course. The simplicity and classical character of his style, the separate lives, full of interest and not long enough to weary, the extent of history, of which he gives a pleasing outline, by presenting as in a gallery those illustrious men who directed the fortunes of antiquity, the general purity of the moral tendency of his writings, and the favorable moral influence which always follows from the true history of great men, are circumstances which sufficiently explain why he is so universally adopted in the European Schools, and is beginning to be introduced in so many of

our own.

The few notes which accompany this edition are selected and abridged from the commentary of BREMI. In some instances the phraseology of Bradley, an English editor, has been adopted, where his remarks coincided with those of the continental editor. The notes would have been selected much more freely but for the fear of making the volume too large. They almost all of them relate to questions of grammar and language. These are the points, to which the attention of boys is to be directed.

In Press. An ELEMENTARY TREATISE on MINERALOGY, and Geology, designed for the use of pupils,-for persons attending Lectures on these subjects, and as a Companion for Travellers in the United States of America. Illustrated with Plates. By PARKER CLEAVELAND, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Lecturer on Chemistry and Mineralogy, in Bowdoin College. Third Edition in two volumes.

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Cubi's System of Translation.

Applied to the French,-LE TRADUCTEUR FRANÇOIS, or a new and practical system for translating the French language. By MARIANO CUBI I SOLER. Second edition, corrected, revised, and much improved.

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The object of the translator in presenting this work to the public is to do something to supply what seems to him a great deficiency in the books on practical science in this country. He is acquainted with no work in English, which contains within a small compass, and in a form intelligible to common readers, those elementary principles of Engineering, which relate to building in stone, brick, or wood, and making roads, bridges, canals, and rail ways. Nearly all the books to be found on these subjects are suited only to the professed Engineer, and are

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In its present form the translator hopes it will be found useful not only to the professed student of Civil Engineering, but to the practical mechanic, and all persons engaged in any kind of building, in forming a road or rail way or digging a canal.

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From the American Journal of Education.

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This work comprehends many things not to be found in EULER. It has been generally preferred in the French schools to all other treatises.

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ELEMENTS of GEOMETRY. By A. M. LEGENDRE. Member of the Institute and the Legion of Honor, of the Royal Society of London, &c. Translated from the French for the use of the students of the University at Cambridge, New England. By JOHN FARRAR, Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. 8vo. Price $2,00.

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An ELEMENTARY TREATISE on PLANE and SPHERICAL TRIGONOMETRY, and on the application of Algebra to Geometry: