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New Works published The Illustrated Knickerbocker, With a series of Original Designs, in one vol., octavo, is also in preparation. Mr. Putnam has also the honor to announce that he will publish at intervals (in coix- nexion, and uniform with the other collected writings), Mr. Irving 's New Works, now nearly ready for the press : including The Life of Mohammed; The Life of Washington; new volumes of Miscellanies, Biographies, &c.

  • f *This being the first uniform and complete edition of Mr. Irving's works, either in this

country or in Europe, the publisher confidently believes that the undertaking will meet with a prompt and cordial response. To say this, is perhaps superfluous and impertinent ; for it is a truism that no American book-case (not to say library) can be well filled without the works of Washington Irving; while the English language itself comprises no pure? models of composition. G. P. Putnam has also made arrangements for the early commencement of new work* or new editions of the works of Miss C. M. Sedgewick, Prof. rf. Gray, Leigh Hunt, Chas. Fenno Hoffman, Mrs E Oakes Smith, Thomas Carlyle, George H. C a /vert, Mrs. C. M. Kirkland, R Monckton Milnes T J. Bayard Taylor, Mary Howitt, Mm. Jameson, . Wells Williams, W. M. Thackeray, Charles Lamb, A. J. Downing, Thos. Hood, Elliot Warburton. The following new works are now ready, or will be published this season : I. Sophisms of the Protective Policy, Translated from the French of F. Bastiat. With an introduction by Francis Lieber, LL.D. Professor in South Carolina College, Editor of the Encyclopaedia Americana, &c. 12mo. 75 cents. " It is a book not for the million but for millions, and we believe if a copy could be put into the hands of every school-boy in the Union, the next generation would be inconceiv ably wiser, richer, and happier than the present." Mirror. II. Grecian and Roman Mythology: With original illustrations. Adapted for the use of Universities and High Schools, and for popular reading. By M. A. Dwight. With an introduction by Tayler Lewis, Professor of Greek, University of New York. 12mo. (On 1st September.) Also a fine edition in octavo, with illustrations. %* This work has been prepared with great care, illustrated with 20 effective outline drawings, and is designed to treat the subject in an original, comprehensive, and unex ceptionable manner, so as to fill the place as a text book which is yet misapplied ; while it will also be an attractive and readable table book for general use. It will be at once introduced as a text book in the University of New York and other colleges and schools. III. Eureka: a Prose Poem. Or the Physical and Metaphysical Universe. By Edgar A. Poe, Esq. Handsomely printed, 12mo. Cloth, 75 cents. "A most extraordinary Essay. We shall be greatly surprised if this work does not create a most profound sensation among the literary and scientific classes." Jfeio York Express. IV. Oriental Life Illustrated. Being a new edition of Eothen, or Traces of Travel in the East. With fine illustration* on Steel. 1'Jino. elegantly bound, $1 50.