in retirement, who wishes to improve as well as enjoy a sequestered life in such a way as will produce happiness to himself, prove beneficial to society, and glorify the God who formed him and appointed him his station in the world.Christian Observer.

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Pray you, use your freedom;

And so far, if you please, allow me mine,
To hear you only; not to be compelled
To take your moral potions."-MASSINGER.

Silliman's Journal of Science.
North American Review.

Edinburgh Review.

London Quarterly Review.

I would recommend these Reviews, voluminous as they are, to be thoroughly read and studied.-Chancellor Kent. American Review and Metropolitan Magazine.

Conducted by an association of gentlemen in the city of New-York; recently commenced, but full of promise.

Democratic Review.

Miscellaneous and able, devoted especially to a vindication of the doctrines of the party whose name it bears.

Northern Light.

Miscellaneous, though intended principally for the discussion of questions in Political Economy, Industrial Science, and Education.

Southern Literary Messenger.

Miscellaneous.

Knickerbocker.

Miscellaneous.

American Journal of Education.

American Journal of the Medical Sciences.

(Edited by Isaac Hayes, M.D., quarterly.)

Boston Medical and Surgical Journal (monthly). Both works of long standing and high authority.

American Jurist and Law Reporter.

I consider it one of our most useful and valuable law publications, at once accurate, comprehensive, and national, and comprising the double merit of adaptation to merchants as well as to professional men.-Judge Story.

Franklin Journal and Register of Inventions. For mechanics, engineers, &c.

Niles's Register.

Made up, for the most part, of official documents, and extremely valuable as a register of statistics in various departments of trade and industry. Excellent.

American Almanac.

A rich repository of facts.

American Museum.

Made up of selections from the foreign reviews.

Westminster Review.

Foreign Quarterly Review.

Both conducted with great ability.

Blackwood's Magazine.

Under the editorial guidance of the celebrated Professor Wilson.

Penny Magazine.

Saturday Evening Magazine.

Both these Magazines are conducted with special reference to the wants of the young and uneducated. They are excellent.

London Athenæum.

London Spectator.

These are weekly papers, mainly occupied with_reviews of current literature and with literary intelligence. They are very able and spirited.

Journals of Education.

Of these there are many. The most valuable are those published in Albany (by Francis Dwight), in Boston (by Horace Mann), and in Kentucky.

XII. ENCYCLOPEDIAS, &c.

"There is a kind of physiognomy in the titles of books no less than in the faces of men, by which a skilful observer will as well know what to expect from the one as the other."-BUTLER'S Remains.

Encyclopædia Americana.

We consider this publication as creditable to the editors and their coadjutors, and to the enlightened and enterprising publishers who have undertaken to furnish a work of reference well worthy to occupy a place among the books of every man of intelligence, taste, and enlightened curiosity.—Am. Quart. Rev.

It is mainly a translation of the German Conversations Lexicon, with the addition, however, of much new matter, especially on the United States.

13 vols. 8vo, $22 50, Philadelphia, 1830.

Brande's Encyclopædia.

We recommend it as a most useful work, and equally so to all classes.-London Athenæum.

$3 00, New-York.

Edinburgh Encyclopædia.

In this work all the great questions of civil and religious liberty have been advocated, the inalienable rights of humanity pled, and the sound doctrines of our faith established and expounded.- Dedication.

Rees's Encyclopædia.

This is an enlargement and revision of Chambers's Cyclopædia. In many departments it is very full and able.

Penny Cyclopædia.

The plan of this work was to give pretty fully, under each separate head, as much information as can be conveyed within reasonable limits. It also attempts to give such general views of all great branches of knowledge as may help to the formation of just ideas on their extent and relative importance, and to point out the best sources of complete information.-Preface.

$200 a volume.

Encyclopædia of Religious Knowledge.