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CIRCULATING LIBRARY.

THE SUBSCRIBER begs leave to call the attention of every class of readers to his Library, Being very ex-tensive, and amply supplied with works in every department of Literature, it will be found to afford a cheap and easy method of access to all the most valuable books in the English language. The collection of Periodical publications is unequalled, as will be seen by the anexed list. A primary object, also, of the proprietor, will be to furnish the subscribers with a more immediate and regular supply of NEW PUBLICATIONS, than has hitherto been attainable, and for this purpose a large number of each will be secured, as they issue from the press.

The connexion with the LIBRARY of an amply provided LITERARY READING ROOM, offers great advantages; as for much less that the cost of one single London Journal or Review, twenty-five British, and ten to fifteen American Periodicals, besides Newspapers, may be read. Both LIBRARY and READING ROOM are kept open from an early hour in the morning till ten at night. The Room is furnished with the Morning and Evening Papers of the city, papers from the principal cities and towns of the United States, and with the large collection of Foreign and American Periodicals, regularly receiv ed, a list of which is given below. The date and number of about eight hundred volumes of Periodicals for past years, which belong to the CIRCULATING LibraRY, may be found at the end of the Catalogue. Duplicates of many of these are also taken, as soon as they are published for the use of the LIBRARY.

CHARLES S. FRANCIS, Bookseller and Stationer、

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ALL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO BE PAID IN ADVANCE.

I.

SUBSCRIBERS paying $5 the Year; $3 the Half Year; $2 the quarter; or $1 per month, are allowed the use of the READING ROOM only, at all times of the day and evening.

II.

SUBSCRIBERS paying $8 the Year; $5 the Half Year; $3 per quarter; or $1,50 per month, are allowed the use of the CIRCULATING LIBRARY alone; and may keep out at one time four volumes duodecimo or smaller, or two volumes octavo.

III.

SUBSCRIBERS paying $10 the Year; $6 the Half Year; $4 per Quarter; or $2 per Month, are allowed the united privileges of both the above; and thus, for the price of one daily newspaper, may be had the opportunity of perusing all the papers of the city, many from other parts of the United States, and the large number of Literary and Scientific Journals given below; and also the use of a Library, containing more than Four Thousand Volumes, and which is constantly increasing by the addition of all new works, in sufficient quantities to secure to each subscriber an early opportunity of reading them.

NON-SUBSCRIBERS are required to deposit the value of the books taken, and are charged for reading a Quarto volume 50 cents, for an Octavo volume 25 cents, and for a smaller volume or pamphlet 12 cents, for each week it may be detained. Books belonging to the Library must not be lent by subscribers. If a volume be lost or injured, the whole set must be paid for. Catalogues of the Library may be had, in which the books are arranged in different classes, and the whole title of each work is given. Price 25 cents, or gratis to yearly subscribers. Each Review and Magazine is kept upon the table of the READING ROOM three months, and during that time is not al'lowed to be removed from the room. After three months, the journals are transferred to the Circulating Library. Duplicates of the most important are also taken for the use of the Library immediately upon publication.

The Newspapers are not to be taken from the Reading Room at any time; and they must not be cut, or otherwise injured. Subscribers have the privilege of introducing their friends, not resident in the City, as visitors to the Reading Room at any time.

LIST OF PERIODICALS

Received by the earliest Packets from Liverpool, for the use of the Subscribers to

THE PARTHENON READING-ROOM,

252 BROADWAY.

FOREIGN PERIODICALS.

Literary, Religious and Fashionable.

I. The QUARTERLY REVIEW, of London, sustained by writers of the first talent in England, and in Politics attached to the Tory party. Commenced in 1809.

II. The EDINBURGH REVIEW, or CRITICAL JOURNAL. (Quarterly.) In politics and Theological opinions opposed to the Quarterly. Commenced in 1802.

III. The WESTMINSTER REVIEW. (Quarterly.) Conducted by members of the liberal and whig parties. 1824.

IV. The FOREIGN QUARTERLY REVIEW, and CONTINENTAL MISCELLANY. Devoted entirely to Foreign Literatute, and chiefly to reviews and notices of works published on the continent of Europe. 1828.

V. The MONTHLY REVIEW. One of the oldest peri odicals now published; purports to be entirely independent, and devoted to Morals, Literature, and Constitutional Liberty. By its more frequent publication, and shorter articles, it gives earlier and more numerous notices of books than the larger Reviews. New Series, cómmenced 1826.

VI. BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. (Monthly.) Conducted by Professor Wilson. Ranks first among its cotemporaries for talent and the variety of interest displayed in its pages. Commenced in 1816.

VII. The NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND LITERARY JOURNAL. Its original articles are of the first order, and its notices of new books well written and numerous. Commenced 1821.

VIII. The Metropolitan MAGAZINE (Monthly) numbers among its contributors the first writers in England of the liberal party. Commenced 1831.

IX. FRASER'S MAGAZINE FOR TOWN AND COUNTRY. (Monthly.) A Journal of talent, on the Tory side in politics. Commenced 1832.

X. TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. (Monthly.) Established in opposition to Blackwood's Magazine to sustain liberal opinions. Commenced 1832.

XI. The GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. (Monthly) The oldest periodical now published; is conducted with great ability. It is illustrated with engravings, chiefly of the Antiquities of England, and other countries. Commenced 1731.

XII. The MONTHLY MAGazine or British Register OF LITERATURE and the Belles-Lettres. Ably conducted, and of the liberal party. Commenced 1796. New series, 1826.

XIII. The ECLECTIC REVIEW. (Monthly.) Supports the opinions of the Evangelical Dissenters.

XIV. The MONTHLY REPOSITORY AND REVIEW OF

THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. Supports the opinion of Unitarian Dissenters. New Series commenced 1827.

XV. The COURT MAGAZINE, AND BELLE ASSEMBLEE. (Monthly.) Edited by the Hon. Mrs. Norton. Containing interesting and original Literature and Record of the Beau-Monde. Embellished with a series of splendidly engraved Portraits of the Female Nobility of Great Britain. Each number also contains four or five coloured plates of English and French costumes. New Series, 1825.