manded our highest admiration. Her reign was one of the most celebrated and intellectually the most splendid recorded in history. Queen Anne's throne was illuminated by the brilliance of great genius; but she herself was not much fascinated by its powerful charms. Elizabeth had a far higher intellect and went through a different preparation. She made the gigantic minds of her day cooperate with her and herself inspired a Shakspeare and a Spenser, whilst she employed the talents and eloquence of a Bacon, a Harrington and a Sidney. It would be impossible to write a dull book on Queen Bess; but Miss Strickland secins to have adorned the theme. The anecdotes are numerous and highly interesting, and we have full accounts of all her virgin majesty's numerous beaux. Owing to the mass of inedited mattei, the life will not be completed till another volume appears.

and attention of man, is one of the most difficult to pursue | without doubt one of the most remarkable women that ever profitably and judiciously. It has many more followers lived; and though never a favorite, she has always comthan adepts; and there has appeared to us to be lacking amongst its "independent" ones much of that emulation and ambition which stimulate those engaged in other pursuits. It is natural it should be so, because of the almost entire want of collision, or association between the farmers. Each one thought of making as good crops as he well could, with his force and land of the fertility of his own; but of making the best, or crops beyond what might usually be expected, few seemed to have any care. It is cheering, however, to the well wishers of the vast agricultural interest, to witness a new order of things rapidly springing up, and farmers cultivating and adorning their land with all the ardor and emulation which have hitherto been peculiar to other employments. Agricultural periodicals, popular treatises explaining the applications of science to agriculture and Agricultural Societies and exhibitions have given this excellent impulse, from which every community, in which it is felt, may expect great benefits. Our most distinguished men, Politicians and Professors, are engaged in these Agricultural movements. Farmers from many states recently assembled at the great Fair at Rochester, and we met, in the North, with a large planter from South Carolina, who wished to attend the exhibition of the American Institute, in order to see the latest improvements and inventions before he made his purchases of farming utensils, &c.

ATALANTIS, A STORY OF THE SEA; IN THREE PARTS.
J. & J. Harper, New-York, 1832.

This poem, for which we are indebted to its distinguished author, has been long since owned by Mr. Simms of South Carolina; and its merits are too well known to the Literary world for us to descant upon them. His subsequent productions have borne it upon their front as their title to public favor.

DONNA FLORIDA. A tale, By the Author of "Atalantis," "Southern Passages and Pictures," &c. Charleston: Burges & James-1843.

And a short time since, we beheld New-Haven filled with farmers, and the State House of Connecticut loaded with vegetables, fruits, flowers, and works of Art and do-ready introduced into New York, chiefly by the cheap pubmestic Industry; whilst Professor Silliman, one of the brightest ornaments of Yale, was moving actively about amongst the plain tillers of the soil, the zealous president of an agricultural society. Crowds, too, pressed to see a ploughing match, with oxen, with an eagerness which some reserve for the contests of Boston and Fashion.

This is a successful attempt by Mr. Simms to imitate the style of Don Juan, at the same time discarding its impurity. Southern Literature is invariably pure. It is shocking and distressing to witness the licentiousness alfor suffering a certain work even to be advertised in its lications. The Tribune has felt itself bound to apologize columns. Donna Florida is dedicated to James Lawson of N. York, "for Auld Lang Syne"-a just tribute to his Scotch friendship and hospitality. A premium on the policy, that turns from the calculations and per centage of an insurance office to the delights of Literature! It insures the mind and heart from the perils of life. As we cannot now even attempt to do justice to the Poem, we must content ourselves with heartily commending Ponce De Leon, his loves and adventures to the Lovers of Poetry.

Around us, here, evidences of Agricultural improvement are no less striking than gratifying; and we are soon to have the pleasure of seeing what our farmers, florists and gardeners have been doing. When we see the spirit of THE BANKER'S WIFE, OR COURT AND CITY. A novel, emigration sitting down upon lands it once thought of de- by MRS. GOORE. Mrs. Goore has already acquired repu serting, and tobacco growing on fields lately deemed en-tation as the authoress of "Mothers and Daughters" and tirely too poor to produce it, it excites the highest hopes and the sincerest pleasure. By associations properly or ganized and zealously sustained, Southern farmers may enjoy many of those advantages, which density of popula tion, smallness of farms and their own labor give the Northern farmers.

Farming is now becoming a profession and it must be studied, as well as practised. Though there are no licenses, or diplomas necessary, yet much knowledge is requisite, and very many might find it difficult to pass an examination. Certainly there are many under-graduates, some of them reversing the celebrated passage, by making one blade of grass where two grew before. To those, who are not afraid of being, in part, book-farmers, the Encyclopædia presented to their consideration, by the enterprising publishers, Carey & Hart, must, from its plan and matter, be very useful. The publishers have outdone themselves, by giving more than they promised. May our farmers meet a similar return from their lands improved by judicious

management.

LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF ENGLAND, FROM THE NORMAN CONQUEST; with anecdotes of their courts, now first published from official records and other authentic documents, private as well as public. By Agnes Strickland. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1843. Smith, Drinker & Morris, Richmond, Va.

This is the sixth volume of the Ladies' Cabinet Series, and contains the life of wonderful Queen Bess. She was

Mrs. Armytage." She is a pleasant writer and her novels are quite readable. The one before us is one of the Harper's cheap books, and can be had of Messrs. Smith, Drinker and Morris.

LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, HIS RELATIONS, FRIENDS AND ENEMIES. Comprising all his wills and his ways: with an historical record of what he did and what he did'nt; showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles. The whole forming a complete key to the house of Chuzzlewit Edited by Boz. With illustrations by Phiz. New York, Harper & Brothers, 82, Cliff street. Part III. Price 6 cents. To be completed in seven parts, cach part containing three numbers of the English Edition and two steel engravings,

Now, ain't there fourpence worth, without any of the funny doings on the outside, or any of the fine writing and good things inside? It is a wonder that the bare title didn't send the vessel, that brought it over, to join the illfated President in the ocean's depths. Boz' attenuated wit, thus wasted in funny title pages, would have exhausted itself in "the Pickwick Papers," had it not been one of his wills and ways slyly to appropriate a little American humor. To rob a Philadelphia editor is what he did; to make any acknowledgment is what he didn't; but we must suppose, in charity, that this will yet be done in Martin's last "will" and testament, or perhaps in the posthumous memoirs of the Chuzzlewits.

A beautiful and consistent advocate of an International copy-right Law was that Boz: or did he do this merely to give a practical illustration of how things are managed

now? No doubt this last was his object and that he will publishing and prospering, until they have hundreds of make die amends-by appropriating also the forthcoming hands, near a dozen presses, and thousands of dollars connumbers of the "Charcoal Sketches." But Martin saw stantly employed in their active book trade. Every week things strange and rare as his own fancies, in "Ameriky," they consume $2000 worth of paper; and have stored in and those who have any curiosity on the subject can have subterranean vaults stereotye plates to the value of it gratified, at Smith, Drinker and Morris', for a few four- $250,000. Verily it is a good thing for young men to pences. begin with morals.

THE OPAL-A Gift for the Holy Days, New-York. J. C.
Rickert, 1844.

The Harpers have issued the prospectus of a splendid illustrated, or pictorial Bible, to be issued in numbers. Mr. Sears has already presented a pictorial Bible to the public. The Harpers have commenced the publication of Gibbon's celebrated History of the Fall and Decline of We commend the work to the favor of the public, and the the Roman Empire, in fifteen numbers, at 25 cents each. above treatise on the eyes to the attention of the publishers, for the sake of the dear public.

It is enough to say of this beautiful Annual that it bears the name of N. P. Willis, as editor, a gentleman whose taste in belles lettres as well as the fine arts is well known. We learn that the enterprising publisher of this work designs to continue it from year to year, with increasing at tractions, both in regard to illustrations and the letter press. The distinction of the work is its Religious character. In the present number, we find numerous articles of great merit and interest. C. F. Hoffman, Mrs. Seba Smith and Mrs. Embury have furnished excellent papers. We think the Opal inferior to no Annual of the season in point of literary merit, and its serious and elevated tone will commend it to a large class of readers who cannot approve the more frivolous specimens in this department of literature. Mr. Willis has contributed a beautiful poem. There are two articles by H. T. Tuckerman, and the volume altogether, besides several fine engravings, contains an admi-ced by a brief history of the previons Reports and of the rable variety of prose and verse.-Communicated.

We have received, through Messrs. Smith, Drinker & Morris, the following serial publications.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY, By Hugh Murray, F. R. S. E. Lea & Blanchard, Philadelphia. This valuable work will be completed in twenty four numbers, at 25 cents each. It is already issued as far as the twentieth number.

MCCULLOCH'S UNIVERSAL GAZETEER. Part IV. Har

ROBINSON'S REPORTS- Vol. I. A new volume is about to be added to the Virginia Reports, by the State reporter, Conway Robinson, Esq. Mr. Robinson's valuable servi ces to the Legal profession, especially in Virginia, are well known. We are glad of the opportunity he now has of extending his well earned reputation. We are tempted, in this connection, to offer a small tribute to another gentleman, a tribute the more merited from its being so constantly and sincerely deprecated by him. The Reports are prefajurisdictions and systems under which the respective deci. sions were made. There is one circumstance to which we will advert. After a State Reporter has completed his work, he has to buy it from the State, unless he can secure

a copy from the proof sheets sent in during publication. The Legislature might change this for the mere sake of appearances. But the State ought to extend to the Reporter the compliment that every publisher pays his author."

A Lecture on the Magnetism of the Human Body, delivered before the Apprentices' Library Society of Charleston. By

per & Brothers, New York. To be completed in 18 or 20 Robert W. Gibbes, M. D., of Columbia, South Carolina.

parts, at 25 cents each.

MEDICAL NEWS AND LIBRARY. Published monthly, by Lea & Blanchard, at the low rate of one dollar per annum. Lex & Blanchard are most extensively engaged in the publication of standard medical works, which they have carried on with unabated enterprise, whilst the cheap publications have greatly interfered with their issues of miscellaneous works. But they still, now and then, dress Mr. Cooper off very neatly for the public inspection, and their "Ladies' cabinet series" are among the neatest and most entertaining of the cheap paper-backs. We do wish that publishers would, could get back to binding books, and using larger type. A gentleman in the North, we think Mr. Lea himself, mentioned the injurious effects likely to be produced upon the eyes as a serious objection to the overdone cheap publication, at present carried on. occulist and the apothecary may receive from many a reader The more money than would pay the difference in the price of more costly books, besides enduring the pain of some of the most acute diseases "which flesh is heir to." The cheapness of books must induce many apprentices, clerks and others, whose days are occupied, to read at night, and often by economical and insufficient light. Thus, the danger, to which we have alluded, is greatly increased, and to classes of persons, too, who can least dispense with even the temporary use of their eyes. Messrs. Harper & Brothers, among the leaders of the great publishing revolution, would do well to consider this matter. Works of reference principally might be printed in small type, but those intended for successive reading should have an eye to the infirmities of human nature.

It is interesting to contemplate the history of these enterprising Brothers. Commencing with a capital of one or two hundred dollars, they solicited employment, in vain, from many "a made man," and received scarcely the consolation of a seat, or one kind word. Discouraged and mortified, it was hard to make any more efforts; but with that perseverance which has been the mother of their success, one of them again sallied forth and soon presented their card to a worthy old Dutchman. From him fell the first words of encouragement! even he had no employment for them-" But, my lad," said he, "go try what you can do and if you can find nothing, come back again, and I'll see if I can't help you." The young publisher was forced to return and received from this Dutchman, an order to print Seneca's Morals." From this, they have gone on,

Dr. Gibbes has collected a good deal of information upon man brain possesses polarity, he having performed several the subject of Animal Magnetism, and thinks that the huexperiments to prove it. Mesmerism has given employment to many humbuggers; but, as the author contends, it is certainly worthy of scientific investigation. No man who does not reject all testimony can disbelieve it.

ADDRESSES.

The Social Principle: The true source of National Permanence.-An Oration delivered before the Erosophic Society of the University of Alabama, at its twelfth Anniversary, December 13th, 1842. By William Gilmore Simms.

Matter, Instinct, Mind, their Nature and Relations: the closing lecture of the second annual course of lectures beBrooks, A. M. fore the Maryland Institute of Education. By N. C.

An Address on the great points of difference between Ancient and Modern Civilization; delivered before the Demosthenian & Phi Kappa Societies of Franklin College, Ga., on the 3rd August, 18413. By Hon. F. W. Pickens, a member of the Phi Kappa Society.

An Address, delivered before the Society of the Alumni of William and Mary College, upon the 4th July, 1843. By Wm. W. Crump of Richmond, Virginia.

Discourse delivered at the Commemoration of the landing of the Pilgrims of Maryland, celebrated May 15th, 1843, at St. Mary's, Maryland. By the Rev. P. Corry, A. M., Professor of Greek and Latin.

University of North Carolina, in June, 1843, under the apAn Address delivered before the two Literary Societies of the pointment of the Dialectic Society. By Doctor John Hill.

An Address delivered before the Tullipheboian Society of St. John's Literary Institution at their annual commencement, August 1st, 1843. By John Henry O'Neil, Esq.

An Oration delivered before the Philodemic Society of Georgetown College, D. C., February 22, 1841. By Geo. Columbus Morgan, of Maryland, to which are prefixed the remarks of Win. G. Wynn of Georgia.

We tender our thanks to the gentlemen, societies and "an ardent admirer," respectively, to whom we are indebted for the foregoing excellent addresses, highly honorable to their authors and instructive and stimulating to those to whom they were addressed.