matic forms of reasoning are perhaps made too prominent, until the skeleton protrudes from beneath the flesh that should clothe, and mainly conceal it. Some of his conclusions may appear unwarranted, even to those who sympathize in most of his principles. It is dedicated in terms of warm and reverent admiration to Chancellor Frelinghuysen. Lady Mary; or Not of the World. By the Rev. CHARLES B. TAYLOR, M. A. New-York, Stanford & Swords, 1845. Some of the earlier publications of the Rev. Mr. Taylor, have acquired much favor in his own country, and as reprinted in this. The very effective tract on Temperance, "The Fool's Pence," is his. Belonging to the evangelical section of the Established Church of England, he has in this tale, one of much quiet beauty, presented his views of the mode in which Christians of affluence and refinement, and high in station, should fulfil the apostolic precept, and while in the world, not be of it. He claims to present under imaginary persons, real character. The narrative is gracefully written, and without bitterness; although evidently intended to bear against Romanism, and the movement that commenced with the Oxford Tracts for the Times. The wife and mother, as delineated in Lady Mary, who gives title to the book, is a portraiture of rare excellence. He is, of course, the advocate of Missions. It may be of interest to some who question the wisdom of the expenditures made in the cause of evangelization, to read an extract from the work, which will show the set-off with which the apologists of Missions meet the accusation of lavish and wanton profusion. The passage also groups together some facts we do not remember to have seen elsewhere noticed. "I am not at all astonished, (said the Bishop,) Self-denial may form a vast fund for the cause of God, as it has been well said by a brother Bishop. It is a frightful fact, (he added) to reflect upon the onormous sums that are yearly squandered by profossed Christian, in this country, in what no one can hesitate to term low and debasing pursuits. To say nothing of the cost of an opera box for the season, which is often three hundred pounds, the salary of a French cook, which has in more than one instance, amounted to five hundred, the receipts of an Italian singer, which during one season were at least fourteen thousand pounds-just think of the sums that are lost and won upon a race-course. Think, again, of one gambling house alone, namely, Crockford's, costing nearly one hundred thousand pounds, and that the receipts of its proprietor in one year have been reckoned to amount to the same sum; while the money lost anaually in all the gaming houses of London, has been calculated to be £7.225,000. It is said, indeed, that in one night nearly one million was lost at Crockford's. And I may just add to all this, that the mere duties on spirits and tobacco in the year 1834, amounted to £11,614,829."-pp. 191, 192. It is instructive; and to be impartial, it is indispensable that we thus see the opposite aspects, which, to the men of Missions, many of the every-day and unquestioned expenditures of the men of pleasure as sume. The Philosophy of Mystery. By WALTER COOPER DENDY. Harper & Brothers, New-York. The title of this book is itself a kind of mystery; for it very obscurely indicates the subject-matter, which is, to explain all those things in the morbid action of the human mind and nervous system of a strange and marvellous, or as it is often termed, a supernatural character and relation. Thus, the philosophy of ghoststories, spectres, and spectral illusions, second-sight, and other phantasies of the brain, illusions of art, demonology, dreams, nightmare, somnambulism, imitative monomania, trances, mesmerism, spells and charms, fairy mythology, and the whole class of mental delusions and illusions, are passed in review, and subjected to the test of science and reason. It abounds in interesting facts, stories and illustrations, narrated and discussed in a style of great purity and elegance, and may be read to much advantage and instruction. We doubt whether the author has judged wisely in throwing his matter into the form of dialogue between imaginary characters. This method of philosophising by dialogue has, to be sure, illustrious examples in ancient and modern times; but although Plato and Cicero gave us the names of living men in their writings of this class, they have failed to communicate any great degree of dramatic vivacity to their dialogues, still their speakers, and especially those of Cicero, discuss, ably and fully, the opposite sides of each question. Mr. Dendy's book is too compact, and embraces in small compass too great a diversity of topics and facts, to admit of the same degree of development. Hence, his Evelyn and Astrophel, his Ida and Castaly, are rather tedious personages, who stand in the way somewhat, and impair the general value of a work which is otherwise extremely well written, and full of entertainment and instruction. Father Ripa's Residence at the Court of Pekin. Translated by F. PRANDI, New York. The Rhine, by VICTOR HUGO. New-York, Wiley & Putnam, 1845. These neat volumes form the third, fourth, and fifth volumes of Wiley & Putnam's Foreign Library. Public attention has recently been called to China, and a new interest manifested in the manners He permanent expansion to the imagination, and to the taste, and to all those capacities of the soul, by which beauty is perceived and enjoyed. Drawing is, in fact, the study of beauty; and no one can really understand and appreciate the beauty which the beneficent Creator has scattered so profusely around us, in every variety of aspect, without attempting by means of the pencil to reproduce its forms." The series of Animals and Heads, equally well adapted to young learners, and in some respects, more attractive, are in press. We would specially commend this entire series to the examination of parents and and history of that country. The lectures recently delivered on the subject were fully attended, and no little curiosity is felt to know what our late minister has to say on the same theme. The appearance of Father Ripa's book is, therefore, very timely. He is well known to travellers as the founder of the Mission school at Naples an institution which attracts the visits of all intelligent philanthropists, not less than Pompeii and the Museo Borbonico. Few Europeans have enjoyed such facilities in China as Father Ripa. was nineteen years at the court of Pekin, and in the service of the Emperor. His memoirs include this period, and an account of the foundation of the colleges for the education of the young Chinese at Naples. Poems of Many Years. By RICHARD MONCKThe Rhine, by Victor Hugo, will be generally perused both for the sake of the subject and the author. It is an unaffected and spirited narrative. Although the scenes are familiar to all readers of modern literature, they are observed and commented on by the French novelist, in his own peculiar vein, and contain numerous graphic and attractive passages. Abbott's Drawing Cards, for Schools and Families. New-York. Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway. 4 series, 50 cents each. The Messrs. Abbott (Jacob & John S. C.) authors of the Rolla Books and other valuable works for the young, well-known, and widely circulated, have, as the result of their many years experience in teaching formerly in Boston, and latterly in conducting a large and flourishing young ladies' seminary in New-York-issued a new and attractive series of Cards for teaching drawing. These Cards embrace Elementary, Outline, Foliage, and Cottage series, and for the good taste with which they are designed, and the smallness of their compass, and the moderate price at which they are afforded, will prove in public and private schools, and in families, more valuable than any thing that has yet been published in this branch of education. They proceed step by step from the simplest principles to the more complicated groupings, while in every sketch the authors seem to have had an eye both to the pleasure and interest of the learner. Each series comprises thirty-two cards, amounting in the set to 128. They are accompanied by a small pamphlet of directions, On the Character of the Designs, Materials, Perpendicularity of Lines, Correctness of Proportion, Effect, and on Designing, the closing paragraph of which we quote: "By pursuing the study of Drawing on these principles, you readily perceive that it is a highly intellectual art, and that the attainment of it will give a great and a teachers. TON MILNES. A new edition. Boston, The publications of this house are more like the best specimens of English typographical art than any issued in this coun try. This is especially true of their editions of Tennyson, Motherwell, Barry Cornwall, &c. To this delightful series of poets we now have added the name of Milnesa name highly honored in England, both socially and politically. As a poet, Milnes is not calculated to be widely popular. He is too delicate in sentiment, and wise in thought, to strike the universal heart. Bnt not a few will give him a cordial welcome, for the volume before us contains genuine poetry. There is the meditative spirit of Wordsworth in these poems without his baldness. A quiet meaning may often be discovered in the most unpretending stanza; and a remarkably sweet mingling of thought and feeling, shades of tender sentiment, touches of high morality and elegant description, are encountered on almost every page. Our limits do not permit extracts, or we could cite numerous poems to prove the justice of this commendation. At present we can only call attention to this beautiful volume. The same publishers have just issued an elegant reprint of Mrs. Jameson's Characteristics of Women-a work too widely known and highly appreciated to need our praise. FRANCIS & Co's CABINET LIBRARY OF The example of other publishers in issuing series of books of established merit, has been followed with excellent judg ment in the earlier numbers of this library. C. S. Francis and Co. 252 Broadway, are, it will be remembered, the publishers of Mrs. Child's writings, and the first volumes of their Cabinet Library consist of her admirable History of Women, a work long out of print, and one which will be read with great interest by those who first be The third and fourth numbers of this series comprise Mrs. Norton's Poems; their re-publication meets a decided want on the part of readers of poetry, as the only previous American edition was exhausted very soon after it appeared. came acquainted with the authoress, is eminently poetical, and has been made through her "Letters from New-York." familiar by the chaste and eloquent pen We regard Mrs. Child, as, in some respects, of the historian Prescott, to whom the the first of American female writers. She work is with singular propriety dedicated. may be excelled in inventive power, in Another circumstance which will create a fiction, and in the fanciful details of verse, spontaneous interest in Montezuma, is the but we know of few women, if any on this author's name. He is the son of the Irish side of the water, who are so capable of novelist whose high-wrought fictious cretreating a given subject with thoughtful ated as much sensation in their day as earnestness, and who carries her own those of Mrs. Radcliffe, and notwithstanding reflective and imaginative powers more the subsequent revolutions in taste, still efficiently into the discussion of whatever afforded passages indicative of remarkable topic interests her feelings. This praise is insight into the passions of the heart. The justly hers, whatever we may think of her author of Montezuma has given evidence theories; and we consider the popularity of in this Review, of his taste and scholarship, her writings as among the good signs of by the spirited translations of the Spanish the times, for she is a most sincere advocate ballads which have appeared in our preof the beautiful, the right and the true. vious numbers. His present effort will essentially add to his reputation. Dr. Bird, of Philadelphia, treated the same theme some years ago, with marked success. Mr. Maturin has, however, written an historical romance, the style of which is more glowing. He has thrown over the career of the Mexican Prince, the warmth of his Irish sympathies. There is frequent spirit in his scenes, careful reference to facts, and no small degree of dramatic interest in their statement. The volumes are issued in the same style as those previously put forth by Paine & Burgess. The same house have also published the second part of Mr. Lester's Artist, Merchant and Statesman. This volume contains additional memoirs of Powers, a sketch of the Vespucci family, and descriptions and reflections in regard to Michael Angelo, Galileo, and the localities and works of art at Florence. A notice of several other valuable works-The Greece of the Greeks, Machiavelli's Prince, &c-from their press, must be deferred for want of space to our next number. Mrs. Norton is a lineal child of genius; and the well known circumstances of her life, her remarkable personal beauty, and the charm of unquestionable mental superiority, combine to throw around her name and writings an unusual interest. Her poetry is the very opposite to what is called transcendental. It belongs to the earlier school of Rogers, Campbel and Byron, and aims at the fervent, but intelligible and direct expression of thought and feeling. Mrs. Norton, we believe, was first inspired by sorrow. Her poems relating to her children are touching and beautiful. Her descriptious of nature frequently remind us of Byron, and so does the impassioned feeling that glow in many of her poems of sentiment. There is, indeed, no small degree of reality in her poetry. Some of her sonnets, which are written on the Shaksperean model, are as fine specimens of this species of verse as we have met with. Her last production, the "Child of the Island," of which the present is the only edition ever published in this country, is an elaborate plea for the poor and laboring classes of Englandaddressed to the young Prince of Wales. It is written in the Spenserian stanza, and abounds in affecting pictures of human suffering, and ardent appeals as well as cogent reasoning for its relief. The work has some rich passages, and is not only creditable to the genius but to the heart of the writer. Montezuma, the Last of the Atzecs. By There is something in the title of these neat volumes, which will touch the romantic chord in many minds. The subject THE POEMS OF ALFRED B. STREET. Complete Edition. New-York, Clark & Austin. 1845. We have before referred with approbation to the style in which the publishers of these Poems have issued other works of a similar kind. The volume now before us is put forth with the same regard to mechanical neatness and beauty, and we trust its sale will reward the enterprise and the genius which gave it birth. Extensive circulation is seldom to be hoped for works which appeal so faintly to the practical spirit of our times and people. Yet did space allow, we should be tempted into a somewhat elaborate argument, to prove that the cordial reception of such books agrees perfectly with genuine utilitarianism. As a people, it is generally conceded that we lack nationality of feeling. Narrow reasoners may think that this spirit is best promoted by absurd sensitiveness to In of the panther, the roar of the winds, the melody of birds, and the odor of crushed pine-boughs, are present to our senses. a foreign land, his poems would transport us at once to home. He is no second-hand limner, content to furnish insipid copies. but draws from reality. His pictures have the freshness of originals. They are graphic, detailed, never untrue, and often vigorous; he is essentially an American poet. His range is limited; but he has had the good sense not to wander from his sphere, candidly acknowledging that the heart of man has not furnished him the food for meditation, which inspires a higher class of poets. He is emphatically an observer. In England we notice that these qualities have been recognized; his "Lost Hunter," was finely illustrated in a recent London periodical-thus affording the best evidence of the picturesque fertility of his muse. Many of his pieces, also, glow with patriotism. His "Grey Forest Eagle" is a noble lyric, full of spirit; his Forest Scenes are minutely, and, at the same time, elaborately true; his Indian legends and descriptions of the seasons, have a native zest which we have rarely encountered. Without the classic elegance of Thomson, he excels him in graphic power. There is nothing metaphysical in his turn of mind, or highly artistic in his style; but there is an honest directness and cordial faithfulness about him, that strikes us as remarkably appropriate and manly. Delicacy, sentiment, ideal enthusiasm, are not his by nature; but clear, bold, genial insight and feeling, he possesses to a rare degree; and on these grounds we welcome his poems, and earnestly advise our readers to peruse them attentively, for they worthily depict the phases of Nature, as she displays herself in this land, in all her solemn magnificence and serenc beauty. foreign comments or testy alertness in regard to what is called national honor. We incline to the opinion founded on well-established facts, both of history and human nature, that the best way to make an individual true to his political obligations, is to promote his love of country; and experience shows that this is mainly induced by cherishing high and interesting associations in relation to his native land. Every well-recorded act honorable to the state, every noble deed consecrated by the effective pen of the historian, or illustrated in the glowing page of the novelist, tends wonderfully to such a result. Have not the hearts of the Scotch nurtured a deeper patriotism since Sir Walter cast into the farrows of time his peerless romances? No light part in this elevated mission is accorded the poet. Dante and Petrarch have done much to render Italy beloved. Beranger has given no inadequate expression to those feelings which bind soldier, artisan, and peasant, to the soil of France. Here the bard can draw only upon brief chronicles, but God has arrayed this continent with a sublime and characteristic beauty, that should endear its mountains and streams to the American heart; and whoever ably depicts the natural glory of America, touches a chord, which should yield responses of admiration and loyalty. In this point of view alone, then, we deem the minstrel who ardently sings of forest and sky, river and highland, as eminently worthy of respectful greeting. This merit we confidently claim for the author of these poems. That he is deficient occasionally in high finish-that there is repetition and monotony in his strain-that there are redundant epithets, and a lack of variety in his effusions, we confess, at the outset, is undeniable; and having frankly granted all this to the critics, we feel at liberty to utter his just praise with equal sincerity. Street has an eye for nature in all her moods. He has not roamed the woodlands in vain, nor have the changeful seasons passed him by without leaving vivid and lasting impressions. These his verse records with unusual fidelity and genuine emotion. We have wandered with him on a summer's afternoon, in the neighborhood of his present residence, and stretched ourselves upon the greensward beneath the leafy trees, and can therefore testify that he observes con amore, the play of shadows, the twinkle of swaying herbage in the sunshine, and all the phenomena that makes the outward world so rich in meaning to the attentive gaze. He is a true Flemish painter, seizing upon objects in all their versimilitude. As we read him, wild flowers peer up from among brown leaves; the drum of the partridge, the ripple of waters the flickering of autumn light, the sting of sleety prow, the cry DICK'S GREAT ENGRAVING OF THE LORD'S SUPPER--The appearance of this su perb work, is truly an epoch in the history of the for though we had heard for some time that he was art in America. It took us entirely by surpriseengaged on the ambitious attempt of copying, and emulating Raphael Morghen's great engraving of Leonardo da Vinci's great painting, we little expected to witnest a success so splendid as this. No over it, we have not been able to discover it. As a thing equal to it, nothing approaching it, has ever been produced in this country-nor, indeed, has it been surpassed by any European burin. If the original, from which it is copied, has any advantage trophy of national pride, that our country should have produced so magnificent a specimen of the art, independent of its inherent beauty and value, we cordially recommend to every one of our readers having a mantel piece to hang it over, to procure a copy. The price is only $5-a price incredbly low, in view of the usual expensiveness of fine large engravings. The price in London of a proof mpression of Morghen's plate is 50 guineas, or $230. The impression, from which the present engraving hes been copied, cost $200 in Italy, and an eminent artist has recently offered $300 for it. It is the property, we believe, of the widow of the late Luman Reed, Esq., and is now in the possession of J. Sturgis, Esq., of this city. The long protracted and minute labor of finishing the plate, has seriously, but we trust not permanently, affected the sight of the artist. Mr. Dick acknowledges with gratitude, much valuable, friendly assistance re ceived from the artists, Durand and Doney. If any of our readers shall feel induced by this recom mendation to desire to possess it, by adding $1 to the price of the engraving, and forwarding it to Mr. Dick, (66 Fulton st., New-York,) they can receive it, securely packed, for transmission to any distance. For the further addition of $9, a handsome gilt frame will also be furnished. MONTHLY LITERARY BULLETIN. The APPLETONE, N. Y., have in preparation, the Greek and Latin Books of T. K. Arnold, for Schools and Colleges, revised and corrected, by J. A. Spencer, A. M. These books are among the most popular in use in England, and have attained an extensive circulation in all her public schools, and leading institutions of a higher grade. The first and second Latin Book and Practical Grammar, 1 vol. 12mo-A Practical Introduction to Latin Prose Composition. 1 vol. 12mo.-A first and second Greek Book, with easy exercises, and a Vocabulary, 1 vol. 12mo.; and a Practical Introduction to Greek Prose Composition. 1 vol. 12mo.,-are nearly ready. The 5th volume of the Series-CORNELIUS NEPOS, with Critical Questions and Answers; the 6th ECLOGA OVIDIANE; the 7th-A first and second LATIN VERSE BOOK; the 8th-A PRACTICAL INTRODUCTIONTO Latin Verse Composition, and others will follow. These books are introduced by the American Editor, so far as his labor in revision and correction extends, to illustrate and carry out in the practical details of instruction, the principles of Ollendorf's System, whose works on Learning to Read, Write, and Speak, the German and Italian languages, are now coming rapidly into use.. They have also in press, A Speaker for Schools. By Rev. W. Sewell-A History of the later Roman Commonwealths. By Dr. Arnold-and in preparation, Dr. Carpenter's Manual of Human Physiology. The first German Book. By T. K. Arnold-The Horse, in Health and Disease. By Jas. W. Winter; and other works. This house have just issued several valuable volumes, a notice of which, we are obliged to defer. Among these, are Arnold's History of Rome, 2 vols. 8vo. $5; his Sermons, preached in Rugby School Chapel, 1 vol. 16mo., 75 cts.-The Christmas Holydays in Rome. By Rev. Wm. J. Kip, 1 vol. 12mo.History of New Netherlands, or New-York under the Dutch. By E. B. O'Callagan. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 500, $2 50-and a Practical Treatise on Healthy Skin. By E. Wilson, F. R. S-A work well worth perusal. 1 vol. 12mo. WILEY & PUTNAM have just published several attractive and important works, a notice of which we must also defer-The Letters and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell. By Thomas Carlyle, I vol. in 2 parts, 50 cts. each; The Book of Christmas. By Thos. K. 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This house have in progress, some of them nearly ready for publication, the following works:-Mr. Mills's admirable System of Logic,'-of which we gave a highly favorable review in our pages some months since; Count Montholy's Narrative of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; The Travels of the eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope-Emilia, or Female Influence, by the popular author of Two Old Men's Tales'-Mrs. Gore's new novel, entitled 'Peers and Parvenues'-also the Citizen of Prague, translated by Mary Howitt-all of which will ap pear simultaneously with the English editions, being printed from the early proof sheets, purchased by the Messrs. H. Dickens' new Christmas book, called 'The Cricket on the Hearth,' will appear immediately after the arrival of the steamer. 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TarPAN, Boston, continue their Musical World, at 25 cts. the No. They have recently issued, The Young Housekeeper's Friend, by Mrs. Cornelius, the wid ow of the Rev. Dr. Cornelius, late of Andover, Mass, and one of New England's sterling, well-educated women. The work contains receipts in every department of cookery, with remarks on the purchase and keeping of family stores. We have seen no book of the kind, which looks so much to economy and health, both in the preparation of the family table, for all classes, and in the more expensive and richer delicacies. NEW MUSIC.-The Ethiopian Serenaders, nine Songs and a set of Cotillions, 25 cts.-Fairy Bells, words by Mrs. Norton, 64 cts.-Love Now, Reply to Mrs. Norton's Love Not, 6 ets.-The Light of other days has faded-It is better to laugh than to be sighing, 6 cts. each-6 Songs, from the Opera of the Enchantress, by Balfe, 25 cts.-The Outward Bound, 6 cents-A set of Quadrilles by John Strauss, 12 cts.-Four sets of Popular Quadrilles, E. 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