EMINENT MECHANICS. Memoirs of the Most Eminent American Mechanics; also, Lives of BY HENRY HOWE, Of New-Haven, Connecticut. Illustrated with Fifty Engravings. CONTENTS OF THE WORK.-A Memoir of John Fitch-Benjamin | Franklin-Oliver Evans-Samuel Slater-Eli Whitney-David Bushnell-Amos Whittemore-Robert Fulton-Jacob Perkins-Thomas Blanchard-Henry Eckford-John Smeaton-Marquis of Worcester -James Ferguson-Samuel Crompton-William Edwards-Richard Arkwright-M. Guinand-James Watt-James Brinley-Jesse Ramsden-Earl of Stanhope-Hohlfield-Matthew Boulton-Thomas Telford-Edmund Cartwright-John Whitehurst-James Hargreaves, and Joseph Braham. RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE WORK. From the New-York Mechanic. This is decidedly the most interesting work that has lately been published. Every mechanic should be in possession of a copy, and we are much mistaken if this book does not prove exceedingly popular. The memoirs of twenty-nine eminent mechanics here presented, contain more useful and solid information (to the practical man) than the biographies of all the warriors and statesmen the world ever saw. Mechanics, get this work! You will not repent doing so; but, on the contrary, will thank us for commending it to your notice. From the Hartford Times. This work contains much valuable historical information, and is written in an interesting manner. It gives a short sketch of the lives of a number of eminent mechanics, and describes, step by step, the manner in which their peculiar faculties were developed. The me moir of Fulton which it contains is worth the whole price of the book. From the New-Haven Palladium. We have seen no new publication these six months so attractive as this. The mechanics especially ought to be proud of it, and to be come the owners of it at once, not only for the satisfaction, and possibly the pecuniary profit it may afford them from the hints to be derived from it, but for the purpose of extending the right sort of encouragement to those who originated and completed the expensive and truly laudable enterprise. The portraits and engravings alone are worth all that is asked for the work,-some of them are the most effective wood prints we have ever seen. From the Columbian Register. No one can sit down to a perusal of this volume and not find it hard to leave it unfinished, or regret the cost of so much new and valuable information, put together in so enticing a form. We take pleasure in recommending it to the favorable notice of the public, because we consider it valuable in itself, and due to the exertions of the gentleman who compiled and published it. From the New-Haven Daily Herald. It is illustrated by fifty engravings, embracing eighteen portraits of the most eminent mechanics of this country and of Europe, together with diagrams and drawings of those first efforts of invention and the arts which have become the honor and glory of the present age. The volume is most elegantly executed, in its mechanical department, and is itself an honor to the arts, which it is, in part, its purpose to illustrate. From the Hartford Patriot and Democrat. The utility of this work may be seen at a glance. Its design is to rescue from, oblivion those individuals who have not only distinguished themselves, but benefited mankind by their mechanical skill and inventions, and to hold them up for the admiration and encouragement of youth. The biography of such characters has not hitherto met with that attention it deserves. We are, therefore, pleased in meeting with a work of this kind. From the New-York Commercial Advertiser. It may be considered a Mechanics' Biographical Dictionary-full of facts and anecdotes. Nor will it be found interesting only to mechanics. These, indeed, will naturally inquire for it at first, and they ought to study it well, for they will find much to stimulate and encourage their ambition, in tracing the lives of the mechanics of other days, who have been the architects of their own fortunes-who have cut out the roads of their own respective careers to eminence-and who, by their genius and their works, have commanded the homage of the world. Let mechanics read this book, and they will no longer feel asha med of being mechanics! Let them read this book, and they will at once cast away with scorn the silly idea, which occasionally besets them, of bringing up their sons to some other more reputable employment! For here they will find many of their brethren who have ultimately risen, in defiance of poverty and untold obstacles, to the most elevated distinctions in society; and to become the benefactors of mankind even to unborn generations. THE PARLOR BOOK, AND FAMILY ENCYCLOPEDIA OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE AND GENERAL LITERATURE. BY THE REV. J. L. BLAKE, D. D. The design of this work is to furnish a book for detached and desultory reading-a book for every-day use—to occupy the attention at those short intervals occurring to persons of almost every age and profession. The business man in the morning, and more particularly at noon and in the evening, frequently has a short interval of leisure, which might be, and ordinarily would be devoted to useful reading, provided some convenient manual were at hand. So it is with the student in the recess from more severe intellectual labor; and so it is with the literary lady amidst the transient or stated occupations of domestic duty. 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Exhibiting the pronunciation of the French in pure English sounds, the parts of speech, gender of French nouns, regular and irregular conjunctions of verbs, accents of English words, list of the usual Christian proper names, and names of countries and nations; to which are prefixed principles of FRENCH PRONUNCIATION, AND AN ABRIDGED GRAMMAR. BY F. C. MEADOWS, M. A., Corrected and improved, with a selection of Idiomatic Phrases, BY GEORGE FOLSOM, A. M. THE publisher has spared no pains or reasonable expense in getting up this work, and adapting it to the taste and the wants of persons acquiring a knowledge of the French language. He has also made arrangements for selling it so low, that it may be used by schools generally. The most hasty examination will satisfy any one competent to form an opinion, that it is decidedly the best School Dictionary of the French language in use. The book speaks for itself. Instruct ors are particularly desired to examine it. 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Meadows' Dictionary has already become extensively known and is extensively used. The annual sales have doubled in number within the last three years, as much depressed as business generally, and the book business in particular, has been. It is unnecessary, therefore, to add the numerous recommendations that have been received from Teachers in relation to the work. It may be had of the principal booksellers in the United States. A new Edition just published. THE LAWS OF TRADE, Containing an Abstract of the Statutes relating to Debtor and Creditor in each of the United States; together with Interesting Illustrations of the application of those Statutes, particularly in cases of Im prisonment for Debt. BY JACOB B. MOORE. 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