A Voyage up the River Amazon, Including a Residence at Para. By William H. Edwards. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1 vol. 12mo.
This is an exceedingly interesting account of a region which is but little known, but which is truly what the author styles it, the “garden of the world.” The book deserves an extensive circulation. It is sure to amuse those who are indifferent to its value in other respects.
The Progress of Ethnology, an Account of Recent Archæological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe, Tending to Elucidate the Physical History of Man. By John Russell Bartlett. New York: Bartlett & Welford.
In this pamphlet of a hundred and fifty pages, Mr. Bartlett has compressed the information of as many volumes. It evinces the most extensive knowledge, and as fine judgment, and is altogether a work which no scholar can be without.
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