Mr. Moore will be amply remunerated for his enterprise in bringing out this fine and cheap edition; thus bringing Montaigne within the reach of even narrow purses.

(26.) In spite of toryism, one-sidedness, and even in many cases gross carelessness, "HUME's History of England" retains its place in the very first rank of British historical literature. And so long as perspicuity and ease continue to be held as the chief merits of style, this supremacy will last. It needs no prophet to foretell that Hume will be a classic after Macaulay is forgotten, or, at least, laid upon the shelf, as having written for one age, and for one age only. Messrs. Phillips, Sampson, & Co., Boston, have felicitously projected an edition of Hume, to match in size, price, &c., their portable edition of Macaulay. Five volumes have already appeared: the unabridged work will be completed in six; and the last volume will contain a complete Index. This edition will undoubtedly be, as the publishers announce, the cheapest and most convenient edition of Hume now extant.

(27.) WE are glad to see that a second edition of " Classical Studies: Essays on Ancient Literature and Art, with the Biography and Correspondence of eminent Philologists, by Professors SEARS, EDWARDS, and FELTON," (Boston: Το Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln, 1849: 12mo., pp. 413,) has been called for. those who do not know the book, a brief statement of its contents may be necessary. In the short "Introduction" we have a beautiful and scholarly plea for CLASSICAL STUDIES. Then follows a sketch of the "Schools of German Philology," (by Professor Sears,) which gives graphic personal accounts of Heyne, Winckelmann, Wolf, Boeckh, Hermann, Jacobs, &c., as well as a definite statement of the separate tendencies of the Berlin and Leipsic schools-if they can be thus distinguished. The next is a discourse on the "Study of Greek Literature," by Tegnér,-poetical, as might be expected. The third and fourth contributions, on the " Study of Classical Antiquity," and on "The Wealth of the Greeks in Works of Plastic Art," are from the veteran Jacobs, and are full of the fine enthusiasm which pervaded and inspired that great man's genius. The fifth, and, on many accounts, the most interesting and valuable portion of the volume, is a large collection of Philological Correspondence between the most eminent classical scholars of Holland and Germany, from Ruhaken and Ernesti, down to Passow and Jacobs. This is followed by four essays,-the "School of Philology in Holland," by Professor Edwards: the "Superiority of the Greek Language in the Use of its Dialects," translated from Jacobs, by Professor Felton: the "History of the Latin Language," abridged from Hand, by Professor Sears and "The Education of the Moral Sentiment among the Ancient Greeks," another of Jacobs' genial discourses, translated by Professor Felton. The work concludes with a body of valuable notes, biographical and critical. We cannot but wonder that the Editors could allow this second edition to go forth without an Index. Many times, in our repeated references to the first, have we blamed them,— so far as we could blame men who were serving us with so rich a banquet,—

for permitting us to grope our way through many pages for a fact or a sentiment which could have been found in a moment by the aid of a fair Index. Could Classical Teachers and Professors in this country do anything more likely to imbue the minds of their students with the enthusiasm which clas sical study, above all others, demands, than to set them to reading this book?

(28.) THE third and concluding volume of "HILDRETH's History of the United States of America, from the Discovery of the Continent to the Organization of Government under the Federal Constitution," (New-York, Harper & Brothers: 8vo., pp. 592,) has appeared. Appended to the volume is a complete list of authorities, and a copious index. We are promised a careful review of the whole work from an able writer, and therefore forego any remarks of our own at this time, except to repeat, that this is the only complete repository of the historical facts of America in a convenient form ever published.

(29.) “A System of Ancient and Mediaval Geography, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, by CHARLES ANTHON, LL.D.:” (New-York, Harper & Brothers, 1850: 8vo., pp. 769.) Those who, like ourselves, have attempted to teach Greek and Latin literature, know that a good and complete system of classical geography has been among the absolute wants of American schools and colleges. The work before us is meant precisely to fill the gap; and it takes up the subject in the exhaustive way in which Dr. Anthon generally treats the subjects he undertakes to discuss. It is a large book, indeed; but a large book was needed: we had compends enough before. It is divided into three parts,-Europe, (pp. 1-600,) Asia, (pp. 601-708,) and Africa. (pp. 709-750.) A brief sketch of the physical geography of each of these great divisions is given first, and then follows the descriptive geography of each country embraced in the division. The same order, or as near an approach to it as possible, is observed in treating of the several countries—an advantage which both teacher and student will know how to appreciate. At the end of the book is a copious index, covering twenty pages in small type. There is one striking defect-which we are almost inclined to think must be the bookbinder's fault rather than the author's-there is no table of contents. To get a bird's-eye view of the book, we have been compelled to go over it from beginning to end; and both teacher and pupil will have to make their own digests before the work as a system can be clear to them. If this be, indeed, an omission on the part of Dr. Anthon, we hope it will be supplied in the next edition-of which may there be many.

(30.) IN happiest company with the work just named, we find on our table its necessary complement, a " Classical Atlas, to illustrate Ancient Geography, by ALEXANDER G. FINDLAY, F. R. G. S.:" (New-York, Harper & Brothers, 1849, folio) It contains twenty-five maps, showing the various divisions of the world as known to the ancients, drawn from the best sources, together

with a full index of names, both ancient and modern. The Introduction gives a valuable sketch of the history of ancient geography, and is illustrated by a plate exhibiting a portion of that singular specimen of ancient science, the Tabula Peutingeriana. It states, with great clearness, the difficulties of the task of representing the geography of former ages, and the sources from whence alone accurate notions of the subject are to be derived. The maps (done in England) are beautifully engraved and coloured,—and must be considered the best classical maps on a small scale now extant. Such at least is the testimony of those who have examined them much more thoroughly than we have yet been able to do. Our own judgment, founded on a hasty inspection, (yet careful as far as it has gone,) is, that for school and college purposes this Atlas must soon supersede all others.

(31.) AN edition of Cowper's Homer has long been wanted in this country. Mr. Putnam has supplied the want, in part at least, by the publication of "The Iliad of Homer, translated into English blank Verse, by WILLIAM COWPER, with Notes, by M. A. Dwight, author of Greek and Roman Mythology:" (12mo., pp. 617.) The edition chosen for reprint is that of Southey, which, it will be remembered, follows Cowper's first edition rather than his second, for the substantial reason that the former was prepared when the poet was in full possession of his faculties, and in his happiest days; the latter, in his later years of weariness and wretchedness, when life, not to say labour, was a burden. The present editor has added a number of notes, which strike us very favourably. There are not too many of them, and what there are appear to go directly to the point. The Odyssey is promised, should sufficient encouragement be given by the demand for the present volume. Of this we think there can be no danger-certainly there should be none. Homer can be read in English only in Cowper's version-unless, indeed, old Chapman's unequal translation may compete with it. Mr. Putnam has brought out the work in the style of neatness and elegance which characterizes all his late publications.

(32.) MESSRS. CARTER & BROTHERS have reprinted "Sketches of Sermons on the Parables and Miracles of Christ, by JABEZ BURNS, D. D., author of the Pulpit Cyclopædia," &c. (12mo., pp. 299.) As we have characterized this work before, it is needless for us now to do anything more than mention the fact of its reappearance, and renew our commendation of its conception and execution.

(33.) CHAMBERS' " Information for the People" (Philadelphia, W. A. Leary: 2 vols., royal 8vo., pp. 832, 846) is, what it professes to be, a cyclopædia of popular information of the most useful kind. It is not intended, like the bulky and many-tomed encyclopædias, for an unfailing book of reference in regard to all departments of human knowledge, but as a digest of those branches on which it is important that all men should be informed. As

purely technical topics and details, which go largely to swell the bulk of cyclopædias generally, are here omitted, there is ample room, within the compass of two noble octavos, for a summary of those branches of human knowledge which are necessary for every well-informed man. Where this book is owned in a family, and the children read it, they cannot be ignorant; and, moreover, they will have, for the cost of a few dollars, an amount of informa tion which would cost them a hundred in the ordinary way of books. We are glad to see that the work is now in its fifth American edition, and hope it may want many more.

(34.) THE author of "The Old World; or, Scenes and Cities in Foreign Lands," (New-York: D. Appleton & Co., 1850,) tells us, in his preface, that he "wrote, because he liked to." We suppose he printed for the same

reason.

(35.) "The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor, D. D., comprising a Course for the whole Year, with a Supplement of Sermons on various Subjects and Occasions," have been lately republished in a handsome 8vo. volume (pp. 565) by Messrs. R. Carter & Brothers of this city. The affluent imagery, abundant learning, and pure spirituality of Taylor's Sermons, will keep them in circulation as long, we suppose, as English sermons are read at all. This volume is a storehouse at once of poetry, eloquence, and divinity. Few clergymen are willing to do without Jeremy Taylor's whole works, unless the res angusta domi absolutely forbid it; but those who cannot buy the costly English edition of the complete works, will find here all the sermons, which constitute, perhaps, the most valuable part of Taylor's writings, at a very low price.

(36.) WE have seen nothing in the way of books of instruction in the art of penmanship, to compare with "The Common School Writing-Book, in five numbers, by O. G. BADLAM." (New-York: Collins & Brother.) It gives light-lined letters for tracing, and illustrates the mode of joining letters without lifting the pen, and affords various other ingenious aids to the learner. We commend it to teachers.

(37.) "The War with Mexico, by R. S. RIPLEY, Brevet Major in the U. S. Army," &c. (New-York, Harper & Brothers, 1850: 2 vols. 8vo., pp. 524 & 648.) These two ample volumes are not to be noticed without careful examination, and that we have not been able to give them, as they were placed upon our table just as our closing sheet was going to press.

(38.) It is a gratifying sign of improvement in the public taste, that books illustrative of Scripture, and especially of the characters of Scripture, are found to be so popular. Of this class is "Family Pictures from the Bible, by Mrs. ELLET." (New-York: G. P. Putnam. 12mo., pp. 223.) So far as we

know, this is the first gallery of family pictures from the Bible; the idea is a very felicitous one, and Mrs. Ellet has succeeded remarkably well in carrying it out. The style of the Sketches in this volume is, we think, decdedly better than that of her "Women of the American Revolution;" and, besides her own, several are furnished by Dr. Bethune, Rev. H. Field, Dr. Hutton, and others.

(39.) "The English Pulpit: Collection of Sermons by the most eminent Living Divines of England." (New-York: R. Carter & Brothers. 1849. 8vo., pp. 400.) There are several new features in this collection. The sermons are all by living divines, and no two are from the same hand. The editor, in making his selections, has not "confined himself to any one branch of the Christian Church, but has freely ranged through all denominations maintaining the essential principles of Christianity." Of the thirty-two discourses in the volume, eight are by Methodist preachers, namely, Newton, Bromley, Bunting, (father and son,) Atherton, Beaumont, Jobson, and Young. Among the rest, are some of the most eminent names in the various branches of the Christian Church in England. The book is well conceived, and will doubtless command an extensive sale.

(40.) WE call the special attention of teachers, and of all persons interested in Education, to Professor MANDEVILLE's course of books in Reading and Oratory, now publishing by Messrs. D. Appleton & Co., New-York. The "Elements of Reading and Oratory," (12mo., pp. 352,) and the "Course of Reading for Common Schools and the lower Classes of Academies," (12mo., pp. 377,) have both been some years before the public, yet have hardly, we think, received such attention as their remarkable merits deserve. To these are now prefixed a series of elementary works, including the "Primary Reader," designed for the use of the youngest children in schools: the "Second Reader:" the "Third Reader," for Common Schools and Academies : and the "Fourth Reader." In all these books, from the first to the last, one system is preserved-each book apart, as well as the series as a whole, being progressive: “not nominally, but really so; that is, beginning with the easiest reading in the language, the lessons continue to task the power of the pupil more and more to the end." It is not often that scholars, so able as Professor Mandeville, are willing to devote themselves to the labour of preparing elementary books—and we trust he will be amply rewarded.

(41.) THE advantages of what passes by the name of " Ollendorff's Method," in the study of languages, are now very generally recognized. The books prepared on this method, however, have not always been made simple enough for children, or even for more advanced pupils. To meet this want, Professor GREENE, of Brown University, has prepared a very neat little volume, entitled, “First Lessons in French, introductory to Ollendorff's larger Grammar." (New-York: D. Appleton & Co.: 18mo., pp. 138.) We have made personal trial of this book, and have no doubt that it is the best yet issued for beginners in French.