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tion of our pages will be filled with reviews of works published here, either of domestic or foreign origin; every book which issues from the press of this country, and comes within our reach, shall receive from us such notice as its character and pretensions deserve. We shall also publish whatever interesting information we can gather, concerning our national literature, education, and public opinions.

Books intended to subserve the purposes of education, have within a few years, been greatly improved and multiplied. Much of the best talent and skill of this age has been employed upon mere school books; and histories, travels, tales, &c. calculated for the tastes and requirements of youth, have been written with great power, printed in the cheapest forms, and circulated throughout the community with strenuous industry. Such works must exert a powerful influence, either of good or evil. We think they have not received due attention from journals professedly devoted to reviewing the current literature of the age; and shall endeavour to supply this deficiency by making our readers acquainted with the true character of all books, written to aid them in a work of such importance as the education of their children.

Notices of foreign works, which lead to topics or considerations, applicable to the affairs or interests of this country, will be occasionally inserted. In freely admitting prose or poetry of a miscellaneous character, we shall not depart from our leading principle of making the Gazette a national work, because we may thus assist the development and cultivation of domestic talent, and the

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articles we publish will give some indication of the strength and character of the intellectual power already existing and exerted amongst us.

We shall not aim at giving a value to our Gazette by profound researches into science and philosophy, or by lengthened and intricate speculations. Our numbers shall not be filled with literary gossip; neither shall they be composed of articles which are not to be understood and appreciated but with a degree of labour almost equal to that required for their composition, and cannot be enjoyed without a singularity of taste and mental habits. We shall endeavour to avoid with equal care both these extremes, and we have offered our first number to the public, that by it they may judge of our plan, and of the means we have provided for its execution. We however ask, what in common equity must be granted, that the difficulties of making a beginning should be duly considered. Many gentlemen have engaged to contribute to our pages, and in justice to them it is proper for us to say, that among them are minds as highly gifted by nature, and as well nurtured and disciplined by habits of study and composition, as those employed in the support of any periodical work in this land.

Some pages of each number will be filled with Literary and Scientific Intelligence. Great care and assiduity will be used to ensure to this department of the Gazette, interest and value. It may be well to remark, that our extensive connexions with booksellers, at home and abroad, will enable us to supply our editors and contributors promptly, with almost every new publication of every kind.

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No injury to the established Journals can be involved in the success of our proposed work; many of them are useful and honourable to the literature of this country, and we should deeply regret to impede their usefulness or lessen its rewards. We belong to the same class of literary works, but our paths lie in different directions; and it cannot be doubted, that literary publications, like most other pleasures, increase and strengthen the appetite, by which they are demanded and enjoyed. A successful work, almost of necessity, enlarges the circle of those who are prepared to read with pleasure another work of a similar character.

The United States Literary Gazette will be published on the first and fifteenth day of every month. Each number will contain 16 quarto pages, of three columns cach, and will be printed with new and handsome types, on paper of superior quality. It will be sent to distant subscribers on the day of publication by the mail of that day, or in any other way they shall prescribe.

Terms-$5 per annum, payable in six months from its commencement. Subscriptions received at our Bookstore, No. 1 Cornhill.

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MISS EDGEWORTH'S WORKS:

NOW PUBLISHING BY S. H. PARKER, 12 CORNHILL, BOSTON.

Prospectus

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OF THE

WORKS OF MARIA EDGEWORTH,

IN TWELVE OCTAVO VOLUMES, VIZ.

VOL. I.-Practical Education.

VOL. II.-Letters for Literary Ladies,-Castle Rackrent,-Leonora-Irish Bulls.

VOL. III.-Belinda.

VOL. IV.-Popular Tales, viz. Lame Jervas-The Will-The Limerick Gloves-Out of Debt out of Danger-The Lottery RosannaMurad the Unlucky-the Manufacturers-The Contrast The Grateful Negro-To-morrow.

VOL. V.-Tales of Fashionable Life, viz. Ennui-Almeria-Madame de Fleury-Dun-Manoeuvring.

VOL. VI.-Tales of Fashionable Life, continued; viz. AbsenteeEmilie de Coulanges-Vivian.

VOL. VII.-Patronage.

VOL. VIII.-Harrington, and Ormond.

VOL. IX.-Griselda,-Moral Tales, viz. Forrester-The Prussian Vase-The Good Aunt-Angelina-The Good French Governess— Mademoiselle Panache-the Knapsack.

VOL. X.-Parent's Assistant.

VOL. XI.-Early Lessons.

VOL. XII-Sequel to Frank,-Readings on Poetry,-Comic Dra

mas.

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