The English Language. MARSH (G. P.).—Lectures on the English Lan GUAGE. BY GEORGE P. MARSH. First Series, fourth edition, revised and enlarged. One volume, crown 8vo, half calf, large paper, $6; half calf, $5; cloth, $3.00 These lectures were delivered by their distinguished author in 1858–9, as part of the Post Graduate course established a short time previously in pur. suance of a plan to enlarge the means of education afforded by Columbia College. They were then, and in their present form are now addressed, as Mr. Marsh states in the preface, "to the many, and not to the few; to those who have received such an amount of elementary discipline as to qualify them to become their own best teachers in the attainment of general culture, not to the professed grammarian or linguistic inquirer." While popular in form, the lectures display a generous and careful culture, a wide range of study and accurate scholarship not often put under contribution for the benefit of the multitude. CRITICAL NOTICES. "We have read this work with much satisfaction. We give it a hearty welcome as calcu lated to excite an interest in the study of English, and to render valuable assistance in its pursuit. It is distinguished by a higher order of scholarship, a more thorough investigation of original sources of knowledge, a sounder judgment, a more correct taste, and a purer style than we generally find in transatlantic productions.”—London Athenæum. "The style is graceful and attractive-the opinions are sound and ably vindicated-the purest taste, as to words, idioms, and authors, pervades the entire work. So much learning and wisdom, weighty thought and just criticism, have seldom been condensed into an equal space, and still more rarely presented in a form so well adapted to all classes of intelligent readers.”—North American Review. "Mr. Marsh has clearly travelled a good deal, read a good deal, and thought a good deal. He speaks with that hearty earnestness which is so characteristic of the better class of his nation. He not only understands, but loves his subject."-London Saturday Review. They are remarkable for learning, diligence, discrimination, and good sense. We heartily commend this book to teachers, learners, and all who take an interest in the philology of their native language."-London Critic. "We believe we are not going too far when we say that Mr. Marsh's book is the best treatise of the kind in the language."-Atlantic Monthly. MARSH (G. P.).—THE ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, AND OF THE EARLY LITERATURE IT EMBODIES. BY GEORGE P. MARSH, author of "Lectures on the English Language." One volume, crown 8vo, large paper, $6; half calf. $5; cloth, $3.00 In this volume is comprised a course of lectures delivered by Mr. Marsh at the Lowell Institute, Boston, in the autumn and winter of 1860-1861. The topics discussed differ essentially from those treated upon in the "Lectures on the English Language,” and they display profounder and more technical philological knowledge. For this very reason, however, they worthily succeed the lectures just alluded to. These two courses of lectures have done good service abroad by securing recognition for American scholarship, while they have placed their author among the foremost of living philologists. CRITICAL NOTICES. "We continually observe indications of the same faithful and earnest study, the same profound and accurate knowledge of our early writers, the same good sense and independence of thought, and the same general ability of treatment which characterized Mr. Marsh's former volume."-London Athenæum. "We know not which to commend most warmly, the zeal of the scholar, the discrimination of the philosopher, or the humanity of the man who traces with such curious yet comprehensive knowledge and insight the elements, origin, growth, and character of our noble tongue."-Boston Transcript. "Mr. Marsh's two works, and especially his last one, should be made the study of every intelligent person. Indeed, no English education can be complete without the mastery of such analyses as these."-New York Observer. Man and Nature. MARSH (G. P.).—MAN AND NATURE; or, Physical Geo graphy as Modified by Human Action. By GEORGE P. MARSH. One volume, crown 8vo, large paper, $6; half calf, $5; cloth, $3 00 The author succinctly states the object of this volume as follows in the preface: "To indicate the character and approximately the extent of the changes produced by human action in the physical conditions of the globe we inhabit; to point out the dangers of imprudence and the necessity of caution in all operations which, on a large scale, interfere with the spontaneous arrangements of the organic or the inorganic world; to suggest the possibility and the importance of the restoration of disturbed harmonies, and the material improvement of waste and exhausted regions; and incidentally, to illustrate the doctrine that man is, in both kind and degree, a power of a higher order than any of the other forms of animated life, which, like him, are nourished at the table of bounteous nature." The author addresses himself "not to professed physicists, but to the general intelligence of educated, observing, and thinking men," and his purpose "is rather to make practical suggestions than to indulge in theoretical speculations properly suited to a different class from that to which those for whom he writes belong." CRITICAL NOTICES. "We do not hesitate to affirm that this book should be placed on every farmer's shelf, be owned by every Farmer's Club and every village library, and be studied by every legislator in the land. For general reading and instruction, it may also be most highly commended." -N. Y. Independent. "This book is as full of wisdom as of learning. It is wide and solid learning brought to bear upon practical and commor. life, so as to suggest the best results "-Vermont Chronicle. Astronomy. ITCHEL (O. M.).-POPULAR ASTRONOMY: A Concise Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets, Satellites, and Comets. By O. M. MITCHEL, LL.D. One volume, 12mo, $1.75 cloth Like all the works of Prof. Mitchel, this is so popular in style as to be easily understood by the student, to whose use it is especially adapted, while it never falls into diffuseness. In the preface, the author says: "I have endeavored to follow the path of real discovery, and in every instance to present the facts and phenomena so as to afford the reader and student an opportunity to exercise his own genius in their discussion and resolution, before offering the explanation reached by ancient or modern science." An appendix, especially prepared for the use of teachers, increases the value and utility of the work as a text-book. ITCHEL (0. M.) — PLANETARY MITCHEL (O. M.) Worlds (THE). A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy, in a Series of Ten Lectures. By O. M. MITCHEL, formerly Director of the Cincinnati and Dudley Observatories; late Major-General of Volunteers. One volume, 12mo, cloth, $175 A single object was before the mind of the lamented Prof. Mitchel in the preparation of these lectures, and that was-the structure of the universe so far as revealed by man. It is safe to assert that Prof. Mitchel was without an equal in his ability to attract and hold the attention of a popular audience by his clear expositions of the facts of astronomy; and these lectures are now the most lucid and eloquent popular statement extant of the principles of this noble science, the study of which is so fascinating. CRITICAL NOTICES. "The work gives a most admirable popular exposition of the great discoveries and theories of modern astronomy, and cannot fail to be universally read with the greatest profit and delight. We commend it to attention and favor."-Courier and Enquirer. MITCHEL (O. M.). - ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLE (THE). By O. M. MITCHEL, LL.D. With a Biographical Sketch. One volume, 12mo, cloth, $1 75 Peculiar interest attaches to this volume, because it was the last finished astronomical treatise of its distinguished author. With his two previous volames it constitutes a series which, if not exhaustive of the accepted divisions of the science, presents, in outline, its great physical features, and its ethical relations. Science of Language. MULLER (MAX, M. A.).-LECTURES ON THE SCI ENCE OF LANGUAGE. Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in April, May, and June, 1861. By MAX MULler, M.A., Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Corresponding Member of the Imperial Institute of France. First Series. One volume, half calf, $4.50; cloth, crown 8vo, $2.50 GUAGE. LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE OF LANDelivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, in February, March, April, and May, 1863. By MAX MULLER, M.A. Second Series. With thirty-one Illustrations. One volume, crown 8vo, half calf, $5.50; cloth, $350 Prof. Muller undoubtedly stands at the head of foreign philologists, and in these two series of lectures we have the fruits of his varied research brought together in a most attractive and popular form. In the lecture introductory to the second series, the Professor says: "There is a science of language as there is a science of the earth, its flowers, and its stars; and though, as a young science, it is very far as yet from that perfection whichthanks to the efforts of the intellectual giants of so many ages and many countries has been reached in astronomy, botany, and even in geology, it is, perhaps for that very reason, all the more fascinating." No one in England, it is safe to say, has done more than Prof. Muller to popularize philology; and in this country as well as that, these lectures have given a great impulse to the study of the science. CRITICAL NOTICES. "Easily comprehensible, and yet always pointing out the sources of fuller investigation, it is ample, both to satisfy the desire of those who wish to get the latest results of philosophy, and to stimulate the curiosity of whoever wishes to go further and deeper. It is by far the best and clearest summing up of the present condition of the science of language that we have ever seen, while the liveliness of the style and the variety and freshness of illustration make it exceedingly interesting." - Atlantic Monthly. "The richness of Prof. Muller's resources, and the immense range of collateral information that he produces to give interest to an abstract subject, from a stock of learning that seems absolutely without boundary or limitation, must be sought in the book itself. The entire work is one that no living scholar but the writer of it could produce, and its wide circulation is certain in this country."-New York Times. "We must not conclude without expressing our admiration of the book as a whole, the herculean massiveness of its learning-comprehending not merely a profound knowledge of many languages, and a wonderful command of our own, but a familiarity with various branches of science the bold originality and general soundness of its philosophy, and the transparency, animation, and occasional eloquence of its style, by which a subject so abstruse has bee rendered not merely intelligible, but attractive to a popular audience and the general reader." -London Athenæum. Perce's Magnetic Globes. 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But with the Perce Globe we have the veritable solid men and animals standing foot to foot on opposite sides of the earth! That is what we wanted to see when we were a boy, but it was not given unto us in that generation. But our children see it and rejoice thereat, thanks to Perce's Magnetic Globe! It should be in every school-house, and, for that matter, it would be a most tasteful and instructive article in every family. I hope you may be abundantly successful in the introduction of the Globe to the schools and families of the State."-EMERSON W. KEYES, Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of New York. "In an educational point of view, I regard it as one of the most important inventions of the age. I sincerely hope, for the cause of sound common-school education in this State, that it may be rapidly introduced into all our schools.”—SAMUEL P. BATES, Deputy Super intendent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania. 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