Geschichte der Denk-und Glaubensfreiheit in ersten Jahrhundert des Kaiserschaft und des Christenthums. Von Dr. W. Adolf Schmidt; ausserordentlichen Professor der Geschichte in der Universität zu Berlin. Berlin: 1847. 8 vo., pp. VIII. and 456.

A learned and valuable book, containing a faithful account of the intellectual, moral and religious condition of the Greeks and Romans at the time spoken of.

Holbenii Pictoris Alphabetum Mortis, &c., &c. Köln, Bonn and Brüssell: 1849. 12mo.

This little volnme contains 14 wood cuts of the letters in Hans Holbein's celebrated dance of death. The text is in Latin and German. It is a work of rare beauty.

Beati Patris Francisci Assisiatis Opera omnia, secundam ediionem Luca Waddingii, denuo edidit, cantica ejus a H. CHIFELLIO, et JAC LAMPUGNANO, latine et utraque a FRID. SCHLOSSERO Germanice edita recepit, vitam a Sancto BONAVENTURA concinnatam textu recognito adjecit Joh. Jovon der Burg, Vicarius Ecclesiæ St. Martini Bonnensis, &c., &c. Coloniæ, &c., 1849. 12mo., pp. xii. and 429.

THIS is a neat and convenient edition of all the works of the famous St. Francis d'Assisi, which have not been reprinted, we think, since 1723. Bonaventura's Life of the Saint is also reprinted, but we are sorry the earlier life, by his disciple, Thomas de Celano, was not also given, as also the later one by Suysken, both of which contain some curious particulars; but neither of those authors was a saint.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Reverberations. Part Two. London. 1849. 12mo. pp. VI and 107. Philo an Evangeliad. By the author of " Margaret, a Tale of the Real and Ideal." Boston. 1850. 12mo. 244. [This contains some sentiments and ideas which appear in Margaret, and though in form not so poetical or so pleasing as in the earlier work, it contains much that is humane, if little that is poetical.]

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The Birds of Aristophanes. With Notes and a Metrical Table. By C. Felton, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature in Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge: 1849. 12mo. pp. XVI. and 228. [A neat and convenient edition of this charming drama. The notes are, in general, well studied and suitable for the use of young men at College. Mr. Felton, with the aid of

Prof Agassiz and Von der Mühle has brought the science of ornithology to illustrate the text of Aristophanes.]

Visions and Voices. By James Staunton Babcock, with a biographical sketch of the author. Hartford and New York. 1849. 12mo. pp. VI. and 240. [Mr. Babcock appears to have been a studious and amiable man of considerable promise, who died at the age of 32. The volume contains poetical pieces of a pleasing form, and animated by a kindly and loving spirit.]

Elfreide of Guldal, a Scandinavian Legend; and other Poems. By Marks of Barhamiville. New York and Philadelphia. 1850. 12mo. pp. 8 and 786. Poems, by S. G. Saxe. Boston: 1850. pp. VIII., and 130. [Most of these poems have been published before. They are remarkable for verbal wit, and singular adroitness in the use of language. The most original piece, it seems to us, is the poem called "Boys," pp. 81.]

The History of England, &c., &c., by David Hume. Boston: 1850. 12mo. Vol. VI., pp. XVI. and 554. [This volume concludes the Boston edition of Hume's History of England, with the Index. It is well printed, and in a convenient form. The whole work costs but $3.75.]

The Second Advent, Or what do the Scriptures teach respecting the Coming of Christ, The End of the World, The Resurrection of the Dead, and the General Judgment? By Alpheus Crosby. Boston: 1850. 12mo. pp. 173. The Life and Religion of Mahommed, as contained in the Sheeah traditions of the Hyât-ul-Kuloob; translated from the Persian, by Rev. James L. Merrick, eleven years missionary to the Persians, Member of the American Ori

ental Society. Boston: 1850. 8vo. pp. XVI. and 500.

The War with Mexico Reviewed. By Abiel Abbot Livermore. Boston, 1850. 12mo. pp. XII. and 310. [A book worthy of the praise it has received.] History of the Town of Winchendon from the Grant of the Township by the Legislature of Massachusetts, in 1735, to the present time. By Ezra Hyde. Worcester, 1849. 12mo. pp. 136.

The Stars and the Earth, or Thoughts upon Space, Time and Eternity. First American from the third English Edition. Boston, 1850. 16mo. pp. 88.

A Few Thoughts for a Young Man: a Lecture delivered before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, on its 29th anniversary. By Horace Mann the first Secretary of the Board of Education. Boston, 1850. 18mo. pp.

84.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq., with Notes by the Rev. H. H. Milman, &c., &c., A new Edition, to which is added a complete Index of the whole work. In six volumes. Boston, 1850. 8vo. Vol. I., pp. [Iv and 590.]

The Sea-side and the Fireside. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston 1850. 12mo. pp. IV and 141.

Der Neue Machiavel, Ein Buch für Fürsten aus den Papieren eines gefal lenen Ministers: Manuscript aus Wien. Leipzig 1849. 12m. pp. 78.

PAMPHLETS.

Circassia; or a Tour to the Caucasus. By George Lighton Ditson, Esq. ` New York and London. 1850. 8vo. pp. 16 and 453.

[The author says little about the country he visited, but states some particulars hitherto unknown concerning the dress and manners of a people who are seldom visited by Europeans or Americans.]

William Penn and Thomas Babbington Macaulay; being brief Observations on the Charges made in Mr. Macaulay's History of England against the Character of William Penn. By W. E. Forster. Revised for the American Edition by the Author. Philadelphia. 1850. 8vo. pp. 48.

[This work is the result of a good deal of research, and seems to be written with candor and plainness. It certainly relieves Mr. Penn from much of the obloquy cast upon his memory by Mr. Macaulay.]

The Tongue; Two Practical Sermons. By T. W. Higginson, Minister of the First Religions Society in Newburyport. Newburyport. 1850. 8vo. p. 18. [Two wise and pertinent sermons.]

Lecture, introductory to the Course in the Starling Medical College, of Columbus, Nov. 7th, 1849, for the Session of 1849-50. By R. L. Howard, M. D. Professor of Surgery. [Published by the class.] Columbus. 1850. 8vo. 25.

The True Cause of the Cholera explained, with appropriate Directions relative, to Diet, Treatment, and Disinfectants. Also the Cause of the Potato Rot explained, with directions how to prevent it. By Thomas White. Cincinnati. 1850, 8vo. pp. 48.

Eighteenth Annual Report presented to the Massachusetts Antislavery Society. By its Board of Managers, Jan. 23d, 1850, with an Appendix.

The Massachusetts System of Common Schools; being an enlarged and revised edition of the Tenth Annual Report of the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education. Boston. 1849. 8vo. pp. 212.

[This is a valuable edition of Mr. Mann's celebrated treatise on the Common Schools of Massachusetts.]

Thirteenth Annual Report of the Board of Education, together with the thirteenth annual Report of the Secretary of the Board. Boston, 1850. 8vo. pp. 51. XXXVIII. LXIII and II.

[There are 215,926 children in Massachusetts between 4 and 16, the mean average attendance upon school is 134,734, or a little more than 62 per cent. of all the children in the State. It costs $836,070.69 to pay the teachers, and $35,281 64 for the fuel in the schools, and the board of the teachers. The county of Suffolk raises annually by taxes $10.32 for each child between 4 and 16, and the county of Berkshire only $1.96. Boston pays $10.65 for each child, and Salem only $4.28! There are two towns which pay only $1.25 a year for the education of each child in the town. These are the names: SAVOY, and ASHFIELD Warwick pays $1.25 and 8 mills.]

Proceedings of the National Convention of the Friends of Public Education; held in Philadelphia, October 17, 18, 19, 1849. Philadelphia, 1849. 8vo. pp. 40. The Public Education of the People, an Oration delivered before the Onondaga Teachers' Institute, at Syracuse, N. Y., on the 4th of October 1849. By Theodore Parker. Published by request._ Boston, 1850. 8vo. pp. 50.

A Sermon of Immortal Life, &c., &c. By Theodore Parker, &c., &c., second edition. Boston, 1850. lvo. pp. 32.

Fifteenth Annual Report of the Board of Directors of the Young Men's Library Association, of Cincinnati. January 2, 1850. Cincinnati, 1850. 8vo. pp. 24.

Association for the Relief of aged indigent Females, incorporated April 30th, 1849, organized October 17th, 1850. Boston, 1850. 12mo. pp. 13.

Address delivered at the colored Department of the House of Refuge, by Hon. William Kelley, on December 31st, 1849, &c., &c. Philadelphia, 1850. 8vo. pp. 24. [This address shows that an effort is making in Philadelphia also, to take children from the streets and educate them for useful citizens, not leaving them to the vengeance of the jail.]

Tea and the Tea Trade. Parts I. and II., as published in Hunt's Merchants' Magazine. By Gideon Nye, Jr., of Canton, China. New York, 1850. 8vo. pp. 27.

Singular Revelations. Explanations and History of the mysterious Communion with Spirits comprehending the Rise and Progress of the mysterious Noises in western New York, generally received as spiritual Communications. Auburn, N. Y., 1850. 8vo. pp. 81.

A Discourse delivered January 1, 1850, upon the fiftieth Anniversary of his Ordination as Pastor of the First Church in Plymouth. By James Kendall. Plymouth, 1850. 8vo. pp. 24.

THE Polish nation possessed, during a thousand year, larger country than modern France, between the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Carpathian Mountains. There civilization and learning flourished brighter than elsewhere, in the 15th and 16th centuries, under the free institutions and wise government of the Jagellon dynasty. They sheltered, by their protective shield, numerous families which were persecuted, on account of religious and political freedom, in the rest of Europe. They served as a bulwark against the frequent encroachments of the Asiatic hordes, while Europe wanted to organize herself and develop her civilization and military power. This Polish nation exists no more as a body politic.