Medieval and Modern Saints and Miracles. Medieval and Modern Saints and Miracles. $1.50. It is a sharp, searching analysis of Roman Catholic pretensions. It is not taken up with invective or declamation; the author has simply taken the literature and history of the Romish Church and essayed to show what are the actual teachings of Romanism, and what their tendencies and results. The information of which he makes use is drawn from books and documents which are not only trustworthy in themselves, but in most cases are recognized as authoritative by the Roman Church.-Boston Journal. Which is the Heroine? Which is the Heroine? Leigh Hunt's Works. Not ab uno e Societate Jesu. 12mo, Cloth, The writer of this volume has done a good service to the American public in presenting many facts respecting the actual teachings of modern Romanism, derived from trustworthy sources, but which are not easily accessible in Protestant countries.-Lutheran Observer, Phila. 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With Map and numerous Illustrations. 8vo, Cloth, $5 00. This volume contains the official narrative of one of the most important expeditions ever sent out by our government. The vast region drained by the River La Plata and its tributaries was closed to commerce and navigation by the rigid colonial laws of Spain, the civil wars which followed the independence, and the subsequent selfish policy of Rosas, the tyrant of Buenos Ayres. After the defeat and flight of Rosas, one of the first acts of Urquiza, the able and enlightened Director of the Argentine Confederation, was the decree of August 28, 1852, declaring the waters of the Confederation free to the flags of all nations. Our government was the first to avail itself of this decree. Early in 1853 the steamer Water Witch was placed under the command of Lieutenant Page, with instructions to explore the rivers of La Plata, and report upon their navigability and adaptation to commerce. 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The biographer of Locke has interwoven the pri- | vate and public events of the period skilfully together, so that we see Locke not as an abstract phifosopher, but as the child of his age, who was to a large degree the outcome of a period, which, nevertheless, he powerfully helped to mould. He has given us a work which supplies an unmistakable want in the literature of English philosophy, and which will make the thoroughly English features of the philosopher familiar to the present generation. He has shown us Locke in connection with his time, and has traced the various ways in which he exercised healthful influence upon it, and became the source of similar influence to succeeding generations. We cordially welcome what in all respects is an excellent piece of biography, and we have little doubt that it will become a standard work in English literature.-British Quarterly Review, London. Mr. Fox Bourne has added considerably to our knowledge of the details of Locke's life. We have now a complete picture of the man and his surroundings. *** An orderly and comprehensive biography of Locke was a real want, and this want Mr. Fox Bourne has worthily supplied. An interesting as well as valuable book.-Examiner, London. To revive the memory of such a man is obviously an undertaking of much moment, and Mr. Fox Bourne has felt the responsibility of his task. He spares no pains; his life of Locke evinces much editorial care, and contains novel information.-Athenæum, London. Mr. Fox Bourne is able to state most justly in his Preface that more than half of the contents of this work is derived from hitherto unused manuscripts, and that by them, apart from their independent worth, altogether new light is thrown on most of the information that is not actually new. *** A conscientious and painstaking performance, and will well repay a careful reading.-Academy, London. 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We know of no book which a father could better buy for his boys.-N. Y. Evening Mail. Philanthropy; or, My Mother's Bible. 18mo, Cloth, 50 cents. Inchbald's A Simple Story. A Simple Story. A Novel. By Mrs. INCHBALD. 8vo, Paper, 30 cents. In Duty Bound. In Duty Bound. A Novel. Illustrated. 8vo, Paper, 35 cents. Miss Mitford's Life and Letters. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, Author of "Our Village," &c., told by Herself in Letters to her Friends. With Anecdotes and Sketches of her most Celebrated Contemporaries. Edited by the Rev. A. G. K. L'ESTRANGE. 2 vols., 12mo, Cloth, $3 50. These letters illustrate art and literature of the day for fifty years, and one chief interest of them is the portraits, characters, and traits of distinguished people who came in their author's way.-Saturday Review, London. Miss Mitford possessed the knack of catching a likeness very happily in a few lines. She could tell or repeat a story pithily, and her letters are full of shrewdly sketched portraiture and well-told anecdote. She moved in one of those many circles composing the literary life of the first half of this century which intersect each other, but have separate centres; and these volumes are especially interesting, showing us, as they do, the opinions of an independent sect, whose demi-god was neither Byron nor Wordsworth, but which had its own pantheon of divinities. It will be seen by the readers of the "Life" that these divinities, like those of most literary temples, were some of gold and some of clay.-London Times. Miss Mitford's Recollections. The interest of these volumes is twofold-personal and literary. Miss Mitford's life, as mournful as it was beautiful, is more deserving of remembrance than any of her writings. It exhibits a spirit of selfsacrifice, of filial devotion-and shall we add, of filial delusion?-which is to most of us almost past understanding. 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In addition to a rich store of delightful personal | ductions, Miss Mitford presents several agreeable reminiscences, genial and graceful criticisms on old sketches of American authors and other distinguishEnglish authors, as well as on contemporary celebri- ed men, including Webster, Halleck, Hawthorne, ties, and copious selections from their choicest pro- Holmes, Whittier, &c. Charles Lever's Novels. Few men of our generation have more innocently and unpretendingly given a greater amount of amusement; and this has latterly been mingled with much sensible talk and instruction, pleasantly conveyed, as befits an experienced, clever man grown old in a busy life.-Nation, N. Y. We hardly know how to convey an adequate notion of the exuberant whim and drollery by which this writer is characterized. His works are a perpetual feast of gayety.-John Bull, London. Goldwin Smith's Works. Lectures on the Study of History. Lectures on the Study of History. Delivered in Oxford, 1859–61. 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Three English Statesmen: Pym, Cromwell, and Pitt. ical History of England. By GOLDWIN SMITH. Mr. Goldwin Smith is deservedly reckoned a master | moral indignation. Every word comes from the heart of the English language. He has, perhaps, no equal in as well as from the head, and, through the perfection the art of writing pungent sarcasms weighted with real of his style, every word tells.-Spectator, London. Wood's Physical Exercises. Manual of Physical Exercises. By WILLIAM WOOD. Copiously Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $150. His rules are carefully and judiciously given, and he shows great familiarity with the physiological and hygienic considerations involved in the topic of which he treats.-Albany Evening Journal. Mr. Wood has executed his work with all the thoroughness and ability which the public had a right to look for from such an expert in physical exercises as himself.-Brooklyn Times. Lamartine's Works. Celebrated Characters. Memoirs of Celebrated Characters. 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The Index, of 175 pages, may well be called a model index, as it contains a brief summary, as it were, of the entire work.-American Medical Gazette, N. Y. Paine's Physiology of the Soul and Instinct. Physiology of the Soul and Instinct, as distinguished from Materialism. With Supple mentary Demonstrations of the Divine Communication of the Narratives of Creation and the Flood. By MARTYN PAINE, A.M., M.D., LL.D. Cloth, $500. The interest of Dr. Paine's work is derived from the | earnestness and strength with which it enters the arena of controversy against the modern physiological doctrines which, in the opinion of the anthor, are hostile to the truths of religion. His argument, however, is founded on the results of physical inquiry, and not on theological considerations. He carries the war into the camp of the enemy. He fights the anatomists, physiologists, and chemists, who would resolve the soul into a combination of material elements, with their own weapons. Although the present volume contains the substance of a smaller previous work, it is in reality a new production. It has been written with special reference to the modern doctrine of the "Correlation of Forces," and to the pregnant innovations on the ancient theories of physical science that have been brought forward with so much boldness and ability by Tyndall, With a Portrait. 8vo, 707 pages, Huxley, Dr. Carpenter, Darwin, Herbert Spencer, and the materialists of the German school represented by Büchner, Vogt, and Moleschott. Dr. Paine exhibits himself in this volume as the sturdy opponent of the new doctrines of force, evolution, and the origin of man, pointing out the defective nature of their alleged proofs, the untenableness of their grounds in the principles of physical science, and their inconsistency with the accepted doctrines of revealed religion. There are a number of lecturers, clergymen, and writers in religious newspapers in this country who, without a thorough scientific training of their own, feel it a duty to contend against the materialistic tendencies of contemporary science. The efforts of a merely literary man to refute Huxley and Darwin are not always instructive. Such persons will find it greatly to the advantage of their cause to study Dr. Paine's book. Baker's Ismailïa. With Maps, Portraits, and upward of 50 8vo, Cloth, $5 00; Half Calf, $7 25. This splendid volume will well repay the utmost anxious curiosity with which the public has awaited its appearance. No enterprise of modern times has excited more interest than that which Sir Samuel Baker undertook five years ago, and the story of the whole campaign, told by himself, adds another thrilling chapter to the history of African adventure.— Daily News, London. Ismailia: a Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave-Trade, organized by Ismail, Khedive OF EGYPT. By Sir SAMUEL WHITE BAKER, PASHA, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S., Major-General of the Ottoman Empire, late GovernorGeneral of the Equatorial Nile Basin, &c., &c. full-page Illustrations by Zwecker and Durand. This book will add to Sir Samuel Baker's fame. There is no need to search for the reasons which have hitherto gained for him popularity and for his writings a circulation. We have all known Sir Samuel as a capital story-teller. * * * In the work before us he has still plenty of stories to tell, with a smack of the marvellous about them just sufficient to give a relish to the solid facts they contain. *** Once more, too, in this book, Sir Samuel Baker comes before his fellowcountrymen as an explorer, a man of keen intelligence, a sportsman, and one who can do and dare, suffer and wait, and under every circumstance prove himself to be a thorough Englishman. As such a man, we have hitherto been proud of him, and have gloried in his geographical discoveries. But in the present work the heart of the reader is touched as the author, in his previous works, never touched it before. *** Sir Samuel Baker has long possessed our admiration; he now claims our sympathy. ***"Ismailia" will be a record of what a determined, high-souled Englishman, fighting against any odds for a good cause, can dare, suffer, and achieve.-Athenæum, London." Baker's Cast Up by the Sea. The accounts of his efforts, of difficulties and dangers undergone and surmounted, reads more like a romance than like the actual experiences of, comparatively speaking, a mere handful of men. Sir Samuel Baker was evidently the right man in the right place. *** The style of the narrative is quite characteristic of the practical nature of the man; it is straight to the point, and free from useless reiteration. The descriptions are never diffuse, yet bright and comprehensive. *** The narrative abounds in descriptive sketches and anecdotes, well and pleasantly told. The book is profusely illustrated, and the clear and admirable maps render it an easy task to follow the track of the expedition.—Morning Post, London. Cast Up by the Sea; or, The Adventures of Ned Grey. By Sir SAMUEL W. BAKER, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.G.S. Illustrated. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25. Sir Samuel W. Baker has written a capital book for | boys-the story of a boy who, cast up by the sea on the Cornish coast during a storm, is adopted by the pretty, kind-hearted young wife of a gallant fellow, half sailor, half smuggler. Whether at school, in the king's service to which he is subsequently pressed, among the negro tribes, where he is alternately petted and perse Reed's Martha. cuted, in evil fortune or good, whether as the supposed child of the sailor, or when he is joyfully recognized by Sir Charles Neville as his long-lost son, Ned Grey is always the example of courage, endurance, and fidelity that the hero of such a book should be, and we are sure the volume will be read with interest by boys of all ages, from eight to eighty.-London Review. Martha. A Memorial of an Only and Beloved Sister. By Rev. ANDREW REED, D.D. 12mo, Cloth, $1 25. Reed's No Fiction. No Fiction. REED, D.D. A Narrative Founded on Recent and Interesting Facts. By Rev. ANDREW 12mo, Cloth, $1 25. 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To search a classical dictionary for similar material is a terrible task, and one which does not yield all the reward desired; but in this little book of 16mo, three hundred pages we have all that the dictionaries tell us-frequently more-and besides this we learn of the existing art works of note which have mythological characters for their subjects.-Christian Union, N. Y. An admirable little book, which aims at givingand succeeds in giving-in a moderate compass, a clear and readable account of the legends which have lent a color to all literature, its special advantages lying in the fact that it views the subject as a whole, and so avoids the disconnections and repetitions incident to dictionaries.-N. Y. World. |