truthfulness. IRENEUS PRIME. 2 vols., with wood engravings. Harper & Bros. more than amusement, confectionaries (as it model of purity, good taste, and consequently, TRAVELS IN EUROPE AND THE EAST. BY SAMUEL were) of the mind, rather than needful, solid, healthy, life-sustaining food." This is just the meaning to be given to the word; but it should be understood that this is its application. Of the series of literary sketches which we next enter upon in the book, those occupied with the writers of the seventeenth century, are The plea for poetry is one which has exercised in the best vein. Prof. Reed's reading here was the powers of some of the finest poets and truest extensive, and his taste liberal and appreciative. philosophers, from Sir Philip Sidney to Words-One of the old prose writers, commonly little worth. It is well presented by Professor Reed. read, he appears to have given particular attenWithout going over ground, necessarily well tion to,-Dr. John Donne, whose sermons, preploughed before-which does not, however, dis-senting some difficulties to the habits of readers pense with the necessity of critical ploughing and of the present day, will well reward, by their sowing again we may sum up the argument in subtle arguments, sound philosophy, and frea single sentence by the author himself: "There quent eloquence, the labor which may be exis no great philosopher in our language, in whose pended upon them. A portion of a lecture given to Sunday readgenius imagination is not an active element: there is no great poet into whose character the ing is a novelty in its plan, and has much originphilosophic element does not largely enter." Inality in its treatment. The distinction between the same way it may be said of statesmanship, the boldness of Milton and the reverent feeling oratory-nay, even the most everyday practical of Spenser, which is attributed to the different affairs-where the man of mere understanding is spirit of the two ages; the remarks on the thrown off his balance by every change of rou- vicious tendencies of certain books purporting tine, and where, on the contrary, the man of to afford confirmation of the evidences of Chrisdeep poetic feeling anticipates future events, and tianity, and the true Catholic taste, which claims is full of resources in his capacious mind, to meet Southey's Curse of Kehama and Thalaba "to be ranked with the great sacred poems of the language "-are all positions well taken. them. man. At the outset of his lectures, Prof. Reed had In the chapters on the literature of the ninemany remarks on the relation of woman and He considers their different dispositions teenth century there is much wise discrimination and their relative position, but thinks it an error and a quiet leading of the reader, particularly of practical conduct, as it is, to parcel out their in the contemporary portion, into the line of faculties and impose restrictions on their mutual studies so devotedly pursued by the author. pursuits of literature. "The companionship of The reader will find these pages an excellent the sexes is important in the culture of each,' guide to very much of the best literature of while nature will assert her own distinctions far England of the present day. The chapter on Elegiac Poetry has a mournful more effectively than man will do, by marring them. We remember a beautiful simile on this interest in connection with the fate of the writer. subject, in one of the poet Dana's lectures on It reads like a dirge by the side of his ocean Shakspeare, in a comparison of woman to the tomb. The imagination which went forth with new moon, ever renewing her calm beauty and Tennyson in the ocean lamentations of his "In ever welcomed. Prof. Reed comes to the same Memoriam," was destined to meet the realities result in another simile from the same object, in one stern scene. But it is in the power of the but in a different aspect. "It was the sun and imagination not only to excite terror but to bethat in the fable strove come its master, and hence we see great minds, the wind," he says, for the mastery, and the strife was for a travel-as Jeremy Taylor, for instance, inviting painful er's cloak; the quiet moon had nought to do with such fierce rivalry of the burning or the blast, but as in her tranquil orbit she journeys, round the earth, silently sways the tides of the ocean." 66 images in their terrible but poetic, and, in the These pleasant and genial volumes are the result of a year of recreation and rest from professional labor. They record the traveling experience of one who carried to the scenes of the Old World a mature and cultivated mind, and or two extracts, taken almost at random. The first describes the Rev. Henry Melville, whose sermons, republished in this country, have proved acceptable to so many American readers. Melville preaches the "Golden Lecture," so called, every Thursday morning at eleven o'clock. We have nothing in in his will, or by gift antecedent, devotes a sum of money, our country on this plan, but I wish we had. A good man the interest of which is to be paid to some preacher, whom he also makes provision to appoint, on condition that he will deliver in a certain place a lecture on a given day in the week. Perhaps he desires to have a certain doctrine defended and system of errors opposed, and requiring them he, being dead, secures the delivery of discourses that propagate the truths he loved, and which he believes to be for the happiness of his fellow-men. Error seldom makes such most learned and powerful treatises in defence of truth have been procured by this measure. Melville's lecture is estabprovision for its perpetuation and extension. Some of the lished in this manner, and I was told that he receives £400 or $2,000 per annum for the weekly discourse. Besides, he is chaplain of the Tower, for which he receives as much, and as principal of a college an equal sum, so that his income must be about eight or ten thousand dollars. He de to be the subject of discussion, for successive generations, livers this weekly lecture in a church-St. Margaret's, Lothbury-by the side of the Bank of England, in the busiest mart of all London: as much in the way of busi First Presbyterian Church in New York was in Wall street, before they took it, stone by stone, and put it up in Jerscy. I supposed a few men and more women would straggle in, and make an audience sparse and few, and the lecture would be a form, elegant undoubtedly, but uttered to empty pews, Several lectures on the Literature of Wit and Humor, and Letter Writing, close the volume, which is one that a parent, seeking a book to The chapter on the English language, without educate the taste of his son or daughter, may pretending to attempt an historic sketch or most profitably select for influences which may analysis of the subject, has some excellent sug-benefit a life time, informing, stimulating, de gestions, and gives a cue to the true understand-lighting, purifying. It is such a book as the ing of the topic in the remark that it is not a American reader at this time, when so much illness and out of the way for preaching on a week day, as the composite speech of northern and southern ele- assorted fare is before him, especially needs. ments, but an assimilation of various powers to the prevailing Anglo-Saxon original; and, that in our use of it, while we respect its laws, we should not be neglectful of the freedom which it allows and encourages. profitable hints thrown out in this lecture, on the construction of sentences and the use of words. Prof. Reed notices the point and strength which may be sometimes given to a sentence by closing it with a preposition, instead writer's special field, of historical study. of rounding every period, as in the stupefying way of many orators, with a vague amplification. There are some His own style, it may be here remarked, is a For ladies' academies, as a reading and text- The frequent notes, we should remark, which and therefore cold. But the house was crowded before service began. In the middle of the day, in the rush and mad dened whirl of business, under the eaves of the eight-acretemple of Mammon, to which all the world sends its daily or at least with hearers; and what was worthy of remark, offerings, this house of God was thronged with worshipers, the greater portion of them were men. They seemed to have dropped their pens, and rushed from their counting rooms at the hour of service, to receive the instructions of the preacher, and they now sat reverently waiting to hear his message. The pews were full: the aisles were partially filled, and a stranger made room for me on a bench in a favorable situation. Melville came from the vestry and passed near me to the desk. His hair was quite gray, his face strongly marked with benevolence and thought, high cheek-bones, and large mouth, tall and slightly bent, his whole appearance fitted rather to impress you that he is a good man than great. He is decidedly both. His lecture was adapted to the day in the Church of England, the Feast of the Pentecost, and was on the personality and work of the Holy Ghost. It was a compact and striking exhibition of the argument against the Unitarians, delivered with earnestness and much feeling. The man who sat next me, and who had given me a seat, annoyed me by constantly assuring me that it was excellent, but I thought so in spite of this provocative to dissent. It was sound, evangelical, Calvinistic, and uttered with so much unction that it did not fail to move as well as to please those who heard. Some of the expressions, and now and then a whole passage, were very fine, but, as a whole, it was far below my anticipations as an intellectual effort, and far above them as a spiritual and instructive discourse. When he left the pulpit after service, I met him at his vestry, and had a few words of genial conversation, in which he expressed himself pleased to hear of the estimation in which his sermons were held abroad; and when I rejoiced to hear such sentiments as his in the Church of England pulpits, he declared his belief that the apprehensions of a tendency to Romanism had been greatly overrated. He selves over and dropped down into the midst of us-ugly looking customers, and just the sort of people a man does not wish to sleep with. At length, as the evening wore away, we made all fast, shut our state-room door, and commending ourselves to Providence, feeling that we were in His hands, though exposed to the tender mercies of the Turk, we went to bed and fell asleep. Strange that we become so accustomed to danger, and can be so insensible in the midst of it. A hundred voices were raging on deck when I went to sleep; there was the tramping of a wild horde of savage men right over my head; they were suffering from cold, and knew that warm quarters were below them and within their reach, and I had very little doubt that they would take possession of them in the course of a few hours, but for all that I was soon asleep. And when I awoke, as I did at midnight or soon after, it was not from the uproar of the wild men, or the breaking in of the cabin doors, or the call to arms to fight the Turk; I awoke to the most profound silence that ever pervaded a ship. Not a voice was to be heard-not a foot was stirring. "Blessed be he who first invented sleep," saith Sancho; and surely never was there such an exhibition of its power. The sayages were all asleep. So the infant, the weary mother, the tost sailor, the soldier, the sage, the worn traveler, on the field or the sea, abroad or at home, all asleep! Blessed be He who "giveth his beloved sleep." He sendeth his rain riety of character, and it was a source of amusement to observe them. One was dressed in fantastic colors, with a steeple cap on covered with little bells, and he was the harlequin of the troop, a fool to make sport for the rest. He worked hard and made wretched sport, seldom making any body laugh but himself. A large, fat Turk, with several yards of yellow and scarlet wound about head and shoulders, sat on his haunches by the cabin door, a dark-visaged old fellow with a long beard, now and then an ugly grin making his face more hideous; and whenever I came near him he gave me a look that told me plainly he wished to be left to his own reflections. Among the troop was a Nubian, black as night, a skeleton of a man, nearly if not quite seven feet high, half clad-a most attenuated specimen of the human form. Many of them were very young; wild boys of eighteen or twenty, off for a frolic, and now under no restraint. For a few piastres they would go through the dances of their country, coarse, indeed disgusting motions, to rude music on a sort of fiddle, an instrument as nearly resembling a civilized violin as their dancing the fairy evolutions of Paris girls. Yet it was well to keep them in good humor, and I was always pleased to set them singing, playing, or dancing-any thing, indeed, but fighting. Of that we should have enough. trusted in God there was no danger of such a calamity. on the just and the unjust, and Moslem and Christian sleep THE ESSENCE OF CHRISTIANITY. BY LUDWIG FEUER together under the Crescent and the Cross. When I left him, it was with thankfulness that this church The following shows a specimen of the troops which the Turks send to fight the Russians. The scene is on board a steamer bound from Smyrna to Constantinople. Three or four companies of volunteers from the interior of Asia Minor, wild men of the mountains, Turks, Arabs, Nubians, and those whose tribe or tongue it would be difficult to define a savage horde, armed to the teeth many of them, and some with no arms; well clothed some, and others half clad, were now crowding on deck, and spreading themselves over the ship. With their luggage for the battle-fields in great bundles, they were making rough beds for themselves, and packing closely together, at once for the purpose of keeping each other warm and making room for the troop. Some were howling and shouting, some were ing and gloomy; refusing companionship with those about singing and laughing, more of them grave and sullen, frown them, they sat wrapped in their blankets and meditations. The work of lading was still going on; merchandise and coal were hoisted in along with the Turks and their plunder, increasing the uproar. Many of these rough fellows had come from a warmer climate than this, and as the night was cold, they hovered near the machinery and smoke-pipe, they roused from the stupor of the night, and began to show themselves, though few rose from the deck. Aft, near the captain's office, which was under the quarter-deck, the chiefs were sented together: one of them in a suit of blue, with metal buttons, and a Turkish cloak, embroidered with gold, over it, a brilliant scarf around him, and a red turban on his head. Another had a gray snit, with scarlet and gold lace, and a silver cloth mantle, Turkish trowsers, and red stockings, and a white turban about his fez or red cap. One or two inferior officers with them were less dressed than these, and the best of them had very little to distinguish them, and, indeed, would not have been distinguished at all, but for the ragamuffin appearance of the horde of followers in their train. These looked to me more like devils than men; and if one of the chiefs had mounted a white horse, I should have likened him, at the head of his fellows, to Death, in the Revelation, with Hell following. I offered my hand to the principal chief, and he pressed it to his breast, gave me to understand that he loved Americans, and was happy to make my acquaintance. This I extended somewhat among the crowd, giving them apples and nuts, which they received with pleasure, and sometimes offered me their own provisions in return, and expected me to eat with them, a hospitality which it was rather difficult to es trimming the ship, that some of them should be sent for BACH. Translated by Marian Evans. 12mo. New York, Calvin Blanchard. 1855. Of all the German critics upon Christianity, Herr Feuerbach is the most reckless, destructive, self-confident, and sacrilegious. Bruno Bauer is the only one who can be compared with him, and eyen Bauer is more moderate. Mr. Firebrook, as he would be called in English, goes beyond Hegel in pantheism, for he is a materialistic pantheist, and beyond Strauss in historical skepticism, for he does not recognize any validity whatever in history. Hegel and Strauss acknowledged the truth of the idea of Christianity, though Strauss denied its historic reality; Feuerbach tries to annul even the idea. He does it only by skepticism and dogmatism combined, not by argument, reason, or history. He is an avowed, unqualified materialist and atheist. Deeper in the slough of infidelity it is impossible to sink without self-annihilation. Some of his blasphemies, which he only ventilates but does not prove by any recognized modes of argument, and in which he seems to take a kind of fiendish delight, trampling upon all that is venerable and sacred, are such as the following:-" Atheism is the secret of religion itself, "I, in fact, put in the place of baptismal water the beneficent effect of real water," that sitting down on the warmest place they could find, and cape. In the course of the morning it was necessary, in is, the truth of baptism is in the water-cure; as shivering even there. A lot of them sheltered by the gun-ward-an order they were very reluctant to obey. The against the system of sacraments he asserts that wale from the wind were merry, and made music on a rude instrument in imitation of a drum-an earthen jar with a steamer's captain lacked energy and firmness, and, indeed, every great quality of a commander except patience, and his dried skin stretched over the mouth of it, which they beat inefficiency early suggested the dangers to which we were with the hand. Some of them made an attempt at singing, exposed with these wild men on board. The chiefs were and a wretched attempt it was, making night hideous. For- called on to allay the storm and enforce the order. The tunately their arms were taken from them as fast as they difficulty proved to be jealousy between the separate comcame on board, all but their yataghan, a dirk, which each panies, and the fear that one was to have a worse place than one wore in his girdle. There was a great choice of places, the other on ship. At last the matter was adjusted by the even on deck, and the selection was not made without trou-chiefs, and the mutinous spirit was subdued, the masses ble; several fights occurred-the dirks flourished madly, the chiefs interfered, and each company being arranged by itself, and the chiefs of all being encamped together, the rival hosts were finally distributed in their respective quarters. There was no disposition on the part of any of the cabin passengers to turn in. We had taken refuge in the cabin, but this was not safe from the intrusion of our new companions. They began to peer into the windows and down the passage-way, and attracted by the appearance of comfort below, contrasted with the dreary and wretched state of things above, they were tempted to come down. We had the door closed, but they raised the hatchway, swung them properly distributed, and the vessel put to sen. Now the excitement began. Most of them had never seen a steamer before, and their curiosity was intense as the engine began to work, and the ship to move in the water without sails. Affecting great indifference, some of them would come to the engine, look on with gravity, and turn away as if they cared nothing about it, but would look back and return again and study it with a stupid sort of amaze ment, showing not quite as much emotion as a horse under the same circumstances. Among so many and from different parts of the country, there must have been a great va "the entire purport and positive result of my work are talking, eating, and drinking.' Religion is the dream of the human mind." "Eating and drinking is the mystery of the Lord's supper." "Christ is an image." "The mystery of the Trinity is the mystery of I and thou.” thropology;" that all that is true in religion is, His main position is, that all "theolgy is anwhat centers in human nature. The knowledge of God means merely man's own knowledge of himself; the conscionsness of God is the selfconsciousness of man: In religion, man only knows himself "as another;" he reduplicates his essence and imagines it is God. Man, as religious, has simply a relation to himself, to his own "He who is elevatnature, to the race of man. ed to the love of mankind is Christ himself," Redemption is a physical process; one man is mediator to another man. To know man and nature is the whole of knowledge, the whole of theology; all else is imagination, illusion, a dream. "Man has his God in himself." veloped all the surrounding mountain, and thus I passed Mr. Edward Joy Morris, in this edition, has furnished an excellent and spirited translation. Modern Agitators is the title of a volume which consists of Pen Portraits of living American Reformers, which are sketched in glowing and picSuch are some of the reckless absurdities of turesque colors by Mr. David W. Bartlett. Like this desperate thinker. He has gained a name Bungay" in his "Off-hand Sketchings," the auand fame by the hardihood of his impiety. To thor paints the virtues of his favorite heroes, as him nothing is real but what comes through the if he thought, with Carlyle, that "we cannot senses, nothing is true or good but what contributes to our temporal, material welfare. He look, however imperfectly, upon a great man, without gaining something by him. He is the represents the insanity of infidelity. From the living light-fountain, which it is good and pleasidealism of Hegel he has come to the terra firma ant to be near." Carlyle's heroes were, however, The cold air drove me back to the fire. I was suddenly the honored dead, while we are called to bestow of materialism, where he stamps his foot and rages against all truth, all piety, all that is awakened from the sleep into which I had at last fallen 'transcendent admiration" upon the living; for through weariness, by the clear voice of Santa, who several sacred in experience and in history. It is a fatal times exclaimed “Spettacoli divini! spettacoli divini "this is surely the age of living heroes, and we blindness to all that is spiritual. He resolves She laid her children aright, who had thrown themselves have abundant evidence that a wondering puball spiritual truth into a figment of the imagina- into the most comical positions. They were, indeed, divine lic is about to recognize and compensate with tion. He claims to be the consistent Hegelian; to spectacles. Lily flower lay half entwined round her mother, due applause all the moral heroism of the day. like a snake, and the little Paola wound her arm around my neck. The child had, perhaps, heard an owl in her sleep, and had seen a vampire in a dream, which had come to suck up her heart's blood. stand on the extreme left; and his "Essence of Christianity," does, at least, serve to show that mere idealism cannot be the stopping-place of the human mind; it must pass from the ideal to the real; and that reality must be a spiritual god, or matter. He shows, most clearly, the end and aim of many unconscious tendencies! The most wonderful part of the book is that in which he adduces testimonies for his positions from the fathers and teachers of the church; by an insolent and arbitrary criticism he takes all their poetic statements in a positive sense, and makes them talk materialism and atheism. They talk it to him, because he cannot understand any thing else. That such a reckless book could have found a publisher in New York is explained by the fact that it comes from the press of one who also publishes D'Holbach's "System of Nature," Tom. Paine's "Age of Reason," Comte's "Positive Science," and Strauss's "Life of Jesus." Messrs. Parry & M'Millan have issued an exceedingly valuable work from the German of Gregorovius, entitled, Corsica: Picturesque, Historical, and Social. We have seldom had * * * and the waters of the sleepless Restonica, which, young Scarcely have we finished the perusal of the mysterious wanderings of "Wyckoff," or, of the wandering mysteries of "Barnum," before we are startled by the announcement of the Life of "Bennett," as in press. Heroes, real genuine, and duly authenticated, have been turning up so fast that pen and pencil hardly suffice to register their names, and note their varied and acSeveral mountain combs rise one above another, which cumulating virtues. The danger may arise that must be surmounted to reach Trigione, the last projection of the Rotondo. It is a mighty staircase that nature has here some, overstepping the bounds of personal modmade, of colossal steps of the most precious reddish primi-esty and propriety, may fancy themselves great, tive granite. Block here lies on block, monstrous and void of form, as chaos; the overrunning spring torrents have frequently rendered the granite so smooth, that its polished surface looks like frozen water. Every where thousands of rills are seen pouring along in inexhaustible abundance. Trees here entirely disappear, and alder bushes alone mark the course of the Restonica. when they have not in reality even the latent elements of nobility in their composition, and the presses will be teeming with the histories of mere personal ambition. The eighteen men and women whose personal appearance, general history, and various capabilities, are portrayed with rocks are grouped in a crater-like form, within the circuit great, whether, as Orators, Editors, or Poets, and the snow-capped summit lay before us. Its steep, splintered great vivacity in this volume, are undoubtedly of which lies a little lake, bordered by soft green meadows, each of them, in some degree, may deserve the Fields of snow extend from the lake to the summit, pre-name of "Agitator,” whether that be a term of senting a curious spectacle in the fervid glow of the dog-glory or reproach; but we should hardly think star, and under the forty-second degree of latitude, and a that all of them would like to be subject to the classouthern sky. They were covered with a crust of ice, and After two hours, we clambered up to the Trigione, and breathed forth a cold air. Although we were in the region sification of another's fancy. We have here set forth, with great ease and gusto, the anti-slavery or reformatory opinions, labors, and affiliations of Burritt, Greeley, T. Parker, Finney, Beecher, the Romance of History and Biography better were obliged to clamber for two entire hours, with great toll, Garrison, W. C. Bryant, Gough, Seward, &c., represented than in the introductory sketch and other portions of this pleasant volume. The author's tour in that island, in the summer of 1852, forms the subject of the second portion of the work, in which the principal features of the country, the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and the author's numerous adventures and personal reminiscences are graphically delineated. A sketch of the early life of Napoleon, and full details respecting the Bonaparte, Paoli, Pozzo di Borgo, and other principal families, form perhaps the most interesting portion of the book. The author excels in fine descriptions of natural scenery. We extract from his account of a journey to the summit of Mount Rotondo. The party were spending a night in the moun tains: The red blaze shed its glow over the curious group. I regretted that I was not a painter. But I could not sleep for the terrible heat of the pine logs and the smoke. I got up from time to time, and picking my way over the sleeping forms, passed through the door into the open air. I can Say that I stepped out of the hut into a cloud, for it en often on our hands and knecs, before we reached it. The most difficult part was the ascent over a tract of snow, From this highest peak of Corsica, nine thousand feet * * * * above the sea, I overlooked the greatest part of the island, with numerous selections from their writings, and portraits interspersed. This readable work has just been published by Miller, Orton & Mulligan, who are about to establish their publishing house at 25 Park Row. Mr. Geo. P. Burnham's History of the Hen Fever details, with very great familiarity and this strange mania after extraordinary breeds of gracelessness of style, the rise and progress of poultry. A melancholy looking specimen-likeness of the real genus appears on the title-page, set over against a likeness of Queen Victoria, who was victimized by a present of "Gray Shanghaes" from the author of this volume. We expect that after the public shall have read this book, the name of "Burnham" will become interchangeable with that of the world-renowned "Barnum," and as celebrated for shrewdness of Yankee speculation, far-sighted sagacity and cunning, and these qualities as associated with an intense desire to instruct the rising generation in the science of getting money on a large scale. This curious and amusing volume traces the history of the "Fever" from the first appearance of its symptoms in Mr. Burnham's house, to the time of its effectual cure in 1854-a period of six years, during which time "Poultry Shows" > nd "Fowl Societies" were all the rage." The various adventures and enterprises of the chief leaders in this extensive amateur movement are detailed, and are very expressively illustrated by the author's own wide experience. Published by J. French & Co., Boston. Harper's Statistical Gazetteer of the World is at last published complete in a splendid royal octavo volume. Mr. J. Calvin Smith is the Editor of this mammoth work of 1952 pages, which shows the combined results of much extended research and diligent investigation. This Gazetteer is unusually full of statistical matter, taken from recent census returns, respecting Population, Agriculture, Commerce, National Industry, and Public Works. The portion relating to Europe, Asia, and Africa, and a large part of South America, has been supplied from Johnston's General Gazetteer, with alterations. The seven maps, of various sizes, which accompany the volume, are-1. The World on Mercator's Projection; 2. Great Britain and Ireland, showing the railroads; 3. The British Possessions in North America; 4. Central and Southern Europe: 5. Mexico and Central America; 6. United States, with the railroads; 7. Asia. We can think of no production which is wrought out by more real hard labor and drudgery than must at tend the compilation of such a work as this. In thoroughness of execution, general accuracy, and minuteness of detail, this work is far in advance of any similar production yet issued in this country. The American Congregational Year Book, volume second, for 1855, has just been issued, and is published at the Office of the American Congregational Union, 346 Broadway. The plan of publishing denominational statistics, and a general summary of religious intelligence, which has been adopted by many of the leading sects, has already been productive of great good, and prospectively will furnish invaluable data for the history of the church in this country. The pres ent volume has been compiled, with great care, by Rev. T. Atkinson, but is prepared on a somewhat different plan from that of the first volume. The names of Ministers are arranged by States instead of by Associations as formerly, and biographical notices of deaths in the ministry, du ring the past year, have been added as a new feature. The history of several individual churches is furnished, and also a report of the distribution of the Church Erection Fund of $50,000. also, it is affectionately dedicated. It consists of seven lectures, of an ethical character, embodying much of value in the science of morals, and inculcating in an intellectual and discrimi nating manner the love of truth, practical morality, true honor, consciousness, and noble consistency. Rev. John N. Norton, Rector of Ascension Church, Frankfort, Ky., has written as a sequel to "The Boy who was trained up to be a Clergyman," a work entitled Full Proof of the Ministry, which describes in a lively narrative form the trials, conflicts, and successes of a Pastor's Life in the Episcopal Church. moir of Baxter's eventful life and extended labors. It is stated that the published list of his works contains no less than one hundred and thirty-eight publications. Rev. Wm. Orme, from whose "Reliquiæ Baxteriana" this sketch is mostly compiled, says that "the works of Bishop Hall amount to ten volumes octavo; Lightfoot's extend to thirteen; Jeremy Taylor's to fifteen; J. C. Derby has just issued another edition of Dr. Goodwin's would make about twenty; Dr. Rev. H. Mattison's Spirit Rappings Unveiled, Owen's extend to twenty-eight; Richard Bax- which discusses these singular "Revelations" as ter's, if printed in a uniform edition, could not to their origin, history, and alleged phenomena. be comprised in less than sixty volumes, making Mr. M. attacks the "humbug" from all sides, exmore than from thirty to forty thousand closely posing numerous barefaced impostures which its printed octavo pages!" And these works are advocates have attempted to palm off on a too of nearly all kinds-critical, controversial, doc- credulous public. The Appendix reviews his trinal, practical, devotional, expository, histori-reviewers, and expends some rhetoric on the cal. This time honored work, which comprises productions of Messrs. Rev. Dr. Pond, Dr. E. C. within itself most of these departments, was the Rogers, Rev. Abel Stevens, Rev. James Porter, first of his published works, and was composed Dr. Dods, Prof. Faraday, and Rev. Charles during a season of debilitating sickness. Baxter, Beecher, giving a convenient summary of the after the fashion of the times, appended numer- different theories advanced. ous citations from the ancient fathers, and even from profane writers, in corroboration of the text. The editor has translated these passages into English, for the use of general readers. Mornings with Jesus is the title of a series of Devotional Readings for the closet and the family. It is stated on the title-page of this volume that it is "carefully prepared from notes of sermons preached by the late Wm. Jay, of Bath." Most, if not quite all of the Readings in this volume have already appeared, in other forms, in the previously published works of Mr. Jay, especially in his "Morning and Evening Exercises," "Sermons," &c. The arrangement of the material under the different texts, however it may have been gathered, is evidently the work of the compiler, and are, in the main, very suitable; but those who prefer the language of the author as "carefully prepared" and revised by himself, will of course procure his original works. Of course, the publication of such a book involves a principle, that is, as to how far an orator's words are the property of the public. The family of MrJay, in this country, protested against the issue of this volume, which would seem to have originated in the book-making propensities of the editor and compiler. As copyright in ideas or unwritten forms of expression is not yet acknowledged by law, there is no legal ground of argument against the publication of such a work. It would certainly have been much more manly and honorable if the editor had affixed his name to the volume, which, though objectionable on The Minister's Family is a work of a similar character, which is founded on fact, and details the experience of a Scotch Presbyterian Pastor and his family. Rev. W. M. Hetherington, LL.D., is the author, and Carter & Brothers are the publishers. The Night Lamp, by the Rev. John Macfarlane, is a book of religious experience, comprising series of personal memorials, and especially a narrative of conversations held during the last hours of a sister of the writer. It contains passages of thrilling interest, and points out the means by which spiritual consolation and peace of mind were imparted to the sufferer, during her passage through the valley of the shadow of death. The third edition of this Memoir and Diary has been issued, and is republished by Wm. S. & A. Martien, Phila. The Hiding Place; or, The Sinner Found in Christ, by the same author, is a volume of doctrinal and practical Theology, systematically arranged on the basis of the new Covenant titles given to the Savior in the Old Testament which have the prefix Jehovah. Dr. Macfarlane writes with great earnestness, and force of thought and diction. This volume is issued by the same pub lishers. the ground of its publication in opposition to the wishes of the family, who insist that it will The Rich Kinsman, by Rev. S. H. Tyng, just damage the reputation of their esteemed rela-published by R. Carter & Brothers, is a book of tive, is still, in itself considered, a creditable spiritualizations, in opposition to the rationalistic work, and calculated to do good as a guide in mode of interpreting scripture. The History of Robert Carter & Bros. have done a good ser.devotional exercises. The American edition is Ruth, the Moabitess, is traced in all its types and published in an attractive form by Messrs. Parry vice to the religious public in republishing a handsome royal octavo edition of Baxter's Saint's Rest. This work has been so mutilated in the various abridgments issued by different societies, that it will be a pleasure to possess a genuine and complete edition which has been accurately collated with the various editions published in the author's life-time. The editor, the Rev. J. J. Carruthers, here furnishes a brief me & McMillan. Robert Carter & Brothers have issued a handsome volume, entitled Discourses on Truth, delivered in the Chapel of the South Carolina College, by James H. Thornwell, D. D., late President and Chaplain of that Institution. This volume contains, as its title imports, discourses of a College President to his pupils, to whom, analogies, as displayed in the light of the Gospel. It is intended as a familiar illustration of this interesting portion of the Bible for the special use of the young, for whom the author thinks that attractions as well as instructions should be provided. A volume of Sermons by the late Rev. David Merrill, is published by T. S. Pearson, Peacham, Vt. A short biographical sketch of the author of these sermons is furnished by Thomas Scott Pearson, A. M. This collection contains the celebrated "Ox Sermon," which has had so wide a circulation under the auspices of the Temperance Societies. All of these productions are written with spirit, and a large number of them were funeral discourses, containing much biographical information. Mr. C. W. Elliott has sent us a copy of his recent lecture before the New York Library Association, entitled St. Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, Toussaint Louverture, which very eloquently depicts the thrilling scenes which attended the life and death of this remarkable Negro. The object of the publication of this Historical Sketch, as stated, is to weaken the prejudice of color on the part of the whites, and to encourage ambition on the part of the black population. J. A. Dix, Publisher. Echoes; or, Leisure Hours with the German Poets, is the title of a series of translations from Schiller, Goethe, Koerner, Herder, Uhland, Sa a thorough course of preliminary Exercises in A Manual of Topographical Drawing, by Lieut. R. S. Smith, U. S. Army, Assistant Professor of Drawing in the U. S. Mil. Acad., West Point, N. Y. This is a valuable work, and appears effectually to meet all requirements. It is a decided improvement upon Eastman's Topography, the only other systematic American treatise on Topography we have. It contains à lucid exposition of the different methods of ToThe Speller and Definer's Manual, by W. W. pographical delineation, with exemplifications Smith, Principal of Grammar School, No. 1, New and illustrations, and gives minute directions York, is constructed on a somewhat original with regard to the details of manipulation, the plan. Words of similar appearance, but of use of conventional signs, the selection and conwidely different signification, have been placed struction of scales, &c. There is also a succinct in juxtaposition, to render the impression on the explanation of the method of projecting the mind of the student more lasting, and the pro- curves, from the field notes. In a Manual of nunciation of each word is attached. Questions Topographical Drawing we are not to look for at the bottom of the page call the teacher's at the details of Topographical Surveying; these tention to the points of special importance. A must be sought for in other works. Vocabulary of Reference for Review is also furnished. Daniel Burgess & Co. are the publish ers. lis, and Jacobi, by Prof. A. C. Kendrick, of Ro- brated authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Its able volume. A Short Introduction to Practical Mathemat ics: being a Course of Geometry and Plane Trigonometry, by Warrand Carlile. Many who Euclid or Legendre, or fighting their way are wearily traveling along the beaten track of through the bristling formula of Trigonometry, will be surprised to learn that there is a short cut to the goal they are striving to reach, beset with comparatively few difficulties and dangers. We recommend all who have not the patience But here it is-its length is only 78 pages, 12mo. now revised by Miss Catharine E. Beecher, who or the time to acquire the usual hard experience Cosas de España. A Journey from Paris to contemplates issuing an entirely new series of of travel by the old route, to try this shorter Madrid, via Marseilles and Barcelona, furnishes School Books for young children. The present and easier road. It is not to be expected that the thread of a narrative on which the writer of work, commencing with ideas of measurement brevity and condensation could be carried so far this book has strung such Cosas, or "strange and processes of map drawing, proceeds by without some sacrifice of vigor, but it is plain things" of Spain, as came under his notice as he novel methods, chiefly illustrating facts by means that the author, in the prosecution of his deloitered along from city to seaport, and village of the principle of association; thus impressing sign, has striven to infringe as little as possible to town. With what seems like a touch of sym- on the child's mind the relative size of countries, on the requirements of a rigid Geometry; and pathy for those who read only to while away &c. The child, next leaving his home, gradually we think has, on the whole, been very successthe time, he admits that he has aimed, first, not extends his knowledge of other states and coun-ful, though exception might be taken to some to make his book too large; and second, not to tries by learning a few interesting facts, and af- of his definitions. have it "found any heavier from learning than terward travels again to take a more compreit is from bulk." In both these laudable endea-hensive view, and to add new details to his invors he has succeeded admirably. A part of the creasing stock. Maps of the whole world are work has been printed before in Putnam's Magazine, and the whole is now issued by Redfield. Harvestings is the title of a series of Sketches in Prose and Verse, by Sybil Hastings, published by W. P. Fetridge & Co., of Boston. This volume contains a number of Romances of superior merit. then introduced, and frequent reviews are taken A. S. Barnes & Co. have just commenced a Correspondence. BOSTON, March 22, 1855. Mr. EDITOR:-Since my last communication, an event has occurred which has filled the hearts of the publishers and booksellers in this community with sorrow. I refer to the death of Mr. James Brown, of the house of Little, Brown & Co., so well known throughout the country, and indeed throughout the world. This event was appropriately, but very briefly noticed in your last number. There, D. Appleton & Co. have issued another work by Miss Catharine Yonge, author of "Hearts ease," entitled The Castle Builders, which, by its high moral tone and general interest, will ners, and introduces the mind of the child to the inclosed in black lines, were the name and succinct doubtless prove as popular as her preceding works. Kate Aylesford, as an American Novel, and especially as embodying a large mass of Revolutionary reminiscences, deserves more than a mere passing notice. It purports to be a story of Revolutionary times, giving the history of the Refugees of New Jersey. This intensely interesting story, by Mr. Charles J. Peterson, first appeared in the "Dollar Magazine," in the columns of which it was received with great favor, and is now issued in a beautiful duodecimo volume, elegantly printed. The fourth number of Sargent's Standard Series, is The Standard Fourth Reader, containing general features of various countries, furnishing and whose exit literary men far and wide have speobituary of one who has left a large circle of friends, cial occasion to deplore. Mr. Brown was a highminded and honorable man, a genial friend and associate, intelligent, kind-hearted and communicative, and possessed, in an eminent degree, of those qualities which attach one to a business man. He was peculiarly fitted for the particular business in which he had been so long engaged. He had a remarkable acquaintance with books, especially works of value in the English language. With their the demand which existed for them, he was singudifferent editions, their price, their scarceness, and larly familiar, so much so that experienced scholars could often consult him with great advantage. It has been said that, in his early years, he formed an acquaintance with books through connection with a |