dier whose body is scarred with honorable wounds suffered in the service of his country-a pure and upright public servant whose lips were never sullied by falsehood and whose hands are clean of corruption-there is something, we say, in the mere idea that such a man-wasted by disease and physically broken by disaster-should be manacled and fettered, with barbarous violence, in a fortress of this Republic -which must call the blush to every American cheek that conscious disgrace can redden. But even shame must give way to indignation and scorn, when it is remembered, that the infamy was perpetrated by the order of the very department over which the victim once presided with so much usefulness and honor; that it was commanded in utter wantonness, merely to lacerate and sting a sensitive, proud spirit, and that a general of the armies of the Union was the gratified instrument of its infliction. It recalls the last days of the Roman Republic, when the tongue of a Cicero, captive and murdered, was pierced by the spiteful bodkin of a strumpet. And even this outrage of the manacles apartthe story of daily and nightly torments, and hourly petty persecutions of needless hardships and discomforts, and gratuitous insults-has something in it which makes belief almost impossible, without a contempt for our race. Then too, the mean espionage, and paltry overlooking-the swarm of impertinent men and women let loose by his jailor on his feeble walks and domestic privacy-the sick man driven to his cell by the insufferable peering of rude and vulgar eyes -what a spectacle these things present of the magnanimity of a great nation! And when at last the prisoner is allowed the common decencies of a country jail and is permitted to share the society of his wife and children, what a clamor over the land it causes—some cursing the indulgencesome magnifying the generosity of the government! The associated press anticipates the wishes of the War Department and the taste of its constituents, by exaggerating the "luxuries" of "Jeff.'s" new and commodious quarters, and by telling how "grateful" he is, for the "clemency" which has been extended him. The readers of its despatchesninety out of an hundred of them-are quite sure that it is indeed a case for gratitude, and that the "traitor" ought to bless his stars, that after having committed the awful crime of entertaining and fighting for the constitutional opinions of himself and his fathers, he was not drawn and quartered for it, in Faneuil Hall, after morning prayer, on Lord's day following his arrest. We have said nothing of Dr. Craven's book, for the simple reason that there is nothing to say. It belongs to what is called the "sensational" class, and although apparently written with good feeling and in good faith, was still prepared for its market and seasoned accordingly. It relates several conversations which must have been very strangely misunderstood - especially that in which Mr. Davis is made to express an impossible admiration of Genl. Hunter. Indeed there is an appearance of paraphrase in. many of the reported observations of Mr. Davis which does not inspire confidence. The melo dramatic account of the fettering, and of the bearing of the prisoner on the occasion, we think we are safe in asserting to be very fanciful versions of what really occurred - though nothing, of course, could exaggerate the unmanly and revolting details which the simplest recital would furnish. ART. IX.-BOOK NOTICES. Digest of the Decisions construing the Statistics of Maryland, of which the Code of Public General Laws is composed; with specification of the Acts of Assembly. By Lewis Mayer, of the Baltimore bar. John Murphy & Co. Baltimore. 728 pp. The author is favorably known to the legal profession as the compiler of three volumes, supplemental to the Code of '60, in which is arranged, with appropriate indexes, the Acts of Assembly, that have been passed since the publication of the Code. The work consists of two parts. The first gives "complete references to the Acts of Assembly, codified in the Public General Laws and to those emendatory thereof up to year 1866. The second contains "a Digest of Decisions by the Court of Appeals and of the late Court of Chancery of Maryland, and by the Supreme Court of the United States," construing the Statute Law of the State. This work will be a valuable addition to the library of every practitioner of the State. Its typographical execution fully sustains the reputation of the publishers. An Index of Diseases and their Treatment. By Thomas Hawkes Tanner, M. D., F. L. S. Henry Renshaw. London. 1866. Scribner, Welford & Co. New York. From Kelly & Piet, Baltimore. This is a substantial duodecimo volume of over four hundred pages. Arranged in alphabetical order, are the various diseases described in formal treatises on the Practice of Medicine and Surgery, leaving out the operative portion of the latter. Each disease is briefly described by a synopsis of symptoms, and an index to its treatment is given. By way of reference, a table arranged under heads of organs and types of disease, is prefixed. At the end of the book is a large collection of prescriptions, and a sketch of medicinal waters and of European climates for invalids. It is a very valuable outline of medicinal practice, and will render great service to the physician who wishes, in the briefest possible time, to refresh his memory upon the diagnosis and treatment of any given case. Archbishop Spalding's Works, comprising Miscellanea, Lectures on the Evidences of Catholicity, and History of the Protestant Reformation. By the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding, D D., Abp. of Baltimore. 5 vols. 8vo. Murphy & Co. Baltimore. 1866. These works are chiefly of a theological character, and consequently not properly subjects for our criticism; nor have we had the time to give them the careful perusal they deserve. The typography and binding are handsome and very creditable to the publishers. The Southern Poems of the War. Collected and arranged by Miss Emily V. Mason. 12mo. Murphy & Co. Baltimore. 1867. We have here collected in a handsome volume, the best of the lyric pieces written by Southerners during or at the close of the war. All the familiar songs may here be found, together with many which will be new to our readers, and some of very great beauty. As it is published with the noble design of aiding by the proceeds of its sale the education of the daughters of the South, and to fit a certain number of them for teachers, we are sure it will find a ready sale among all whose hearts are responsive to "devoted charitable deeds. Beechenbrook, a Rhyme of the War. By Margaret J. Preston. 12mo. Kelly & Piet, Baltimore. 1866. It is our intention to notice this and the previous work more at length in the next number. Good Thoughts for Priest and People, or Short Meditations for Every Day in the Year. Translated from the German by Rev. Theodore Noethen. With an Introduction by the Most Rev. M. J. Spalding, D. D., Abp. of Baltimore. 12mo. Murphy & Co. Baltimore. 1866. NOTE.-Several of the articles in the present number of the REVIEW having been longer than was intended, the one containing Book Notices is necessarily far too short. In future it will be much longer and more varied. JAN. 17, 1937, LIFE, CHARACTER, AND WORKS OF HENRY REED, 412 BOOK NOTICES-Mayer's Digest of Decisions, p. 255; Tanner's Index of Diseases, 256; Archbishop Spald- |