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ble things in Greek, would have been overmatched in attempting to make out these passages. It is, therefore, a great pleasure to see so handsome and correct an edition, as this of Mr. Munroe's, of a favorite book, from an American press.

Mr. Coleridge's Introduction lays down the general principles of criticism, with great beauty of language and appropriateness of illustration. In the remainder of the book, he brings together, in lucid order, the results of modern inquiries upon the disputed Homeric Questions, and states them with judicial impartiality. He points out, in a style becoming the scholar, whose tastes have been unfolded by a loving study of the great ancients, the unapproachable beauties of the Homeric poems. The classic eloquence and temperate enthusiasm of his discourse cannot fail to attract the reader of Homer, and to awaken in his mind a new sense of the wonderful truth, variety, and vigor of sentiment, and of the copiousness, felicity, harmony, and graphic power of diction, which mark the song of the blind old man 66 who dwelt in rocky Chios."

We hope all American readers of Homer will study, in connexion with him, this little work. Not only school and college students, but the mature scholar will find delight and instruction in its pages.

Domestic Worship. By W. H. FURNESS, Pastor of the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. Second Edition. Philadelphia: James Kay & Brother. Boston: J. Munroe & Co. 1842.

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THIS best book of devotional forms that has issued from our own denomination we know none of a higher character in any we are happy to greet in a new edition. It is handsomely printed, and, which in a work of this kind is very important, with a large type. We hope it is furnished at such a price as to place it easily within the reach of all, of even the humblest means, as no household should be without it.

Lecture on the Education of the Laboring Classes. By THEODORE PARKER.

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WRITTEN With the usual ability and eloquence of the learned author. It is reprinted for wider circulation from the volume of lectures before the "Institutes of Education."

1. Second Annual Report of the Directors of the Maine InsaneHospital. December, 1841. Augusta: 1841.

2. Insanity and Insane Asylums. By EDWARD JARVIS, M. D. Louisville, Ky. 1841.

FROM the united reports contained in this pamphlet, - of the Directors to the Legislature, of the Treasurer, and of the Superintendent, Dr. Ray, we learn that the Maine Hospital for the Insane is in a very flourishing condition. The Report of the Superintendent is such a document as would be expected from that gentleman, in its literary character; and, as far as we are competent to judge, in its professional, also full, as it seems to us, of the most valuable suggestions, set forth in a clear and popular form, on the philosophy of Insanity, and of its treatment. It is quite important to a right understanding of a subject, about which a good deal of superstition and erroneous notion still prevails, that such an essay should be widely distributed among the people. The State, in trust, sends abroad a large edition.

Mary Howitt's Juvenile Books. 7 vols. 18mo. James Munroe & Co. Boston: 1842.

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MARY Howitt, we apprehend, will hereafter, and very long, rank as a classic with young readers, and we do no more than justice in noticing this first uniform edition of her tales. It is an edition worthy of the writer, and creditable to the publishThe seven volumes are Tales in Prose, Tales in Verse, Sketches of Natural History, Strive and Thrive, Hope on! Hope Ever! Sowing and Reaping, Who shall be Greatest? The character of these is already known to most juvenile, and many older readers; for they are not designed for children alone. The last four are parts of the series still in process of publication, as "Tales for the People and their Children." this series Mary Howitt has contributed more than any one, and has just added another, Which is the Wiser? which we hope will be added to this edition, especially as it is superior to some of its predecessors, if indeed, it be not the best of all.

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1. Our National Legislature. A Discourse delivered before the First Parish in Cambridge, on the day of the Annual Fast, Thursday, April 7th, 1842. By WILLIAM NEWELL, Pastor of the First Church in Cambridge. Cambridge: John Owen.

2. A Discourse on the State of the Country, delivered in the

First Church in Medford, on the Annual Fast, April 7th, 1842. BY CALEB STETSON. Boston James Munroe and Company. 1842.

We have received these excellent discourses at the last moment. We cannot speak of them in the terms they deserve; and can only record an expression of the great satisfaction with which we have hastily read them-satisfaction, especially, with the bold and manly tone in which each utters his honest convictions on the subject of great national evils. Mr. Newell finds his subject in the fallen character of our national Legislature; Mr. Stetson, in commercial embarrassments, a decline of public and private integrity, and the crowning sin and evil of slavery. From the last head of his discourse we take a few passages.

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"These men, [the slaveholders of the South,] who seem to represent nothing but themselves and their 'peculiar institutions,'— who are never heard to speak of anything as important, save 'the interests of the South,' have contrived to govern the country by the aid of Northern men, bound to them by party arrangements. They have enjoyed nearly all the important offices at the disposal of the government at home and abroad. Thirteen out of the last fifteen diplomatic appointments were given, I think, to slaveholders; and the greater part of the officers of the Navy are from the same class; though the whole South does not probably furnish seamen enough to man a single ship of war. In the General Government their influence has been put forth in a steady resistance to every measure, which seemed likely to promote the interests or reward the industry of free laborers.

"It is, I think, about thirty years since a true-hearted representative in Congress from this State, almost with a spirit of prophecy, spoke of the encroaching arrogance of these people, as nearly as I can remember, as follows. If my constituents are destined to become hewers of wood and drawers of water to men, who know nothing about their interests and care nothing about them, I am free from the great transgression. *If, in common with their countrymen, my children are hereafter to be slaves, to yoke in with negroes chained to the car of a Southern master, they shall at least have this consolation in their sufferings; they shall be able to say, our father was innocent of these chains."'*

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"And these men, who know nothing about our interests and care nothing about them,' have to this day been suffered to go on encroaching upon our rights and interests to an extent, in comparison with which the oppressions of Great Britain, that drove our fathers to revolution and independence, were trifles of no moment. The natural right

*I quote from memory, from a speech of Josiah Quincy, in the House of Representatives of the United States, which I have not seen for more than twenty years.

of sending petitions to the government, - always enjoyed by the most abject slaves of oriental despotism, is insolently denied. The foulest aspersions are cast upon those who present them; and our noblest representatives are impeached and censured for the rightful and constitutional expression of opinion. It is impossible not to see, in this domineering spirit, a determination to make the whole country subservient to the slaveholding power, to make the press and the Post Office instruments of its domination, and to destroy whatever remains of the liberty of speech and action. If the people of these free States are mean-spirited enough to bear all this much longer, they deserve nothing better than to become hewers of wood and drawers of water to Southern masters."" - pp. 17 - 19.

The Works of Charles Follen.

5 vols. Boston Hilliard, Gray & Co. 1842.

We are able, in the present number of our Journal, to do nothing more than announce the publication of these volumes, the memorial of an excellent and lamented man; and seize the opportunity of saluting their appearance with the following lines, which have just been handed to us by a friend.

THE CHURCH AT EAST LEXINGTON.

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THE FOLLEN CHURCH, -how beautiful it stands,
Graceful and calm in that sequestered nook!
How doth a blessing from its placid look
Flow o'er the hamlet and its fertile lands!
Fit Monument to him who placed it there;

Whose soul, all truth, benignity, and grace,
Beamed forth, in benedictions from a face,
Where might and sweetness met in union rare.
Oh Life of Love, too early quenched in death!
Yet, as that Fane, though crumbled to the ground,
Would still survive in sacred influence round,
So flows, and shall, from him a quickening breath.
Death to the good man is but Life's extension;
Earth mourns his loss; heaven joys in his ascension.

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Page 156, Note, for 1840 read 1841.

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CHRISTIAN EXAMINER.

JULY, 1842.

William Adamu.

ART. I. GREAT BRITAIN AND CHINA.

THE English war with China is an object of interest to the civilized world, on political, commercial, and philanthropic grounds; on political grounds, because it brings into collision two of the mightiest nations of the earth, each almost equally ignorant of the other's resources; on commercial grounds, because while its immediate effect is to interrupt the friendly relations of other nations with China, its ultimate consequence probably will be to increase the already overgrown power and domineering ascendancy of England in the East, to the injury of the other maritime powers of Europe and America; and on philanthropic grounds, because war is in all cases and under all circumstances a sin against God and a curse to man, and because the state of war is a condition of international relations, the least likely to be productive of mutual benefit to two branches of the great human family, long alienated from each other by diversity of language, religion, and social organization. The recent defence of the English policy by an eminent American statesman gives the China war a local interest also. The respect due to this gentleman's learning and experience demands that his views should be calmly considered: the respect due to truth and humanity demands that they should be opposed.

Mr. Adams, an American citizen, defends the warlike policy of the British government; and this tends to show that the question is one, on which his judgment has not been determined or influenced by national predilections or antipathies. I cannot, however, concede to Mr. Adams freedom from another class of prejudices, which within their scope equally obscure the perVOL. XXXII. - 3D S. VOL. XIV. NO. III. 36

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