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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...of Shenandoah. A Poem founded on the Rebellion. By Dr. John M. Daonall. 12mo. cloth. With 26 Illustrations. Brooklyn, N. Y. 6s. Davis's Manual of Magnetism, including Galvanism, Magnetism, Electro-Magnetism, Electro-Dynamics, Magneto-Electricity, and Thermo-Electricity. With 180 original Illustrations. Thirteenth Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. viii. 322. Boston, 1865. 10s. De Smet.--Western Missions and Missionaries. A Series of Letters. By Rev. P. J. De Smkt, of the Society of Jesus, author of " Indian Sketches," " Oregon Missions.' etc. Portrait. New Edition. Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. 532. New York, 1863. 7s. 6d. Father De. Smet, by birth a Belgian, in this volume gives an exceedingly interesting narrative, in the form of Letters, of his wanderings and religious operations among the Indians of North America from 1849 to 1853. He treats incidentally of tht natural history, geography, manners, customs, and creeds of the countries through which he passed, and his personal narrative abounds with incident and adventure. Dexter.--Congregationalism: what it is, whence it is, how it works; why it is better than any other form of Church Government, and its consequent demands. By Henry M. Dexter, Pastor of the Berkeley Street Church, Boston, and associate Editor of the "Congregational Quarterly." 8vo. pp. xxxii. and 306. Boston, 1865. 15j. Dickerson, --The Dragon of the Enchanted Valley. By Rev. O. C. Dickerson. Jacksonville, Illinois, 1866. Dyer.--The Drunkard's Child; or, the Triumph of Faith. By Rev. Sydney Dyer. 18mo. cloth, pp. 85. New York, 1865. 2s. 6d. Eaton.--History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine, from their first Exploration, A.d. 1605: with Family Genealogies. By Cyrus Eatox, Corresponding...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...subscriptions cover the actual expenses of publication, will contain also Original Articles in Sanskrit and English, Critical Notices of new Sanskrit Books, and Translations from and into Sanskrit. Annual subscription, 2 11. Intending subscribers are requested to address the European Publishers, Messrs. TRUBNER & Co., 60, Paternoster Row, London. Now Beady, in One Volume, Crown 8vo., pp. 212, cloth, 6., A HANDBOOK OF MODERN ARABIC, CONSISTING OP A PRACTICAL GRAMMAR, WITH NUMEROUS EXAMPLES, DIALOGUES, AND NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS, TN A EUROPEAN TYPE. By FRANCIS W. NEWMAN, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, . LONDON j FORMERLY FELLOW OF BALLIOL COLLEGE, OXFORD. M. Ch. Ganneau makes the following remarks on the work in a recent number of the Revue de F Instruction Publique: --" The peculiarity of this manual of modern Arabic rests on the system of Latin transliteration used by the author. We do not care just now to enter into the important question of the European alphabet as applied to Oriental languages, but will do so in the Asiatic Journal, where we intend noticing Mr. Newman's book in full. From a practical point of view, the author has without doubt produced a very good work, especially useful to those who merely wish to study Arabic superficially. It is certain that the transliteration adopted by Mr. Newman will greatly facilitate the reading of the dialogues and extracts from journals, given by him as exercises, to those who have a dislike to learn the Arabic characters. We believe, however, that the grammatical mechanism, although simplified on certain points by modern Arabic, will always be obscure to a certain extent, and consequently less comprehensible to those who have not endeavoured to learn the national...