=ACROSS THE ATLANTIC.= By the Author of "Sketches of Cantabs." "A smart volume, full of clever observations about America and the Americans, and the contrasts of trans-Atlantic and cis-Atlantic life."--_John Bull._ "It is sensible as well as witty, accurate as well as facetious, and deserves to be popular."--_Morning Post._ London: EARLE, 67. Castle Street, Oxford Street. =THE GENERAL LAND DRAINAGE AND IMPROVEMENT COMPANY.= Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 12 and 13 Vict. c. 91. DIRECTORS. HENRY KER SEVMER, Esq., M.P., Hanford, Dorset, Chairman. JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Esq., Maresfield Park, Sussex, Deputy-Chairman. John Chevallier Cobbold, Esq., M.P., Ipswich. William Cubitt, Esq., Great George Street, Westminster. Henry Currie, Esq., M.P., West Horsley, Surrey. Thomas Edward Dicey, Esq., Claybrook Hall, Lutterworth. William Fisher Hobbs, Esq., Boxted Lodge, Colchester. Edward John Hutchins, Esq., M.P., Eaton Square, London. Samuel Morton Peto, Esq., M.P., Great George Street. Colonel George Alexander Reid, M.P., Bulstrode Park, Bucks. William Tite, Esq., F.R.S., Lowndes Square, London. William Wilshere, Esq., The Frythe, Welwyn, Herts. This Company is empowered to execute-- 1. All works of Drainage (including Outfalls through adjoining Estates), Irrigation, Reclaiming, Enclosing, and otherwise improving Land. 2. To erect Farm Homesteads, and other Buildings necessary for the cultivation of Land. 3. To execute Improvements, under Contract, with Commissioners of Sewers, Local Boards of Health, Corporations, Trustees, and other Public Bodies. 4. To purchase Lands capable of Improvement, and fettered by Restrictions of Entail; and having executed the necessary Works, to resell them with a Title communicated by the Company's Act. Owners of Entailed Estates, Trustees, Mortgagees, Corporations, Incumbents, Life Tenants, and other Persons having only limited interests, may obtain the use of the Company's Powers to carry out every kind of permanent Improvement, either by the Application of their own or the Company's Funds, secured by a yearly Charge on the Property Improved. Proposals for the Execution of Works to be addressed to WILLIAM CLIFFORD, Secretary. Offices, 52. Parliament Street, Westminster. Price 2_s._ 6_d._; by Post 3_s._ =ILLUSTRATIONS AND ENQUIRIES RELATING TO MESMERISM.= Part I. By the REV. S. R. MAITLAND, DD. F.R.S. F.S.A. Sometime Librarian to the late Archbishop of Canterbury, and Keeper of the MSS. at Lambeth. "One of the most valuable and interesting pamphlets we ever read."--_Morning Herald._ "This publication, which promises to be the commencement of a larger work, will well repay serious perusal."--_Ir. Eccl. Journ._ "A small pamphlet in which he throws a startling light on the practices of modern Mesmerism."--_Nottingham Journal._