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Show , WORKS DY TilE SAME AU1'HOR. Price Id. SUBSTANCE OF AN ADDRESS ON THE RIGHT. USE AND APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE, lately delivered to the Mechanics of Manchester. In 2 vo\,:, Svo. price J4s. cloth lettered, MINOR WORKS; being a uniform reprint of all Mr. Gurney's smaller pieces. Eighth edition, 3'2mo. price 2s. (id. cloth lettered. HYMNS, selected from various Authors, for the Usc of YOUNG PERSONS. By Priscilla Gurney. WORKS ALllK\IARLE STREET, DEcr.MnF.Jt, 1840. TilE FOLLOWING ARE IN TilE PRESS. !. niBLICAL RESEARCIIES IN PALESTINE, MOUNT SINAI, AND AltA ?I A I'E'rll.iEA, being:\ Joumal of 'frrwcls in the year 1838, undcl'takcn mt·cf<'rcncc to l3iblica\ Ccograplly. By the Rev. Dr. R omNsON :u~d tlw_Rev: E1.1 Sm-r11 . Drawn up f1·om original Notes m:ulc on the spot, WLth ll u-;toncnl l\lm;trations by EnwATW lloon;oso:o~, D.D, P1·ofesSOl' of DiUiiral Litct·atnrc in the New York 'l'hcological Seminary, nnd Author of " A Gl·ccl\ :wd Engl i~;h Lexicon of the New 'l'cl:ltnmcnt." With 1\laps aJH.l Plans of Jcl'tt~alcm, l':dcstiuc, and Mount Sinai, ft·om original 1\Icas lll·cmcnts aiH.l OiJscn'ations, in five sheets. 3 vols. t.:vo. ""'o look for tho nnrrativo nf the Syrian Travels of Dr. llobinson nnd tho Rev Eli Smith, which will l1y before us tho results of a journey, made by keen o~ f!Crvers ami accompllshctl scholnrs.''-Addreu O/ t11e l'ruident of Uu: Roval Ge(l.f}l"ttjJhicalSociefyo.f /,QIIdon. "Tho corrc<'tinn of mnny crrnncouOJ views ns to tho situation of placeR lliFtoricnlly important, and nccount!l of tho undoubted dls<.-o,·ery of cclcbmtcd nncicnt mom•mcntJ;~, long lost or overloolwd, even In Jl•rusnlmn itself, give to tho rending of 1>1·. Hnbinson'tl Hcpoa·t nn unusual intctcst.''-Jlcport 1'.( the Geogra· fJhical Sodely (1/ JJcrlin. "Tho " 'nrk on Palestine by tho nov. Dr. Robinson Is very different from tho hasty journals hithel'to publishe<! by ammy Tourists in tho same region. It is tho reguft of stud if'S oonHe<:lcd with long J)rC'parnlilln, l\1\tl of an Important enterprise in bcl•nlfof ndeeperf!Cicntific ill\'l.'Sllgntlon of the gcogl"n))ll\cal, hlstorlcnl, nud nntit[lmrlnu fl~latlons of tho lloly J,:mtl. This enterprise has been hnppily cnrrlcd out up.on tho spot under tho most fn,·ourablc clreumstnnces; nntl tho wurk thus rclmltlng from it, with its historical illustmtions, IHUI bt.-cn prcpn.tcd with tho nid of tho richest !Hemry means, and will ccrtninly occupy one 11f tho most imj)llrtaut placosamong tho sources for tho study of tho googrnphy nnd nntiqnitl06 or tho Scriptures." "This work, by its n111ncrous rlisco,·crics:md new in,•C!Itlg•ltlons, will bo of ltt.~~ting vnl.uc for tho knowled~o of the l~ast, and fur tho historical pnrt or thoolog!cnl lrtudy. It contains in ltAClf the motcrinls for nn en tiro tmnsfm·nmtion of tho Cartogrnjlhy of l'n]Cf;tlne; hitherto 80 llcfcctlvc, lUlls proved by tho very hn· JX)I'tnnt mapsalrcndy e<mstructe<l, fount\1..'<1 on tho new Obsoi'Vt~tiuns affurtletl by thi~ joumcy. Those ns no accompaniment to tho tex t, glvo tho hltter 1\ peculiar value which cnn bo regarded only as highly dcslrnblo."-PrQ(t:uor Ca1·l Ritter of Berlin. SELECTIONS FRO~f THE DISPATCHES, GENERAl, ORDERS, &c. OF l'lELD-MARSJIAL 'l'liE DUKE OF WELLINGrl'ON. Dy Lieut.- Col. Gun.wooo, Esquire to His Grace n.s ]{night of tho Dath. In one closely })l'intcd volume. 6vo. Ill, A HISTORY OF INDIA. By tl1o II on. M OUNTSTUART ELl'TITNSTONE. Vol.s. I. nnd l l. comprising U10 lll NDOO nud I\L\IIOMEDAN I' muons. Svo. |