present number of the Messenger on Old Bachelors. | universal accomplishment. Of the "other papers" conThis humor sparkles everywhere upon the surface of his tained in the volume not the least pungent are the instyle, as the moonlight passes shimmering over the rip- scriptions for the statues of the Georges. We give the ples of some beautiful mere. The Rector of St. Bar- last of the four. dolph's is the record of the experiences of a country clergyman, not kept with any professional design, but merely to chronicle the petty troubles and grievances of vicarage, and pleasantly to satirize the authors of them. Mr. Shelton has executed this self-imposed task in a manner at once piquant and delightful, causing us to derive from the parson something of the same amusement afforded by Cervantes' Don, though never for a moment degrading sacred things with impertinent or irreverent treat

ment.

The Complete Works of SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. Vols. I and II. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1853. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

We know not if it is designed under the general title of Coleridge's Complete Works to publish his Dramatic and Miscellaneous Poems. We presume, however, that such is the publishers' intention. If so, certainly this series of volumes will be one of great value. The first two now before us contain The Aids to Reflection and The Friend, and are printed in excellent style. We must enter our protest however, against the red-edges, à la brick-dust, which though well adapted to some of Coleridge's speculations by reason of its being the German fashion, is in shocking taste.

MR. Brown's Letters to a Young MAN ABOUT TOWN; with the Proser and other Papers. By W. M. Thackeray. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 200 Broadway. 1853.

PUNCH'S PRIZE NOVELISTS, THE FAT CONTRIBUTOR and TRAVELS IN LONDON. Same author and publishers. [From Nash & Woodhouse, 139 Main Street.

These little books we are disposed to consider the very best of Thackeray's minor compositions. Mr. Brown the Elder, the writer of the letters, is a most excellent old gentleman, the real and only original "fogy" (all others counterfeit) who philosophizes on London life and habitudes for the especial benefit of his young nephew, Robert or Bob Brown. Should Bob-supposing him to be a veritable and not a hypothetical Bob-act upon the advice given him by his worthy uncle, he will be altogether a better man and finer gentleman that nine tenths of the fellows he meets with at his Club or "in Society." The Elder Brown's code of ethics is indeed based upon that selfishness to which the cynic Rochefoucauld declares all our actions are referable, yet let the code be followed and we'll be sworn the man's the better for the practice.

GEORGIUS ULTIMUS.

He left an example for age and for youth
To avoid.

He never acted well by Man or Woman,
And was as false to his Mistress as to his Wife.
He deserted his friends and his Principles.
He was so ignorant that he could scarcely spell;
But he had some Skill in Cutting out Coats,
And an undeniable Taste for Cookery.

He built the Palaces of Brighton and of Buckingham,
And for these qualities and Proofs of Genius,
An admiring Aristocracy

Christened him the "First Gentleman in Europe."
Friends, respect the KING whose statue is here
And the generous Aristocracy who admired him.

A DIGEST OF THE LAWS, CUSTOMS, MANNERS, AND IN-
STITUTIONS OF THE ANCIENT AND MODERN NATIONS.
By Thomas Dew, Late President of the College of
William and Mary. New York: D. Appleton & Com
pany, 200 Broadway. 1853. [From A. Morris, 97
Main Street.

There is a degree of carelessness displayed in the title page of this volume, discreditable to somebody. The late President of William and Mary College was Thomas R. Dew, not Thomas Dew, as here represented, and it is altogether inexcusable in a posthumous work of this size and dignity, to exhibit so gross an error.

As a digest of Ancient and Modern History for the use of students, this volume is of great value. Mr. Dew was a man of the utmost clearness in the expression of his thoughts, and great skill in the arrangement and classification of his subjects-qualities which are made to show themselves every where in this treatise. We believe the labor of preparing this volume for the press, (although the fact is no where stated,) was performed by Prof. H. A. Washington, one of the finest scholars in our country, who himself contributed some of the more modern por. tions of the historical summary. Of course the task has been well done, in a manner alike worthy of the lamented author and his excellent editor. We cordially commend the volume to the public.

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