Bistory---Biography---Grography.

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Mohammed and his Successors.

BY WASHINGTON IRVING.
12mo. In October.

George Washington: a Biography.

BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

With Illustrations. In preparation.

The Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley. Comprising the Results of Extensive Original Surveys and Explorations. BY E. G. SQUIER, A. M., AND E. H. DAVIS, M. D.

With numerous Illustrations. Royal 4to, $10.

Ten Years of American History :

1840-49-including a History of the Mexican War and of California.

BY EMMA WILLARD.

With a valuable Map. 12mo, $1.

Hints on Public Architecture,

Prepared, on behalf of the Building Committee of the Smithsonian Institution. BY ROBERT DALE OWEN.

In large Quarto, elegantly printed, with 113 Illustrations in the best style of the Art. Price $6.

"While the Committee offer the result of these researches, not so much to the profession as to the public, and to public bodies, (as Vestries, Building Committees, and the like,) charged with the duties similar to their own, they indulge the hope that the Architect also may find subject for inquiry and material for thought.

"Money is expen led even lavishly to obtain the rich, the showy, the commonplace. But this period of transition may be shortened. The progress of painting and sculpture, which, in other lands, has been the slow growth of centuries, has been hastened in our country, thanks to the genius of a few self-taught men, beyond all former precedent. To stimulate genius in a kindred branch of art; to supply suggestions which may call off from devious paths, and indicate to the student the true line of progress; and thus to aid in abridging that season of experiment and of failure in which the glittering is preferred to the chaste, and the gaudy is mistaken for the beautiful, are objects of no light importance. In such considerations may be found the motive and the purpose of the following pages."-Extract from the Preface.

"This work should be in the hands of every building committee, vestry, city corporation, or other similar body, having the selections of plans for building, and of every individual having in charge a similar duty. It is the only work with which we are acquainted especially prepared for their use. It should find its way to the shelves of every county library; for by reference to its pages, thousands of dollars may be saved in the selection of a proper style for court-houses, churches, and other public edifices.

"Nor, though not specially addressed to the profession, is it of less value to the architect. There is much in this volume which every member of the profession would do well to study.

"Of the numerous wood engravings which form the chief illus. trations of this volume, we cannot speak too highly. Till we examined them, we were not aware to what perfection the art had been carried in our country. The effect of several of these (especially of the frontispiece by Roberts) is equal to that of the best steel engravings; and the whole of the illustrations are exceedingly creditable to American

art.

"In point of mechanical execution we have rarely seen its equal."-N. Y. Mirror.

In point of typography and embellishment one of the very

Landscape Gardening.

A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening and Rural Architecture,

ADAPTED TO NORTH AMERICA. With a view to the Improvement of Country Residences-comprising Historical Notices, and General Principles of the Art; Dir.ctions for laying out Grounds and arranging Plantations; the Description and Cultivation of Hardy Trees: Decorative Accompaniments to the House and Grounds; the Formation of Pieces of Artificial Water, Flower Gardens, &c; with Remarks on RURAL ARCHITECTURE.

BY A. J. DOWNING.

Fourth Edition, Revised, Enlarged, and Newly Illustrated.

volume, 8vo., cloth, $350.

One handsome

"JOHN BULL looks at Brother JONATHAN with a strange compound of feelings. He dislikes him as a rival; he loves him, and is proud of him, as being, after all, of his own flesh and blood. But whenever, in science, art, or literature, JONATHAN treads rather sharply on the heels of JOHN, the said JOHN bellows out most lustily. Of all the arts of the universe which were likely to be the ground of competition between progenitor and descendant, Landscape Gardening would, in this case, seem to be the last. And yet, our American brethren, so far from being behind us in skill, enthusiasm, or execution, seem to be taking the lead most decidedly. There

is now lying before us a thick octavo volume of about 500 pages, entitled 'A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted to North

Landscape Gardening,

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America.' It is by A. J. DoWNING, author of 'Designs for Cottage Residences, &c.' The volume itself is beautifully got up. It is full of admirably executed illustrations, representing very numerous landscape gardening and architectural effects. It has reached its second edition in 1844, although an expensive work; a consummation which a similar treatise, published in England. by an English Landscape Gardener, could scarcely have hoped to reach. much for the present; details will come forth hereafter; and then, most excellent JOHN BULL, you will see that this is no time to fold your arms, and loll in your chair, as if the race had been won and the prize already yours. You have not gained the victory, nor the prize."- London "Gardener's Chronicle," Edited by Prof. Lindley.

"Mr. Downing has here produced a very delightful work, and has convinced us that sound criticism and refined taste, in matters of art, are not confined to this side of the Atlantic."-London Art Union Journal.

"The principles he lays down are not only sound, but are developed on a uniform system which is not paralleled in any English work."-Prof. Lindley's Chronicle, London.

Mineralogy.

Dana's System of Mineralogy.

A SYSTEM OF MINERALOGY-Comprising the most recent discoveries; with numerous wood-cuts and four copper-plates.

BY JAMES D. DANA,

Geologist of the U. S. Exploring Expedition.

The third Edition of this valuable and important work, with essential additions and revisions, bringing the subject down to the present houris now in the Press, and will be published shortly. 8vo., $3 50.

"This work does great honor to America, and should make us blush for the neglect in England of an important and interesting science."-London Athenæum.