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INCIDENTS OF A WH AL! NG VOYAGE.

To which is added Observations <n the Scenery, Manners, aml Customs, and Missionar / Station#dthe Sandwich and Society Islands, accompanied by numerous plates. By Francis Allyn 0XK-STED. One handsome volume, 12mo,

The various publications before the public, illustrating our marine and naval history, have never,v« believe, as yet entered into the minuti® of a whalmg voyage—a whale ship, its equipments, dis-cipline, and course of operations in the internal economy and varied contingencies,— until the appear-ance of the present volume, by one who has some pretensions to Bcience, both in the philosophy ofnature apd education. The work indeed only presents the events of a single voyage, but is blendedwith so xnuch of incidental history, abounding in facts relative to the Islands of the Pacific, the Mis-«onary stations there, and the effects of civilization upon the untutored natives of the South, togetherwith the illustrations of the whale fishery, as to embody a xnass of intelligence, interesting to the©rdinary reader as well as t > the philosophical inquirer. The author is a »on of Professor Olmsted,,of Yale College , who, in the pursuit of health, in a long voyage, has noted the Observation» to whichwe refer.”— N. Y. Courier.

MRS. AUSTIN ’S GERMAN WRITERS.

Fragments from German Prose Writers, translated by Mrs. Austin. lUustrated with Biographie»!and Critical Notes. 1 vol. 12mo. Elegantly printed on fine white paper.

“ Those who wish to close a book with the comfortable feeling that no new idea has beensuggested,and no old one disturbed, will regavd this as very questionable praise ; but those who read in Order tobe xnade to think, will, I hope, derive some salisfaction from the fragments thus thvown together.The choice of these passages has been determined by considerations as various as their character andtheir subject». ln some it was the value of the matter, in others the beauty of the form tiat struck.jne ; in some the vigorous, unaffected good sense, in others the fantastic and mystical charm. Some re-cailed familiär trains of thought which meet us in a foreign literature like old friends in a far country,others altogether new and stränge.”— Vide Preface.

THE NATURAL HISTORV OF SOCIETY,

IN THE BARBAROUS AND CIVILIZED STATE.

An Bssay towards discovering the Origin and Course of Human Improvement. By W. CooKl Tay-lor, LL.D., &c., of Trinity College, Dublin. Handsomely printed on fine paper. 2 vols. ISmo.

“ A most able work, the design of which is to determine from an examination of the variousform#in which society has been formed, what was the origin of civilization, and under what circumstincesthose attributes of humanity, which in one country beconie the foundation of social happiness, aid inanolher pferverted to the production of general tnisery. For this purpose the author has sepantelyexamined the principal elements by which society, under all its aspects, is held together, and tricedeach to its source in human nature. He has then directed attention to the development of these pnn-ciples, and pointed out the circumstances by which they were perfected on the one hand, or corruptedon the other.”

"We perceive by the preface that the work has had throughout the superintendence of the verylearhöd Archbishop Whately.”— Litcrury Gazette.

PALM ER’ S TREATISE ON THE CHURCH.

A Treatise on the Church of Christ. Designed chiefly for the use of Students in TheologyBy the Rev. William Palmer , M. A., of Worcester College, Oxford. Edited, with Notes, by th*Right Rev. W. R. Whittingham, D.D., Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Dioces«of Maryland . 2 vols. 8vo. , handsomely printed on fine paper.

“ The treatise of Mr. Palmer is the best exposition and vindication of Church Principles, that wehave ever read ; excellingcontemporaneous treatises in depth of learning and solidity of'judgment asmuch as it excels older treatises on the like subjects in adaptation to the wa nts and habits of the age.Of its influence in England, where it has passed through two editions, we have not the means to forman opinion; but we believe that in this country it has already, even before its reprint, done more torestore the Sound tone of Catholic principle and feeling than any other one work of the age. The author’slearning and powers of combination and arrangement, great as they obviously are, are less remarkablethan the sterling good sense, the vigorous and solid judgment, which is everywhere manifest in thetreatise, and confers on it its distinctive exeellence. The style of the author is distinguished for dignity and masculine energy, while his tone is everywhere natural; on proper occasions, reverentialand always, so far as we remember, sufficientiy conciliatory.

“To our clevgy and intelligent laity who desire to see the Church justly discriininated from Roman-ist» on the one hand, and dissenting denominations on the other, we earnestly commend Palmer ’sT-p.EaTise on THE Church.”— N. Y. Churchman.

HARE’S PAROCHIAL SERMONS.

Sermons toa Country Congregation. By Augustus William Ilare, A.M. late Fellow of New College,and Rector of Alton Barnes. 1 vol. royal 8vo.

“ Any one who can be pleased with delicacy of thought expressed in the most simple language—aur on9 who can feel the charm of finding practical duties elucidated and enforced by apt ana variedillustrations—will l>e delighted with this vqlume, which presents us with the workings of a pious andhighly-gifted miud.”— Quarter\y Review,