The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for 1851

Brownson's Quarterly Review, January, 1851

5.--The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for 1851.  Boston: Little & Brown.  1850.  12mo.  pp. 351

This annual is so well known, and its reputation so well established, that there is no occasion on the appearance of a new number to do more than simply announce it.  The number for this year falls behind none of its predecessors in interest and utility.  Besides the calendar, it contains a great amount of useful and interesting information, and a learned and truly scientfic paper on Animal Electricity, by Professor Lovering, of Harvard University.  The work issues from a Protestant source, and unhappily Protestants cannot treat even pure mathematics without infusing more or less of heresy.  Yet this is as unexceptionable as any thing we can expect at their hands, and we can, upon the whole, commend it to our readers, as a very desirable and valuable work.