COBBETT'S SERMONS (Price 3s. 6d.): There are thirteen of them on the following subjects:—1. Hypocrisy and Cruelty; 2. Drunkenness; 3. Bribery; 4. The Rights of the Poor; 5. Unjust Judges; 6. The Sluggard; 7. Murder; 8. Gaming; 9. Public Robbery; 10. The Unnatural Mother; 11. Forbidding Marriage; 12. Parsons and Tithes; 13. Good Friday; or, God's Judgment on the Jews.—More of these Sermons have been sold than of the Sermons of all the Church Parsons put together since mine were published. There are some parsons who have the good sense and virtue to preach them from the pulpit.—W. C.
III. BOOKS ON RURAL AFFAIRS.
TULL'S HUSBANDRY.
COBBETT'S EDITION OF TULL'S HUSBANDRY (Price 15s.): The HORSE-HOEING HUSBANDRY; or, A Treatise on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation, wherein is taught a Method of introducing a sort of Vineyard Culture into the Corn-Fields, in order to increase their Product and diminish the common Expense. By Jethro Tull, of Shalborne, in the county of Berks. To which is prefixed an Introduction, explanatory of some Circumstances connected with the History and Division of the Work: and containing an Account of certain Experiments of recent date, by William Cobbett.—From this famous book I learned all my principles relative to farming, gardening, and planting. It really, without a pun, goes to the root of the subject. Before I read this book I had seen enough of effects, but really knew nothing about the causes. It contains the foundation of all knowledge in the cultivation of the earth.—W. C.
YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA.
COBBETT'S YEAR'S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA, WITH A MAP (Price 5s.); treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil, the Products, the Mode of Cultivating the Land, the Prices of Land, of Labour, of Food, of Raiment, of the Expenses of Housekeeping, and of the usual Manner of Living; of the Manners and Customs of the People; and of the Institutions of the Country, Civil, Political, and Religious; in three Parts. The Map is a map of the United States. The book contains a Journal of the Weather for one whole year; and it has an account of my Farming in that country; and also an account of the causes of poor Birkbeck's failure in his undertaking. A book very necessary to all men of property who emigrate to the United States.—W. C.
THE ENGLISH GARDENER.
COBBETT'S ENGLISH GARDENER (Price 6s.); or a Treatise on the Situation, Soil, Enclosing and Laying-out of Kitchen Gardens; on the Making and Managing of Hot-beds and Green-Houses; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of all sorts of Kitchen-Garden Plants, and of Fruit-Trees, whether of the Garden or the Orchard. And also on the Formation of Shrubberies and Flower-Gardens; and on the Propagation and Cultivation of the several sorts of Shrubs and Flowers; concluding with a Kalendar, giving Instructions relative to the Sowings, Plantings, Prunings, and other labours to be performed in the Gardens, in each Month of the year.—A complete book of the kind. A plan of a Kitchen-Garden, and little plates to explain the works of pruning, grafting, and budding. But it is here, as in all my books, the Principles that are valuable: it is a knowledge of these that fills the reader with delight in the pursuit. I wrote a Gardener for America, and the vile wretch who pirated it there had the baseness to leave out the Dedication. No pursuit is so rational as this, as an amusement or relaxation, and none so innocent and so useful. It naturally leads to Early Rising; to sober contemplation; and is conducive to health. Every young man should be a gardener, if possible, whatever else may be his pursuits.—W. C.
THE WOODLANDS.