THE BOOK TRADE.

1.-The Mineral Springs of Western Virginia with Remarks on their Use, and the Diseases to which they are Applicable. By WILLIAM D. BURKE. New York: Wiley & Putnam. 1842.

This little volume presents a clear and succinct account of the celebrated springs of Western Virginia, an analysis of their properties, and, in fact, just that kind of information that the invalid who desires to partake of their curative influences is desirous of possessing. The author appears to make no statement of fact, of the truth of which he is not personally assured, either of his own knowledge, or on information derived from sources worthy of credit. There are detached accounts of several of the Virginia springs, which have been extremely useful in directing public attention to these valuable agents; but there is no work like the present, that treats of them as a group, except, perhaps, the very valuable treatise of Bell" on Baths and Mineral Waters;" some facetious epistles indited by “Peregrine Prolix;" and a brief notice of each spring by Col. T. H. Perkins, an eminent merchant of Boston, in his introduction to the pamphlet on the Red Sulphur Springs, by Dr. Hunt, of which, with characteristic benevolence, he caused two thousand copies to be printed at his own expense, and circulated at the north. The author entertains the opinion that many years will not elapse before England and France will annually send multitudes of invalids to these unrivalled fountains, when we shall see those beautiful valleys teeming with living beings from every quarter of the globe.

2.-Forest Life. By the Author of "A New Home." 2 vols. New York: C. S. Francis. 1842.

These volumes, we are informed by the lady author, constitute rather a continuation than a sequel to the sketches published more than two years ago, under the title of " A New Home-Who'll Follow?" She is credibly informed that ingenious malice has been busy in finding substance for the shadows which were called up to give variety to the pages of her former work; in short, that she has been accused of substituting personality for impersonation. This, however, she utterly denies, and expresses her regret that any one has been persuaded to regard as unkind what was intended merely as a playful sketch and not as a serious history. In the volumes before us, Mrs. Clavers, for that is her real name, delineates with graphic life-like vividness the scarcely reclaimed wilderness-the forest-the pioneers the settlers-the people, who, migrating thither of their own free will, each with his own individual views of profit or advancement-have, as a mass, been the mighty instrument in the hands of Providence, of preparing the way for civilization, for intelligence, for refinement, and for religion. She disclaims all notice of the older settlements of the west-the towns and villages in which the spirit of emulation and that of imitation have nearly annihilated all that is characteristic of new country life. We admire her dashing style-her delineations of the homely manners, habits, and peculiarities of western life-and commend the volumes to all the admirers of genuine American literature. 3.-Tales from Life; designed to illustrate certain religious doctrines and practices which prevail at the present day. By GEORGE ROGERS. 18mo. pp. 180. Boston: A Tompkins. The author of this little volume is a believer in the doctrine of the final salvation of the whole human family, and when he wrote these tales he was preaching in Pittsburg "night after night, and thrice on the Sabbaths." The facts or materials were, says the author, drawn from life. He adopted this course for diffusing his peculiar sentiments, because he judged that they would effect more for the end proposed, and do it better, than would a series of direct reasonings written in the same compass.

4.-The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran, and his man, Mark Antony O'Toole. By WILLIAM MAXWELL, author of "Stories of Waterloo." Illustrated by Dick KITCAT. 8vo. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

This humorous tale now in course of republication in numbers, which appear shortly after their arrival in this country, we can commend to those who read merely for amusement. The numbers thus far have the merit of being graphic and racy in the extreme.

5.--An Exposition of the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England. By the Rt. Rev. GILBERT BURNET, D.D., late Lord Bishop of Salisbury. With an Appendix, containing the Augsburg Confession, Creed of Pope Pius IV., etc. Revised and Corrected, with Copious Notes and Additional References, by the Rev. JAMES R. PAGE, A M., of Queen's College, Cambridge. 8vo. pp. 587. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1842.

This is, we believe, the first American edition of a standard work in sectarian religious literature. The advantages of this edition over all others are thus stated in the editor's preface :

"1. The learned author's text has been preserved with strict fidelity.

"2. The references to the fathers, councils, and other authorities have been almost universally verified; and, in many instances, corrected and so enlarged as to render them easy of access to the student.

"3. A large number of scripture references have been added. In different parts of this work, Bishop Burnet lays down propositions without giving the scripture by which they may be proved. The editor has, however, added references in these and all other instances where they might be considered not merely additions, but also improvements.

"4. The canons and decrees of councils and other documents of importance referred to have been given in the original, and from the most authentic sources-the places where they are to be found being specified.

"5. Copious notes have been added, containing, besides other information, notices of the principal heretics and persons of note, with an accurate account of their opinions. Also extracts, chiefly from the works of the most distinguished divines of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, opening and illustrating the chief points in controversy between us and the church of Rome. In an appendix has also been given the Confession of Augsburg, and Creed of Pope Pius IV., in the English and original tongues, and in the original only, the canons and rubric of the Mass."

6.-Handy Andy. By SAMUEL LOVER. 8vo. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1842.

About two years since, "a few short papers, under the title of this little venture, appeared at intervals in Bentley's Miscellany." Frequent inquiries were made "Why Handy Andy was not continued?" The first number therefore, of the series which Mr. Lover has at length resumed, is a reprint in part of what was embraced in the "Miscellany." In justice, however, to the author, it may be stated that much revision and the introduction of fresh matter has since taken place, with a view to the development of story and character necessary to a sustained work, as the first paper of Handy Andy was written without any intention of continuation, and of course required the additions and amendments alluded to. The numbers are beautifully printed, as indeed is every thing emanating from the press of these publishers.

7.-The Massachusetts Register and United States Calendar for 1842, and other Valuable Information. 18mo. pp. 250. Boston: James Loring.

This little annual contains a vast amount of information, commercial, political, and religious, interesting to the citizens of Massachusetts, as well as to those of the other states of the Union who have any intercourse with that important commonwealth. It has been published for a series of years by the same respectable publisher, who spares no pains or expense to secure its accuracy in every particular. It is to the people of Massachusetts what Williams' Register is to New York-a vade mecum of general reference on all the various subjects falling within the scope of a state register.

8.-Little Coin, Much Care; or, How Poor Men Live. A Tale for Young Persons. By MARY HOWITT. 18mo. pp. 171. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

The American publishers have done well in adding this admirable tale to their valuable series "for the people and their children." Miss Howitt belongs technically to that denomination of Christians commonly called Quakers or Friends, but she writes for all; and while the spirit of Christian piety and virtue pervades every line that emanates from her pen, there is not a thought or sentiment calculated to create discord or regret in the mind of any intelligent disciple of the "meek and lowly" Founder of the Christian faith, to whatever denomination he may be attached.

9.-Poetical Remains of the late Lucy Hooper; collected and arranged, with a memoir, by JOHN KEESE. 12mo. pp. 291. New York: Samuel Colman.

Mr. Keese has in this instance laid the lovers of poetry in general, and the admirers of this gifted child of song in particular, under the greatest obligations, by collecting the remains of one who, after a brief but brilliant career, has sunk to an untimely grave. If we may judge from the specimens before us, we have a right to assert that, had life been spared her, the authoress would have reached the highest pinnacle of poetic fame. The bud gave every promise; but, alas! it was plucked before its petals had fairly opened to the air. The leaves have scattered, and the color has faded, but we can still judge of the expected beauty of the flower by the fragrance which it leaves after its decay. The task of editing these remains could not have been intrusted to more appropriate hands. The author of the memoir enjoyed the acquaintance and friendship of the poetess, and had the fullest opportunity of becoming acquainted with those intellectual and moral qualities which, like a gleam of sunshine playing upon the foliage of the trees or falling upon the greensward at their roots, endures for a moment, yet leaves a permament impression of beauty and grace.

10.-Bible Biography; or the Lives and Characters of the Principal Personages mentioned in the Sacred Writings; particularly adapted to the instruction of Youth and Private Families, etc. 8vo. pp. 441. New York: Robert Sears. 1842.

In addition to the biographical notices of Scriptural characters embraced in this volume, Mr. Sears, the compiler, has appended thirty dissertations on the evidences of Divine revelation, derived mainly from Timpson's Key to the Bible. The volume is rich in engraved illustrations of Scriptural scenes, manners, and customs, and forms altogether one of the most interesting and attractive volumes connected with biblical literature ever published in this country. In the preparation of the work, Mr. Sears seems to have availed himselt of almost every work in existence that was calculated to impart information or shed light on the matter in hand; and the results of his labor in this field of literature evince the most untiring industry and patient research; and we have no doubt that his efforts will be duly appreciated, and meet with the encouragement they so richly deserve.

11-Homeopathy, and its Kindred Delusions. By OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, M.D. Boston: W. D. Ticknor. 1842.

This volume embraces the substance of two lectures delivered before the Boston Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Dr. Holmes does not profess to have submitted the doctrines he examines with so much wit and ridicule to the test of long repeated and careful experiment, and he considers it of no manner of use for him to allege the results of any experiments he might have instituted. He enters upon the subject with little hope of reclaiming converts, with no desire of making enemies, but with a firm belief" that its pretensions and assertions cannot stand before a single hour of calm inquiry." Men of science who have investigated the theory and had some experience in the practice, think differently.

12.-Man, A Soul; or the Inward, and the Experimental, Evidences of Christianity. By A. B. MURREY. Boston: William Crosby & Co. 1842.

We have ever considered the internal evidences of the truth of our holy religion as the most satisfactory. They speak directly to the "spirit in man" to which the "inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding." In the little treatise before us, these evidences are presented in a clear, forcible, and convincing light; and we commend it to the careful perusal of all, and more especially to those who from education or other circumstance are inclined to skepticism touching the inborn truths of Christianity.

13.—The Fountain, and other Poems. By WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. 12mo. pp. 100 New York: Wiley & Putnam.

It is stated in a note addressed to the reader, that "the poems which compose this little volume have been written within the last five or six years-some of them merely as parts of a larger one planned by the author, which may possibly be finished hereafter." Bryant is emphatically the poet of America, and the productions of his pen will endure as long as the language in which they are written, or truth, poetry, and nature have an abiding place on this terrestial globe.

14.-Life and Writings of Ebenezer Porter Mason: interspersed with Hints to Parents and Instructors on the Training and Education of a Child of Genius. By DENISON OLMSTED. New York: Dayton & Newman. 1842.

The subject of this appropriate memoir was a remarkable example of the early development of genius; and in conformity to the practice of British writers, to give extended biographies of their youth, who, in the morning of life, exhibited extraordinary talents, and gave promise of the highest excellence, but sunk prematurely into the grave, Professor Olmsted has prepared a similar tribute to the extraordinary youth whom it commemorates, as due alike to his own memory, to the place of his education, and to his country. It appears to be the biographer's design that each passage shall serve some valuable end, in exhibiting the development of intellect, the lofty aim, the kind affections, the filial piety, or the struggles with sickness and penury, which marked the progress of young Mason from the cradle to the grave.

15.-Elements of Logic; comprising the substance of the article in the Encyclopedia Metropolitana; with additions, etc. By RICHARD WHATELY, D. D., Archbishop of Dublin. 12mo. pp. 359. Boston: James Munroe & Co.

In an age marked for the fertility of its novel theories and doctrines, in science as well as religion, the subject treated of in this volume would seem to recommend itself to every person who desires to reason forcibly or correctly. This elementary treatise holds a very high rank among the educational works of the day, having been introduced into many of the best managed and popular seminaries of learning, both in England and the United States. It is got up in the usually correct and beautiful style of most Boston books. 16-A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines. By ANDREW URE, M.D., F.R.S. Illustrated with 1241 engravings. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Eleven numbers of this reprint of a most valuable work have already appeared, embracing more than seven hundred large octavo pages, printed on a small but clear type. The price of the work in numbers to subscribers is but five dollars, and the publishers state as a satisfaction to those who have so liberally patronized the work, that when the publication shall terminate it cannot be sold for less than seven dollars.

GILLOTT'S PENS.-We are gratified to hear of the increased demand for these pens. Joseph Gillott has been for twenty-five years engaged in the manufacture, and he has during that time been enabled to make such improvements in their fabrication as at length to produce decidedly the best and most perfect article of the kind now in use. The increased demand for the article is, perhaps, the best evidence in their favor; and we therefore state from a source entitled to credit, the books of the manufacturer, that from October, 1838, to October, 1839, the number was 14,654,702; and from December, 1840, to the year ending December, 1841, 62,126,928; showing an increase, in two years, of about forty-seven millions of pens. The great number of counterfeits, both in this country and England, speaks strongly in favor of the genuine article.

ERRATA-In our last number, chapter I., " on the Progress of Population and Wealth," etc., page 34, sixth line from the top, for "the whole slave population 17.76," read, “the whole colored population, free and slave, 19.27 per cent." Same page, twenty-second line from the top, for " and where it constitutes a larger part of the population," read, “and to such states as those in which the slaves constitute at least one tenth of the population." On page 26, nineteenth line from the top, read after, "The increase from the first source was estimated by Dr. Seybert.'” On page 38, second line from the bottom, for "77,000" read, "probably about 70,000."

HUNT'S

MERCHANTS' MAGAZINE.

SEPTEMBER, 1842.

ART. I.-TRADE OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE.*

PROGRESS OF RUSSIAN COMMERCE-IMPORTS INTO RUSSIA IN 1838-EXPORTS-NAVIGATION -TRADE WITH EUROPE AND AMERICA-ST. PETERSBURGH-LOCALITY-CRONSTADTWHARFS-WAREHOUSES-THE BRAACKS-SHIPMENT OF EXPORTS HEMP-FLAX-TALLOW-BRISTLES-LINSEED, ETC.

THE trade of Russia has risen to a great height, since the organization of the country was first commenced by Peter the Great, at the beginning of the preceding century. Considering the shortness of the period that has since then elapsed, the results attained are surprising to every reflecting observer, and there is every reason to presume that they will continue to grow in a progressively increasing annual ratio, from the steady measures pursued by government for improving agriculture and manufactures, the ways and means of interior communication, and the general state of the lower and middle classes of the natives, as well as of the numerous purely commercial towns in the interior, in order to keep their population aug. menting.

Russia has a considerable annual balance of her trade with foreign countries in her favor, producing a constant influx of wealth, the diffusion of which amongst all classes of society, with a systematical propagation of , knowledge by the continual augmentation of well adapted scientific establishments throughout the empire, ensures a further rapid progress of civilization, with its beneficial reaction as a stimulation to the demand for the comforts and luxuries of life. In 1838 the settled population of the empire, (exclusive of Poland and Finnland.) numbered 50,585,857 registered inhabitants, (whereof 25,460,645 of the male sex ;) amongst these, 244,993, or 1 in 210, received instruction at 6 universities, 76 higher, 430 lower, 873 parochial, and 485 private schools, attended by 6,462

* For a comprehensive view of Russia and her commercial strength, embracing a description of her population and territory, physical, agricultural, and commercial resources, manufactures, and the commercial qualifications of the Russian people, see Merchants' Magazine for October, 1841, Vol. v. No. 4-page 287 to 321.