NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF FORT GEORGE. 73 The guide stove a keg, ready placed on its While salt pork was boiling, to give the men end, Before he sat down on his pack, To them came the warriors, twelve in a canoe, And but for the war-pole,† 'twas pleasing to view How they laughed, danced, and sung, as familar they grew, O'er a cup of dashed yankey‡ in style. The war-chief invited my help-mate to dance, And stept so in time to their hollow-tree The chief drank her health in a bumper of rum, While she by the fierce band was eyed. heart, And beds were preparing of heather, The wolves a most hideous loud barking did make, In chace of a buck, which soon took to the lake, Where heedless all plunged in together. He crossed, but the pack, with their brushes all wet, Ran shaking them, when we all fired; to stop, Where they might have had each a salted pork chop, Or man's flesh, by wolves more admired. She next passed the block-house for Tycandarougue, From whence the last evening-gun fired, And heard one from Crown-point, just at setting sun, This joyous scene changed to a dread thunder- But as a good day's work the boatmen had storm, The rocks, woods, and waves, seemed on fire; done, They halted that night, being tired. The warriors appalled, did like aspen-leaves From Crown-point a sloop crossed Champlain shake, The bourgeois or merchant sends out his commis, or clerk, with charge of his goods up the Indian country. Bearing the scalps and dangling thereon. New England rum, much dashed with water. As Satan is depicted standing, in the frontispiece of an old edition of "Paradise Lost." It being so difficult, from the impetuosity of the current, to keep the boat from oversetting. A gentleman who was little lculated for such a journey. 74 APPENDIX TO NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF FORT GEORGE. Thus ends the first canto of rapids and lakes, The danger she 'scaped on those fresh water And from the salt Western Ocean, For twice she crossed Lakes George and Saint Peter's, Saint Francis, and Lake Saint T' intrude now too much might my readers Which made no short female's campaign. displease, My limbs, too, require locomotion. * The waves run as high in these lakes as they do in the Atlantic (From Miscellanies by an Officer [Arent Schuyler De Peyster], Vol. 1., pp. 50-58.) MONTHLY GAZETTE OF Manual of Modern Geography, Mathematical, Physical, and Political, on a New Plan, embracing a Complete Development of the River Systems of the Globe. By the Rev. Alex. Mackay, LL.D. New and Greatly Improved Edition. (Blackwood and Sons.) Nearly ten years having passed away since the first edition of this book appeared, and many changes having meanwhile taken place in various departments of geography, especially in the political divisions of Europe, a new edition was imperatively demanded by both teachers and scholars. In his preface, Dr. Mackay tells us that the "Manual of Geography" was his eldest and first-born literary offspring; that he cheerfully devoted many long years to its production, labouring single-handed in a remote corner of the land, with few books, and fewer friends, to consult. But he had his reward in the emphatic verdict of the press and the unqualified approbation of eminent educationists in all parts of the British empire. Nor is that verdict likely to be reversed; for the new edition contains a digest of all the changes that have recently taken place in the distribution of political power in Europe, the United States, and the British colonies; the discoveries made in far-off seas; the minute, though highly important, principles revealed to astrono. mers and geologists; and the improvements that have resulted in commerce, manufacture, and inland communication. A concise historical sketch of the political geography of Europe, new diagrams illustrative of the seasons, the tides, and the succession of life in the pre-Adamite ages of the world, have been added; the whole classified under distinct headings, and made easy of reference by an elaborate and admirable index. The work, which forms one of the series known as "Blackwood's Class-books," has been divided, for the convenience of teachers, into two parts; the first devoted to Europe, and the second to the rest of the world, the text being amply supplied with descriptive notes, and, in the mathematical section, illustrated with explanatory diagrams. The Elements of Psychology, on the Principles of Beneke, Stated and Illustrated in a Simple and Popular Manner by Dr. G. Rane, Professor in the Medical College, Philadelphia. Fourth Edition, considerably Altered, Improved, and Enlarged by Johann Gottlieb Dressler, late Director of the Normal School at Bantzen. Translated from the German. (James Parker and Co.)-When a work reaches a fourth edition it is beyond the pale of criticism, and we may fairly assume that it has attained the honour of public acceptance. To many, however, the very term Psychology may be unknown; and for the benefit of that (possibly small) section of our readers, we may explain that the volume deals with the functions of the mind, the metaphysical condition of the soul, and the mental progress of man; and that, too, in a way which does not repel from its technical abstruseness, but invites and attracts from the clearness of its statements, the precision of its details, and the generally understandable nature of its plan,-the several chapters being ranged under the headings "Notions,' ""Conative (or attemptive) Powers," "Feelings," and "Phenomena," and the various sections describing the causes which lead the mind to admire good and repel evil; to estimate the value of truth, consciousness, and moral freedom; to distinguish between impressions, perceptions, and inherent faculties; and to judge for itself as to the harmonious or inconsistent feelings of which it is continually conscious. The work, originally written in German, has been translated into Flemish and other tongues, and in its English dress is popular, in a certain sense, in both England and America. 66 The Horticulturist; or, The Culture and Management of the Kitchen, Fruit, and Forcing Garden. By J. C. Loudon, F.L.S. Edited and Revised by William Robinson. (Warne.)-Judiciously curtailing some portions of the original text-as the analogy between plants and animals," the "classification of plants with a view to horticulture," &c. -re-writing the chapters on the vine and the apple, adding a section on the culture of the pine, and giving throughout such directions as the progress in gardening necessitated, Mr. Robinson has largely increased the value of this standard work. In the process of revision it was found that some of the old engravings were obsolete, and that new ones were requisite. These have been inserted; and the book, originally rich in illustration, is now as nearly complete as could be wished. Each chapter deals with its particular topic in a plain and practical manner; and in those devoted to grafting, budding, training, and transplanting, evident care has been taken to adapt the information to the needs of cottage gardeners and amateurs. It will surprise many to learn that grapes may be cultivated with profit in an English climate; but, if we may believe our author, 66 Lack every moderate-sized dwelling-house with a little walling attached to it, may with ease be made to produce, yearly, a quarter of a ton of grapes, while leaving a sufficient portion of its surface for the production of other fruits." of knowledge as to the true modes of pruning and training seems alone to account for our neglect of this delicious fruit. In this volume, the secret of success may be discovered by all who take the trouble to read- and to carry theory into practice. The Summer Tourist. Edited by M. E. Braddon (Ward, Lock, and Tyler).-Headed by a tale called "The Zoophyte's Revenge," by the author of "Lady Audley's Secret," we have here eighteen stories, sketches, and poems, collected apparently from magazines, which in their brevity and bright variety seem well adapted for railway and seaside reading. Especially interesting are the "Shark Story," the Railway Adventure," "Our Trip to Loch Killroy," the "Tyne Watch, "A Couch of Horrors," and the " Bridge of Straubing," the latter a Danubian legend in verse. These several contributions by-with a single exception-anonymous writers, are enclosed in a coloured wrapper, and form a really attractive shilling's-worth. (Cal The Hindu Law: being a treatise on the law administered exclusively to Hindus by the British Courts in India. By Herbert Cowell, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Tagore law professor. cutta, Bombay, and London: Thacker and Co.) -In the year 1868, the late Baboo Prosonnocoomar Tagore made provision for the appointment of a law professor, to be elected by the Senate of the University of Calcutta, who should "read or deliver yearly at some place within the town of Calcutta, one complete course of law lectures, without charge to the students and other persons who may attend such lectures." His will further directs that the lectures should be printed, and not fewer than five hundred copies distributed gratuitously; it being evidently the desire of the testator, knowing the lack of law literature in his own country, to provide such a series of textbooks upon Indian law as should be useful to Indian students and practitioners. This volume contains the substance of the first course of lectures delivered in accordance with the founder's wise and benevolent intentions. The system of jurisprudence administered in India by the English, says Mr. Cowell, is "of the strangest description, unparalleled in the history of the world. No government was ever called upon to legislate for so heterogeneous a community, or to combine so many conflicting systems of law under one general administration of justice. That community includes Hindus, Mahomedans, Buddhists, Jews, Armenians, Parsees, and Englishmen;" some deriving their law from their religion, others from the places where they were born, or in which they live. Under these circumstances, it became important to review the existing state of the laws in force in the three presidencies, and especially the Hindu family system, to which the founder himself owed allegiance. We find, then, in the fifteen lectures here reprinted, an intelligible account of the position held by the Hindus in the British empire, with details of the systems observed by them with regard to the ownership and transmission of property, the maintenance and guardianship of children, the right of adoption, the contract of marriage, the declining custom of Suttee, and the permission of widows to re-marry; together with what appears to be an unbiassed discussion of the spirit in which Hindu law has been developed and practised in the several Courts of British India; the whole forming a valuable handbook for both students and statesmen. S. Francis de Sales, Bishop and Prince of Geneva. By the Author of "A Dominican Artist." (Rivingtons.)—The "Devout Life" of S. Francis has been a favourite book of devotion in this country from the time when a copy in a binding enriched with gold and precious stones was presented to James I., down to our own cheap day of sixpenny editions. But of the Author we have never till now had anything beyond a brief memoir. The present elegantly written memoir is evidently the heartfelt tribute of respect to the memory of S. Francis, by one who has studied his works and is imbued with their teachings. The object aimed at by the writer "has been less historical or ecclesiastical investigation than a vivid and natural setting forth as far as may be of the holy Bishop's inner mind and life, as it can be traced in his own writings, and in those of his most intimate and loving friends." His conversations, and trifling details of his every-day life, are therefore rather recorded than those greater events on which biographers usually love to dwell. S. Francis was not a great ecclesiastic, he was a man of holy life; in some respects he was not unlike our own saintly bishop, Thomas Wilson; and of both it may be said that their writings "have been the delight of countless pious souls in all parts of the Church." This volume is to be followed by a translation of the Spiritual Letters," and of Bishop Belley's "Esprit de S. François de Sales," and the "Traité de l'Amour de Dieu." Wedding Bells.-Edited by Edwin J. Brett. Large 4to. (Office.)-We are very much in the habit of running down the cheap literature of the age; we have fallen into the notion that for a publication to circulate very widely among the working classes it must contain tales of ribaldry, robbery, and wicked adventure. But in so doing we speak either from very imperfect information, from an examination of some periodicals which The 1 are not popular at all. There are some, we regret to say, that are very bad; there is one in particular, which, as a recommendation, is advertised as not sold at the railways. But really bad and immoral publications are the exception, and modern cheap literature, although far from what we could wish it to be, is on the whole as moral and wholesome as that retailed at a higher price. If we inquire respecting the quarters in which it circulates, we find that the penny weeklies are bought by working lads and lasses, by young men and women, who take their journals home, where they are read by fathers and mothers, and by younger brothers and sisters. These are the chief buyers. Servant girls also are good purchasers; but the best customers are the young men and women receiving weekly wages-perhaps we should say the more respectable part of them, those who care to read at all." Wedding Bells," we are informed, has a very large circulation, as many copies being sold in one year as copies of the popular "Christian Year" are sold in ten. first volume has just reached us. The outside, resplendent in gold and colour, is as handsome and in as good taste as many of the guinea volumes; it is remarkably well printed upon a fairly good but thin paper; more care has been bestowed upon the bringing up of the woodcuts than is usual in cheap books, while the woodcuts themselves are, with scarcely an exception, well drawn and remarkably well engraved, some of them are as good as they can fairly be. The literature we have looked carefully into the title of one of the tales looked a little fishy and suspicious, but there was nothing objectionable in the tale, nor, in fact, with the exception of a few words, is there anything in the volume. We would hardly recommend it as a class book for the Harley Street Ladies College, but that it supplies good reading for the classes among whom it circulates there can be no question. The chief objection is, that the stories are, as a whole, too exciting; but it may be that this is an element necessary to the success of the periodical. Magazines of this nature, widely circulated as they are, must be performing a great educational work-none the less because its progress is quiet and almost unseen. : Glasgow, Ancient and Modern. Division II., Vol. I. (Glasgow: John Tweed.)-Having already noticed the first division of this volume in the columns of THe BookselleR, it only remains to add that this account of Glasgow-the second commercial city in Great Britain, after Londonis as nearly exhaustive as the nature of such a book will allow. The text is illustrated with a number of woodcuts, and a sketch of Glasgow fair as it existed in 1825, from a drawing in the possession of John Kirsop, Esq., a gentleman well known in the county of Lanarkshire. 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