NOV. 16, 1863. this eminent divine seems to have renewed his autumn sunset, and the surrounding mountains youth; seldom is age attended with such hale con- glowed with the hues of gorgeous and variegated ditions and mental freshness and freedom. They foliage, I thought it would be difficult to find, in New take a very narrow view of Dr. Dewey's claims to England at least, a spot better fitted to inspire and honor as an American author, who rank him ex- content a poetical mind. It was pleasant to conclusively among the literary representatives of trast the days of comparative privation and obscurity liberal Christianity; his writings have a far broader which, with brave frugality, Hawthorne passed in scope than as expositions of Unitarian theology. this modest and secluded dwelling, with the fame Their great significance is ethical and æsthetic. Dr. and the competence which have since crowned his Dewey is a man of profound moral sensibility and patient and graceful career. It was after removing strong philosophical tendencies. To him the mys- from here that the "Scarlet Letter," and the " House tery and the mission of human life have ever been of the Seven Gables," widened and fixed the repufull of teaching, of beauty, of deep emotion, and vast tation of New England's choicest and most original possibilities; he has looked upon and interpreted writer of fiction. The "Twice Told Tales," and them from a much higher point than sectarianism," The Mosses from an Old Manse," were then better and through a much broader vista than the loop-known and more justly appreciated, and Hawthorne hole of a creed. By earnest sympathy with the won the reward of his long probation. I had just aspirations, the privations, and the holy capabili- been reading "Our Old Home" when I thus looked ties of humanity, he has sought to kindle faith upon his; and it was with almost a personal selfand love in his fellow creatures with high reason- gratulation that I realized the national renown of one ing and sincere eloquence. There are often a pathos whose earliest experiments in authorship I had and a vital beauty in his words that convey them watched with peculiar interest, and whose later triinto the depths of the heart. None, of whatever umphs seemed so legitimate a result of their authenreligious belief, can read his "Discourses on tic promise and prophecy; like the mellow spreading Human Life," on the "Relations of Commerce to light of that golden October evening, seemed the Society," and the "Influence of Christianity," growth of Hawthorne's fame; from the delicate and without finding therein solace and counsel of pre- deep pathos of the "Gentle Boy" to the genial hucious interest. The course of Lectures he de- mor of "Civic Banquets," it was easy to trace the livered before the Lowell Institute would form an same acute yet poetical mind, the same chaste and admirable volume of practical and philosophical charming style. value, and are highly creditable to our national ethical literature. Another more purely aesthetic and of greater variety could be easily compiled from his public addresses and contributions to periodical literature; of these several have remained impressed upon our memory as rare and beautiful expositions of subjects near and dear to every scholar, thinker, and humanitarian; as, for instance, his oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College, his articles in Goodrich's once famous Annual, "The Token," and his article on "Erroneous Views of Death," and on several public ques-appreciating refined touches of description and a tions. His "Old and New World," published by the Harpers, after his first visit to Europe, is one of the most individual, thoughtful, and interesting records of foreign travel which has emanated from an American. A handsome octavo edition of his Discourses was published many years ago in Edinburgh; and there are three volumes of the same in the home market; but many of his purely literary and philosophical Essays remain uncollected, and richly deserve a permanent place in our libraries. Dr. Dewey's interest in the moral questions and social prospects of the hour is deep and active.. The present war has called forth many utterances of wisdom and of patriotic cheer from his lips and pen: last winter an interesting account of a visit to the army of the Union by him appeared in the form of a letter to the editors of the " Evening Post." The object of this visit was to see his only son, who had joined a Massachusetts regiment, and who, having faithfully served, has recently returned unscathed to his home. There is a little red house, on a slope near the head of Stockbridge Lake, where Nathaniel Hawthorne dwelt during his novitiate as an author. It is an humble little domicile, with a few acres of not very fertile land attached to it; but it commands a beautiful mountain landscape, and a fine clump of fir-trees shade its approach. If we mistake not, that delectable book for children, called Tanglewood Tales," was written at this Lenox home, and much of its detail seems drawn from the woods and life around. As I looked upon the little old farm-house, the other evening, when lake and woods reflected the soft radiance of a brilliant In the pleasant village of Great Barrington, with its broad and elm-shadowed street and picturesque mountain ramparts, lives John Milton Mackie, whose gifted wife is a native of the place. While occupied as an educator in Brown University, Mr. Mackie published an excellent memoir of Leibnitz ; on returning from his first visit to Europe, his "Cosas d'Espana," among the most vivacious and picturesque books about Spain to be found in our vernacular, appeared in New York; and immediately made the author a favorite with all capable of charming animated style, based on intelligent and genial observation. Alike in these traits, though so different in subject, are his lively, graphic sketches of the Virginia Springs, which were published in" Putnam's Magazine." His life of Schmayl and other casual productions, were also seasonable and pleasant contributions to current literature. Mr. Mackie has travelled and read extensively; and his zest for quiet adventure, his eye for scenery, and his insight as to manners, expression, art, and nature, are individual, fresh, and true; he is, therefore, a delightful cicerone, just the companion and reporter we should like, amid new and interesting scenes. He has lately prepared a most relishing and suggestive, as well as satisfactory series of sketches of a trip, or rather several trips, from his native place on Cape Cod to the Southern States and the West India Islands; and the reading public may confidently anticipate a treat when this genial and authentic photographic album of Atlantic and Tropical travel is opened to their view. No one can frequent the town of Pittsfield, which is the mart, if not the metropolis of Berkshire, without recognizing much in the adjacent scenery, and somewhat in the life and manners, the domestic architecture, the trees, hills, and habits, which recall the most finished local pictures in "Elsie Venner." The Medical College and its associations, and a young ladies' school of some celebrity, con-firm the same impression. One can trace many of the picturesque and a few of the social traits of that weird story to these surroundings of the author's former country home; for a handsome mansion in the vicinity is still known as "Dr. Holmes' place," NOV. 16, 1863. though he is now established on "the hub of the universe." The Boston Professor did not live for years in Berkshire without noting the scene and life around with acuteness and sympathy-the trees and trading, the rural gatherings, the snakes and deacons, the old maids and the young ones, autumn's radiant dyes, and spring's budding charms, and winter's pale monotony-nature and character as manifest in rural scenes and life; all were watched with zealous and keen eyes, by the vigilant autocrat, to be melodiously embalmed in ringing rhymes, or to scintillate in humorous sparkles of vivacious prose, or enrich some descriptive passage with graphic aptitude. Not far from his old residence lives Herman Melville, author of "Typee," "Omoo," "Moby Dick," and other adventurous narratives, which have more of the genuine Robinson Crusoe spell about them than any American writings. The first and second were entirely new subjects, treated with a mingled simplicity and spirit that at once made the author's name a household and a shipboard word; the last, for curious and eloquent descriptions and details about the whale and whale fishing, rivals Michelet's brilliant and copious brochures on the sea, woman, and other generic themes; but Melville is more scientific as to his facts, and more inventive as to his fiction. "Moby Dick,” indeed, has the rare fault of redundant power; the story is wild and wonderful enough without being interwoven with such a thorough, scientific, and economical treatise on the whale; it is a fine contribution to natural history and to political economy, united to an original and powerful romance of the sea. Melville has written other and more casual things, indicative of great versatility; witness his "Life of Israel Potten," and his remarkable sketch of a Wall Street scrivener in "Putnam's Monthly." Impaired health induced him to retire to this beautiful region, and in the care of his fruits and flowers, and the repose of domestic life, he seems to have forsworn the ambition of authorship, but we trust only for a time. The beautiful village of Stockbridge is identified with the name of Sedgewick. As one looks down upon the umbrageous valley, kindled at this season with the flame-like scarlet maples and graceful golden elms, the thought of that gifted and beloved family occurs at once to the mind as the natural association of the scene. Beside the spacious, leafy village street, half hid in shrubbery, is the Sedgewick dwelling. In the beautiful rural cemetery, white with monuments and green with firtrees, is their family sepulchre; in the centre the venerable progenitor of patriotic and revolutionary fame, and around his mound the graves of his descendants-men of talent and probity, lovers of their country and of letters, and women of faith and culture. Among the latest laid there are Theodore Sedgewick, the able lawyer and political writer and champion of freedom, who died in his prime, and a nephew who fell in battle for his country a year ago. Between her kindred at Stockbridge and Lenox, Catharine Sedgewick lives; the latter place has been long her home, but the past summer she has dwelt in the old home at Stockbridge, while her winters are passed in Boston with a favorite niece. Seldom has the name of a lady been so delightfully associated with a scene of rural beauty and prosperity as is Miss Sedgewick's with the whole valley of the Housatonic. She wrote of New England when literature was in its infancy among us. Her tales and novels now read tamely compared with the brilliant and intense school that has arisen since they appeared. But so faithfully has she depicted the scenery and manners of New England, that this local fidelity alone will conserve the in terest and value of her works. Moreover, their pure tone, and domestic grace, and gentle counsel, and primitive character, and feminine sentiment, commend them to unperverted minds. Some of the traits and customs they portray are already traditional; the railway has assimilated the manners of town and country; what is characteristic of the latter is rapidly fading away; and to read "Hope Leslie" or "Redwood" on a calm summer day, among the hills of Berkshire, is like revisiting the scenes of our early social history and domestic traditions; in this authentic retrospective interest there is a peculiar charm. We remember lighting upon a review in one of the British Quarterlies at the English library, in Florence, of one of Miss Sedgewick's novels, in which copious extracts were given; and in that distant land, away from every association of home, her quiet and true pictures of country life come home to us with endearing and impressive truth. Miss Sedgewick, after a life of singular usefulness, beloved and honored by all, in the midst of kindred who cherish her, and friends who delight in her society, here enjoys the tranquil pleasures of her beautiful home-a benign instance of the union of literary reputation with womanly dignity and of public usefulness with domestic virtue. Like Mary Russell Mitford, Jane Austen, Amelia Opie, Maria Edgeworth, and so many other gifted and loved women of England, her example hallows, and her presence endears a rural scene-makes its hospitality more inspiring, its beauty more gracious, and its memory more picturesque and congenial. LENOX, Berkshire County, Mass. October, 1863. T. Dr. O. W. HOLMES strongly presented the case against the literary and public men of Great Britain, last evening. He arraigned Lord Brougham, Dickens, Tennyson, the English Church, the London "Times," and "Punch," for their silence during the present contest, or expressions of open hostility to this country. His comments upon the falsity to former professed principles, frivolity, and mental complicity with slavery, of some of the distinguished Englishmen whose names are household words on both sides of the Atlantic, exposed, in a masterly manner, the remarkable effect of national selfishness and ingratitude upon men of culture and refinement, whose instincts and education should have made them superior to the influences swaying the masses of the nation to which they belong. Dr. Holmes' lecture was resplendent with brilliant points, guiding and directing the audience to some wise and generous purpose of self-restraint, individual independence, or personal development.-Boston Evening Transcript, Nov. 4. S. AUSTIN ALLIBONE, LL. D.-This indefatigable laborer in the vineyard of literature, whose vast "Dictionary of Authors" has laid the whole fraternity under everlasting obligations to him, has, we learn, paid a flying visit to New York lately, where he has been warmly greeted by the authors of Gotham, who were surprised to find Dr. Allibone so young looking, vigorous, and vivacious, despite his years of sedentary toil. One of the last of his many acts of kindness in the cause of literature, is the preparation of a copious and admirably arranged "Index to the Life and Letters of Irving," the fourth and last volume of which is about to appear.-Boston Evening Transcript, Nov. 5. NOTES ON BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. THE ENGLISH EDITION OF THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WASHINGTON IRVING.-By an arrangement with the publisher, George P. Putnam, Richard Bentley, of London, was furnished with the advance sheets of NOV. 16, 1863. World" will be glad to learn that the Messrs. Carter, THE readers of "Queechy" and the "Wide, Wide of New York, will soon issue a new work by the of Miss Warner were received with great gratificasame popular authoress. The earlier publications of them were sold, in various editions, in this countion by the public. An almost incredible number try, in England, and on the Continent. They were regarded as forming a new and valuable accession to our literature. The forthcoming work is entitled "The Old Helmet," and is in no respect inferior to its predecessors. It consists of two volumes 12mo., and will be published early in December simultaWarner is gifted with fine genius, and those readers neously in New York, London, and Leipsic. Miss will doubtless welcome with renewed delight the to whom she has already afforded so much pleasure new production from her pen. each volume of the "Life of Irving," by his nephew, | instance, that one of our publishers had reprinted as they successively appeared. One would suppose the beautiful Memoir of Christopher North by his that this fact alone would have prevented Mr. daughter, Mrs. Gordon, and inserted in the body of Bentley from meddling with the text; and have the book eighty-one pages, purporting to be the led him to consider it a point of honor, even of history of a "second attachment" and rejection of bookseller's honor, to reprint the work precisely as John Wilson, with sundry gossiping details thereof, it was confided to his hands. Instead of this only the idea being to add piquancy and profit to the decent and reputable course, we find that the third reprint-what a scoring "Blackwood" and the volume of a Biography which has peculiar claims "Quarterly Review" would have given the Yankee upon respect and affection both in England and publisher and public, and how justly indignant America, as republished in the former country has would have been Wilson's friends and family! But been interpolated on page 314, and two new chapters not a word of remonstrance or reproof has been inserted (xxiii. and xxiv.), eighty-one pages in all, uttered by the British press for this gross violation without the slightest reasonable excuse, and in of all that is honorable, just, and decent in literary defiance of all the requirements of ordinary courtesy, and social ethics, and international commerce. literary justice, and private affection. Not only are the style and spirit of these spurious chapters quite at variance with the modest, simple, and manly tone of the Biography; not only does the bad taste, gossiping flavor, and flippant expressions of the interpolated chapters mar the symmetry and vulgarize the chaste method of the work; but the personal details introduced, even if literally true, are inappropriate, indelicate, and impertinent; and if, as the evidence of all the facts intimates, they are grossly exaggerated, the intrusion thereby becomes still more reprehensible. We can hardly imagine that a lady capable of appreciating the character and feeling any respect for the memory of Washington Irving, could, of her own free will and accord, be guilty of such a breach of friendship, such an outrage upon self-respect. But we think the author of the Life has satisfactorily shown in his fourth volume that the whole story of a second attachment thus trumped up as a bookseller's job, has no foundation as far as regards any purpose of marriage is concerned. But the injury to the work is far greater than the mere grafting an improbable story thereon, it is a most indelicate and unjustifiable act for which the English publisher deserves the most severe censure. Consider that the work thus maltreated and perverted is the Life of an endeared author, written by a near relative; it is, in this country at least, a precious memorial; its execution had met the unanimous and cordial approbation of all Mr. Irving's nearest and dearest friends; it had become a work of national interest. Yet a London publisher has the audacity, the bad taste, the moral insensibility to interpolate and modify it. The act is more flagrant, inasmuch as Mr. Irving's biographer applied to the family from which these are ostensibly derived, for whatever correspondence or other material they were willing to furnish, and received certain letters and reminis cences, with the statement that these were all which they felt at liberty to make public. We could almost doubt the authenticity of the interpolated matter after such a declaration, accompanied, as it THE CENTRAL PARK IN PHOTOGRAPH.-Some time was, with an avowed sentiment of respect and deli- since we alluded to the fact that Mr. Carlton was cacy towards the subject of the memoir. Nor is about publishing an illustrated work on the Central this all. The style of the new chapters ill accords Park, but the undertaking is worthy of more special with the refinement of mind we should naturally mention than we could then give it, and this on expect from the communications made from the account both of the subject treated, and the manner same ostensible source to the author of the biography in which that subject is portrayed. In the first which appear in these volumes; and whoever will place, the Central Park is at once the finest and compare the account given of a little adventure the grandest specimen of nature improved by art on that befell Mr. Irving at Alexisbad as described by this continent, and it is probably the greatest Demothe one sister to his biographer, and that elaborated cratic luxury that the world knows. In its projecby the other in Mr. Bentley's part of the book, will tion in such a scale of magnitude, and in its comfind discrepancies and exaggerations enough to pletion with the degree of taste and skill that has inspire grave doubts of the truthfulness of the been therein displayed, a Democratic city has most whole interpolated narrative. Had such a literary wisely provided for itself the means of enjoying pure outrage been perpetrated by an American publisher, air, fine architecture, out-door exercise, and landwhat taunts and sneers against the mercenary and scape gardening in a manner that might be the envy tasteless spirit of our people would have filled the of kings. Thanks to those whose good taste discrim"Times" and "Saturday Review!" Suppose, forinated correctly among the plans proposed, and "additions A NEW NOVEL.-We have had a great many kinds of novels lately. There have been Catholic, Puseyite, High Church, Low Church, No Church, Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, and Unitarian novels. There have been novels written by Union men in behalf of a Union, and novels written by Rebels to show that the doctrine of secession is the consummate flower of human wisdom. There have been novels written in the interest of prize-fighting, spiritualism, free-love, and vegetarian diet. We understand that a novel, "Round the Block," which will be a decided departure from this sort of thing, is passing through the presses of Appleton & Co. It is a bold attempt to put the novel back on the old platform of romantic literature, where neither doctrines nor theories were taught; but the sole purpose of the novelist was to entertain his readers. Much is also made of the plot, which is an essential sadly neglected and slurred in these latter days. Novel readers who have been longing for a romance of the good old sort, made out of bran new American materials, will eagerly await the appearance of "Round the Block." NOV. 16, 1863. thanks above all to him who both designed and carried into execution those plans-we refer, of course, to the author and traveller Frederick Law Olmsted -the Central Park affords, in its breadth and in its detail, enough to satisfy the most refined and the most untutored tastes. But we do not intend a dissertation on the Park itself, but rather to say that Mr. Carlton has had more than fifty of its finest views and works of art photographed in the most careful manner, and that these views will be accompanied by descriptive text embodying a history of the Park prepared by Frederick B. Perkins, one of the editors of the "Independent." These descriptions and this history are intended to treat the subject from every point of view; first, from an Historical, such as would be desired by-say a Bancroft; second, from a Statistical, such as would be sought by-say the President of a Statistical Society; third, from a Moral, such as might be given by the Rev. Dr. Tyng; fourth, from a Humanitarian, as might be considered by Rev. Dr. Bellows; fifth, from an Esthetical and Artistic, such as a Huntington or a Church might be supposed to entertain. A single incident, in conclusion, will serve to show the zeal that the publisher and the artist have displayed in the preparation of this volume. The work had been commenced, the views to be taken determined on, and most of the work had been performed; when it was found that a more perfect lens might be procured at a considerable expense, which would enable the artist to take views of double the original size, and in a far superior manner. The work already finished was at once cancelled, several hundred photographs were destroyed, and the undertaking proceeded with in this improved manner. Notwithstanding these delays, the volume is promised in the course of a week or two. JAMES G. GREGORY, No. 46 Walker Street, New York, will have two attractive works ready for the holidays. One of them is "Christmas Poems and Pictures," a collection of carols, songs, and descriptive poems relating to the festival of Christmas, richly illustrated with numerous engravings on wood from drawings by well-known artists. It will contain nearly all the Christmas poems of the English and American poets, and the engravings are to be executed in a high style of art. The printing is to be in a novel method, with a tint impression on each page. It contains thirty-two pages more than the beautiful edition of the "Forest Hymn." It will undoubtedly prove to be one of the leading books of the season. The other work to which we refer is an edition, beautiful and unique, of the carol "Christ was born on Christmas day," illustrated in the best style of Mr. Hows. A rich cluster of holly leaves, charmingly printed in colors, forms the engraved title-page. The same publishers have nearly ready a reprint of "The Vagabonds," a poem which appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly" a few months since. It will be illustrated by Darley. They also announce five editions of Cooper's Novels, in various styles, suitable for the holiday trade. Messrs. SHELDON & Co. have prepared a very acceptable edition of Dickens' Christmas Books, in small quarto form, with numerous full-page illustrations, by the American Cruikshank, Mr. Darley. Here are given "A Christmas Carol," "The Chimes," "The Cricket on the Hearth,' ,""The Battle of Life," "The Haunted Man," "A Christmas Tree," stories, every one of which is destined to be read and reread so often as winter evenings shall return to us. The Riverside edition of Dickens' Works is just completing in forty six volumes, and will be ready about the first of December. MESSRS. Barnes & Burr, of New York, have recently published a series of charts or tablets, to teach reading and spelling, also a chart representing colors, and sizes, and measures, by S. R. Scofield, with illustrations, designed to accompany any series of Readers. They also announce Sherwood's "Writing Speller," "Pronouncing Speller," and "Defining Speller," in three numbers, adapted for Dictation Exercises, and which will not fail to be exceedingly useful in all our primary schools. D. WILLIAMS PATTERSON, M. D., of West Winsted, Conn., has prepared a Genealogy of the Descendants of John Stoddard, of Wethersfield, Conn. (1639). This he proposes to print whenever members of the family and others shall subscribe for one hundred copies at one dollar each, for which price it will be sent post paid. of Educational works, have removed from 596 MESSRS. Schermerhorn, Bancroft & Co., publishers Broadway to 130 Grand Street, within one door of be very much increased for the sale of school books, Messrs. Scribner & Co., where their facilities will school furniture, maps, charts, etc. OBITUARY. Among the recently deceased persons connected with literature in Europe are the following: Jacob Grimm, the German scholar and archæologist ; Schtepkine, the father of the Russian stage at Moscow, who had been forty years an actor; F. Masini, well known as one of the most successful composers of ballads in Paris; William Zooke, President of the Society of Arts, London, Treasurer of the Society for Promoting Useful knowledge, and author of "The Monarchy of France, its Rise, Progress, and Fall;" Alfred de Vigny, the French poet and novelist; C. R. Cockerell, a celebrated English architect, author of several works on his profession; the Rev. T. W. Faber, once an eminent poet, but latterly superior of the Oratory at Brompton; Dr. Alexander Henderson, aged 83, author of the "History of Ancient and Modern Wines," published in Bower Nichols, aged 85, printer, editor of the "Genquarto in 1824, and of several other works; John tleman's Magazine," a great antiquarian, and author of "Anecdotes of Hogarth," and some volumes of commenced by his father, one of the last of the "The Literary History of the Eighteenth Century," "learned printers" of England. MRS. CHAMBERS.-We learn, with deep regret, that Mrs. Robert Chambers, wife of the Edinburgh publisher, who accompanied her husband in his visit to the United States in the autumn of 1860. died on Tuesday, September 29th. The health of Mrs. Chambers has suffered very much from the loss of his amiable and intelligent helpmate. PERIODICALS. Biblical Repertory and Princeton Reriew. October. The Anglo-American Sabbath.-University Education.-Witherspoon's Theology.—Micah's Prophecy of Christ.-The Children of the Covenant, and "their Part in the Lord."-Miracles.-The Beautiful Things of Earth.-Relations of Church and State.-Recent Explorations in Africa (additional note). Philadelphia: Peter Walker. Christian Examiner. November. Renan's Life of Jesus.-Ulrich Von Hutten.Henry Taylor.-Some New Attempt at Conformity. Wendell Phillips as an Orator.-Modern Rome.Coleridge and Kingsley on American Affairs.-English Expositions of Neutrality.-Review of Current Literature. Boston: Walker, Wise & Co. Free Will Baptist Quarterly. October. The Discipline of Letters and of Life (Rev. G. T. Day.-The True and Proper Place of Fear in Distinct and Opposite Christian Experience (Rev. A. NOV. 16, 1863. Mahan, D. D.).—The Bible the World's Great Need | Papers.-The Dark Day of 1780.-Memoir of An(Rev. H. Whitcher).-God's Care for our Nation drew H. Ward; with portrait.-Query relative to (Rev. G. H. Ball).-The Eighth Census (Rev. Wm. the Phoenix Family.-Suffolk Wills.-Extract from Hurlin). The Rebellion and the Prospects of the Rev. S. Chandler's Diary.-Records of Wethersfield, Union (Rev. D. M. Graham, D. D.).—History of the Conn.-Genealogical Notes.-Marriages and Deaths. Temperance Enterprise (Rev. Joseph Fullonton).--Memorable Draught 101 Years Ago.-Town of Contemporary Literature. Dover, N. H. Colburn, N. H.-Current Events.-Book Notices, etc. Monthly Religious Magazine. November. etc. Albany: J. Munsell. Exaltations at the Approach of Death (Rev. E. H. Sears). The Almshouse; Poetry, by C. A. C.— Were the Puritan Fathers Bigots and Fanatics? Part II. (Rev. H. F. Harrington).-Christian Fruitfulness: A Sermon for Autumn (Rev. Jas. O. Murray).-"I Can Pray, and that's a Glorious Thing" poetry, by J. V.-Conversation of the Soul with the Lord; from the German of Francis Theremin.-Editor's Random Readings.-Notices of Books. Boston: L. C. Bowles. Knickerbocker. November. A Picture of Peru, continued (Kinahan Cornwallis). The Organ.-November; poetry.-The Balance of Power.-An Originality of Mind.-How I Rode Rappahannock.-Paul Delaroche.-Thou Remindest Me; poetry.-Grace Standalis' Friend (Frances M. Bennett).-Adrift in the World, continued (Kinahan Cornwallis).-My Meditations in the Window.-Editor's Table (Louis Gaylord Clark), etc. etc. New York: H. Dexter & S. Tousey. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. October. Memoir of Hon. Wm. Appleton, with Portrait.Memoranda (Judge Sewell).-Letter of Gov. Belcher. -The Ayres and Ayre Families.-Sudbury Records. -Anti-Catholic Declaration of the N. H. General Assembly.-Eliazer Isbel's Will.-Dumaresq Family; with Pedigree.-Gleanings.-The Rogers Family. Lord Bacon and Lady Jane Gray.-Some Family Bibliotheca Sacra and Biblical Repository. October. The Pre-Existence of the Soul.-Stoddard's Theological Lectures (Rev. Chas. M. Mead).-Biblical Chronology and the Doctrine of the Fall of the World (Rev. W. F. Warren, D. D.)-Constantine the Great, and the Downfall of Paganism in the Roman Empire (Dr. Philip Schaff).-Authorship of the Pentateuch (Rev. S. C. Bartlett, D. D.).—The Doctrine of the Protestant Episcopal Church (Rt. Rev. George Burgess, D. D.).-Egyptology, Oriental Archæology, and Travel (Rev. Jos. P. Thompson, D. D.).-Scheler's Dictionary of French Etymology. (Rev. B. Sears).-Recent Theological Literature of Germany (Prof. W. F. Warren). Andover: W. F. Draper. Church Monthly. November. Definite Aims in Parish Work (Rev. D. P. Sanford).-Greek the Earliest Language of the Roman Church (Rev. D. H. Short).-A Peep at the Microscopic World (Mary L. Brisell).-In the Twilight ; poetry.-Recent Attacks on the Bible (Rev. John F. Spaulding).-The Churchyard by the Sea; poetry (T. Gardner White).—Sacred Labor and Christian Rest.-The Right Hearing of the Word.-Bishop Butler and the "Analogy" (Rev. F. D. Huntington, D. D.).-Home Memories; poetry.-Thoughts for Myself and Others (Mrs. C. A. Rogers).-Advent (Rev. Geo. M. Randall, D. D.).-Literary Notices. Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co. MILITARY. BOOK NOTICES. Report of the Engineer and Artillery Operations of the Army of the Potomac, from its Organization to the close of the Penninsular Campaign. By Generals Barnard and Barry. New York: Van Nostrand. 230 pp. octavo, with an Appendix of Maps and Drawings. This is a volume for which we have long waited, and which we now hail with sincere pleasure and real satisfaction. The campaign in the peninsula was not fully intelligible without it: but here large maps and numerous detailed drawings thoroughly illustrate the lucid reports of General J. G. Barnard, the chief engineer of that army, and General Wm. F. Barry, its chief of artillery. In this volume our readers will be taught how it is, and with what painful labors, great armies move; how the enemy is forcibly reconnoitered; how the genius of the engineer seizes the points of defence, and the devotion of the artillerist renders them inapproachable; how bridges are built and destroyed; how the enemy's plans are discovered and prepared for. The long, raisoné, and most satisfactory report of General Barnard covers all the sub-reports of officers serving with him on engineer duty, as bridgebuilders, pontoniers, and pioneers. General Barnard himself, an engineer officer of long standing, is considered by those who know him as the clearest and most practical mathematical mind in the army. General Barry's report on the organization of the artillery of the Army of the Potomac is valuable for future reference, and his statement of artillery operations at the siege of Yorktown, connected with that of General Barnard's on the engineering operations, gives a clearer view of that great obstacle to our peninsular march than anything previously issued. General Barry is an officer of long experience in the artillery service, and conducted his corps with great skill during the campaign. The great obstacle of the Chicahominy is here also clearly explained, in considering the siege of Richmond, and the change of base of our army. The book must find its place at once as a necessary document for the great history of this eventful period of the war. Large, clear, detailed maps and views, to the number of eighteen, accompany the text. One word as to the typography. It is a fine octavo, printed on good paper, in right royal type, and is eminently worthy to be considered a "library edition," even by those who affect dilletanteism in this particular. Mr. Van Nostrand, by his generous dealings with the public and authors, sparing no expense in order to make his publications perfect, has excited a corresponding spirit in his large circle of readers, who recognize and are willing to reward his liberal spirit. Notes on the Rebel Invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the Battle of Gettysburg. By M. Jacobs, Professor in Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. 12mo. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. This is a curious, interesting, and valuable little volume. The quiet of Gettysburg, the peaceful |