_AN ENTERTAINING BIOGRAPHY._ * * * * * JUST PUBLISHED. THE LIFE TRAVELS AND BOOKS OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. * * * * * WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BAYARD TAYLOR. * * * * * _One handsome 12mo. volume., uniform with “The Letters of Von Humboldt,” elegantly bound in muslin, with an original steel portrait. Price, $1.25._ Containing a full account of his Life from birth to death; a picturesque summary of his Travels and Adventures in the New World and Asia; biographical sketches of his relatives and literary associates; a complete résumé of his various works, with extracts from his most important ones; a lucid statement of his achievements in all departments of science, &c. * * * * * “The Life Travels and Books of Alexander von Humboldt has already gone into a _fifth_ edition. * * * It is entertaining as a romance, and contains the cream of Humboldt’s books. * * * The plan of the work is excellent. The biography is combined with the wanderings of the old _savant_, and the essence of numerous volumes is here artistically condensed into one. A more readable and instructive book has not been lately issued.”—_Philadelphia Daily Press._ * * * * * ⁂ _Sold by all booksellers, and it will be sent by mail, postage free, on receipt of the price, $1.25, by_ RUDD & CARLETON, Publishers, _No. 130 Grand Street, New York_. [Illustration: Alexander von Humboldt] LETTERS OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN VON ENSE. _From 1827 to 1858._ WITH Extracts from Varnhagen’s Diaries, and Letters of Varnhagen and others to Humboldt. Translated from the Second German Edition, BY FRIEDRICH KAPP. [Illustration] NEW YORK: RUDD & CARLETON, 130 GRAND STREET, LEIPZIG: F. A. BROCKHAUS. M DCCC LX. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by RUDD & CARLETON, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. R. CRAIGHEAD, Printer, Stereotyper, and Electrotyper, Carlton Building, _81, 83, and 85 Centre Street_.