Persons at a distance wishing copies of this work, can remit the money by Mail, post-paid, and the number ordered will be promptly sent as directed. 'POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC.-We give the ensuing notice of a new enterprise by Mr. DOGGETT, Jr., proprietor of the well-known City Directory;' and need only add to its expositions the remark, that we have seen several of the illustrations, which for delicacy and clearness we have never seen surpassed. The head of FRANKLIN, the house where he was born, and the 'Old South Church,' Boston, in an especial manner will command general admiration. We have been permitted to examine some of the old copies of 'POOR RICHARD'S Almanac,' which Mr. DOGGETT obtained at such cost and labor, and enjoyed their perusal not a little. So quaint is the style of the homely common-sense maxims and advice, and so curiously are these interwoven in the interstices, as it were, of the calendar-pages, that we are not at all surprised that the Almanac' should have acquired so great a popularity; and we have no doubt that in its republished form it will command a sale larger than it enjoyed on its first appearance before the American people. We understand that in the republication no expense will be spared to have the types paper, printing, engravings, etc., of the first order of excellence. We bespeak for the enterprise the favor of the American public. It will then be in evidence' that we do not wholly disregard the 'ancient land-marks' of virtue, temperance, and frugality.-Knickerbocker Magazine, Nov. 1849. The notice referred to is the Preface to this Work, which appeared in full in the Nov. No. of the Knickerbocker Magazine. 20163 "Poor Richard." POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC FOR 1850, AS WRITTEN BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, FOR THE YEARS 1733-1734-1735. THE ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS BY PROF. BENJ. PEIRCE, OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, AND ADAPTED TO BOSTON, NEW-YORK, PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON, CHARLESTON AND TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE LIFE OF THE GREAT PHILOSOPHER, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. ANNUAL ILLUSTRATED EDITION. NEW-YORK: JOHN DOGGETT JR., 64 LIBERTY-STREET, SANDSTONE BUILDINGS. 1849. |