evidently only after very laborious investigations, the history of Arctic adventure, and the zealous enterprise of the English patrons of that arduous service.

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MRS. DALL's new work, “ Historical Pictures Retouched,” has not only a happy title, but also more unity than is usual in a volume of miscellanies. The leading idea of the book is still “ Justice to Woman.” But the argument is conducted not polemically, but historically, and so is likely to reach and convince more minds. It is hard to get angry with a fact, as we often do with an argument. There is a cluster of biographies, or biographical sketches, of women illustrious in Science, Medicine, and other leading human pursuits. But gracefully intertwined with these are other pleasing articles, touching other points of life and manners. Thus the book, good to keep as a work of reference, on account of its numerous details concerning distinguished women, is also good to read, because of its entertaining and brilliant sketches, or, as Mrs. Dall prefers to call them, fancies. It is her best work, advance, it strikes us, on the last, “ Woman's Right to Labor,” which it pleases us to see has gone to a second edition. We can give no very good reasons for saying that this book is better than that. But the tone is more serene; less tending to denunciation or righteous indignation. The wine is more mellow, the ebullition of feeling less profuse, the sediment deposited. That had to be drunk hastily, its bubbling pathos brought disagreeable mist into the eyes; but this glass we can hold calmly up, and watch the sunshine through its topaz clearness. The names of these studies are attractive, gentle reader.

See them, “ Aspasia,” “ Hypatia," “ The Countess Matilda," “ Cassandra Fedele,” ,

” “ The Women of the House of Montefeltro," “ The Women of Bologna” (seventeen names are given), “The Contributions of Women to Medical Science” (thirty-seven names), “ The Duties and Influence of Women " (illustrated by reference to thirty women). Add papers on “ Marie Cunitz,” “ Madame de Staël,” “ Margaret Fuller,” “The Great Lawsuit,” “ The Fancies,” and an excellent tribute to Dr. Lowell, — and you see that this is a book to interest you.

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The thoroughly established reputation of Dr. Worcester's series of Dictionaries, and the almost universal testimony of scholars, placing his recent great work at the head of existing authorities of the English tongue, leave us little to say of the compact revision just issued,* except that it is printed from new plates, faithfully prepared on the basis of the quarto, and contains, in a form very convenient for use, the tables which add so much value to that, occupying, in this edition, more than a hundred and thirty pages. As a manual of constant reference and popular use, it will of course command a wide and steady circulation.

The small, but handsomely printed volume, entitled "A Voice from * A Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language. By JOSEPH E. WORCESTER, LL. D. Revised, with important Additions. Boston : Swan, Brewer, and Tileston. pp. 608.

the Newsboys, ,"* is in more than one respect a remarkable book. Were there not a respectable voucher in the Preface, we should doubt the possibility of such a production from such a source. The author is a newsboy of sixteen years, whose mode of life has been

very unfavorable to literary acquirements, whose associations, until very recently, have been of a coarse and hard kind, and whose education has been picked up, rather than given systematically. Yet no graduate of our High Schools could write better English, and few graduates of College could write their own lives in such maturity of style. The incidents of the life, less tragic than those of many lives which the charities of our cities are continually rescuing, are yet sufficiently varied to be interesting. There is no over-statement of suffering, and no under-statement of sin; the facts are left to tell their own tale. The work is sold by its author to enable him to procure a college education. It is fairly entitled to be called a "literary curiosity."

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A LITTLE volume † has appeared from the Riverside Press to the memory of John W. Browne. It is no ordinary tribute to no ordinary man, which the church, the platform, the bar, and the press have united to render. It is the more appropriate, because the fall from the platform of a railroad car, which occasioned his immediate death, has been attributed to another cause than the jar of a sudden turn of the train, just as he had raised his hand to secure his hat. But most appropriate, because Mr. Browne was distinguished in a way which earns no distinction, by qualities as rare as they are valuable, - by a very sensitive conscience which his profession was never suffered to impair; by a manful independence, which early rejected the prize of party preferment; by an earnest philanthropy, which enlisted hand, voice, and purse in the service of the slave, the criminal, and the fallen ; and the conquest of an impulsive spirit, by a gentleness like that of a woman, and a tenderness as of a mother. Messrs. Sumner, Andrew, and Dana, Wendell Phillips and C. C. Shackford, have well united in an expression of feeling as graceful as it is true.

NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

THEOLOGY.

Glimpses of the Heaven that lies about us. By T. E. Poynting. London: E. T. Whitfield. 12mo. pp. 432. _ (See p. 451.)

Notes on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul to Philemon, as the Basis of a Revision of the Common English Version; and a Revised Version, with Notes. New York: American Bible Union. 24mo. pp. 90. (See p. 454.)

Commentary on Ecclesiastes, with other Treatises. By E. W. Hengsten

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* A Voice from the Newsboys. Published for the Benefit of the Author. 1860. 12mo. pp. 135.

† In Memoriam J. W. B. Boston : Published for his Friends. Crosby & Co. 1860.

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berg. Translated from the German by D. W. Simon. Philadelphia : Smith English, & Co.

8vo. pp. 488. Pulpit Themes, and Preacher's Assistant. Philadelphia : Smith, English, & Co. 12mo. pp. 441.

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Essays and Reviews,” reprinted from the Second London Edition. Edited, with an Introduction, by Rev. Frederic H. Hedge, D. D. Boston: Walker, Wise, & Co. 12mo. pp. 480. (Reviewed, p. 351.)

Notes on the Parables of our Lord. By Richard Chenevix Trench. Condensed. New York : D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. pp. 288.

Love and Penalty ; or Eternal Punishment consistent with the Fatherhood of God. By Joseph P. Thompson. New York: Sheldon & Co. 16mo. pp. 358.

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The Glaciers of the Alps; being a Narrative of Excursions and Ascents, an Account of the Origin and Phenomena of Glaciers, and an Exposition of the Physical Principles to which they are related. By John Tyndall, F. R. S. With Illustrations. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 12mo. pp. 446. (See p. 459.)

The Philosophy of Natural History: By John Ware, M. D. Prepared on the Plan, and retaining Portions, of the Work of William Smellie. Boston: Brown and Taggard. 12mo. pp. 448. (See p. 461.)

The Works of Francis Bacon. Collected and revised by James Spedding, R. L. Ellis, and D. D. Heath. Vol. XII. Boston: Brown and Taggard. 12mo.

pp. 461.

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pp. 198.

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY.

pp. 534.

pp. 355.

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The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker, George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson. By Izaak Walton. With some Account of the Author and his Writings, by Thomas Zouch. (One of the beautiful new Boston series of reprints.) Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co. 12mo. pp. 386.

The Life of George Washington. By Edward Everett. New York : Sheldon & Co. 12mo. pp. 348. (See p. 466.)

The Life and Letters of Mrs. Emily E. Judson. By A. C. Kendrick. New York : Sheldon & Co. 12mo. pp. 426.

The History of Herodotus, a new English Version. By George Rawlinson, M. A. Vol. IV. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 8vo. (Noticed in July)

Brief Biographies. By Samuel Smiles. With Steel Portraits. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 12mo. pp. 517. (Needing no commendation to those who know Mr. Smiles's previous books.)

A History and Analysis of the Constitution of the United States. By Nathaniel Č. Towle. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 12mo. pp. 444.

pp. 465.

TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE. Italy in Transition. Public Scenes and Private Opinions in the Spring of 1860, illustrated by Official Documents from the Papal Archives of the Revolted Legations. By William Arthur. New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo. pp. 429. (See p. 462.)

Reminiscences of an Officer of the Zouaves. Translated from the French. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. pp. 317.

The Wild Sports of India; with Remarks on the Breeding and Rearing of Horses, and the Formation of Light Irregular Cavalry. By Captain Henry Shakespear. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. pp. 283. (See p. 467.)

The Kangaroo Hunters; or Adventures in the Bush. By Anne Bowman. Boston : Crosby, Nichols, Lee, & Co. 16mo. pp. 463.

Odd People. Being a popular Description of Singular Races of Men. By Captain Mayne Reid. With Illustrations. New York: Harper and Brothers. 16mo. pp. 445.

NOVELS AND TALES.

The Woman in White. A Novel. By Wilkie Collins. Illustrated by John McLenan. 'New York: Harper and Brothers. 8vo. pp. 260.

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Tom Brown at Oxford: a Sequel to School-Days at Rugby. By Thomas Hughes. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. Part 8.

The Household of Bouverie ; or, The Elixir of Gold. A Romance by a Southern Lady. New York: Derby and Jackson. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 373, 413.

My Novel. By Pisistratus Caxton. Or, Varieties in English Life. Library Edition. New York: Harper and Brothers. 2 vols. 12mo.

pp. 589, 581. Wheat and Tares. New York: Harper and Brothers. 12mo. pp. 280. (See p. 466.)

Miss Gilbert's Career. An American Story. By J. G. Holland. New York : Charles Scribner. 12mo. pp. 476.

JUVENILE.

American History. By Jacob Abbott. Vol. II. Discovery of America. New York: Sheldon & Co. 16mo. pp. 288.

A Treasury of Scripture Stories, abundantly illustrated with colored Plates. New York: Sheldon & Co. pp. 16.

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The Fairy Nightcaps. (pp. 215.) – The Little Nightcap Letters. (pp.

— 178.) — A Year with Maggie and Emma. (pp. 137.) – New York: D. Appleton & Co. 24mo.

MISCELLANEOUS.

pp. 358.

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The Eighth Commandment. Charles Reade. Boston : Ticknor and Fields. 16mo. pp. 276.

Forty Years' Experience in Sunday Schools. By Stephen H. Tyng. New York: Sheldon & Co. 12mo. pp. 251.

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems. By T. Babington Macaulay. New and Revised Edition. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 12mo.

Historical Pictures Retouched. A Volume of Miscellanies. In Two Parts. Part I. Studies. Part II. Fancies. By Mrs. Dall. Boston: Walker, Wise, & Co. 16mo. pp. 402. (See p. 470.)

The Odes of Horace, translated into English Verse. With a Life and Notes. By Theodore Martin. Boston : Ticknor & Fields. 32mo.

(Blue and Gold.)

A Hand-Book of Exercises and Reading-Lessons for Beginners in Latin, progressively illustrated by Grammatical References. By James Morris Whiton. Boston and Cambridge : James Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 244. (Noticed in September.)

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The Lake Regions of Central Africa. A Picture of Exploration. By Richard F. Burton. New York: Harper and Brothers. 8vo. pp. 572.

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À Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language. By Joseph E.
Worcester, LL. D.
Revised, with important Additions.

Boston: Swan, Brewer, and Tileston. Large 12mo. pp. 608. (See p. 470.)

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Annual Report of the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York. 1859 - 1860. New York: J. W. Amerman. 8vo. pp. 356.

PAMPHLETS.

Phases of Atheism, described, examined, and answered. By Sophia Dobson Collet. London: Holyoake & Co. pp. 36. (Reprinted from the Christian Examiner of November, 1859.)

The Free-Church System. From the American Quarterly Church Review, October, 1860. New Haven : Tuttle, Morehouse, and Taylor. pp. 35.

Involuntary Confessions. A Monograph. By Francis Whiston. Philadelphia : Kay and Brother. pp. 36.

Religion in Public Instruction. Baccalaureate Address, delivered before the Graduating Class of Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, June 20, 1860. By Thomas Hill. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. pp. 31. (Defending it as

our privilege and our duty, to introduce the Christian religion, in a positive and earnest form, into the public course of instruction, reserving for theological schools “the dogmas concerning which Christians differ.” A condensed, full, and seasonable argument.)

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