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Flowers, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces, or the Married Life, Death, and Wedding of the Advocate of the Poor, FIRMIAN STANISLAUS SIEBENKAS. BY JEAN PAUL FREDERICK RICHTER. Translated from the German by EDWARD HENRY NOEL. With a Memoir of the Author by THOMAS CARI.YLE. Boston: TICKNOR & FIELDS.

The translation of this work from the celebrated German author is issued by the publishers in two beautiful volumes. As may be judged from the title, a large portion of the contents is a narration of the writer's personal experience, his trials and sufferings in poverty, and the subsequent enjoyment of life more congenial to his taste. A deep pathos, plentifully besprinkled with fine thoughts and brilliant pasrages, together with keen insight into human character, is displayed throughout the work. In fact, as his translator says, JEAN PAUL is rich and redundant in language and georgeous in description. Some he will please; others will criticise, perhaps lightly condemn; but his noble, poet's soul may stand, fearless of the judgment of every nation."

Levana; or, the Doctrine of Education. Translated from the German of JEAN PAUL RICHTER. Boston: TICKNOR & FIELDS.

This interesting work has many valuable suggestions upon home education and training, and indeed contains so many good hints and real truths, so pertinently put, that we wish it might be extensively read, especially by parente. Much of the time the lively wit of the author shines out brilliantly; indeed some reader may think he is not serious enough upon serious subjects, yet there is so much sound common sense running through the whole work, and the amount of interesting information is so large, that it is not worth while to be too critical respecting the manner in which it The author loves and understands little children, and writes of is communicated.

them with a tenderness and pathos that is pleasant to read.

Gala Days. By GAIL HAMILTON. Boston: TICK NOR & FIELDS.

Unfortunately GAIL HAMILTON, in an inauspicious moment, wrote "Side Glances at Harvard." She there told us many good things, and some that it would have been Before that time her star was in the ascendant, but as well to have left unsaid. One Boston critic advises her, with

since then all Massachusetts has been after her. a touch of sarcasm, never to write any more, while many others say she possesses none, or, it may be perhaps, the least atom (no more) of literary merit, and shows an entire “lack of real practical knowledge of all subjects she discusses." We certainly cannot agree with these critics. If her writings showed talent before she wrote about “Harvard,” certainly she has it still; and who ever read her essay entitled “My Garden" without feeling that she possessed unusual cleverness and showed literary merit of no mean order? In "Gala Days" we have several of her most popu lar papers contributed to the Atlantic Monthly, and among them is this same “Side Glances at Harvard" which provoked so much criticism, as we have already stated. They are all written in a lively, agreeable style and will have very many readers. We trust she will continue to publish her thoughts in spite of the critics,

The Rejected Wife. By MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson &
BROTHER.

This is a very readable book. The author has taken the leading incidents of BENEDICT ARNOLD'S life, and made of them, with the help of a good imagination, quite a thrilling romance. Of course, all the incidents are not facts; and yet historical events are so interwoven as to lend to the story an additional interest.

Appleton's U. S. Postal Guide. New York: D. APPLETON & Co.

This is just the book we have wanted and the public have wanted for a long time, giving, as it does, all the regulations of the Post Office, a complete list of the post offices throughout the United States, besides those thousand and one items of information which almost every person who mails letters (and who does not ?) is continually asking for and ought to know. There are also in it many valuable suggestions, especially of interest to those having much correspondence.

History of the Romans under the Empire. By CHARLES MERIVALE, B. D., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. From the fourth London Edition. With a copious Analytical Index. Vol. I. New York: D. APPLETON & Co., 443 & 445 Broadway. 1863. Cloth, $2.00; half calf, $3.50 per volume.

We are very glad to see that the Messrs. APPLETON & Co. have begun the re-publication of this valuable work. The first and second volumes appeared in London in 1850, we think, and the others followed, from time to time, but it was not until last year that the seventh and last was issued. As, however, one by one, these volumes have been given to the public, they have met with a very warm reception. The Edinburgh Review, speaking of the two first issued, remarked:

"We have read these volumes with great pleasure, and we close them with even greater expectation. ***There was room for a history of Rome, both absolutely, as regards the subject itself, and relatively, as regards the demands of the present age. Mr. MERIVALE appears to have discerned both the need for such a work, and the conditions under which it may be competently executed. *** He has entered a field in which he has no rival, and scarcely a competent predecessor. *** We may add, that the style is vigorous, and the arrangement lucid; that the descriptions are often striking, and that the occasional episodes are skilfully introduced. Our readers will perceive that Mr. MERIVALE'S undertaking is nothing less than to bridge over no small portion of the interval between the interrupted work of ARNOLD and the commencement of GIBBON. He comes, therefore, between mighty opposites.' It is praise enough that in this, his first instalment, be proves himself no unworthy successor to the two most gifted historians of Rome whom English literature has yet produced."

Some years later, the same Review says:

"We greet with no ordinary pleasure each instalment of Mr. MERIVALE's work. ** In the volumes before us we see no reason to modify the opinion which, nearly seven years ago, we ventured to give of their predecessors. The historian displays the same unwearied diligence, the same impartial judgment of men and events, and supports his opinions and his statements with the same exact and comprehensive learning."

As this work terminates where the narrative of GIBBON Commences, it will be found an indispensable addition to every library.

In War Time, and Other Poems. By JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER. Boston: TICKNOR & FIELDS.

This pretty little volume is filled with poems, written in Mr. WHITTIER'S usual earnest style, full of fervor and feeling, many of which have already appeared in the Independent and Atlantic Monthly. More than half the volume is devoted to subjects connected with the war, peculiarly adapted for enlisting the author's sympathies and exciting his impassioned muse. To our mind, however, the latter portion of the book, containing the "Home Ballads,” and “Occasional Poems," has more poetical merit than the war lyrics; yet the fire of WHITTIER's genius shines through all, giving us many beautiful thoughts and stirring passages.

We are compelled to defer until next month the publication of many other notices of new Books intended for this number.

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