Epicureans imaginable. They are only to be passive and quietists to evil-but ardent, energetic and ever active to good and love and happiness. And is it for the advocates of this system to charge us, while we give these views of their doctrine, with drawing from our own imagination, and distorting or miscoloring facts? What age or country ever invented such a monstrous romance, as the social system? Mr. Owen declaims against cultivating the imagination; and we hold the history of the seven sleepers, Cinderilla, or any tale in the Arabian Nights to be mathematics, and sobriety itself, compared with Mr. Owen's inhabitants of his parallelograms, compared with the beautiful men and women, who will swear contancy, till death, without legal mariage or alimony, and who will have neither lust nor inconstancy, when they woo and wed after the fashion of the vernal robins and sparrows. What shall we predicate of a system, which proposes to govern the world by a code of laws, which can be comprised in about a hundred lines? (Vide pp. 49, 50, 51, 52.)

Sure enough, there is no imagination in burning the Alexandrian library and the pandects and rescripts and the tomes of common law, and civil law, and crown quest law,' and the five hundred folios of the abridgement of the abridged cases and reports, of the codes of the Grecian legislatiors, and the Roman legislators, and the Lockes and Montesquieus even in our present congress; like them of the Grecian fable, sowing dragon's teeth, and seeing a generation forthwith springing up from the seed, at once quietists, and as active as flame, fed full with the best of every thing for human nature,' and having no labor, but what is made a pleasure, nothing in fact to do, but to sing, love, dance and promenade, and who yet, without a God, without religion, restraint, praise or blame, reward or punishment, can be kept in the most harmonious and angelic order, by a code of laws comprised by Mr. Philosopher Owen, in a hundred lines! Surely there is no imagination, no poetry, no fiction, no loans from the fancy in all this. We have Mr. Owen's word for it-that all this can be done-is just on the eve of being done, and will assuredly be done. When it is done-and there is actually such a sight-'may I be there to see.' But till that time, we throw back the charge of drawing from the imagination, upon the founder of this system. But we have already exceeded our limits in the present number, and shall reserve further remarks upon the social system for another opportunity.

LAST NUMBER OF THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW.

THE articles in this number are generally amusing and instructive. The first, occupying forty pages, is on the modern discoveries in central Africa, recently a very beaten subject. This article, however, is so treated, and contains so much interesting matter, that it chains the reader's attention from the commencement to the close.

The second is a short one on a translation from the Latin of Milton's Familiar Letters, by JOHN HALL, pp. 120. Every thing, connected with the name of that great man, has in itself excitement and interest.

The third article gives a very learned analysis of the Mechanique Celeste of Laplace, and presents as full a view of the propositions, demonstrations and inventions of that wonderful man, as could well be compressed into so narrow a compass. Amateur mathematicians, who wish to see of what that great work treats, and in what manner the subject is treated, will read this learned article with equal interest and profit. The article upon chancery law is, probably, a useful one for students; but we found it unreadable. The article upon Horne Tooke, treats Mr. Graham's book, upon which it purports to be based, with a broad and full measure of what Madam Slipslop calls ironing. This gentleman writes in New York, and imagines, that he has settled in this book the much vexed question, who is Junius? With him the person is no other than parson Tooke. As a specimen of the manner, in which Mr. Graham's theory is despatched, in a page and a half, we quote the following from the reviewer: We are far from intending to disprove the hypothesis, thus asserted. But we owe it to the world and to ourselves to state, that we have one, which we claim to be our own. In a word, we have our reasons for believing, that his late Majesty, George the III., was the sole author of Junius, and, probably, the sole depository of his own secret. This discovery we freely bequeath to the doctor, because we think his proofs are rather stronger, in making out our case, than in establishing his own.'

The remainder of the article is a condensed and very instructive sketch of the biography of Horne Tooke. We found the next article, on Gordon's history of Pennsylvania, full of interest and instruction. When these laborious annals of the settlement and progress of such a great and interesting state become tedious and unread, we shall afterwards be unworthy to have any thing said, sung or written about us.

But by far the most interesting article in the book is, that upon female biography, into which a prodigious amount of most instructive information upon the subject is condensed. We had intended to have found space, still further to have abridged this article, and to have presented an epitome of it to our renders. But we find not the requisite space for it. One thing we may remark from the article, that the blues of this day may understand, that female authorship is not, as some suppose, a recent, or modern invention. In 1675, the Abbe Gallois had collected 475 female works. In the sixteenth century, a book was expressly written, by a learned lady, to prove the superiority of the female over the male intellect.

He dwells at some length on the biography of Madame Dacier, Madeleine Scudery, the Swedish queen, Christina, Miss Carter, the Duchess de Montespan, Madame de Maintenon, the admirable Madame Roland, and last in order, as highest in the roll of fame, the wonderful Madame de Stael. Hosack's Memoir of De Witt Clinton, gets much, and from a hasty perusal we judge, deserved praise. The last article is on Russia, a brief, but very amusing one, based on a portion of Malte Brun's system of Geography. The writer of the article is clearly an anti-Mahometan. The reader will perceive, that we have passed by an article on Flint's Geography and History of the Western States, for reasons, which he will readily divine.

Cincinnati Miami Bible Society. By
Cincinnati, Looker & Reynolds.

Anniversary Address of the DAVID K. ESTE, Esq. We have read many similar addresses with higher pretensions, and set to a higher key note; but it is not often our lot to peruse one of these very difficult, because hackneyed and beaten orations, more fit, more appropriate, and better adapted at once to the occasion, and to inspire just views in relation to the bible and the charity in question. It displays the very desirable union of a serious mind with a liberal and tolerant spirit. The orator traces civil liberty to the influence of the bible, and declares it to be the only charter of freedom. He notes the violation of this charter in the synods and councils of the second century, in the gradual encroach. ment of the bishops of Rome, until they become the arbiters of empires and nations. He animadverts with the right temper upon the consequent withholding of the bible from the people, and retaining it; as a book sealed up, and only for the use of the clergy. He touches, in passing, upon the frenzied bigotry of the crusaders; and hails the dawn of the reformation, in which the bible was once more given to all protestant people, and shows the intimate connection between this great magna charta of human rights, both of conscience and of civil liberty, and the universal equality of civil and religious liberty, upon which, as the corner stone, our national and state governments are all based.

No sentiments can be more true, or important, than those contained in the following:

Even here, in our own favored land, the spirit of intolerance still exists, and daily evinces the disposition to exercise authority over the conscience. And, to a much greater extent than might readily be imagined, has this been done. The free spirit of inquiry has found itself restrained, not by the oracles of divine truth, but by the inventions of men. Interest, ambition and bigotry have assumed various artifices to impeach the motives, sully the characters, curtail the influence, and destroy the usefulness of enlightened, candid and conscientious inquirers after truth. Sectarian views and feelings have circumscribed charity, dried up the fountains of general benevolence, poisoned social intercourse, and led to intolerance, oppression and persecution. Depend upon it, no ordinary degree of intelligence, honesty of heart, strength of conviction, firmness of pur. pose, and moral courage is wanting to resist this spirit. Yet it must not only be resisted, but it must cease to have influence, before men can be said to be free. "He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,

And all are slaves besides."

The time must arrive when no man will presume to dictate to another, and when God alone will be recognized as lord of the conscience. This will be the accomplishment of that liberty intended by the word of God; the effect of its being universally read and understood. Then shall the road to happiness be found, that road for which, from the cradle to the grave, all unceasingly strive.'

He very properly adverts to the great triumph over the spirit of intole rance in the British nation, in the recent act of Catholic Emancipation;

and he closes by an urgent and eloquent appeal in favor of the charity, and of giving this divine book, the bond of our immortal hopes, and the charter of our civil and religious liberties, as far as in us lies, to all people.

Annual Address before the Agricultural Society of Hamilton County. By DAVID K. ESTE.

Or this address, also, we are pleased to be able to speak in terms of unmingled satisfaction and praise. A good agricultural address is a good thing in itself. The occasion, that assembles such an audience, is one of unquestioned utility and importance. The place, where this society as sembles, in the midst of green fields, and rich and varied scenery, is one of great beauty. The address of last year and of this reached a high mark; and, we cannot but hope, will be useful, in calling the attention of the people of our great state to the development of their chief and grand resource, their agriculture.

This address derives its chief interest from the only adequate source of interest in such an effort, a succinct, but animated sketch of the great modern efforts to advance agriculture, as a science, as well as an art. It notices a communication from E. A. Brown, Esq. on the preparation of hemp, one from N. Longworth, Esq. on the making of wine, and a report and letter of Mr. Jonathan Atherstone, on the cultivation of woad. The most gratifying intelligence is imparted, in experimental demonstration of our capability of silk raising. Beautiful specimens of silk were offered, particularly those of Miss Frances Hale, with a letter from the same hand upon the subject. Rolls of fine and white linen were unfolded, the growth and manufacture of our own state. The most splendid cut glass decanters of Mr. Murphy sparkled in view; and all gave proof, that we need send neither to France for our wine, to Ireland for our fine linen, or to England for the richest samples of cut glass.

The orator gives a general history of the progress of agriculture in different ages and countries, and traces the first incipient efforts at improvement in the science in the United States, in the great example of Washington, and in the subsequent formation of agricultural societies in different periods and portions of our country.

But the chief hinge, on which the address turns, is an earnest recommendation to form an agricultural school in Ohio. We have schools and professorships for teaching every other science, but not one, it appears, in our whole wide country for the most important of all sciences, that of agriculture. He adverts to the agricultural school of Fellenburg at Hoffwyle; one founded by the Russian emperor Alexander, near Moscow-that of Von Thaer in Prussia-one in Bavaria, a professorship of agriculture in Dublin college, and numerous agricultural associations, that operate in England, results similar to those of agricultural schools. He enumerates the more noted agricultural societies and publications in the United States. He notices the splendid and productive botanic garden

at Flushing near New York. He proceeds to discuss the practicability and the utility of an agricultural school in Ohio. For ourselves, we have no doubt upon the subject. We are as nearly central to the union as any other state in it. We have a rich and a virgin soil; and, probably, for the same extent of territory, the smallest proportion of surface, physically doomed to sterility and incapable of cultivation of any of the states. We are, furthermore, more unique in our pursuits, and, we imagine, more purely agricultural in our character and resources; though we shall not be able so to say, perhaps, when Indiana shall have attained the point of advancing beyond the first efforts of breaking in upon the wilderness, and shall have become a producing state like ours.

There seems, then, to be a peculiar propriety in commencing such an experiment here, which, we should hope, would soon be followed by our sister states. If it should be an objection, that such an experiment ought first to be made by opulent farmers, as those about Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, who are already able to farm for amusement, and on experiment, for the high and liberal pleasure of seeing nature beautify, and grow more beneficent and indulgent under their eye and care, we reply, that it seems to us, that these are the points, where those experiments ought to be made, which opulent men of science and leisure can alone afford; and that a school for the elementary, fundamental and universal principles of agriculture would be best commenced amidst a more simple people, a nation of farmers, necessarily and intrinsically so.

Be this as it may, the orator has adverted to one inducement to do it, which we are glad to see touched, though only incidentally. The accumulation of competitors, in what are called the learned professions, will soon be a theme of alarm, that will be sounded in the obtusest organs of hearing. Where can you go, where there are not at least twice as many aspirants for the practise of law and medicine, as can find honorable subsistence and employment in those professions? What must be the occupation of these supernumeraries unable to dig, ashamed to beg, and with minds sharpened by cultivation, study, pride and ambition, and looking upon laws, as man traps, and society as fair game? It is out of the question, that there is a ruinous propensity in the great mass of our people to train their children to live by their wits, instead of their industry. We know not how others regard this unhappy inclination. To us it is one of the most fearful omens of our day. True, it must ultimately correct itself. But what formidable armies of scheming dandies, and of wordy and bustling demagogues, and reckless editors will be forced upon the community, born to eat up the corn, and compelled to raise the wind, that, as moon cursers and wreckers, they may profit by the confusion! Mr. Este recommends, that the pursuit of agriculture, by being rendered scientific, and of consequence lucrative and honorable, may swallow up these supernumeraries, who, instead of making harangues and stump speeches, and energizing king caucus, may be more usefully employed in learning to make two blades of wheat grow, where only one grew before.