Grammar of the Greek Language, for the Use of High Schools and Colleges. BY DR. RAPHAEL KUEHNER, Conrector of the Lyceum, Hanover. Translated from the German, by B. B. EDWARDS, late Professor in the Theological Seminary, and S. H. TAYLOR, Principal of Phillips' Academy, Andover. A New Revised Edition. New-York: D. Appleton & Co. 1852. 12mo. Pp. 620.

This is a new edition of a work already widely and favorably known in this country. The work is, in its present form, enriched by new matter from the third German edition, while the numbering of the paragraphs remains the same, and most of the subdivisions and remarks, as in the former edition. We are reminded by the appearance of the work, and especially by Mr. Taylor's language in his Preface, of the recent decease of Prof. Edwards, a Christian scholar, of an excellent spirit, and of elegant and various culture, who, with all his professional labors in the cause of sacred learning, was second to no one in the country in a knowledge and appreciation of the spirit and the substance of classical literature, and who was ever among the foremost in promoting a better study and fuller comprehension of it in our schools and colleges. Honored and loved will ever be his memory by all American scholars. Long must we wait for one to be reared up to fill the place he has left, for one of such generous aims, and ripe, elegant scholarship, who will labor on so noiselessly, and yet so efficiently, in promoting whatever in art, letters, religion, is beautiful and true and good.

Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, with English Notes, Critical and Explanatory. BY CHARLES ANTHON, LL. D., Professor of the Greek and Latin Languages in Columbia College, Rector of the Grammar School, etc. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1852. 12mo. Pp. 398.

A Latin-English and English-Latin Dictionary, for the use of schools, chiefly from the Lexicons of Freund, Georges, and Kaltschmidt. By CHARLES ANTHON, LL. D., etc. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1852. 12mo. Pp. 1260.

Two more books from Dr. Anthon, and characteristic of his unwearied industry as a maker of classical school-books. The edition of the Tusculan Disputations is chiefly a reprint of the English edition, prepared by Messrs. T. K. Arnold and R. B. Paul, from the German work of Tischer. Prof. Anthon informs us in his preface, that he has corrected numerous errors in Mr. Paul's translation of Tischer's Notes, and has also enlarged upon Tischer by additions from other German editors. We are sorry to see, from a remark in the preface, that Prof. Anthon still adheres to his favorite system of what he terms "extended commentaries"-a system which, as he has pursued it, we have been long persuaded has rendered his editions of the classics worse than useless as instruments of education.

The Latin Dictionary promises to be a very useful work in American schools, and not only for beginners, but even for advanced students. The Latin-English portion is mainly an abridgment of Mr. Riddle's translation of Freund's smaller Latin Lexicon. The etymological department is much fuller than in Freund, and has been made up from "the most recent and reliable works," and especially from Kaltschmidt's School Dictionary. The English-Latin part is reprinted, with a few changes, from the EnglishLatin Dictionary of Kaltschmidt. We have examined this work with considerable care, and have found it extremely well fitted to the purposes for

which it has been prepared. It is, of course, much less complete than Andrews' Lexicon, which was translated from the larger work of Freund, but it is an excellent book for the earlier steps of Latin study, and, indeed, will do good service to students of all grades.

A Short and Comprehensive Greek Grammar, with Materials for Oral Exercises, for Schools and Colleges. BY JAMES T. CHAMPLIN, Professor of Greek and Latin in Waterville College. New-York: D. Appleton & Co. 1852. 12mo. Pp. 208.

To his Latin and his English Grammar, Prof. Champlin has here added a Grammar of the Greek language. It seems to us, from the examination we have given it, that it well fulfils the promise of the title-page. It is at once short and comprehensive. Within a compass unusually small for a Greek Grammar, it sets forth in a clear, straight-forward manner, the essential principles of the language, and illustrates them by examples sufficiently numerous for the real wants of the student. The materials of the book have been drawn from the best sources, principally from Jelf's Kühner, and from Krüger's Grammar. A chapter of thirty pages is devoted to the syntax of the verb, which is "a condensed translation of Wunder's admirable treatise on that subject." Any student who thoroughly masters this Grammar, will have laid an excellent foundation for a thorough knowledge of the Greek language.

Spiers and Surenne's French and English Pronouncing Dictionary. Newly composed from the French Dictionaries of the French Academy, Laveaux, Boiste, Bescherelle, Landais, etc., and from the English Dictionaries of Johuson, Webster, Worcester, Richardson, etc. etc. By A. SPIERS, Professor of English at the National College of Bonaparte, (Paris,) and the National School of Civil Engineers, etc., carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged, &c. BY G. P. QUACKENBOS, A. M. NewYork: D. Appleton & Co. 1852. 8vo. Pp. 657 and 651.

The publication of the Messrs. Appleton's Series of Standard Dictionaries is a most note-worthy event in the annals of the American press, and it reflects the greatest credit upon the intelligence and enterprise of the publishers. The three principal works of the series constitute, in three octavos, consisting each of more than thirteen hundred pages, admirably printed, on excellent paper, and in clear, handsome type, a most complete lexical apparatus, for the study of the Spanish, the German, and the French languages. Of the last of these three volumes the title is given above. It is a thorough and very careful revision of the original and able work of Spiers-a work which was wrought out with the utmost toil and patience, from the latest and most approved modern sources, in English and in French, and which, from its sterling merit, has superseded in Europe all earlier works of its class. Mr. Quackenbos has enlarged upon Spiers, by introducing about three thousand new definitions, and a still larger number of phrases and idioms in common use; the new definitions he has also occasionally explained by grammatical remarks, and illustrative clauses and sentences. He has also appended to each word its pronunciation, adopting for that purpose the notation of Surenne's Standard Pronouncing Dictionary. By the addition of the most important synonyms, and of new terms in science and art, he has rendered the work still more complete. The labor of correcting the press-a most difficult one in an extensive work like the present has been evidently performed with the utmost care.

Smithsonian Report on the Construction of Catalogues of Libraries, and of a General Catalogue; and their Publication by means of separate, stereotyped Titles. With Rules and Examples. BY CHARLES C. JEWETT, Librarian of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Published by the Smithsonian Institution. 1852. 8vo. Pp. 84.

This Report, as the author remarks in the preface, is intended to explain the method of preparing and stereotyping Catalogues, proposed for the Smithsonian Institution; to furnish means of judging of the practicability and importance of the system, in its several parts; and to serve as a manual for librarians, in executing the work. Prof. Jewett displays a most thorough and accurate knowledge of the principles of Bibliography, and more particularly of that branch of Bibliography pertaining to the science of cataloguing, concerning which so much is written and said, and so little is really understood. Want of space compels us to defer until our next number a more extended notice of this invaluable and timely Report.

Personal Memoirs and Recollections of Editorial Life. BY JOSEPH T. BUCKINGHAM. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1852. 12mo. 2 vols.

These volumes are from the pen of one of the oldest and most honored members of the editorial corps of Boston. For more than thirty years Mr. Buckingham was connected with the daily newspaper press, and during that long period was always distinguished for the diligence and earnestness with which he discharged his duties as an editor, and for the vigor and manly independence with which he set forth and advocated his views. These volumes contain interesting memoirs and reminiscences of his personal and professional career, together with biographical notices of some of his contemporaries and associates, and extracts from the journals which he has edited, especially the New-England Galaxy and the Boston Courier. They present a very animated picture of the various trials and perplexities which beset the path of a daily journalist; and the author's narrative of his early struggles and difficulties, incident to narrow circumstances and limited means of education, when taken in connection with his after honorable, well-earned position as a writer and an editor, furnishes a lesson full of instruction and incentive, on the unfailing success which waits upon industry and perseverance, and a course of assiduous effort for self-improve

ment.

Pioneer Women of the West. By Mrs. ELLET, author of "The Women of the American Revolution," etc. Pp. 434. New-York: Charles Scrib

ner. 1852.

The fannals of western emigration abound in instances of every species of heroism. The hardships and perils which belong to pioneer life in the West, especially as it presented itself to those who first crossed the Alleghanies, and settled the states bordering on the Mississippi, are scarcely surpassed by any which were encountered by the early occupants of the Atlantic coasts. Among both classes of settlers it was often the case that woman was called upon to make sacrifices and endure trials, which tasked the sternest fortitude and the loftiest heroism of her nature. To gather up some of these instances, and bring them forth from the obscurity in which they have been buried, is the design of Mrs. Ellet in the pleasant volume It is a work which, from the fleeting character of its materials, must be accomplished, if ever, while the incidents and characters which it

before us.

records are fresh in the recollections of men; and we are glad to find it undertaken by a lady who has already done so much to illustrate those heroines of humble life who adorned the Revolutionary period of American society. The volume will be found to be a valuable addition to the already large department of literature which relates to the character and deeds of

woman.

An Olio of Domestic Verses. By EMILY JUDSON. New-York: Lewis Colby. 1852. Pp. 235.

These touching verses relate to the domestic incidents which mark a long period in the life of their amiable and gifted author. They are poured forth from a heart whose sensibilities have been tuned alike to the highest joys and the deepest sorrows, and they fall upon our ears with a soft and delicate rhythm, that holds us spell-bound by its saddened, but still cheerful cadence. The pieces are all addressed to the unsophisticated human heart, and they will be best appreciated by those to whom human life has taught some lessons of Christian faith and resignation.

Lotus Eating: A Summer Book. By GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, author of "Nile Notes," &c. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1852. Pp. 206. We were no admirers of Mr. Curtis's "Nile Notes." The style was usually strained and overwrought, and the subjects and allusions were not always in the best taste. But we have nothing to say on these points against this volume of "Lotus Eating." Light and evanescent as are its topics, it is certainly a very agreeable "Summer Book," and has doubtless already been the companion of many an August trip to Saratoga or Niagara-to Newport or Nahant. The author has traveled widely in the Old World, and often adorns his pages with suggestive comparisons of society and scenery, as they present themselves on the two sides of the Atlantic.

The Rhode Island Freewill Baptist Pulpit. By A. D. WILLIAMS, A. M., Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1852.

Mr. Williams is the pastor of the Freewill Baptist Church in Pawtucket, and in collecting these memorials of the leading ministers of his denomination, he has made an interesting and valuable contribution to its history. It is a work which we would gladly have noticed more fully, had it been issued in season. We may recur to it in a subsequent number.

The History of the United States of America, from the adoption of the Federal Constitution to the end of the Sixteenth Congress. BY RICHARD HILDRETH. In Three Volumes. Vol. III. New-York: Harper & Brothers.

On former occasions we have adverted to the character of this work and little remains for us now but to announce its completion. Mr. Hildreth proposed a straightforward recital of facts, without resort to eloquent declamation to aid the interest of his story, and leaving to others the business of philosophical generalization. This purpose he has achieved with a large measure of success. His narrative is full of vigor and force, at the same time that it is compressed within the narrowest attainable compass. It fills a most important place in our literature, and will become

at once a common and indispensable work of reference. Its faults are, that its author carries his own partialities and prejudices into his work, and so weakens, not the impression of his honesty, but of his safety as a guide, and that in discarding philosophy altogether, he loses sight of that Providence which underlies our history, and whose problems that history is evolving. The present volume opens with the Tenth Congress, in 1807, and covering the periods of the Embargo and the War, closes with the pacific and almost unanimous re-election of Monroe. Besides tables of contents and a list of authorities, the present volume contains an analytical index to the whole work.

Bishop Butler's Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature. With an Analysis, left unfinished, by the late Rev. Robert Emory, D. D., President of Dickinson College. Completed and Edited, with a Life of Bishop Butler, Notes and Index. By G. R. CROOKS. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 12mo. Pp. 368.

The particular value of the present edition of the Analogy, is found in the Analysis and Index, both of which will aid very materially the study and use of the work. The former was left incomplete by the lamented Dr. Emory, but has been carried out by the editor in accordance with Dr. E.'s plan, as indicated by an outline found among his papers. The latter is based on Dr. Bentham's index, prepared in the lifetime of Bishop Butler, and lately brought to light. The Life contains such new facts as have been discovered by the researches of the Rev. Thomas Bartlett, in addition to the brief record, which is familiar. Besides a few notes by the editor, a few are introduced from Dr. Chalmer's Lectures, and a few from Professor Fitzgerald's edition of the Analogy.

Atlantic and Transatlantic; Sketches Afloat and Ashore. By Captain MACKINNON, R. N. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 12mo. Pp. 324. Perhaps Capt. Mackinnon brought with him a disposition too friendly, as some of his predecessors had certainly not done. He doubts the good breeding of a large proportion of English travelers in America, and therein we concur with him, if many of those who have written about us are to be regarded as specimens. A gentleman himself, Capt. Mackinnon was treated as such by Americans. He was received in the best society, and saw life among us under its best aspects. He traveled too rapidly for close observation, but enjoyed nearly everything he saw, and rarely uses his pen except in praise. He errs on that side. His sketches, however, are life-like and agreeable, and the book which he has written will make him even more welcome when he comes again. There remains in the way of English travel among us, a book greatly to be desired,-one by an English gentleman, of large culture, of liberal feelings, of patient observation, of discriminating judgment, and of stern integrity,-who should write to please nobody, but to inform his countrymen as to what we really are, and are aiming to be. Lord Morpeth could have performed this service, in most respects, admirably,-perhaps in all, if he had remained longer with us, and had put himself more fully in communication with every form of American life. We hope at some time to see such a book. Meanwhile we are thankful for such a contribution towards it as the work of Captain Mackinnon,