Other pages of the volume embrace discoveries in Science; Geographical Explorations; Mechanical Inventions and Improvements, with illustrations; Commercial and Financial movements during the year; the Progress of Literature, and Biographical Sketches of the distinguished men who died. The contents are arranged in an alphabetical order, and accompanied by a most extensive and complete Index. The volume is in the style of the New American Cyclopædia, having not less than 780 pages, royal octavo. The work is published exclusively by subscription, and, in exterior appearance, is at once elegant and substantial. PRICES AND STYLES OF BINDING. In Cloth, $3, } In Library Style, leather, $3.50, } Payable on Delivery. In Half Morocco, plain, $4, } In Half Russia, extra, $4.50, } And to insure a uniform price and regularity in the delivery of the volume to subscribers in all parts of the country, local agents are appointed in all the cities and principal towns in the States and Territories. Orders may be addressed to us, or to any of our agents, for the above, or any of our Subscription Works, and will meet prompt attention. D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 443 &445 Broadway, New York. * * * * * ARTHUR'S HOME MAGAZINE FOR 1863! VOLUMES XXI. and XXII. Edited by T. S. ARTHUR and VIRGINIA F. TOWNSEND. Devoted to Social Literature, Arts, Morals, Health, and Domestic Happiness. The aim of this work from the beginning, has been to unite in one periodical the attractions and excellencies of two classes of magazines--The Ladies', or Fashion Magazines, as they are called, and the literary monthlies; and so to blend the useful with the entertaining, as to please and benefit all classes of readers. The true "Home Magazine" must have its TOILETTE and WORK-TABLE DEPARTMENT; its MOTHER'S DEPARTMENT; its HEALTH, CHILDREN'S, and HOUSEKEEPER'S DEPARTMENTS; as well as its strictly LITERARY DEPARTMENT. All these are united in our magazine, and in each department excellence is sought. Nothing is admitted in any way hurtful to morality, honor, or religion. Probably of no periodical in the country has the press everywhere spoken with unqualified approval. From thousands of similar notices we give the following: It is a Home Magazine in every sense of the word, healthy, fresh, and sweet--beautiful as the meadows of June. It is a welcome necessity in our home.--_Journal, Delhi, Iowa._ Its cheapness makes it accessible to all families, while its literary merits are inferior to none of the more expensive magazines.--_Cataract, Cohoes, N.Y._ Arthur has done as much as any man of his age to diffuse good morals and religious principles among the young, and his magazine comes forth from month to month like a sower to sow, and scatters the good seed everywhere.--_Philadelphia Inquirer._