. Scientific American Volume 06 Number 47 (August 1851) . re their influence must provesalutary. Harper* New Monthly Magazine, for August,isa fine number. John C. Abbott contributes an in-teresting artiole on the Childhood and Youth of Na-poleon Bonaparte, illustrated by six engravings. Theselections are judioloualy made from the best worksof our time, and besides, we are furnished with se-veral illustrations after the style of Punch, which aregood. This work is sold by the tiade generally. International Magazine, for August, has severalbeautiful engravings of the most prominent wateringplaces
. Scientific American Volume 06 Number 47 (August 1851) . re their influence must provesalutary. Harper* New Monthly Magazine, for August,isa fine number. John C. Abbott contributes an in-teresting artiole on the Childhood and Youth of Na-poleon Bonaparte, illustrated by six engravings. Theselections are judioloualy made from the best worksof our time, and besides, we are furnished with se-veral illustrations after the style of Punch, which aregood. This work is sold by the tiade generally. International Magazine, for August, has severalbeautiful engravings of the most prominent wateringplaces in America, described in a most pleasing andgraphio manner. This is unquestionably one ot themust sterling serial publications extant, and has al-ready secured a strong hold upon the affections of thereading public Dictionary of Mechanics and Engine Work.—No. 35 of this able work, published by D. Appleton& Co , New York, is wholly taken up with Tools forthe different branches of Mechanical Art. It is veryfoil on the subjeot, and is a goou INVENTORS AND Best Mechanical Paper IN THE WORLD!SIXTH VOLUME OF THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. The Publishers of the SCIENTIFIC AMERICANrespectfully give notioe that the Sixth Volumeof this valuable journal, commenced on the 21stof September last. The oharaoter of the Sci-entific American is too well known throughoutthe country to require a detailed account of the va-rious subjeots discussed through its columns. It enjoys a more extensive and influential circula-tion than any other journal of its olass in America. It is published weekly, as heretofore, in Quar-to Form, on fine paper, affording, at the «*-; of theyear, an ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA, ofover FOUR HUNDRED PAGES, with an Index,and from FIVE to SIX HUNDRED ORIGI-NAL ENGRA VINGS, described by letters of re-ference; besides a vast amount of practical informa-tion concerning the progress of SCIENTIFIC andMECHANICAL IMPROVEMENTS, CHEMISTRY,CIVIL ENGINEERING, MANU
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