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his favorite department, is sure to be worthy of attention. This little book has already proved its own value to those who have read it; it is enough for us that it bears the name of its accomplished and experienced author.

The Utility of Collegiate and Professional Schools. An Address in behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Collegiate and Theological Education at the West. By EDWARDS A. PARK, Abbott Professor in the Andover Theological Seminary. Andover. 1850.

This discourse appeared as an article in the Bibliotheca Sacra for October, and is now published in a separate form suited for a wider circulation. Never have we read a discourse relating to education, which we have wished to be more widely circulated. It is an elaborate argument in behalf of Collegiate and Professional Schools, for their ample support and their farther multiplication, wrought from one of the richest veins of the author's large and liberal mind. We will not attempt an outline of its contents, for we could not thus do justice either to its noble sentiments, or to the eloquent style in which they are set forth. Let the discourse itself be read, and there will arise in every mind a higher appreciation of our schools of learning, and of the inestimable benefits they are conferring, and in every period of our history have conferred, not only on those who have received their instructions, but upon the communities and the neighborhoods in which they are planted.

A Concise Practical Grammar of the English Language, with Exercises in Analysis and Parsing. By J. T. CHAMPLIN, Professor in Waterville College. New-York: D. Appleton & Co. 1850.

One thing naturally leads to another; and in accordance with this profound truth, we have no doubt that the preparation of a Greek and a Latin Grammar leads, by a tendency which it is difficult to resist, to the preparation of an English Grammar. Professor Champlin has no less than three Grammars-a Greek, a Latin, and an English-now before the public for the benefit of the rising generation; and what is especially worthy of remark, they are all excellent Grammars. The English, the one now before us, and the latest born of the three, is a work of upwards of two hundred pages, prepared in accordance with philosophical principles, and supplied with exercises in analysis and parsing. Among the more than three hundred grammars in which our mother tongue is taught to childhood, this is undoubtedly one of the ten or twenty that are worthy to be used in schools.

The World's Progress: A Dictionary of Dates. With Tabular Views of General History and a Historical Chart. Edited by G. P. PUTNAM, New-York: G. P. Putnam. 12mo, pp. 692.

It would be difficult to compress within an equal number of pages, a larger amount of valuable historical information, arranged for ready reference, than is embraced in this unique and handsome volume. The editor is a gentleman of middle age, who has been for many years largely engaged in business, and one can hardly understand how he has commanded the time for the wide reading which this volume indicates, or for the patient classification and arrangement which have given it its form and value. Following a Chart of History, curious and useful, on the plan of Dr. J. Priestley, we find Tabular Views of Universal History, so arranged as to show both the general Progress of the World, and the leading contemporary events of its great divisions. These Tabular Views embrace Ancient 10

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and Modern History, and are brought down to the present time. we find Haydn's Dictionary of Dates, incorporated almost entire, with additions relating to the United States; then a Literary Chronology, on the basis of that in the Companion to the British Almanac, extending the Catalogue, however, and increasing the amount of information given. This Chronology begins with Moses and terminates with writers of our own times. It embraces writers of many countries, and arranges them in three columns, under the heads, respectively, of Imagination, Fact, and Speculative and Scientific. Following this, we find an alphabetical list of Heathen Deities, and other Fabulous Persons, with the Heroes and Heroines of Antiquity, and a Biographical Index. Those who possess this volume would by no means part with it. It is elegantly and correctly printed.

A General View of the Fine Arts, Critical and Historical. With an Introduction by D. HUNTINGTON, N. A., A. M. New-York: G. P. Putnam. 12mo, pp. 472.

This work is more a compilation than an original performance, and embraces the collected results of a lady's reading and study while herself under tutelage as an artist. It opens with a summary of the conjectures on the origin of the Fine Arts with which most intelligent readers are familiar, and with observations on the advantages to be derived from their cultivation, and a few general rules of criticism. Taking up then the several Arts, Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Music, it proceeds to give in brief the history of each, with notices of the most distinguished Artists and their works. Its details are sufficiently extended to be attractive, while at the same time it compresses a vast deal of information within a narrow compass. Mr. Huntington's Introduction will secure for it a merited confidence, and its effect can hardly fail to be the more rapid diffusion among us of a taste for the studies of which it treats.

The Works of Nathaniel Emmons, D.D., late Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass.; with a Memoir of his Life. Edited by JACOB IDE, D.D. Vol. VII. New-York: M. W. Dodd, Brick Church Chapel. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. North Wrentham, Mass.: Charles Simmons. 1850.

We published an extended and highly commendatory review of the first six volumes of these works, soon after their publication in 1842. In that review we expressed the wish that the sale of the work might be such as to warrant the publication of a part or the whole of the remaining four volumes of sermons which the editor had selected for the purpose, and which were said to be as valuable as those then presented. Of course, we now rejoice in the appearance of this additional volume, and hope it may ere long be followed by others. Dr. Emmons stands conspicuous among that very small class of writers whose opinions, on whatever subject, are eagerly sought by every inquisitive mind. Even his opponents are anxious to see them, and to peruse the clearly and concisely stated reasons he has for them. Indeed, in addition to more weighty considerations, Dr. Emmons is himself so much of a curiosity, that the curious are never weary of communing with him; and, withal, so fine a moral writer, that the lovers of elegant diction and a pure, chaste, and direct style, are always delighted in perusing his works. Through the most rugged and thorny mazes of metaphysics, he makes for them so straight and smooth a passage that they follow him without fatigue or annoyance; nor does he

need, like most popular writers, to allure them by strewing flowers in the path.

The present volume contains forty-two discourses; many of them on new subjects, but a part on themes discussed, to some extent, in the previous volumes, but more fully illustrated in this. In paper and type it resembles the previous volumes, and a portion of the copies are in the same style of binding and lettered as a continuation of his works, in order to accommodate those who already own the previous volumes.

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Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. By his Son-in-Law, WM. HANNA, LL.D. In three volumes. Vol. II. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1850.

This noble biography loses none of its interest as it progresses. To many readers this second volume will exceed the former in interest and value. It contains but eight years of Dr. Chalmers' eventful life, (the years of his pastorate in Glasgow ;) but the variety of the topics which it embraces, and the sound, deep, practical philosophy of the application of Christianity to the physical and spiritual wants of a great and densely crowded city, are full of instruction to all who would look beneath the surface of things, and minister successfully, not to the mere external symptoms and obvious manifestations of misery, but to its latent causes.

We should love to examine more fully some of the suggestions here contained; but a better opportunity will perhaps be furnished on the appearance of the concluding volume of this most important Memoir. The present volume, extending to nearly 600 pages, is replete with valuable interest from beginning to end.

A New Memoir of Hannah More; or, Life in Hall and Cottage. By HELEN C. KNIGHT. Published by M. W. Dodd. New-York. 1850.

Hannah More died in 1833, and her "Life and Correspondence," edited by William Roberts, was published in two volumes, in the course of the following year. That work is a complete portraiture of her useful life and exalted character. It is, however, fast passing away from the notice of the generation now upon the stage, and we are glad to meet with a "New Memoir" that will again present this distinguished woman to the attention of the public, and especially of the young of her own sex. The work is short and pleasantly executed, and while it omits the details of the life of Mrs. More, it sketches with spirit and effect the most important scenes in which she acted, the philanthropic labors which she performed, and several of the illustrious characters with whom she was associated. It also contains some agreeable specimens of her correspondence, and in a graceful conclusion sets forth the great lesson which her life is so well fitted to teach. It is a book admirably suited to interest and improve the minds of the young.

History of Madame Roland. By JOHN S. C. ABBOTT. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 18mo, pp. 304.

The History of Madame Roland, recently added to the series which have proceeded from the pen of Mr. Abbott in rapid succession, is not inferior in interest to any of its predecessors. It gives a graphic sketch of the formation and growth of that wonderful character which she exhibited during the exciting scenes of the French Revolution, and furnishes a powerful delineation of the part in those scenes which was borne by her.

Like all the books of the series, it so pursues its way through prevailing opinions and incidents, as to guard the faith and morals of the young, for whom it is designed. The conception of these volumes was a happy one, and the labors of the author have been rewarded by a wide circulation of his works.

The Evening of Life; or, Light and Comfort amid the Shadows of Declining Years. By JEREMIAH CHAPLIN. New-York: L. Colby. 12mo, pp. 228.

We welcome our friend from whom this book proceeds to the field of authorship. His work, in part a compilation of brief extracts from choice writers of many ages and countries, and in part composed of brief articles from his own gifted pen, is replete with suggestions and solaces which are fitted to cheer the evening of life, and will be accepted by the aged with peculiar satisfaction and gratitude. The tone of piety which pervades it is as mellow and beautiful as the serenest twilight of summer. With admirable good taste the type on which it is printed is large and clear, and the paper white and substantial. It forms an elegant volume,-just such an one as filial love will be most happy to bear to the parental roof as a memento of affection. The well-chosen dedication, “To мY MOTHER," will recall to many minds the person and virtues of the widow of the late Rev. Jeremiah Chaplin, D.D., the founder and first President of Waterville College.

A Cenotaph to a Woman of the Burmın Mission; or, Views in the Missionary Path of Helen M. Mason, By FRANCIS MASON. New-York: Lewis Colby. 24mo, pp. 187.

Mrs. Mason was a woman whose virtues endeared her to her own family and friends, and whose useful labors as a missionary will live imperishably in the recollection of her missionary associates, and of those sitting in the region and shadow of death to whom she bore the light of life. This volume, with a title which we like not, contains the record of her life, and utters her husband's tribute to her memory. It is beautifully executed, and will be an acceptable and useful book among the friends of missions.

The Wide, Wide World. By ELIZABETH WETHERELL. In two volumes. New-York: George P. Putnam. 1850.

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We know nothing of the author of these volumes save what the volumes themselves reveal. In these, however, we have found a work of singular interest and power-a simple and touching story, in which are portrayed the purest and noblest of characters, serenely treading the pathway of Christian truth and duty through the wide, wide world." It belongs to the class of religious novels, but it is among the first and highest of the class. It tells how a mother's prayers are answered in the beautiful life of her orphan child—how Heaven shields from harm its chosen ones—how all things conspire to reward and bless simple-hearted virtue; and how piety gilds, like the morning sun, every form of character, and every scene of life on which it rests. The work contains no sentiment that is not pure and just, and through the plot of the story holds the imagination bound by its spell. The development and final issue are in accordance with the teachings of Christian truth and the laws of Divine Providence. It is a work which we cannot forbear highly to commend.

Poems of Hope and Action. By WILLIAM OLAND BOURNE. New-York: G. P. Putnam. 8vo, pp. 143.

For several years readers of the better class of our magazines and journals have been accustomed to meet with occasional poems from the pen of Mr. Bourne. These poems have always been those of "hope and action." Mr. B. belongs among those who believe that progress is a law of the social state, and he is always hoping therefore for a better time. But he would apply no quack remedies-no human inventions. His faith is in the gospel as the true reforming power, and in the gospel published and applied with earnest energy. These views pervade his poems, and give to them their character. We think this character has been a chief occasion of their popularity. Hope and action are characteristics of our times, and whatever is inspired by the common sentiment awakens a common response. We do not think that Mr. Bourne's poems indicate in the highest degree the creative faculty, and yet they are in this respect superior to a vast deal of the sentimentality which passes for poetry even among cultivated readers. They are poems, which is saying a good deal, and we think them creditable to the head and the heart of their author. His allusions to the press are accounted for by the fact that he is a practical printer, and magnifies his office.

Reveries of a Bachelor; or, a Book of the Heart. By IK. MARVEL, Author of "Fresh Gleanings." New-York: Baker & Scribner. 1850.

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Ik. Marvel is the nom de guerre of a pleasant, well educated, and much travelled young gentleman, who belongs to the State of Connecticut, and who began his literary career a few years since, while abroad, by contributing letters of great spirit and interest to the columns of the NewYork Courier and Enquirer. The name is now found on the title-page of several most agreeable volumes which are to be met with in nearly every family among whom there is much taste for pleasant reading. Those that we now remember are “Fresh Gleanings from Old Fields," "The Battle Summer," and we were about to write the Lorgnette," but we believe it does not bear the name, though it is pretty generally ascribed to the pen, of Ik. Marvel. These "Reveries of a Bachelor" relate to many different scenes, and are descriptive of a great variety of moods. They everywhere indicate a mind of serene and gentle spirit,-well stored with the learning of books and with the richer lore which travel and observation in many lands can alone bestow. They are written in chaste and idiomatic English, and by their quaint allusions and quiet meditative tone, often remind us of Charles Lamb, as he appears in that most delightful of his works, the Last Essays of Elia.

Esop's Fables: A New Version, chiefly from Original Sources. By Rev. THOMAS JAMES, M.A. With more than Fifty Illustrations, designed by JOHN TENNIEL. New-York: Robert B. Collins. 8vo, pp. 224.

This edition of Æsop merits attention, not less for the labors of the editor than for the artistic taste and skill which have been exhibited in the outward garb in which it is given to the public. Indeed it is very seldom that a book appears, which, in the beauty and effect of its illustrations and the elegance of the letter-press, can be compared with this. Mr. James has taken great pains in collating versions of Æsop, and in the investigation of authorities, and has certainly made a great advance upon the corrupted editions which have been in circulation. Fables which have lived two thousand five hundred years, it is safe to conclude have still many years before them, and it is gratifying to possess them in a form worthy of their immortality.

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