ington, I would summon all my officers around me, and make them bleed from their arms into a basin, and dip their swords into its contents, and swear they would not sheath them till America had gained her independence." I was perfectly terrified. "What a ings and doings there is small chance of any modern chapel-goer seeing reproduced. His apprehension, imagination, and memory, to use an expression of his own, rendered his "brains like fish-hooks, which seized and retained every-master," thought I, "am I to be left under!" and when thing within their reach." His preaching was probably unique, occasionally overstepping the proprieties of the pulpit, but grappling much with conscience, and dealing out the most tremendous blows at error, sin, and the mere forms of godliness. "The first time I ever met Mr. Ryland," says Jay, "was at the house of a wholesale linendraper in Cheapside. The owner, Mr. Bh, told him one day, as he called upon him, that I was in the parlor, and desired him to go in, and he would soon follow. At this moment I did not personally know him. He was singular in his appearance: his shoes were square-toed; his wig was five-storied behind; the sleeves of his coat were profusely large and open; and the flaps of his waistcoat encroaching upon his knees. I was struck and awed with his figure; but what could I think when, walking toward me, he laid hold of me by the collar, and, shaking his fist in my face, he roared out, 'Young man, if you let the people of Surrey Chapel make you proud, I'll smite you to the ground!' But then, instantly dropping his voice, and taking me by the hand, he made me sit down by his side, and said, 'Sir, nothing can equal the folly of some hearers; they are like apes that hug their young ones to death.' He then mentioned two promising young ministers who had come to town, and been injured and spoiled by popular caressings; adding other seasonable and useful remarks. From this strange commencement a peculiar intimacy ensued. We were seldom a day apart during my eight weeks' continuance in town, and the intercourse was renewed the following year, when we were both in town again at the same time. As the chapel was very near, and spacious, he obtained leave from the managers to deliver in it a course of philosophical lectures, Mr. Adams, the celebrated optician, aiding him in the experimental parts. The lectures were on Friday mornings, at the end of which there was always a short sermon at the reading-desk; and the lecturer would say to his attendants, You have been seeing the works of the God of nature; now go yonder, and hear a Jay talk of the works of the God of grace.'" The following anecdotes are in harmony with the opening scene : "The young could never leave his company unaffected and uninstructed. I once passed a day at his house. It was the fifth of November. He took advantage of the season with his pupils. There was an effigy of Guy Fawkes. A court of justice was established for his trial. The indictment was read; witnesses were examined; counsel was heard. But he was clearly and fully convicted; when Mr. R., himself being the judge, summed up the case; and, putting on his black cap, pronounced the awful sentence-that he should be carried forth and burned at the stake; which sentence was executed amid shouts of joy from his pupils. Of this, I confess, my feelings did not entirely approve. Speaking of him one day to Mr. Hall, he related the following occurrence: When I was quite a lad, my father took me to Mr. Ryland's school at Northampton. That afternoon I drank tea along with him in the parlor. Mr. Ryland was then violently against the American war; and, the subject happening to be mentioned, he rose, and said, with a fierce countenance and loud voice,-"If I was a General Wash I went to bed, I could not for some time go to sleep." Once a young minister was spending the evening with him, and when the family were called together for worship, he said, Mr. -, you must pray.' 'Sir," said he, 'I cannot.' He urged him again, but in vain. "Then, sir,' said he, 'I declare, if you will not, I'll call in the watchman.' At this time a watchman on his round was going by, whom he knew to be a very pious man, (I knew him too:) he opened the door, and calling him, said Duke, Duke, come in; you are wanted here. Here,' said he, is a young pastor that can't pray; so you must pray for him."" "Mr. Hill was not, as many think, who have only heard of him by report, that lying tale-bearer, a mere boisterous bawler. He was sometimes loud, and occa sionally even vehement; but in common his voice only rose with his subject; and it was easy to perceive that it was commonly influenced and regulated by his thoughts and feelings. He was not like those who strain and roar always, and equally, having no more energy or emphasis for one thing than another. As the parts of a subject must vary, some being more tender, some more awful, some more plain, and some more abstruse, a uniformity of vehemence must be unpatural; it is obviously mechanical; and will, after a while, have only a kind of automaton-effect. Mr. Hill had an assistant that erred this way, and I remember how he one day reproved him. J-,' said he, you yelp like a puppy as soon as you get into the field; but I am an older hound, and do not wish to cry till I have started something.'** Not very long before his death, meeting an acquaintance who was nearly as aged as himself, he said, 'If you and I don't march off soon, our friends yonder,' (looking upward,) will think we have lost our way. Reading in my pulpit the words of the woman of Samaria at the well,the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans,-looking off, as if he saw the parties themselves, he exclaimed, 'But the devil has had dealings enough with both of you.' Mr. Hill sometimes rendered a word of rebuke equally strong and witty. Thus, when a preacher of no very good reputation was in the vestry of a place where he was going to preach, and seemed uneasy lest his serv ant should not arrive in time with his cassock, Mr. Hill said, 'Sir, you need not be uneasy; for I can preach without my cassock, though I cannot preach without my character.' As he was coming out of a gentleman's house in Piccadilly, he met in the passage a minister with a begging case, who, though popular with some, had, it was suspected, been imposing for a good while on the religious public; who offered him his hand, but Mr. Hill drew back, and looking him in the face, said, 'Ah, I thought you had been hanged long ago.' I know that once at Wotton he was preaching in the afternoon, (the only time when it seemed possible to be drowsy under him,) he saw some sleeping, and paused, saying, I have heard that the miller can sleep while the mill is going, but if it stops it awakens him. I'll try this method; and so sat down, and soon saw an aroused audience." Here is a specimen or two of the well-known caustic and sometimes almost cruel wit of Robert Hall: "He was at the Tabernacle the first time I ever preached in Bristol, and when I was little more than seventeen. When I came down from the pulpit, as I passed him, he said, Sir, I liked your sermon much better than your quotations.' I never knew him severe upon a preacher, however moderate his abilities, if, free from affectation, he spoke with simplicity, nor tried to rise above his level. But, as to others, nothing could be occasionally more witty and crushing than his remarks. One evening, in a rather crowded place, (I was sitting by him,) a minister was preaching very finely and flourishingly to little purpose, from the white horse,' and the red horse,' and the black horse,' and the 'pale horse,' in the Revelation. He sat very impatiently, and when the sermon closed he pushed out toward the door, saying, 'Let me out of this horse-fair.' I was once in the library at the academy, conversing with one of the students, who was speaking of his experience, and lamented the hardness of his heart. Mr. Hall, as he was near, taking down a book from the shelf, hearing this, turned toward him, and said, Well, thy head is soft enough; that's a comfort." I could not laugh at this; it grieved me; for the young man was modest, and humble, and diffident. A minister, popular too, one day said to me, 'I wonder you think so highly of Mr. Hall's talI was some time ago traveling with him into Wales, and we had several disputes, and I more than once soon silenced him.' I concluded how the truth was; and, some weeks after, when his name was mentioned, Mr. Hall asked me if I knew him. I lately traveled with him,' said he, and it was wonderful, sir, how such a baggage of ignorance and confidence could have been squeezed into the vehicle. He disgusted and wearied me with his dogmatism and perverseness, till God was good enough to enable me to go to sleep." ents. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.-A correspondent of the Petersburgh (Va.) Express, writing from Charlestown in that state, relates the following series of incidents, which, if true, are certainly very singular: Washington was accustomed to wear two seals on his watch, one of gold and the other of silver. Upon both of them the letters "G. W." were engraved, or rather cut. The seals he wore as early as 1754, and they were about his person on the terrible day of Braddock's defeat. On that day he lost the silver seal. The gold one remained with the general until the day of his death, and was then given by him to his nephew, a gentleman of Virginia, who carefully preserved it until about seventeen years ago, when in riding over his farm, he dropped it and could never recover it. The other day, the gold seal, lost seventeen years ago, was plowed up, recognized from the letters "G. W." on it, and restored to the son of the gentleman to whom Washington had presented it. At almost the same moment, the silver seal, lost in 1754, just one hundred years ago, was plowed up on the site of the battle in which Braddock was defeated, and in like manner recognized from the letters "G. W.," so that in a very short time the two companions will be again united. I have this whole statement from the most reliable source possible, namely, from the gentleman himself, who has thus restored to him these precious mementoes of his great ancestor. The affair is but one more proof of an oft stated maxim, that truth beggars fiction in strangeness. I repeat, there is not the slightest exaggeration or misstatement in the matter, and no room for mistake. In legal phraseology, the proof excludes every other hypothesis. As a proof of the extensive adulteration of liquors in this country, the New-York Sun says, that more port wine is drank in the United States in one year than passes through the custom-house in ten; that more champagne is consumed in America alone than the whole champagne district produces; that cogniac brandy costs four times as much in France, where it is made, as it is retailed for in our grog-shops; and that the failure of the whole grape crop in Madeira produced no apparent diminution in quantity or increase in the price of wine. The fact is, there is no more thorough practical farce going on in society than that of winedrinking. The poor soakers guzzle down daily their potations of diluted drugs, and smack their lips under the illusion that they are refreshed by the real bacchanalian nectar. Very seldom does a drop of the "real juice" go down their excoriated throats; they become living drug casks, and imagine themselves jolly followers of the jolly god. Bacchus would n't own them. city which is in course of construction on Astor The very large and splendid edifice in this Place, through the munificence of Peter Cooper, to be called "The Union," is expected to be completed next year, at a cost of $300,000. The work was partially suspended on account wanted; but it is now going forward again. of difficulty in procuring iron beams as fast as The building will be literally fire-proof, and its proximity to the Bible-house, the Mercantile Library, and the Astor Library will make that neighborhood a sort of literary centre. MATHEMATICAL CURIOSITY.-The properties of the figure nine are peculiarly curious and capable of being used in a variety of tricks. Not to mention the fact that the fundamental rules of arithmetic are proved by the nine, there are, among others, the following curiosities connected with the figure : Add together as many nines as you please, and the ing any number of times-the sums of the figures in figures indicating the amount, when added together, will be 9 or 9 repeated. The same is true in multiplythe product will be 9 or a number of nines. For instance Twice 9 are 18-8 and 1 are 9. Three times 9 are 27-7 and 2 are 9. And so on till we come to 11 times 9 are 99; here we have two nines, or 18, but 1 and 8 are 9. Twelve times 9 are 108-1 and 0 and 8 are 9. The curious student may carry this on still further for amusement. Another curiosity is exhibited in these different products of the 9, when multiplied by the digits, as follows, the products being 18, 27, 36, 45, &c.; reverse these, and we have the remaining products 54, 63, 72, $1. The 9 digits, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, when added, amount to 5 times 9; or instead of adding, multiply the middle figure by the last, and the amount will be the mysterious nines, or 45, and 4 and 5 are 9. Once more. Let the digits as written be 123456789 987654321 1111111110 and we have 9 ones, and of course 9 once more. 987654321 123456789 864197532 And in the figures of the difference, once more we have the 5 nines or 45, or 9. We will now multiply the same figures by 9:123456789 9 1111111101 and we have 9 ones again, or 9. A correspondent of a Cincinnati paper, remarking upon these singularities, says:— "One of these properties is of importance to all book-keepers and accountants to know, and which I have never seen published. I accidentally found it out, and the discovery to me (though it may have been well known to others before) has often been of essential service in settling complicated accounts. It is this:-The difference between any transposed number is always a multiple of 9; for instance, suppose an accountant or book-keeper cannot prove or balance his accounts-there is a difference between his debts and credits, which he cannot account for after careful and repeated addings. Let him then see if this differit can, he may be assured that his error most probably ence can be divided by 9 without any remainder. If lies in his having somewhere transposed figures; that is to say, he has put down 92 for 29, 83 for 38, &c., with any other transposition. The difference of any such transposition is always a multiple of 9. The knowledge of this will at once direct attention to the true source of error, and save the labour of adding up often long columns of figures. The difference between 92 and 29 is 63, or 7 times 9; between $3 and 88 is 45, or 5 times 9; and so on between any transposed numbers." STARTLING FACT.-The late census shows that the number of Irishmen in the United States is less than one million; and our federal, state, and municipal "Blue Books" show that a majority of the public officers and places in the United States are filled by Irishmen. So say the newspapers, but we cannot believe the latter assertion. The statement cannot be correct unless among the " Municipal Blue Book" appointments are included the posts of scavengers, police, watchmen, &c. Sheridan Knowles has been lecturing in Manchester, England, against Popery, and his son has been joining the Catholic Church; a brace of facts which, says one of our exchanges, may show either a want of logical power in the father, or unfilial perversity in his boy. GREAT EVENTS FROM SLENDER CAUSES.-Dr. Paris observes, that "the history of great effects from small causes would form an interesting work." "How momentous," says Campbell, 66 are the results of apparently trivial circumstances! When Mohammed was flying from his enemies, he took refuge in a cave; which his pursuers would have entered, if they had not seen a spider's web at the entrance. Not knowing that it was freshly woven, they passed by the cave; and thus a spider's web changed the history of the world." When Louis VII., to obey the injunctions of his bishops, cropped his hair and shaved his beard, Eleanor, his consort, found him, with this unusual appearance, very ridiculous, and soon very contemptible. She revenged herself as she thought proper, and the poor shaved king obtained a divorce. She then married the Count of Anjou, afterward Henry II., of England. She had for her marriage dower the rich provinces of Poitou and Guienne; and this was the origin of those wars which for three hundred years ravaged France, and cost the French three millions of men. All this probably had never occurred, had Louis not been so rash as to crop his head and shave his beard, by which he became so disgustful in the eyes of Queen Eleanor. Warton mentions, in his Notes on Pope, that the treaty of Utrecht was occasioned by a quarrel between the Duchess of Marlborough and Queen Anne about a pair of gloves. The coquetry of the daughter of Count Julian introduced the Saracens into Spain. "What can be imagined more trivial," remarks Hume, in one of his essays, "than the difference between one color of livery and another in horse races?" Yet this difference begat two most inveterate factions in the Greek empire, the Prasini and Veneti; who never suspended their animosities till they ruined that unhappy government. The murder of Caesar in the capitol was chiefly owing to his not rising from his seat when the senate tendered him some particular honors. The negotiations with the Pope for dissolving Henry Eighth's marriage (which brought on the Reformation) are said to have been interrupted by the Earl of Wiltshire's dog biting his holiness's toe, when he put it out to be kissed by that ambassador; and the Duchess of Marlborough's spilling a basin of water on Mrs. Masham's gown, in Queen Anne's reign, brought in the Tory ministry, and gave a new turn to the affairs of Europe. "If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter,” said Pascal, in his epigrammatic manner, "the condition of the world would have been different." Luther might have been a lawyer, had his friend and companion escaped the thunderstorm; Scotland had wanted her stern reformer, if the appeal of the preacher had not startled him in the chapel of St. Andrew's Castle; and if Mr. Grenville had not carried, in 1764, his memorable resolution as to the expediency of charging certain stamp duties on the plantations in America, the western world might still have bowed to the British sceptre. Giotto, one of the early Florentine painters, might have continued a rude shepherd boy, if a sheep drawn by him upon a stone had not, by the merest accident, attracted the notice of Cimabue. PHYSICAL BEAUTY AND MORAL EVIL" It is almost awful," said Dr. Arnold, when sitting above the beautiful Lake of Como, in Switzerland," it is almost awful to look at the overwhelming beauty around me, and then think of the moral evil. It seems as if heaven and hell, instead of being separated by a great gulf from one another, were absolutely on each other's confines, and indeed not far from every one of us. Might the sense of moral evil be as strong in me as my delight in external beauty; for in a deep sense of moral evil, more perhaps than anything else, abides a saving knowledge of God! It is not so much to admire moral good; that we may do, and yet be not ourselves conformed to it. But if we do really abhor that which is evil-not the persons in whom evil resides, but the evil which resides in them, and much more manifestly and certainly to our own knowledge, in our own hearts-this is to have the feeling of God and Christ, and to have our spirit in sympathy with the Spirit of God." FAITHFUL JACK.-An English writer remarks that sailors preserve their technical terms more steadily than any other class of men. Those of sailors remain the same, though numberless terms of other trades and professions have become obsolete within the last two centuries. Scarcely the half of the technical terms of various trades and professions that may be found in that most curious omnium gatherum, Randle Holme's Academy of Armory, would be understood by their respective craftsmen at the present day; whereas every nautical term in the much earlier production, A Ship of Fooles, would be understood by the modern seaman. OUR BOSTON LETTER. THE lecture season has fairly opened upon us, and the The two courses of the Mercantile Library Lectures are to be opened, the first by Honorable Charles Sumner, and the second by Honorable George P. Marsh, to be followed by Colonel Fremont, Cassius M. Clay, E. H. Chapin, H. W. Beecher, and other names of note in the literary and political world. Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, proposes to remain some considerable time at the north, and to address our Lyceums as he may secure opportunities. The executors of the late Honorable Samuel Appleton, who have in trust the munificent sum of two hundred thousand dollars, to be distributed, as directed by the will, for "scientific, literary, religious, or charitable purposes," have transferred stocks to the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars to the Boston Athenæum. The interest is to be applied to the annual increase of the library. It was supposed, and generally announced through the public prints, that the well-known and honored name of Charlestown had been effaced from the list of municipalities-it being merged into Boston, swelling its population and bringing renown to its history. But the regret felt by many and the rejoicing of others was premature. The Supreme Court has declared the act of annexation unconstitutional, and, for the present at least, Bunker Hill will remain in Charlestown. Honorable George W. Warren, ex-mayor of Charlestown, was employed as one of the counsel by the annexationists, and after the unfavorable decision was announced, a legal wit, present on the occasion, remarked, that "the British and the Bostonians had both attempted to take Charlestown, and in each case a Warren had fallen." The movement in favor of a Reform School for girls has resulted successfully. The state offered twenty thousand dollars, provided the same amount should be subscribed by individuals. The latter amount has been obtained, principally in Boston, and the governor of the state has appointed a judicious commission to obtain a site and arrange the details of the institution. In the literary world our publishers are keeping their presses active upon new editions of established works, and not a few forthcoming volumes of general interest are announced. Honorable Lorenzo Sabine, of Framingham, whose articles in the public prints and speeches in Congress upon the Newfoundland fishery question have accomplished more than any other means to bring about the present happy adjustment of this matter, has in the press of Crosby, Nichols & Co., a volume upon dueling. It will be an encyclopædia of duels, comprising sketches of all the principal personal combats, with full accounts of the most important, especially those of historical interest in our country. It is stated in the English Athenæum that a literary man in the heart of Russia is engaged upon the 95 into translation of "The House of Seven Gables Russian. "This," well remarks the editor, "is something like fame." The executors of Mr. Webster are now engaged in the preparation of several volumes of his correspondence, to be published uniform with the edition of his works. Little, Brown & Co., who issued the latter from their press, will publish the new volumes. As Mr. Webster's correspondents were the most distinguished public men of the last half-century, both in this country and in Europe, the correspondence must possess extraordinary interest. From the same house has already appeared the sixth volume of Bancroft's great work. It treats upon the immediate causes of the Revolution, covering in its records the pregnant period of eight years between the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766, and the forcible efforts to subdue the obstinacy of Boston in 1774. Interesting in its subject. it is invested with a magical charm by the splendid rhetoric of its author. Crocker & Brewster, the publishers of Neander's noble Church History, have issued the fifth and final volume of this work. The amiable and learned author went quietly to his rest-working upon it till the last, and dying with the harness on-before the manuscript of this volume was even corrected. But the devoted and pains-taking labors of an accomplished pupil have secured the completion of the work. Professor Terrey has accomplished an invaluable service for the Church in his excellent translation of this great history. The present volume is one of peculiar interest, recording, as it does, the history of Papacy to the Council of Basle, the Life and Times of Wielif, and the Persecutions and Martyrdom of Huss in Bohemia. The five volumes will form a perpetual monument of the diligence, eloquence, and piety of this devoted Jewish Christian. This The second edition of Dr. Wayland's Mental Philosophy has been published by Phillips, Sampson & Co. This work is enjoying an unprecedented popularity for a philosophical treatise, and is securing a rapid introduction into the higher grades of instruction. firm have fortified themselves against the expected demand of the approaching holidays, by preparing a large and beautiful variety of annuals. They have published four splendid quarto volumes, illustrated with fine steel engravings, and bound in the highest styles of the art, and nearly a score of juvenile volumes by our best writers, adorned with illustrations, and every way calculated to please and instruct the young recipients of these handsome annual benefactions. It rarely occurs that an old periodical renews its age, and resumes a forfeited place in the estimation of the community; but this is the fortune of the North American. Under the administration of Dr. Peabody, it has recovered all its pristine vigor and popularity. It is sufficiently progressive, full of wholesome truth and just criticism; and altogether is a worthy representation of American literature. It deserves all the credit it has won, and even a larger circulation than it has obtained. Its publishers, Crosby, Nichols & Co., announce a new and revised edition of Miss Chandler's "Elements of Character "a little volume which has already been favorably noticed and received high praise from the press in general. The first edition of the work was exhausted in a few weeks. A second series of "Thoughts to Help and to Cheer," furnishing, with the first series, a text of Scripture, a meditation and appropriate verse of poetry for each day in the year. The Edinburgh and London publishers are beginning to compete a little with our booksellers in the sale of their own works. Blackee & Son, in addition to their well-known depot in Fulton-street, New-York, offer their valuable catalogue of standard and illustrated works to our reading community through Russell & Brothers of our city. While the Harpers are busily republishing the noble "Imperial Gazetteer" of this firm, they offer the original edition, with its fine engravings, beautiful print, and heavy paper, in numbers, or parts, at a greatly reduced price. It is an invaluable encyclopædia of geography--physical, political, statistical, and descriptive. Wordsworth's Works, complete, with prefaces and annotations, on fine paper, in generous type, have been issued from the active press of Little, Brown & Co., in seven volumes. Captain Sleeper, the late excellent and accomplished editor of the Boston Journal, having retired from active editorial service, is devoting himself to the publication of the Sea Incidents and Tales, which from time to time he has written for his own paper, and which were well received in this form. The first volume, handsomely illustrated and printed, has been published by Reynolds & Co., entitled "Sea Bubbles," and will be followed by others. The same publishers propose to issue, from the pen of a popular writer, a series of juvenile volumes upon the noted men, civil and military, of our own country, especially of revolutionary times; something after the style of Abbott's series of Ancient Kings and Warriors. B. K. P. Book Notices. Duncan's Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons-Hester Ann Rogers-Simms's Works-Memories of a Grand mother-The World as it is-Abbott's Juvenile Works-Stories from the History of Italy and France -Loring's Hundred Boston Orators-The City-Side -Elements of Character-The Bible Reading Book -Children's Trials-Popular Tales-Gratitude: An Exposition of the Hundred and Third PsalmForrester's Magazine-Synonyms of the New Testament-The Seven Wonders of the World-The Inebriate's Hut-Kansas and Nebraska-May Dundas -Spirit-Rapping-The Tables Turned. DUNCAN'S Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons has been reissued by Carter & Brothers, New-York, in two substantial duodecimos. It is the best work of the kind in our language, and supersedes the translation of Sturm by embodying the later discoveries of natural science. Hester Ann Rogers.-This famous Methodist biography lies on our table in the Swedish language-a really beautiful book, got out by Carlton & Phillips, under the auspices of the new Methodist Tract Society. It has had great influence on the Methodist world, and will now go forth, on its message of usefulness, in Sweden and among our Scandinavian immigrants. There are many small defects in it, but it has the power of a genuine spiritual life. Redfield continues the issue of Simms's works, in very elegant style. The last of the series received by us is Woodcraft; or, Hawks about the Dove-cot. It is founded upon southern life at the close of the Revolution. Simms has done more than any other American fictitious writer to bring into literary use the early history of the country. He maintains the historical integrity of his subjects with unusual scrupulosity. His characters are bold and sharply delineated, and his incidents abundant. We regret, however, that he deems it necessary to the accuracy of his characters, that they should be allowed to utter so freely their usual profanity. The Memories of a Grandmother is the forbidding title of a really interesting little volume from the press of Gould & Lincoln, Boston. It consists of sketches of New-England life, evidently "from life."-one of the best NewEngland domestic portraitures that we remember. Magee, Boston. Lippincott, Grambo & Co., Philadelphia, have published, under the general title of The World as it is, two elegant little volumes from the pen of F. C. Woodworth, the author of several popular juvenile works. The first volume relates to England and Wales, the second to Scotland and Ireland. They are well-prepared descriptions of localities and life, and are attractively illustrated. Among the juvenile works of the season, we must also enumerate a batch of volumes from the pen of Jacob Abbott, and got out in fine style by Reynolds & Co., Boston. They are the tireless and ever interesting Rollo's Tour in Europe-" Rollo on the Atlantic," "Rollo in Paris," and "Rollo in Switzerland." Rollo dogs Abbott everywhere, and there is no youngster that likes good reading who is not happy to follow in his footsteps. The illustrations are well done-a sine qua non with us, as our readers know, in juvenile publications. We must not omit from our record of the juvenile literature of the season two fine little volumes from the press of Curlton & Phillips, New-York. The first is entitled Stories from the History of Italy; the second, Stories from the History of France. They are reprints from the editions of the London Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge-a good guarantee of their excellence. The selection of incidents and the style of execution are judicious and attractive, and the illustrative engravings are among the very best wood cuts we have yet seen from the American press. This house is unequaled in its artistic work. Jewett & Co., Boston, have published the third edition of Mr. Loring's Hundred Boston Orators. This work is already known to the public; but we may refer again to two of its capital excellences: first, it presents some of the finest specimens of American eloquence; Quincy, Otis, Austin, Ames, Everett, Webster, Sumner, Cushing, Story, Choate, Horace Mann, Winthrop, Whipple, Star King, &c., are among its orators. gleanings, &c., illustrative of the progress of Secondly, it comprises historical comments, our republican principles. This last edition has an improved index of names. We are indebted to Magee, Boston, for a copy of The City-Side. These "side" books have become very numerous lately, and threaten to surfeit us, like the "Bible Mountains," "Bible Lakes," and "Bible Birds;" which, we suppose, are yet to be followed by Bible Giants, Bible Babies, and Bible Frogs until the good old simple and beautiful Bible narratives are buried under the excess of such rhetorical rubbage. The present is, however, a decidedly clever production-the incidents from clerical life are striking, and they are related with vivacity and tact. We would, nevertheless, suggest to our young authors that it is time to leave these walks, and turn boldly out into the "side open road. Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston, have sent us a copy of the second edition of Mary G. Chandler's Elements of Character—a book of grave character and style, but solid in its instructions and excellent in its moral tone. We except to particular views of the author, but can commend the general character of her book as of unusual merit. Mrs. Sarah J. Hale, the well-known authoress, has prepared a volume of Scriptural lessons, entitled The Bible Reading Book. If it be desirable at all to present literal Scriptural instruction in any other form than the common Bible itself, Mrs. Hale has unquestionably hit upon the best method. Her volume contains such portions of the Old and New Testaments as form a connected narrative, in the real words of the text and in the order of the sacred books, |