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G ■LIST OF MB. COBBET'r’s BOOKS. ,, ftwmmendMwn has ten times the force when applied to a colony ^ like New Zealand. Let it be remembered also, that, by lioine- baking, the quality of the bread is guaranteed. Doubtless, honest bakers do exist ; but if there be only a few who occasionally make ' uso °f potatoes, and other materials less nourishing than wheat, ‘surely the guarantee is worth something where soundness of “muscle and sinew i3 of so much importance. Earnestly, then, do “ we recommend every New Zealand emigrant to purchase this l’ittle “book, and make himself master of all it contains.”— New Zealand Journal, 8th January, 1842. ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN. COBBETT’S ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN, and (incidentally ) to Young Women, in the middle and higher Ranks of Life ( Price 5s.) It was published in fourteen numbers, and is now in one volume complete. SERMONS. COBBETT’S SERMONS ( Price 3s. 6d.): There are thirteen of them on the following subjects: — 1. Hypocrisy and Cruelty; 2. Drunkenness; 3. Bribery; 4. The Rights of the Poor; 5. Unjust Judges; G. The Sluggard; 7. Murder; 8. Ggming; 9. Public Robbery; 10. The Unnatural Mother; 1). Forbidding Marriage; 12. Parsons and Tithes; 13. Good Friday; or, God's Judgment on the Jews . — More of these Sermons have been sold than of the Ser- mons of all the Church Parsons put together since mine were pub- lished. There are some parsons who have the good sense and virtue to preach them from the pulpit. — W. C. 111. BOOKS ON RURAL AFFAIRS. TULL’S HUSBANDRY. COBBETT’S EDITION OF TULL’S HUSBANDRY ( Price 15s.) : The HORSE-HOEING HUSBANDRY; or, A Treatise on the Principles of Tillage and Vegetation, wherein is taught a Method of introducing a sort of Vineyard Culture into the Corn- Fields, in older to increase their Product and diminish ihe common Expense. By Jethro Tull, of Shalborne, in the county of Berks. To which is prefixed an Introduction, explanatory of some Cir- cumstances connected with the History and Division of the Work : and containing an Account of certain Experiments of recent date, by William Cobbett. — From this famous book I learned all my principles relative to farming, gardening, and planting. It really, without a pun, goes to the root of the subject. Before I read this book l had seen enough of effects, but really knew nothing about the causes. It contains the foundation of all knowledge in the cultivation of the earth. — W. C. YEAR’S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA. COBBETT S YEAR’S RESIDENCE IN AMERICA, WITH A MAP ( Price 5s .) ; treating of the Face of the Country, the Climate, the Soil, the Products, the Mode of Cultivating the Land, the Prices of Land, of Labour, of Food, of Raiment, of the Expenses of Housekeeping, and of the usual Manner of Living ; of the Manners and Customs of the People ; and of the Institutions ot the Country, Civil, Political, and Religious ; in three Parts. The Map id a map of the United States. The book contains a Journal of the f Weather for one whole year; and it has an account of my Farm- c