Text: N. P. Willis (?), Notices of Common and Scriptural Proverbs, etc., Weekly Mirror (New York), January 18, 1845, vol. 1, no. 15, p. 238, col. 3

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SCENES IN MY NATIVE LAND. By Mrs. Sigourney Boston: James Munroe & Co.

This is a sort of a Guide Book to various aural spots in our country, with the addition of appropriate poetry, in the author's own vein of gentle piety. Much information respecting persons things of interest is given en passant; and out cordially recommend this book as a present young people or old ones.

COMMON AND SCRIPTURAL PROVERBS EXPLAINED. Boston: James Munroe & Co.

We hardly know to what class of readers we commend this book. Amplification is the him vice of the day; and we think pithy proverbs stand better on their own merits than upon any body's explanation or enforcement. An old book called “Sancho, or the Proverbialist,” used to be favorite with us. That was designed, if we remember aright, to show how easily proverbs might mis-applied.