6 NEW PUBLICATIONS.

A SKEICH OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OFSTEAM NAVIGATION,

‚From Authentic Documents,BY BENNET WOODCROFT,

Professor of Machinery in University College, London.

With numerous Lithographic Plates and Woodcuts. Fcap. 4to. Cloth lettered.[Just published.

GUESSES AT TRUTH.BY TWO BROTHERS.

First Series. Third Edition. Fcap. 8vo. 6s. cloth. Second Series. Second Edition,with large additions, Fcap.8vo. 7s. cloth.

ON THE SIUDY OF A VERNACULAR LITERATUREAS A BRANCH OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION.

AN INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON,NOVEMBER 23, 1848.

BY A, J. SCOTT, A.M,

Professor of the English Language and Literature in University College, London.

8vo, 1s.[Just published.

LATHAM ON THE. ENGLISH LANGUAGE.

Second Edition. Revised, with large Additions. 8vo. 15s.

“Let him, though he know no characters but those of his mother tongue, read through the book aswell as’he can, and we will answer that he will, at the close, find himself in the possession of much largerand clearer notions of general grammar, and especially of comparative etymology, than he would havesupposed possible at the outset. He will find here an historical and analytical view, comprising thegeneral ethnographical relations of the English Language, and that, too, in a much more readable formthan he may imagine. At all events it will set him thinking, and, in whatever nook or corner of thekingdom or of the world his lot may be cast, observing too; for the very dialect of the province willacquire a new interest, and help him in his studies.”— English Journal of Education.

LATHAM’S ELEMENTARY ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS.. Second Edition. 12mo. 4s. 6d. cloth.“A work in which grammar, no longer an assemblage of conventional rules of speech, becomes a

philosophical analysis of our language, and an elementary intellectual exercise, adapted to the highestpurposes of instruetion.”— Minutes af Council of Education(St. Mark’s College), vol. i. 1845.

TAYLOR, WALTON,& MABERLY,