultimately in all our higher institutions where the importance of the subject is properly appre ciated."-Courier.

Elements of Analytical Geometry.

By Prof. ALBERT E. CHURCH, of West Point Military Academy. 1 vol. 8vo., halź bound, $1 50.

New Elements of Geometry.

By SEBA SMITH. 1 vol. 8vo., cloth, $1 00.

"A very complete and a very practical work, It is scientific, but the reader must not suppose that it is consequently dry. It will, of course, attract the attention of those engaged in the investigation of "fixed facts," as is the science of numbers.”—Balt, Pat.

French and English Counting-House Manual.

Manual of Commercial Correspondence, English and French; or, A Selection of Commercial Phrases, taken from a number of Letters, Accounts, Catalogues, Prices Current, and other Papers. By a MERCHANT. In one volume, 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents.

"It contains a copious selection of the phrases usually occurring in commercial correspondence, embracing every subject which is likely to demand attention in the countinghouse."-Tribune. Coe's New Drawing Lessons. Drawing for Schools.

By BENJ. H. COE, Author of "Drawing Cards."-This Series consists of SeventyTwo Cards giving progressive Lessons in a Case. Price, $1 00.

This new work proposes a method by which all the members of a large class are taught to draw at once, with neatness, uniformity and accuracy.

George Washington. A Biography.

By WASHINGTON IRVING. With Illustrations. (In preparation.)

New Researches at Nineveh.

By AUSTEN HENRY LAYARD, Esq. In one volume, 8vo., uniform with "Nineven and its Remains." (In preparation.)

Patnam's Book-Buyer's Manual.

One volume, 8vo. Paper covers, 25 cents; half-bound, 75 cents.

"It presents a complete list of the best authors in every department of literature,-a most tempting bill of fare to literary epicures."-Tribune.

"A complete, authentic, and elaborate catalogue of books. It is the best digested list we have Been for a long time, and was greatly needed. It contains exact and thorough information, and will prove of great value as giving data in facts of literature, and for every purpose of reference.* -Leader.

"The catalogue is very handsomely and conveniently arranged. The prices are attached to the books, so that any one ordering them is aware in advance of what the cost will be”— Louisville Journal.

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