The narrative of his varied adventures forms not only to the enthusiastic botanist, but to the general reader, an exceedingly entertaining and also instructive book, from the new view which it gives of the society of Brazil—particularly in its less known provinces."—Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.
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THE PLANETARY AND STELLAR UNIVERSE. By Robert James Mann. With fifty astronomical Diagrams and Maps of the Circumpolar Constellations. Fcap. cloth. 5s.
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NEW WORKS
TO BE
PUBLISHED IN MAY AND JUNE.
1.
PARKS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS; or, Practical Notes on Country Residences, Villas, Public Parks, and Gardens. By Charles J. H. Smith, Landscape Gardener.
2.
TALPA; or, THE CHRONICLE OF A CLAY FARM: an Agricultural Fragment. By C. W. H. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank.