liberal foundation, and bid fair to confer a luster upon that young state. The publication of this elegant volume is one of the signs of promise.

The work, suggested, as the author states, by the able Superintendent of Public Instruction, Hon. Ira Mayhew, is marked by a mastery of the subject, by great clearness of style, and by a freshness and independence of treatment derivable from original investigation alone. It is properly a preparatory to the most advantageous study of human physiology, which can be completely understood in its true philosophy only by thoroughly grounding the pupil in a knowledge of lower physiology. The author therefore commences with the simplest elements of inorganic life, and traces the germs of constructive existence through the vegetable and animal natures up to the actual completion of the lower rudiments in the crowning capital of the whole structure, man. All this can be successfully accomplished, because this development, organic if not historical, exists in the wonderful system of nature. The educator, whose purpose is to present nature as she stands in all her forms and relations, finds it important therefore to delineate the inferior preparatory to the superior.

Yet, if we mistake not, Dr. Goadby's book, complete and masterly as it is, closes with an unnecessary abruptness with the completed development of a single human organ. Another volume is needed from the same or another hand, in uniform style, to finish the temple of living nature, to which all of Human Physiology will properly belong.

The beauty and copiousness of the illustrations form a characteristic of the work at its first opening, pleasantly saluting the eye. The figure is in white lines upon a dead-black ground; mostly uncolored; many of them original with the author; and the whole highly creditable to the genius of the youthful artist.

(15.) “A new Latin-English School Lexicon on the basis of the Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. C. F. INGERSLEV. By G. R. CROOKS, D.D., late Adjunct Professor in Dickinson College, and A. J. SCHEM, A.M., Professor of Hebrew and Modern Languages in Dickinson College." (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1858.) One step or two forward of all its predecessors. For even in lexicography progress reigns and works her new devices and ever fresh improvements. The two accomplished scholars who have issued this work have availed themselves of past advances, have studied well the principles by which they should be guided in the construction of a practical manual, and have added some happy methods of their own. Between this and any other Lexicon yet published in our language the student has, we think, no reason to hesitate.

We are expecting a full review of the work.

IV.-Belles-Lettres.

(16.) The Literary Attractions of the Bible; or, A Plea for the Word of God considered as a Classic, by LEROY J. HALSEY, D.D. (12mo., pp. 441, New-York: Charles Scribner, 1858.) This work is a noble and

successful attempt to bring before the popular notice the beauties of the inspired word, considered merely as a classic, and as such it deserves to be regarded with favor. The cool eye of criticism, intent on searching out defects, might, indeed, occasionally espy a slight blemish of style. A little too much discursiveness and a trifling verbal excrescence may now and then be discovered; but these defects, if defects they may be called, appear very small indeed when placed in contrast with the obvious and decided excellences of the work.

In prosecuting the task on which he enters, our author examined some of the general characteristics of the Bible, and from these he educes a weighty argument in favor of its use as a text-book in our common schools and higher institutions of learning. He contends earnestly and ably that it is the right and the duty of American Protestants to teach the word of God to their children, not only at home but in the school, and that spirit of antichrist that would trespass upon this sacred right, receives at his hand a graceful though cutting rebuke. He justly holds, that without the Scriptures a thorough education is impossible. He next proceeds to an examination of the poetry and bards of the Bible, and at his bidding, the rare beauty and matchless sublimity of the Hebrew poesy stands boldly forth to greet the reader's admiring gaze. The orators and eloquence of the Bible also pass in appreciative review, while the types of female character, and the representative young men of the Bible, comprise that portion of the work more specifically devoted to the consideration of the biography of the Scriptures. The author next treats of the science and sages of the Bible, and of the objects of sublimity and beauty which it contains. Taken as a whole this book justly merits a place among the best religious literature of the day. We commend it heartily to such as appreciate earnest and elevated thought, expressed in chaste and beautiful language, and to all who would perceive and value the glorious and sublime attractions of the word of God.

A.

(17.) "A Compendium of American Literature; Chronologically arranged, with Biographical Sketches of the Authors, by CHARLES D. CLEVELAND.” (8vo., pp. 740. Philadelphia: E. C. & J. Biddle, 508 Minor-street; New York: A. O. Moore. 1858.) A fine collection of American literature, furnished with appropriate biographies, and selected with pure taste and high moral purpose. It is a transcript of the best American mind, a vehicle of the noblest American spirit. No parent who would introduce his child to a knowledge of our country's literature, and at the same time indoctrinate his heart in the purest principle, need fear to put this manual in the youthful hand.

We commend Mr. Cleveland that while in his selections he has presented the well-filled constellation of American ideas in their complete circle, he has not allowed what was the noblest and most cental idea of all in the better days of our republic, FREEDOM, to be like a lost pleiad, missed. In our own young days the reading books of our schools contained choice lessons of pity for the bondsman, eulogy upon the heroes of liberty, and thrilling assertion of

the rights of man. Let those noble lessons be again restored, and our youth be indoctrinated with those same old generous impulses. This is bravely, yet not obtrusively done in this choice volume by its judicious compiler, furnishing a book that is a book, by a man that is a man.

There are in this volume, from the lips and pens of American orators, prose writers, and poets, some of the finest specimens of talent in the English language. Of the earlier writers Edwards, Ledyard, Franklin, Hamilton, Ames, and Dwight appear, not in the hackneyed selections which have become trite by repetition, but in draughts freshly drawn from the original fountains. Of late authors Brainard, Sands, Hillhouse, Cooper, Poe, and Percival. Of living writers, Irving, Everett, Bryant, Wayland, Prescott, Bethune, Willis, Longfellow, Whittier, Mrs. Stowe, and Lowell, are alone sufficient to show that we have a brilliant living literature. And the topics are worthy of the minds that treat them. Patriotism, peace, temperance, education, religion, are among the subjects that, inculcated by such minds, are leading on the age in the path of a glorious future.

(18.) "The Age; a Colloquial Satire. By JAMES PHILIP BAILEY, author of 'Festus.'" (12mo., pp. 208. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1858.) Ebenezer Elliot said of Mr. Bailey's "Festus," that "it contains poetry enough to set up fifty poets." It was, indeed, set to a high, bold strain, such as a true poet in the exuberance of a powerful young imagination could maintain. The present is the sport of his easier hours, very much in the tone of irony attributed to the Lucifer of his "Festus."

It is in the form of a dialogue between the author, a critic, and a friend, in which the leading topics of the day are discussed.

The author reads Britain a lecture upon her crimes and her consequent unfitness to rebuke the sins of other nations, and in the following couplet ingeniously presents the opposite poles of our American social system:

"Can we who once a good example gave
Taunt Uncle Sam with Uncle Tom his slave?"

The following passage expounds the compendious mode of criticising a book:

CRITIC.

But now I think of it,—

AUTHOR.

Why yes; I've brought
A trifling MS. which I hoped-I thought-

CRITIC.

Thank ye. I've seen so many in my day;
In fact, I read but little any way,

And manuscript, I must say, least of all,
Young authors mostly write such wretched scrawl,
They might have been (so deems a mere outsider)
Taught penmanship by some demented spider,
Whose education had been so neglected,
That what his pupils proved might be expected.

AUTHOR.

I thought you read what you reviewed?

CRITIC.

Sometimes,

When our opinion with the author's chimes.-Pp. 48, 49.

(19.) "Electron; or, the Pranks of the Modern Puck. A Telegraphic Epic for the Times. By WILLIAM C. RICHARDS." (12mo., pp. 84. New-York: Appleton & Co. 1858.) A work of considerable frolic, fancy, and graceful versification, founded upon a scientific subject. It is a gem of typographic beauty, and very suitably adorned upon its cover with a beautiful electrotypic design.

V.-Miscellaneous.

(20.) "Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South." (New York: James M. Edney. 1858.) This is a lithograph of all the bishops of the Church, South, since the separation. The venerable Soule occupies the center, with Early and Andrew on either side. Pierce, Kavanagh, and Paine occupy the summit, and the deceased Bascom and Capers, the base. This will be an acceptable piece to all interested in the annals and magnates of universal Methodism, or specially of the Church, South.

(21.) Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church." Lithographed by Grozelier. (Boston: Franklin Rand. 1858.) Mr. Rand's handsome sheet presents the best collective "counterfeit presentment" of our venerated bishops yet extant. It is done in the finest style of lithograph, the likenesses are mostly excellent, and the whole is a very acceptable presentation to the friends of our honored Pastors General.

(22.) A full notice of Buckle's "History of Civilization" is postponed to the next number. Also of Minturn's "From New York to Delhi," Dunlap's "Spirit-History of Man," and Professor Gesner Harrison's work on the "Greek Particles."

THE following works have also been received, for notices of which we have

not room:

(23.) "Memoir of Joseph Curtis, a Model Man. By Miss C. M. SEDGWICK.” (18mo., pp. 200. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1858.)

(24.) "Christian Hope. By JOHN ANGELL JAMES." (18mo., pp. 333. New-York: Carter & Brother. 1858.)

VI.-Periodicals.

(25.) “The Knickerbocker; or, New York Magazine." (New York: John A. Gray. 1858.) The accession to the editorial chair of Dr. J. O. Noyes, a

name familiar and attractive to the readers of our National Magazine, furnishes us occasion to introduce this magazine to the notice of our readers. The Knickerbocker has now arrived at its fifty-second volume; and amid the rises, falls, and various mutations of countless ephemeral and changeable monthlies, it has held its onward way, preserving a certain willful individuality, as well as a characteristic physiognomy, giving token of a vitality and pertinacity quite its own. Its literature is pure, elevated, indigenous. It is not only a permanent, but nigh unto being a venerable institution—almost a Knickerbocker antiquity in our Knickerbocker city. We trust that the freshness, ambition, scholarship, and talent which will be brought to its pages by our young friend will in time make it not only almost but quite.

ART. XIII.-MISCELLANEA.

THE Doctrine of the Atonement deduced from Scripture and vindicated from Misrepresentation. Six Discourses, preached before the University of Dublin, being the Donnellan Lectures for 1857. By John Cotter Macdonnell. These lectures are said to be unsurpassed by any publication on the subject since the issue of Archbishop Magee's work. The author's purpose is to relate the doctrine of the Atonement, with its evidences, in such a mode as to neutralize the objections of Maurice and Jowett, yet without noticing their objection in detail.

Zaphnath-Paaneah; or, the History of Joseph, viewed in connection with Egyptian Antiquities. By Rev. Thornley Smith, is commended as a work of no ordinary excellence.

A new edition of Shuckford's Connection, with notes by J. Talboys Wheeler, to be followed by an edition of Russell's Connection, in uniform series, is in process of publication, by Tegg & Co., London.

Since Cardinal Wiseman has published his Personal Recollections of the Four Last Popes," Gavazzi proposes to publish My Recollections of the Four Last Popes. A Biography and a Reply."

The Life of Dr. Adam Clarke, by J. W. Etheridge, is noticed with high commendation by the British Quarterly.

At Paris, Hachette has published La Philosophie Saint Thomas d'Aquin, per Charles Jourdain; a work in two volumes octavo, which has received the prize of the Imperial Institute of France for an essay on the celebrated Thomas Aquinas.

The writer is said to have invested a presumably dry subject with unexpected interest.

A third edition of Cours de Droit Natural, by the late Professor Joouffroy, (whose valuable Introduction to Ethics was translated by George Ripley, and published some years since in this country,) has also been issued by Hachette. Joouffroy was one of the earnest thinkers of his day, less brilliant than Cousin, yet in spite of his being repelled by the absurdities of Romanism into a rationalistic state of mind, to be valued for the impressiveness of his moral teachings.

A valuable work on Comparative Philology had been issued by M. Durand, entitled Aporçu Général de la Science, Comparative des Langues, pour servir d'Introduction à un Traite Comparè des Langues Indo-Europécenes. Par Louis Benlow, Professor à la Faculté des Lettres de Dijon. 8vo.

The most masterly work on Church history that Protestant France has produced for many years, is noticed by critics, namely: Histoire de Trois Premiers Siécles de l'Eglise Chretienne.

Par

E. de Pressensé. 8vo., vol. 1. Paris. Pressensé has availed himself of the latest productions of German research.

One of the most brilliant historical writers of France is Arséne Houssayé. His Galerie du Dix-huiteme Siécles, is in fact, criticized as too brilliant; as so wanting in repose as to appear sacrificing truth and nature to point.

The London Eclectic Review has the