To govern, not exterminate the powers

Our Father gave, I deem the soul's high province.
The cross indeed is ours, but needing not
That we should seek for it nor fashion it;
In daily duties will its form appear.

We should be glad to quote om the lyric poetry that is introduced occasion⚫ally, some of which is very beautiful, but space forbids. We can only give the book our hearty commendation, and promise whoever reads it that he will be well repaid for the little time it takes to go through it once. We are pretty sure he will return to some passages again and again.

PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC. By John Bascom. Pub. by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co.

This work aims to be a Philosophy of Rhetoric, and is what it aims to be. It is not a simple rhetoric of rules for beginners, but of principles for those more advanced.

The author shows himself to be, not only perfectly familiar with his subject, but a good teacher. The chapters relating to style are admirable.

"No formal rules," he tells us, "having chief reference to the instrument and methods of expression, can in any high degree secure a good style." "Style," he says, "the outgrowth of the intellectual life, can only become clear, concise, and vigorous, as the intuitive and reflective powers themselves possess these characteristics."

It is time that this should be understood. The treatment of this subject in most text-books would seem to imply that by using "Anglo-Saxon" words and "specific terms," and by a careful attention to the arrangement and unity of the sentences, we may attain "perspicuity"; then, by a cutting-down process, and putting the important words "where they will do the most good," "energy," and finally, by a few lessons from a posturemaster, elegance.

If any one entertains any such idea, a careful perusal of this book will be likely to undeceive him.

TEXT-BOOK IN INTELLECTUAL PHILOSOPHY, FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES. By J. T. Champlin, D..D, Pres. of Colby University. Pub. by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co.

This will be found an excellent introIduction to the study of mental science,

— well arranged, clear and concise in statement, and admirably adapted to the class-room. It contains the elements of the science in a compact form, and, while full enough for a beginning in college, it may be used with profit and interest in our High Schools. In addition to an outline of the science, it contains a brief abstract of the history of speculative philosophy.

Its "explanatory notes, and questions on the text " will aid the pupil in fixing attention on the essential points. We commend it especially to High School teachers.

WE have received from our friend, and everybody's friend, including our Dumb Animals," the Humanity Series" of school-books edited by Rev. F. O. Morris, London.

It is not intended that this series should supersede text-books now in use, in fact, they are not in the ordinary sense school-books, but are meant to supplement them, making a specialty of such familiar and striking lessons as will impress on the minds of children the duty of humanity to animals. For gift books they will be found interesting to the young, and the lessons they contain,in the form of anecdote and story, will, not unlikely, remain longer in the memory, and exert more influence on character than many of the more pretentious lessons of the school-room.

"Boys," says DeQuincey, "are nat urally cruel "; and Froude tells us that "only men, and some of the domestic animals, — that have been educated by men, - kill for sport." It is notorious that wolves and some other animals do kill but rarely, if ever, except for food or

in self-defence. We don't find them "spending their vacations" in the manly sports so popular among many of our professional men. The great fishes do eat the little fishes, but we never heard of their catching and killing them for mere sport. Is it not possible, then, that DeQuincey is mistaken with regard to boys? Is it not the result of educa tion? But, you say, no respectable man teaches his boys to be cruel to animals. I don't know about that. Of course not by precept. But this is not so much a matter of direct instruction as of example. We recollect being intensely interested, when a mere boy, in the story of Cowper's hares, and we appreciated even then the lines that have saved so many lives:

"I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polished manners and fine

sense,

The man who needlessly sets foot upon a worm."

How many times since have these lines come back and turned our foot aside, that even a "reptile " might live, as long as he was not an intruder on scenes "sacred to neatness and repose."

Let, then, the children be made familiar with all those anecdotes that present dumb animals in a semi-human light, and you may be sure that the seed thus sown will bear its appropriate fruit. We commend this series to those who are selecting gift books for the young.

of the Brimmer School. The contributions seem to be from his schoolmates, and we have no doubt that the preparation of articles for its pages will aid them very much in composition. We commend it to the friends of the editor and contrib. utors as worthy of their patronage.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

A MANUAL OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY. Designed for Colleges and High Schools. By Andrew P. Peabody, D.D., LL. D., Plummer Professor of Christian Morals in Harvard University. Published by A. S. Barnes & Co.

WHITE ROSE AND RED: A Love Story. By the author of St. Abe. Published by James R. Osgood & Co.

THE PAYSON, DUNTON, AND SCRIBNER MANUAL OF PENMANSHIP. Published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co. AFTERMATH. By H. W. Longfellow. Published by James R. Osgood & Co.

THE FAIR GOD; OR THE LAST OF THE 'TZINS. A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico. By Lew Wallace. Published by James R. Osgood & Co.

A LATIN GRADUAL, to accompany the Author's Latin Grammar. By G. K. Bartholomew. Published by Wilson, Hinkle & Co.

A LEXICON TO XENOPHON'S ANABASIS, adapted to all the common editions by Alpheus Crosby, Professor Emeritus of the Greek Language and Literature in Dartmouth College. Published by Woolworth, Ainsworth & Co.

THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND

PHRASES, ETC. Published by Gould

& Lincoln.

OXFORD'S SENIOR SPEAKER. By Wm. Oxford. Published by J. H. Butler & Co., Philadelphia.