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had intended. Such fruitless recollections of her sufferings cannot change her destiny. If I can cherish any hope for her, it is in the steady march of the free and prosperous republic of which I am now a citizen. If integrity and union shall continue to direct her councils; if native health and vigour still prove a match for the attacks which corrupt intrigue and foreign influence will never fail to make upon her freedom and renown; if honesty be cherished as it ought, and fraud discountenanced, and law administered with firm impartiality; if religion, the chastener of the public morals, be still pure and holy, untainted by hypocrisy or guile; if all these blessings shall continue to her; if the mild wisdom of her Franklin, and the farewell voice, and warning accents of her Washington, be ever in the ears and hearts of all her citizens; then may the great example stronger than armed millions work to the end of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION.'

LIST OF LATE PUBLICATIONS.

1. AGRICULTURE AND FARRIERY.

Address of the Hon. William Walker, President of the Berkshire Agricultural Society, delivered before the same, together with reports of the Committees of Departments, and the Address of Elkanah Watson, Esq. first President of the Society. Pittsfield.

Practical Horse Farrier; or the Traveller's Pocket Companion, showing the best method to preserve the Horse in health, &c. 2d edition, with engravings, and enlarged. By William Carver of NewYork. Philadelphia.

Southwick's Agricultural Almanack, for 1821. Published under the patronage of the board of Agriculture. Albany.

The Address of Dr. Samuel L. Mitchill, delivered to the NewYork Agricultural Society, has been republished in the Albany Plough Boy, of Dec. 16th, and 23d. 1820.

A Small Tract, entitled a candid and impartial exposition of the various opinions on the subject of the comparative quality of Wheat and Flour, in the Northern and Southern sections of the United States, with a view to develope the true cause of the difference, &c. In a letter from John C. Brush, of Washington, D. C. to Samuel L. Mitchill, LL. D. Washington.

This well written Practical Tract supports by facts, observations, and reasonings, that the inferiority of Northern Flour is wholly owing to the too late cutting of the Wheat-or, in the usual phrase, to the letting it stand until it be dead ripe.

Late Publications.-Education, Chemistry, History, &e. 255

(2.) EDUCATION.

The American System of Practical Book-Keeping, adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in its domestic and foreign relations, &c. with a plate of a Balance-Chart, by James Bennett, accountant, lecturer on Book-Keeping, and President of the Account. Benev. Soc. of N. Y. with

Jackson's Book-Keeping, adapted to the Commerce of the United States, &c. &c. By James Bennett. Royal 8vo. pp. 188. both, $2. New-York. and

Bennett's Conversation Cards-teaching the whole science of BookKeeping, $1. E. Bliss. New-York.

(Foreign.)

Hints for the Improvement of early education, and Nursery discipline. Ist. Am. edition, Collins, New-York, 12mo. pp. 123.

(3.) CHEMISTRY, BOTANY, GEOLOGY, MINER. & NAT. HIST. Conversations on Chemistry; in which the elements of that science are familiarly explained, and illustrated by experiments. From the fifth and latest English edition, revised, corrected, and considerably enlarged. To which are added notes and observations, by an American gentleman, 2d. edit. Greenfield, Mass. 12mo. pp. 420.

Geological Survey of the County of Albany, by Amos Eaton and T. Romeyn Beck, M. D. 8vo. pp. 51. Albany.

Philips's Outline of Mineralogy, with engravings, 2d edition, by Dr. Mitchill, much enlarged. 12mo. Collins & Co. New-York.

A Compendium of Physiological and Systematic Botany. With plates. 12mo. pp. 300. By George Sumner, M. D. Hartford.

The Natural History of the Bible, or a description of all the Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects, Trees, Plants, Flowers, Gems and Precious Stones, mentioned in the Sacred Scriptures. Collected from the best Authorities, and alphabetically arranged. By Thaddeus Mason Harris, D. D. Boston, Wells & Lilly. 8vo. pp. 476.

(4.) HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, GEOGRAPHY AND TOPOGRAPHY.

The Ohio and Mississippi Pilot, consisting of a set of Charts of those rivers, representing their channels, islands, ripples, rapids, shoals, bars, rocks, &c. accompanied with directions for the use of navigators. To which is added a geography of the States and Territories, west and south of the Alleghany mountains. By J. C. Gilleland. Pittsburgh, 12mo. pp. 274.

History of Chelmsford, from its origin in 1653, to the year 1820. By Rev. Wilkes Allen, A. M. 8vo. pp. 192. Haverhill, Mass. Life of Com. Oliver H. Perry. By John M. Niles.

Hartford.

Life and Letters, together with Poetical and Miscellaneous pieces of the late William Person, a student of Harvard University. 18mo. Cambridge.

If manly strength of character, united with the finest sensibility, may deserve and reward attention, we may safely recommend this book to all who take delight in seeing the affections and the moral qualities called into action, and can love and admire excellence under whatever circumstances, and at whatever age it may appear.

There is something of a romantic and mysterious interest blended with the

history of this extraordinary youth; in consequence of his having been one of those who, by the fault of their parents, come lawlessly into life. It too often happens that the innocent offspring, in such a case, is made to bear the wit and disgrace, while the guilty parties remain concealed; and as the writer of this memoir well remarks, to avoid disgrace and degradation, do what renders them worthy of a punishment still more severe.' Person, it seems, was deserted by both his parents, and never acknowledged by either. He was born in December, 1793, and in the October following was placed in a respectable family in Andover. [He died in Oct. 1818.] While yet a pupil at Phillips' Academy, he thus describes his painful want of parental relation, in reply to the supposed inquiry of a compassionate stranger:

Stranger, why that face of grief?

Why those tears, that ask relief?
Is thy heart by anguish torn?
Art thou left alone to mourn?
Kind inquirer, I would tell thee
All the woes, which have befell me,
But the tale would tend to weary;
Thou hast told it in thy query.
Thus briefly let my griefs be known-
In the world I'm left alone;

No kind father to protect me,
No kind mother to direct me,
Sister, brother, all denied me;

Can aught of deeper wo betide me?'

North Am. Review, No. 29. The Political State of Italy, by Theodore Lyman, jun. Boston. Wells & Lilly, 8vo. pp. xix. 424.

An Eulogy on the late John P. Curran Sampson, Esq. Counsellor at Law, delivered at the New-York Forum, Nov. 8, 1820, by Peter Ludlow, jun. Esq. New-York.

Proposals for publishing a new and complete History of the United States, embracing the whole period from the first discovery of North America, down to 1820; by Frederick Butler, A. M. author of "Catechetical Compend of History," "Sketches of Universal History," and Farmer's Manual,"-in 3 vols. 8vo. New-York.

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Otis's Translation of Botta's History of the War of Independence of the U. S. vol. II. Philadelphia.

A New General Atlas, chiefly intended for the use of Schools and private Libraries; also calculated to accompany modern Geographies and Gazetteers. 26 maps. James V. Seaman. New-York.

Report of the Survey of a section of the river Delaware, from one mile below Chester, to Richmond, above Philad. taken by order of the Councils. By David M'Clure. Philad. 8vo. pp. 48, with a plate. Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution, including a narrative of the expedition of General Mina, &c. By W. H. Robinson.

(Foreign.)

Southey's Life of Wesley, 2d American edition, 2 vols. in 1. 8vo. New-York.

Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. begun by himself, and concluded by his daughter, Maria Edgeworth, 2 vols. in one, 8vo. Wells & Lilly, Boston.

Late Publications.-Law, Medicine and Surgery. 257

(5.) LAW.

Report of Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut. By Thomas Day. 8vo. vol. ii. Hartford.

Johnson's N. Y. Reports-Vol. 18. part 3, containing cases of October Term, 1820.

Adams on Ejectment, from the London edition of 1820; with notes and references to American decisions-by a Counsellor of N. Y. Wiley & Halsted. New-York.

(6.) MEDICINE AND SURGERY.

Address to the Officers composing the Medical Staff, by Samuel L. Mitchill, M. D. & P. Surgeon general of the Militia, in the State of NewYork. N. Y.

A Letter on the Yellow Fever of the West Indies. By Daniel Osgood, M. D. prac. of Med. in the city of Havana. With an extract from a letter of Cyrus Perkins, M. D. of New-York. [Late Prof. of Anat. and Surg. at Dartmouth Col.] New-York, pp. 72.

The Sailor's Physician; exhibiting the symptoms, causes and treatment of diseases, incident' to seamen, and persons at sea. By Usher Parsons, M.D. 8vo. Cambridge.

A Discourse on the means of improving the medical police of the city of New-York, by David Hosack, M. D. Resident Physician for the City of New-York, Prof. &c. Published at the request of the Corporation. New-York. pp. 79.

Report of the Committee of the Medical Society of the City and County of New-York, [Doctors Osborn, Pascalis, Watts, Neilson, Cock, Drake and Ives,] explanatory of the causes and character of the Epidemic Fever which prevailed in Bancker-street and its vicinity, in the summer and autumn of 1820. (Published by order of the Society.) New-York, pp. 38.

Remarks on the report, &c. [as above.] pp. 16.

Bard's Compendium of Midwifery, 4th edit. improved, enlarged, and illustrated with numerous engravings, 8vo. Collins & Co. NewYork. $3 50.

A Tract, on the inefficacy of Scutellaria lateriflora (or scull-cap) in the cure of Hydrophobia. Middletown, Con.

(Foreign.)

Medicine Constitutionalized and Revolutionized, by the accurate sciences a work intended to undeceive government on the subject of epidemic pestilence. By Don John Leymerie, citizen of the United States. Madrid.

The London Dissecter, or system of dissection, practised in the Hospitals and Lecture rooms of the Metropolis; 1st. Am. from 5th Lond. edit. Philadelphia--12mo. pp. 244.

The London Practice of Midwifery; 1st. Am. from 4th Lond. edit. New-York. J. V. Seaman, 12mo. pp. 303.

Facts and Observations on Liver Complaints, and bilious disorders in general; by John Faithhorn, M. D. 1st American edit. Philad VOL. II.

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(7.) NOVELS.

Precaution, an original Novel, in 2 vols. 12mo. New-York. [We only regret that the scene of this novel was not laid in America.]

Symzonia, or a voyage to the Internal World-By Capt. Adam Seaborn, 12mo. pp. 248. New-York.

The Spy; a Tale of the neutral ground. [An original novel-in the press.] Wiley and Halsted, New-York.

(Foreign.)

The Physiognomist, by the author of the Bachelor and Married Man. 2 vols. New-York.

The Hermit in London; or, Sketches of English Manners. Vols. 4 and 5. London.

Kenilworth-[is announced] by the Author of Waverley.

Melmoth, the Wanderer; a tale by the author of Bertram. Bos

ton.

(8.) POETRY, THE DRAMA, AND FINE ARTS.

Print of the Declaration of Independence [in forwardness] by A. B. Durand, of this city-from Col. Trumbull's painting.-$20. Good

rich & Co.

Illustrations of Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, engraved by Francis Kearney, from the London edit. by Charles Heath. M. Carey & Son. Philad.

Rosalie, a Tale, by Palmira Johnson. (Dedicated to Mr. Jefferson.) New-York, 24mo. pp. 36. [We regret that we had not a review prepared of this superior little poem: though it has but humble pretensions. We rather think it indicates a more powerful hand than that of a lady-we mean only, a little more robust, as possessing more of the nerve of science. But the reader may judge for himself-as it will be three months before we see him again.

The first extract relates to a storm which overtook Rosalie and her father, in a little boat near Hell-gate: The second-to the recovery of a young man (belonging to the wreck of another vessel) from the waves: The two last-to the return of the same youth from a journey to the west.]

'Swift as the arrow from the bow

Or as the gliding meteor star,
Beyond the dangerous whirlpool's flow,
The little bark bad shot afar;
And Geysbert rais'd his Rosalie

Who fainting hung upon his breast,
"She lives!" he cried, "I felt her sigh,
My child is safe and I am blest !"
And gratefully he rais'd his eye,
To the protecting Deity.'
'She softly sigh'd, but could not speak,
Too blest in having life preserved,-
A tear stood trembling on her cheek

The silent tear the youth observed, And deem'd, in that there more was meant,

Than blends with phrase of Complip. 13-15.

ment.'

"Where staid my friend ?" the man of age

Ask'd of the youth with courtesy, Who thus relates his pilgrimage"I've journey'd far, my sire," said he, "Since last upon this spot I stood,

Have travelled all your country o'er, Have met with warm and kindred hearts,

With men that eminently soar
In science, literature and arts;

I've roved your western wilds among,
Where proud Ohio winds along,
And Mississippi rolls her darker flood."

"Ye candid strangers, that would find

Heart, talent, worth and virtue here; Go leave your prejudice behind, Unbiass'd tread this Western Sphere!"' p. 35-36.

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