sort, and moral qualities still rarer. Bravery, temperance, integrity, simplicity, and kindness seem to be its elements. The suppression of a mutiny on board the Caroline; the fact, that during all his fatigues and exposures he has totally abstained from ardent spirits, wine, and beer; the retrieving of the fortunes of the Beaver, after she had been abandoned by the owner to the underwriters; the confidence so readily placed in the verbal assurances of the venerable looking gentleman, who was the President of the Insurance Company, and received him with great politeness on his return, are strikingly characteristic, and show at once the real temper of the man. And the last shows, too, what a difference there is sometimes between assurance and insurance. We dismiss this book with a strong commendation for its manly and simple spirit, and the high moral tone that pervades it. We hope it will be widely read by the young, who are just entering on the career of the business of life. The tendencies of the present age are not specially calculated to form upright and disinterested characters, as the frightfully numerous frauds that have come to light within a few years past, and are daily alarming the community, too sadly show. Virgil with English Notes, prepared for the use of Classical Schools and Colleges. By FRANCIS BOWEN, A. M. Boston: Published by D. H. Williams. 1842. 8vo. pp. 600. A GOOD service has been rendered to Classical learning in the United States, by the publication of this edition of Virgil. The text is an excellent one, and the typographical execution of the book does honor to the University Press, both by its elegance and correctness. The editor has made good use of all the best authorities in the preparation of his introductions and notes. The life of Virgil is well told, and the general views of the peculiar characteristics of each several kind of poetry are stated clearly and simply. This part of the editor's task will be peculiarly useful to the young scholar. The notes are partly grammatical and partly explanatory of difficult passages. Occasionally the editor calls the student's attention to the beauties of thought and expression, in a way that cannot fail to excite an interest and cultivate a taste for something higher than the mere words. Notes of this kind, when drawn up with good sense, are of great importance in an edition of an ancient Classic, because they serve to counteract the natural tendency of school and college training to confine the scholar's attention to mere philological topics. We have read a large portion of Mr. Bowen's Notes, and like them much. They are excellently adapted to make the student not merely understand the meaning of Virgil's words, but to make him feel all those exquisite touches, for which the poetry of the illustrious Roman is so distinguished. NOTE. A review of Dr. Follen's works, already in type, together with notices of books received and others, are unavoidably deferred to another number. INDEX. A. Allen, Joseph, his "Minister's ac- Asia Minor, Fellows' travels in, - B. - Barrett's lectures on the Doctrines Bryant, W. C., his popular consider- C. Cambridge Miscellany, the, noticed, East Lexington Church, a Sonnet, 274. 280. VOL. XXXII. - 3D s. VOL. XIV. NO. III. --- 51 H. History and prospects of Unitarian- Holmes, Oliver Wendell, M. D., his their bearing on the question Howitt, Mary, her juvenile books Parker's lecture on the laboring Parkman's, Francis, Rev., offering of R. Ray's report of the Maine insane S. Sagalassus, in Pisidia, ruins of, 233. an inquirer, 88–90 — on the di- Waterston's Thoughts on Moral and - vine attributes of wisdom and Spiritual Culture, noticed, 126. Xanthus, in Lycia, 238, 239. ERRATA-LAST NUMBER. Page 192, line 10, for love read home. "236,"19, for notwithstanding read withstanding, and for the suc- ceeding semicolon substitute a comma. |