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Show LEA & BLANCHARD'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. 17 SHAW'S ENGLISH LITERATURE. OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. BY TH01\1AS B. SHAW, Professor of English Literature in the Imperial Alexander Lyceum of St. Petersburg. In one large and handsome royal 12mo. volume. fin~ i~!~~~l~n~da;''Sihri!~ks~~~~ ~~~~~;,;;:~~~~.:or various merits will gradually Supplies a want long and severely felt.-SouthernLiterary Gazette. Traces our literary history with remarkable zest, fairness, and intelligence.-N. Y. Bum• JO'..<mal. ~~e ab~:~a,!;!}i.;':~~~~f[~P~~e a~~~!~~:~fs~·lli~~~~i~~~~~:·have ever met with. -Nears Saturday Gazelte. Emio.,ntly readable.- Ci ty Item. A judicious epitome-well adapted for a class-book, and at the same time worthy of a place in any hbrary.-Penn. Inquirer. From the Rt1J. W. G. T. Shedd, Prqfessor of English Literature in the University of Vt. BuRLINGTON, MA v 18, 1849. I take great pleasure in saying that it supplies a want that has lon(l" existed of a brief history of English literature, written in the right method and sp~rit, to serve as an introduction to the critical study of it. I sha.ll recommend the book to my classes. FOSTER'S EUROPEAN LITERATURE.-Now READY. HANDBOOK OF MODERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE: British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Polish and Russian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish. With a full Biographical and Chronological Index. BY MRS. FOSTER. In one large royal12mo. volume, extra cloth. (UNIFORM WITH SHAW'S OUTLINES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE.) Th.is compilation will prove of great utility to all young persons who have just com· pleted their academical studies. The volume gives both a general and particular view of the literature ofEurope from the revival of letters to the present day. It is compiled with care and jud~ment, and is, in all respects, one of the most instructive works that could be placed m the hands of young persons.-Morning Herald. ATLAS TO DANA ON CORALS. In one large Imperial folio volume, with Sixty-one Plates, Drawn and Colored after Nature, by the best Artists. Beautifully and strongly bound in half morocco. Of this magnificent work hut a very few copies have been offered for sale, and these are nearly exhausted. Those who are derirous of enriching their libraries with so 8plendid a specimen of American Art and Science will therefore do well to procure copies at once. A FEW COPIES STILL ON HAND OF DANA ON CORALS AND ZOOPHYTES. Being Volume V111. of the United States Exploring Expedition Publications. WILKES>S CALIFORNIA-A NEw WoRK, JusT IssuED. WESTERN AlUERICA, INCLUDING OREGON AND CALIFORNIA. With Maps of those Regions and of the Sacramento Valley. BY CIIARLES WILKES, U. S. N., Commander of the United States Exploring Expedition. Octavo. Price 75 cents. |