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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ...Ewbank's Brazil. Life in Brazil; or, a Journal of a Visit to the Land of the Cocoa and the Palm. With an Appendix, containing Illustrations of Ancient South American Arts, in recently discovered Implements and Products of Domestic Industry, and Works in Stone, Pottery, Gold, Silver, Bronze, &c. By Thomas Ewbank. With over 100 Illustrations. 8vo, Muslin, !$2 00. A valuable and interesting work, in which the author, beEidea giving a minnte account of ecclesiastical affairs, has noted whatever would be likely to interest him or hia readers, which was nearly every thing; arta, manners, costume, buildings, trades, tools, pottery, food, slaves, animals, agricultural products, climate, diseases, population, antiquities, &c. Life of Alexander Prondfit, D.D. Memoir of the late Alexander Prondfit, D.D., with Selections from his Diary and Correspondence, and Recollections of his Life, &C. By his Son. By John Forsyth, D.D., Minister of the Union Church, Newburgh. Portrait. 12mo, Muslin, 75 cents. A New Spirit of the Age. Edited by R, H. Horse. 12mo, Muslin, 45 cents. The present work inclndes Sketches of Charles Dickens, Lord Ashley, Dr. South wood Smith, Thomas Ingoldshy, Walter Savage Landor, William and Mary llowitt, Dr. Pusey, G. P. IE. James, Mrs. Gore, Capt. Marryat, Mrs. Trollope, T. N. Tulfourd, It. M. Milnes, Hartley Coleridge, Sydney Smith, A. Fonblanque, D. Jerrold, William Wordsworth, Leigh Hunt, Alfred Tennyson, T. B. Macaulay, Thomas Hood, Theodore Hook, Harriet Martineau, Mrs. Jameson, Sheridan Knowles, William Macready, Miss Barrett, Mrs. Norton, Banim and the Irish Novelists, Robert Browning, J. W. Marston, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, William Harrison Ainsworth, Mrs. Shelley, Robert Montgomery, Thomas Carlyle, Henry Taylor, ...
