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Delisser & Proctor. 32mo. pp. 227. 50 cts. Shakspeare's Legal Acquirements Considered. By John Lord Campbell, LL.D., F.R.S.E. In a Letter to J. Payne Collier, Esq., F.S.A. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. pp. 146. 75 cts. The Pillar of Fire; or, Israel in Bondage. By Rev. J.H. Ingraham, Author of "The Prince of the House of David." New York. Pudney & Russell. 12mo. pp. 600. $1.25.
A new edition, printed in a superior manner, on superfine paper, with illustrations. Royal 32mo., cloth, full gilt back, sides, and edges, 3s. 6d. Oliver Goldsmith, a Biography; The Tour on the Prairies; Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey; &c. By Washington Irving. Complete in one volume, with frontispiece, cloth extra, gilt, and gilt edges, 3s. 6d.
The old one Ta-lao-ye, that is to say, a person well advanced in years is incessantly turning over the pages of his book. This volume, a small 32mo, looks like our Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes, and is covered in plush, like a breviary, and when it is shut its covers are kept in place by an elastic band.
Ichnology of New England. A Report on the Sandstone of the Connecticut Valley, especially its Fossil Footmarks, made to the Government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. By Edward Hitchcock, Professor in Amherst College. Plates, etc. Boston. William White, Printer to the State. 4to. $5.00. Life of Robert Burns. Mostly by Thomas Carlyle. New York. Delisser & Proctor. 32mo. 50 cts.
Should it happen, for instance, that the reader, inflicted upon ourselves for our sins, belongs to that class of people who listen to books in the ratio of their much speaking find no eloquence in 32mo., and little force of argument except in such a folio as might knock him down upon occasion of his proving restive against its logic in that case he will despise our present essay. Will despise it?
He had contemplated writing children's books, as a probable means of profit, before he received his appointment in the Custom House, as he said in his letter to Longfellow; and he merely stuck to the plan under the new conditions. A History for Youth. By Nathaniel Hawthorne, author of Twice-Told Tales. Boston: E. P. Peabody. New York: Wiley & Putnam. 1841. 32mo. Pp. vii, 140.
It must be admitted, however, that distribution by subjects ought in some degree to be controlled by sizes. If everything on a given subject, from folio down to 32mo, is to be brought locally together, there will be an immense waste of space in the attempt to lodge objects of such different sizes in one and the same bookcase.
If he has returned from his promenade, make some excuse to have him sent out of his cell again; and don't allow him to return there while we are using his book." "Oh, trust me!" replied the governor, hastily leaving the room. Less than a quarter of an hour afterward he returned, carrying in triumph a little volume in 32mo. With a trembling hand Lecoq turned to page 235, and began to count.
Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Darley. New York. W.A. Townsend & Co. crown 8vo. pp. 523. $1.50. The Life of Martin Luther. By Chevalier Bunsen. New York. Delisser & Proctor. 32mo. pp. 250. 50 cts. Sloan's Constructive Architecture; a Guide to the Practical Builder and Mechanic, etc., etc. By Samuel Sloan, Architect. Philadelphia. J.B. Lippincott & Co. 4to. pp. 147. $4.50. A Bachelor's Story.
The Poetical Works of William Motherwell; with a Memoir of his Life. Fourth Edition, greatly Enlarged. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 32mo. pp. 308. 75 cts. The Avenger, a Narrative; and other Papers. By Thomas De Quincey. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 327. 75 cts. Life of William Pitt. By Lord Macaulay. Preceded by the Life of the Earl of Chatham. New York.
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