by which the author is so favorably known. The views of mental training and of the objects which should be aimed at in the school and college are sound and well adapted to the times. The relation of the mathematics to Logic is justly conceived and the importance of the study of Logic as a preparation and aid to mathematical studies is ably vindicated. For this last reason we would commend the work to the particular attention of the board of examiners at West Point, for 1849, who in their sapience, recommended the disuse of logic as altogether superfluous in an institution, in which the mathematics are the chief study!

A Commentary on the Book of Daniel. By Moses STUART, lately Prof., &c. 8vo, pp. 496. Boston: Crocker & Brewster.

THE Veteran exegete of our country, has with characteristic zeal and industry given the last days of his student-life to the most perplexing books of the sacred volume-the Apocalypse and the Book of Daniel. We may be assured that he has made himself familiar with the works of all preceding interpreters and has given us the most useful single work on the mysterious prophet, which can be found in the English language. Prof. Stuart differs from the majority of English interpreters, and follows the modern continental school of critics who believe in prophecy at all.

Elements of Intellectual Philosophy, designed for a text-book and for private reading. By HUBBARD WINSLOW, A.M. 12mo, pp. 414: Boston, Crocker & Brewster.

THIS treatise so far as we can judge from a hasty perusal has been prepared with zeal and energy and shows the workings of an active mind. We received the volume too late to be able to furnish a critical revision, but can safely commend it as a useful and interesting book.

Astræa:-The Balance of Illusions. A Poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College, August 14, 1850. By ŎLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. 18mo, pp. 39. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1850. New Haven: T. H. Pease.

THIS poem is bright, witty, condensed, polished, and sensible-and well worth the reading, as is all the poetry of this universal favorite. What can be finer in its way than the following lines on President Stiles:

"How the great Master, reverend, solemn, wise,
Fixed on his face those calm majestic eyes
Full of grave meaning, where a child might read
The Hebraist's patience and the Pilgrim's creed,
But warm with flashes of parental fire

That drew the stripling to his second sire;
How kindness ripened, till the youth might dare

Take the low seat beside his sacred chair,

While the gray scholar, bending o'er the young,
Spelled the square types of Abraham's ancient tongue,
Or with mild rapture stooped devoutly o'er
His small coarse leaf, alive with curious lore;
Tales of grim judges, at whose awful beck
Flashed the broad blade across a royal neck,
Or learned dreams of Israel's long lost child
Found in the wanderer of the western wild."

We regret the necessity which compels us to postpone several notices which had been prepared, but we have come to the end of our volume-and more.