ART. XIII.-NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

The Works of Lord Bolingbroke. With a Life. Philadelphia: 1841. Carey and Hart. 4 vols. 8vo.

THE lovers of English literature are greatly indebted to the American publishers for enabling them to enrich their libraries with the standard works of the language at less than half the expense of imported copies. The character of Lord Bolingbroke as an eloquent and elegant writer is too well known to need our testimony in his favor, but if any one should entertain doubts as to the value of his writings, he need only look into the life prefixed to the excellent edition of his works recently published by Messrs. Carey and Hart, of Philadelphia, and he will find opinions cited from Pitt, Lord Brougham, and other high authorities, that must satisfy him of the incorrectness of his estimate. They are not unexceptionable, but they are as indispensable to a well-chosen library as Bacon's, Locke's, or Johnson's.

Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons. Phila. : 1841. Carey & Hart.

READERS of the right sort of books must be increasing in numbers very rapidly among us, if we may judge by the change in the character of the new publications. A few years since, it would have been difficult to find a publisher for a historical work of such extent as Turner's Anglo-Saxons, even of acknowledged highest merit, as this is. Occasionally an English copy found its way into the country, but the price was too high for buyers of books in general, although it is a book for which there is no substitute in the language. We rejoice to see it placed within the reach of American purses.

Sutton's Disce Mori: Learn to Die. New York: 1841. D. Appleton and Co.

We notice this beautiful reprint of the Disce Mori of Dr. Sutton, chiefly to introduce a remark or two upon the "Devotional Library," of which it forms a part- -a collection which seems to us to deserve especial commendation from all who are friendly to the circulation of improving books. It is not yet completed; but, in the volumes already published, and in the high respectability of its publishers, we have a certain pledge that the whole will be of a consistent character. Thus far it is composed of Dr. Sutton's Meditations on the Sacrament and Disce Mori, Bishop Wilson's Sacra Privata. Bishop Patrick's Heart's Ease and Discourse on Prayer, and a volume of excellent religious poetry, entitled Thoughts on Past Years. We know not how, in the same compass, there could be offered to the pious mind, a richer feast of devout meditation, or, to the careless one, more of serious and awakening exhortation to a religious life.

Carlyle's Heroes, Hero - Worship, and the Heroic in History. New York: 1841. D. Appleton and Co.

ALTHOUGH We are no unqualified admirers of Carlyle's writings, we are by no means insensible to their many beauties; we have found much to delight us in all that we have read of his, and as much, we think, in these lectures on Heroes and Hero Worship, as in any thing he has written. He excels in nothing so much as in the delineation of character, and no where has he exercised this talent with more power than in some of the sketches here drawn, particularly in those of Dante and Shakspeare; Johnson, too, the idol of former days, now no longer worshipped, receives justice at his hands, and is acknowledged as one of England's greatest minds: we like him for that; it shows that he is not governed by the popular sentiment of his day, but thinks for himself, and dares to speak as he thinks. Mr. Carlyle undoubtedly owes much of the favor in which he is held to the supposed originality of his thoughts, frequently nothing more than strangeness of expression; his affected jargon seems an oracular language to many, to us it is most repulsive; but, in spite of it, we find in him so many of the marks of a man of genius, that we frequently find ourselves riveted to his pages.

Brewster's Martyrs of Science. New York: 1841. Harper and Brothers.

THIS is a reprint of a recent English work of great merit, from the pen of Sir David Brewster, containing very interesting biographical sketches of the three great physical philosophers, Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler, all among the most renowned of those who have been immortalized by their labors for the promotion of science. The life of Galileo is made particularly interesting in the account here given of it, by the view which it presents of the proceedings against him at Rome for his alleged heretical opinions in relation to the earth's movement. The biographer considers the conduct of Galileo as highly censurable, and offers more in justification of his opponents than is commonly admitted. The remaining lives of Tycho Brahe and Kepler, who may be regarded in some measure as master and pupil, are scarcely less interesting in themselves than that of Galileo, and that interest is far from being lost out of the portraits which Sir David Brewster has drawn of them. On all accounts we regard this volume as one of the most valuable that has appeared in the Family Library, of which it makes a part.

Carlyle's Specimens of German Romance. Boston: 1841. James Munroe and Co.

GERMAN literature is "going ahead" with surprising rapidity among us, as well by the increasing popularity of the language itself, as by the greater opportunities now offered of becoming acquainted with it through the medium of translations. Goethe and Schiller are no longer the sole representatives of German genius in

England and America; we have passed over the vast interval which separates these two mighty minds from all others in their country, and are beginning to extend our acquaintance among the class of writers who approach nearest to them. The volumes entitled, "German Romance," which have just been issued from the press of Messrs. Munroe and Co., in Boston, contain specimens of some of their most popular writers in that department of literature, as, Musæus, De la Motte Fouqué, Tieck, Hoffmann, and Jean Paul Richter. The lovers of the wild and romantic will find in them enough of the extravagant and terrific to gratify the most decidedly Germanic taste; the selection was made by the translator with a view to furnish specimens of the several modes of German novel-writing. The popular tale is seen in the selections from Musæus and Tieck; the chivalry romance in that from Fouqué; the fantasy-piece in that from Hoffman; the two from Jean Paul are novels, in our sense of the word; Wilhelm Meister, which is the art novel, also belonged to the selection, originally, but it is now published separately.

The Poetry and History of Wyoming, etc. By William L. Stone. New York: 1841. Wiley and Putnam.

THE author of "Wyoming and its History" has acquired a high reputation at home and abroad by his biography of the Indian chieftain whose ravages in this beautiful valley have made its name a hallowed one in our country's annals, and furnished a subject for one of the finest poems in our language. We are glad to find that his success has led him to make Indian history a particular study; it is in this way that we shall arrive at a more accurate knowledge of the people whom we have supplanted, and rescue their traditions from oblivion before the last remnants of the race disappear from the earth. We have before made our acknowledgments to him for his Life of Brandt; we now thank him for the very pleasant volume we have in hand, and we hope soon to welcome his long looked for Life of Red Jacket.

Presidents' Addresses and Messages. New York: 1841. E. Walker.

WHOEVER has occasion to make frequent reference to state papers, knows how difficult it is, amid the immense mass of our public documents, to lay hands upon the one wanted, and will at once perceive the advantages that would arise from a general systematic arrangement of them, in the same manner as the "Addresses and Messages of the Presidents, from Washington to Tyler" are arranged in the volume recently published by Mr. Walker. How far the publisher is remunerated by the public for so useful a labor, we cannot say; we only know that he deserves to be most liberally. His book is a very valuable and convenient one, which should have a place on the shelves of every good citizen of our country.

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

(Reprints of Foreign Books are marked with an asterisk.)

AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING.

A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted to North America; with a view to the Improvement of Country Residences. With Remarks on Rural Architecture. Illustrated by Engravings. By A. J. Downing. New York: 1841. Wiley and Putnam, 8vo.

Every Man His Own Gardener. By Andrew Gentle. New York: 1841. A. Smith.

The Theory of Horticulture; or an attempt to explain the Principal Operations of Gardening upon Physiological Principles. By John Lindlay, F. R. S. With Notes, by A. J. Downing and A. Gray. New York: 1841. Wiley and Putnam. Boston: C. C. Little and J. Brown.

*Organic Chemistry, in its applications to Agriculture and Physiology. By Justus Liebig, M. D. Edited from the manuscript of the author, by Lyon Playfair, Ph. D. First American Edition. With an Introduction and Appendix, by J. W. Webster, M. D. Cambridge: 1841. J. Owen.

BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS.

Biography and Poetical Remains of the late Margaret Miller Davidson. By Washington Irving. Philadelphia: 1841. Lea and Blanchard.

The Life of Paul Jones. By Alexander Slidell Mackenzie. Boston: 1841. Hilliard, Gray, and Co. 2 vols. 12mo.

Life of Petrarch. By Thomas Campbell. Philadelphia: 1841. Carey and Hart. *Life and Literary Remains of L. E. L. By Laman Blanchard. Philadelphia: 1841. Lea and Blanchard. 2 vols. 12mo.

The Martyrs of Science; or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler. By Sir David Brewster. New York: 1841. Harper and Brothers.

The Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. By Agnes Strickland. Philadelphia: 4841. Lea and Blanchard. 2 vols.

COMMERCE AND THE USEFUL ARTS.

Remarks on Currency and Banking. Having reference to the present derangement of the Circulating Medium in the United States. By Nathan Appleton. Boston: 1841. C. C. Little and J. Brown.

Suggestions on the Banks and Currency of the several United States. In reference, principally, to the Suspension of Specie Payments. By Albert Gallatin. New York: 1841. Wiley and Putnam.

Reasons for the Inexpediency of Chartering a National Bank. Dedicated to the President of the United States. New York: 1841. Wiley and Putnam. Principles and Practice of Bookkeeping. By Thomas S. Jones. New York: 1841. Wiley and Putnam.

HISTORY AND STATISTICS.

History of the Colonization of the United States. By George Bancroft. Abridged by the Author. Boston: 1841. C. C. Little and J. Brown. 2 vols.

Collections of the New York Historical Society. Second Series, Volume I. New York: 1841.

Texas and the Texans; or Advance of the Anglo-Americans to the Southwest. By H. Stewart Foote. Philadelphia: 1841. Thomas, Cowperthwaite, and Co. 2 vols. 12mo.

A Geographical, Historical, and Statistical View of the Central or Middle United States. By H. S. Tanner. Philadelphia and New York: 1841. H. Tanner, Jr., and T. R. Tanner.

Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers of the Colony of Plymouth. From 1602 to 1625. Now first collected from the Original Records and Contemporaneous Printed Documents, and illustrated with Notes. By Alexander Young. Boston: 1841. C. C. Little and James Brown.

The History of the Anglo-Saxons, from the earliest period to the Norman Conquest. By Sharon Turner. Philadelphia: 1841. Carey and Hart.

2 vols. 8vo.

*An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. New York: 1841. Harper and Brothers.

*The Progress of Democracy, illustrated in the History of Gaul and France. By Alexandre Dumas. Translated by an American. New York: 1841. J. and H. G. Langley.

MEDICAL SCIENCE.

A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children. By James Stewart, M. D. New York: 1841. Wiley and Putnam.

A Visit to the Thirteen Asylums for the Insane in Europe, with a brief notice of similar institutions in the United States. By Pliny Earle, M. D. Philadelphia: 1841. J. Dobson.

Outlines of Anatomy and Physiology. Translated from the French of H. Wilson Edwin. By J. T. W. Lane, M. D. Boston: 1841. C. C. Little and

J. Brown.

P * System of Practical Medicine. Volume V. Hemorrhages, Dropsies, Rheumatism, Gout. Philadelphia: 1841. Lea and Blanchard.

MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.

The Poetry and History of Wyoming, containing Campbell's Gertrude. With a Biographical Sketch, by Washington Irving, and the History of Wyoming, by William L. Stone. New York and London: 1841. Wiley and Put

nam.

The Moral Influence, Dangers, and Duties, connected with Great Cities. By John Todd. Northampton: 1811. J. H. Butler.

A Plea for the Intemperate. By David M. Reese, A. M., M. D. New York: 1841. J. S. Taylor.

The Fourth of July Book, containing Plans for a Juvenile Observance of the National Festival. By a Sunday School Man. New York: 1841.

A Voice to the Married, being a Compendium of Social, Moral, and Religious Duties, addressed to Husbands and Wives. By John M. Austin. New York: 1841. J. & H. G. Langley.

Report on the Subject of Capital Punishment. By J. L. O'Sullivan.

Report in the Senate of Maine, on the Northeastern Boundary. By C. S. Davies.

Federalism, or, the Question of Exclusive Power, the True Issue in the Present Monetary and Political Discussions in the United States. By John W. King, M. D. Cincinnati: 1841. U. P. James.

The Philosophical Emperor, a Political Experiment; or, the Progress of a False Position. Dedicated to the Whigs, etc. New York: 1811. Harper and Brothers.

A Week in Wall Street. By one who knows. New York: 1841. Published for the Booksellers.

Review of a Part of Prescott's History of Ferdinand and Isabella, and of Campbell's Lectures on Poetry. Boston: 1841. J. H. Francis.