We strongly recommend this annual series of reports to speculative thinkers and general students, who can by no means afford to lose from sight the advance of human knowledge in this direction. The indispensable value of it to all who have direct dealings with any branch of science or industry, it would be easy to illustrate from almost every page.

IN her "Recollections of Seventy Years," Mrs. Farrar has furnished a most attractive volume of personal reminiscence and anecdote, narrated in a simple and conversational style, which, if sometimes careless and inelegant, is uniformly graphic and racy. Her childhood and early life were spent abroad; and after she became the wife of Mr. Farrar, for many years Professor of Natural Philosophy in Harvard College, she revisited the Old World several times, and thus kept alive the friendships of her earlier years. As the daughter of an active and energetic American engaged in a lucrative business, first in France and afterward in South Wales, she was brought into frequent contact with persons of social and political distinction; and she seems to have forgotten little of what she saw or heard during a long life. We find, too, in her book a subdued wit and a genial humor, without one touch of bitterness, which give to it a peculiar charm, and which never weary. Though it makes no pretension to artistic completeness, and the stories of which it is composed are jotted down with but little regard to order or connection, every reader will feel reluctant to lay it aside before he has turned the last page. Many of the anecdotes were repeated in the sick chamber of Professor Farrar, to solace the hours of pain and listlessness; and, in sickness or in health, the reader will find abundant source of amusement in its pleasant sketches, whether they relate to persons with whose names and history he is familiar, or are descriptive of persons who were previously unknown to him.

* Recollections of Seventy Years. By Mrs. JOHN FARRAR. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1865. 16mo.

NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

THEOLOGICAL AND RELIGIOUS.

True Cause of all Contention, Strife, and Civil War in Christian Communities. By Rev. D. C. Hopkins. New York: M. W. Dodd. 12mo. pp. 272. (The "true cause" is false religious dogma, with its application to human institutions.)

Life and Character of J. H. Van der Palm, D.D. (of the University of Leyden). By Nicolaas Beets, D.D. Translated from the Dutch by J. P. Westervelt. New York: Hurd & Houghton. 12mo. pp. 401. (A man of learning, piety, and various accomplishments, greatly beloved. A selection of ten sermons, accompanying the memoir, are marked by constant and devout reference to Jesus. They are addressed purely to the religious sentiment, and have little or no value as contributions to religious thought.)

The Elements of Moral Science. By Francis Wayland. Revised and improved edition. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 12mo. pp. 396.

The Vicarious Sacrifice grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. By Horace Bushnell. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 8vo. pp. 552. (To be reviewed.)

Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: a Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher; with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room. By Augusta Moore. New edition, revised and greatly enlarged. New York: Harper & Brothers. pp. 374.

HISTORY AND POLITICS.

History of Friedrich the Second, called Frederick the Great. By Thomas Carlyle. Vol. V. New York: Harper & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 515. (Continued to the middle of the Seven Years' War, in the spring of 1760.)

Manethós: die Origines unserer Geschichte und Chronologie. Von Dr. Anton Henne von Sargans. Gotha: Fr. Andr. Perthes. (New York: Westermann.) Large 8vo. pp. 275. With a Synoptic Chart of Chronology. (To be reviewed.)

Vida de Abran Lincoln. Par D. F. Sarmiento. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, Incumbent of Trinity Chapel, Brighton. Edited by Stopford A. Brooke. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. 2 vols. pp. 352, 359. (To be reviewed.)

Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. pp. 296.

Sherman's March through the South; with Sketches and Incidents of the Campaign. By Capt. David B. Conyngham. New York: Sheldon & Co. pp. 431.

Life and Times of Joseph Warren. By Richard Frothingham. Little, Brown, & Co. 8vo. pp. 558.

Boston:

Elements of Political Economy. By Arthur Latham Perry, Professor of History and Political Economy in Williams College. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. pp. 449. (A manual useful as including a sketch of our financial legislation, brief, however, to be a fair criticism of the

measures it recites.)

too

Glimpses of History. By George M. Towle. Boston: William V. Spencer. pp. 262. (Containing, among others, sketches of John Bright, Cavour, De Toqueville, and the "cardinal kings" Wolsey and Richelieu, in a clear and agreeable style, taken from the North-American Review and other journals.)

Richard Cobden, the Apostle of Free Trade: his Political Character and Public Services. A Biography. By John M'Gilchrist. New York: Harper & Brothers. 18mo. pp. 304.

The American Republic: its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny. By O. A. Brownson. New York: P. O'Shea. 8vo. pp. 439. (Notice deferred.)

POETRY.

The Sunday Book of Poetry. Selected and arranged by C. F. Alexander. The Ballad Book; a Selection of the Choicest British Ballads, edited [with a very agreeable Introduction] by William Allingham. Cambridge: Sever & Francis. (It is sufficient praise of these elegant volumes to say, that they are of the "Golden Treasury" series.)

The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 32mo. pp. 240. (Blue and gold.)

The Children in the Wood. By Richard Henry Stoddard. Illustrated by H. L. Stephens. New York: Hurd & Houghton. 4to. (A pleasing expansion of the old ballad, with four handsome colored plates.) Outcroppings; being Selections of California Verse. A. Roman & Co. New York: W. J. Widdleton.

San Francisco:

other Poems. By Henry Howard Brownell. Boston: (Somewhat rude in movement, reminding one rhythms; but by general consent the finest

War Lyrics and Ticknor & Fields. pp. 243. of the old Saxon and Norse lyrics of the war.)

Poems by Robert Buchanan. Roberts Brothers. (The most interesting portion of this beautiful volume consists of the "Idyls of Inverburn," a series of Scottish tales, told with rare quaintness, humor, and pathos, making it by far the most attractive book of recent poetry we have seen. "Poet Andrew” is, apparently, the true story, in verse, of David Gray. The "undertones" are an attempt to realize, in verse of great poetic beauty, sundry legends and pictures of the Greek mythology.)

Later Lyrics. By Julia Ward Howe. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co. 1866. (We greet this well-freighted and beautiful volume with a hearty welcome, and regret that we have not space to give it the notice it merits. The qualities of vigorous intellectual action, vivid passion, and eloquent rhetoric,

which, as shown in her previous volumes of verse, have given the fair author so high a seat among the sweet singers of the age, and so wide a reputation among the people, re-appear in the present publication with increased power. A large majority of the poems produced in our day seem to be results either of vapid imitation or of mere feeling, feeble echoes of stronger souls or musical expressions of vague emotion: they lack both originality and richness. "Later Lyrics" are a refreshing exception to the ordinary weakness and poverty of the modern muse. They are stamped with genuineness, full of idiosyncratic energy, true births from the wealthy and powerful personality of the author. They abound in thoughts as well as images of uncommon freshness, force, and reach. These poems, springing from genuine and intense personal experiences, experiences reflectively studied and tried in the light of the highest standards, — appeal to others with many influences at once inspiring, soothing, and helpful. They are no light strains, trolled by a careless skimmer of life and the world. They are weighty strains of patriotism, philosophy, love, grief, faith, and aspiration, chanted by one who has not only passionately felt the pleasures and sorrows of life, but also patiently pondered its problems, extensively surveyed its outer and inner history, laboriously investigated the speculations of the great masters of thought, and come to the ripest conclusions of wisdom and trust. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" is already well known through half the world. "The New Exodus" is not a whit inferior to it; and "The Flag," "Our Country, "Our Orders," deserve to rank with it. "Remembrance," "Winter Blossoms," and several other poems of sorrow, have an intense reality that almost stabs the reader with kindred pangs: it is only their poetic beauty and melody that transmute their agony into pleasantness and consolation. A volume so rich with mastered learning and experience, so brimmed with wisdom and passion, would assure its author, even had she written nothing else, a permanent place in the literature of her land. When the remote hour comes,

"On the Matron's time-worn mantle
Shall the Poet's wreath be laid.")

Songs of Seven. By Jean Ingelow. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1866. (The extreme popularity of the poems of Jean Ingelow is equally creditable to the genius of the author and to the discernment of the public. Remarkable as the sweetness of her melody is, it does not exceed the fertility of her thought, or the charm of her imagery. And the moral health and religious purity of all she writes are not less prominent than its intellectual depth and variety, and its poetic freshness and beauty. "Songs of Seven," - an exquisitely original, tender, and delightful picture of human life, is the most universally admired of her poems. Messrs. Roberts Brothers have prepared, for a holiday gift, an edition of this favorite poem, with a series of charming illustrations. It would be difficult to find a book more attractive, both in appearance and contents. The work reflects great honor on all concerned in its preparation, and must give great pleasure to all into whose possession it comes.)

NOVELS AND TALES.

By the Author of the

Winifred Bertram and the World she Lived in. Schönberg-Cotta Family. New York: M. W. Dodd. 12mo. pp. 479. Georgy Sandon; or, a Lost Love. By Ashford Owen. Boston: Loring. pp. 215.

Miss Carew. By Amelia B. Edwards. New York: Harper & Brothers. Hereward, the last of the English. By Charles Kingsley. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. pp. 479.

JUVENILES.

Oakland Stories: Gustave. By George B. Taylor. Walter's Tour in the East: Walter in Athens. By Daniel C. Eddy. - The Dove Series: 1. The Dove. 2. Little Lilla. 3. Great Things. 4. Little Facts. 5. Little Animals. 6. True Stories. Redendale; a Story of School-boy Life. By R. Hope Moncrieff.-Stories of the Apostles, their Lives and Writings. By Caroline Hadley. American History; Washington. By Jacob Abbott.· The Fly. By Theodore Tilton. Illustrated. New York: Sheldon & Co. Sun-Rays from Fair and Cloudy Skies. By Cousin Carrie. New York: D. Appleton & Co.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Winning his Way. By C. C. Coffin. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

The Song without Words; Leaves from a very old Book. Dedicated to Childe. By the Author of the Schönberg-Cotta Family. New York: M. W. Dodd.

The Positive Philosophy [also, the Later Speculations] of Auguste Comte. By John Stuart Mill. Boston: William V. Spencer.. pp. 182. (Two articles from the Westminster Review of April and July, 1865; containing probably the most, if not the only, adequate exposition, in English, of a system of thought by which the mind of the time is, consciously or unconsciously, more warped than by any other. The review is particularly valuable, as exhibiting pretty fully Comte's masterly sketch of the tendencies of modern thought, and as defending his classification of the sciences against the criticisms of Herbert Spencer.)

Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects; a Series of Popular Lectures. By J. G. Holland. New York: Charles Scribner & Co. 12mo. pp. 335. (Among the very best examples of what we may, without disparagement, call "lay preaching," clear, direct, good-tempered, illustrative, and pungent.)

Prison Life in the South during the years 1864 and 1865. By A. O. Abbott. With Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. 12mo. pp. 374.

The Phonic Primer and Primary Reader. Boston: pp. 98. (By the American Phonic Association.)

The Freedmen's Book. By L. Maria Child. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. pp. 277. (Containing many narratives, briefly told with the fascination of Mrs. Child's best style, and sold for the benefit of the class of our countrymen which it represents.)