ECLECTIC MUSEUM OF FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. THIS work is published monthly, each number containing 144 pages of an unusually large octavo size, equal to an ordinary 8vo volume of 400 pages. It will furnish more matter than is embraced in the Edinburgh, Quarterly, Foreign Quarterly and Westminster Reviews combined, The design is, through this medium, to present to American readers an extended view of the literature of Europe. And in order to effect this object, we import the British Reviews, Magazines, and Literary and Scientific Weekly papers, together with the best Continental Journals. It is well known that the English Reviews are the channels of communication with the public, for the best writers of the day, as well statesmen as philosophers, critics and others; and as these are known to be the medium through which they can most speedily, extensively and effectually impress their views on the public mind, it is here we find the choicest articles on all topics of interest. We are happy, therefore, to make them accessible, on so reasonable terms as we do in our Eclectic Museum. We feel some assurance that families will find this one of the very best publications of the day. It will embrace all articles from the four British Quarterlies, which are really valuable, together with a sufficient quantity of the more imaginative and entertaining from the Magazines and Papers, to adapt it to the various tastes around the same fireside. The lighter reading will be such as to correspond with a good standard of taste and morals, and whilst it may win the attention of the young, may also afford a seasonable relaxation to the severer wisdom of the old. We are happy to say that this new enterprise meets with flattering success, and that the work is generally spoken of as one of the very best periodicals in the world. J. H. AGNEW. JOHN F. TROW, Printer. 243 as possible. Postmasters are authorized to frank letters containing remittances; and we hope our subscribers will embrace this and all other opportunities of making payment, so that we may know upon which of them we may count as friends of the work. CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER. PLATE. THE ENCHANTED ISLAND. Engraved by Mr. Sartain, from a painting by Danby. Fraser's Magazine, 5. MEMOIRS OF THE REV. JOHN WILLIAMS, Tait's Magazine, . 6. A SLEIGH DRIVE IN CANAda West, United Service Journal, Asiatic Journal, Westminster Review, 11. SHORT RIDES IN AN AUTHOR'S OMNIBUS,. Foreign Quarterly Review, 556 565 566 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, POETRY. Chinese Popular Poetry, 458; Death of Bonaparte, 464; Defence of London, 480; Elsbeth of Calw, 500; Petitions of Joan of Arc, 506; Leonardo da Vinci Dying in the arms of Francis L., 521; Calm be her Sleep,-The Mother on the Anniversary of her Child's Death, 549; The Convalescent, 555; Popular Recollections, 566; Something Cheap, 568. Canal across Suez,-Excavations on the Site of Nineveh,-Thorwalden's Collections, 464; Late "Duchess of Sussex," 492; Calico Printing, 521; British Museum,-Daguerreotype, 529; Auriferous 'Sand, 552; Mofussil Rain,-Bishop Heber's Widow, 555; Milton, 564; Childe Harold,-Petrarch's Tomb, 568; Plague Legends,-Marriage of Prince de Joinville, 569; Mar riage of the Emperor of Brazil,-Statistics of Travelling,-Shakspeare,-Drawings in Westminster Hall, 570; Punch's Recipes,-Aurora Borealis,-Electrical Soirée-Unburnt Bricks from the Pyramids,-Education of Royal Infants, 571. SCIENCE AND ARTS.. The World a Voltaic Telegraph,-Gaulish Antiquities,-Roman Antiquities,-Earthquakes,Respiration of the Leaves of Plants, 572; Influence of Employments on Health,-Preservation of Meats by Ferruginous Syrups,-Continental Railways, 573; Earthquakes prevented by Artesian Wells,-Antiquities,-Electricity of Steam,-Life-colored Daguerreotypes, 574. OBITUARY. John Allen, Esq., 574; Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq.,-W. H. Pyne, Esq.,-Rev. Professor Kidd, 575. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES,-575. SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS.-Great Britain,-Germany,-France,--Switzerland, 576. |