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The Anthology; or, Poetical Library. Part First. Containing Goldsmith, the Traveller, and other Poems. 18mo. pp. 35. Philadelphia.

Brambletye House; or Cavaliers and Roundheads. A Novel. By one of the Authors of Rejected Addresses.' 3 vols. 12mo. pp. 258, 272, and 295. Boston.

The Dying Peasant, and other Poems. By William Carey. 18mo. Philadelphia.

A Practical Treatise on the Law of Evidence, and Digest of Proofs in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. By Thomas Starkie, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Barrister at Law; Downing Professor of Common Law in the University of Cambridge. With References to American Decisions, by Theron Metcalf. 3 vols. 8vo. pp. 534, 978, and 793. Boston.

The Operative Mechanic and British Machinist; being a Practical Display of the Manufactories and Mechanical Arts of the United Kingdom. By John Nicholson, Esq. Civil Engineer. First American, from the second London edition. With Additions. In 2 vols. No. 1. Vol. I. pp. 144. Philadelphia.

The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. To which are added, Select Hymns, from other Authors. By Samuel Worcester, D. D. Stereotype Edition. 12mo. Boston.

A Legacy for Young Ladies, consisting of Miscellaneous Pieces, in Prose and Verse. By the late Mrs Barbauld. 12mo. pp. 151. Boston. David Reed.

An Abridgment of Lectures on Rhetoric. By Hugh Blair, D. D. Revised and corrected. To which is applied a new Method of Interrogating, by Samuel Worcester. 18mo. pp. 284. Boston. Cummings, Hilliard, & Co.

Reports of Cases argued and determined in the English Courts of Common Law. Edited by Thomas Sergeant and John C. Lowber, Esqrs. Vol. IX. Parts 3 and 4; containing the second volume of Bingham's Reports in C. P.

A Treatise on the Laws of Obligations or Contracts. By M. Pothier. Translated from the French, with an Introduction, Appendix, and Notes, illustrative of the English Law on the subjects. By William David Evans, Esq. Barrister at Law. In 2 vols. 8vo. Philadelphia.

Murray's English Reader; or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, selected from the best Writers, Improved by Jeremiah Goodrich. 18mo. pp. 303. Albany.

WORKS PROPOSED.

THE LEAGUE OF THE ALPS, with other POEMS, by MRS FELICIA HEMANS; together with a Selection from her former Publications; in one volume, 8vo.

Persons holding subscription papers are requested to return them immediately. The editor of the abovementioned publication will receive from Mrs Hemans the work about to be published by her, entitled The Forest Sanctuary,' as soon as may

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be after its appearance in England. It will be reprinted by him here, for her benefit, uniformly with the volume now proposed.

Proposals have been issued for publishing by subscription a new Edition of LEE'S MEMOIRS OF THE WAR OF THE REVOLUTION in the SOUTHERN DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES; with CORRECTIONS left by the AUTHOR, and with NOTES and ADDITIONS by H. LEE, the Author of the CAMPAIGN OF '81.

These last will contain short Biographical Notices of Generals Wayne and Pickens. The work will be delivered by Davis & Force, in the city of Washington, in one neat octavo volume, of about 500 pages, on or before the next meeting of Congress, and immediately after in the principal cities of the United States, at two dollars and fifty cents a copy.

We are glad to find that a new edition of this work is coming before the public under auspices so favorable. In its original form it constitutes a valuable contribution to the history of the American Revolution; and with the additions promised by the present editor, it connot fail to be rendered still more interesting and important. A new edition has been for some time wanted to answer the demand of the public.

A MAP OF THE NEW ENGLAND STATES, with the Adjacent Parts of NEW YORK and UPPER CANADA. By NATHAN HALE.

The character of this work, which is nearly ready for publication, may be best learned from the following extract from the Prospectus, just published.

This Map is drawn on a scale of eight miles to an inch. It exhibits the boundaries of every town, the principal public roads (distinguishing the turnpikes and most frequented public roads), the rivers and streams, bridges, villages, meetinghouses, and other objects which the size of the map admits of having delineated.

• In drawing the Map, care has been taken to consult, not only the published maps of the several states, but all the local maps, charts, and surveys of towns, or other sections of country, harbours, bays, rivers and roads, published or in manuscript, to which the compiler could obtain access. For the States of Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Vermont, the excellent maps of Messrs. Warren and Gillet, Carrigan and Whitelaw, drawn from surveys made for the purpose, left little to be desired. For the other states embraced in the map, all the published maps and charts have been carefully examined and compared, besides a vast number of manuscript surveys, made either by public authority or for private purposes. Among the surveys consulted are those made by Mr. John G. Hales, for a map of Massa chusetts; those made for determining the boundaries of the several states; the surveys of the towns in Massachusetts and Maine, in the office of the secretary of state, made by order of the legislature of Massachusetts; those made for ascertaining particular routes for canals, and for the improvement of Connecticut river; the numerous surveys and plans in the Massachusetts Land Office; and many others, for the use of which the compiler has been indebted to the liberality of their respective proprietors. For the boundaries of towns, the acts of incorporation have been consulted, and for the course of roads and streams, and the location of other objects, every source likely to afford information, and within the reach of the compiler has been resorted to, to supply, in addition to the fruits of his personal observation, the deficiency of complete surveys. It is therefore hoped that, with the great labour that has been devoted to the work for the space of several years, it is at least as accurate as any work of the kind that has been published in this country.

* An ingenious and careful engraver has been employed for several years upon the work, and so far as the execution has depended upon him it is believed the public will have nothing to complain of. He has been indefatigable in his exertions to render it correct, and of his success in the style of execution the public will be able to judge for themselves, on comparing it with works of a similar kind.

The engraving is now finished, with the exception of a few corrections which

remain to be made, and it will be printed and ready for delivery to subscribers in the course of a few weeks. It will be printed in four sheets, on paper of the best quality, made for the purpose.'

A TREATISE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN MIND, being the LECTURES of the late THOMAS BROWN, M. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, abridged and separated according to the Natural Divisions of the Subject, for the use of Colleges and other Seminaries, by LEVI HEDGE, LL. D. Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in Harvard University.

The design of this edition is to put the valuable work of Dr Brown into such a form as shall render it suitable for a Text Book in colleges and other seminaries. In order to this, 'the unending repetitions and diffused amplifications,' of the Lectures will be retrenched; and what is retained will be divided into Books, Chapters, and Sections; yet in such a manner as to exhibit, in his own words, and according to his own arrangement, every topic treated by the author, and to leave his reasonings accompanied by a sufficient number of illustrations.

As these Lectures, which did not appear till after the author's death, had never been prepared by him for publication, it is not surprising that not a little, which was highly useful in them as oral addresses, should have a contrary effect when they come to be carefully perused; and that the recapitulatory portions, which served to refresh the memory of auditors after a considerable interval, should prove merely an impediment and a cause of weariness to readers, whose perceptions are clearer, and whose progress is more sure and rapid, the nearer the related parts of the subject lie together.

Dr Brown himself published a Fragment of an Abstract of the First Part of his system, the Physiology of the Mind. Advantage will be taken of this, as far as it goes, in making the Divisions, and the whole will be executed, as nearly as may be, according to the known views of the author.

Though specially intended for academic classes, this book will probably not be unacceptable to general readers, who wish to become readily acquainted with Dr Brown's System of Mental Philosophy, or any part of it, as set forth in his own animated style.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW.

No. LIII.

NEW SERIES, NO. XXVII.

OCTOBER, 1826.

Col. H. Whiting,

ART. I.-1. Military Laws of the United States, to which is prefixed the Constitution of the United States. Compiled and published under Authority of the War Department. By TRUEMAN CROSS. Washington, 1825. 8vo. pp. 279.

2. Documents from the Department of War, accompanying the President's Message to Congress at the Commencement of the First Session of the Nineteenth Congress. Washington, 1825. pp. 92.

THE volume, whose title we have prefixed to this article, contains a complete code of our army legislation, from the commencement of the government, down to the present time. As this code exhibits the best history of our military policy, which can be attained, we have thought that a rapid review of the various acts it embraces would be neither uninteresting nor uninstructive. The mere fact, that our military establishments have been the result of popular legislation, has a novelty in it, which should command attention. In the older countries of the world, the army forms an essential part of the royal authority, and is often augmented or diminished without reference to the wishes, ability, or wants of the people.

Our venerable fathers, in framing the constitution of the United States, reversed the principles upon which military establishments had been founded for ages. They acted upon the VOL. XXIII. NO. 53.

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