Important Botanical Works.

The Genera of the Plants of the United States.

Genera Flora Boreali-Orientali Illustrata: illustrated by Figures and Analyses from Nature, by Isaac Sprague. Superintended, with descriptions, &c., by Prof. A. GRAY. Vol. I, plates 1-100, 8vo, cloth, $6. Vol. II, plates, 8vo, cloth, $6.

...The Second volume will be ready in August.

'The design of this work is to illustrate the Botany of the United States by figures, with full analyses of one or more species of each genus, accompanied by descriptive generic characters and critical observations. The figures are in all cases drawn directly from nature."-Ext. Preface.

This is undoubtedly the most important botanical work ever published in the United States. The Illustrations are executed in a very superior style. G. P. Putnam is now the sole publisher of the work.

Flora of North America;

Containing Descriptions of all the known Indigenous and Naturalized Plants growing north of Mexico; according to the Natural System. By Prof. JOHN TORREY and Prof. A. GRAY. Vol. I, 8vo, cloth, $6.

The same, Part I to VI, each $1 50: Part VII, $1.

This elaborate and valuable work will form three volumes, octavo. The remainder will be issued as soon as practicable.

Prof. Gray's Botanical Text Book,

FOR COLLEGES AND HIGH SCHOOLS. New Edition, with about 1000 Engravings on Wood. Large 12mo, cloth, $1 75.

Part I.-An Introduction to Structural and Physiological Botany.

Part II.-The Principles of Systematic Botany; with an Account of the Chief Natural Families of the Vegetabie Kingdoms, &c. &c.

This is by far the most comprehensive, clear and correct text-book on Botany now in use. It is introduced in the University of Edinburgh, and is used in Harvard and many other Americar Colleges.

Prof. Gray's Manual of the Botany of the Northern States. 12mo. $2.

Washington Irving's Works.

AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION.

Elegantly printed in 15 vols. (including new works) and neatly bound in dark clotn.

III.

IV. Columbus and His Companions 3 vols. 4 00.

V.

VI. Bracebridge Hall

VII. Tales of a Traveller

VIII. Astoria, (pp. 510 with map) -
IX. The Crayon Miscellany

X. Capt. Bonneville's Adventures, map 1 vol.
XI. Oliver Goldsmith, a Biography

Mahomet and his Successors

*XIV. The Conquest of Granada

*XV. The Alhambra

*XVI. [A new volume.]

Those marked thus are not yet ready.

1 25.

1 vol. 1 25.

... Either volume, or complete sets may also be had substantially bound in half calf, 75 cts. extra; half morocco $1 extra; full calf, $1 25 extra.

NOTICES OF THE NEW EDITION OF IRVING.

"The typography of this series is all that could be desired. Nothing superior to it has issued from the American press. Irving will be among American classics what Goldsmith is among those of the Fatherland. His works have not been crowded from our shelves by the hosts of new claimants for pulic favor, who have appeared since the Sketch Book was in every body's hands. We have often wondered in common with other readers, why there was no good American edition of his writings; but his place in our literary affections remains as high as ever. The desideratum of which we speak, is now to be supplied by Mr. Putnam; and we are now to have an elegant uniform edition of the works of our foremost writer in the belles-lettres department of literature." -Boston Evening Transcript.

"The announcement that a new edition of the works of this admired author was in progress, has led us to revert with pleasure to the delight we enjoyed in our first acquaintance with him through his charming books. He was the first of American writers in the department of elegant Great Britain, France, Northern literature who obtained a wide name and fame in the old world.

and Southern Europe, are alike familiar with his delightful and most healthful writings, and doubtless his own good standing abroad has done more than any other single cause to introduce the names and works of others of our countrymen. There is a charm about his writings to which Several new works old and young, the educated and the simple, bear cheerful witness. have not yet seen the light. Among these is announced a Life of Mohammed, and a Life of Washington As to the latter subject for a volume, we can only say, that if another Life of Washington needs be written-which we doubt-we should prefer, of all men, to have Washington Irving undertake it. The other promised biography, the Life of Mohammed, is a grand, an unex hausted, and a most inviting theme. It has never yet been well treated, nor is it probable that there is a man on this Continent better qualified to treat it with discrimination and power, and with faithfulness to the truth, than Washington Irving. If our country can be covered with a large issue of his writings, it will make some amends for the flood of trumpery which the Press has poured over it."-Christian Register.

"The most tasteful and elegant books which have ever issued from the American Press."-Trib.

Belles Lettres--New Works.

FENIMORE COOPER'S EARLY WORKS.
THE AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION.

The Spy: a Tale of the Neutral Ground.

New Edition. Revised, &c., with Introduction and No.es, handsomely printed, uniform with the Sketch-Book, &c. 12mo, cloth, $1 25.

The Pilot: a Tale of the Sea.

12mo, cloth, $1 25.

The Red Rover.

12mo, cloth, $1 25.

The Water Witch.

12mo, cloth, $1 25. (In press.)

The Two Admirals.

12mo, cloth, $1 25. (In press.)

Wing and Wing.

12mo, cloth, $1 25. (In press.)

MR. COOPER'S NEW WORK.

The Ways of the Hour.

12mo, uniform with "The Spy."

"The public will cordially welcome a new and complete edition of this author's admirable tales, revised, corrected, and illustrated with notes by himself. This is No. 1 of the new series, and is got up in the style of Irving's works, which we have over and over again commended. As for the tale itself, there is no need to speak of it. It has a place on every shelf, and at once made the fame of its author. It is an absolute pleasure to the lover of books to find the ultra-cheap system going out of vogue."-N. Y. Albion.

"We are happy to see Mr. Putnam bringing out these American classics, the works of Cooper and Irving, to refresh the present generation as they amused the last. We belong, as their iwo fine authors do, to both, if men of a buoyant temper and an unflagging spirit ever pass from one generation to another. We remember, as of yesterday, with what eagerness we drank in the tale of The Spy,' when it first saw the light; and how we admired the genius of its author, from the beauty of its production. We can enjoy it still; and so will every American who has taste enough to appreciate an American narrative, told so well by an American writer."-Washington Union. The Spy' is the most truly national fiction ever produced in America. • It is esteemed abroad even more than at home, for it has been translated into almost every European language, and the prejudiced critics of the North British Review have almost consented to give it rank with 'The Antiquary' and 'Old Mortality.'"-Richmond Times.

Belles Lettres---Lem Works.

CONTINUED.

MISS SEDGWICK'S WORKS.

THE AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION.

Elegantly printed, uniform with the new editions of Irving, Cooper, &c.

Clarence; or, Twenty Years Since.

With Portrait and Vignette. 12mo, cloth, $1 25.

Redwood: a Tale.

With a new Portrait of Miss Sedgwick, from a Drawing by Miss Bremer. 12mo, cloth, $1 25.

A New England Tale.

1 vol. 12mo, cloth. (In press.)

"It gives us great pleasure to announce that the works of Miss C. M. Sedgwick are now appear. ing in a dress worthy of their exalted worth. The author of Redwood, Hope Leslie, Clarence, &c., &c., is popular, not only in this country, but in Great Britain; and her works, wherever cir culated, do essential service to the cause of American letters."

"This series is designed to embrace the complete works of Miss Sedgwick, who has not been inaptly called the American Edgeworth.' Clarence possesses a very high degree of merit, and well deserves to be widely known and admired, as a picture of American life at a remote period

of our national career."

"It is now nearly twenty years since Clarence' first made its appearance, and it was then re ceived with great favor. Since that time the public taste has undergone a considerable change, and perhaps not for the better. The licentious novels of Geo. Sand, and others of the French school, with their sophistical philosophy, shallow philanthropy, and attractive vice, have imparted a morbid desire for excitement, that has more or less vitiated the public taste, and we fear, rendered less attractive the American spirit, moral tone, and amiable philosophy, which distinguish the works of Miss Sedgwick, clothed though they are with a grace of style, the want of which, in some of the foreign works to which we allude, is supplied with rose-colored vice. We trust, however, that the picturesque delineations of New England manners will not, in our moral and sober-minded community, be abandoned for the tinsel of British society, or the glare of Parisian vice."Democratic Review.

Biographia Literaria;

Or, Biographical Sketches of my Literary Life and Opinions.

BY SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.

From the Second London Edition, prepared for publication by the Hon. Henry Nelson Coleridge. 2 vols. 12mo. $2.

"His mind contains an astonishing mass of all sorts of knowledge, while in his power and man ner of putting it to use, he displays more of what we mean by the term genius than any mortal ever saw or ever expect to see "-John Foster.

Hood's Poems.

Poems.

BY THOMAS HOOD.

1 vol. 12mo, cloth, 75 cts. ; cloth gilt, $1.

This is a companion volume to Hood's "Prose and Verse," comprising all the
Poems not in that volume. The two volumes together contain all Hood's
Poems and the best of his Prose writings.

Belles Lettres---Lew Works.

CONTINUED.

MISS BREMER'S WORKS.

THE AUTHOR'S EDITION.

The Neighbors: a Tale of Every Day Life.

A New and Revised Edition, with an Introduction written expressly for this
Edition by Miss Bremer. 12mo, cloth. Uniform with Irving's, Cooper's,
and Sedgwick's Works; and Illustrated with Portrait, and View of the
Author's Residence. $1.

Home.

1 vol. 12mo, $1.

(To be followed by other volumes at intervals.)

"Miss Bremer's Works have found a home and a fireside welcome in the United States, above those of most any other author of late in the field of literature, and we are glad to see that Mr. Putnam is about to give them a more permanent form than that in which they were first presented to the public."

"One of the very best domestic novels that we have ever read. A good library edition of Miss Bremer's works has long been wanted."-N. Y. Mirror.

"The chief excellence and attraction of Miss Bremer's writings lies in the genial play of the domestic affections over their every page, which makes home a charmed spot-the centre of earthly joys. She pictures to the life the simple, happy homes of her native country, and therein paints also what is common to the homes of affection and happiness every where. There is, too, diffused through her pages a sympathy with the humbler classes of society, with the poor, the depressed, the wronged, which sometimes makes her simple tale a powerful plea for social reform. This feature of her writings has attracted to Miss Bremer many hearts in this land of freedom and of domestic joy, and we doubt not that in her present visit to America she will be welcomed to many a home which has been enlivened by her graceful and instructive stories of Swedish life, and will find that true homes and true hearts are in their essential features every where the same. It is a gratifying circumstance, in connection with this visit, that Mr. Putnam has commenced the publication of a new and uniform edition of Miss Bremer's works, revised by herself, and has given her 'the privileges of a native author.' This act, at once just and generous, will doubtless be appre ciated by the public."-Independent.

GOLDSMITH'S WORKS.

The Works of Oliver Goldsmith;

Including a Variety of Pieces now first collected.
BY JAMES PRIOR.

Complete in 4 vols. 12mo, elegantly printed, uniform in style with Irving,
Cooper, &c. With Vignettes engraved on steel. Cloth, $5.

"The book will embrace quite a library in itself; and the polished style of the accomplished author should become a model to the careless scribblers of the present day. The typography of the work is beautiful."-N. Y. Mirror.

"For commencing an American edition of Prior's Miscellaneous Works of Goldsmith, Mr. Put nam will be thanked by many a man of letters throughout the country."-Boston Post.

"Any thing and every thing written by the genial Goldsmith is not only worthy of preservation on our shelves, but valuable as a model of pure English and classic beauty."-Newark Daily Adv. "The Miscellaneous Works of Goldsmith is a reprint of the English edition of Dr. Prior, and the only complete collection of the writings of a man, to use the language of Dr. Johnson, of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing: a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness.'"

"Both in prose and verse, no writer can be more fitly placed among the English classics, tha Goldsmith. We are rejoiced, flooded as we are by so many worthless publications, to see so ex cellent an edition of his collected works."—Christian Inquirer.