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Show 10 LEA & BLANCHARD'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. NEW WORK BY MISS KAVANAGH.-Now Ready. WOMAN IN FRANCE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. BY JULIA KAVANAGH, Author of" Madeleine, a Tale of Auvergne." In one neat voJ., royal12mo., extra cloth. In treating other subjects of her gallery-as for instance those widely different personages, Mctlle. Aissl! and Madame Roland-Miss Kavanagh puts forth a pathetic power which gives depth and repose to a book that in other hands might have become wenryins from its unmitigated sparkle. The crllic dealing with such an encyclopedia of coguetries, amours, vicissitudes, safferings, and repentances as the history of" Woman tn France,, must necessarily ~~,c~ i~8:h~0f~s0cl~O,:;t~~~f~~~ ~~b~e0~~~~hl~r~~~ tt/J~=~~fc~~~~:~ s~~h ;'~1 ~t:~m~: ence ofsuggestion-tl1at every page tempts him to stop for a gossip or for speculation of modes and morals. Which among us will ever be tired of reading about the Women of France? especially when they are marshaled so agreeably and discreetly as in the pages before us.- The Athenaum. ERMAN'S SIBERIA.-Now Ready. TRAVELS IN SIBERIA. INCLUDING EXCURSIONS NORTHWARD, Down the Obi to the Polar Circle, and Sonthward to the Chinese Frontier. BY ADOLPH ERMAN. TRANSLATED FR0\1: TUE GERMAN, BY WILLIAM DESBOROUGH COOI,EY. In two large vols., roynl12mo., extra cloth. Much interest attaches to this work as the only complete and authentic account which we possess of the vast territories extending from the Ural Mountains to Behring's Straits, of which less i• known, than perhaps of any other densely inhabited portion of the globe. Dr. Erman devoted several years to these researches, and has embodied in these volumes a large amount of curious and novel information. LATELY ISSUED.-INGERSOLL'S NEW WORK. HISTORICAL SKETCU OF THE SEtJOND WAR BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND GREAT BRITAIN, DECLARED BY ACT OF CONGRESS THE 18th OF JUNE, 1812. AND CONCLUDED BY PEACE THE 15th OF FEBRUARY, 1815. BY CHARLES J. INGERSOLL. E!IBRACING THE EVENTS OF 1814. In one well-printed Svo. vol., of318 pages, double columns, paper covers. FRANCE UNDER LOUIS PHILIPPE. The History of Ten Years, 1820-1840; or, France nnder Louis Philippe. BY LOUIS BLANC, Secretary of the Provisional Government of 1848. TRANSLATED BY WALTER K. KELLY. In two handsome crown Svo. volumes, extra cloth~si.x: part•, paper, at fifty cents. HISTORY OF TilE FRENCH REVOLUTION OF 1789. BY LOUIS BLANC, Author of·' FraHce under Louis Philippe," &c TRAN~ .rED FROM THE FRENCH. one vnl1\mc• , cro\.vn octavo |