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GOULD & LINCOLN, BOSTON,

No. 59 WASHINGTON STREET.

Complete Catalogues, containing full descriptions, to be had on application to the Publishers.

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Sprague's European Celebrities.

tion by Works impossible; Preparation for the Advent f the Messiah; Work of the Messiah; Justification by Faith; The Fall of Peter; The Church of Christ; The Unity of VISITS TO EUROPEAN CELEBRITIES. By Rev. the Church; The Duty of Obedience to the Civil MagisWM. B. SPRAGUE, D. D. 12mo., cloth, $1. trate; also, the Recent Revolutions in Europe.

This volume consists of a series of graphic and life-like Personal Sketches of many of the most distinguished men and women of Europe, with whom the author became acquainted in the course of several European tours. Edward Irving, Rowland Hill, Wilberforce, Jay, Robert Hall, John Foster, Hannah More, Guizot, Louis Philippe, Sismondi, Tholuck, Gesenius, Neander, Humboldt, Encke, Rogers, Campbell, Joanna Baillie, John Pye Smith, Amelia Opie, Dr. Pusey, Mrs. Sherwood, Maria Edgeworth, John Galt, Dr. Wardlaw, Dr. Chalmers, Sir David Brewster, Lord Jeffrey, Prof. Wilson (Kit. North), Southey, and others, are here portrayed, as the author saw them in their own homes and under the most advantageous circumstances. Accom. panying the Sketches are the Autographs of each of the personages described. This unique feature of the work adds in no small degree to its attractions. For the social circle, for the traveler by rail or steamboat, for all who desire to be refreshed and not wearied by reading, the book will prove to be a most agreeable companion.

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Memoir of Martha Whiting.

THE TEACHER'S LAST LESSON: a Memoir of Martha Whiting, late of the Charlestown Female Seminary. By CATHARINE N. BADGER, an Assistant Teacher. With a Portrait and an Engraving of the Seminary. 12mo., cloth, $1.

The subject of this Memoir was one of the most distinguished and successful educators of the female sex in our country; having been at the head of the Charlestown Seminary more than thirty years, and having educated, during that period, more than three thousand young ladies. The author of the book is an accomplished scholar, and was her associate instructor nearly the whole of the time. By so competent a hand, this record of Miss Whiting's life is presented as her "Last Lesson" to her numerous widely scattered pupils, and to the world at large.

III.

Dr. Williams' Works. 1.-RELIGIOUS PROGRESS: Discourses on the Development of the Christian Character. By WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, D. D. New edition. 12mo., cloth, 85 cents. 2-LECTURES ON THE LORD'S PRAYER. BY WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, D. D. New edition. 12mo., cloth, 85 cents.

8.-MISCELLANIES. By WILLIAM R. WILLIAMS, D. D. New improved edition. (Price reduced.) 12mo., cloth, $1.25.

IV.

Wayland's University Sermons.

SERMONS Delivered in the Chapel of Brown University. By the Rev. FRANCIS WAYLAND, D. D. Third edition. 12mo., cloth, $1.

Dr. Wayland, has here discussed most of the prominent doctrines of the Bible in his usual clear and masterly style, viz.: Theoretical Atheism; Practical Atheism; Moral Character of Man; Love to God; Fall of Man; Justifica

V.

Chambers' Publications.

1.-CHAMBERS' CYCLOPEDIA OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. A Selection of the choicest productions of English Authors, from the earliest to the present time. Connected by a Critical and Biographical History. Forming two large imperial octavo volumes of 1400 pages, double column letter-press; with upwards of 300 elegant Illustrations. Edited by ROBERT CHAMBERS. Embossed cloth, $5. 2-CHAMBERS' MISCELLANY OF USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE. Edited by WILLIAM CHAMBERS. With elegant Illustrative Engravings. 10 vols. 16mo., cloth, $7. 3-CHAMBERS' HOME BOOK AND POCKET MIS

CELLANY. Containing a Choice Selection of Interesting and Instructive Reading for the Old and the Young. 6 vols. 16mo., cloth, $8. 4.-CHAMBERS' REPOSITORY OF INSTRUCTIVE AND AMUSING PAPERS. With Illustrations. An entirely New Series, and containing Original Articles. 16mo., cloth, per vol., 50 cents.

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Guyot's Earth and Man.

THE EARTH AND MAN: Lectures on Comparative Physical Geography, in its relation to the History of Mankind. By Prof. ARNOLD GUYOT. Translated from the French by Prof. C. C. FELTON. With numerous Illustrations. Eighth thousand. 12mo., cloth, $1 25.

VII.

Kitto's Works.

X.

Bungener's Works.

1.-THE PREACHER AND THE KING; or, Bourdaloue in the Court of Louis XIV.: being an Account of that distingushed Era. Translated from the French of L BUNGENER, Paris, fourteenth edition. With an Introduction, by the Rev. GEORGE POTTS, D. D., New York. 12mo., cloth, $1 25.

2.-THE PRIEST AND THE HUGUENOT: or, Persecution in the Age of Louis XV. Part I., A Sermon at Court; Part II., A Sermon in the City; Part III, A Sermon in the Desert. Translated from the French of L. BUNGENER, author of "The Preacher and the King." 2 vols. 12mo., cloth. A new Work.

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Natural History of the Species.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SPECIES: its Typical Forms and Primeval Distribution. By CHARLES HAMILTON SMITH. With an Introduction, containing an Abstract of the Views of Blumenbach, Prichard, Bachman, Agassiz, and other writers of repute. By SAMUEL KNEELAND, Jr., M. D. With elegant Illustrations. 12mo. cloth, $1 25.

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Cruise of the North Star. THE CRUISE OF THE NORTH STAR: a Narrative of the Excursion made by Wm. Vanderbilt's party in the Steam Yacht, in her Voyage to England, Russia, Denmark, France, Spain, Italy, Malta, Turkey, Madeira, etc. By Rev. JOHN OVERTON CHOULES, D. D. With elegant Illustrations, and fine Likenesses of Commodore Vanderbilt and Capt. Eldridge. 12mo., cloth, gilt backs and sides, $1 50.

1.-KITTO'S POPULAR CYCLOPÆDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE. Condensed from the larger work. By the author, JOHN KITTO, D. D., author of "Pictorial A Bible," "History of Palestine," "Scripture Daily Readings," &c.; assisted by JAMES TAYLOR, D. D., of Glasgow. | With over five hundred Illustrations. 1 vol. 8vo., 812 pp., cloth, $8. 2.-HISTORY OF PALESTINE, from the Patriarchal Age to the Present Time; with Introductory Chapters on the Geography and Natural History of the Country, and on the Customs and Institutions of the Hebrews. By JOHN KITTO, D. D., author of "Scripture Daily Readings," "Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature," &c. With upwards of two hundred Illustrations. 12mo., cloth, $1 25.

VIII.

Arvine's Cyclopædia. CYCLOPÆDIA OF ANECDOTES OF LITERATURE AND THE FINE ARTS. Containing a copious and choice selection of Anecdotes of the various forms of Literature, of the Arts, of Architecture, Engravings, Music, Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, and of the most celebrated Literary Characters and Artists of different Countries and Ages, &c. By Kazlitt ArvinE, A. M., author of "Cyclopædia of Moral and Religious Anecdotes." With numerous illustrations. 725 pages 8vo., cloth, $8.

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Dr. Smith's Pilgrimage. PILGRIMAGE TO EGYPT: embracing a Diary of Explorations on the Nile, with Observations. Illustrative of the Manners, Customs, and Institutions of the People, and of the present condition of the Antiquities and Ruins. By J. V. C. SMITH, M. D., Editor of the "Boston Medical and Surgical Journal." With numerous elegant Engravings. Third edition. $1 25.

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Miall's Works.

1.-MEMORIALS OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY: Presenting, in a graphic, compact, and popular Form, Memorable Events of Early Ecclesiastical History, etc. By JAMES G. MIALL, author of "Footsteps of our Forefathers," etc. With numerous elegant Illustrations. 12mo. cloth, $1

2.-FOOTSTEPS OF OUR FOREFATHERS: what they Suffered and what they Sought. Describing Localities and portraying Personages and Events conspicuous in the Struggles for Religious Liberty. By JAMES G. MIALL, author of "Memorials of Early Christianity," etc. Containing thirty-six fine Illustrations. 12mo. $1.

BAKER GODWIN & CO., PRINTERS, CORNER NASSAU AND SPRUCE STREETS, N. Y.

NEW SERIES-VOL. II.

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Publishers' Circular.

Norton's Literary Gazette.

Published on the 1st and 15th of each month.

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NEW YORK, MAY 1, 1855.

NOW READY,

A SUPPLEMENT

TO

NUMBER IX

THE BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA.

A Catalogue of Books published in the United States from October, 1852, to April, 1855, with their sizes, style of binding, prices, and publishers' names. Compiled and arranged by

ORVILLE A. ROORBACH.

In one volume, royal 8vo., cloth, net price to the Trade, Three Dollars.

This Work contains about 6,500 Titles, three-fourths of which are New Books published since October, 1852; the remainder comprise Books that have either changed publishers or prices.

** The Supplement will be sent per mail, post-paid, on receipt of Three Dollars.

0. A. ROORBACH, Jr.,

NEW YORK.

NOW READY-THE FIRST EDITION ALREADY EXHAUSTED.

The Ins and Outs of Paris;

COR, PARIS BY DAY AND

the

BY THE BARONESS DE MARGUERITTES.

NIGHT.

A delightful and fascinating Volume of about 400 pages, 12mo. Embossed muslin, retail $1 25.

The Publisher has the pleasure of announcing that this truly fascinating and delightful volume is just issued from press, and has no hesitation in pronouncing it one of the most pleasing books of the day. Eminent literary talent, of 189 both sexes, have examined the early sheets, and, without a single exception, they have been almost extravagant in its 189 praise. The style is polished, vigorous and sparkling, never for one moment, allowing the spell of pleasure to be inter190 rupted, until the blank cover at the end of the volume meets the reader's eye. Bulwer, to whom, with others, advance manuscript sheets were sent, pronounces it "A most beautiful setting of intellectual diamonds;" and Dumas reads it “so full of bright fancies, as to leave him in doubt which to pronounce the brightest." The London Court Journal says, “It is a rich, intellectual treat, rarely met with now-a-days." Early proof-sheets were sent by the publisher to a number of the leading European presses, and the following are a few of the notices already received:

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(From the London Times.)

By the bye, speaking of the magnificent improvements which the Emperor Napoleon III. has effected, and is still carrying on, in the capitol of the French, reminds us of the very best book on Paris, the advance sheets of 191 which have been sent to us by an enterprising publisher of Philadelphia, in the United States. It is entitled Ins and Outs of Paris, and is from the pen of a countrywoman of our own, who has sought a home in the New World-the 198 Baroness de Marguerittes, daughter of Dr. A. B. Granville, author of the 'Spas of Germany, and of many admirable scientific works, and one of our most eminent physicians and savants. The Ins and Outs of Paris' is graphic, vivid, sparkling, and genial. The various classes and contrasts of life in that mercurial metropolis are viewed and described, with the piquant fancy and pure English of an accomplished woman of genius. If the publishers of our cousin of France have their eyes about them, they will soon give the French public a translation of this charming work."

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"The authoress of the Ins and Outs of Paris,'-certainly one of the most delightful books of the day-has no superior among our best writers, in point of purity of style and graphic descriptive power; and even the admirable Alphonse Karr himself, might be proud to have written so piquant a description of his native city. We freely acknowl edge our obligations to Mr. Wm. White Smith, the Philadelphia publisher, for the advance sheets of the Ins and Outs

of Paris,""

Numerous other notices could be presented, but sufficient has been given to stamp the volume as one of the most popular of the day. An order has been received from a London house, for a large edition, and a number of the trade have already given orders for the book, to whom the proof-sheets were shown by the Publisher. The popularity of the volume will not be of that evanescent character, so common with popular books of the day, but will be read while the English language is understood by an intelligent people.

Orders from the Trade solicited.

WM. WHITE SMITH, PUBLISHER,
No. 195 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.

208 Book and Stationery Business for sale.
The Stock and good-will of an establishment doing a large
wholesale and retail business, in one of the most flourishing
cities in the West. The opening is one rarely offered. The
parties having been doing business for eighteen years, have
an acquaintance and influence that will be of immense value
to a new house. For further information address, with
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WEST.

NOTICE TO BOOK-BUYERS. JOHN RUSSELL SMITH, of Soho Square, London, begs to call the attention of book-buyers in the United States, to his Catalogue for 1855, containing 4,000 articles of choice useful, and curious Books in most classes of literature, at reasonable prices. It may be had, free of charge, on application to Mr. CHARLES B. NOETON, Agent for Libraries, New York, who will attend to any orders.

MOORE, WILSTACH, KEYS, & CO.,

25 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati,

HAVE JUST PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING:

PRACTICAL LANDSCAPE GARDENING.

BY G. M. KERN,

Containing Twenty-two Illustrations and Plans for Laying out Grounds, with full directions for Planting Shade Trees, Shrubbery, and Flowers. 1 vol. 12mo. Price $1 50.

EXTRACTS FROM EARLY NOTICES RECEIVED:

"This work is worthy to stand by the side of any of its predecessors in the field of taste. Mr. Kern has an active mind, keenly alive to the beauties of Nature and the perfection of Art, and his apprenticeship in that renowned School, the Jardin des Plantes, of Paris, gave him rare opportunities for cultivating his native powers, and ornamenting them with those acquisitions that make the accomplished master in matters of taste and rural science. No one can walk long hand in hand with him, without being sensible that he is in the hands of one who is worthy of all confidence as a guide in the intricate but pleasant paths before him. * ** His book deserves, and should command, s large share of public attention."-[Louisville Courier.

"In the work will be found all the rules that are necessary to give the student a knowledge of the Art, together with such Illustrations and Plans as will render the rule perfectly intelligible. The book is a handsome volume, of over three hundred pages, on clear, white paper, and elegant typography, containing twenty-two Illustrations and Plans, and is such a work as will be attractive to all, on account both of manner and matter."-[Cincin. Com. "The circulation and study of such a work cannot fail to result in an improvement of taste and a refinement of the heart."-[Philadelphia Presbyterian.

"The author's style is clear and vigorous. He writes like a man perfectly familiar with his subject, and has produced a really practical work, giving specific directions not only for large and costly improvements, but for small yards. Every man who has ten feet square of soil to cultivate or adorn, can find valuable hints and suggestions in this vo1 ume. [Cbristian Herald.

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"We are glad that Mr. Kern has written this book. It is plain in its details, and will be more valuable to the million than any work on the subject of Landscape Gardening yet published. The mechanical execution of the volume is the very perfection of printing and binding."-[Ohio Farmer.

"We think Mr. Kern has succeeded in his design."-[Buffalo Express.

"By a careful perusal of this little volume, which will cost but $1 50, the purchaser will probably find that he has learned what he has been all his life wishing to know, and what will be worth to him more than ten times what it cost him."-[Nashville Whig."

"A convenient, well printed, and illustrated volume, admirably calculated to meet the wants of the public. * The work deserves a large share of public attention."-[Boston Atlas. "Comes to us at the moment when the sun, glancing from between masses of rain clouds, gives earnest of the time for a practical application of the valuable instruction afforded by this beautiful voluume.

"The work is truly American in its character, and is written ie a plain, practical and comprehensive style, such as is now needed by the masses of the American people. It contains numerous illustrative engravings, adapted to the village lot and the country cottage, as well as to the extensive domain of the more wealthy, together with directions for forming Lakes, Ponds. Fountains, Rockwork, Plans for Cemeteries, etc., and concludes with brief directions for the Kitchen-Garden."-[Louisville Journal.

SECOND EDITION OF

THE AMERICAN ECLECTIC DISPENSATORY.

BY JOHN KING, M.

D.,

Professor in the Cincinnati Eclectic Medical Institute. One volume, large octavo, 1,396 pages. Price $6.

JOURNEY

Third Large Edition,

THROUGH KANSAS,

With Sketches of Nebraska, describing the Country, Climate, Soil, Mineral, Manufacturing and other resources; the results of a
Tour of Observation made in the Autumn of 1854.

BY

REV. C. B. BOYNTON AND T. B. MASON,

Committee from the "Kansas League of Cincinnati." With a new and authentic Map, from official sources, with emendations, by H. V. BOYNTON. One volume 12mo. Paper, price 50 cents; cloth, 75 cents.

"Drawn so comprehensively and distinctly, and withal in so lively a spirit and style, as to meet satisfactorily the wishes of every reader."-[Boston Congregationalist. "With keen eyes they observed every thing worthy of observation, and with a pointed pencil, noted down facts and scenery. It is just the thing to inform, * pleasantly written and accurate In fact."-[Louisville Courier.

"Details adventures with a striking vividness of description, and will form a valuable aid to all who may project a journey into Kansas, and will be full of interest to any who, from mere curiosity, would be gratified to see a life-like picture of the extreme West."[N. Y. Observer.

COTTON IS KING;

"For all who are going there, for all who have friends to go, or on their way thither, and for all who, neither going in the flesh nor in the spirit, have yet an interest in the future and the hopes of Kansas, this is a book to be read."-[New Bedford Mercury.

In a letter recently received from Amos A. Lawrence, Esq., Treasurer of the Emigrant aid Society, Boston, he says: "The object which I have in writing, is in the first place, to express my thanks for so truthful, so spirited and so elegant a work."

"The best work out."-[George Walter, Esq., Master of Emigration, New York Kansas League. READY IN MAY:

THE CULTURE OF COTTON and its relations to Agriculture, Manufactures, Com-
merce, the Free Colored People, and to those that hold that slavery is in itself sinful.
vol. 12mo, cloth, pp. 200.

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This volume is from the pen of a Layman of marked ability, and exhibits an amount of research and condensation that is quite amazing. Without any attempt at fine writing, the author imparts what he he has to say in an exceedingly agreeable style. His work presents facts that must excite attention at the South as well as in the North.

THE CHRISTIAN PROFESSION: a Series of Letters to a Friend, on the Nature, Duties, Necessity, Trials, and Supports of the Christian Profession. By-Joseph Claybaugh, D. D., Oxford, O. 1 vol. 12mo. cloth, pp. 216.

CATECHISM FOR YOUNG

COMMUNICANTS. By Rev. Andrew Ritchie, with an Essay, by Dr. Claybaugh, on the "Relations of Baptized Youth to the Church." 1 vol. 12mo.

Exposition and Defence of the Confession of Faith;

Being the draft of an Overture prepared by a Committee of the Associate Reformed Synod in 1788. A new edition, with Notes, by Rev. David McDill, D. D. 1 vol. 12mo, 220 pages.

IN PRESS,

"KING'S ECLECTIC OBSTETRICS."

This work, announced some time since, and looked for so anxiously for several months past, is now in hand, and will be published in a few weeks.

In preparation, LIFE OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS; His Empire, Government, and Policy, from an American Point of View.

M. W. K. & Co., respectfully announce to the Trade, that they are now manufacturing several styles of Common, Fine, and Superfine FAMILY BIBLES, superior in all resepets to any of the same grades published in the country. ORDERS SOLICITED.

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NEW YORK BOOK PUBLISHERS' ASSOCIATION. The organization of a new society among the Booksellers of this city, has been made public by the issue of an octavo pamphlet under the auspices of the Association.

tend to promote harmony of feeling. The offi- whole volume contains, and the former is better
cers elected, at the meeting on April 18th, were left to books already in extensive circulation.
W. H. Appleton, President; A. S. Barnes, Vice We suggest to the enterprising publishers to issue
President; O. P. Woodford, Treasurer; G. P. some copies of Part II by itself; a greater book
Putnam, Secretary; Charles Scribner, James R. than this began "at the 145th page.". As, how-
Swords, H. H. Lamport, Directors. It is under-ever, Part I. is in our way we must notice it. A
stood that the same general plan is about to be
adopted by book publishers in other large cities
throughout the Union.

Notes and Reviews.

BOTANY OF THE SOUTHERN STATES, IN TWO PARTS.
By Prof. JOHN DARBY, A. M. New York, A.
S. Barnes & Co.; Cincinnati, H. W. Derby;
Savannah, J. M. Cooper. 12mo. 612 pp.

treatise on Structural and Physiological Botany cannot be elementary, and at the same time very original. Gray's Botanical Text-Book in America, Lindley's Introduction to Botany in Great Britain, and in France, the Elémens by Jussieu the younger (and, alas! the last), leave but little to be hoped for or desired; nor indeed, from the very nature of the subject, can they differ materially from each other. And, accordingly, not only does the text before us seem like what we have read before, but even the very woodcuts have a familiar air, more like things long-forgotten than like objects seen for the first time.

P. 20. Why is lactiferous, "from the circumstance of its containing the milky juices of plants," substituted for lacticiferous, when it is immediately stated that the latex is often not milky?

P. 22. Are cuticle and epidermis used synonymously?

The patrons of the ancient stable-keeper, Hobson, were not more completely exempt from the labor of choosing than is the student of Southern Still, there are changes; but not all of these The history of this enterprise may be summed Botany. It is, in fact, Darby or nothing. Elliott are improvements. When Dr. Gray changed up in a few words. An informal meeting of has been out of print from time immemorial; Lindley's anatrope seed into orthotrope, and his many of our leading publishers, was held, March "Torrey and Gray" have stopped in the Com- orthotrope seed into anatrope, he did good ser 21st, for the purpose of mutual deliberation with posito, not to be resumed in this generation, we vice in simplifying botanical science, but the dereference to the special interests of the Trade, fear, without aid from the Smithsonian or Con-mand for the change was urgent. But no change which resulted in the appointment of a Com-gress. At the North we had Eaton, Beck, and in terminology should be made unnecessarily, mitee of Correspondence to report at a future Darlington; we now have Darlington improved, nor addition uselessly; and in looking at Part I. meeting. On the fifth of last month a regular before us, the following queries, among many organization was effected, and the Committee, others, suggest themselves: Messrs. W. H. Appleton, L. Mason, jr., and H. H. Lamport, reported a Constitution in which the object of the society is stated to be "the transaction of such business connected with the interests of the trade, as may come before it; including the establishment and regulation of Trade Sales in New York; also, the cultivation of social intercourse among the trade." One article provides that no member shall contribute to sales which are not under the direction of the Association. The Committee also submitted a Report as to the general objects aimed at by this Union, which was unanimously accepted by the meeting. The subject chiefly discussed, in this report, was the proper conduct of the trade sales. In view of many objections which are urged against the existing plan of trade sales, it is proposed to adopt a system similar to that formerly pursued, under which a certain definite number of each book was contributed, and only that quantity sold. It is also stipulated that each line of the catalogue shall include a a sufficient number of books to amount, at the retail prices, to at least twenty-five dollars, and that no less than five dollars' worth of books, at retail prices, shall be sold in one lot, except in case of balances.

Wood and Gray. The South are to have Darby,
and nothing but Darby, unless Chapman may
come to their rescue, or Riddell, or, best of all,
the Flora of Torrey and Gray should receive
such material aid that its learned authors should
sacrifice upon it nothing more than their time.
We have the pleasure of reviewing a book,
then, that can receive no injury from any criti-
cisms of ours. It is an anestheticised patient to
whom neither scalpel nor probe can do any
harm, for columns of unqualified condemnation,
should it meet with such, would only make the
book more widely known without deterring a
single purchaser. What we have to say, then,
shall be purely from a love for the cause of
Southern Botany, and not to benefit or injure
this particular work, and should be estimated, as
to its value or defects, rather from a scientific
than a literary point of view.

At the outset, it is our duty to say, that not
only is this the only work in the market, but it
is really a valuable work, and one that ought to
remunerate the author and materially aid the
cause of science. It is scarcely possible to study
Southern Botany at the South. There are prob-
ably three cities at the North, and several in
Europe, that furnish immensely greater facilities
for preparing such a work than can be found
any where within the region to which this work
is adapted. We ought not, then, to press the
oversights of one who, notwithstanding the dis-
advantage of his position, has undertaken the
work from two sufficient reasons-first, that it
was needed, and second, that no other person
felt disposed to undertake it..

P. 26. Where have we accounts of books made of the liber of trees?

P. 27. On whose authority is it stated that the mucilage of the Bene plant is contained in the bark ?

P. 31. Where shall we find the particulars of Adanson's finding Grew's name on the Adansonias after it had been buried under more than 300 layers of wood?

P. 32. Is it really true that monocotyledonous stems are exogenous! We commend the defense of this point to those journals whose readers have more time for examining the point than we can now ask from ours.

Lastly, p. 78. What is the difference between carpel and pistil; between germ and ovary. The words carpel and ovary seem to have had their definite signification, if not their origin, since the time of Linnæus. A pistil may consist of one carpel, or many united or separate. In any case, the ovary, style and stigma are parts of a carpel, while the word germ, as a part of a pistil, may be an ovary or a mass of united ovaries.

With respect to other business which may come before the Association, it is provided that regular meetings be held on the second Tuesdays of February, May, August, and November. It is hoped that by means of formal gatherings, many difficulties among the trade may be either avoided or settled by arbitration. It is designed We wish, however, that the author had spared also to furnish a suitable room where periodicals us PART FIRST, viz., "Structural and Physiologiand newspapers may be kept on file for purposes cal Botany and Vegetable Products." This does of reference, thus forming a sort of "Booksellers' not properly belong within the same cover with Exchange." These frequent meetings for mutual PART SECOND: "Descriptions of Southern Plants." intercourse and consultation, will, it is thought, The latter alone needs more space than the west longitude." Does it contain all these!

Commending these things to the attention of our author, if in a further edition he should deem the re-appearance of Part I. advisable, we pass to the second and essential part of the book, which aims to be a Flora, or description of all the species of phenogamous plants between 30° and 35° north latitude, and between 80° and 90°

That cannot be expected of any such work, in the present stage of American botany. Are, then, the omissions unreasonably numerous? Clearly, this will depend upon the material within the reach of the author, which, as we intimated at the outset, must be quite limited at any one point at the South. He gives us 2,231 species in 412 pages, just 200 less than Dr. Gray gives to the smaller Flora of the North, in his Manual. Allowing liberally for a large number of species not yet detected, we confess that the number in Prof. Darby's work still seems small. From what sources has he drawn them? This is not apparent, but much of it is easy to conjecture. Personal observation, even in the many years that Dr. Darby has employed at intervals in collecting plants, can do very little in this undertaking. So far as Torrey and Gray's Flora has reached, it is very natural that the work should have been closely followed. Where that stops, the basis seems to have been the good old work of Elliott, with additions from Nuttall, De Candolle, and Kunth, and some of the earlier volumes of the Annals of the New York Lyceum. He seems not to have been conversant with Dr. Torrey's Cyperaciæ a masterly work at its date, though now, of course, much behind the times. Of Gray's remarks on Melanthaceae in the Annals, he seems to have had but a poor opinion, if we are to judge by the old names he still retains. Nuttall's Sylva, now ten years old, seems not to have been consulted, nor the still older contributions of Shuttleworth.

have until the present time dispensed in Auer- of wine; but it was done in so awkward a
bach's name the gifts of Bacchus, have consti- manner as to give Dr. Faust great sport. He
tuted the only information which the curious told the workmen that the job was very easy:
traveler could gain concerning this interesting but they angrily replied, that if he could move
locality. Such stories have only increased the the hogshead easier than they, it would be by
desire for more accurate details in regard to the aid of the devil. At this the master of Auer-
strange occurrences and the wonderful inspira-bach's cellar came out and said to Faust, that as
tion of which this cellar has been the silent he boasted so much, he should have the wine
witness, if walls may indeed be called silent if he would alone roll the cask out of the cellar.
which nightly, for three hundred years, have
resounded with laughter, shout and song.

This wish has recently been gratified. A few months since, after the representation in Leipsic of Goethe's master drama, so much new interest was awakened in the house where Dr. Faust, in all the glory of his blackest arts, resided, that pains were taken to collect and print authentic information concerning the history of "Auerbach's cellar." The facts thus ascertained form the volume before us.

Before examining these chronicles, the reader should be introduced to the room which they describe. Right in the center of Leipsic, a town renowned throughout Germany for its fair, and throughout the world for its literary publications, stands a lofty house, venerable enough in its appearance, but not conspicuous among the many ancient buildings which front upon the market-place. Over a low and shabby-looking door-way hangs a modest sign, announcing in German that this is "Auerbach's cellar." Tumbling down an awkward stair-case, the visitor finds himself in a small suite of rooms, dimly lighted by day, but brilliant with gas by night, plainly but comfortably furnished, and indicating at a glance that some strange history must be connected with their quaint appearance.

We have no opportunity of comparing this with the previous edition, but our impression is that it is quite an advance upon it. Neither omissions, however, nor the typographical errors, of which such a work cannot be kept free when At the right of the entrance is a room filled a thousand miles intervene between author and with curious relics and interesting pictures, printer, should be a drawback upon its most ex- which is evidently more interesting than any tensive circulation in the district which it em- other. It is the identical room which was occubraces. It certainly deserves this, and we ear-pied by Dr. Faust, on his visit to Leipsic, and nestly desire that it may have it. And if this work shall be the means of Prof. Darby's hereafter securing the coöperation of a few of the best Botanists at the South, and availing himself of the larger collections of Southern plants at the North, if not in Europe also, we shall then look for a more perfect edition, which shall claim from the candid critic the meed of unmingled

commendation.

FAUST IN LEIPSIC.

FAUST IN LEIPZIG. KLEINE CHRONIK VON AUERBACHS KELLER. HERAUSGEGEBEN VON H. SCHULZE. (Brief History of Auerbach's Cellar at Leipsic.) Leipsic, 1855. New York: Westermann. No reader of Goethe's "Faust" will have forgotten the scenes laid in a wine room at Leipsic, described as "Auerbach's Cellar." A spot thus rendered famous by the greatest of German dramatists, has, naturally enough, been visited through a series of years by men of every civilized nation, especially at the time of the Great Easter Fair; but not all who have had this privilege know the curious history which long before Goethe's days gave a charm to the location. A few legends, badly remembered and even more badly told, by the waiters who

Thereupon, says the quaint language of the chronicle, Faust "descended into the cellar, and put himself right upon the cask, as on a buck, and rode it, so to say, right upwards, though not without every one's astonishment; whereat the wine master was much astonished, and although he objected that this was not done naturally, yet he was obliged to keep his word and promise, if he would not otherwise have mockery in addition to the loss."

Over this cask of wine, the students had great frolics; and the cellar from which it was drawn has been famous ever since. To this day, what purports to be the veritable cask, a monstrous hogshead, is shown to the credulous stranger.

Many other curious stories are told in regard to Auerbach's cellar; but next to the one just narrated, that of Goethe's visit is the most interesting. The walls, a few years since, were freshly ornamented with illustrations of his Faust, painted beneath two old pictures, supposed to date from 1525, which show the adventures of the real Dr. Faust.

GRACE LEE. By JULIA KAVANAGH. (D. Appleton & Co., N. Y.)

The readers of "Nathalie" and "Madaleine" will seek with avidity a new book from the same pen. Since the untimely decease of Currer Bell, we have no female novelist to be compared with Julia Kavanagh, unless it be Miss Yonge, and her style is quite of another order. The plot of Grace Lee, and its working out, the same where Goethe, three centuries after- altogether, is not so satisfactory as some of the ward, read the life of the learned doctor, and previous works of the author; but it is not less conceived the idea of his celebrated play. full of spirit, force of delineation, and originality Chained to a pillar in this room, is the old of manner. The heroine has the same vigorous volume in which he read an account of "the individuality, the same noble independence of wonderful life and terrible end of Doctor Jo- character, which distinguish the female creahannes Faust." On one page of this, which is tions of this writer from the common-place and copied in Herr Schulze's book, is described an negative beings so usual in modern novels. The odd occurrence in his visit to Leipsic. It ap- story does not flag for an instant, and the propears that the learned professor of the black cess of development in the life and experience of art numbered at one time among his intimate the central personage is admirably exhibited. friends, some young Polish noblemen, who were The interest, as in other instances, is made gradustudents in the then famous University of Wit- ally to culminate with much tact. No author in tenberg, the same at which Hamlet is said by the sphere of domestic fiction excels her in that Shakspeare to have studied, and which is other insight which enables her pen to embody idiowise renowned as having been the place of Lu-syncrasies of mind and moods of feeling. In ther's early protestations against the Roman Catholic religion.

These Polish students were eager to go to Leipsic to see the fair, which had even then existed through a series of several hundred years, but having no ready money, they were obliged to place themselves under the protection of their "learned friend," who guided them skillfully to all the wonders of the place.

One day they saw a company of men rolling out of "Auerbach's cellar" a great hogshead

her way, she is deeply metaphysical. There are also true glimpses of nature, and she deals with the picturesque like an artist. Grace Lee is, however, one of those novels of which no adequate idea can be formed by an analysis of the plot; it must be read and viewed as a whole to be appreciated. It adds another to her series of unexceptionable works in this department, for which her publishers have an enviable reputation. In the family circle it just the book to prove suggestive while it entertains, and to ex

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