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THE IsDrcAToa: 4 Miscellany OF Self improvement, no
8: December l:42. New-York. James u. LocAWooa'


Johp-street.


We are exceedingly pleased with the purpose OF
this new work, and highly grati6ed with the man
aer in which it is wrought out. The direction OF
the minds of the young, who are endeavorlng to
make men Of themselves, is its aim; and it seems
to be effected with a good degree of skill and
effect. The selections are all judicious and all its
articles are well adapted toits direct object The
motto it has chosen well indicates the general
character of the magazine:


sOf all the discoveries which men need TO
make the most i'm portant the present moment,
is that of the self-forming power treasured up IN
themselves They little suspect its extent, as
little as the savage apprehcnds the energy whch
the mind is created to exert on the material world
Il ,ranscends in importance all our power over cut
ward nature There is more of divinity in il, tnan
in the force which impels the outward universe;
and vet how little comprehend it! How 1t
slunbers in most men unsusPected. unused his
makes selfcuture possible, and binds 1t on US as
solemn duty"


The price is only one dollar and half year,
very many of those for whose benefit it is intended.


RoB1ssos CRusoE FOR THE YoUSG.-We have
received (frem whom we know not,) a very neat
edition of Robinson Crusoe prepared for the Young
with numerous and beautiful illustrations. We
commend it to the attention of parents, as con-
venient and good edition of one ct the best works
ever written, and calculated most beneficiallv to
influence the minds OF the young.





"THE MAGsI7" for December has been pub
lished, and contaias variety of articles, state
ments of wonderful Experiments, discussions of
Phrenology, Magnetism, Sc, and such other mat
ter as is connected directly with the object Of the
Magazine.