belonging to the general school of John Stuart Mill. The Appleton's have issued a prospectus of an extensive scheme of volumes from his pen upon subjects of great theoretical and practical importance. They propose to embrace a scheme of philosophy in its various departments, founded upon carefully elaborated first principles. Biology, psychology, sociology, and morality are to be presented in their newest light under the power of a fresh and original investigation. Much is already written. Upon the subscription list we find some of the most eminent American names, such as Everett, Charles Sumner, Bancroft, Dr. Storrs, Seward, and G. P. Marsh.

The present volume is written with a fair but not commanding ability. The writer forcibly urges the importance of imparting to every pupil the knowledge of those branches most practically adapted to his uses in life. He speaks slightingly of classical attainment except as a specialty, and endeavors to point out specifically the parts and methods of knowledge and instruction to be preferred.

Rudiments of Public Speaking and Debate; or, Hints on the Applications of Logic. By G. J. HOLYOAKE. With an Essay on Sacred Eloquence, by Henry Rogers. Revised, with Introduction and Notes by L. D. Barrows, D.D. 12mo., pp. 230. New York: Carlton & Porter. 1861. For all aspirants to excellence in public speaking this is a valuable and interesting practical manual. The principal Essay, by Mr. Holyoake, of England, is a fresh, piquant, suggestive production; full of illustrative anecdotes, striking apothegms, intuitive glances into men and things, shaped into a symmetrical but by no means exhaustive treatise. The Essay by Henry Rogers, the brilliant and profound author of the Eclipse of Faith, was first published in the Edinburgh Review, where it received the marked attention of the thoughtful world, as filled with suggestions of practical value. We think it not overrated. The only fault we find with it is its apparent purpose of running all pulpit eloquence into the same mould. It assumes to say, a little too peremptorily, This is the way and the only way. We object to so much strait-jacket. This may be a way, a most excellent way; but neither the genius of the preacher nor the idiosyncracies of the hearer are to be fastened to the one mode that suits Mr. Rogers and his class. To the first Essay Mr. Barrows has affixed a series of notes, which are eminently observations taken fresh from life and practice by a live and practical preacher. Let our young ministry study this work and we think they will acknowledge a high obligation for its benefits.

The Elements of Logic; adapted to the Capacity of Younger Students. By CHARLES K. TRUE, D.D. Revised Edition. 12mo., pp. 176. New York: Carlton & Porter; Ivison, Phinney, & Co. 1861.

Dr. True's manual is remarkable for its clearness and simplicity. It develops the established principles of the science by a lucid statement of the principles illustrated, with a copious list of examples. For the purpose of inducting the pupil into the elementary principles it has perhaps no superior; and to render it suitable for the advanced collegiate classes it only wants additions and enlargements in the same style and spirit. Logic is practically a disciplinary rather than an enriching science. Its practical value, like that of grammar, is not so much in the knowledge it bestows as the habits it creates. The logical drill, completely performed, affects our reasoning operations and gives them more or less a dif ferent method, leaving its effects on the action even after the rules are forgotten. For general practical purposes, therefore, it is not so much the amount of knowledge acquired, as the thoroughness of the praxis, which produces the modifying result. The present volume, well reduced to practice, would to a great extent accomplish this end.

Belles Lettres and Classical.

Moral and Religious Quotations from the Poets, Topically Arranged. Comprising Choice Selections from Six Hundred Authors. Compiled by Rev. WILLIAM RICE, A. M. 8vo., pp. 338. New York: Carlton & Porter, 200 Mulberry-st.

In the day when we were ambitious for all knowledge, we often wished, as we surveyed some magnificent library, that its contents could be concentrated to a few select ingots of thought, and received into the mind. So far as poetry is concerned, Mr. Rice has here achieved about the best that can be done in this way with a library of "six hundred" poets. From a wide range of English and American authors, and from a choice few of German, French, Greek, and Latin, he has, with vast reading and unusual taste and skill, made a most complete selection of choicest passages upon a circle of topics most desirable to a moral and intellectual thinker. However much one may often prefer for perusal an entire production to a fragment, there is a great interest in tracing the different modes in which different men of genius can treat the same subject, by selecting different traits, or approaching by different access. Take the theme Immortality, and see with what varying phrases, what different lights and shades, the most brilliant minds that ever thought on earth have touched it. It is amusing as well as

interesting to see how each candidate steps successively forward to show with what magic of thought and word he can enchant you. Great is your privilege in thus calling before your umpirage the proudest sons of song to contend for the crown of mastery at your hand. (We may remark by the way that the twelfth passage on Immortality was written, not by "Anonymous," but by Lord Byron.)

In the whole work, perhaps, there is no passage to which we are more inclined to assign the prize than to the sonnet, under the head of Darkness, by a poet hardly known as a poet, J. Blanco White. For beauty and sublimity, whether of imagery, language, or thought, what sonnet is its superior?

Mysterious night! when our first parent knew
Thee from report divine, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,

This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Yet 'neath a curtain of translucent dew,

Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame,
Hesperus, with the host of heaven, came,

And lo! creation widened in man's view.

Who could have thought such darkness lay concealed
Within thy beams, O sun? or who could find

Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood revealed,

That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind?
Why do we, then, shun death with anxious strife?
If light can thus deceive, wherefore not life?

The volume is externally finished in various styles. In its best style it is one of the finest annuals for any year of any century of future time. The book is one of the multiplying proofs that when Carlton & Porter lay out for the business, their workmanship is unsurpassed.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems. By T. BABINGTON MACAU12mo., pp. 358. New York: D. Appleton &

New Edition.

LAY.
Co. 1860.

These pieces embrace the fugitive productions of Macaulay from his boyhood, through his college days, until his maturity of manhood. They exhibit a striking picture of this wonderful man, with all the versatility of his varied erudition and varied talents. The following memoranda in the brief preface furnish a summary of his active life:

He was born on 25th October, 1800; commenced residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, in October, 1818; was elected Craven University Scholar in 1821; graduated as B. A. in 1822; was elected fellow of the college in October, 1824;

was called to the bar in February, 1826, when he joined the Northern Circuit; and was elected member for Calne in 1830. After this last event, he did not long continue to practice at the bar. He went to India in 1834, whence he returned in June, 1838. He was elected member for Edinburgh in 1839, and lost this seat in July, 1847; and this (though he was afterward again elected for that city in July, 1852, without being a candidate) may be considered as the last instance of his taking an active part in the contests of public life.

Herodotus. Recensuit JOSEPHUS WILLIAMS BLAKESLEY, S.T.B. Colb., ss., apud Cantabr., quondam Socius. 2 vols. 24mo., pp. 362, 364. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1861.

Euripides, ex recensione FREDERICI A. PALEY, accessit valorum et nominum index. 2 vols., pp. 304, 310. New York: Harper & Bros. 1861. These pocket editions of the classics, of which the Harpers are prosecuting a fine series, will be acceptable to the scholars of our country.

Pamphlets.

National Fast: A Fast-day Sermon, delivered in the City of Flint, Jan. 4, 1861. By Rev. JAMES S. SMART, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Flint, Mich. 18mo., pp. 22. William Levenson. 1861.

The free, outspoken, eloquent sentiments of Mr. Smart illustrate the folly of the Southern fantasy that New England is specially ultra, and may be allowed to drift away by herself. The great northwest responds to the northeast

As Jura answers from her misty shroud

Back to the joyous Alps that call to her aloud.

Nor least distinct is the voice of the central peninsular state.

The Duties of Christian Patriotism: A Discourse preached in the Methodist Episcopal Church, Warren-street, Roxbury, Mass., on the occasion of the National Fast. By Rev. FALES HENRY NEWHALL. 8vo., pp. 16. Boston: John M. Hewes, No. 81 Cornhill. 1861.

Mr. Buchanan seemed to have had a presentiment that his cabinet and administration belonged to that "kind" that "goeth not out but by prayer and fasting," and so appointed a day for those exercises. One good result was the preaching and publication of Mr. Newhall's sermon.

A SERMON delivered on the late national FAST-DAY, by REV. GILBERT HAVEN, has been received, but mislaid. As our memory serves us, it was marked by Mr. Haven's usual nervous thought and free speech. Of course he felt "irrepressibly" bound to re iterate his pet heresy in favor of John Brown as a true martyr hero. For this view he quotes Victor Hugo, of whose fame we have heard as a rather brilliant poet of the pyrotechnic school, but not

as a moral philosopher. He adduces, also, the precedent of Garibaldi to justify John Brown, which seems to us rather contrast than parallel. We had supposed it an elementary principle, found in our horn-books of moral philosophy, that the man who proposes to revolutionize even the most unjust government must be able to show some presumptive prospect of success; otherwise he is a bootless disturber, leading his followers to ruin, and confirming the despotism he exasperates. Garibaldi could and did furnish this showing. But the project of liberating the half-civilized, scattered, unarmed, subdued negro slaves of this country, against the then united power of this nation, was evidently the hallucination of a man whom great injuries had rendered cerebrally monomaniac. It was conceived in insanity and could only turn out a ludibrium flebile. On the whole, much more is made of the entire matter than it is worth. His raid was not equivalent to the hundredth part of the forays and outrages of the proslavery hordes upon Kansas, supported by all the power of an unscrupulous administration. Had he committed an equal assault not against slavery, but in favor of it, the narration would hardly have filled a newspaper paragraph. Its truth would have been unscrupulously denied by the proslavery party, and the hero would have been rewarded with a government office. As it is, being a single case of the kind, the propagandists have felt bound to make the most of it. They have thence shown their extraordinary powers of creating a sensation, fully corroborating the sentiment attributed to Governor Houston, that "one slaveholder in a place can raise such a howl that you will imagine that he is a hundred."

The Omnipotence of Charity: a Missionary Sermon, preached before the West Wisconsin Conference. By C. E. WEIRICH. Published by request. 12mo., pp. 35. New York: Carlton and Porter. 1861. Mr. Weirich's sermon was published by request of the Conference and the presiding bishop. It is marked by a bold, exuberant eloquence, which was doubtless very impressive in the delivery. Making due allowances for its oratorical purpose, it is impressive in the reading.

Miscellaneous.

The Doomsday Book of the State of New York. Founded 1860. Wells & Gillette, 20 Cooper Institute, New York.

Borrowing a name from William the Conqueror, this company has established, on the principle of republican voluntaryism, an in