1.-A IV. BOOKS. RECENT PUBLICATIONS. Reconstruction Letter. New York: Privately printed. 1866. Octavo, pp. 13. On the third of September last, The Tribune contained a satirical piece, in verse, purporting to be a letter from William H. Seward, at "The "Cataract House," Niagara-falls, to Thurlow Weed, at the Astor House, New York city, communicating to the latter the circumstances of the trip of the Presidential party toward Chicago. It was very cleverly done; and, although it is violently partizan in its character, we read with considerable interest, on account of the sharpness of many of the hits which the author dealt on the heads of his unfortunate victims. It has been re produced in the elegant style of "The Bradstreet "Press," in the tract under consideration; and, in view of the result of the expedition which it describes, we have re-read it with much pleasure. It is privately printed, in the most elegant style of the day; and the edition numbered one bundred copies. 2.-Obsequies of Abraham Lincoln, in the City of New York, under the Auspices of the Common Council. By D. T Valentine, Clerk of the Common Council. New York: Edmund Jones & Co. 1866. Octavo, pp. vi. unpaged; 254. This is, by far, the finest volume of Lincolnana that we have seen; and it has been edited with decidedly better taste and good judgment than are generally seen in public documents of this character. We are not insensible of the fact, however, that one of our respected contemporaries has condemned the introduction into it of Mr. Bancroft's Oration at Union Square; but we do not perceive the justice of that criticism, nor do we very well see how that production, no matter what its defects may have been, could have been omitted from such a volume, with the least propriety. We suppose that this is the only memorial of the murdered President that the city of New York will send down to posterity; and we are disposed to be charitable, in view of that fact, when we read that twenty thousand copies of this magnificent volume were ordered to be printed at the expense of the already over-burdened city. 3-Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York. 1866. By D. T. Valentine. [Sine loco, sine anno.] We have here the last issue of this widelyknown public document, just as the year for which it has been issued is about to expire. We have not had time to examine its contents with much care; and we are not, therefore, prepared to pass a carefully-prepared opinion on its various parts. We notice, however, that the gaudy pictures which gradually crept into former volumes of this work, have been more numerously scattered through this; that the series of extracts from old newspapers, on every conceivable subject, have been continued; and that the survey of the leading streets of the city, commenced last year, has been extended to Wallstreet, the Bowery, and Chatham-street. The book is not what it should be, by any means; but it probably answers the purpose of its publication just as well as it would do if it was very much better. A very handsome pamphlet edition of Mr. White's interesting paper on the fifth Governor of Vermont, whose life and services are admirably and minutely narrated. 56 66 It is news to us, however, that after Baume had been overcome at Bennington, "Burgoyne came up with reinforcements, and the Green "Mountain Boys were compelled to fight and "win the battle a second time," as Mr. White has told his readers on page 6. We rather fancy, instead, that one Breyman will be found to have "come up with reinforcements," and that Burgoyne never 'came up" an inch to support Baume. We have supposed, also, that one Stark, a New Hampshire man, commanding a brigade of _New Hampshire troops and "some militia from Berk"shire county," in Massachusetts, played quite as prominent a part, with his command, to say the least, as "the Green Mountain Boys" referred to; by which term, we suppose, "what militia "was at this place," [Bennington,] and Colonel Warner's regiment of Vermonters, are described by Mr. White. We have looked in vain, also, for the least attempt, in Mr. White's description of the condition of Vermont in 1781-7, to make treason odious, or to condemn it, even, ever so slightly. At the period referred to, what is now Vermont was a part of the State of New York, and the inhabitants were in a state of revolt against the legal authority of the Government to which alone they were legally subject-in short, they were secessionists, as well as nullifiers, disagreeable as that fact may be to those who have descended from them. Not a word, however, has been written in this memoir to indicate that ugly fact: not a syllable in condemnation of those lawless desperadoes who, without the pretence of any political authority whatever, became the first of all traitors to their Sovereign-if we except the general treason of 1776-and the first of all those who practically displayed their hatred of a republican form of government by a voluntary attempt to return to the embraces of the King of Great Britain. If History is to be thus written by the learned President of a Historical Society, from whose pen may we reasonably expect to learn the whole Truth, or by whose shall Falsehood be condemned? 5. Agriculture-Its Dignity and Progress. An Address delivered before the Society of Agriculture and Horticulture of Westchester County, at the Annual Fair at White Plains, N. Y., September 20, 1866, by Elliot C. Cowdin. New York: Baker & Godwin, 1866. Octavo, pp. 20. This is one of the best addresses of the kind which we have ever read. It is well-written, as every such address should be; it displays no impertinence in its author, concerning either Agriculture or Politics, which is as uncommon as it is judicious; it affords no evidence that the author had swallowed a dictionary, or crammed from the classics, before going on the rostrum, as is too often the case on such occasions. Calm, judicious, instructive, appropriate, Mr. Cowdin's Address affords to all who shall follow him a model which they may safely and judiciously imitate. the city of New York nor those who govern it, have had fair treatment at the hands of the reviewer. The city of New York harbors a vast amount of crime-where can a million of people be visited wherein crime is not found, and that in abundance, especially where the naked word of their avowed enemies affords the principal testimony on the subject? We will venture a guess, however, that bad as she may be,' the city of New York is no worse, relatively, than the city of Boston; and we have reason to know that she is less vicious, the records of crime in both localities being the evidence, than any rural district in the Union where one man in every five hundred is kept, well paid, ($1200 per annum) with nothing to do but to watch his neighbors, complain of their most trivial breaches of the law, and add to the enormity of the record of the badness of those among whom he moves. The city of New York may, also, be a community of ignoramuses-it certainly seems, if all we hear of it is true, that its inhabitants need guardians, to which position the gentlemen in Boston are ready to be called, if the quantity of advice which they give on the subject may be taken as a criterion of their disposition. Is there any State in New England whose educational statis6. The Forest Tree Culturist: a Treatise on the Cultivation tics afford a comparison with hers, either for the of American Forest Trees, with Notes on the Most Valuable liberality with which she provides an "imparForeign Species. By Andrew S. Fuller. New York: G. E. & F. W. Woodward, 1866. Duodecimo, pp. 188. They are creditable alike to the authors and to our young friends who have published them. 8.-How New York City is Governed. By James Parton. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1866. Duodecimo, pp. 48. "tial" education for all classes, or the care which We The city of New York, if bad, pays for her own sins, without calling on her neighbors to help her. The remedy is in her own hands to be applied whenever she shall see fit to do so. that shall be done, her neighbors had better follow her example, by attending to their own business. Until AGATHYNIAN CLUB.-We have received a beautifully printed prospectus of the proposed publi cations of this club, which we are told "will be "that of the Bradstreet Press, and will equal, if "not excel, the best productions of the Shak The widely-known article of Mr. Parton, writ-"spere, Chiswick, and Didot Presses." ten for The North American Review, has been reproduced in this form, mainly, we presume, for the use of one of the parties of the hour in the recent municipal election; yet we are glad to possess it in so neat a volume. Mr. Parton will bear witness that it is not our habit to screen the guilty, in any case; yet we are inclined to believe that, in this instance, neither The objects in view are the reproduction of original publications and reprints of rare and curious American, English, French, and Latin works, on all subjects, and in limited editions. The first work to be reproduced will be Captain Grose's Advice to the Officers of the British Army, with an Introduction and Illustrative Notes by a competent hand. 1 INDEX. Adams, C. F., 64; John, 15. America, Skin diseases in, 83, 124; Early American Academy of Fine Arts, Supp. 15; flag in Thames, 187, 224; army of Andrews, Loring, 360. Andros, Gov. Proclamation in Maine, Applewoman, The old one, in New York, Archæological items, 332. Arnold. Gen. B. See Smith, J. H., Let- Arrowsick Is., Me., Supp. 78. Art and Artists in New York, Notes on, Astrology, 121, 124. Auchmuty. Sir Sam'l, 5. Auctions. Book, 30, Supp. 128, 158; Bache, B. F., Extracts from his diary, Backus, Col. Electus, papers on Siege of Monterey, 207, 255; diary of campaign Bakehouse, Phila. The old one destroy- Ballard, Capt. Wm. H., 172, 174, 176. Baronets, American, 4, 57. Beef in N. J., 1788, 57. Belknap, Dr. J., His Pennycook Egg, Bernard, Sir John, 5. Bible, The first printed in America, 31. Biscuit, Origin of the word, 378. Book Auctions, 30, Supp. 128, 158; Gos- Five Nations, 31, 61; Ireland's Re- on New England, Boston Sunday dersonville, 89; Relation des affaires Boston, Pastors in. 17, 81; The Courier, Boston. Old and New, Supp. 82, 119. Bradstreet, Dudley, 159. Brady, Gen. Hugh, on Battle of Lundy's Brandt, Joseph, 20, 57. Brinton, D. G., M.D., on the Shawnees, 1; on Mound builders of the Mississip British frigates in North River in 1776, Brown, Gen. Jacob's report on Lundy's Brunswick, Me., Supp. 79. Bull's Head Tavern, N. York, 320. Bunker's Hill, Battle of, 291, 292, 346. Burnett, Gov. Wm., 189. Burr, Aaron. His grave, 293. Cape Cod, Supp. 95. Cape Neddock, Me., Supp. 115. Governor to Commander Casco Bay 378. Chatham, Lord, 223. Chelsea, Mass., 325. City-Halls in N. Y., Supp. 41, 73. Codfish in the Capitol of Massachusetts, Coffin, Adm'l Sir Isaac, 6. Coin. The new one, 327. Collections of Autographs, 99. Colorado. Ancient works there, Supp. 95. Columbus, Portrait of, 21; descendants Combs, Gen. Leslie, on the death of Te- Connecticut and Nullification, 223; Slav. "Contraband, Meaning of. 84. Paintings, in America, by him, 22, 85. Coxe's Head, Me., Supp. 79. Hayne, 269; on the Early Methodists Deane, W. R. Sparks. 146. 196. Memoir of Dr. Jared Decimal Currency, 196. Derry, N. H., 108. Doolittle, Benjamin, 113. Downing, Emanuel, 378; Sir George, 5. Dummer, Governor, 113, 179, 180. Eacker, George, 292, Supp 45. Editors in public life, 185. Election Sermons (Massachusetts), 156, Elizabethtown, N. J., 21. Ewbank, Hon. Thos., on North American E. Y. E. on Slavery in Colonial New Female Farmers, 157. Fishkill, N. Y. Church celebration, 323; Flag, the first American in the Thames Florida, Indians in, 2; Vocabularies of Fonda, John, 20. 109, 141, 178. Papers concerning it, France, the Press of, 95; the Records of, Franklin, Benjamin, and his mother, 122; Fuller, Timothy, 20, 57, 85, 123; Marga- Fundy, Bay of. Origin of its name, 158, Galt, W R. Letter on death of Tecum- Gates, Gen. H. Letter concerning his Georgia, Indians in, 2; early Spanish Germantown, Battle of. Letter concern- Gibbs, Dr. R. W., Supp. 160. Gomara, Francisco, Translation from, Grant, S. Hastings, 94. Hall, Francis, Supp. 96; Harrison, 200. Herrare, Antonio de, translation from, Hessians in American Revolution, 7. Hinsdale, Capt. Mehumon, 181. History, John Adams on the falsity of, Hitchitee Indians. Vocabulary of their Holmes, Thos. vania, 123. His Map of Pennsyl Hooker, Rev. Thomas, 85. Indians. Abnaki, 17, 224, 378; Arkan- Iron Greys, The, Supp. 15. Jamaica, L. I. Tories there in 1775, 185. Jenks, Rev. Wm., 379. Jersey Prison ship. Capt. Van Dyke's narrative concerning it, Supp. 7. Johnson, Sir Wm., 6. 57. John street Church, New York, 363-365. Kentucky, Indians in, 2. King, Rufus, 329; Gov. Samuel, 20. Knox, Gen. Henry, 204, 335. Laight's Brigade, N. York, Supp. 15. Lang, John, Supp. 15. Laurens, Henry, 99, 233, 265-8. 316. Lawrence, Jonathan, and his family, Supp. 111. Libraries, Bos on Public, 25; Columbia College, 63; Harvard College, 59; Lima, Wealth of, 293. Locke, John, 101. London Coffee-house, Phila., Supp. 32. Lothrop, Rev. Dr., on Declaration of In- Loudons. Who were they? 290. Lundy's Lane, Battle of, 253, 272. Lyceum of Natural History, Supp. 16. Macgowan, Dr. D. J., on Secret Societies Macneven, Dr. William James, Supp. 15. Maine, Indians in. 17; Speaker in her Maps of the War, 82; of the World, 299. Market Regulations in New York, 1764, Marriages in Massachusetts, 120. Mayflower, The ship, 378. Medford, Mass. Soldier's monument, 324. Mexican republic, Supp. 21. Michigan. Ancient mines there, Supp.95. Mississippi River. source, 219. Discovery of its Monterey, Battle of, 207, 255 Morris, Lewis, 42, 83; Robert, 301. Mott, Captain Gershom, 218. Mound-builders of the Mississippi Val- Mount Desert, Me., Supp. 80. Munsell, Joel, 64; Supp. 44. Myers, T. Bailey, 42. Names of men with middle letters, 82. Natchez Indians, 35. National Academy of Design, New York, Nephew, Ancient use of the word, 22. Newell, Rev. Wm., Supp. 27. New Hampshire. Constitutional Conven- New Haven Greys, Supp. 96, 159. New Netherland and Canada, 57. Newspapers in America, The earliest, New York City, Evacuation of, 1783, 11; New York, State of, redeemed bounty- Noah, Major, Supp. 15. Norridgewock, Me., 17, 51, Supp. 81. Notes, 13, 55, 79, 156, 182, 222, 261, 315, Nullification in Connecticut, 223. Old Hickory, 55. Old New York, 10, 49, 77, 118; the same, Omnibus, by W. A. Duer, 10, 49, 77, 118. Ovieda, Gonzola Ferdinand de, 371. Phipps, Sir Wm., 5. Pierce, Joseph, Jr., 4. Pilgrim Fathers of Massachusetts, 377. Pipon, Philip, 157. Placentia Islands, 159, 321. Pontoosuc, Meaning of the Word, 317. Privately printed works on America, Psalm-singing no ordinance, 120. Quotation fathered, 18. Rau, Professor C., on "The Stone Age," 97. Rawdon, Lord, on the execution of Colo- Religious Orders in the United States, 61. Revolutionary Pensioners, 19; soldiers Rhode Island, Origin of the name, 159. Riveiro Diego, 374. Rivington, James, 22, 84, 124, 182. Romero. Dinner to him, Supp: 21. Sag an, Matthew, 65. Sault St. Marie. Registers of the Mission Schuyler, Col. John, 115, 117; Gen. Scott, Gen. Winfield, 221, 253. Oxford, Registers of the University of, Sebago Pond, Me.. Supp. 117. 167. Paige, Edward, 24, 83. Parkman's Pioneers of France, 37. Partridge, Col. Samuel, 111, 112, 117, Passamaquoddy Bay, Me., Supp. 117. Penn, T. and R. Their agreement with Pensioners, Living Revolutionary, 19. His Memoires, 103. Petrie, Doctor George, 96. Philadelphia. The old bake-house, 16; Selections from Portfolios in Various Seminole Vocabulary. 239. Shawnees. Their migrations, 1; their lo- Sheepscot, Me., Supp. 117. Sheridan and the American Government, Ships. Cerberus, 292, 346; James, 121; Showkamonke, Meaning of the word, Simms, J. R., on Dwelling ground at Skidmore family, 290. Slaves in Army of Revolution, 223; in Sloop-trade of New-York, 1803, Supp. Vocabularies of Indian tongues, 239; paper on Verra- |