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LEA & BLANCHARD'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. 6
SOMERVILLE'S PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY.
New Edition, much improved. Now Ready.
PHYSICAL "GEOGEAPHY.
BY MARY SOMERVILLE,
AUTHOR OF "the CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES," ETC. ETC.
SECOND AMERICAN EDITION,
Prom the Second and Revised Iiondon Edition.
WITH AMERICAN NOTES, GLOSSARY, &C.
In one neat royal 12mo. volume, extra cloth, of over 500 pages.
The great successs of this work, ami its introduction into many of the higher schools
and academies, have induced the publishers to prepare a new and much improved
editioii. In addition to the corrections and improvements of the author bestowed on
the work in its passage through the press a second time in London, notes liave been
introduced to adapt it more fully to the physical geography of this country ; and a
comprehensive glossary has been added, rendering the volume more particularly
suited to educational purposes. The amount of these additions inay be understood
from the fact, that not only has the size of the page been increased, but the volume
itself enlarged l)y over one hundred and fifty pages. At the same time, the price
has not been increased.
Whde reading this work, we could not help thinking how interesting, as well as
useful, geography as a branch of education might be made in our schools. In many of
them however, this i.« not accomplished. It is to be hoped that this defect will be
remedied ; and thai in all our educational institutions Geography will soon be taught
in the proper way. .Mrs. Somerville's work may, in this respect, be pointed to as a
model.— Tail's Edinburgh Magazine.
Our praise comes lagging in the rear, and is well-nigh superfluous. But we are
anxious to recommend to our youth the enlarged method of s'udying geography which
her present work demonstrates to be as captivating as it is instructive. Nowhere,
except in her own previous work, "The Connection of the Physical Sciences," is there
lobe found so large a store of well-selected information so lucidly set forth. In surveying
and grouptng together whatever has been seen by the eyesof others, or detected
by their laborious investigations, she is not surpassed by any one. We have no
obscurities other than what the imperfect slate of science iiseK involves her in ; no
dissertations which are felt to interrupt or delay. She strings her beads distinct and
close together. With quiet perspicacity she seizes at once whatever is most interesting
and most captivating in her subject. Therefore it is we are for the book ; and we
hold such presents as Mrs. Somerville has bestowed upon the public, to be of incalcu-
lable value, disseminating more sound information than all the literary and scientific
institutions will accomplish in a whole cycle of their existence. BlacktooodCa Mag.
HERVEY'S COURT OF GEORGE II.
MEMOIRS OF THE REIGnIf GEORGE THE SECOND,
From his Accession to the Dcatii of (liiecii Caroline.
BY JOHN LORD IIERVEY.
EDITED, FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT, AT ICKWORTH,
By the Right Hon. JOHN WILSON CROKER, LL. D., F. R. S., &c.
In two handsome volumes, royal 12mo., extra cloth.
PARDOE'S FRANCIS THE FIRST.—Now Ready.
THE COURT AND REIGnTf FRANCIS THE FIRST,
KING OF FRANCE.
BY MISS rAIlHUK,
author of " LOUIS THE FOURTEENTH," " CITY OF THE SULTAN," &C. &C.
In two very neat volumes, royal 12mo., extra cloth.
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