The intellectual endowments of Lorenzo Dow were far from contemptible. He had great natural shrewdness, great firmness, and invincible energy and perseverance. His advantages of early education were small, and he seems never to have attained the power of treating a subject methodically, or of pursuing a course of consecutive reasoning. Still there are many valuable observations for the conduct of life in his writings, and a vein of homely good sense and sound morality pervades them all. He considered the press next to the pulpit for usefulness and therefore, as he says, he “collected the quintessence” of his writings for the benefit of posterity. MAGNIFICENT WORK OF HISTORY. _A Whole Library in Itself!_ Cost $11,000—1207 Pages—70 Maps—700 Engravings. A HISTORY OF ALL NATIONS, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE PRESENT TIME; OR, UNIVERSAL HISTORY; IN WHICH THE HISTORY OF EVERY NATION, ANCIENT AND MODERN, IS SEPARATELY GIVEN. BY S. G. GOODRICH, _Consul to Paris, and Author of several Works of History, Parley’s Tales, etc._ It contains 1207 pages, royal octavo, and is illustrated by 70 Maps and 700 Engravings bound in imitation Turkey morocco. Invariable retail price, $6,00 in one volume; $8,00 in two volumes. The same, full gilt edge and sides, $8,00 in one volume; $10,00 in two vols. ⁂ It is believed that the above work, by Mr. Goodrich, will be very acceptable to the American public. It is the result of years of toil and labor, assisted in his researches by several scholars of known ability, and has been gotten up at a great expense by the proprietors. No pains have been spared in the execution of the Illustrations and Maps, which are entirely new, and prepared by the distinguished author _expressly_ for the work. Indeed, all the other historical writings of Mr. Goodrich sink into insignificance, when compared with this, the result of his riper and maturer years. It is admitted that _One Hundred Dollars_ could not purchase the same matter in any other shape; and the publishers confidently expect that, in consideration of the great literary value of the work, the large sum expended in preparing it for the press, and the exceedingly moderate price at which it is offered, that it will be favorably received by every lover of good books. THRILLING ADVENTURES BY LAND AND SEA; BEING Remarkable Facts from Authentic Sources. EDITED BY J. O. BRAYMAN.