Contents.1. Collections, Ideas, and Studies for Literary Compositions in general.2. Collections for History of English Literature and Poetry.3. Characteristic English Anecdotes, and Fragments for "Espriella."4. Collections for "The Doctor &c."5. Personal Observations and Recollections, with Fragments of Journals.6. Miscellaneous Anecdotes and Gleanings.7. Extracts, Facts, and Opinions, relating to Political and Social Society.8. Texts for Sermons.9. Texts for Enforcement.10. L'Envoy.
Contents.1. Collections, Ideas, and Studies for Literary Compositions in general.2. Collections for History of English Literature and Poetry.3. Characteristic English Anecdotes, and Fragments for "Espriella."4. Collections for "The Doctor &c."5. Personal Observations and Recollections, with Fragments of Journals.6. Miscellaneous Anecdotes and Gleanings.7. Extracts, Facts, and Opinions, relating to Political and Social Society.8. Texts for Sermons.9. Texts for Enforcement.10. L'Envoy.
Contents.
1. Collections, Ideas, and Studies for Literary Compositions in general.
2. Collections for History of English Literature and Poetry.
3. Characteristic English Anecdotes, and Fragments for "Espriella."
4. Collections for "The Doctor &c."
5. Personal Observations and Recollections, with Fragments of Journals.
6. Miscellaneous Anecdotes and Gleanings.
7. Extracts, Facts, and Opinions, relating to Political and Social Society.
8. Texts for Sermons.
9. Texts for Enforcement.
10. L'Envoy.
By the same Editor, uniform with the above,
SOUTHEY'S COMMONPLACE-BOOK. Third Series—ANALYTICAL READINGS. Price One Guinea.
SOUTHEY'S COMMONPLACE-BOOK. Second Series—SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. Price 18s.
SOUTHEY'S COMMONPLACE-BOOK. First Series—CHOICE PASSAGES. New Edition, price 18s.
SOUTHEY'S THE DOCTOR &c. Complete in One Volume, with Portrait, &c. New Edition, price 21s.
London:Longman,Brown,Green, andLongmans.
NEW WORK BY SIR GEORGE HEAD.
Just published, in 1 vol. post 8vo. price 12s.cloth,
THE METAMORPHOSES of APULEIUS: a Romance of the Second Century. Translated from the Latin by SirGeorge Head.
Also, by Sir George Head,
A TOUR of MANY DAYS in ROME. 3 vols. 8vo. 36s.
CARDINAL PACCA'S HISTORICAL MEMOIRS. Translated from the Italian. 2 vols. post 8vo., price 21s.
London:Longman,Brown,Green, andLongmans.
HORÆ VACIVÆ.
Just published, in fcp. 16mo. (printed by C. Whittingham, Chiswick), price 4s.6d.bound in cloth,
A THOUGHT BOOK—HORÆ VACIVÆ; or, a Thought Book of the Wise Spirits of all Ages and all Countries, fit for all Men and all Hours. Collected, arranged, and edited byJames Elmes, Author of "Memoirs of Sir Christopher Wren," &c.
London:Longman,Brown,Green, andLongmans.
BOOKS PUBLISHED BY MR. VAN VOORST During 1850.
The NATURAL HISTORY of the VARIETIES of MAN. ByRobert Gordon Lathan, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; Vice-President of the Ethnological Society of London; Corresponding Member of the Ethnological Society of New York. 8vo. Illustrated. Price 21s.
AN INTRODUCTION to CONCHOLOGY; or, Elements of the Natural History of Molluscous Animals. ByGeorge Johnston, M.D., LL.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, author of "A History of the British Zoophytes." 8vo. 102 Illustrations. 21s.
AN ELEMENTARY COURSE of GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, and PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. ByDavid T. Ansted, M.A., F.R.S., &c., Professor of Geology at King's College, London; Lecturer on Mineralogy and Geology at the H.E.I.C. Mil. Sem. at Addiscombe, and at the Putney College; late Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Post 8vo. Illustrated. Price 12s.
GAME BIRDS and WILD FOWL: their Friends and their Foes. By A. E.Knox, M.A., F.L.S. With Illustrations byWolf. Post 8vo. Price 9s.
MR. KNOX'S ORNITHOLOGICAL RAMBLES in SUSSEX. Second Edition, with Four Illustrations. Post 8vo. 7s.6d.
AN ARCTIC VOYAGE to BAFFIN'S BAY and LANCASTER SOUND, in Search of Friends with Sir John Franklin. ByRobert A. Goodsir, late President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh. Post 8vo. With a Frontispiece and Map. Price 5s.6d.
EVERY-DAY WONDERS; or, Facts in Physiology which all should know. With Woodcuts. 16mo. 2s.6d.
DOMESTIC SCENES in GREENLAND and ICELAND. With Woodcuts. Second Edition. 16mo. 2s.
INSTRUMENTA ECCLESIASTICA. Edited by the Ecclesiological, late Cambridge Camden Society. Second Series. Parts 1 to 3, each 2s.6d.
A HISTORY of BRITISH MOLLUSCA and their SHELLS. ByProfessor Edward Forbes, F.R.S., andSylvanus Hanley, B.A., F.L.S. Parts 25 to 34. 8vo. 2s.6d.plain, or royal 8vo. coloured, 5s.each.
This work is a continuation of the series of "British Histories," of which the Quadrupeds and Reptiles, byProfessor Bell; the Birds and Fishes, byMr. Yarrell; the Birds' Eggs, byMr. Hewitson; the Starfishes, byProfessor Forbes; the Zoophytes, byDr. Johnston; the Trees, byMr. Selby; and the Fossil Mammals and Birds, byProfessor Owen, are already published. Each work is sold separately, and is perfectly distinct and complete in itself.
The PORTRAIT of PROFESSOR HARVEY, due to Purchasers of his "Manual of British Marine Algæ," may now be had in exchange for the "Notice" prefixed to the volume.
John Van Voorst, 1. Paternoster Row.
Printed byThomas Clark Shaw, of No. 8. New Street Square, at No. 5. New Street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and published byGeorge Bell, of No. 186. Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No. 186. Fleet Street aforesaid.—Saturday, February 8, 1851.