THE BOOK OF NATURE: An Elementary Introduction to the Science of Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geology, Botany, Zoology and Physiology, By Francis Schoedler. Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea. 1853. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

"The sun at length went down behind the Aiguille du | literally translated into English, together with Smart's Goûté, and then, for two hours, a scene of such wild and rhyming version of the latter classic. This volume bewondrous beauty-of such inconceivable and unearthly longs to the best series of the Greek and Latin Authors splendor-burst upon me that spell-bound and almost in English, ever published. The other work is one of trembling with the emotion its magnificence called forth the set of the Standard Library and is a continuation of —with every sense, and feeling, and thought absorbed by the work of Archdeacon Coxe on the House of Austria its brilliancy, I saw far more than the realization of the brought down to our own time. A Supplementary puper most gorgeous visions that opium or hasheesh could by an "Officer of State" gives an account of the late evoke, accomplished. At first everything about us, above, Austrian Revolution. A portrait of the boyish Emperor around, below-the sky, the mountain, and the lower peaks-appeared one uniform creation of burnished gold, Joseph engraved on steel prefaces the volume. Mr. Ranso brightly dazzling, that, now our veils were removed, dolph has both of these works for sale. the eye could scarcely bear the splendor. As the twilight gradually crept over the lower world, the glow became still more vivid; and presently, as the blue mists rose in the valleys, the tops of the higher mountains looked like islands rising from a filmy ocean-an archipelago of gold. By degrees this metallic lustre was softened into tints,-first orange, and then bright, transparent crimson, along the horizon, rising through the different hues with prismatic regularity, until immediately aboye us, the sky was a deep, pure blue, merging towards the east into glowing violet. The snow took its color from these changes; and every portion on which the light versity and his Book of Nature has been held in such fell was soon tinged with a pale carmine, of a shade simi- high repute in Europe as to have run through a sale of lar to that which snow at times assumes, from some im-twenty thousand copies in the German and two English perfectly explained cause, at high elevations-such, in-editions, during five years. The translation before us is deed, as I had seen, in early summer, upon the Furka by Henry Medlock, Principal of a Chemical School in and Faulhorn. These beautiful hues grew brighter as London. The American copy is enriched by additions, the twilight below increased in depth; and it now came and is illustrated by nearly seven hundred wood engramarching up the valley of the glaciers, until it reached vings. our resting-place. Higher and higher still it drove the lovely glory of the sunlight before it, until at last the vast Dôme du Goûté and the summit itself stood out, icelike and grim, in the cold evening air, although the horizon still gleamed with a belt of rosy light.

"Although this superb spectacle had faded away, the scene was still even more than striking.

This work is entitled to the warmest commendation, both for the clearness and order of its arrangement, and the large amount of information embodied in it. The author is Professor of Natural Sciences in a German Uni

MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF THE RT. HON. Richard
BRINSLEY SHERIDAN. By Thomas Moore. In Two
Volumes. Redfield, 110 and 112 Nassau Street, New
York. 1853. [From J. W. Randolph, 121 Main St.
The life of "Poor Sherry" by "Poor Tom" is a work
of the most delightful sort, and is republished most op-

"The stars had come out, and, looking over the pla-portunely by Mr. Redfield, now that a fresh interest is teau, I soon saw the moonlight lying cold and silvery on being excited in the biographer by the appearance of his the summit, stealing slowly down the very track by which own memoirs. Moore performed the task, involved in the sunset glories had passed upward and away. But it such a work, however, far better than Lord John Russell came so tardily, that I knew it would be hours before we has done it, and has left in these memorials of the versa derived any actual benefit from the light. One after an- tile and brilliant Sheridan a valuable legacy to the world. other the guides fell asleep, until only three or four re- We need say nothing, however, of a book so well-known mained round the embers of the fire, thoughtfully smok- and admired, both on account of the interest we all feel ing their pipes. And then silence, impressive beyond in the subject and the agreeable manner in which it has expression, reigned over our isolated world. Often and been treated. often, from Chamouni, I had looked up at evening towards the darkening position of the Grands Mulets, and thought, almost with shuddering, how awful it must be for men to pass the night in such a remote, eternal, and frozen wilderness. And now I was lying there-in the very heart of its icebound and apalling solitude. In such close communion with nature in her grandest aspect, with no trace of the actual living world beyond the mere speck that our little party formed, the mind was carried far away from its ordinary truins of thought—a solemn emotion of mingled awe and delight, and yet self-perception of abject nothingness, alone rose above every other feeling. A vast untrodden region of cold, and silence, and death stretched out far and away from us on every side; but, above, Heaven, with its countless watchful eyes, was over all!"

THE ROMAN TRAITOR: or the Days of Cicero, Cato and Cataline. A True Tale of the Republic. By HENRY WILLIAM HERBERT, Author of Cromwell, &c. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson, No. 102 Chesnut Street. [From G. M. West, under the Exchange Hotel.

Mr. Herbert is without doubt a writer of considerable power and possesses an accurate acquaintance with the social life of the period at which the events of this story transpired; but we think he has failed to infuse life and spirit into the characters he brings upon the stage, and has thus produced a work which cannot be regarded as successful. It is from no want of dramatic ability that this failure proceeds but from the evident impossibility of interesting us in the men of antiquity by the familiar We are indebted to Bangs, Brothers & Co. of New agency of fiction. We must have something in common York for two new issues of the veteran publisher, Bohn. with the dramatis personæ or we will care nothing about One belongs to the Classical Library and contains the them. The Roman Traitor is rather valuable as a hisComedies of Terence and Æsop's Fables by Phædrus, torical portraiture than entertaining as a story.

A New and Improved Standard French and ENGLISH | from Hallucination it would be exceedingly difficult to and ENGLISH AND FRENCH DICTIONARY, &c., &c. By estimate. We have rarely seen a book containing so A. G. Collot, late Professor in the University of Ox- much curious and remarkable information concerning ford. Philadelphia: C. G. Henderson & Co. North-the dark and mystical side of life. The writer refers west corner of Fifth and Arch Streets. 1852. [From the belief in mesmerism and clairvoyance so prevalent at A. Morris, 97 Main Street. the present day to the effect of mental delusion and illus. trates his doctrine by a vast number of anecdotes. We Although this portly volume bears date 1852, we were have no time to enter upon the philosophy of the work not aware of its publication till it was laid upon our table during the last month. Its advantages over the Dic-here, and have only to direct the attention of all such as tionaries now in use seem to consist in the order of its ar- feel an interest in the marvellous and obscure, to its rangement and the clearness of its definitions. The stu- pages for an abundant supply of wonders.

dent finds the word he is in search of without loss of time, and is not bothered with a multitude of figures and signs, such as frequently exhaust his patience in Spiers. We consider the work a valuable addition to the educational library.

THE WORKS OF SHAKSPEARE, the Text regulated by
the recently discovered Folio of 1632, &c., &c. By J.
PAYNE COLLIER. Esq., F. S. A. In Eight Volumes.
Vols. II., III. and V. Redfield, 110 and 112 Nassau St.
New York. 1853. [From J. W. Randolph, 121 Main
Street.

We owe Mr. Redfield many thanks for this charming edition of the works of the great English dramatist. It is beautifully printed, and the size of the volumes accords with Dr. Johnson's preference for books that one can hold in the hand by the fireside. The text has been rendered agreeably with the emendations concerning which such a sensation has recently been created in this country and in England, at the same time that the readings of former editions are preserved-an arrangement which cannot fail to give satisfaction to all Shaksperean students. The first volume of the series will be published last of all and will contain a life and portrait of the Poet. Mr. Redfield will oblige us by forwarding Volume IV. which through some omission we failed to receive.

THE LIFE OF DANIEL WEBSTER, with Illustrations.-
Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. 1853. [From
James Woodhouse, 139 Main Street.

This little volume is the first of a series which the publishers design to bring out under the title of the "Young Americans' Library." It is likely to be popular with the boys not only on account of the anecdotes with which it abounds, but from a number of exceedingly bad engravings which represent Mr. Webster as he never did appear at any period of his life. We hope the succeeding volumes of the "Young American's Library," will be as good in the letter press as this; as for the pictures it is scarcely possible that they can be as bad, so that we may look for improvement in at least one respect.

HALLUCINATIONS: or the Rational History of Appari tions, Visions, Dreams, Ecstacy, Magnetism and Somnambulism. By BRIERRE de Boismont, &c. &c. First American, from the Second Enlarged and Improved Paris Edition. Philadelphia : Lindsay & Blakiston. 1853. [From James Woodhouse, 139 Main Street.

From the title of this volume, one might suppose it a stray chapter out of Austin Caxton's voluminous "His tory of Human Error" for how much of Error has sprung

THE SOUTHERN PULPIT. A Presbyterian Work, containing Original Sermons, by Southern Presbyterian Ministers. July, 1853. Contents: Lessons from the Life of Washington, by Rev. T. V. Moore. Richmond: Printed by Macfarlane & Fergusson, for the Publisher. This work was commenced in May last and is designed, as the title indicates, to lay before the public original sermons of Southern Presbyterian Ministers. The number now under our eye contains an eloquent and thoughtful discourse of the Rev. T. V. Moore, of whose gifts as a writer and pulpit orator we have so often spoken in previous numbers of the Messenger. It will be read with interest by the large circle of Mr. Moore's admirers.

We are indebted to the authors respectively for copies of the following pamphlets

SPEECH OF THE HON. A. W. VENABLE, Before the two
Societies at Wake Forest College. Delivered Wed-
nesday, June 8th, 1853. Published by order of the Eu-
zalian Society. Raleigh: A. M. Gorman, Printer-
Spirit of the Age Office. 1853.

ADDRESS Delivered before the Patrons and Pupils of
Hampton Academy, July 30, 1853. By Rev. John C.
McCabe, Rector of St. John's Church, Hampton, Vir-
ginia. Richmond. 1853.

SPEECH OF RICHARD YEADON, Esq., of Charleston, S.
C., at the Pilgrim Celebration, at Plymouth, Mass.,
August 1, 1853. New York: Printed by G. Trehers,
141 Nassau Street. 1853.

UNCLE TOM'S CABIN" REVIEWED; or, American So
ciety Vindicated from the Aspersions of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe. By James A. Waddell, M. D. Ra
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Post." 1852.

Of the addresses we need only say that they are in all respects such as we should have expected from men of such reputation for learning and ability as the authors. Mr. Waddell's review of Uncle Tom's Cabin originally appeared in the columns of the "Southern Weekly Post," and attracted much attention by its trenchant satire and cogent reasoning. We are glad to have it in a form for preservation.

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