and Navy Journal, has been re-produced, for greater convenience in handling.

As our readers will find in another part of this number of THE HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, all that this tract contains, beside two very interesting papers which are not contained in it, we refer them to those pages of our own work for a knowlege of the contents of this.

We need not say that we consider this correspondence as among the most important connected with the history of the recent War, especially with the additions which it is our privilege to make to it; and we are glad that | it has been issued, even in this imperfect version, in a form which will be preserved and seperately catalogued.

There is no attempt at beauty in this little affair; yet it is very neatly printed.

B.-PUBLICATIONS BY SOCIETIES.

7-Eleventh Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, for the year 1868-9. In two Parts. New York: John W. Amerman. 1869. Octavo,

pp. (Part I.) xii, 98, (Part II.) 152.

Our readers are aware of the high estimate which we have placed on the Annual Reports of the Chamber of Commerce; and the volume before us is not less valuable than those which have preceded it.

The first Part is taken up with the current record of the Chamber's doings; but the Second Part is crowded with "Trade Reports," for 1868, of the Sugar, Molasses, Coffee, Petroleum, Naval Stores, Cotton, Hides, Leather, Boots and Shoes, the Whale Fishery, Tobacco, Dry Goods, Salt, Wines and Liquors, Foreign Wool, and Tea trades; and these are followed by twenty-eight distinct articles on the "Statistics of Trade and "Commerce," every line of which is big with interest to every business-man and to every one who has anything to do with commercial affairs. We wish our space permitted us to present some of the ugly facts, in business matters, which are revealed in this volume; but we suppose that few would regard them nor take warning from the important lessons which they teach.

8.-Life and Providence: A Sermon preached on the third Lord's Day in March, 1869, before the First Congregational Society in Somerville, in commemoration of the twenty-fifth Anniversary of the gathering of the Society. By Richard Marming Hodges, of Cambridge. With an historical Appendix. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 1869. Octavo, pp. 36,

Somerville was invested with the rights of a town, in March, 1842; but not until March, 1844, does any movement seem to have been made to organize a Church within its limits. This was done by the Rev. R. M. Hodges; and, in August following, the corner-stone of a church-edifice was

laid. In September, 1845, "a church proper, or "body of communicants," was organized; in February, 1846, Mr. Sargent succeeded to the Pastorate; in November, 1849, Mr. Pope became the Pastor; in July, 1852, the meeting-house was burned; in April, 1854, a second meeting-house was dedicated; in May, 1859, Mr. Lowe was settled as Pastor; in December, 1866, Mr. Barber was settled as Mr. Lowe's successor; in October, 1867, the second meeting-house was burned; in January, 1869, a third was dedicated; and, in March last, the twenty-fifth anniversary of the original gathering of the people was appropriately celebrated, by the same preacher who originally gathered in the unprovided-for townsmen.

In the Sermon, Mr. Hodges presented the Present of the Church and the world in contrast with those of the Past, at the period of the original gathering of the people, and with those of the Future, as they may be at the close of another quarter of a century; and he exhibited faithfully the grounds for thankfulness in all, in view of the progress of events which tend to the improvement of the condition of mankind.

and the First Society of Somerville proceeds on A brief Historical Appendix closes the work; its second quarter-century, stronger in faith and stronger in hope than it has ever been.

The tract is a very handsome one, from the press of John Wilson & Son.

9.-The System of Public Instruction in the State and City of New York. A memorial addressed to the State Legislature and the School Authorities by the German American Citizens of the City of New York, May, 1869. New York: E. Steiger. [1869.] Octavo, pp. 15.

Public Schools; and they evidently suppose they Our German neighbors are dissatisfied with our but we think they cannot, by the mode presented can improve them. Possibly they can do so: in this tract.

of the Republic depending on the moral and inThey start with the old story about the welfare tellectual culture of her citizens,-which is all nonsense-and they argue from that, that the Republic must therefore provide, at the public cost,

for the moral and intellectual cultivation of those citizens as reasonably as the blouses of Paris Sometimes demand labor from the Government, because labor is necessary for their support, and their support is essential to the Empire.

They demand a higher class of Schools; they demand a series of Training Schools for educating persons for Teachers; they demand the introduction into our schools of the school-systems of Germany and Switzerland; they demand new school-books; they demand instruction in the German language; they demand compulsory measures for securing a general attendance of all children, between seven and fourteen years of

tors, the Committees, the Faculty, and the Students; the Course of Study; and other matters usually found in such works.

17.-An Address delivered at Glen Cove, Long Island, at the celebration of the second_centennial Anniversary of the settlement of that village. By Henry J. Scudder, Esq. May 25, 1868. With an Appendix. Glen Cove: Printed for the Committee. 1868. Duodecimo, pp. 195.

In May, 1868, the village of Glen Cove, formerly known as Musquito Cove, celebrated its two-hundredth birthday. Salutes were fired, parades were organized, and public exercises, in a neighboring grove, commemorated the event, as such events should be commemorated; and in this beautiful volume we have a complete record of those long-to-be-remembered proceedings.

The Address, by Mr. Scudder, was written with good taste and was evidently received with entire approbation. The after-dinner speeches, also, were short, apt, and well-received; and we find nothing recorded which marred the pleasure which seemed to prevail throughout the village.

One portion of this record pleases us. The entire credit of organizing this celebration evidently belongs to a young citizen of Glen Cove, "who is quite an antiquarian"; and it is very evident, also, that the laboring oar of the entire affair was held by the same young man. Yet, strange as it may seem, in this our day, nowhere, in this record, do we see his head above those of his neighbors; and nowhere does he figure as a leader of the people. Let our readers know, therefore, that young JACOB T. BOWNE, whom we are glad to know as a personal friend, set this good example to his fellow New-Yorkers; and that a diligent imitation of that example, by other young men, in other villages, throughout the State and the Union, will bring more honor to themselves and more credit to their homes and kindred than they are now in the habit of producing.

As a beautiful specimen of book-making-except in some portions of the arrangement of the

material-this little volume will continue to be well known, even when those who organized this celebration shall have been forgotten.

18.-The Cornell University Register. 1868-9. Ithaca: Printed for the University. 1869. Duodecimo, pp. 92.

We need not repeat what we have said before concerning the Cornell University; nor need we describe what is so well known, concerning the peculiarities of that institution, to all our readers. The very neat little volume before us, for which we are indebted to our early and nevertiring friend, William A. Woodward, Esq., is the Annual, which yearly conveys to the world the proposed work of the University, the personnel

of its Faculties, its lists of Students, its Resources and its Wants, its Courses of Studies, and whatever else may be desirable for any one to know, concerning the institution and its surroundings.

As we said, this Register is neatly printed; but a little more care in the proof-reading would have saved the appearance of such evident errors as that, on page 42, which makes the students go to breakfast just thirty minutes before they are aroused from their last nap.

C.-OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.

19.-Annual Report of the Surveyor General of the Commonwealth, for the Year ending November 30, 1868. Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer. 1869. Octavo, pp. 41.

We notice this volume merely to bring before our readers the fact that it contains a very important Map, showing the various purchases made from the Indians, &c., in that State, and a list of Prices of Lands in Pennsylvania at various perjods—both interesting in historical quarters.

20.-Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 16381674. Compiled and translated from the original Dutch Records in the Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N. Y. 1868. Octavo, pp. xxxil, 602. By E. B. O'Callaghan, Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co.,

the State Government in New York is quietly printing, for the advancement of knowledge in relief of students of that history from much of the history of that Commonwealth, and for the the more tedious of their labors.

This is another of the series of volumes which

has presented a synopsis of the history of the Colony and of the Colonial Government, under the Dutch-in which, also, the system of Laws in Fatherland is carefully noticed-and among the Ordinances, for the illustration of Notes. them, there are interspersed frequent elaborate A very minute Index closes the volume; and, to those who are interested in the history of this State, few volumes are really more important.

In an elaborate Preface, Doctor O'Callaghan

21.-Rules and Directions of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania. Legislative Directory. Together with useful Political Statistics, List of Post Offices, County Officers, &c. By John A. Smull. Resident Clerk of the House of Representatives. Harrisburg: B. Singerly, State Printer. 1869. 16mo. pp. title-page, 412.

This is the Legislative Manual of the State of Pennsylvania, containing the usual statistics, rules of order, etc., which are found in such volumes, and which serve so well to assist the working student, in his tiresome search for hidden truths.

Of course every thing which relates to Pennsylvania is here; and we learn from it, also, that E. B. Washburne of Illinois, is Secretary of

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State of the United States, and A. T. Stewart of New York, its Secretary of the Treasury.

D.-TRADE PUBLICATIONS.

22.-My daughter Elinor. A novel. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1869. Octavo, pp. 257. Price $1. 25.

This is one of those volumes of fiction which the great world devours so greedily and the Harpers so well know how to supply. It is an American work; with American scenes and characters; and is full of the eciting incidents which are everywhere so welcome among those who use this class of works.

It is well-printed and will find a wide sale.

23.-The Law of Love, and Love as a Law, or Moral Science, Theoretical and Practical. By Mark Hopkins, D.D., LL.D., President of Williams College. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 1869. Duodecimo, pp. xix,

In our March number, we briefly noticed this volume, and promised to return to it; and we embrace this opportunity to do so.

The bold navigator who attempted to find a Northwest passage to Cathay, though he failed to accomplish the object of his search, did not make a fruitless voyage, for he incidentally added to the stock of geographical knowledge. Dr. Hopkins has boldly attempted to penetrate the terras incognitas, the undiscovered regions, of Moral Science; and, though he may have failed to accomplish his principal object, his attempt has not been fruitless, for he has thus, incidentally, conferred benefits on others who wish to study the science. He may have fallen into the mistake of placing before his readers, "enjoyment" instead of holiness, or to this exclusion, as the chief end of man; still this elementary error is, in some degree, compensated by his statement of important truths, though in some cases viewed in new and peculiar terms.

This book has the excellences and the defects to be expected from the author's aiming at originality in his theory rather than at the clearer and more attractive exhibition of well known truths. It shows logical acumen in stating metaphysical distinctions and philological accuracy in the use of terms rather than strong practical sense, founded on observation and consciousness. It is deductive rather than enductive. It puts us in mind of the spider, spinning its fine gossamer web from its own bowels, rather than of the bee collecting its fragrant honey from many flowers. It is crystalline from accretions in the author's mind rather than conglomerate from the debris of ́other works. It thus has the merit of being related in its parts to one whole, and the demerit of not being very closely related to certain great truths in the science, of which other masters have treated. It thus differs widely from Professor

Porter's recent work, The Human Intellect, being superior to it in one aspect and inferior in another. Each might with advantage borrow the excellencies of the other-the one gaining learning and the other originality.

The general object aimed at by the author is a noble one; and he has pursued it with marked ability, in an excellent spirit, if not with any great success. On the assumed results of intellectual science, he has endeavored to erect his structure of Moral Science, building on his own definitions and axioms, making his own classification, using his own terminology; still, we question whether he has made practical duties much more clear or much more inviting to many minds.

He must have enjoyed great satisfaction in an

alysing certain abstract moral truths into their elements, just as the natural philosopher analyzes the light of the sun into the seven primary colors of the spectrum; still, the light of the sun, undecomposed, is more useful than the brilliant colors of the rainbow. We are not sure but that a brilliant theorist in Moral Science, in composing ele mentary truths into a beautiful system, enjoys as much delight as the poet in composing a grand epic. Hickok and Hopkins may have enjoyed as much in their creations as Halleck and Holmes in theirs. The prophet who has a dream, let him tell his dream, whether in science or in poetry.

The substance of this volume was presented, in the form of Lectures, at the Lowell Institute, Bʊston. The intelligent and appreciative audience there could hardly fail to call forth the highest efforts from such a Lecturer, though they could scarcely furnish so good an opportunity for "the "advancement" of knowledge as for its diffusion. A popular audience requires popular treatment. A popular Boston audience requires that the Lecturer should conform his statements some what to their notions. Boston has been famous for its vagaries in morals, ever since wearing long hair has been practised; ever since eating mincepies at Christmas, was discovered to be sins; ever since banishing certain Episcopalians and murdering or whipptng at the cart-tail certain Quakers were discovered to be duties; ever since the Colonial Legislature provided for the exportation of Indian slaves and the importation of Negro slaves; ever since resisting the provision of the Federal Constitution for the restoration of fugativc slaves and burning the Ursuline Convent, under the sanction of "the higher law" discovered to be patriotic; ever since the destruction of private property, under the sanction of the Maine-liquor law, was discovered to be love to one's neighbor. Whether, in sympathy with some of his audience, the author, in the latter part of his book, omitted certain topics or modified his statements concerning others, consciously or unconsciously, we should not dare to affirm;

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