Dr. Blake's publications are all of a high order, and are doing a most important work towards refining the taste, improving the intellect, and rendering attractive the various branches of Agricultural science. Indeed we know no author who has so successfully blended the romantic, the rural and beautiful with the poetical, the useful, and true, as has Dr. Blake. This is a peculiar feature of all his works. His style is plain, simple, and perspicuous; and, with unusual tact and judgment, he so manages to insinuate himself upon you, that you are at once amused, delighted, and instructed with the subject he is discussing. In this respect he relieves the study of agricultural science from the abstruseness of technical science, and thus renders himself easily comprehended by all classes of readers. * * * * * From the New-York Evening Post. The author's object is to improve the soil through the mind--not so much to place in the hands of farmers the best methods of raising large crops--for these he refers them to Leibig's Agricultural Chemistry, and to treatises of the like description--but to make them feel how useful, agreeable, and ennobling, is the profession of agriculture, and, above all, how profitable the business must become when skilfully and economically carried on. These money-making considerations are, we suspect, the best moral guano that can be applied to the farmer's spiritual soil. The author writes well of the countryman's independence, the good effect of fresh salubrious air upon his health, and the moral influence of his every-day intimacy with nature upon his mind. "The Farm and the Fireside" is a kind of Bucolical annual--to be read in seasons of leisure--intended for the Phyllises and Chloes, as well as for the Strephons and Lindors. Dr. Blake has enriched it with curious anecdotes of domestic animals, and of the best way of raising and selling them. He describes model-farms, and the large incomes made from them. He expatiates on the advantages of matrimony in rural life, expounds the true theory of choosing a helpmate, discusses the advantages of Sunday-Schools, and recommends neatness of attire and punctuality in bathing. In short, this volume is as diversified in its aspect as the small garden of a judicious cultivator, where, in a limited space, useful cabbages, potatoes, and all the solid esculent greens, grow side by side with choice fruits and pleasant flowers. IMMENSE SALE! * * * * * LEWIE; OR, THE BENDED TWIG! BY COUSIN CICELY Author of "SILVER LAKE STORIES." * * * * * EIGHTH THOUSAND NOW PRINTING! * * * * * NO BOOK sells like it--None so well supplies the demand! Superbly Printed and Beautifully Bound. Price from $1.00 to $1.75, according to style.