Bruce’s Travels, as originally published, occupy five quarto volumes, mixed up with Abyssinian history, and speculations on Egyptian mythology. The author has contrived to compress into this little volume the best parts of Bruce’s Life and voluminous and expensive Travels, without omitting one incident of importance and interest. He has vindicated the character of Bruce, by confronting the statements of his accusers with the testimony of later travellers. The narrative had been allowed universally to possess the interest of a romance, from the graphic style in which he has described his adventures and sufferings, and the strange people and countries which he visited: but Major Head has secured for Bruce the credit of a trustworthy authority, in addition to the reputation of an entertaining narrator. THE COURT AND CAMP OF BUONAPARTE. _With a full-length portrait of Prince Talleyrand, and other Portraits._ This volume is a suitable and indispensable companion to the Life of Napoleon. It contains the cream “of many hundred volumes,” in the shape of Memoirs, Lives, Narratives, Anecdotes, &c., connected with Buonaparte, with which the press of France has for fifteen years been teeming. It presents rapid, but vigorous sketches of the Emperor’s Brothers, Wives, Sisters, Ministers, Marshals, and Generals; and those who wish for competent knowledge of “_Napoleon and his Times_,” will find no work in the English language which conveys such information in a more concise shape or a more lively manner. THE LIFE AND VOYAGES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. By WASHINGTON IRVING. _Abridged by him from his larger Work. With Portraits, Maps, &c._ This little work has become a universal school-book in America. It contains all that is most important in the original, in a form more condensed, and more within the reach of the general reader; while the story is told with the same spirit and grace as in the great work. As a book of entertainment, it will bear comparison with any biographical sketch of the age. LIVES OF EMINENT BRITISH PHYSICIANS. _With fine Portraits and Woodcuts._ The Lives of Physicians furnish a theme by no means deficient in interest and value. From them have proceeded some of the greatest benefactors of the human race; their history abounds in instances of individuals, who, obscure and small, have, by the vigour of their understanding and their perseverance, raised themselves among the great of the land. The memoirs of Cullen, Hunter, and Baillie, afford striking examples of talent and perseverance triumphing in the midst of difficulties. Of the topics discussed in the course of this volume, the most prominent are--_The Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood_, by Harvey. _The Sweating Sickness in the time of Edward III._ _A Sketch of the Great Plague of London, in 1664-5._ _Jenner’s invaluable Discovery of Vaccination._ To this edition the names of Clutterbuck, Paris, Merriman, Chambers, and Halford, have been added.