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CAUTION.

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“The Trade and the Public are respectfully informed, that an ABRIDGED
or MUTILATED Edition of Alison's History of Europe is about to appear
from another press, as we have understood, in which MORE THAN HALF of the
original work, as prepared by the author, will be omitted! Those, therefore,
desiring a PERFECT copy of Mr. Alison's splendid production, must be careful
to order one of Harpers' edition.”

The foregoing appears on the cover of certain late pamphlets
issued by Harper and Brothers. We are much obliged to these
gentlemen for so gratuitous and useful an announcement, just at
the time when we were ready to make it ourselves. But nothing
can be more unkind than the calling of the “Abridgement” of
Alison's long, tedious, und (to the larger class,) unreadable history,
a Mutilated Edition. It is not mutilated, but exactly what
it purports to be, abrided. We never intended to call it anything
but what it is—viz: a carefully digested and skillfully prepared
condensation of a work, which, from its great length, is almost
sealed to the general reader, and unavailable to colleges and
other seminaries of learning, for whose especial use and benefit
our edition is intended. We are quite willing to submit it, and
shall submit it to some of the most eminent men of learning in
the United States; and, if they are not disposed to recommend it
in the warmest terms, we are willing that the book shall remain
as unsaleable as our Christian friends, Harper and Brothers, wish
to make it by their preliminary advertisement.

We need not say to those who have read Harpers' edition of
Alison, that it abounds with gross errors. These are for the most
part, copied literatim et verbatim from the English edition, which
is sown thick with them. They are of such a character as not
only to impair the value of the work, but to render it, as a standard,
in which minute accuracy is indispensable, almost worthless.
In our abridged edition, every mistake even of the most trivial
sort is corrected, and Mr. Alison is set right, not only with regard
to the geography of places, but with regard to historical facts,
which he has sometimes in the strangest manner perverted from
their notorious bearing and character. Take, for example, his
ignorant and prejudiced account of our war with Great Britain
Shall this be allowed to go abroad among the youth of America
to damp their patriotism and chill their ardor?

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We cannot, in so hurried an article, set forth all that we are
ready to say on this subject, but we shall take future opportunities
to do so. Let us be content at this time to refer to the lying
spirit of the “Caution” above quoted. How do the utterers know,
that our edition is a mutilated one? How do they know that more
than half of the oriinal is omitted? They can know nothing of
the kind. Nobody has read a page of the book, except the author,
the proof-reader and the editor of this Journal. Has their
informant read it? No! The foregoing assertions then are simple
falsehoods, with which we now, in the face of the public,
charge Harper and Brothers with having maliciously promulgated

As to what our forthcoming book is, we have truthfully told in
what we have already written. It but remains for us to announce
the highly-respectable name of the gentleman by whom this
Abridgement has been, with singular industry, tact and talent,
prepared. Our readers and the readers of many other popular
periodicals, need no guaranty for the excellence of any work
by Edward S. Gould.

The book will appear during the first part of October next. It
is stereotyped on a perfectly new, large and elegant letter, will be
printed on superior white paper, and be an elegant royal octavo
volume of FIVE HUNDRED AND TWELVE PAGES. It will be submitted
on publication to the Hon. Roger Minot Sherman of Connecticut,
to Chancellor Kent, to the Hon. John C. Spencer, to ex-President
Duer of Columbia College, to President Quincy of Harvard
University, to President Day of Yale University, to Chancellor
Frelinghuysen, to Dr Anthon, author of the Classical Dictionary,
and to several other gentlemen of learning and high
character.

The intelligent reader need not be informed that it has always
been usual to issue Abridgements of very long and valuable histories;
and that these abridgements, from their better adaptation
to the mass, have often taken the place of the original works. In
Harper's Family Library are found volumes of this kind.

We beg leave to assure our friends and the public, who ought
to be our friends, that the book, we shall give them, will be highly
creditable both to editor and publisher; and that it will contain
every fact and incident detailed by Alison, in as full, circumstantial
and clear a manner as is necessary for the full satisfaction of
the reader, whether he be old or young, learned or ignorant.

THIRD EDITION. MARMADUKE WYVIL; OR, THE MAID'S REVENGE.

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A Historical Romance.

BY H. W. HERBERT, ESQ.,

AUTHOR OF “CROMWELL,” “THE BROTHERS,” ETC., ETC.

PRICE 37½ CENTS—THE USUAL DISCOUNT TO THE TRADE.

The popularity of this Romance, by Herbert, is steadily on the increase. The
Press of Great Britain are loud in its praise, and rank it among the most talented
productions of Eving novelists. We add a few notices, which we find in the latest
London papers:

“A still better work than `Oliver Cromwell.' ”

NEW ORIGINAL NOVEL, BY EDWARD S. GOULD.

PRICE 25 CENTS.

The Proprietors of the New World announce that they will shortly issue an original
humorous work, entitled

THE SLEEP-RIDER;
OR,
THE OLD BOY IN THE OMNIBUS.

BY
THE MAN IN THE CLARET-COLORED COAT.

This is believed to be the first successful attempt in our language to produce a
complete story after the manner of Sterne. The imitation of that great humorist,
however, extends no further than to the general plan: the entire detail of the work,
its incidents, descriptions, and reflections, will be found as purely original, and
quite as entertaining as any modern work whatever.

The scene is laid in a Broadway Omnibus, where several honest citizens are introduced
as passengers, and undergo a series of adventures so astonishing, that, if
not strictly true, they would be incredible. The work is diversified by illustrations
of temperance, grammar, thunder-storms, matrimony, sub-treasuries, water-works,
cornners' inquests, and animal magnetism. The “hits at the times” are
given in the richest vein of quiet humor; and the reader who fails to weep at the
pathos, and roar at the drollery of this novel production, must be made of “sterner
stuff” than we are. Address

J. WINCHESTER, 30 Ann street.

SIXTH EDITION OF
THE GIPSIES OF SPAIN,

By the same author, and equally interesting—giving a description of the most wild
and singular people on the earth. Both works are full of thrilling adventures in
Spain and Portugal, and descriptive of the scenery, costumes, manners, and customs
of a people, of whom comparatively little is known by Americans.

Price 25 cents; $16 a hundred.

Addre:

J. WINCHESTER, 30 Ann street.

BULLETIN EXTRAORDINARY!

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ALISON FOR ONE DOLLAR!

NOW IN PRESS,
AND WILL BE PUBLISHED EARLY IN OCTOBER, AT THE NEW WORLD
OFFICE, 30 ANN STREET, IN
ONE LARGE AND SPLENDID VOLUME,
OCTAVO SIZE, ON NEW AND BEAUTIFUL LONG PRIMER TYPE,
ALISON'S
HISTORY OF EUROPE,
FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION IN 1789,
TO THE
RESTORATION OF THE BOURBONS
IN 1815.

ABRIDGED FOR THE USE OF THE GENERAL READER, AND ALSO FOR COLLEGES,
ACADEMIES, AND OTHER SEMINARIES OF LEARNING,
BY EDWARD S. GOULD, ESQ.

This splendid volume will embrace the most complete, perspicuous, and comprehensive
history of Europe, during the stormy period from 1789 to 1815, which has
ever been given to the world. It is a perfect abridgment of Alison—his errors excepted—
in elegant language and clear style, and will prove far more acceptable to
the general reader, than the verbose original.

Price only One Dollar. A liberal discount to the trade. Early cash order solicited.
Address (post-paid.)

J. WINCHESTER 30 Ann street.

ONE HUNDRED
ROMANCES OF REAL LIFE
BY LEIGH HUNT.

This is a work which will deeply interest all classes. They are no fiction, but
comprise remarkable historical and domestic facts illustrative of human nature.
The name of the well-known author is a sufficient guaranty to the public for the
fidelity and good taste with which the work has been executed. The style of
printing is unexceptionable, and calculated for old or young eyes.

Price 25 cents only; 5 copies by mail for $1. The usual discount to the trade.

Address,

J. WINCHESTER, 30 Annstreet.