MISS MARTINEAU'S NEW WORK. Now ready, Second Edition, in three volumes, post octavo, SOCIETY IN AMERICA. BY HARRIET MARTINEAU, Author of Illustrations of Political Economy." "This book will sustain the great reputation of Miss Martineau, both as a sound scientific observer on questions of moral and political philosophy, and as a writer of first-rate descriptive powers."-Examiner. "For many a year no work of deeper public interest, or more adapted and worthy to exercise extensive influence over modes of political thought, has issued from the British press. It should be studied by every legislator, nor is there any class of the community that may not derive from it suggestions of essential utility."-True Sun. "It is the best, the truest, the fullest, and most philosophical work that has yet appeared on the social condition of the United States."-Spectator. "It is full of instruction, it exhibits great acuteness, and we cannot read many pages without feeling a respect for the author. Her book must do good, and we cordially recommend it to all our readers.”—Atlas. "It is the most amusing and most reflecting work that has hitherto been published by any English traveller on America."-Court Magazine. "No one who wishes to form a correct and enlarged view of the character, institutions, resources, and prospects of America, should fail to peruse Miss Martineau's volumes."-Eclectic Review. PREFACE. WHEN I finished my late work on Society in America, I had not the most remote idea of writing any thing more on the subject of the New World. I have since been strongly solicited to communicate more of my personal narrative, and of the lighter characteristics of men, and incidents of travel, than it suited my purpose to give in the other work. It has also been represented to me that, as my published book concerns the Americans at least as much as the English, there is room for another which shall supply to the English what the Americans do not want, a picture of the aspect of the country, and of its men and manners. There seems no reason why such a picture should not be appended to an inquiry into the theory and practice of their |