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Title: Carey & Hart's Catalog (1852)
Author: Hart, Abraham, Carey, Edward
Language: English
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Outlines of Character and Manners" by Miss Leslie.]
Carey & Hart's Catalog 1852
The Best Illustrated Works at 50 Cents a Volume
=CAREY & HART'S= Library of Humorous American Works, With Illustrations
by Darley.
_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
=THEATRICAL APPRENTICESHIP= AND Anecdotal Recollections OF
SOL. SMITH, Esq.
COMEDIAN, LAWYER, ETC. ETC.
WITH EIGHT ORIGINAL DESIGNS.
CONTENTS.
Early Scenes--Wanderings In the West--Cincinnati in Early Life--"One Man
in his Time plays many Parts"--Expedient to gain a Livelihood--Early
Days of Edwin Forrest--The Manager in Distress--Pittsburgh
Theatricals--Philadelphia Gardens in 1824--The Old Chatham
Theatre--Star-gazing in New York--Concerts in New Jersey--Getting thro'
a Winter--Strolling in Canada--The Murderous Alleghanians--Dawning of
the Drama in Lewistown--Floating down the Stream--Theatricals in
Kentucky--Anecdotal Recollections since 1827--A Theatrical Dentist--The
Rival Vocalists--Pettifogging in St. Louis--A Friendly Game of
Poker--Tom the Curtain Man--The Manager and Planter, Signor
Matthieu--Letter to Rev. A. Ballard--My First and Last Sermon--Tennessee
Door-keeper--The Player and the Phrenologist--Interview with an Editor,
&c. &c.
"A very whimsical apprenticeship it is, making it impossible to
preserve, while reading it, the slightest approach to gravity. Indeed,
we have seldom met with a book so irresistibly provocative of a
perpetual 'broad grin.' It is as good as a play, and a play of the
richest comedy."--_Jeffersonian._
_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
=MAJOR JONES' SKETCHES OF TRAVEL.=
COMPRISING THE SCENES, INCIDENTS AND ADVENTURES IN HIS =TOUR FROM
GEORGIA TO CANADA=.
_With Eight Original Engravings, from Designs by Darley._
THIRD EDITION.
"Not only fun, but information is to be gained from them."--_Saturday
Post._
"It contains palpable and amusing bits on the people and customs of
different places."--_Baltimore Patriot._
"The wit is of the 'Sam Slick' sort."--_N. Y. Commercial._
_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
=STREAKS OF SQUATTER LIFE= AND FAR-WEST SCENES.
A SERIES OF HUMOROUS SKETCHES DESCRIPTIVE OF INCIDENTS AND CHARACTER IN
THE WILD WEST.
BY "SOLITAIRE,"
(JOHN S. ROBB, _of St. Louis, Mo_.)
AUTHOR OF "SWALLOWING OYSTERS ALIVE."
_With Eight Humorous Illustrations by Darley._
CONTENTS.
The Western Wanderings of a Typo--"Not a Drop more, Major, unless it's
sweetened"--Nettle Bottom Ball--A Cat Story--A Spiritual Sister--Hoss
Allen's Apology--Natural Acting--A Canal Adventure--The Standing
Candidate--An Emigrant's Perils--Fun with a "Bar"--Telegraphing an
Express--The Preemption Right--Yaller Pledges--George Munday, the
Hatless Prophet--Courting in French Hollow--The Second
Advent--Settlement Fun--"Doing" a Landlord--Who is Sir George
Simpson?--Letters from a Baby--Seth Tinder's First Courtship--The Death
Struggle--"Who are They?"
"Mr. Robb is better known probably as 'Solitaire,' under which name he
has written some very broad, farcical sketches of Western manners for
the _Reveille_, of St. Louis. Some of the sketches in this volume are
spirited and cleverly written, and they are all lively and full of
animal spirits; but they are too brief to contain a development of
character. The best sketch is the story of 'Old Sugar,' which is
illustrated by an exceedingly fine drawing by Darley. We feel, after
inspecting the designs in this book, that we have heretofore underrated
the comic powers of this admirable artist; there are evidences in some
of these designs of a very high order of genius."--_N. Y. Mirror._
_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
=MAJOR JONES' COURTSHIP.=
_Twelfth Edition, with Two Additional Letters_, AND THIRTEEN HUMOROUS
PLATES.
CONTENTS.
Major Jones' Courtship detailed, with other Scenes and Adventures, in a
Series of Letters by himself.
"Messrs. Carey & Hart have published the drollest of the droll books of
the season. It is a strange production, but so brimful of fun, that half
a drop would make it run over."--_U. S. Gazette._
_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
=THE DRAMA AT POKERVILLE=, The Bench and Bar of Jurytown, AND OTHER
STORIES AND INCIDENTS.
BY "EVERPOINT,"
(J. M. FIELD, ESQ., OF THE ST. LOUIS REVEILLE.)
CONTENTS.
The Drama in Pokerville--The Great Small Affair Announcement--Feeling in
Pokerville--The Great Small Affair Opening--The Great Pokerville
Preliminaries--The Great Small Affair Mystery--The Great Pokerville
Re-union--The Great Small Affair Dinner--The Great Pokerville "Saw"--The
Great Small Affair Scandal--The Great Small Affair Chastisement--The
Great Small Affair Duel--What was built on the Great Small Affair
Foundation--The Bench and Bar of Jurytown--A Sucker in a Warm Bath--An
"Awful Place"--The Elk Runners--"Old Sol" in a Delicate Situation--The
"Gagging Scheme," or, West's Great Picture--Establishing the
Science--Ole Bull in the "Solitude"--How our Friend B----'s Hair
went--A Fancy Barkeeper--"Mr. Nobble!"--"Honey Run"--A Hung
Jury--Paternal Gushings--A Werry Grave Exhortation--"Your Turn next,
Sir"--Stopping to "Wood"--Death of Mike Fink--Establishing a
Connection--A Night in a Swamp--Steamboat Miseries--A Resurrectionist
and his Freight.
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_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
=A QUARTER RACE IN KENTUCKY=, AND OTHER STORIES.
BY W. T. PORTER, ESQ.
EDITOR OF THE "BIG BEAR OF ARKANSAS," ETC.
CONTENTS.
A Quarter Race in Kentucky--A Shark Story--Lanty Oliphant in Court--Bill
Morse on the City Taxes--Ance Veasy's Fight with Reub Sessions--The
Fastest Funeral on Record--Going to Bed before a Young Lady--A Millerite
Miracle--Old Singletire--"Running a Saw" on a French Gentleman--Breaking
a Bank--Taking the Census--Dick Harlau's Tennessee Frolic--"Falling off
a Log" in a Game of "Seven up"--The "Werry Fast Crab"--"French without a
Master"--A Rollicking Dragoon Officer--The Georgia Major in Court--Uncle
Billy Brown "Glorious"--Old Tuttle's Last Quarter Race--Bill Dean, the
Texan Ranger--The Steamboat Captain who was averse to Racing--Bob
Herring the Arkansas Bear-Hunter--McAlpin's Trip to Charleston--Indian
Rubber Pills--A Murder Case in Mississippi--Kicking a Yankee--A
"Down-east" Original--Somebody in my Bed--A Day at Sol. Slice's--Cupping
on the Starnum--A Bear Story--Playing Poker in Arkansas--&c. &c.
"It is illustrated with original engravings from designs by Darley. The
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beat."--_N. O. Picayune._
_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
=THE YANKEE AMONGST THE MERMAIDS.=
BY W. E. BURTON, COMEDIAN.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY DARLEY.
CONTENTS.
The Yankee amongst the Mermaids; a Yarn by a Cape Codder, with an
illustration--Leap Year; or, A Woman's Privilege--The Two Pigs, a
Swinish Colloquy--Thaumaturgia; Part First. The Yankee in Hell, with an
illustration; Part Second, The Resurrectionists; Part Third, The
Canal-boat; Part Fourth, The Last and the Least--My First Fight, with an
illustration--Immiscible Immigration, a petty Peter Pindaric--Sam
Weller, a Soliloquy in Verse--The Pic-Nic Party, with two
illustrations--The Poetry of Niagara--A Wet Day at a Watering Place--My
First Punch, with an illustration--The Scapegrace and the Scapegoat, a
Matter-of-fact Sketch--The Old Dutchman and his Long Box, with an
illustration--The Man in the Big Boots--Dickey Doddicombe, with an
illustration--Philadelphia in the Dog-days--&c. &c.
"The drollest specimen of waggery that ever emanated from that drollest
of men, Burton."--_The City Item._
_Price 50 Cents. (Complete.)_
ODD LEAVES FROM THE LIFE OF A =LOUISIANA "SWAMP DOCTOR."=
BY MADISON TENSAS, M. D.
EX V. P. M. S. U. KY.
CONTENTS.
The City Physician _versus_ The Swamp Doctor--My Early Life--Getting
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Professor--The Curious Widow--The Mississippi Patent Plan for pulling
Teeth--Valerian and the Panther--Seeking a Location--Cupping an
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Doctor" to Esculapius--My First Call in the Swamp--The Man of
Aristocratic Diseases--The Indefatigable Bear-hunter--Love in a
Garden--How to cure Fits--A Struggle for Life.
_Price 50 cents. (Complete.)_
THE =WIDOW RUGBY'S HUSBAND=, AND OTHER STORIES.
By JOHNSON J. HOOPER, Esq.
_Author of "Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs."_
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY ELLIOTT.
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We advise the immediate purchase of the book, but a temperate use of
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_Price 50 cents. (Complete.)_
=Polly Peablossom's Wedding=, AND OTHER TALES AND SKETCHES,
BY THE HON. J. LAMAR, THE HON. R. M. CHARLTON,
AND
_By the Author of "Streaks of Squatter Life,"
"Major Jones's Courtship" &c._
With Engravings from Original Designs by Elliott.
"A mirth-provoking book, well calculated to enliven an evening and put
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to.'"--_Philadelphia Advertiser._
_Price 50 cents._
=MISSISSIPPI SCENES=: OR, SKETCHES OF SOUTHERN LIFE AND ADVENTURE.
BY JOS. B. COBB.
"The peculiar manners and odd customs, the curious ways, and still more
curious people who reside, live, or float on the great river, are passed
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"The stories are well told, and some of the sketches of character are
well drawn."--_Savannah News._
"We have here a neat volume of sketches by one of the contributors of
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LORD BACON'S WORKS.
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_Also, Full-bound Library Style Price_ $12.50.
=Price Reduced to $2 50.=
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CONTENTS.
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of Perth. Anne of Geierstein, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous,
The Surgeon's Daughter.
The object of the publishers in thus reducing the price of the Waverley
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_FOURTH EDITION, REVISED._
_Illustrated with Portraits from Original Pictures._
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BY M. A. THIERS, LATE PRIME MINISTER OF FRANCE.
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It is only necessary to mention the names of the authors whose writings
will appear. T. BABINGTON MACAULAY, ARCHIBALD ALISON, REV. SYDNEY SMITH,
PROFESSOR WILSON, JAMES STEPHEN, ROBERT SOUTHEY, SIR WALTER SCOTT, LORD
JEFFREY, SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, T. NOON TALFOURD, J. G. LOCKHART,
REGINALD HEBER.
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I.
=MACAULAY.=
CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.
_In One Volume, with a finely engraved portrait, from an original
picture by Henry Inman._ _Cloth Gilt_, $2 00.
Contents.
Milton, Machiavelli, Dryden, History, Hallam's Constitutional History,
Southey's Colloquies on Society, Moore's Life of Byron, Southey's
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Croker's Boswell's Life of Johnson, Lord
Nugent's Memoirs of Hampden, Nare's Memoirs of Lord Burghley, Dumont's
Recollections of Mirabeau, Lord Mahon's War of the Succession, Walpole's
Letters to Sir H. Maun, Thackaray's History of Earl Chatham, Lord Bacon,
Mackintosh's History of the Revolution of England, Sir John Malcolm's
Life of Lord Clive. Life and Writings of Sir W. Temple, Church and
State, Ranke's History of the Popes, Cowley and Milton, Mitford's
History of Greece, The Athenian Orators, Comic Dramatists of the
Restoration, Lord Holland, Warren Hastings, Frederic the Great, Lays of
Ancient Rome, Madame D'Arblay, Addison, Barere's Memoirs. Montgomery's
Poems, Civil Disabilities of the Jews, Mill on Government, Bentham's
Defence of Mill, Utilitarian Theory of Government, and Earl Chatham,
second part, &c.
"It may now be asked by some sapient critics, Why make all this coil
about a mere periodical essayist? Of what possible concern is it to
anybody, whether Mr. Thomas Babington Macaulay be, or be not, overrun
with faults, since he is nothing more than one of the three-day
immortals who contribute flashy and 'taking' articles to a Quarterly
Review? What great work has he written? Such questions as these might be
put by the same men who place the Spectator, Tattler and Rambler among
the British classics yet judge of the size of a cotemporary's mind by
that of his book, and who can hardly recognize amplitude of
comprehension, unless it be spread over the six hundred pages of octavos
and quartos.--Such men would place Bancroft above Webster, and Sparks
above Calhoun, Adams, and Everett--deny a posterity for Bryant's
Thanatopsis, and predict longevity to Pollok's Course of Time. It is
singular that the sagacity which can detect thought only in a state of
dilution, is not sadly graveled when it thinks of the sententious
aphorisms which have survived whole libraries of folios, and the little
songs which have outrun, in the race of fame, so many enormous
epics.--While it can easily be demonstrated that Macaulay's writings
contain a hundred-fold more matter and thought, than an equal number of
volumes taken from what are called, _par eminence_, the 'British
Essayists,' it is not broaching any literary heresy to predict, that
they will sail as far down the stream of time, as those eminent members
of the illustrious family of British classics."
II.
=ARCHIBALD ALISON.=
THE CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF ARCHIBALD ALISON, AUTHOR OF
"THE HISTORY OF EUROPE," In One Volume, 8vo with a portrait.
_Price_ $1 25.
CONTENTS.
Chateaubriand, Napoleon, Bossuet, Poland, Madame de Stael, National
Monuments, Marshal Ney, Robert Bruce, Paris in 1814, The Louvre in 1814,
Tyrol, France in 1833, Italy, Scott, Campbell and Byron, Schools of
Design, Lamartine, The Copyright Question, Michelet's France, Military
Treason and Civic Soldiers, Arnold's Rome, Mirabeau, Bulwer's Athens,
The Reign of Terror, The French Revolution of 1830, The Fall of Turkey,
The Spanish Revolution of 1820, Karamsin's Russia, Effects of the French
Revolution of 1830, Desertion of Portugal, Wellington, Carlist Struggle
in Spain, The Affghanistan Expedition, The Future, &c. &c.
III.
=SYDNEY SMITH.=
THE WORKS OF THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH. Fine Edition. In One Volume, with a
portrait. Price $1 00.
"Almost every thing he has written is so characteristic that it would be
difficult to attribute it to any other man. The marked individual
features and the rare combination of power displayed in his works, give
them a fascination unconnected with the subject of which he treats or
the general correctness of his views. He sometimes hits the mark in the
white, he sometimes misses it altogether, for he by no means confines
his pen to theories to which he is calculated to do justice; but whether
he hits or misses, he is always sparkling and delightful. The charm of
his writings is somewhat similar to that of Montaigne or Charles
Lamb"--_North American Review._
IV.
=PROFESSOR WILSON.=
THE RECREATIONS OF =CHRISTOPHER NORTH.= In One Volume 8vo., first
American Edition with a Portrait. Price $1 00.
CONTENTS.
Christopher in his Sporting Jacket--A Tale of Expiation--Morning
Monologue--The Field of Flowers--Cottages--An Hour's Talk about
Poetry--Inch Cruin--A Day at Windermere--The Moors--Highland
Snow-Storm--The Holy Child--Our Parish--Mayday--Sacred
Poetry--Christopher in his Aviary--Dr. Kitchiner--Soliloquy on the
Seasons--A Few Words on Thomson--The Snowball Bicker of
Piedmont--Christmas Dreams--Our Winter Quarters--Stroll to
Grafsmere--L'Envoy.
_Extract from Howitt's "Rural Life."_
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glorious as the romances of Scott or the poetry of Wordsworth_. Far and
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language is read, I still question whether any one man has a just idea
of them as a whole."
V.
=Carlyle's Miscellanies.=
CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS OF THOMAS CARLYLE. _In one 8vo.
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Jean Paul Friedrich Richter--State of German
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Richter again--On History--Schiller--The Nibellungen Lied--Early German
Literature--Taylor's Historic Survey of German
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Diamond Necklace--Mirabeau--French Parliamentary History--Walter Scott,
&c. &c.
VI.
=TALFOURD & STEPHEN=
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_Contents of "Talfourd."_
Essays on British Novels and Romances, introductory to a series of
Criticisms on the Living Novelists--Mackenzie, The Author of Waverley,
Godwin, Maturin, Rymer on Tragedy, Colley Cibber's Apology for his Life,
John Dennis's Works, Modern Periodical Literature, On the Genius and
Writings of Wordsworth, North's Life of Lord Guilford, Hazlitt's
Lectures on the Drama, Wallace's Prospects of Mankind, Nature and
Providence, On Pulpit Oratory, Recollections of Lisbon, Lloyd's Poems.
Mr. Oldaker on Modern Improvements, A Chapter on Time, On the Profession
of the Bar, The Wine Cellar, Destruction of the Brunswick Theatre by
Fire, First Appearance of Miss Fanny Kemble, On the Intellectual
Character of the late Wm. Hazlitt.
_Contents of "Stephen."_
Life of Wilberforce, Life of Whitfield and Froude, D'Aubigne's
Reformation, Life and Times of Baxter, Physical Theory of Another Life,
The Port Royalists, Ignatius Loyola, Taylor's Edwin the Fair.
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VII.
LORD JEFFREY.
THE CRITICAL WRITINGS OF FRANCIS LORD JEFFREY.
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Independently however, of mere style, and apart from the great variety
of subjects embraced by his pen, the distinguishing feature of his
writings, and that in which he excels his cotemporary reviewers, is the
deep vein of practical thought which runs throughout them all."
VIII.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.
SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
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FEDERAL ADMINISTRATIONS.
MEMOIRS OF THE ADMINISTRATIONS OF WASHINGTON AND JOHN ADAMS.
EDITED FROM THE PAPERS OF OLIVER WOLCOTT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.
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CHAP. 1. _Introductory Remarks._
CHAP. 2. _The Dignity of the Art and its Relations to Science._
CHAP. 3. _Affinity and Chemical Equivalents:--Explanation of._
CHAP. 4. _Alkalies._--Lime, Potassa, Soda, Ammonia.
CHAP. 5. _Alkalimetry._
CHAP. 6. _Acids._--Carbonic, Sulphuric, Hydrochloric, Nitric, Boracic,
Acidimetry.
CHAP. 7. _Origin and Composition of Fatty Matters._
CHAP. 8. _Saponifiable Fats._--Oils of Almond, Olive, Mustard, Beech,
Poppy, Rapeseed, Grapeseed; Nut Oil, Linseed Oil, Castor
Oil, Palm Oil, (processes for bleaching it;) Coco Butter,
Nutmeg Butter, Galum Butter, Athamantine.
CHAP. 9. _Adulteration of Oils._
CHAP. 10. _Action of Acids upon Oils._
CHAP. 11. _Volatile Oils._--The Properties of, and their applicability
to the Manufacture of Soaps.
CHAP. 12. _Volatile Oils_:--Their Origin and Composition; Table of
their Specific Gravities.
CHAP. 13. _Essential Oils_:--The Adulterations of, and the modes of
detecting them.
CHAP. 14. _Wax_:--Its Properties and Composition.
CHAP. 15. _Resins_:--Their Properties and Composition; Colophony and
Gallipot.
CHAP. 16. _Animal Fats and Oils_:--Lard, Mutton Suet, Beef-tallow,
Beef-marrow, Bone-fat, Soap-grease, Oil-lees,
Kitchen-stuff, Human-fat, Adipocire, Butter, Fish-oil,
Spermaceti, Delphinine, Neats feet Oil.
CHAP. 17. _The Constituents of Fats_, their Properties and
Composition: Stearine, Stearic Acid and Salts; Margarine,
Margaric Acid and Salts; Olein, Oleic Acid and Salts;
Cetine, Cetylic Acid; Phocenine, Phocenic Acid and Salts;
Butyrine, Butyric Acid and Salts; Caproic, Capric Acid;
Hircine, Hircic Acid; Cholesterine.
CHAP. 18. _Basic Constituents of Fats_:--Glycerin, Ethal.
CHAP. 19. _Theory of Saponification._
CHAP. 20. _Utensils_:--Steam Series, Bugadiers or Ley Vats, Soap
Frames, Caldrons, &c.
CHAP. 21. _The Systemized arrangement for a Soap Factory._
CHAP. 22. _Remarks_,--Preliminary to the Process for Making Soap.
CHAP. 23. _Hard Soaps_:--"Cutting Process;" Comparative Value of Oils
and Fats as Soap ingredient, with Tables; White, Mottled,
Marseilles, Yellow, Yankee Soaps; English Yellow and White
Soap, Coco Soap, Palm Soap, Butter Soap, English Windsor
Soap, French Windsor Soap, Analyses of Soaps.
CHAP. 24. _Process for Making Soap_:--Preparation of the Leys,
Empatage, Relargage, Coction, Mottling, Cooling.
CHAP. 25. _Extemporaneous Soaps_:--Lard, Medicinal, "Hawes," "Maquer,"
and "Darcet's" Soaps.
CHAP. 26. _Silicated Soaps_:--Flint, Sand, "Dunn's," "Davis's" Soaps.
CHAP. 27. _Patent Soaps._--Dextrine, Salinated Soaps, Soap from
Hardened Fat.
CHAP. 28. _Anderson's Improvements._
CHAP. 29. _Soft Soaps_:--Process for Making, Crown Soaps, "Savon
Vert."
CHAP. 30. _The Conversion of Soft Soaps into Hard Soaps._
CHAP. 31. _Frauds in Soap Making and Means for their Detection._
CHAP. 32. _Earthy Soaps, Marine Soap. Metallic Soaps. Ammoniacal
Soap._
CHAP. 33. _Soap from Volatile Oils_:--Starky's Soap, Action of
Alkalies upon Essential Oils.
CHAP. 34. "_Savons Acides_" or Oleo-acidulated Soap.
CHAP. 35. _Toilet Soaps_:--Purification of Soaps, Admixed Soap,
Cinnamon, Rose, Orange-flower, Bouquet, Benzoin, Cologne,
Vanilla, Musk, Naples, Kasan Soaps, Flotant Soaps,
Transparent Soaps, Soft Soaps, Shaving Cream; Remarks.
CHAP. 36. _Areometers and Thermometers_:--their use and value.
CHAP. 37. _Weights and Measures._
CHAP. 38. _Candles._
CHAP. 39. _Illumination._
CHAP. 40. _Philosophy of Flame._
CHAP. 41. _Raw Material for Candles_:--Modes of Rendering Fats,
Wilson's Steam Tanks.
CHAP. 42. _Wicks_:--Their use and action. Cutting Machines.
CHAP. 43. _Of the Manufacture of Candles._
CHAP. 44. _Dipped Candles_:--Improved Machinery for facilitating their
Manufacture.
CHAP. 45. _Material of Candles_:--Process for Improving its Quality.
CHAP. 46. _Moulded Candles_:--Improved Machinery for facilitating
their Manufacture.--"Vaxceme," or Summer Candles.
CHAP. 47. _Stearic Acid Candles_:--Adamantine and Star Candles.
CHAP. 48. _Stearin Candles_:--Braconnot's and Morfit's Process.
CHAP. 49. _Sperm Candles._
CHAP. 50. _Palmine, Palm Wax, Coco Candles._
CHAP. 51. _Wax Candles_:--Mode of Bleaching the Wax, with drawings of
the apparatus requisite therefor; Bougies, Cierges,
Flambeaux.
CHAP. 52. _Patent Candles_:--"Azotized," Movable Wick and Goddard's
Candles; Candles on Continuous Wick; Water and Hour
Bougies, Perfumed Candles.
CHAP. 53. _Concluding Remarks._ Vocabulary.
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RICORD ON EXTREME CASES OF VENEREAL DISEASES
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BY JOSEPH PANCOAST, M. D.,
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A PRACTICAL TREATISE EXHIBITING THE PRESENT ADVANCED STATE OF THE
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BY F. G. MOREAU.
Translated from the French BY T. FOREST BETTON, M. D., AND EDITED BY
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suggestions, to the proper arrangement of which the author has devoted a
great amount of labor. The translation is faithfully and elegantly done,
and the work will be a valuable addition to the medical literature of
our country."--_New York Journal of Medicine._
V.
A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF THE SKIN, BY P.
RAYER, M. D. Physician to La Charité Hospital.
From the Second Edition, entirely remodeled. With Notes and other
Additions,
BY JOHN BELL, M. D.
Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Member of the
American Philosophical Society, and of the Gengofili Society of
Florence, and Editor of Bell and Stokes' Practice of Medicine, &c. &c.
_In One Royal 4to. Volume._
With Forty Beautifully Colored Plates, COMPRISING FOUR HUNDRED SEPARATE
ILLUSTRATIONS, Carefully Colored from Nature, and 450 pages of
Letterpress.
Handsomely bound in Cloth Gilt.
Price $15 00
_Opinions of the Press._
"We take leave of our author with the declaration that his work is a
monument of the most extraordinary industry. We have no hesitation in
adding that it is the best book we possess in any language on the
subject; and that should any of our readers desire to sail over the
unbounded sea of letterpress formed of the history and pathology of the
diseases of the cutaneous surface, M. Rayer should be his pilot."
OF THE PLATES.--"Considered in this respect, but more especially in
reference to the number of illustrations of the general species and
varieties of such order which it contains, this Atlas far surpasses any
that has yet appeared. _ON THE WHOLE RAYER'S ATLAS MAY CONSCIENTIOUSLY
BE SAID TO CONTAIN THE MOST COMPLETE SERIES OF ILLUSTRATIONS OF
CUTANEOUS DISEASES HITHERTO PUBLISHED, AND IS, BESIDES,_ not only
cheaper than any other, but well worth the sum for which it is offered
to the profession"--_British and Foreign Medical Review._
RICORD
ON EXTREME CASES OF VENEREAL DISEASES
_Cured at the Venereal Hospital at Paris_.
Under the direction of DR. PH. RICORD, with 276 elegantly coloured
engravings, in one volume quarto, uniform with "Quain's Anatomical
Plates," "Pancoast's Operative Surgery," &c. _Price $15, cloth, gilt._
"This truly great work of M. Ricord, who is an American and a native, we
believe, of Baltimore, though now the eminent hospital surgeon of Paris,
has long been a desideratum in the English language. The immense expense
of its publication, and especially the cost of the richly coloured
engravings, which are an indispensable accompaniment of the text, has
hitherto deterred publishers at home and abroad from its issue. The
profession are largely indebted to Dr. Betton, the translator, and Dr.
Goddard, who has prepared the work for the press, as also the
enterprising publisher, who has brought out this magnificent book, in
royal quarto, with its multiplied illustrations, in a style of
excellence as respects typography, engraving, and colouring, which will
do honour to American art. Of the value of this work it is unnecessary
to say more than that it is and must continue to be a standard authority
on a most important subject involving the interests of both science and
humanity. The publisher deserves the patronage of the whole profession,
for placing within the reach of all this noble contribution to our
libraries."--_N. Y. Medical Gazette._
THE AMERICAN COTTON SPINNER, AND MANAGERS' AND CARDERS' GUIDE: A
PRACTICAL TREATISE ON COTTON SPINNING.
Compiled from the Papers of the late Robert H. Baird.
In One Volume, Cloth Gilt, Price $1.
"This is a practical age, and it demands practical books. Of this class
is the manual before us, addressing itself to a rapidly growing interest
among us, and one, upon the prosperity of which depends, in a great
measure, the destiny of the South. We have too long committed the fatal
error of allowing Northern manufactories to convert our staple into the
fabrics we require for use, losing by the process all the expenses of a
double transportation, the profits of manufacturing, and sundry
incidental costs of interest and exchange. With the increasing attention
to manufactures in the South, arises the need of information upon all
their appliances and workings, and much that is valuable of this nature
is found in the book before us. Mr. Baird was an expert and successful
cotton-spinner. His experience and observations are here afforded to his
fellow-operatives, combined with the modern improvements in mechanics
and methods. No intelligent man at the present day builds without
'counting the cost,' or enters upon a field of labour without a
comprehensive knowledge of its capabilities and requirements. To those
proposing to erect small factories, or now conducting them, the treatise
before us could not fail to be of service, if well studied, and to such
we commend it."--_Southern Literary Gazette._
"Had we space we might go on to state a number of other equally
interesting and important facts. The work from which much of the
foregoing is taken, is published by Mr. A. Hart, and was compiled
chiefly from the papers of the late Robert H. Baird, well known as an
expert cotton-spinner. It is gratifying to see that so respectable a
house as that of Mr. Hart has undertaken the publication of books of
this kind, for we believe that our operatives should possess a
theoretical as well as practical knowledge of their several trades. This
work gives the dimensions and speed of machinery, draught and twist
calculations, with notices of the most recent improvements. It must
prove an invaluable hand-book to the manufacturer."--_Germantown
Telegraph._
"As the treatise now stands, it is a most complete and practical guide
in the spinning of cotton. It gives the dimensions and speed of
machinery, draught and twist calculations; together with rules and
examples for making changes in the size and number of roving yarn. The
work will be found of value, equally by operatives and mill-owners. It
is issued in a very neat style."--_Arthur's Home Gazette._
"'The American Cotton Spinner and Managers' and Carders' Guide,' a
practical treatise on cotton-spinning, giving the dimensions and speed
of machinery, draught and twist calculations, &c., with notices of
recent improvements, together with rules and examples for making changes
in the size of roving and yarn. This work is compiled from papers of the
late Robert H. Baird, well known as an expert cotton-spinner, and will
prove of great service to cotton-growers, mill-owners, and
cotton-spinners. This book will undoubtedly meet with an extensive sale
in the South, where attention is beginning to be turned in earnest to
manufacturing as well as growing cotton."--_Drawing-room Journal._
"This is one of the most interesting and valuable of the many excellent
little treatises on mechanical and manufacturing pursuits which have
been published by Mr. Hart. The construction and working of a
cotton-factory are thoroughly explained. Buildings, main gearing,
water-wheels, picking and spreading machines, cards and carding,
drawing-frames, speeders, throstles and mule spinning, are elaborately
discussed, and to those engaged in the production of cotton goods, the
volume must be exceedingly useful. To political economists and others,
who feel an interest in the great progress of our country, the
historical and statistical portions of the book will also be of value.
"'In 1770, there were exported to Liverpool from New York three bags of
cotton wool; from Virginia and Maryland, four bags; and from North
Carolina, three barrels. Last year England paid $71,984,616 to the
United States for raw cotton, which sum is exclusive of that paid to
other cotton-growing nations. In 1790 the first cotton-mill was erected
in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. In 1850 the number of spindles in operation
was computed at 2,500,000.' These facts are among the most signal
evidences of the unexampled progress and prosperity of the country, and
cannot be considered without emotions of pride and gratification."--_N.
Y. Commercial Advertiser._
"It is compiled from the papers of the late Robert H. Baird, well known
as an expert cotton-spinner, and forms a practical treatise relative to
spinning in all its departments and relations, the dimensions and speed
of machinery, draught and twist calculations, &c. &c., which cannot but
commend itself to the favourable attention of all connected with this
important manufacturing interest."--_North American._
MANUFACTURE OF STEEL, _Containing the Practice and Principles of Working
and Making Steel_.
BY FREDERICK OVERMAN,
MINING ENGINEER.
Author of "Manufacture of Iron," &c.
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME.
_With Engravings, cloth gilt. Price 75 cents._
"The author of this book is a practical mining engineer, and what he has
to say on the subject of which he treats, is therefore entitled to
consideration."--_Com. Advertiser._
"A valuable and almost indispensable hand-book for all workers in steel
and iron, such as blacksmiths, cutlers, die sinkers, and manufacturers
of various kinds of hardware. The man of science, as well as the
artisan, will find much valuable information in Mr. Overman's
Book."--_Arthur's Home Gazette._
"Carefully prepared, and therefore well adapted for the purpose. It is
illustrated by figures explanatory of apparatus and machinery."--_North
American._
"A. Hart, Philadelphia, has published 'The Manufacture of Steel,' by
Frederick Overman. This work is not only of interest to blacksmiths and
workers in steel and iron, but to men of science and art. It is a most
thorough book, commencing with forging, and treating the subject
throughout in an able manner."--_Boston Evening Gazette._
THE MOULDER'S AND FOUNDER'S POCKET GUIDE.
By Frederick Overman,
MINING ENGINEER.
WITH FORTY-TWO WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
_12mo, 252 pages, cloth gilt. Price 88 cents._
"The moulding of iron for useful purposes is one of the most extensive
pursuits of society. Nevertheless, there are comparatively few works
which present a clear, intelligible, and simple statement of the
branches of this art, so as to be readily understood by all. The present
work seems to supply this deficiency."--_Scientific American._
"This volume is prepared on the same plan as that on Cotton Spinning,
and has a number of wood-engravings. It must prove invaluable to the
iron master. It is certainly a book that has long been needed, and we
know that it will be extensively circulated."--_Germantown Telegraph._
"The 'Moulders and Founder's Pocket Guide,' published by A. Hart, is a
treatise on moulding and founding in green sand, dry sand, loam, and
cement, the moulding of machine-frames, mill-gear, hollow-ware,
ornaments, trinkets, bells, and statues, with receipts for alloys,
varnishes, colours, &c., by Frederick Overman, mining engineer. The work
is illustrated with forty-two wood-cuts, and it gives plain and
practical descriptions of these most useful arts."--_Public Ledger._
THE LONDON YEAR-BOOK OF FACTS AND SCIENCE, FOR 1851.
BY JOHN TIMBS.
_Complete in one volume, 326 pages, cloth gilt._ PRICE $1.
The Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, exhibiting the most important
discoveries and improvements of the past year, in mechanics and the
useful arts, natural philosophy, electricity, chemistry, zoology, and
botany, geology and geography, meteorology and astronomy. By John Timbs,
editor of the 'Arcana of Science and Art,' in one neat volume; price $1.
"It contains a mine of information in matters of Science and
Art."--_Saturday Gazette._
"There is a great deal of well-digested information in this volume,
exhibiting the most important discoveries in the Sciences and Arts,
during the past year. In looking over it, one is surprised at the
progress making in these branches, and in order to keep up with the age,
such a book as this is absolutely necessary."--_Evening Bulletin._
"Such a volume commends itself sufficiently to public favour by its
title. The importance of possessing it is apparent at a glance, since
the knowledge of a single one of these facts, or new discoveries in
science and the useful arts, may very possibly be worth in cash to the
buyer ten times the price of the book."--_Scott's Weekly._
"The 'Year-Book of Facts' is another of Mr. Hart's excellent
publications. It is a reprint from the London edition, and exhibits the
most important discoveries and improvements of the year 1851, in arts,
sciences, and mechanics. It is just the volume to have handy to take up
when a few spare moments present themselves, which might otherwise be
unimproved."--_Boston Evening Gazette._
"The 'Year-Book of Facts' is a work of established character, and
American readers will feel indebted to Mr. Hart for reproducing it in a
convenient and handsome form, rendering it accessible to all purchasers
on this side of the water."--_N. American._
STUART'S Dictionary of Architecture.
_A Directory of Architecture, Historical, Descriptive, Topographical,
Decorative, Theoretical, and Mechanical, alphabetically arranged,
familiarly explained, and adapted to the comprehension of workmen_,
BY ROBERT STUART,
ARCHITECT AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
Illustrated by one thousand Drawings of Subjects referred to in the
work.
_Complete in 3 volumes 8vo., bound in two._
"A most excellent work for practical men."
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