the Owens and St. Simons and Fouriers of the West, into the heart of Asia, where a party of derveeshes came to me and observed, The time will come when there shall be no difference between rich and poor, between high and low, when property shall be in common, even wives and children" (p. 277); let them purchase and read the ill-arranged and inartificial, but sprightly, spirited, kindly, and, as we believe, most truthful narrative, which the Harpers have presented in this cheap and beautiful volume.

America and the American People, by FREDERICK VON RAUMER, and translated from the German by WILLIAM W. TURNER. New York: J. and W. G. Langley, 1846. 8vo., pp. 512. $2.

This book is far more worthy of its subject than many of greater pretensions that have heretofore appeared. It is obviously written for the Germans, and is distinguished from its predecessors by the amount and importance of authentic information it contains. The author consulted the wants of the times and the grave interest of the topics he undertook to illustrate, by seeking rather to afford his countrymen data, whereby to judge, than to display any brilliancy of his own. He has evidently had recourse to a large number of historical and congressional documents, and his volume cannot fail to be of essential service to the intelligent emigrant and political enquirer. What little he has to say on American society, manners, literature and art, strikes us as, in the main, just, as it certainly is liberal. All that savors of disapprobation is obviously ut, tered "more in sorrow than in anger." An idea of the practical style in which he treats the subject may be gathered from the titles of some of his chapters. After a succinct historical sketch of the settlement of America, and the Revolution, he discusses the Constitutions of the several States, the Presidentship of Washington, Adams and Jefferson; Slavery, the Indian Population, Education, Taxes, Banks, Schools and Colleges, Law, the Army and Navy, Charitable Institutions, Religions, and the Church and Foreign Relations. APPLETON'S LITERARY MISCELLANY, No. 5. The Life of Frederick Schiller, comprehending an Examination of his Works, by THOMAS CARLYLE. 18mo. 50 cts.

been subjects of earnest discussion. In regard to Schiller a singular unanimity of feeling prevails. His lofty tone of sentiment, the philosophic accuteness of his perception, the deep and holy enthusiasm which sustained his character, and inspired his muse, are recognized by all in any degree familiar with his works. Carlyle, of all critics, is eminently fitted by talent and attainment worthily to trace the history of such a mind. He has not only done this with discrimination and sympathy, but the style is clear, simple and direct, wholly uninfected by the peculiar diction which renders his later works unpalatable to so many readers. The book is in the same neat type and binding as the other volumes of the Miscellany; it is, moreover, a new edition, revised by the author.

Mass and Rubrics of the Roman Catholic The same house have published the Church, translated into English, with notes and remarks, by Rev. J. R. Cotter. The work is seasonable, as it will inform Protestants more readily than any manual with which we are acquainted of the peculiar ceremonies of the Romish Church.

The Roman Church and Modern Society,

translated from the French of Professor
E. Quinet, of the College of France. 1
vol., 18mo. Gates & Stedman, New
York.

The Jesuits, translated from the French
of MM. MICHELET and QUINET, Pro-
fessors in the College of Prance.
18mo. Gates & Stedman.

1 vol.

These are kindred works-perhaps we form a part of thrat great religious contromight call them partnership works. They versy which has been waging in France for the few years past, which both in its peculiar character and its possible results has attracted extensive notice. Ever since the re-settlement of France in political quietness after its long revolutionary distresses, the Church of Rome has been enand control in that kingdom. In later deavoring to gain its former pre-eminence years, the main instrument in this project has been the order of Jesuits, who have, to a large extent, subverted the authority and influence of the settled clergy of their own church in France; for themselves a very extensive influand as directors and confessors obtained ence among the families, and the youth of France. The controversy which has been thus awakened, is not like The publishers could not have made a the conflicts of the Papacy with outselection for their series, better fitted to ward opposers, in the shape of Protesenlist in its behalf the sympathies of intelli- tants against its system and doctrino gent readers than Carlyle's Life of Schil- but is among the members of that ler. An edition was published in Boston several years since, but it has long been out of print. The literary merits of Goethe and other distinguished German writers have

one church. It is an internal contest among professing members of the same body. But it is a contest, the effect of which must be felt far more widely than

itself extends.
chelet and Quinet have produced great
excitement around themselves. They to France.
are contending in the sacred cause of hu-
man liberty; and however we might dif-
fer with them upon the points which they
would retain, as points of faith, we cannot
but sympathise with them in their strug-
gles against an unrelenting and unappeas-
able oppression over the rights and the
welfare of men.

The labors of MM. Mi- they belong as peculiarly to our soil, as
Pretrarchan sonnets to Italy, or Memoirs

The following passage will show their own views of the contest: "You speak of liberty! speak then of equality! Is there any equality between us and you? You are the leaders of tormidable associations; we are isolated men. You have forty thousand pulpits that you make to speak voluntarily, or by force! You have a hundred thousand confessionals, through which you influence the family; you hold in your hands what is the basis of the family (and of the world), the MOTHER: the child is but an accessary. What would the father do, when she returns in dismay, and throws herself into his arms, crying eut, "I am eternally damned!" You are sure that the next day he will give you up his son. Twenty thousand children in your little seminaries? Two hundred thousand at present in the schools that you govern! Millions of women who act but through you! And we, what are A voice, we, in the face of such great forces?

and nothing more. A voice to cry out to France. She is now warned; let her do what she pleases. She sees and feels the net, whereas they thought to catch her asleep. To all loyal hearts, one last word. To all laymen or priests (and may these last hear a free voice in the depth of their bondage), let them and us with their courageous speech, or their silent sympathy, and let all together bless from their hearts, and their altars, the holy crusade we are commencing for God and liberty."

These two works will be read in this country, we believe, with the deepest interest-we trust, not without advantage.

Western Clearings. By MARY CLAVERS
New York: Wiley & Putnam. 1845.

Life in the West is still a fresh subject, and one which will furnish materials for long time to come, both to the artist and writer, and especially to the mind that combines these two characters. Such is Mrs. Clavers. She writes sensibly, vigoronsly, and with excellent moral aims, and she paints in language with graphic effect and singular faithfulness to nature. These qualities rendered her "New Home" one of the most successful books of the kind even published in this country, and they will ensure her present volume extensive popularity. It is made up of tales and sketches illustrative of the domestic manners, original characters nowhere discoverable, the wide world over, except in now settlements. We can easily imagine with what zest such tales are read across the sea. In fact, they are among the few home productions of the pen that merit the name of American literature, for

The Sufferings of Christ. By a Layman1 vol. 12mo, New York: Harper and Brothers. 1845.

This is a work of ability and eloquence, upon a theological theme, written by a layman; and if we may judge from terms and imagery occasionally employed, a In the tremendous oblation that jurist. ransomed the world, it has been generally assumed by divines that the human nature alone of the Redeemer suffered-and that the Deity of the Son, from the necessarily impassible nature of the Godhead, stood aside, as it were, untouched. The writer boldly disputes the justice of this longreceived assumption, that the nature of God is of necessity impassible. Exempt as it must be from all involuntary and compulsory suffering, he aims to show that reason does not require us to regard it as also incapable of voluntary suffering; and that the language of Scripture requires us to admit such anguish, voluntarily encountered, as having been endured by the united Deity and Manhood in the task of the world's redemption. He boldly grapples with the reasoning of that profound scholar. Bishop Pearson, and with that of Athanasius, to whose influence in the fourth century he traces the establish ment of the doctrine that the nature of the Godhead is of necessity, and in ail cases, impossible or incapable of the feeling of distress. In controverting this position of the ancient father, he quotes the language of Chalmers and John Harris, theologians of our own time, whom e supposes with himself to question this broad assumption.

The volume is written in a tone of those whose views he courtesy to questions, and of reverence befitting the theme. It has no likeness or sympathy with some treatises of religious specula 66 Every tion, that might well be lettered, man his own Revelation." Such writers seem first to extemporise, by stress of reason, a more perfect revelation, as they must suppose it, than the existing Bible; and then make it their business to hew down and fill up the old and stubborn Scripture of their Maker, until it somewhat resembles their own preconceived standard. Such is not the process or spirit of our author. He brings forward first, and with decided power, the Scripture testimony; and all his subsequent reasonings are based upon, and governed by, the letter of the Divine Record. not our province to pronounce on ques tions of religious doctrine; but it is due to our author to state candidly his views

It is

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Notices of New Books

When the accomplished and intelligent
ruler of France, Louis Philippe, converted
the deserted palace of Versailles into a
gallery, where painting and sculpture dis-
played and adorned all the eminent names
and brilliant events of French history, he
effected for the fame of France, what,
within narrower limits, and in a fashion
more conformed to our republican and utili-
tarian notions, Professor Sparks seems at-
tempting, for the fame of our country.
We have, in this series of volumes, the
written portraiture of the men, not only
who achieved eminence in acquiring or in
enjoying our national independence, but
of those also who were connected with
our earlier and colonial history. The
volume before us presents, intentionally it
may be, an instance of the local impartial-
ity that marks the enterprize. Of the
three memoirs which it contains, that of
John Ribault, by the editor himself, that
of Sebastian Rale, by Dr. Converse Francis,
and that of William Palfrey, by Dr. John
G. Palfrey; the first, carries us back to the
earlier history of Florida, on the south;
the second, to that of Maine, on the ex-
treme north of our Atlantic border; whilst
the third, is the memoir of one of the
Bevolutionary worthies of the Old Bay
State. Palfrey was the Paymaster-General
of the forces under Washington, received
the appointment of Consul-General to
France, to labor under Franklin; and when
on his way to the duties of that appoint-
ment, was lost at sea. The other two me-
moirs, though not relating to the struggles
of our War of Independence, awaken re-
miniscences of struggles not less earnest,
far earlier in date, and likely to be
longer in duration, than the strife which
ended in our national existence. They are
the conflicts of Romanism and Protestant-
ism, addressing themselves, apparently, in
our times, to wrestle anew for the spiritual
rule of the world. The first efforts of
Protestantism, long before the day of the
Pilgrim Fathers, to plant its steps on the
shores of North America, failed. Its foot
slid in blood: but that blood was its own.
Coligne, the brave and the good, who was
at the head of the Huguenots of France,
and who was himself afterwards one of
the victims of the fatal day of St. Barthol-
omew-that day, in the language of Mac-
auley's noble ballad:

"Of Seine's impurpled flood,
And good Coligne's hoary hair all dabbled with his
blood,"

had desired to plant a colony and refuge
for his Protestant countrymen on our
shores. His attempt at Brazil failing, he
renewed it in Florida, in an expedition, the
command of which was given to John

Rebault, an experienced mariner of Dieppe,
himself a Protestant. The several voyages
of Rebault to Florida, his adventures with
the Indians, and his massacre and that of
his companions by the Spaniards after their
surrender, make up a narrative of thrilling
interest. The second of the lives group-
ed in this volume exhibits the reverse of
this medal. It is the memoir of Rale, the
Jesuit father, who, with admirable con-
stancy and zeal, conducted a mission among
the Norridgewocks of Maine. He was
regarded by the forefathers of New Eng-
land, with dread and detestation, as insti-
gating his savage neophytes to sanguinary
inroads upon the English colonies, and is
charged by them as sharing in these cru-
elties himself. He fell under an expedition
sent from New England, dying amid his
converts, covered with many and most in-
human wounds, at the foot of the cross,
which had been erected in the centre of
his missionary village. The order to which
he belonged, regarded him as one of its
martyrs. That he was a man of heroic
and benevolent spirit, the men of every
faith must admit. A very neat design,
showing his death amid the Indians, near
his church and at the foot of this cross,
forms the vignette of the volume. Protes
tants and Catholics have, in our own times,
united in rearing a monument to his
memory, on the scene of the tragedy, and
Whittier, one of our most spirited poets,
has hung upon the tomb no ungraceful
wreath, in his lines on that death.

WILEY & PUTNAM'S LIBRARY.

Since our last, several valuable and Hazlitt's attractive numbers have been added to this popular series of books, English Poets and Comic writers, are perhaps of all his writings, the two works most strongly marked by the peculiarities of his genius and the felicities of his style. Whether the reader agrees or not with his critical opinions, these essays form the most delightful medium for renewing acquaintance with the classic authors of our native tongue. We have before enlarged on the acuteness and zest of Hazlitt's comments on life and books, and the necessity of adopting nis views with caution, while we enjoy his appreciation of what his mind was fitted to analyze. Mr. Poe's Poems appear in this series; and we doubt not the popularity of "The Raven," will give them a large sale, as we hear copies of that spirited and ingenious poem continually demanded.

At this season, the juvenile books issued by the same house, are worthy of notice. They publish four of the best of Peter Parley's books, the most attractive primer we have seen, Tales of the Kings of England, Bingley's Stories from Instinct, Glimpses of the Wonderful, Short and Simple Prayers, and Naturalist's Rambles -forming an excellent and beautiful set of children's books.

Poems, by FRANCES S. OSGOOD. New- ted in their moral tone, and musical in York: Published by Clark & Austin, their versification, these poems cannot fail to please a large circle of readers.

1845.

This is the second series of American poems issued by this firm. Encouraged by the success of Mr. Willis' volume, they have published Mrs. Osgood's, and will soon, we understand, put forth the collected poems of Alfred B. Street. It appears from these facts, that much that is said about poetry's being unsaleable, is exaggerated. The truth is, the circulation of this species of literature depends in a great measure upon the style in which it is given to the public; elegance and economy must be equally consulted, and in this respect the publishers of the present volume have shown commendable judgment and good taste. We cannot question, that if their future selections are equally wise their series of American poets will be eminently successful. Mrs. Osgood's verses require no elaborate criticism. They do not pretend to any great depth of originality. Their chief merit is vivacity and fancifulness, yet beneath this, there often runs a deeper vein. Those relating to the domestic affections and to themes purely imaginative, strike us as the best. "The Fan," A Flight of Fancy," and "To a Child Playing with a Watch," are instances in point; eleva

We would call attention, at the approach of the holidays, to the admirable collection of Children's Books, published by the Appletons. In point of beautiful mechanical execution, purity of moral influence, and attractiveness, we have not seen a juvenile series more desirable. They consist of books adapted to every age of childhood. We subjoin some of the titles-Very Little Tales, 1st and 2d 8eries; Rhymes for the Nursery; Lucy and Arthur; Holyday Tales; Little Lessons for Little Learners; Clara's Amusements; Life and Perambulations of a Mouse. Some months since we devoted several pages to this humble, but most important branch of literature. Probably in no country are more books for the young published and read than in our own. The child's first ideas of the use of language and first impressions of art, are derived from these little volumes. Hence the duty of exercising good taste and sound judgment in their preparation. Messrs. Appleton have rendered excellent service in this regard.

The

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