North American Indians," is, we are happy to observe, about speedily to be issued in London. Our restricted limits forbid more than a brief notice of another important recent issue in another department of literature-we refer to the concluding (fourth) volume of the works of Robert Hall, from the press of Harper & Brothers. The masterly productions of this distinguished theologian have ever held a proud pre-eminence among the schoolmen of the age: by some of the best critics the rhetoric of Hall has been regarded as unsurpassed by anything in the language; and were such high meed of distinction even to be questioned, any emanation from so gifted a source, cannot fail of arresting very general attention. This new volume comprises a large amount of highly interesting matter-it includes biographical notices of the author, full of anecdote and incident, to which are annexed numerous abbreviated discourses, notes of sermons, and other occasional papers. This fourth volume completes the works of Hall, and is now, for the first time, given to the world by Rev. Dr. Belcher, recently from England, under whose supervision it appears.

A very flattering critique on Mrs. Butler's volume of poems, we notice is given by the London Athenæum, in which even a higher estimate is awarded to her rare poetical talents than we have elsewhere encountered.

Mr. S. Hart, Sen., of Charleston, has in press a volume edited by Mr. Simms, designed for the ensuing holidays, to be styled "The Charleston Book," comprising a series of Essays, Poems, and other local legendary literature of that fertile section of our land.

Charles Knight has evinced no less critical acumen than complimentary generosity, in his selecting a series of papers from the "Lowell Offering," published and written by the factory girls of that place, and incorporating them in among his series of shilling volumes for the people; under the title of" Mind among the Spindles." Harriet introduces the volume with an admirable and enthusiastic letter, to which Mr. Knight appends also some very appropriate and flattering observations.

Talking of the complimentary, we ought not to forget the distinguished honor conferred recently on Dr. Samuel Forry, of our city, by the Boylston Medical Committee of Harvard University; this consisted in awarding to the Doctor the prize of a gold medal, valued at fifty dollars, for his "Essay on Vaccination," which bore off the palm among a host

of other honorable competitors of his professional brethren.

J. S. Redfield announces the "Elements of comparative Anatomy," designed especially for the use of students, by Rudolph Wagner, M.D., Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Gottingen, &c., &c. Edited by Albert Tulk, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons; also, "The Pictorial History of the American Revolution," illustrated with several hundred engravings, in one volume octavo; the "Military Maxims of Napoleon," translated from the French, with notes and illustrations, by Col. D'Aguilar, Dep. Adjt. Gen., British service. "Thoughts among Flowers," a republication of the London Religious Tract Society, and the "Religious Lacon, or Holy Thoughts." Both in the Miniature Library style. Since our last issue, the same publisher has brought out an edition of "Napier's Peninsular War," complete in one volume octavo. Also, "The Child's Prayer and Hymn Book, and a neat little devotional Manual, entitled "Think, Act, Pray." Put up in the Miniature Library style.

Harper and Brothers have in Press"Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch." Translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon; "The Textile Manufacturers of Great Britain," by G. Dodd; "The Jilt," by the author of "The Marrying Man," &c.; "The Grahame Family," by Hussey Gould; "Memorials of Many Scenes," by Richard M. Milnes; "Sunday Afternoons at Home," by the author of "Christ our Example;" "Five Tales of Old Time;" "Persecutions of Popery," "Historical Narratives of the most remarkable Persecutions occasioned by the Intolerance of the Church of Rome," by Frederic Shoberl; "Anecdotes of the English Language," edited by the Rev. Henry Christmas; "Christian Politics," by the Rev. William Sewell, D.D.; "Memoirs of Bernal Diaz," translated from the Spanish by John J. Lockhart; "History of the Eighteenth Century," by F. C. Schlosser; "Henri de Clermont," by Rev. Wm. Gresley; "National Distress, its Causes and Remedies," by Sam' Laing, Esq., Jun.; "The Holy Land," being Sketches of the Jews, and of the Land of Palestine; "Rambles in Germany and Italy," by Mrs. Shelley; "The Voyage of Life," by Georgiana C. Munro.

"Ellen Woodville, or Life in the West," is the title of a shining narrative, illustrative of our Western border life, and will, no doubt, find a welcome with nu

in opposition to each other. To preserve the political rights of the people, it is indispensable to secure those of the States, and under our system, the converse is almost as universally true. Interest in the principles of the State Rights school, therefore, is not confined to any particular section or exclusive clique. On the contrary, they involve the existence of democratic government itself, and the friends of the last cannot be indifferent to the first. They appeal to the rule of moral obligation in every heart, for they present a question of chartered rights, and all honest men must admit that the deed should be construed as it is, although they may desire that it should have been otherwise. To the friends of the Union and of the general harmony of the States, they make the highest possible appeal, for they present the only certain means by which we may secure both, to the lasting glory and happiness of our people. For ourselves, we believe that these ends can only be attained by preserving in its integrity the beautiful and well ordered system of government which our fathers have given us, and wo to the man who shall lay unhallowed hands upon it. There can be nothing more beautiful in political theory than our system as developed in the constitution by the State Rights rule of construction. Nor would it be difficult to demonstrate that the most serious difficulties to which our general government has been exposed, have arisen out of departure in practice from these salutary principles. It is by a strict adherence to the constitution thus construed, that our federal government can continue to conduct the march of American civilisation, and the progress of our people. Under the opposite principles of administering its powers, this advance would become impossible, as it would increase the number and bitterness of those sectional collisions which would be introduced within the bosom of the General Government, by this very construction, which invites differences, when there are no means for composing them. How much better adapted to the American genius is the State Rights theory of our system, which extends its capacities with the march of our people, and fulfils all the demands which can be made by their progress! Each new State or people who may be

associated with us, to the extent of their common interests and feelings, and to that extent only, would increase the strength and extend the beneficence of our institutions. The differences in national sentiment and interest, and the peculiarities in national genius, which are inevitable in so large a confederacy, would then cease to present formidable difficulties, for they are left to their own free development under the single restriction of not interfering with the equal rights of their neighbors, or coming into collision with others. How magnificent in conception! How beneficent in practice is this system! which associates nations in one great family compact, without destroying the social identity, or improperly constraining the individual genius of any; and cements into elements of strength and civilisation those very sources of difference which have heretofore destroyed the peace of mankind. It fulfils all the wants of American genius, and promises to realize the proudest hope in the American breast, for it affords the means of accomplishing the mighty mission upon which it is our glory to have been sent. The little germ of a new and mighty civilization was planted in the American wilderness, far away from the busy concourse of men who heedlessly or wantonly might have trampled it under foot. Under the superintendence of Providence, and the care of the few whose mission it was to guard it amid solitude and hardships, it grew, unseen or neglected by the rest of mankind, until it has struck its deep roots into the soil, and from the eastern shore of our continent where it was planted, it already casts its shadow far into the west. To guard it against envy and cupidity from abroad, to shield it from misguided friends or wanton violence at home, to mature its growth and extend its shelter, that all our posterity from sea to sea may ultimately repose in peace and happiness beneath its grateful shade, is the task which we have inherited, and the mission which we must accomplish. Difficult may be the achievement, too credulous may seem the hope of accomplishing such a destiny, but the resources of American genius are fully adequate to it all, if it will only adhere to the path which the constitution has marked out for its pursuit. Will it be thus wisely guided?