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A SYSTEM of UNIVERSAL GEOGRAPHY, by M. Malte-Brun, Editor of the “Annalesdes Voyages,” &c. Parts I. to XII. price 7s. 6d. each. To be completed inFourteen Parts.
The Publishers are extremely happy to be able to state, that,notwithstanding the lamented death of M. Malte-Brun, the remainder of thisgreat work, comprising the description of Western Europe, will becompleted in a style every way worthy of what has been already executed.The papers and collections of M. Malte-Brun have been placed in the handsof M. Valcknaer, with whose numerous and valuable contributions togeographical science the scientific portion of the public have been longand familiarly acquainted. M. Balbi, the celebrated author of the EssaiStatistique sur le Royaume de Portugal, has undertaken to superintend andcomplete that portion of the work which relates to Italy, Spain, andPortugal. There can, therefore, be no doubt, that the high and establishedcharacter of the Original Work will be maintained to its close; and theBritish Public may be assured, that no efforts will be spared to renderthe Translation, now in course of publication, not only equal, but evensuperior, to the original. The account of the British Empire will becarefully revised, and, if necessary, re-written by gentlemen who areextremely well versed in statistical inquiries. The reports and papersprinted by order of the House of Commons will be referred to for everyfact of importance; and the Publishers believe that they may venture tosay, that the account which will be given in this work of theAgriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of Great Britain, will bedecidedly superior to any that has hitherto appeared.
The account of the United States, given in the Translation, is an entirelyoriginal composition; and it is admitted by the Americans themselves, tocontain the most able, comprehensive, and luminous account of thatpowerful confederacy that has ever been published.
“M. Malte-Brun is probably known to most of our readers as the authorof a systematic work on Geography. He is, besides, the editor of aperiodical digest, under the title of Nouvelles Annales des Voyagesde la Geographie et de l’Histoire; the first as much superior to thecompilations of our Guthries and Pinkertons, as the other is to thegarbled productions of our Truslers and Mavors.”—Quarterly Review,No. 52.
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JOURNAL of a SOLDIER of the 71st REGIMENT, HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY, from1806 to 1815. Including particulars of the Battles of Vimeira, Corunna,Vittoria, the Pyrenees, Toulouse, and Waterloo. Third Edition. 1 vol.12mo, 5s.
“The Journal of a Soldier of the 71st Regiment, first gave the publica taste for narratives of the personal adventures, and the sufferings,and ‘hair-breadth escapes,’ of military men. That Journal excited avery considerable degree of interest. It was written with ease andsimplicity, and indicated no small powers of description ando