This approval of the lady for keeping away from evil communications and bad companions is a stroke which it would not have occurred to most persons to make, however desirous of being civil to Mrs. Stowe. Burr, by the bye, comes in for another pat from Mr. Underwood. When Mr. James Parton's biographies are up for discussion, Mr. Underwood remarks of the 'Life of Burr' that "not even Mr. Parton's plausible art can satisfy those who know the history of the last century that Burr was not a thoroughly depraved man." Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, are other historic personages whom Mr. Underwood evidently regards with some liveliness of feeling, and in contemplating whom he perhaps would find it both difficult and distasteful to maintain that philosophic calm which confers such gravity upon the pages of Hallam, and which makes it, for some people, reposeful even. Mr. Underwood is of another creed: "It is especially true in Boston," he says, "and perhaps in other cities, that there is a tendency common to literary, pictorial, and musical art as well as in the manners and speech of 'society,' which controls the taste and shapes te manners of the time. This is the spirit which pronounces any direct and manly utterance vulgar, and prefers the etching in of a thought by some soft-voiced stammerer." In New York, on the other hand, a little more of self-restraint and cultivation would be good for us. We like pictures of large patterns, and are far from "the spirit which induces young authors to strive for concrete prottinesses and affectations, and to consider a sentence beautiful only when, as Turner said of Guido's Mater Dolorosa, it is polished to inanity." on Poe's companions. A foot-note to the twenty-third page adds to these names the thirteen following, as those of our best-known later poets: T. B. Aldrich, J. G. Holland, E. Hopper, S. W. Patten, T. B. Read, Theodore Tilton, R. G. White, Bret Harte, J. J. Piatt, Walt Whitman, G. D. Prentice, G. W. Cutter, and A. Pike-a not very Archilochian catalogue, but as Archilochian as the rest of the book. The selections, which are from Mr. Royse's "prominent writers" rather than other writers, make the volume a volume of good reading, although some of it seems a trifle antiquated. Messrs. Richard Malcolm Johnston and William Hand Browne have made a modest "historical sketch of English literature from the earliest times," which we are disposed to think would be a good text-book in schools and academies for youths and young ladies. It is certainly a cleverly planned and well written sketch, not too compendious, level with good current criticism, not dry, nor goody nor dull, and seems to us very well suited to the end which was had in view-namely, to furnish "a faithful if meagre outline map of the wide and fair domain awaiting students who have just reached the point where they begin to take a genuine interest in the reading that enlarges knowledge and stimulates thought, an outline not difficult to fix in the memory, and serving to locate and elucidate subsequent irregular or desultory reading." We believe we should have enlarged the volume by making a freer use of quotations; but the teacher will know how to make some of the scholars' other pursuits supplement the text in this respect, and the text itself will sharpen the thirst as well as the relish for good literature. Of the old-fashioned kind of "composition and rhetoric "-the treatise which begins by teaching the uses of punctuation and proceeds to teach the nature of the sentence, and so goes on to letter-writing and prosody, and the composition of invitations to dinner-we have in Dr. Bonwell's 'Art of Composition' a very favorable specimen. It covers all the field that such works as Quackenbos' used to cover and much more, and covers it much better. It begins humbly and at the very beginning, among the rudiments; and that is where such books should begin, even when they are to be used in nine-tenths of our colleges; it goes on with great fulness and with plentiful provision for extemporary and other exercises, so as to be a text-book for a two-years or three-years course if necessary; and at the end, and in its more difficult parts, it consists of an amount of logic and rhetoric which will make it a useful introduction to the more elaborate treatises, such as those of Campbell and Whately. With most of Mr. Underwood's opinions the opinion of the better educated half or three-quarters of our reading public will be in general agreement. The best quarter of this public will probably not feel under greater obligations to him than those under which he has put them by making a full selection of specimen passages taken from a majority of eminent and respectable American authors. This he has done with success. Every one will miss some pieces which he, had he been the compiler, would have inserted, and will wonder over the admission of some authors and the exclusion of others. We for our own part should not have admitted the late Alice Cary, if her sister Phoebe was to be excluded. Nor, if Mr. Grenville Mellen, Mrs. Prescott Spofford, Dr. Orville Dewey, and General Henry Jackson are to be included, should we know how to leave out some account of Mr. Bronson Alcott, Mr. Allibone, Dr. Hosea Ballou, Dr. Jacob Bigelow, who has written some very good and well-flavored things; H. H. Brownell, the battle-poet; George Calvert, Caroline Chesebro, Moncure D. Conway, F. J. Child, Asa Gray, W. D. Whitney, General Dix, Mrs. Follen, Horace Greeley, H. C. Lea, who has written one or two of the few American works creditable to our scholarship; C. G. Halpine, Richard Henry Lee, Madison of the Federalist, surely an important writer in American literature; Dennis Mahan, Lindley Murray, C. E. Norton, Schoolcraft, Dr. N. B. Shurtleff, William Swinton, J. H. Trumbull, Robert Kelley Weeks, Francis Wharton, William Wirt, Theodore Winthrop, and a dozen others, great and small, but any of them as worthy of a place in such a compilation as the late Alexander Everett or Mrs. Elizabeth Akers Allen-to take two names at random, without disparagement to the persons bearing them. This volume, let us say, is one of two, the former being a 'Handbook of bury Tales and the Knight's Tale; with a life, grammatical introduction, English Literature,' as this of American. Mr. O. P. Kinsey, who has prepared a work called 'The Normal Debater,' says that he did so because he saw that there was great need of it. "It is painful," he says, "to behold how little the greater number of professed scholars, even graduates, know of the machinery of business meetings." In their literary societies and debating clubs they have been accustomed to a set of routine by-laws and rules, drawn up to meet the special demands of some particular organization, but these, says Mr. Kinsey, seldom have any points of harmony with the practice and demands of general custom. It appeared to him very necessary, then, that a body of rules should be provided, by a brief study of which any artisan or farmer called on to preside at a public meeting should know how to conduct its business as moderator, chairman, speaker, or what not, and, if not called on to preside, should be able to maintain his rights as a member, and prevent himself and his fellow-citizens from being duped. We confess to being in a condition something like that deprecated by Mr. Kinsey and those friends of his who urged him to publish "The Normal Debater'; but so far as our judgment goes we should say that he has made a book which will be helpful to a good many persons. There is less than a hundred pages of it. English of the XIVth Century, illustrated by notes, grammatical and philological, on Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale. Designed to serve as an introduction to the study of English literature. By Stephen H. Carpenter, A.M., Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in the State University of Wisconsin. (Boston: Ginn Brothers. 1372.)-The running title of Professor Carpenter's English of the XIVth Century' promises, perhaps, a little too much; but when we read the title-page we find out exactly what it is; and it is a book which we are glad to see. It is a new evidence of activity in the philological study of English, and a new help to the study. It offers to our schools a neat edition of the Prologue to Chaucer's Canter notes, and etymological glossary. The notes are the special merit of the book. They are very numerous. Morris's notes are full, compared with anything we had before on Chaucer, and they answer very well; yet they make about 35 pages, while Professor Carpenter gives us 160. They are not merely explanatory, but discuss the words at liberal length, after the manner of Craik's English of Shakespeare, telling us interesting facts about the derivation, changes of meaning, historical suggestions, and the like, of the words in Chaucer and any of their kindred. There is a great deal of good work in them. Professor Carpenter has brought together a store of good things in philology from Trench, Marsh, Müller, Craik, and Abbott, and illustrative passages from old English writers, many of them taken with due acknowledgment from Tyrwhitt and Morris, but in great part the fruits of original study of other parts of Chaucer, Gower, Piers Plowman, the Wycliffite translations, and less-known authors. There are also frequent explanations of obscure idioms and other grammatical matters, by references to the Anglo-Saxon. Students who know little literature and less philology, and who will not give their days, much less their nights, to the study of scientific grammars and dictionaries, may here find plenty of attractive philological matter served up in such a way as to 'A Manual of American Literature,' by Mr. N. K. Royse, is a good-tempt their taste without much tasking their patience. natured book, which, on its twenty-second page and the two or three preceding gives brief characterizations of our "prominent poets-Longfellow, Bryant, Whittier, Poe, Holmes, Lowell, and Saxe"-saying of Poe that "even 'Annabel Lee,' his sweetest poem, is sadly marred by the fault-finding and despairing tone which pervades it," and passing similar undeniable judgments There is occasional indefiniteness of statement which might mislead beginners, and which we the rather notice because we have known that the examples of it in the first note have made an unfavorable and unjust impression about the book on casual examiners. The note is on whan, aud reads: “Adverbs of time, place, and manner are derived from the pronominal roots, and therefore have a conjunctive force; e.g. :" (Examples follow, and then)" Adverbs of place are derived from the A. S. dative (locative); etc." A few adverbs are so derived, and some of them have a conjunctive force; and some of the pronominal adverbs of place are from locatives, though hence, thence, whence, which he has just enumerated, are not. We hope the book may be widely used, and brought to perfection by many editions. Every one who speaks English ought to study Chaucer. An English Grammar and Reading Book, for lower forms in Classical Schools. By the Rev. O. W. Tancock, A.M. (New York: Macmillan & Co.)-Mr. Tancock's book contains a brief historical grammar, something more than a hundred pages of extracts for reading and study, and a full etymological glossary. The subjects treated in the grammar are well chosen, the method good, the language clear and concise. But prosody should be added, since many of the extracts are verse, and there is no topic on which the common grammars are more deficient. So far as we have tried the glossary, it is good with one exception. In obedience to the "bull of the illustrious and infallible Pope Freeman" and the Saturday Review, AngloSaxon is banished. That was to be expected in a book of the Clarendon Series. But Mr. Tancock does not even avail himself of Mr. Freeman's permission to speak of Old English. He calls all words from Beowulf onwards simply English; so that he gives us a glossary in which varieties of French and Old French are carefully discriminated, while Anglo-Saxon, English, and all the intermediate dialects make one promiscuous crowd. The extracts for reading are of the best. One by one we recognize them as specimens of that which the critical judgment of England most cordially commends. There are selections from Longfellow; we notice none from any other American. As we glance through the book, we read or remember the extracts with unfailing pleasure; but when we lay it down, and recall our American Reading Books, we recognize in it a peculiar depressing tone and quality. These monotonous cadences of Morris with their dying fall, and these exqusitely finished verses of Tennyson wailing over the vanished life and heroes of Old Time, which run through the book and give its pitch, have a death in life in them, have about them the halo that hovers round decay, and they make a most striking contrast to the breezy, exultant, prophetic lyrics and orations on which Young America is fed. Words and Places: or, Etymological Illustrations of History, Ethnology, and Geography. By Isaac Taylor, M.A. Third edition, revised and compressed. With maps. (New York: Macmillan & Co. 1873.)—This excellent work, which in England "has already been adopted by many teachers, and is prescribed as a text-book in the Cambridge Higher Examinations for Women," deserves to occupy a similar place in this country. Acquaintance with it might properly be made a condition of admission to teach in any school where geography is studied, and it ought to form part of the school furniture along with the atlas and the globe. Tracing the origin of the names of places from common nouns, and, conversely, the derivation of common nouns from names of places, leads into so many fields of learning that it is of itself almost a liberal education. However, Words and Places' may be enjoyed in quite another way than as a text-book (in which use of it, by the bye, the teacher will do well to be as undogmatic as the author). As desultory reading it will prove abundantly entertaining. There are numerous notices of names in our United States geography, with some very just remarks on the "barbarous character" of a large proportion of them, as "utterly inappropriate, and fulfilling very insufficiently the chief purposes which names are intended to fulfil." One of the worst features of our nomenclature-the endless repetition of the same name-might be mitigated by combined action on the part of our State and our Post-office authorities; the former refusing to recognize any new town name already to be found in the gazetteer, and the latter withholding postal facilities till the name was exchanged for one which would not give rise to confusion. To make this action of the Post-office retroactive would probably be regarded as impracticable. Chapter XVII., on the principles of name-giving, is followed by two very useful lists of some of the chief adjectival and substantival components of local names, duly classified. The seventh adjectival head is "Configuration," under which are instanced Trebizond and Montevideo, the two occurring side by side. We have had the curiosity to trace out both these names in the profound analysis to which Dr. Egli has subjected his 'Nomina Geographica' a work of sufficiently different scope to be a desirable possession in addition to 'Words and Places.' They occur nearly eighty pages apart, and under different grand divisions, so to speak, affording a good illustration of German thoroughness: a) INHÄRENZ: 1. Eigenschaften; B. Sondereindruck; II. Apriorisch; c) Raum; 3) qualitativ: Form.' I. Körperformen; A. total; 2) bildlich; b) nach Kunstobjecten-Trebizond. c) RELATION: 1. Räumliche Relation; B. Lage; II. Horizontal; b) Physisch; 1) standfrei; a) formell; IV. nach Bergen-Montevideo. The Great Events of History from the Creation of Man till the present time. By William Francis Collier, LL.D., Trinity College, Dublin. Edited by an experienced American teacher. (New York: J. W. Schermerhorn & Co. 12mo, pp. 377.)-Mr. Collier's 'Great Events of History' will serve very well as a complement to Mr. Freeman's Outlines of History' lately noticed by us. It does not aim, like Mr. Freeman's book, to give a complete continuous history, but to present "a series of pictures" which shall fix in the mind of the learner the knowledge of the most important events. This is a desirable thing to accomplish, and it is very well done, in an interesting style-if frequently too rhetorical-and with considerable picturesque detail. The peculiar and most valuable feature is the assignment to each chapter of a "Central Point of Interest" about which the events are grouped. These are generally well selected, but, on the whole, we would rather have history group itself about great men than great events; would rather, for example, give William the Silent than the siege of Leyden, Gustavus Adolphus than the battle of Lützen. The author shows good judgment in omitting British history in a book designed for English schools, in which, of course, the history of England is studied in detail, and we wish the American editor had shown equal judg ment. It was very well, perhaps, to add the Franco-Prussian war at the end; but seeing that Mr. Collier had chosen to begin at the Christian era, we see no reason for prefixing twenty-nine pages of earlier history, of which fourteen are devoted to the people of Israel, about two-thirds of a page to Greece, and less than half a page to Rome. And there is certainly as good reason for excluding American history as British. The pupil will perhaps be rather bewildered by coming upon King Philip's War, illustrated by a passage from one of Everett's speeches, sandwiched in between the Fall of Granada and Luther's Reformation. Neither is this American part so well done as to justify its insertion. On page 314, we have a succession of eleven steps in the progress of the sentiment of disunion, the third of which is, “Mr. Quincy was here called to order by Mr. Poindexter." Of Mr. Collier's false rhetoric we have already spoken. A few other defeets may be mentioned. He asserts gravely, p. 58, that Julian the Apostate was prevented from rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem by "balls of fire bursting again and again from the earth." On the next page, Theodosius is, by implication, commended "for having put down by rigorous laws the last remuants of Paganism and the Arian heresy"; for Mr. Collier goes on with a"but" to condemn his massacre of the Thessalonians as "a dark blot nological table, that Theodosius united the entire empire under his rule. On upon his fame." There is no intimation, by the way, either in text or chro p. 56, the curials are called "men high in the magistracy," instead of the hereditary governing aristocracy of the towns; p. 359, Lorraine is said to have taken its name from the Emperor Lothaire, instead of from his son. The book contains some very good chronological tables, lists of distinguished men, and a geographical appendix, one of its best features. The Historical Geography of the Clans of Scotland. By T. B. Johnston and Col. James A. Robertson. (Philadelphia and New York: Geo. Gebbie.) -This is a thin quarto containing a large colored map of the Scottish clans, with the possessions of the Highland proprietors according to the acts of Parliament of 1597 and 1594-a period when, as is stated in the explanatory text, "most of the clans held their original positions, as the encroachments and oppressions of the stronger ones had not been fully effected." "The rotation and the numbering of the clans have been made exactly as they occur in the Acts of Parliament," and the map is offered to the public as the first and only properly authenticated one of its kind. The letterpress consists besides of statistics of the strength of the Highland forces in 1715 and the badges and war-cries of the clans. Then follows an itinerary of Prince Charles, the Pretender, from the time of his landing to his flight from the country, and a detailed account of the three important and decisive battles of his campaign on Scottish soil-Prestonpans, Falkirk, and Culloden, illustrated by plans of each engagement and a general map showing the routes of the contending armies. And finally, the Act of Parliament of 1746, for disarming the Highlands and restraining the use of the Highland dress, is reproduced in full. This work, therefore, has a decided value for the student of English history in connection with his other reading. It is handsomely printed and bound, but the punctuation has been surprisingly neg lected. Hazard (S.), Santo Domingo, Past and Present... 66 1 00 175 (Harper & Bros.) 0 50 Pater (W. H.), Studies in the History of the Renaissance... Armstrong & Co.) 1 00 .(Harper & Bros.) (E. P. Dutton & Co.) . (Sheldon & Co.) 2 50 .(Wm. Wood & Co.) 4 00 Medhurst (W. H.), The Foreigner in Far Cathay..... (Scribner, Armstrong & Co.) Mivart (St. George), Lessons in Elementary Anatomy... .(Macmillan & Co.) 2 00 Moon (G. W.), The Soul's Inquiries Answered.... .(Shepard & Gill) 1 00 (Macmillan & Co.) 2 50 (Scribner, to the temperament of the purchaser, found in each case some incongruity which forbade his allowing the canvas to be borne away, though that seems strange, as occurring in a thousand cases; or else, that in every picture some keystone to bind the whole composition together was felt by his sensitive intelligence to be lacking. No lack, however, is apparent to the ordinary eye. The pictures will be called fair specimens of their delightful artist, most of them being as fresh in appearance as if painted yesterday, while only a few are sketches. They are a good deal alike, showing a kind of aristocratic recoiling from melodrama, while they exult in their keen, delicate relish for out-of-doors-a relish they have the faculty to impart. They never fail in expressing the limpidity of air and the severity and uncontaminated freshness of the sea. They are the pages of a rather wide painter's itinerary, ranging from Switzerland and Italy to England and home; with mountains in New Hampshire and in Colorado; banks of the Hudson and the Missouri; and our sea-coast from Maine to Connecticut. Occasionally there are views of famous places; among the best of these are the "Niagara Whirlpool" (400), the "Niagara " (227), and the "Rapids" (90), as they pour out of the horizon. Such a subject as Niagara the artist treats without forsaking his calm, like a cultured elocutionist who declaims the most impassioned text, never losing his high-bred balance. So his "Valley of Valmont, Colorado" (283), with a line of distant snow-peaks flashing like a pennon against the uttermost blue, is lofty and dignified, but not in the least dizzy. He is never oppressed by his subject. Artist-like, too, although he sometimes concedes to the public their favorite Murray's guide-book topography, and spares them an occasional Windsor Castle or View of Amalfi, he is not happiest in such scenes à grande orchestre. His virtue comes to him in those works where Nature is caught arranging her artistic motives, and which a man who knows what he is about finds almost anywhere. Nothing among these studies is better than his dark rocks threaded with veins of cataract in deep transparent shadow, such as 275 and 387; his of honest astonishment to the public, considering the apparent hesitancy of the supply when he lived. It was not an easy thing to obtain a specimen from Mr. Kensett. Intending purchasers were often disappointed, and the dealers who approached him with never so pathetic appeals knew well what it was to descend empty from the studio. The products of his toil thus kept an appearance of preciousness and rare estimation. People supposed that the flow of his art was difficult, as it was exquisite and pure. But what the living Kensett gave so sparingly, the dead Kensett gives in a cataclysm. A few dozen or a hundred posthumous works might perhaps have been expected by his admirers. But the collection at the Academy numbers vastly more than that. On the night of the private view, from which our impression is taken, the catalogues were not finished, but the paintings cannot fall far short of seven hundred. It is not easy to see why Mr. Kensett kept by him all these pictures, now filling to repletion our largest gallery. We must fancy that the painter, trying to adjust his work ERMAN AND GERMA placid stretch of the Sound as this (100) seen from near his atelier at Darien, where the water is pallid with mist, and the horizon defined by one triangle of leaning sail. These, and many other such as these, show an interpreter looking at Nature in his own way, with perfect unconventionality, and with a sort of fearless gentleness. They remind us now and then of some fine period from Addison. 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AGNES' SCHOOL.-The fourth year will begin, God willing, the third Wednesday of September next. Pupils are received whenever there is a vacancy Application for admission should be made to Sister Edith, S. Agnes' School, Albany. New York. OUR UR WORLD SERIES OF GEOGRAPHIES.-Two Books. OUR WORLD, No. II.; or, Second Series of Lessons in Geography. By Mary L. Hall. From LOUIS AGASSIZ, LL D., Professor of Zoology and Geology, Harvard University. CAMBRIDGE, January 1, 1873. MY DEAR SIRS: I welcome Our World,' No. II., as a valuable contribution to the modern method of teaching geography. It is a very commendable and successful effort to add to the daily improving means of making geography more attractive in the school-room. From Hon. GEO. S. HILLARD, LL.D. MY DEAR SIRS: I think Miss Hall's work one of great merit. It invests the study of Geography with the attractions that properly belong to it. It gives prominence to the facts, distinctions, and attributes which are permanent, and the work of nature, and does not burden the memory with those dry details of political geography which are variable and accidental. From GEORGE B. EMERSON, LL.D. GENTLEMEN: I have never seen a school-book which satisfied me more entirely. Its descriptions of regions and of states are admirable, clear, and characteristic, at once philosophical and picturesque, giving just what a child will rejoice to know and will easily remember. From Prof. A. P. PEABODY, D.D., Harvard University. CAMBRIDGE, January 8, 1873. GENTLEMEN: I have examined Miss Hall's Second Series of Lessons in Geography,' and am prepared to pronounce it, in plan, in method, and in execution, very far superior to the school geographies previously in use. Its introduction would convert geography from the driest and dullest of school-studies into one of constantly fresh and vivid interest. Halsey's Historical Chart. 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