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SPLENDID ILLUSTRATED EDITION

COOPER'S

OF

NOVELS,

ISSUED IN A STYLE OF UNSURPASSED ELEGANCE,

AND

BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED WITH FIVE HUNDRED ORIGINAL DRAWINGS

BY F.

C. DARLEY,

EXECUTED ON STEEL AND WOOD, IN THE COSTLIEST STYLE, BY THE MOST EMINENT ENGRAVERS IN THE COUNTRY.

Published by Subscription. A Volume issued monthly, containing a Novel complete. Price, $1 50.

The Publishers will commence February 1, 1859, the publication of an entirely new edition of the Novels of J. FENIMORE COOPER, issued with great elegance, and illustrated on steel and wood from drawings by F. O. C. DARLEY. The size will be Crown Octavo; the type clear and elegant; it will be printed on a beautiful cream-tinted and calendered paper, of superior stock and finish, manufactured expressly for this edition; and bound in embossed cloth, with beveled edges, and stamped in gilt upon the side and back, from new and appropriate designs.

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The entire series will be completed in thirty-two volumes, uniform, containing the author's latest revisions and corrections, embracing:

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It is promised that this edition of Cooper's Novels shall excel in elegance, artistic beauty, and mechanical perfection, any publication heretofore issued in this country. The publishers have labored assiduously to render it in every department worthy of the reputation of the author, and acceptable to the American public.

AGENTS WANTED IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION.

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scientific bodies of the Belgian capital are held. At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 27th September, the Congress is to be formally opened. As the hour approaches, an unusual stir may be observed in the spacious cul-de-sac that conducts you from the Place Royale to the Museum. Men come dropping down in ones, and twos, and threes; gradually the numbers and the bustle increase; small knots form in earnest conversation; others hurry forward, full of eagerness and curiosity. Many solitary individuals, who are evidently strangers, mix inquiringly with the crowd, to collect a little preliminary information, or, engrossed by their own thoughts, press onward towards the rendezvous. Striking diversities of physiognomy may be noted-harsh lineaments, and finelychiselled outlines; the olive complexion, and the clear red and white; the dagger-beard, and the beard of billowy flow; the naked chin, and the dainty tuft; the pale hair, and the raven-black, which often more emphatically mark the races to which they belong than even the form or expression of the features. There are some varieties of costuine also to be taken into the picture--an odd tunic here and there; a cloak, not of the last Parisian fashion; and a rather fanciful collection of worked and colored waistcoats and neckties. But the varieties were by no means so remarkable as might have been expected. Railroads have helped materially to produce a dead level in dress, as in some more im portant things. The unsightly round hat was universal; and looking at the assembly as a whole, there was nothing to distinguish it in externals from a public meeting of the best class of people in London. You soon perceived, as you had closer opportunities of examination, that it was not an ordinary gathering. It was pervaded by an unmistakable tone of intelligence. The faces that met you on all sides were thoughtful, and for the most part intellectual. Here were, at least, the elements of power, whatever was to become of the project upon which this parliament of authors and artists was about to deliberate.

We ascend the stairs-the same that conduct you to the picture-galleries. Crossing the vestibule, from which the bureaus of the Museum branch off, we find ourselves in a little ante-chamber at the opposite side, where the members are to receive their tickets and sign their names. Glancing round, we see large cards on different doors, announcing "Section I," "Section II," etc. These are the rooms where the five sections, into which the Cominittee of Organization have divided the assembly, assigning special duties to each, are to meet by-and-by, for the purpose of considering the questions that exclusively affect them, the result of which they are finally to report to the general body. Having executed the necessary preliminaries, the members are shown into the salle. At the upper end is a dais, covered with rows of chairs, and a table for the President and Committee in the centre. The large room rapidly fills. There are between three and four hundred persons present. Eleven o'clock strikes. A general buzz of expectation runs through the assembly. Presently a door opens, and several gentlemen, freighted with bundles of papers, which indicate the labors in which they have been engaged, appear, and quickly ascend the dais. One amongst then, distinguished from the rest by his height, advances to the President's chair. Tall, dignified, and courteous, with a character of physiognomy in which great kindness, patience, and firmness are blended, M. Charles Faider, formerly Minister of Justice, is admirably adapted by his legal habits, and his experience of public assemblies, no less than by

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