By T. Mitchell, A. M. 8vo. London, 1835." Mr. Mitchell made his first appearance as a translator and commentator in 1820, and his second in 1822, upon both which occasions he was favorably noticed in the Edinburgh. High praise is bestowed in the present instance upon the Acharnenses. The Wasps will follow, and thus it appears the chronological order of the Comedies will not be preserved. The old fault is to be found with this Review, viz: It is more of a dissertation on the subject | matter of the book in question than an analysis of its merits or defects. By far the greater part of the Article is occupied in a discussion of the character of the Athenians. Article III is headed "a Voyage of Discovery to Africa and Arabia, performed in his Majesty's Ships Leven and Barracouta, from 1822 to 1826, under the command of Capt. F. W. W. Owen, R. N. By Capt. Thomas Boteler, R. N. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1835." Captain Owen sailed in January 1822 in the Leven Frigate, accompanied by the Barracouta, a ten-gun brig, with instructions to survey the entire Eastern coast of Africa, the Western coast of Madagascarthe islets and shoals interjacent-together with the Western coast of the Continent from the Zaire to Benin, and from the Rio Grande to the Gambia. All this was accomplished in five years. The narrative of Boteler, who was lieutenant of the Leven, is nothing more than a revised edition of that originally prepared by Capt. Owen, and which was a failure in a literary sense. The Review, as usual, says very little concerning the manner in which Captain Boteler has performed his task. : ally, and as a nation; shows in what manner she has repeatedly let slip opportunities of saying, and saying too with perfect justice, things little likely to flatter our vanity; defends her from the ridiculous accusation of vulgarity (there is positively not an iota of vulgarity in the composition of Fanny Kemble) and very justly gives us a rap over the knuckles for our overweening vanity, self-sufficiency, and testiness of temper. The whole article is excellent, and the conclusion is particularly to our mind. "There is no chance of her return to a profession that she so cordially detested. Under these circumstances the only compensation Mr. Butler can make to us he must make. He is bound to see that she goes on with her faithful and amusing journal, and that she finishes, at her leisure, some of the sundry stories, plays, and novels, on which, it seems, she had already set to work amid the interruptions of the stage." The sixth article is a review of "The Works of George Dalgarno, of Aberdeen. 4to. Reprinted at Edingburgh: 1834." This work is merely a reprint of the old Treatises of Dalgarno, the publication not extending beyond the sphere of the Maitland Club-a society instituted at Glasgow in imitation of the Edinburgh Ballantyne Club. The first treatise of Dalgarno is entitled "Ars Signorum, Vulgo Character Universalis, et Lingua Philosophica. Londini 1661." The second is " Didascalocophus, or the Deaf and Dumb Man's Tutor: to which is added a Discourse of the Nature and Number of Double Consonants: both which Tracts being the first (for what the author knows) that have been published upon either of the subjects. Print Dalgarno had nearly perished when Dugald Stewart called public attention to his writings, on account of his having anticipated, on grounds purely speculative, and a priori, what has now been proved a posteriori by Horne Tooke and others, viz: that all grammatical inflections are reducible to the noun alone. Article IV. "Deontology; or the Science of Moral-ed at the Theater in Oxford, 1680." The memory of ity in which the Harmony and Coincidence of Duty and Self-Interest, Virtue and Felicity, Prudence and Benevolence, are explained and exemplified. From the MSS. of Jeremy Bentham. Arranged and edited by John Bowring, 2 vols. octavo, London, 1834." "This book," says the Reviewer, "simply contains Mr. Bentham's thrice told tale upon Utility. It furnishes us Article VII is headed "Narrative of a Second Voywith no fresh illustrations, no better system than we age in search of a North-West Passage, and of a Resihad already found in his 'Principles of Morals and dence in the Arctic Regions during the years 1829, Legislation." We heartily agree with the critic that 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833. By Sir John Ross, C. B., K. there was no necessity for the publication of these S. A., K. C. S., &c. &c., Captain in the Royal Navy. posthumous volumes. They add nothing to the work Including the Reports of Commander, now Captain, just mentioned, and are, in many points, inferior. James Clark Ross, R. N., F. R. S., F. L. S., &c. and But the Notice concludes in the following words. "Is the Discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole. 4to. it to be wondered at, that the most learned, accurate, and philosophical nation in Europe—the Germans-treat with contempt ignorance and insolence like this? They admit the merits of Mr. Bentham as a jurisconsult, in his analysis and classification of the material interests of life; but their metaphysicians and moralists agree, we believe without an exception, in considering his speculative philosophy as undeserving even the pomp and ceremony of an argument." We have only to add, that, in our opinion of the metaphysics of Mr. Bentham, we are, by no means, Germans to the very letter. Article V. is an excellently well toned, and perfectly satisfactory Review of the "Journal by Frances Anne Butler, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1835." It defends this lady from the charge of intentionally depreciating America; cites a long list of instances in which she has spoken in terms of the greatest cordiality of our people, individu London: 1835." The Reviewer professes himself unable to regard the observations made by Commander Ross in relation to the Magnetic Pole in the light of a discovery. "It was certainly a great satisfaction to stand upon a rock where the dip was 89° 59′, and where the polarity of nicely suspended needles was insensible; but it may be questioned whether or not the place of the Magnetic Pole can be best determined by observations made at a distance or near the spot ; and we are not satisfied that the position assigned by Commander Ross is more accurate than that given by the curves of Professor Barlow, the calculations of Hansteen, and the observations of Captain Parry." The fact is that the Magnetic Pole is moveable, and, place it where we will, we shall not find it in the same place to-morrow. Notice is taken also by the critic that neither Captain nor Commander Ross has made the slightest reference to the fact that the Magnetic view not only refuses to retract its assertions, but declares that, had it known certain facts at the time of inditing the offensive article, it would have expressed itself with double severity. NUTS TO CRACK. Pole is not coincident with the Pole of maximum cold. | and, upon Mr. S. demanding an explanation, the ReFrom observations made by Scoresby in East Greenland, and by Sir Charles Giesecké and the Danish Governors in West Greenland, and confirmed by all the metereological observations made by Captains Parry and Franklin, Sir David Brewster has deduced the fact that the Pole of the Equator is not the Pole of maximum cold and as the matter is well established, it is singular, to say no more, that it has been alluded to by neither the Commander nor the Captain. Article VIII is 1. A "History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain, with a Notice of its Early History in the East, and in all quarters of the Globe; Although this little volume is obviously intended for a Description of the Great Mechanical Inventions no other eyes than those of the 'Oxford and Cambridge which have caused its unexampled extension in Great scholar,' and although it is absolutely impossible for any Britain: and a View of the Present State of the Manu-American to enter fully into the spirit of its most inesfacture, and the condition of the Classes engaged in its several departments. By Edward Baines, Jr. Esq. Svo. London: 1835." Nuts to Crack: or Quips, Quirks, Anecdote and Facete of Oxford and Cambridge scholars. By the author of Facetic Cantabrigienses, etc. etc. etc. Philadelphia: E. L. Carey &A. Hart. timable quizzes, oddities and eccentricities, still we for republishing the work on this side of the Atlantic. have no intention of quarrelling with Carey & Hart, 2. "The Philosophy of Manufactures: or an Expo- loose or unappropriated half hours-that is to say in Never was there a better thing for whiling away a few sition of the Scientific, Moral, and Commercial Econo- the hands of a reader who is, even in a moderate degree, my of the Factory System of Great Britain. By An- imbued with a love of classical whimsicalities. We can drew Ure, M. D. 8vo. London: 1835." Mr. Baines' assure our friends-all of them who expect to find in work is spoken of in high terms, as discovering much these excellent Nuts to Crack' a mere rifacimento of laborious research, and being both interesting and va-stale jests-that there are not more than two or three luable. With the exception of Smith's Memoirs of anecdotes in the book positively entitled to the appellaWool, published in 1747, it is said to be the only work tion of antique. Some things, however, have surprised giving a clear and copious account of the rise, progress, and actual condition of any of the great branches of industry carried on in the kingdom. Dr. Ure's work is censured for inaccuracy of detail. Its title is evidently us. and Facete? In the second what are we to think of such In the first place what is the meaning of Anecdote blunders, as "one of honest Vere's classical jeu d'esprit,” (the jeu d'esprit printed too in Long Primer Capitals) in a volume professing to be Anecdote and Facete (oh!— Article IX is "A Poet's Portfolio; or Minor Poems. too bad) of Oxford and Cambridge scholars? And thirdly In Three Books. By James Montgomery, 12mo. Lon-is it possible that he who wrote the Facetiæ Cantabridon, 1835." a misnomer. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge" may be found among the Facetia of Hierocles-not to mention innumerable editions of Joe Miller? We have already said enough of the Nuts to Crack, but cannot, for our lives, refrain from selecting one of its good things for the benefit of our own especial readers. gienses is not aware that the "cutting retort attribuThe first production of Mr. Montgomery, 'The Wan-ted to the celebrated Lord Chesterfield, when a student derer of Switzerland,' was noticed about twenty-eight years ago in the Edinburgh, and much fault found with it for inflation of style, and affectation. The present volume has induced the Journal to alter its tone entirely, and the Minor Poems are (perhaps a little too highly) lauded. "There is," says the critic, "something in all his poetry which makes fiction the most impressive teacher of truth and wisdom; and by which, while the The learned Chancery Barrister, John Bell, K. C., intellect is gratified, and the imagination roused, the "the Great Bell of Lincoln," as he has been aptly called, heart, if it retains any sensibility to tender or elevating was Senior Wrangler, on graduating B. A., at Trinity emotions, cannot fail to be made better." The Re-College, Cambridge, in 1786, with many able competitors viewer, as usual, does not stick to his text, but comments, in detail, upon all the published poems of Montgomery. The tenth and concluding paper is a Review of "The Second Report of his Majesty's Commissioners on Ecclesiastical Revenue and Patronage: Ireland. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed: 1834"-and "First Report of the Commissioners of Public Instruction: Ireland. Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by command of his Majesty: 1835." This article is written with great ability; but why call that a Review which is purely a dissertation on the state of the Irish Church? It concludes with a correspondence between the Editor of the Edinburgh, and Mr. Alan Stevenson, respecting evidence given, by the latter, before the Parliamentary Committee on Light Houses. The Journal, in No. CXXIII, accused Mr. S. of deceiving the Committee by erroneous testimony; knows, for writing three several hands; one only he ROBINSON'S PRACTICE. mising, that merit is its staple; and that, if more of the criticism be occupied with its faults, it is chiefly because they are somewhat hard to detect, amidst the pile of excellences. The chaff, this time, is hidden by the The Practice in Courts of Law and Equity in Virginia. By Conway Robinson. Vol. II, containing Practice in suits in Equity. pp. 648. Richmond: Printed by Samuel Shep-wheat. herd. 1835. There is not enough compression in some parts. In this volume, it is true, not a tithe of the statute law is quoted, that over-burthens the former one: but when he does cite a statute, the author still gives it to us in all the exuberance of legislative verbosity. Thus, he fills the third part of a page with the law of lapsing legacies; (p. 91) when, considering that only the substance was essential-especially as every owner of the book may be supposed to have the Code also—it might more clearly, and as satisfactorily, have been couched in five lines, as follows: "When a legatee or devisee, The first volume of this work came out about three years ago; and received so earnest a welcome from the legal profession, that the author's tardiness in producing the second might be matter of wonder, were not his devoted attention to an unusually large practice well known. The present is destined, because it deserves, to be a much greater favorite with the law-book-reading public, than the former volume was. The arrangement is after a better classification of subjects; rendering it easier to find the doctrine desired, on any given point: and there is a larger proportion of valuable matter-descended from the testator, dies before him, leaving matter not to be found in the Revised Code, or in Tate's any descendant who survives him; the legacy or devise Digest. Indeed there are few works, more copiously shall vest in such surviving descendant, as if the legatee filled with useful, and not-too-obvious learning. Industry or devisee had survived the testator, and then died unand research are the author's manifest characteristics. married and intestate." And he takes three quarters of He is a real brownie-if not for supernatural speed of a page (copied from the Revised Code) to say that "a workmanship, at least in the world of trouble he will surety may in writing notify the creditor to sue upon save his brethren. Here, within 442 pages (for the the bond, bill, or note, which binds the surety; and unother 206 of this tome-horresco referens—are index,) he less the creditor sue in reasonable time, and proceed has compressed matter, and inestimable matter too, for with due diligence to recover the sum due, the surety which the practitioner would otherwise have to hunt shall be exonerated." (pp. 132, 133.) In the name of through, not only the thirty volumes of Virginia Re-all that is reasonable, why should not a writer disenports (counting Chancellor Wythe's) but the number-cumber his pages of the rubbish of howbeit, provided, less ones of New York, Massachusetts, the Federal nevertheless, notwithstanding, and aforesaid, when, by Courts, and England. doing so, he might save himself and his readers so much time and toil? In his abstracts of cases, the author is, in the main, particularly successful. Not only does he give them with a clearness, (the result of brevity, effected by discarding non-essentials) which we would gladly see judges and reporters emulate, but he sometimes gathers from them doctrines, which the reporter has overlooked, and which a cursory reader would therefore be little apt to discover. For example, in pp. 20, 21, he states these two points, as decided in the case of Blow v. Maynard, 2 Leigh, 21: 1st, That a fraudulent donee of personalty is accountable for it and its increase, and also for hires, and profits, accruing since the donor's death, as executor de son tort; just as a rightful executor would be, who had taken possession at the donor's death: and 2d, That a privy to the fraud, who shared with the donee the profits of the property fraudulently conveyed, is accountable jointly with the donee. Now the reporter in his marginal summary of the case, does not mention these as among the points decided; though in the decree of the court (2 Leigh, p. 67,) they manifestly appear. Again—in the case of Tod v. Baylor, (as now reported in 4 Leigh, 498,) it is not said, at all, that only two of the judges concurred in the third point there stated as adjudged. But our author tells us so, (p. 10,) and we are thus enabled to estimate the authority at its true value-as persuasive only,—not obligatory, in other cases. The mechanical execution of the book does infinite credit to the printer. The typography is unsurpassed; and the paper is white, pure, and firm, so as to receive notes of the pen without blotting-a great merit in law books. If it were only to shew that we are free of our craft as critics, we must find some fault with this work: pre Some quarrel, too, we have, with the judicial law, which principally fills the book. It is too mere a digest of cases. A head in the Table of Contents refers us to a page, where we expect to find a full elementary exposition of at least the leading doctrines that fall under that head: but we see perhaps only a single case, or a judge's dictum, not at all realizing the promise of the reference, by unfolding all pertinent general principles. Thus, under the caption, "WHEN STATEMENT OF A TRANSACTION MUST BE TAKEN ALTOGETHER," instead of finding a general rule laid down on the point indicated, we find only a case briefly stated, from which we are left to deduce a rule, if we can. (pp. 329, 330.) Under the very next head, the well established principle, that an Answer is no evidence for the defendant, as to any thing it affirms, not responsive to the allegations of the Bill, but that it is evidence, so far as it responds to those allegations'-is whittled away to the position, that it is not evidence as to any affirmative matter, touching which the Bill seeks no discovery. Now, if the Bill positively alleges one thing (whether it calls for a discovery or not,) and the answer as positively alleges the reverse; such denial stands for proof, and must be rebutted by testimony: and so, we conceive, do the cases clearly evince, which are cited by our author himself; Beckwith v. Butler, Paynes v. Coles (see 1 Munf. 379, 389, 397,) and even Taylor v. Moore, whence he quotes (and quotes truly) in the form of a judge's dictum, the position in question-not to speak of 1 Call, 224, 390; the dicta of Roane and Carrington in the case of Rowton v. Rowton, 1 Hen. and Munf.; and many other authorities. The principle, in its true extent, is well illustrated by the case cited from 1 John such Mr, Maxwell has conferred an obligation of no common kind. The greater portion of the work consists of these letters, and they are valuable in every res son's Reports, 580, where an Answer alleging usury, in the present volume, with the voice, the manner, and of which the Bill had said nothing, was held no evi-personal appearance of the man himself—and upon all dence. The case from 2 Leigh, 29, is infelicitously adduced. The point professedly quoted from it was not there adjudged: it was only maintained by one judge, who (we say it with a deference heightened by affec-pect. Many of them are, as Mr. M. himself expresses tion, as well as by respect) seems to us to have therein gainsayed the well settled doctrine we have referred to, and therefore to have erred. The Answer, there, (see 2 Leigh, 35, 36) was responsive to the Bill, and must have prevailed against it, but for the numerous and weighty countervailing circumstances detailed by that judge himself. (pp. 49 to 53.) The deed in controversy was stamped with more badges of fraud than are enumerated in the celebrated Twyne's Case. These, doubtless, and not any doubt as to the legal effect of the Answer, satisfied the minds of the other judges, who merely agreed in pronouncing the deed fraudulent, without assigning reasons. Some omissions in so comprehensive a work, were to be expected-indeed were unavoidable. Not in the spirit of censure, therefore, but merely to awaken the author's attention in his next edition, or in his next production, we remark, that he has overlooked an important decision; (in 2 Leigh, 370,) that a tenant, whose goods are wrongfully distrained, cannot obtain relief in equity, unless he shew good reason for not having brought his action of replevin.' it, entirely narrative, and give the most authentic and minute accounts of the various movements of the writer at different periods of his life, particularly after his removal to Richmond, and during his labors in establishing the Union Theological Seminary. Others again are pastoral, and addressed to different members of his Church. Some are merely ordinary letters of friendship. All, however, are full of thought, and give evidence of an elevated, a healthy, cheerful, powerful, and well regulated mind. In availing himself of the assistance afforded by these letters, Mr. Maxwell has never anticipated their contents--thus avoiding much useless repetition, and suffering the subject of the Memoir to tell, in a great measure, his own story in his own words. The work is well-indeed even beautifully gotten up-is embellished with an admirably finished head of Mr. Rice, engraved by J. Sartain, from a painting by W. J. Hubard--and is, in every respect, an acceptable and valuable publication. Among the letters in the volume is one from John Randolph of Roanoke, and several from Wm. Wirt. We select one of these latter, being well assured that it will be read with that deep interest which is attached to every thing emanating from the same pen. TO THE REV. JOHN H. RICE. Divers other topics we were minded to discuss with our intelligent author: but on glancing over our two last paragraphs, we are struck with fear lest our unprofessional readers may have been already offended at the strong smell of the shop, discernible in what we have produced; and stop their ears against the technical dis-5 P. M. for I have just returned from the President's. I feel the sonance of "sounds uncouth, and accents dry, That grate the soul of harmony." But we cannot let the Index pass unreproved. Its length-the length of its indicating sentences-and the utter absence of any sub-alphabetical arrangement-in a great degree frustrate its use as an index. We can find what we want nearly as well by the 'Contents.' After all our censures, however-or cavils, if the author pleases there remains to him so large a residue of solid desert, that he cannot miss the small deduction we have made. His book is one which we would advise every lawyer, in Virginia at least, to buy; and even those in other states-the Western, especially, whose Chancery systems most resemble ours-can hardly find one that will aid them so much in disentangling the intricacies of Chancery Practice. Never have we paid the price of a commodity more ungrudgingly. MEMOIR OF DR. RICE. A Memoir of the Reverend John H. Rice, D. D. First Professor of Christian Theology in Union Theological Seminary, Virginia. By William Maxwell. Philadelphia: Published by J. Whetham. This Memoir will be received and read with pleasure generally: and among those who have been so fortunate as to have seen and heard Dr. Rice, it will be perused with the deepest interest and gratification. We believe there are very many, in Virginia especially, who will be able to identify the letters of this divine, contained Washington, February 1, 1822. MY DEAR SIR,-Your letter of the 31st ult. is just received at blush of genuine shame at the apparent presumption of adding my name in favor of the magazine to that of the eminent gentlemen at Princeton. This is real and unaffected-but you desire it-and I dare follow your beck in any direction. Would that 1 could in one still more important. Holingshead's History of Duncan of Scotland, is under copy by my Elizabeth (my daughter, once your pet) for the purpose of showing the full basis of Shakspeare's Macbeth. 1 think you will be pleased with it-and the readers of Shakspeare must dit fer much from me, if they do not find it very interesting. in my If you suppose from what I said of nine o'clock that that is my hour of going to bed on week-day nights, you are mistaken by several hours. For some time past, I have been obliged to be office before breakfast, and till nine or ten o'clock at night, when I have to come home, take my tea, talk over family affairs, and get to bed between eleven and twelve; but it is killing me also. And as death would be most extremely inconvenient to me in more respects than one, at this time, I shall quit that course of operations, and look a little to my health, ifl can survive the approaching Supreme Court-sed quare de hoc. My troubles not being already enough, in the estimation of the honorable body now assembled in the Capitol, they are beginning to institute inquiries, for my better amusement, into the circum. stances of three fees paid me by the government, in the course of the four years that I have been here, for professional services foreign to my official duties-a thing which has been continually done at all times, under this government, but which they affect to think a new affair entirely, and only an additional proof among ten thousand others of the waste of public money, by the rapacity, if not peculation, of those in office. I am sick of public life; my skin is too thin for the business; a politician should have the hide of a rhinoceros, to bear the thrusts of the folly, ignorance, and meanness of those who are disposed to mount into momentary consequence by questioning their betters, if I may be excused the expression after professing my modesty. "There's nought but care on every hand;" all, all is vanity and vexation of spirit, save religion, friendship, and literature. I agree that your story of the Oysterman is the best, but I suspect that the Orange story is the true original. I knew old | busy and thronging recollections of many a full heart! QuoBletcher: he was a Baptist preacher; and although I did not cumque ingredimur in aliquam historiam vestigium ponimus. hear the words, they are so much in his character that I verily I look around this assembly and see monuments of his love and believe them to have been uttered by him; and it would have of his labors, such as can never grace the inemory of the warbeen quite in his character too to have gone on with the ampli-rior, and which throw contempt on all the sculptured memorials fication you suggest. and honorable employment; I recall the memory of others who are far distant, but whose thoughts are mingling with ours upon this occasion; who have carried with them the seeds of virtue and wisdom which they gathered here, and in other lands, have brought forth the noblest results of usefulness and honorable consideration. I revert, too, to those whose bright career is ended, and who preceded their guide and instructor to the abodes of the blessed. Ithink of all this, and feel that you need not the voice of the speaker to arouse your grateful recollections" p. 4. of kings. I look at the eyes beaming with intelligence; I conI do sincerely wish it were in my power to mount the afore-template the refined intellects; I see their rich fruits in public said gay streamer, and long Tom, on your gallant little barque. I will try in the spring and summer to contribute a stripe or two, and a blank cartridge or so; but I shall not tell you when I do, that it is I, for it is proper you should have it in your power to say truly, "I do not know who it is." I have already got credit for much that I never wrote, and much that I never said. The guessers have an uncommon propensity to attribute all galling personalities to me, all sketches of character that touch the quick, and make some readers wince. I have, in truth, in times gone by, been a little wanton and imprudent in this particular, and I deserve to smart a little in my turn. Mr. Anderson shortly after this, goes into a very But I never wrote a line wickedly or maliciously. There is nothing in the Spy that deserves this imputation, and nothing interesting sketch of the family history of the deceased, in the Old Bachelor, which, give me leave to tell you, "venia portraying with great tenderness and delicacy, the madeter verbo," you and your magazine, and your writer, have ternal solicitude to which young Caldwell was so deeply underrated. There is a juster criticismin of it in the Analectic indebted for his well doing in after life-and evincing Magazine--but this writer, too, has not true taste nor sensibility. as we humbly conceive, in this part of his oration, fine He accuses me of extravagance only because he never felt himself, the rapture of inspiration. And you accuse me of redun-powers as a biographical writer. There is much force dant figure, because you are not much troubled yourself within his development of the Doctor's character throughout, the throes of imagination--just as G- H-abuses eloquence be- but especial beauty, we think, in the way in which he treats of his religious principles. One extract more from the pamphlet, in proof of what we have just said, must close this hasty and imperfect notice of it. cause there is no chord in his heart that responds to its notes. So magazine as one of the heaviest, dullest, most drab-colored pe- LIFE OF DR. CALDWELL. It was only within the last few days that we met with the above oration, in a pamphlet form-and we cannot refrain from expressing the very great pleasure its perusal has afforded us. Dr. Caldwell was unquestionably a great and good man-and certain are we that the task of paying tribute to his manifold qualifications and virtues, now that he is gone, could not have been committed to abler hands, than those of Professor Anderson. The tone of feeling pervading the oration is quite characteristic of its author-ardent-affectionate-consistent. "We come," says he, near the beginning, "we come as a band of brothers, to do homage to that parental love, of which all of "The religious character of Dr. Caldwell, was not the formaHis trust was anchored on the rock of ages, and he was theretion of a day, nor the hasty and imperfect work of a dying bed. fore well furnished for the terrible conflict that awaited him. We have seen that he had made Religion the guide of his youth; it beautified and sanctified the labors of his well spent life; nor did it fail him in the trying hour, which an allwise but inscrutable Providence permitted to be to him peculiarly dark and fearful. The rich consolations of his faith became brighter and stronger, amidst the wreck of the decaying tabernacle of flesh; and if the dying testimony of a pure and humble spirit may be received, death had for him no sting-the grave achieved no Iriumph. In any frequent and detailed account of his religious feelings he was not inclined to indulge-the spirit that walks most closely with its God, needs not the sustaining influence of such excitements-yet a few weeks previous to his death, a friend from a distant part of the State calling to see him, made inquiries as to the state of his mind, and had the privilege of hearing from him the calm assurance of his perfect resignation and submission to the will of God. His hope of a happy immortality beyond the grave, was such as belongs only to the Christian, and by him was modestly but humbly entertained. It was to him a principle of strength that sustained him amidst the conflicts of the dark valley; and to us who witnessed the agonies of his parting hour, a bright radiance illuming the gloom which memory throws around the trying scene." pp. 38, 39. WASHINGTONII VITA. A Life of George Washington, in Latin Prose: By Francis Glass, A. M. of Ohio. Edited by J. N. Reynolds. New York: Published by Harper and Brothers. We may truly say that not for years have we taken up a volume with which we have been so highly gratified, as with the one now before us. A Life of Washington, succinct in form, yet in matter sufficiently comprehensive, has been long a desideratum: but a Life of Washington precisely such as a compendious Life of that great man should be-written by a native of Ohio-and written too, in Latin, which is not one jot inferior to the Latin of Erasmus, is, to say the least of it,-a novelty. us, the old as well as the young, have been the objects; and by communing with the spirit of our departed father, to enkindle those hallowed emotions which are the fittest offering to his memory. But why needs the living speaker recall to your remembrance the venerated and beloved being whose loss is fresh in the memories of all who hear me? We stand not, it is true, over his grave, as the Spartan over the sepulchre of his king, but his memorials present themselves to the eye on every side and are felt in every throbbing bosom. The shady retreats of this consecrated grove-the oft frequented halls of this seat of learning the sacred edifice in which we are assembled--and the very spot on which I stand, are memorials to awaken the We confess that we regarded the first announcement |