MONTHLY LIST OF SELECT PUBLICATIONS, &c. AND TO BE PROCURED AT Mr. Ostell's Library, near St. Andrew's Church, Calcutta. Intending purchasers, to prevent disappointment, are requested always to make out their order from the latest List procurable. I.-ENGLISH. Elementary-Spelling, Reading, &c. English Alphabet, very large, on thick mill-board, per copy, Ditto ditto, No. II. per copy 2 as. or per 100, Ditte ditto, No. III. ... List of large Tables, &c. for a School for Boys and Girls on Manual of British System, Reading Lessons, (3 sets,) Spelling and Murray's Spelling Book, Indianized, Poetical Reader, No. I. Ditto ditto, No. III. ... ... ... ... ... ... First Grammar for Natives, (Woollaston's,) Chamier's Arithmetic, ... .b. ... [In the press, and will be soon published, Elements of Arithmetic, which instead of being a mere collection of Rules and Examples, is a series of Principles, with their proofs and applications.] Jones's Book of Nature, English School Dictionary, (Pronouncing and Explanatory,) 2 Family Conversations on the Evidences of Christianity, [An excellent work for schools, published by the American Sunday School Union, and now reprinted at Calcutta. 100 rupees, from a benevolent Friend, have been employed to reduce the price of this work.] Hill's (Dr.) Summary of Christian Truths, Help to the Gospels, ... Scripture Lessons, by order of Emperor Alexander 1. Johnson's Pocket Dictionary, diamond boards, or pocket bound, 1 SCIENTIFIC AND LITERARY-GEOGRAPHY, ASTRONOMY, &c. First Geography (Clift's) for Natives, (Note. A 2nd Elementary Geography in the Press.) Third Geography (Nicholls') for Natives, ... A new Atlas and separate Maps of Hindusthan and the World 0029 12 6 0 2 0 0 201 Natural Philosophy, with numerous wood-cuts, 5 6 Loring's Twelve-Inch Terrestrial Globe, representing the accurate position of the principal known places of the Earth, from the discoveries by Captain Cook, and subsequent circumnavigators, down to the present period, neat mahogany frames, Loring's new Twelve Inch Celestial Globe, containing all the known fixed Stars, Nebula, Planetary Nebulæ, &c. according to the latest Discoveries and Observations of Dr. Maskelyne, De Harashall and atha 100 0 0 Carey's Bible, Macknight's Harmony of the Gospels, compiled from Dr. Carey, 2 2.-URIYA. Outlines of Geography and History, (Bhugol Británt,) Fables, (Níti-katha,) Pleasing Tales, Historical Anecdotes, (Upadesh-kathá,) 400 200 0 10 0 3 0 0 per doz. 0 per copy, 0 3 1 ... 0 ... 7 8 0 3 0 3 0 6 0 3 0 Defence of Female Education, (Strí Sikhya Bidhayak,) bds. New Testament, Bowley's Translation, (Deb Nágarí character,) 6 4.-HINDUSTHA'NI'. Primer, English character, with a Frontispiece by Sir Charles Macknight's Harmony of the Gospels, compiled from Martyn, New Testament, (Martyn's,) 2 8 0 0 LIBRARY AND REWARD BOOKS FOR ENGLISH SCHOOLS. Anecdotes.-Christian Conduct, silk, Ditto Graces, cl. 14 as.; bd. 1-4; silk, Mavor's Catechisms, (complete,) Young Cottager, Conversations W of a Father with his children, 2 vols. with plates, William's Preceptor's Assistant, or School Examiner, Life of Captain Cook, History of Prince Lee Boo, Nursery Morals, Beauties of History, or Pictures of Virtue and Vice, Mitchell's Portable Cyclopædia, Milton's Paradise Lost, Abbott's Young Christian, neatly bound in cloth, ... ... ... 3 0 0 8 0 1 8 0 Abbott's Young Christian, having secured the approbation of all clases of Chris. tians in England and the United States, has presented itself as a most steligible work for republication in India; a new edition is now ready, sold at a very w price. Youth, will also soon be published. The Memoirs of the Rev. T. THOMASON, late of Calcutta, abridge for the use of IV. SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, PRINTING MATERIALS, &c. Dollond's day or night Achromatic Telescopes, wood bodies with spray shades, 2 feet Achromatic Telescopes, large apertures, wood bodies, 1 foot ditto, with leather sling cases, Troughton's Mountain Barometers, with Gimballs, &c. Ditto Chamber Barometers, Ditto Thermometers, from 3 Rs. to An Air Pump, by Harris of London, with 80 0 0 60 0 0 0 0 2 long glass receivers, open at both ends; 2 shorter receivers, closed at the top; 2 small ones to cover with the palm of the hand, and a pair of brass hemispherical cups, (The Air Pump exhausts very accurately.) Types of all sizes complete-Roman Characters, with and with out Diacritical Marks for the expression of the Indian languages-as also all the Native Characters of India:— averaging at 250 pounds per fount, at from 1 to 3 Rupees per pound, according to the size. One copy or more of each of the following articles will be supplied without charge to the conductor of any school who may express his wish to avail himself of them for the use of his pupils. A Collection of Moral Precepts and Reflections, gathered from various sources, in English and Hindustání, 2 vols. in 1, cloth. Inch Globes, solid, Persian character. Ditto ditto in Hindustání only, miniature, gold edges, in cases. Inch Skeleton Globes, in lithographed sections, in do. Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto English. A Sketch of the Solar System, on canvas, in English. The whole of the above will be found useful as prizes for deserving pupils. LATELY PUBLISHED. The Application of the Roman Alphabet to all the Oriental Languages; contained in a series of papers written by Messrs. Trevelyan, J. Prinsep and Tytler, Rev. A. Duff, and Mr. H. T. Prinsep, and published in various Calcutta Periodicals in the year 1834, Claims of the Bible, or the Importance of the Sacred Scriptures in the Education of Youth, The foregoing list in many respects is defective. But the fault rests not with those who publish it. They cannot suddenly call new works into existence; nor recom. mend useful works, not now procurable in Calcutta. But two things they will continue to do:-1st, to spare no effort in ascertaining whether other or better books are to be found—and 2nd, if not to be found, to resort to measures which may tend to supply the deficiencies. Any information with regard to globes, atlases, philosophical instruments, presses, or any other means of promoting the extension of knowledge, which may be for sale, will be very acceptable for publication in the monthly list. As the commission allowed the book-seller by various parties is too small to allow clutely necessary that a Húndi or reference for navment in Calcutta of credit, it is absolutely necess should be forwarded. In no cases will the purchaser be expected to pay more than the sum now mentioned, except the expence of packing and carriage, in whatever way the party may direct. Copies of the School-Publication List, as also of the Synopsis on the mode of applying the Roman letters to various Asiatic languages, and of an Address to the Natives on the same subject, will be supplied gratis on application to Mr. OSTELL. AGENCY IN THE MOFASSIL. As it has been found by experience that the length of time which must elapse before a supply of books can be obtained from Calcutta, and the expense and inconvenience of sending for single books or such small numbers of them as may be wanted at any particular time, act as great drawbacks to the extensive circulation of useful publications, it has been resolved to open Depositories for the sale of books at various Mufassil stations, under the charge of well qualified and zealous Agents. We believe that twenty people will apply to them for books for one who would apply to Calcutta,and we trust that the proximity of the supply will of itself lead to an increased demand; and that the notoriety of a store having been opened at the Sadar station of any particular district for all sorts of Calcutta books will excite curiosity and lead to numerous applications. 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In order to cover the expence of carriage, of the difference of exchange between the Sicca and Sanat Rupee, of the advance which is required to be made on the price of many of the books, and of the commission of the Mufassil and Calcutta Agents, (or the assistants whom they employ,) it will be necessary (with the exception of Gawahatti, where a noble-minded friend has requested that the books may be delivered at Prime Cost, himself bearing all extra charges) to add one-fourth to the price of the books sold in the Mufassil over and above what the same books are sold for in Calcutta. Of course all who prefer it may still be supplied at the prices in this Catalogue as before, on application to Mr. OSTELL, of Calcutta. In addition to the above, Mr. WOOLLASTON of Calcutta, and Mr. BETTS of Chinsurah, having kindly offered their services as Agents, many of the above publications may be procured of them. As the services of these gentlemen will be gratuitous, and the extra expences attaching to other stations not incurred at these, the books will be procurable at the same price as at Mr. OSTELL's. March, 1, 1835. C. E. TREVElyan, W. H. PEARCE. boundary-stone betweeen its province and that of Christian Theology makes it necessary to mark their respective departments very accurately. This has already been done by the Great Bacon. He says, "We must not presume, by the contemplation of nature, to attain to the mysteries of God." "If any man shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain that light, whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy.—And hence it is true, that it hath proceeded, that divers great and learned men have been heretical, whilst they have sought to fly up to the secrets of the Deity by the waxen wings of the senses." "Let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience both in divinity and philosophy. Only let them beware, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together." In the introduction to his "Novum Organon," Bacon offers the following prayert: "This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are divine, neither that, from the unlocking of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, any thing of incredulity or intellectual night may arise in our minds toward divine mysteries. But rather, that by our mind thoroughly cleansed and purged from fancy and vanities, and yet subject and perfectly given up to the divine oracles, there may be given unto faith, the things that are faith's." Beautifully and affectingly is the relation between natural science and the Christian Revelation brought to our view, in a prayer with which the great Keppler concludes one of his astronomical works: "It remains only," he says, "that I should now lift up to heaven my eyes and hands from the table of my pursuits, and humbly and devoutly supplicate the Father of lights. O Thou, who by the light of nature dost enkindle in us a desire after the light of grace, that by this thou mayest translate us into the light of glory, I give thee thanks, O Lord and Creator, that thou hast gladdened me by thy creation, when I was enraptured by the works of thy hands. Behold! I have here completed a work of my calling, with as much of intellectual strength as thou hast granted me. I have declared the praise of thy works to the men, who will read the evidences of it, so far as my finite spirit could comprehend them in their infinity. My mind endeavoured its utmost to reach the truth by philosophy; but if any thing unworthy of thee has been taught by me-a worm born and nourished in sin-do thou teach me, that I may correct it. Have I been seduced into presumption by the admirable beauty of thy works, or have I sought my own glory among men, in the construction of a work designed for thine honour? O then, graciously and mercifully forgive me, and finally grant me this favour, that this work may never be injurious, but may conduce to thy glory, and the good of souls." Who now can imagine, that this was a sort of bigotted and forced humility, in these great and commanding spirits, or a blind submission to the sacred oracles? It is truly a genuine humility which belongs to every thorough and honest student of nature, and which his knowledge, so far from destroying, rather increases. The celebrated English philosopher, Robert Boyle, expresses himself somewhere to the following effect: "What inclines the experimental philosopher to embrace Christianity is this, that being constantly employed in endeavouring to give clear and satisfactory explanations of natural phenomena, and finding how impossi ble it is to do so, this constant experience produces in his mind a great and unfeigned modesty. In the exercise of this virtue, he is not only inclined to desire and receive more particular information respecting things which appear to him dark and concealed, but he is also disinclined to make * Advancement of Learning, vol. ii. pp. 11, 12, Montagu's Ed. + Bacon's Works, vol. vii. p. 8, Montagu's Ed. R |
