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1321. The Life of the late Gen. William Eaton, 8vo. Presented by Henry White.

1706. Lives of the Novelists, by Sir Walter Scott, 2 vols. 12mo.

1143. Life and writings of William Robertson, late Principal of the University of Edinburgh, 8vo. Presented by E. Duyckinck.

1135. Memoirs of the Life and Campaigns of the Hon. Nathaniel Greene, major general in the army of the United States, by Charles Caldwell, 8vo. 1263. Biography of the principal American Military and Naval Heroes, comprehending details of their achievements during the revolutionary and late wars, interspersed with authentic anecdotes not found in any other work, and embellished with portraits, by Thomas Wilson, of Philadelphia, 12mo.

1269. The Life and character of Stephen Decatur, late commodore in the U. S. navy, by I. Putnam Waldo, 12mo.

1278. The Life of O. H. Perry, by John M. Niles, 12mo. Presented by C. J. Hubbs.

1512. Memoirs of the Rev. Henry Martyn, by John Sargent, jr. 12mo.

1970. Do. 12mo. Presented by John Sayre. 1285. Ramsay's Life of Washington, 12mo. Presented by Wm. Watkinson.

619. The Life of George Washington, by John Marshall, 5 vols. 8vo. Presented by R. L. Lord. 625. Do. do. 5 vols. 8vo. with an atlas. 655. The Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, prime minister to Henry the Great, with additional notes and letters, and a brief Historical Introduction, 5 vols. 8vo.

1473. Life of Martin Luther, translated from the German, by John Kotz, 12mo.

1122.

Memoirs of Sir Joshua Reynolds, late President of the Royal Academy, comprising original anecdotes of many distinguished persons, his contemporaries, and a brief analysis of his discourses. To which are added varieties on art, by James Northcote, Esq. R. A. 8vo.

1502. Manuscript transmitted from St. Helena by an unknown channel, 8vo. Presented by F. Olmstead. 1503. Napoleon in Exile, or a Voice from St. Helena, by B. E. O'Meara, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo.

1505. Memoirs of the Military and Political life of Napoleon Bonaparte, from his birth to his death at St. Helena, by B. E. O'Meara, 8vo.

1511. Ramsay's Life of Washington, embellished with engravings.

1500. Las Casas' Journal of the private life and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena, 2 vols. 8vo.

1523. Memoirs of the private and public life of Wm. Penn, by T. Clarkson, M. A. 2 vols. 8vo. Presented by Oliver Hull.

1525.

1239.

2093.

1497.

Life and character of the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, president of the college of New-Jersey, with sermons on various subjects, 8vo. Presented by Burr Wakeman.

Memoirs and anecdotes of Philip Thicknesse, 8vo. Presented by Henry White.

The life of James Otis, of Massachusetts, containing also notices of some contemporary characters and events from the year 1760 to 1775, by Wm. Tudor, 8vo

Life of Gen. Putnam, by S. Swett, 12mo. 281. Viri Romæ, by James Hardie, 18mo. Presented by Lucius Bull.

723. Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence, (to which is prefixed a View of the British Colonies of N. A. from their origin to their independence) with a por

trait and fac simile of the signature of each, by John Sanderson, 5 vols. octavo, (to be continued.) 982. Lempriere's Universal Biography, containing an account, critical and historical, of the lives and characters of eminent persons in all ages and countries, 2 vols. 8vo.

54.

Memoirs of the life of David Rittenhouse, late president of the American Philosophical Society, interspersed with various notices of many distinguished men, by Wm. Barton, M. A. 8vo. 709. The Life of Cardinal Wolsey, by George Cavendish, his gentleman usher, and Metrical Visions, from the original Autograph Manuscript, with notes, and other illustrations, by Samuel Weller Singer. Lond. 2 vols. 8vo.

703.

704.

960.

969.

688.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth, by Lucy Aikin, 8vo.

Memoirs of the private life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, with recollections, sketches, and anecdotes illustrative of the reigns of Lewis 14th, 15th, and 16th, by Madame Campan, 8vo. Recollections of the life of Lord Byron, from the year 1808 to the end of 1814, by R. C. Dallas, 8vo.

Recollections of Curran and some of his contemporaries, by Charles Phillips, 8vo.

The life of Mary, Queen of Scots, drawn from the state papers, with six subsidiary memoirs by George Chalmers, F. R. S. 2 vols. 8vo.

687. Biographical Sketches of eminent lawyers, statesmen, and men of letters, by Samuel L. Knapp, 8vo.

694. Memoirs of the life of Josiah Quincy, jr." of Mass. by his son Josiah Quincy, 8vo.

692.

Life of the Marquis de La Fayette, by Robert Waln,

Jr.

8vo.

973. Life of Charles Brockden Brown, with selections from the rarest of his works, from his ori

976.

ginal letters, and from his manuscripts before unpublished, by Wm. Dunlap, 2 vols. 8vo. Presented by Mrs. R. Keese.

Memoirs of Goethe, written by himself, (containing "the Poetry as well as the Prose of his life," 8vo.

978. Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis, written by herself, 8vo.

981. Life of the Rev. Samuel I. Mills, by the Rev. Gardiner Spring, 8vo. Presented by F. Olmsstead.

1050. Public Characters, or Cotemporary Biography. (1803) 8vo. Presented by Wm. Watkinson. 1061. Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer, by James Hardie, 4 vols. 8vo. Presented by Henry White.

1115. Do. do. do. 4 vols. 8vo. Presented by Stephen S. Steele.

1078. The Life of Wesley, and the rise and progress of Methodism, by Robert Southey, 2 vols. in 1.

8vo.

1079. Life of Wellington, by Francis L. Clarke, and William Dunlap, 8vo. Presented by J. Green

Pearson.

1256. The Life of Robert Fulton, by his friend Cadwallader D. Colden, 8vo.

1083. Memoirs of the Marchioness de la Roche Jaquelein, with a map of the theatre of war in La Vendee, 8vo. Presented by I. Oothout.

1086. Female Biography, by Mary Hays, 3 vols. 8vo. Presented by Allen Robbins.

1089.

Abelard and Heloisa, comprising a history of their lives from 1079 to 1163, with their genuine letters from the collection of Amboise, and an elegant frontispiece, by the Rev. Jos. Berrington, 8vo.

1090. Hunter's Sacred Biography, 4 vols, 8vo. 1098. Johnson's Lives of the English Poets, with critical observations on their works, 2 vols. 8vo. Presented by I. A. Storm.

914. Life and character of Patrick Henry, by Wm. Wirt, of Richmond, Vir. 8vo. Presented by Henry White.

934. Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Helena, by Count de las Casas, 8vo.

935.

Memoirs and Campaigns of Bernadotte, crown prince of Sweden, by John Philipart, 8vo.

1189. Memoirs of the life of the right honourable Wm. Pitt, by George Tomline, 2 vols. 8vo. 1226. Memoirs of Richard Love!! Edgeworth, began by himself, and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth, 2 vols. in 1, 8vo.

2082. Mavor's abridgment of the Lives of Plutarch, 12mo. Presented by Wm. Watkinson.

1322.

Plutarch's Lives, translated from the original Greek, with notes critical and historical, and a Life of Plutarch, by John Langhorne and Wm. Langhorne, & vols. 12mo.

1326. Do. do. 8 vols. 12mo.

1346.

The Female Revolutionary Plutarch, containing biographical, historical, and revolutionary sketches, characters, and anecdotes, 3 vols. 12mo. Presented by Thomas Richards.

1411. Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron, noted during a residence with his lordship at Pisa, in the years 1821 and 1822, 12mo.

1412. Do. do. Presented by S. C. Cleveland. 1414. Do. do. do. J. C. Dinnies, jr. 1440. The Biography of the British Stage, being correct narratives of the lives of all the principal actors and actresses in London, 12mo. 1445. Biographical Sketches of the literary life and opinions of S. T. Coleridge, written by himself,

12mo.

282. A short account of the life and writings of Robert Barclay. Presented by Oliver Hull, 18mo. Memoir of the life and character of the right honourable Edmund Burke, by James Prior,

736.

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