PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.

[April,

XV.

NARRATIVE of a SECOND EXPEDITION to explore the SHORES of the POLAR SEA, under the Command of CAPTAIN FRANKLIN : including the progress of the main part of the Expedition Westerly, from the Mouth of the MACKENZIE towards ICY CAPE, by CAPTAIN FRANKLIN, accompanied by COMMANDER BACK; and of a Detachment Easterly, to the Mouth of the COPPER-MINE, and from thence over land to the WINTER QUARTERS on GREAT BEAR LAKE, by DOCTOR RICHARDSON, accompanied by LIEUTENANT KENDALL. Illustrated with Charts and various Plates, descriptive of Local Scenery, and the more striking incidents of the Expedition, by Captain BACK and Lieutenant KENDALL. 4to.

XVI.

HISTORICAL SKETCHES of the latter part of the Reign of CHARLES the FIRST, including his Trial and Execution. With an Account of the Sums exacted by the Commonwealth from the Royalists, and the Names of all those who compounded for their Estates, with several important Documents, and numerous original Portraits. By W. D. FELLOWS, Esq. 4to.

XVII.

The HISTORY of PERSIA, from the most early Period to the present time, containing an Account of the Religion, Government, Usages, and Character of the Inhabitants of that Kingdom. By MAJOR-GENERAL SIR JOHN MALCOLM, G.C.B. K.L.S. Governor of Bombay. A New Edition, revised.

2 vols. 8vo.

XVIII.

The JOURNAL of a NATURALIST. With Plates. Post 8vo.

BOTANICAL MISCELLANY, intended to comprise Figures and Descriptions of new, rare, or little known Plants, from various parts of the world, particularly of such as are useful in Commerce, in the Arts, in Medicine, or in Domestic Economy. By W. I. HOOKER, LL.D., F.R.S., and L.S., &c. &c., and Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. To be published in Parts, Quarterly. In 4to and 8vo.

No, I. will be published on the 1st of May.

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XX.

ITALY, and OTHER POEMS, by WILLIAM SOTHEBY,

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APRIL, 1828.

WORKS

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I.

NARRATIVE of a JOURNEY through the UPPER PROVINCES of INDIA, from Calcutta to Bombay. By the Right Rev. REGINALD HEBER, late Lord Bishop of Calcutta. 2 vols. 4to. 4l. 14s. 6d.

II.

The HISTORY of the LIFE and VOYAGES of CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. By WASHINGTON IRVING. With a Chart.4 vols. 8vo. 21. 2s. "This work will, we are persuaded, give Mr. Washington Irving a prodigious increase of fame. The novelty of fact exhibited will command wonder-only to be explained by the circumstances which have given the author access to pub lic as well as private archives, hitherto a fountain shut up, and a book sealed.' The chaste and nervous elegance of the style, and the liberal and truly philosophical cast of thought and sentiment, are what no one need be surprised with, who has read some of his previous writings: but this performance is every way a more elaborate one than any of those, and of higher pretensions-pretensions which we have no doubt the world will pronounce to be justified in the result. To throw an air of total novelty on a theme of ancient interest-to write a history, where previously there had been only mémoires pour servir-such has been our American countryman's proud attempt; and with unmingled pleasure do we contemplate the fruit of his long and arduous labours."-Literary Gazette, Feb. 2.

"Nothing can be more elegant and pleasant than the style in which the history is written. It is simple, unaffected, and sometimes even eloquent. The circumstances are related with a modest enthusiasm, which is justified by the subject, and in that perfectly good taste which makes the narrative extremely agreeable."-Times.

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The PUBLIC ECONOMY of ATHENS.

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Account of the Prices of Commodities, Rates of Profit, Interest, Wages, Labour, &c.; of the Financial Administration, with the Peace and War Expenditure; of the different items of the Public Revenue, with a history of the Tributes and Public Treasure; of the Liturgies, Property-Taxes, and Natural Wealth; and of the Money-System of the Athenians. To which is added, a Dissertation on the Silver Mines of Laurion. Translated from the German of AUGUSTUS BOECKH. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 6s.

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MORNINGS in SPRING; or RETROSPECTIONS, Biographical, Critical, and Historical. By NATHAN DRAKE, M.D., H.A.L., Author of Essays on Periodical Literature. 2 vols. post 8vo. 18s.

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SERMONS, on Various Occasions. By the Rev. C. W. LE BAS, M.A. Vol. II.

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8vo. 12s.

CONSIDERATIONS on MIRACLES, &c. By the Rev. C. W. LE BAS, M.A., inscribed, by permission, to the Lord Bishop of London. 8vo. 5s. 6d.

commerce, as little could have been obtained from it in return for the produce of our illdirected labour.

But the course which we have run, has combined increased numbers with more varied wants and greater powers of production; an increased taste for those comforts and luxuries which our own soil and climate deny, and still more increased means of purchasing them. The well-directed labour of an Englishman is worth twice as much as that of any other inhabitant of Europe, it is worth four or five times as much as the labour of the less advanced European districts: it is worth twelve or fifteen times as much as the labour of the most civilized Asiatic nations. It is true that the long course of perverse commercial legislation from which we are but beginning to emancipate ourselves, has prevented us from turning these advantages to the best account. Cramped, however, as we have been, we have so far made use of them, that a very large portion of our labouring classes are employed directly, or indirectly,

in obtaining foreign commodities; that we scarcely make a meal, or put on a dress, or enter a house formed solely of domestic materials. We are dependent on foreign countries, not merely for what is agreeable, but for what custom has rendered necessary. Do I regret this dependence? Far from it, for it is the necessary consequence of two great benefits, the increase of our numbers and the increase of our wealth. It is the necessary dependence of the rich on the poor, of a metropolis on the surrounding country. The half-naked subjects of Caractacus were doubtless independent of foreign supplies, and so is the semi-barbarian who burrows in the ruins of Persepolis, and cultivates his dates among the remains of palaces. Every approach on our part to a similar independence must be obtained by an approach to a similar condition. But if we only consent to use and improve to the utmost our natural and acquired advantages, if we only consent to buy what our neighbours are willing to sell, if we cease to refuse what they offer us on the

ground that they offer it too cheaply, if, to use the words which the Member for Lincoln intended for irony, we open our eager arms to the unrestricted commerce of the world, I see no definite term to the course of prosperity before us. I see no cause that, for ages to come, need check the progress of our wealth and our population. I see no reason why England, which now supports in virtue and in happiness more human beings than any other district of equal extent, should not contain a much larger population with still greater moral and physical advantages.

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