ASTORIA, BY IRVING.

CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD,

HAVE JUST PUBLISHED

ASTORIA;

Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains,

BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

́Two handsome volumes, bound in embossed cloth.

The Countess of Blessington's New Novel.

THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ELDERLY GENTLEMAN, With Six Plates, from Drawings made expressly for the work, by E. T. PARRIS; being Portraits of his Six Loves, beautifully engraved under the Superintendence of Mr. CHARLES HEATH. 1 Vol. post 8vo. (Nearly ready.) This Volume will be got up in a splendid style for an Annual.

A SPLENDID PRESENT

NOW READY.

THE PARLOUR SCRAP BOOK FOR 1837,
COMPRISING SIXTEEN ENGRAVINGS,
With Poetical and other Illustrations.
EDITED BY WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK,
Elegantly bound in embossed Morocco with gilt edges.
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

The Indian Fruit seller, by a
lady.
Song of Ghaut Mountaineer,
by a lady.

Legend of the Cataract, by a
lady.

The Favorite of the Harem,
by a lady.
The Sybil's Garland, by a
lady.

Idea of the Deity Universal,
imitated from the French.
The Boa Constrictor. Raje
Gur, Gingee.
Madras. The Talipat Tree.

Cape Comorin. A Hindoo
Female.

Wild Elephants. The Ban-
yan Tree.
Evening Hymn in the Tem-
ple, from La Martine, by a
lady.
The Choultry of Trimal Naig,
by a lady.

The Queen of Candy, by a
lady.

Temple at Mahabalipoor, by
a lady.

The Rajpootnee Bride, by a
lady.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer and Courier.
Messrs. Carey, Lea & Blanchard, the publishers of this
magnificent production, deserve more than a passing word
of praise for the truly splendid manner in which they have
produced it for public patronage and approbation. It is in
point of style, finish, and embellishment, superior to any
thing of the kind ever published in this country, being of
the quarto size, and having the appearance of a richly bound
lady's album. It is embellished with no less than sixteen
poetical and scenic illustrations-all of them of the quarto
size, and all of them creditable specimens of les beaux arts.
"Take it for all in all," this Annual reflects the highest
credit upon all concerned, and will, we feel convinced, re-
ceive the liberal degree of patronage it so richly merits.-
The engravings alone are worth far more than the price of
the volume. It is stated in the preface, that the poetical
contributions to the work, are from the pen of highly culti-
vated female minds, which have already exalted the litera
ture of the country. It is not, ho
the work, which will in an especial:
attention and favour; for although
way superior, yet the great char
Book, consists in its pictorial embel

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FOR THE CENTRE TABLE.

Companion to the Language of Flowers.

THE BOOK OF FLOWERS, OR GEMS OF FLOWERS AND POETRY, being an Alphabetical arrangement of Flowers, with appropriate Poetical illustrations, embellished with 24 Coloured Plates, by a Lady: to which is added a Botanical Description of the various parts of a Flower, and the Dial of Flowers. Bound in embossed Morocco, with gilt edges.

Ye are the stars of earth-and dear to me

Is each small twinkling gem than wanders free
'Mid glade or woodland, or by murm'ring stream,
For ye to me are more than sweet or fair,
I love ye for the mem'ries that ye bear;
Or bygone hours, whose bliss was but a dream.

LOUISA ANNE TWAMLEY.

NOTICES OF THIS WORK.

"Violet is a most remarkable work, full of feeling, vigour, and truth, set forth by a singularly dramatic style."

"The story is of intense interest; and there are scenes whose pathos is unrivalled."

"The heroine, Violet,' is conceived in a spirit of exquisite poetry; she is a 'lady of nature's making;' the loveliness of mind and soul belong to no class any more than the loveliness of face and form. She is, moreover, that feminine idéale, present even to the poor Indian in the Prairies, when she said, let not my child be a girl, for very sorrowful is the lot of woman.' D'Arcy, the hero, too, is drawn with consummate skill: he is what society of our time would inevitably make him."

"Violet, under the mask of an affecting fiction, is a just and severe satire on the existing state of manners, yet sorrowful in its bitterness. Life should be seen and studied from all points; and Violet takes completely unbroken ground. We have often wondered that the theatrical world has never before been explored by fiction; and what a strange picture does it now present!"

Literary Gazette.

"The characters in this novel are presented with admirable distinctness, and preserved throughout with a dramatic propriety. Dupas, the kind French dancing-master, is especially excellent. D'Arcy, whose heart is all self, is detestable: but, it is a forcible character, and we believe, but a representative of the man of pleasure with higher intellectual powers than he generally possesses. D'Arcy's vices, and the misery produced by them, are not made to detract, in the slightest degree, from his favourable reception and success in the world: and for his conscience, it only awakes when his pleasures pall. The author is well read in the book of life."-Examiner.

B. Sedgwich Jum 2.4. Batter

VIOLET WOODVILLE;

OR,

THE DANSEUSE:

A PORTRAITURE

OF

HUMAN PASSIONS AND CHARACTER.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

PHILADELPHIA:

CAREY, LEA & BLANCHARD.