ner in these papers. In the way of illustrating his sub-|joyment afforded by his humorous description of the new ject by allusions to the earlier and later classics, no wri- Canaan and the adventures his party met with in their ter that we know approaches Mr. Baldwin- he seems to expedition into that strange land. And we say to all have the whole range of ancient and modern literature at who like a laugh, go to the bookseller's and get the his command. "The Virginians in a New Country" is" Blackwater Chronicle." worthy of Goldsmith in its easy and quiet satire and its smooth descriptions, while in the sketch of Prentiss there is a power of mental analysis and a regal pomp of language that only the acknowledged masters in the intellectual world possess. Mr. Baldwin is a young man, whose studies have hitherto been confined to his profession-the Law-in which he has risen to an enviable eminence :-it remains for him now to decide whether he will carry off the richest rewards of Law or Letters which are equally within his grasp-if indeed he does not show that like Legaré he is fitted to wear both the gown and the laurel with dignity. OUTLINES OF COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY, with a Sketch of the Languages of Europe, arranged upon Philologic Principles and a Brief History of the Art of Writing. By M. SCHELE DE VERE, of the University of Virginia. New York: G. P. Putnam & Co., 10 Park Place. 1853. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street. ADDRESS delivered before the Alumni Society of the University of Georgia. By the Hon. JOHN A. CAMPBELL, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. At the Annual Commencement, in August, 1853. Athens: J. S. Peterson. 1853. We return our thanks to the fair lady to whose flattering remembrance of us we are indebted for a copy of this Address of Judge Campbell. We have read it with interest, and find it compact of valuable truths and political wisdom. The following passage will afford some idea of the style and general bearing of the effort. After mentioning that it is not upon the commercial elements of our country that the eye of the statesman or philosopher reposes in contemplating the development of its institutions, Judge Campbell says "They ask for our treasures of science and learning; A very dry and unpromising title-page to a most agree- they count the products of art and imagination; they able and lively work. That M. Schele DeVere (who measure our growth in philosophy, our improvements in modestly writes himself" of the University of Virginia," legislation, in mechanical and chemical science; they without letting the public know that he fills an important range through our social and civil life; observe our apProfessorship there) is a ripe scholar, no one who reads preciation of the beautiful, our social relaxations and enthis treatise can entertain a doubt. We have had the joyments, the courtesy and amenity of our manners; they examine our trading propensities and habits of accumupleasure of knowing that gentleman for some years,the Messenger has been frequently graced by contribu-offered up to gain, the master idol of the land, perpetual lation, and pronounce, 'that within this Temple there is tions from his pen-and we do not hesitate to declare that a more cultivated person we have never met with. All this would be quite ont of place here, if his book, now under momentary discussion, did not abundantly sustain our opinion of him. Let no one, who would read a real-masses, that there has been discovered in this land, a ly entertaining volume, be deterred from purchasing these "Outlines" by the Philology' and 'Philologic' which occur in the title-the subject in M. Schele DeVere's hands is rendered positively attractive. sacrifice.' "Notwithstanding this harsh judgment, the minds of men are not convinced. There is a sure instinct which teaches the European society, its chiefs as well as its principle which has been embodied in institutions, frames laws, and sheds a brightness upon the daily life of our people, which is worth more than the prizes of art, invention, industrial conquests, material prosperity, the researches of science, the triumphs of literature-and which fully possessed and duly preserved, surely will bring with it all these treasures. It is the existence and develop statesman and publicist to pause at the mention of the American name. THE BLACKWATER CHRONICLE, A Narrative of an Ex-ment of this principle, which occasions the philosophic pedition into the Land of Canaan, in Randolph county, Virginia, a country flowing with Wild Animals, such as Panthers, Bears, Wolves, Elk, Deer, Otter, Badger, "This principle is found in the active and ever-living &c., &c., With innumerable Trout-By Five Adven-consciousness that our institutions and usages inspire in turous Gentlemen, without any aid of Government, the citizen, that he is a freeman, with inherent and acand Solely by their own Resources, in the Summer of knowledged rights, charged with concomitant duties and 1851. By "The Clerke of Oxenforde." With illus-responsibilities, which extend to, and pervade all the retrations from life by Strother. Redfield 110 and 112 Nassau Street. New York. [From J. W. Randolph, 121 Main Street. We commit no impropriety in saying that Mr. Pendleton Kennedy, the author of this volume, (whose feræ naturæ title-page we give at full length above,) is a gentleman whose literary tastes, shining wit and exuberant fancy, ought long ago to have been exemplified in a book. The Chronicle" which lies before us. good as it cer tainly is, does not, however, come up to our notion of what its gifted author could accomplish; if he chose. We are thankful to him, nevertheless, for an afternoon's en lations and interests of the society. That these rights and responsibilities do not centre in providing merely personal gratifications, nor selfish ends, but in the apt, full and faithful exertion of his faculties, to accomplish ends external to himself, in which society, in its various states and organizations, has a participation and interest, the censorship of the press, the guidance of conscience, "In taking from government the custody of religion, the control of opinion; in associating the citizen with the distribution of justice, the maintenance of social order, our people have not sought to diminish the claims of religion, veracity, or justice; the legitimate empire of all over the understanding, the conscience and conduct, is universally admitted. The experiment we have under taken is, to preserve their empire unimpaired, without vio- what singularly in French type, but the children will lence, authority, or constraint; by the free-agency, the always hail him with delight, come when and how he habitual efforts of a self-superintending population." may. These books are all capital for holiday presents and will prove very popular as such. LADY LEE'S WIDOWHOOD. New York: Harper & Brothers. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street. Let us be thankful that a clever novel has at last come out, which was written neither by Bulwer, nor Thackeray, nor Dickens, nor Charlotte Bronté. "Lady Lee's Widowhood" is unquestionably one of the wittiest and pleasantest things that the press of our day has given to the public, and to all those who did not read it as it ap peared in Blackwood's Magazine, we would say, by all means get the book. It furnishes the largest return of enjoyment for twenty-five cents that can be found in any bookstore in the country. THE BOW IN THE CLOUD; or Covenant Mercy for the The tone of this handsome volume is devotional; the essays which comprise it being contributed by some of the most eminent divines in this country upon subjects springing out of affliction and calamity in this world of trial. To those hearts which have been subdued by recent sorrow, it will prove a very friendly counsellor. The style of the publication is exceedingly good. The illustrations are very unequal in merit, some of them are effective, while others seem to us far unworthy of being placed in such elegant binding. THE PICTURE PLEASURE BOOK. Illustrated with nearly Five Hundred Engravings from Drawings by Eminent Artists. Two Series. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 200 Broadway. 1854. The Works of Jos.PH ADDISON. Edited by George The first volume of what promises to be the best edition of Addison. It will embrace many papers never before included in his collected works and the essay of Ma caulay on the life and genius of the great essayist. POPULAR POETS AND POETRY OF BRITAIN, Edited with Biographical and Critical Notices. By the Rev. Geo. Gilfillan, Author of "Gallery of Literary Portraits," etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Broadway. Four sumptuous volumes of this elegant edition of the British Poets have been issued-embracing Milton, Herbert and Thomson. We learn that they have already met with an extended sale, as might have been confidently expected from the extremely low price-One Dollar a volume-at which they were offered. The Appletons deserve the largest encouragement for the enterprise with which they have undertaken so considerable a work as this. The reader will find the volumes already published at any of the Richmond bookstores. THE POEMS OF GENERAL MORRIS. No one needs to be told that "Woodman Spare that Tree," or "On the Lake where Droops the Willow," are the most successful American songs yet written, but many may be thankful for the intelligence that these and many other,-in fact all the acknowledged poetes of the author are at last brought together in a suitable form. The volume is beautifully printed, superbly bound and admirably illustrated by Weir and Darley. It thus conPARLEY'S PRESENT for all Seasons. By S. G. GOOD-stitutes a most desirable gift book, and we trust with the RICH, Author of Parley's Tales, etc, New York: Same publishers. Happy Days of Childhood. By AMEY MEADOWS. Illustrated by Twenty-Four Pictures by Harrison Weir, and a Frontispiece by Birket Foster. Same publishers. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street. In the name of the little folks we move a vote of thanks to the Appletons for these jolly fine books for the holidays. In our day of callow juvenility, no such treasures of print and pictures had ever come from the press to the nursery. The publishers have done, in the Pleasure Books, for Mother Hubbard and the story of the Three Bears what Alderman Boydell did for Shakspeare, in just as magnificent a way. Let no one think to deceive us. These engravings, do we not know them? Have we not seen works of a similar kind and from the very same artists in the most sumptuous of modern English publications? Verily, the men who do the pictures. of the Illustrated News and Punch and the Art Journal | have had a hand in the getting up of these wonderful juvenile affairs. "Parley," we take it, was done in Paris. Mr. Goodrich looking after it in person. Our old friend looks some approaching festive season it will prove a source of de served emolument to one of the most tasteful of editors and worthicst of men. L'ENVOI. The Volume closes as the year departs And as the showman, when the play is done, THE EDITOR. Prospectus for 1854. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST. UNRIVALLED ARRAY OF TALENT ! The Proprietors of the POST, in again coming before the public, would return thanks for the generous patronage which has placed them far in advance of every other Literary Weekly in America. And as the only suitable return for such free and hearty support, their arrangements for 1854 have been made with a degree of liberality probably unequalled in the history of American newspaper literature. They have engaged as contributors for the ensuing year the following brilliant array of talent and genius : MRS. SOUTHWORTH-EMERSON BENNETT-MRS. DENISON-GRACE GREENWOOD AND FANNY FERN. In the first paper of January next, we design commencing an Original Novelet, written expressly for our columns, entitled THE BRIDE OF THE WILDERNESS, BY EMERSON BENNETT, AUTHOR OF VIOLA," CLARA MORELAND," THE FORGED WILL," ETC. This Novelet, by the popular author of “Clara Moreland," we design following by another, called BY MRS. M. A. 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In issuing the Prospectus of the Twentieth Volume of the SOUTHERN LITERARY MESSENGER, the Proprietors beg to assure the public that no exertions will be remitted on their part to maintain the high character of the work, and to challenge the patronage of all who value sterling literary merit. For nineteen years, the Messenger has endeavored to reflect faithfully the Southern mind, while disdaining all narrow and sectional views. and has been alone among the mouthly periodicals of America, in defence of the peculiar institutions of the Southern States. To this office it will still be devoted, and will be prompt to repel assaults upon the South, whether they come under the specious garb of fiction as in "Unele Tom's Cabin," or in the direct form of anti-slavery pamphlets. 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