'Grandfather,' the contemplative, thoughtful 'ST. LEGER,' and the lave.' We shall not promise too much for the future; but you shall see what you shall see :' if it has n't already. ・・ THE following, among other communications, are received. We regret that some of them arrived too late for insertion in the present number: 'Papers from the Russian of KARAMSIN,' and from the German; The Stage, considered as a Moral Institution;' The Twinkle Papers;' Protection to American Authorship;' poetical articles by G. H. H.;' Necessity for a National Literature,' etc. . . . Messrs. BURGESS, STRINGER AND COMPANY, to whose flourishing and enterprising establishment the public are indebted for numerous works, alike reasonable in price and valuable in kind, have commenced the publication of a fac-simile edition of the 'London Lancet,' with all its engravings, wood-cuts, etc. This medical journal is known to be the very first of its class in England, and to contain a complete monthly compendium of the current medical experience and medical literature of the British metropolis, and indeed of Great-Britain at large. Its writers, in every department, are eminent practitioners in the particular branch to which each is devoted; and new departments are frequently made, and supplied, without regard to expense. The 'Lancet' is deemed a Medical Vade Mecum,' and its sale in this country will be enormous. The same publishers have expanded upon their ample counters all the English and American ‘annuals,'' keepsakes,' 'presents,' 'gift-books,' every thing' presentable,' in short, for man, woman, or child, in this gay season. It is a sight to see!'.. THE anecdote of JARVIS, the painter, recorded in our last number, has reminded a correspondent of another, which is equally felicitous, and somewhat kindred in character. He was one day engaged in painting the Bishop of Virginia; and during the progress of the sitting,' the venerable prelate began to remonstrate with him upon the dissipated courses into which he had fallen. JARVIS made no reply; but dropping his pencil from the forehead of his portrait to the lower part of the face, he said, with a slight motion to his reverend sitter, 'Just shut your mouth, Bishop!' By painting upon that feature, he averted the admonition of the divine, and presently changed the subject.' Apropos of JARVIS: is it generally known that he has a son in this city, an artist of great skill, a pupil of his pupil's, HENRY INMAN, who inherits his father's genius without its too common attendant? Mr. JARVIS, Jr. executes pictures of children, especially, that seem transfers of actual flesh and blood to the canvass. . . . .. 'Boyd's City Express,' let us thankfully say, is one of the most complete accommodations of its class to be found in town. Its ramifications embrace the most distant parts of the metropolis, its deliveries are frequent and prompt, and every thing which enterprise and care can do to render the system perfect is cheerfully performed. Mr. BOYD deserves all the success which has attended his experiment... Mr. S. N. DICKINSON, the eminent Boston printer, has issued the tenth volume of his Boston Almanac' for the present year. It fully sustains the high reputation which it had previously acquired. The table of 'Local and General Events for the Year' is very full and well selected; there is a new and costly map of the city of Boston; a carefully-prepared Business Directory; and a complete list of the newspapers of New-England, of which, by the way, she may well be proud. The calendar is by Prof. PIERCE, of Cambridge, who supplies the same department in the well-known 'American Almanac.' Altogether, the Boston Almanac' leaves little to be desired, in a work of its kind. The two engraved business-cards of the worthy publisher, which line the insides of the cover, are beautifully designed and admirably executed. NOTICES of Mr. LYMAN COBB'S Reader, GREELEY'S Address, DUNNIGAN'S superb Douay Bible, SCHOOLCRAFT'S Onéota,' American Works Abroad, Publications of Messrs. APPLETON, and of the Messrs. HARPERS, were in type for the present, and are in type for our next issue. ART. I. A FEW CANDID OBSERVATIONS. BY WILLIAM WHITE, III. THE DESTRUCTION OF CARTHAGE. BY MISS MARY GARDINER, V. THE VOYAGE OF LIFE. BY JOHN RHEYN, VI. PASSAGES FROM THE RUSSIAN OF KARAMSIN. NUMBER TWO. 1. MY DAY. 2. THE GRAVE. 3. INNOCENCE. VII. EARTH'S MYSTERIES. BY SUSAN PINDAR, VIII. DARK ELLSPETH'S LIFE-TALE. BY MRS. J. WEEB,. IX. LAVARIUM OF THE ROMAN VESTALS AT POMPEII. By 'G. H.,' XI. ST. VALENTINE'S DAY, AND OTHER MATTERS, XIII. THE STAGE CONSIDERED AS A MORAL INSTITUTION, XV. NEW-YEAR FANCIES. BY WILLIAM H. C. HOSMER, ESQ., XX. FAREWELL THOUGHTS: TO MY COUSIN JANE, LITERARY NOTICES: 1. DR. LEE'S DISCOURSE ON MEDICAL EDUCATION, 2. THE WAIF: A POETICAL COLLECTION. BY H. W. LONGFELLOW, BY MR. C. P. CASTANIS, 167 3. CONVERSATIONS ON THE OLD POETS. BY JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL,. EDITOR'S TABLE: 1. ANCIENT TRAVELLERS IN THE EAST, 2. SANDS' BLACK VAMPYRE:' SECOND AND LAST NOTICE, 3. MRS. ELIZABETH BARRETT BARRETT'S POEMS, 4. SOME THOUGHTS ON CONVERSATION, 5. GOSSIP WITH READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS, 1. A FEW CANDID OBSERVATIONS,' ETC. 2. AN ECCENTRIC PHILOSOPHER:' PEEP LITERARY RECORD: CAMPBELL'S POEMS; NARRATIVE OF THE EXPLORING EXPEDITION; 'WILTON HAR- 168 171 173 174 175 AN article from Blackwood, giving some statistics with regard to the increase of crime in different parts of the world, was lately republished in many of our papers. According to the views of the writer, there is much more crime in England than in France; there is more crime in Prussia, where there is 'education,' than in France; that in Hindostan, where there is a permanent armed force, there is a great diminution of crime; and the propositions laid down seem to be, that the want of proper police force is the leading cause of crime in England and America. It is not the absence of force of any kind that causes crime. There is undoubtedly more crime in England than there is in France; and yet there is more police force to suppress what is termed crime in EngÍand than there is in France. There is in France great military power, under the immediate control of the government, which is used chiefly to awe those who are disposed to commit political offences; but what is termed the police system is more rigid in England than in France; and the punishments attendant upon conviction are much more severe in England than in France. In the former place it is a well-ascertained fact that there has been a great diminution of crime since the severity of the criminal code has been reduced, and capital punishments for lighter offences abolished. With regard to Prussia it is no doubt true, that notwithstanding the extent to which education has been vouchsafed to the masses, there is more crime than there is in France. But why? Not because there is no force to prevent or to punish crime; for there is great military power at the command of the government, forming part of the police force, so called. With regard to Hindostan, we do not know what is intended when it is said that there has been a great diminution of crime in consequence of the establishment of a permanent and armed force. What do you mean by crime? The people of Hindostan, in the proper acceptation of the word, are all criminals, or nearly so. Under this armed force they are wretchedly degraded, without moral sense or uprightness of motive. A late writer speaks of an entire want of truth as the characteristic, and avers that perjury in Hindostan is scarcely considered a crime: the people are demoralized by force. Then why is it that there is less crime in France, as is shown by accurate calculation, than in the other countries named? It is simply because the public mind and the public heart are properly cultivated; it is because those pharisaical influences, so deadly in their effect upon the tone of the people, are discarded: it is because public and innocent amusements are provided by the government, and sympathies are awakened which run through all classes of society, making France in all its component parts one body. Provide sound moral activity, and there is no need for trouble as to the extent of police force: begin by removing the causes for crime, and it will no longer be demanded that we should secure means for the punishment of offenders. Hold it to be true, for it is so, that where there is much crime, the nation, as a nation, must be particeps criminis; for crime is the consequence of an absence of adequate moral provision for the masses. We would deprecate altogether the idea of force when any reformation is proposed; whether it is force of government, of law, of the bayonet, or of diseased public opinion. In this community, we suffer under the disastrous influences of diseased public opinion, and what may be properly called Phariseeism; counteract those influences, and there will be no more necessity for apprehension as to police organization. We pride ourselves upon our 'religion,' as they did of old whom our SAVIOUR came to rebuke; and at this moment there is more crime, public and private, and less true religion among us, than there is in Paris. We have certainly more of the forms of religion, as the Pharisees had, but less of the honest sentiment; we are especially distinguished for our Sunday manifestations, and for our long prayers in public places. Our religion is all term, form, definition. We have yet to learn that there is religion in joy and laughter; in the honest expression of a thousand sympathies and affections, vouchsafed to us by GoD, to make glad the heart of man. Our attention is not directed to the cultivation of a healthy public temperament; we are guided by dictionaries; this and that are defined as crimes; particular sects are the doors to salvation, others to damnation. A native American is shot, a Roman Catholic church is destroyed, and these are hailed as 'religious' triumphs by their respective partizans; and they are the inevitable consequences of the sad spirit of Phariseeism which pervades the community. Strangers have observed a peculiar tightness of expression and countenance in our community; and such is the case: there is a want of frankness and sincerity of manner - an appearance of constraint; all growing out of the causes before adverted to. We are a tight-laced people, with a great deal more arrogance and spiritual pride than religion; we have little or none of the beauty and loveliness of religion; in our observances there is an air of gloom and deformity. It is a singular fact that our congregations when leaving their churches on Sunday, immediately after having been, in doctrine at least, in the |