want of success in his imputed dialogue between Milton and Cowley, in which the old po ets talk in the favorite antithetical strain of the writer himself, and we know at once that it is the modern essayist who is speaking to us in duplicate. Landor has caught most happily, in almost every instance, the tone of the personage whom he imitates, and the reader, who had never become acquainted with his writings, might take up Mr. Hillard's compilation and without a knowledge of the title, suppose that he was in reality running over excerpts from the classics. The volume is beautifully printed in quaint antique type, and upon the firm, delicately-tinted paper uniformly employed by the tasteful publishers.

HOME SERVICE. A MANUAL. BY WILLIAM BACON STEVENS, D. D. Philadelphia: Published by E. H. Butler & Co. 1856. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

An exquisitely printed devotional volume, containing forms of prayer and original sermons for the use of families debarred the privilege of regular attendance upon divine worship at church. The Rev. Dr. Stevens, the author, is an eminent Episcopal clergyman whose name will be a sufficient assurance of the orthodoxy and excellence of this religious manual to all who are within the pale of the same denomination with him-outside of that communion it is probable the work will have but a limited acceptance. We cannot too highly commend the taste displayed in the externals of the volumeits clear typography, firm white paper and handsome binding leave nothing to be desired.

SONGS AND BALLADS of the Revolution. With Notes and Illustrations. By FRANK MOORE. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1856. [From James Woodhouse, 157 Main Street.

Few of the lyrical effusions comprised in this work are remarkable for poetic excellence, but they are fragrant of Revolutionary patriotism, and have about them the ring of true metal. Interspersed with the songs of the rebels, are squibs in rhyine from verse-making officers of "his Majesty's Forces in North America" in ridicule of the cause-the most remarkable of which is perhaps the Cow-Chace of Major André. Ballads are valuable leaves of history, as Lillibullero and the Marseillaise sufficiently prove, and regarded only as a contribution to our historical literature, Mr. Moore's book is, in the highest degree, acceptable.

Our thanks are due to Professor James D. Dana of Yale College for a copy of a treatise on "Science and the Bible," being a review of Prof. Tayler Lewis's "Six Days of Creation." It was originally published in the Bibliotheca

Sacra, but the interest taken in the subject demanding for it a wider circulation than could be given to it in that periodical, Professor Dana has caused an edition to be issued in pamphlet form.

We beg also to offer our acknowledgments to Messrs. Miller & Melton of Yorkville, S. C. for a copy of the beautiful publication they have issued of the "Celebration at King's Mountain," noticed at some length in the opening article of our present number. These gentlemen show a highly commendable public spirit in thus fitly commemorating an interesting day in the history of their State, whilst the exquisite typogra phy of the brochure does equal credit to their own taste and the press from which it came.

DOCUMENTARY HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; Consisting of Letters and Papers Relating to the Contest for Liberty, &c. &c., 1764-1776, By R. W. GIBBES, M. D. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1855.

The compiler of this well digested map of revolutionary papers has done repeated services to the cause of American history in previous publications of a like character. Equally dis tinguished for his excellent judgment and his enlightened zeal, he has labored faithfully and well to rescue from decay the memorials of the past, now becoming like the leaves of the Sibyl, of the more value as they are fewer in number. The documents now laid before the public relate chiefly to the part borne by South Carolina in the struggle for independence, and, as the fire of patriotism burned nowhere with a brighter and steadier flame than in that glorious Commonwealth, it may well be supposed that they possess no ordinary interest for the student and the annalist.

NOTES ON CENTRAL AMERICA; Particularly the States of Honduras and San Salvador. By E. G. Squier. With Original Maps and Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1855. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

Mr. Squier has given us in the present handsome publication, a most interesting, account of a section of our own continent which seems to be as little known to us as it is largely discussed. At this juncture of affairs, when Central American politics engross the diplomatic attention of England and the United States, it happens very opportunely that we have the means presented of making ourselves accurately and minutely acquainted with the country, its climate, people and resources.

Among the recent publications of Mr. Bohn, for which we are indebted to Messrs. Bangs, Brothers & Co., of New York, sent through

Mr. J. W. Randolph of this City, we note the "Lectures on the French Revolution" by Professor Smyth of the University of Cambridge, as possessing a high order of merit. In fortyfour separate lectures the Professor passes in review the leading incidents of the first outbreak of popular fury in France, beginning with a summary of the reign of Louis XIV. and tracing the causes which led to the fatal results of the Reign of Terror, Appended to the work are Two Lectures on America, devoted chiefly to the expositions of the theory of our government by De Tocqueville and Mr. Webster. The style is calm and unimpassioned but colored to some extent by prejudice, and the Professor does not seem to us to have sufficiently apprehended the conservative elements of our civil polity, quite ignoring the checks imposed upon democratic abuses by the system of State governments-indeed looking upon us rather as a democracy of individuals than as a Republic of Commonwealths. These Lectures, however, deserve to be read in the United States as the utterances of a thoughtful and candid mind.

Of Bohn's British Classics two additional volumes of Bishop Hurd's Edition of Addison (Vols V. and VI.) completing the work, have appeared. The last volume contains a copious and satisfactory Index. The Classical Library has been further enlarged by the "Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius" and the 4th volume of Pliny's Natural History. It is superfluous to say anything in commendation of Mr. Bohn's "Libraries," their cheapness and value having already secured for them a very large acceptance in the United States.

PARISIAN SIGHTS AND FRENCH PRINCIPLES,

Seen through American Spectacles. By JAMES JACKSON JARVES. Second Series. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

Mr. Jarves writes with great spirit and vivacity, as those who read the First Series of Parisian Sights" have had occasion to discover, and his sketches of the French capital herein comprised are set off by numerous rude but droll and faithful illustrations. Many of these will be recognised as having already appeared in Harper's Magazine, but they are none the less adapted to their present purpose for that. We do not know any work that will afford the reader a better idea of the gay Metropolis of France than "Parisian Sights and French Prin ciples," and though the style is occasionly careless it never becomes tiresome as that of more ambitious writers often does.

Messrs. E. H. Butler & Co. of Philadelphia have issued a complete edition of Macaulay's History, comprising the four volumes in one,

which for several reasons is likely to obtain a larger circulation than any other yet published. Its cheapness, (the price being only One Dollar) its exact conformity to the original in orthogra. thy and arrangement, and the full and satisfactory index appended to each of the volumes, will commend it to the majority of purchasers and especially to those who desire to keep it as a book of reference. Mr. Morris has sent us & copy of it and has it for sale.

ALONE. BY MARION HARLAND of Richmond, Virginia. Nineteenth Thousand. New York: J. C. Derby, 119 Nassau Street.

THE HIDDEN PATH. BY MARION HARLAND, Author of "Alone." Seventeenth Thousand, Same Publisher. [From J. W. Randolph, 121 Main Street.

The extraordinary success of these popular novels continues unabated, and the publisher has been thereby encouraged to issue them in a new and uniform edition worthy of their literary excellence. It is a cheering evidence of the improvement in public taste that works so entirely free from any morbid sentiment should meet with so general and cordial an acceptance, and if Marion Harland has achieved nothing higher, she has shown the possibility of enlisting a wide sympathy in ideal characters of the purest and most wholesome type. Our own opinions of" Alone" and "The Hidden Path" as works of art have been so frequently given heretofore that it is unnecessary to repeat them.

KIT BAM'S ADVENTURES; or the Yarns of an Old Mariner. By MARY COWDEN CLARKE Boston Ticknor and Fields, 1856.

THE MAGICIAN'S SHOW Box, and Other Stories. By the Author of “Rainbows for Children." Same Publishers. [From James Woodhouse, 137 Main Street.

Very pleasant little volumes for the young folks, affording them far more wholesome reading than the juvenile scientific and didactic volumes that are so often placed in their hands only to give them a distaste for books or to put them to sleep. Both are agreeably illustrated with wood engravings and printed in the handsomest

manner.

The Poems of Henry Vaughan and Dr. John Donne furnish the material for two new volumes of that delightful edition of the British Poets which has been some time in course of publication by Messrs. Little, Brown & Company of Boston. Mr. Morris is the Richmond agent of the publishers, and will receive orders for the whole series, or any particular volumes that are desired.