wretchedly paid; and its subjects held to their allegiance only by an omnipresent despotism. Its revenues are derived chiefly from taxes on agricultural industry, and of course must be seriously affected by the conscription necessary to recruit its armies in actual service, so that the larger the apparent strength it brings into the field, the more hopeless must be its embarrassment as to the means of sustaining its forces in a serviceable condition.

19.-An Art Student in Munich. ton: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields.

By ANN MARY HOWITT. Bos1854. 16mo. pp. 470.

FOR once genius is hereditary. The souls of William and Mary Howitt find joint rejuvenescence in their daughter, who inherits the graphic power of one parent, the poetic fancy of the other, and the genial, happy, sunny temperament of both. Her book is a perfect kaleidoscope, and presents a new picture with every turning of a leaf. Buildings, paintings, and statuary, royal and rural festivals, manners and opinions, food and raiment, summer flowers and winter sledging, talks with artists and gossipings with eccentric landladies and despotic housemaids, are all so vividly portrayed, that it is hard to say where the writer's genius lies. And the book is running over with the innocence, joyousness, and enthusiasm of a young soul of transparent purity, intense vitality, and sincere devotion.

20.- Wensley: a Story without a Moral. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1854. 16mo. pp. 302.

THE plot of this story is simple, and the only ripple in "the course of true love" that runs through it is an almost successful scheme of atrocious scoundrelism for the ruin of the heroine's father. But the story is charmingly told. It is pervaded by an exquisite humor, which never bursts into a flash of wit, but perpetually corruscates in lambent fires, like the heat-lightning of a summer's evening. The characterization, also, could hardly be surpassed in lifelikeness. The personages are such as we who have passed middle life have known, and could almost identify. There is a Massachusetts parson, whose ministry dates from the last century, his negro serving-man, such as were, but are no longer, the deacon, the tavern-keeper, the village choir, and the host of village worthies, in fine, a whole portrait-gallery of such forms as were once the pride of New England, and represented the idiosyncra

sies of those little communities, self-formed, self-governed, self-sufficing, isolated from the great world, uninfected by city notions, fashions, pretensions, or vices. Railroads no more surely equalize prices, than they assimilate manners, opinions, and characters. What were our villages are now suburban districts. There are no rustics, - there is no unsophisticated country life; and we thank the author who has recalled the vanished hues and buried forms of a social condition, which in the days of our Revolutionary conflict was ferax virorum, and to which we must ever recur with fondness, for the manly virtues which it nourished, for the free institutions which it founded and cherished, and for the noble lifeblood which it poured into the veins of succeeding generations.

NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Algernon Sidney: a Lecture, delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, December 21, 1853. By Robert C. Winthrop. Boston: S. K. Whipple & Co. 1854.

Scarcity of Seamen. By Thomas V. Sullivan. Boston. 1854.

Forty-second Annual Report of the Trustees of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. 1854.

Proceedings of the First Meeting of the General Committee appointed by the World's Temperance Convention, with their Address, &c. Albany. 1854.

The Relation of the Medical Profession to the Ministry: a Discourse preached in the West Church, on Occasion of the Death of Dr. George C. Shattuck. By C. A. Bartol. Boston. 1854.

Two Sermons occasioned by the Death of William H. G. Butler, preached November 6, 1853, and April 30, 1854. By John H. Heywood. Louisville. 1854.

Fifth Annual Report of the Female Medical Education Society, and the New England Female Medical College. Boston. 1854.

Documents of the Constitution of England and America, from Magna Charta to the Federal Constitution of 1789. Compiled and edited, with Notes, by Francis Bowen, Alford Professor of Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in Harvard College. Cambridge: John Bartlett. 1854.

The Two Records: the Mosaic and the Geological. A Lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association, in Exeter Hall, London. By Hugh Miller. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1854.

Dedication of Antioch College, and Inaugural Address of its President, Hon. Horace Mann, with other Proceedings. Yellow Springs: A. S. Dean. 1854. Annual Report of the School Committee of the Town of Danvers, together with the Second Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools. Boston. 1854.

Minority Report from the Committee on Banks of the House of Delegates of Virginia. By John C. Rutherfoord. Richmond. 1854.

An Examination of the Mosaic Laws of Servitude. By William Jay. New York: M. W. Dodd. 1854.

The Central Principle. An Oration delivered before the New England Society of New York, December 22, 1853. By Mark Hopkins, D.D., President of Williams College. New York: E. French. 1854.

The Agriculture of Massachusetts, as shown in Returns of the Agricultural

Societies, 1853. Prepared by Charles L. Flint, Secretary of the Board of Agriculture. Boston. 1854.

First Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture. January, 1854. Boston. 1854.

New and Elegant Edition of the Holy Bible according to the Douay and Rhemish Versions, with Haydock's Notes, complete. Nos. 29 and 30. New York Dunigan & Brother.

The Recreations of Christopher North. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1854. 8vo. pp. 307.

Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions, the Pursuit of Truth, and on other Subjects. By Samuel Bailey. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1854. 16mo. pp. 422.

Theological Essays and other Papers. By Thomas De Quincey. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields. 1854. 2 vols. 16mo.

Select Speeches of Kossuth. Compressed and abridged, with Kossuth's Express Sanction. By Francis W. Newman. New York: C. S. Francis & Co. 1854. 24mo. pp. 445.

Morbida, or Passion Past, and other Poems; from the Cymric and other Sources. London: Saunders & Otley. 1854. 16mo. pp. 168.

The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha; translated from the Spanish by Motteux. A new Edition, with copious Notes; and an Essay on the Life and Writings of Cervantes. By John G. Lockhart, Esq. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1854. 4 vols. 16mo. Martin Merrivale, his Mark. By Paul Creighton. Illustrated. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. Nos. 1-4.

Truths Maintained. By James Biden, Monckton House, Anglesey, Hants, Author of "The True Church." London Aylott & Co. 1854. 16mo. History of the Protestant Church in Hungary, from the Reformation to 1850; with special Reference to Transylvania. Translated by Rev. J. Craig, D.D., Hamburg. With an Introduction by J. H. Merle d'Aubigné, D.D. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1854. 12mo. pp. 559. The Christian Doctrine of Prayer.

An Essay. By James Freeman Clarke. Boston Crosby, Nichols, & Co. 1854. 24mo. pp. 224.

The Voice of Letters. Ancient Proprieties of Latin and Greek; the Standard of English Letter Customs; their inherent System; and preferred Orthography. By Joseph B. Manning, A.M. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1854. 12mo. pp. 135.

Five Years in the Land of Refuge. A Letter on the Prospects of Coöperative Associations in England, addressed to the Members of Council of the late Society for promoting Workingmen's Associations, now re-constituted under the Title, "The Association for promoting Industrial Provident Societies." By Jules Lechevalier St. André. London: Pelham Richardson. 1854. 16mo.

Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd. With Additional Articles never before published in this Country. Boston Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1854. 8vo. pp. 176.

Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the Finances. 33d Congress, 1st Session. Executive Document, No. 3. 16mo. pp. 384.

The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: with a Life of the Author, Notes, and Illustrations. By his Grandson, Charles Francis Adams. Vol. IX. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 1854. 8vo. pp. 643.

Discourses, by Abiel Abbot Livermore, Cincinnati, Ohio. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co. 1854. 12mo. pp. 426.

An Essay on the Relations of Labor and Capital. By C. Morrison. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans. 1854. 16mo. pp. 328.

The Hundred Boston Orators appointed by the Municipal Authorities, and other Public Bodies, from 1770 to 1852; comprising Historical Gleanings, illustrating the Principles and Progress of our Republican Institutions. By James Spear Loring. Third Edition, with an improved Index of Names. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1854. 12mo. pp. 720.

The Relation between Judaism and Christianity, illustrated in Notes on Passages in the New Testament, containing Quotations from, or References to, the Old. By John Gorham Palfrey, D.D., LL.D. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co. 1854. 12mo. pp. xxii., 344.

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers; with a Biographical Sketch, and Notes. Edited by Epes Sargent. Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co. 1854. 12mo. pp. 460.

The Plurality of Worlds. With an Introduction. By Edward Hitchcock, D.D., President of Amherst College, and Professor of Theology and Geology. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1854. 24mo. pp. 307.

The Trials of a Mind in its Progress to Catholicism: a Letter to his Old Friends, by L. Silliman Ives, LL.D., late Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina. Boston: Patrick Donahoe. 1854. 12mo. pp. 233.

A Defence of "The Eclipse of Faith," by its Author; being a Rejoinder to Professor Newman's "Reply." Also, "The Reply" to "The Eclipse of Faith." By Francis William Newman. Together with his Chapter "On the Moral Perfection of Jesus," reprinted from the third Edition of "Phases of Faith." Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co. 1854. pp. 75, 208.