NOV. 1, 1866. FINE PRIVATE LIBRARY.-The entire private library of Mr. T. H. Morrell, of New York, is to be sold at auction by Bangs, Merwin & Co., at their sales rooms in New York, on the 8th, 9th, and 10th of November. The Catalogue contains 137 pages, comprising a choice collection of works on the history and antiquities of America; also a number of illustrated and unique volumes having inserted plates, autographs, etc. "BELGRAVIA,”—Some time ago, Miss Braddon, the well-known author of "Lady Audley's Secret," having severed her connection with "Temple Bar," announced, as forthcoming, "Belgravia, a London Magazine," in which she would publish a new serial novel of her own. This intended publication was advertised, and cards and show-cards largely sent out in the usual manner to make it known. 66 But, toward the end of September, Messrs. Hogg, publishers in London, issued the first number of their Belgravia, a Magazine of Fashion and Amusement, monthly, with Illustrations." On this, Mr. Maxwell, former publisher of "Temple Bar," and proprietor of Miss Braddon's new periodical, moved the Court of Chancery to restrain Messrs. Hogg from issuing their magazine. The reply was that Messrs. Hogg had duly registered the title " Belgravia" at Stationers' Hall. To this followed a rejoinder that this registration had not been acted upon, and that much expense had been gone to in announcing Miss Braddon's "Belgravia," and that Messrs. Hogg ought not to be allowed to profit by a publicity gained at her expense. Messrs. Hogg then declared that they had registered the title with every intention of publication, that circumstances had delayed it, but that their first number was now printed. This number was produced in court, and objected to as being only "a dummy" made up of sheets and engravings intended for another magazine. "London Society," in which Messrs. Hogg are said to be interested, is believed to have been here alluded to. The court held the case over for consideration. The first number of "Belgravia" is notwithstanding advertised to appear on October 24th. It is to open with four chapters of "Birds of Prey," a novel by Miss Braddon, illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards; ten other articles, in prose and verse, by Messrs. Sala, Mortimer Collins, Winwood Reade, &c.. several of which would be illustrated. This will be a good shilling's worth. Among the contributors to future numbers are Miss M. B. Edwards, Sidney L. Blanchard, Charles Reade, John A. Heraud, Major Byng Hall, Walter Thornbury, James Hutton, John Oxenford, G. A. Sala, Desmond Ryan, Percy Fitzgerald, and others not so well known in this country, Paul Gray and several other artists are engaged for the illustrations. FORTHCOMING ENGLISH WORKS.-The concluding two volumes of Earl Russell's "Life of Charles James Fox;" "Impressions of Spain," by Lady Herbert of Lea; a new work by Sir Henry Bulwer; "Good Cookery, from the Receipts of the Hermit of St. Gover," by Lady Llandover; "Life and Correspondence of William Hazlitt," the critic, by his grandson; "English Eccentrics and Eccentricities," by John Timbs; "Charles Townshend, Wit and Statesman," by Percy Fitzgerald; a new "Life and Reign of George III.," by J. H. Jesse; "A Book about Lawyers," by J. C. Jeafferson; a new "Life of Garrick," by Percy Fitzgerald; a "History of the Spanish War of Succession in 1837-8," by C. Gruneisen; "Memorials of Mulready," the painter, by F. G. Stephens; "The Life of David Roberts," the painter, by James Ballantine; "The Second Voyage of the Rob Roy Canoe, on the Lakes and Rivers of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and on the Baltic and North Seas," by John Macgregor; "The Mission of Great Sufferings," by Elihu Burritt; "Milton's Paradise Lost," illustrated by Gustave Doré; a "Life of Hans Holbein," by Ralph N. Wornum; a new novel, by "Ouida," author of "Chandos;" & new and revised edition of Charles Knight's "Pictorial Shakspeare," in eight volumes; an illustrated edition of "Heber's Hymns;" "The Masque at Ludlow," by the author of "Mary Powell;" "The Reign W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Life and Letters of of Law," by the Duke of Argyll; a new edition, by Lamb;" a new Christmas book, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, being "The Prince of the Fair Family," a fairy tale, richly illustrated; "The Wild Elephant," by Sir J. Emerson Tennent; a rewritten and enlarged edition of Ure's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines; new works of fiction by Mrs. Norton, Miss Lemon; G. A. Sala's "Life of Hogarth," reprinted Mulock, Miss Edwards, Miss Kavanagh, and Mark from "Cornhill Magazine," enlarged and illustrated; a shilling edition of Shakspeare, edited by J. 0. Halliwell, that is, all that Shakspeare wrote for less than twenty-five cents; and "Globe" editions of the poems of Milton, Burns, and Scott. THE SIXPENNY WAVERLEY.-The announcement' by Mr. J. C. Hotten, a London publisher, of a six penny edition of the Waverley novels, has brought out A. & C. Black, of Edinburgh, publishers and proprietors of all Scott's works. They remind the public that the only portion of the Waverley novels, now out of copyright, is that which was first issued from the press in 1814; that, in 1829, Scott carefully corrected and improved the text of this first issue to such an extent that hardly a page remained without material alteration, and, besides, added the notes and introductions; that to this amended edition he gave the name of the "author's edition," as being the only one he desired the public to regard as bearing his sanction and approval; and that all other editions must therefore be regarded as imperfect in the text and incomplete in the notes and introductions. They conclude by announcing, in sixpenny volumes, to appear monthly, commencing in November, the whole of Scott's novels, corrected and revised by himself. DORÉ AND TENNYSON.-The illustrated edition of Tennyson's "Elaine" (one of the " Idyls of the King"), at which Gustave Doré has been latterly engaged, will be published in London in a few weeks as a Christmas book. The sketches have been engraved on steel-all the same artist's previous de signs having been executed on wood. In a London paper, a critic who has seen the plates speaks of one of them-Lancelot riding to Astolat-as parti cularly fine, and intimates that, whether in accordance with Mr. Tennyson's wishes or at the sugges tion of his own judgment, Doré has repressed, in these designs, his strong tendency towards the gro tesque. His recent labors on the Bible would naturally sober his manner. Doré's brother, writing about the illustrations of Elaine," says, "My brother has this time made a great success, must carry his name to posterity." Mr. Tennyson has completed a new poem, which will be published early next year. which THE DRAMA IN ENGLAND.-The theatrical season has begun in London, and several new plays of more than ordinary merit and attraction have been already produced, among which are a comedy called 66 Ours," by Mr. T. W. Robertson, author of "Society;" a play by Mr. Boucicault, entitled "The Long Strike," founded on "Mary Barton," a novel by the late Mrs. Gaskell; and an historical drams, "True to the Core," by Mr. A. R. Slous, which won the prize bequeathed by the late T. P. Cooke, the NOV. 1, 1866. Hours at Home. November. actor, for the best nautical play. Besides this, Mr. | Gurowski (R. Carter).-The President and his AcJohn Oxenford is dramatizing Mrs. G. Linnæus complices.-Marshall's Portrait of Abraham Lin Banks's novel, "God's Providence House." Mr. coln. Reviews and Literary Notices. Boston: Henry J. Byron, the author of several dramatic Ticknor & Fields. pieces, chiefly burlesques, has become lessee and manager of the Theatre Royal and the Royal Amphitheatre in Liverpool, and promises a new play, by the author of "Ours," early this month; a new after-piece, and two new pantomimes by himself, at Christmas. It has been noticed that, of late, the number of original dramas on the English stage has largely increased, and that adaptations "from the French" have been less frequent than in former years. CHEAP NEW EDITIONS.-Scribner is about to put into the market new issues, at a reduced price, of those standard works of learning and thought by George P. Marsh, "Lectures on the English Language," "Origin and History of the English Language," and "Man and Nature;" and likewise of President Woolsey's "International Law," and of Maine's "Ancient Law." These will admit a largely increased circle of readers to the enjoyment of some of the soundest and most suggestive thinking of the present day, on two very important subjects. OBITUARY. De Rebus Ruris: No. V. (D. G. Mitchell).-The Colosseum and its Associations (J. S. Howson, D. D.).-Elsie Fraser's Work (Miss F. W. Owston). Mount Washington (Ray Palmer, D. D.).—Memoirs of Mrs. Hemans (Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hall).— Why and How the Federal Capital was Established on the Potomac: No. 2 (Hon. C. T. Hulburd).Home Visions.-Rambles among the Italian Hills: No. 3.-At Greenwood Cemetery (W. G. Simms).Business Thoughts. Further Discoveries in Arabia (L. P. Brockett, M. D.).-Hugo Van Geest.-The Christian_Statesmen of America: No. 8.-Rufus Choate (Rev. C. A. Stoddard).-Over the Way (Claude Iris).-The Eruption of Vesuvius in 1631 (Translated from Le Hon).-October Days (A. A. Cowles).-Pasturing Children (J. G. Holland). New York: Scribner & Co. Our Young Folks. November. Florinda and Florindel (from the German of Grimm).-Cow-birds and Cuckoos.-A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life: XI.--The Girl and the -Lessons in Magic: VIII.-The Dream of the Mr. GEORGE WILLIAM FEATHERSTONHAUGH, who Gleaner (Maria S. Cuminins).-The Two Herd-Boys had been British consul at Havre for nearly Little Pussy Willow: III. (Mrs. H. B. Stowe).(Bayard Taylor).-Thanksgiving (Mary F. Miller). twenty years, died at his post on September Half-Hours with Father Brighthopes: VIII. (J. T. 28th, when he had just passed his eightieth year. The "London Times" says: "Having resided Trowbridge).-Afloat in the Forest (Mayne Reid). for many years during the early part of his life in Sangreal (Annie T. Wall).-The King of the World North America, and having explored numerous wild tracts then occupied by the native Indians, (Elsie Teller).-Round the Evening Lamp.-Our but now civilized States, he was singularly well Letter-Box. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. qualified to act as a British commissioner in set- The Galaxy. November 1. tling, by arduous service in the field, the northern boundary of the United States. It was for the successful execution of this task, in association with Mr. Baring, afterwards Lord Ashburton, that the Earl of Aberdeen, then Her Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, assigned to Mr. Featherstonhaugh the consulate at Havre. In carrying out the duties of that office he obtained the full approbation of the Government. His writings on statistical and political subjects were clear and vigorous, and his geological memoirs merited the warm approval of his attached friends Buckland and Murchison." His works, as named by Allibone, are, Geological Report, made in 1834, of the elevated country between the Missouri and the Red Rivers; Observations on the Ashburton Treaty, 1842; Excursion through the Slave States, published in 1844; and Canoe Voyage to the Minnay Soter, 1847, in two volumes. The death of Dr. ROBERT W. GIBBES, of South Carolina, is announced. He was fifty-seven years old, and was President of the South Carolina Medical Association before the war. He wrote various papers on medical subjects, and was author of Memoirs of James de Veaux and Charles Fraser, artists, and of a Documentary History of the American Revolution. PERIODICALS. The Atlantic Monthly. November. The Claverings: Chapters 27, 28 (Anthony Trollope).-Arachne.-Days with the Knapsacks (J. F. Fitts).-Surf (E. C. Stedman).-A Woman (Mrs. W. H. Palmer).-On the Lake (John Fleetwood).— E Pluribus Unum.-Dies Ira (Lily Nelson).—The Confusion of Tongues (G. Wakeman). — Archie Lovell: Chapters 30, 31 (Mrs. Annie Edwards).— The Esthetics of Suicide (L. J. Bigelow).-Nebula (The Editor). New York: W. C. & F. P. Church. The American Law Review. October. The Natural Right of Support from Neighboring Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of On the Introduction of the American Shad into the October. Observations on Spotted Fever (Wm. O. Baldwin, M.D.). Entero-Colitis, or Chronic Diarrhoea, with NOV. 1, 1866. nes (Prof. J. R. Boise).-Citations from the New some Practical Observations upon its Nature and | Bibliotheca Sacræ. October. Treatment (W. Kempster, M.D.).—On Typhlitis and Origin of the Gospels (Rev. J. I. Mombert, D.D.). Peri-Typhlitis; or Diseases of the Cæcum and Ap--The Ancestry and Education of the Orator Eschipendix resulting in Abscess in the Right Iliac Fossa (Roberts Bartholow, M. D.).-On the Inhalation of Atomized Medicated Liquids, and its Value in the Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Organs (John Hart, M. D.).-Hypodermic Injections in the Treatment of Disease (R. B. Maury, M. D.). Statistics of Height and Weight (S. Henry Dickson, M. D.).—An Operation for the Correction of Inversion of the Ciliary Margin of the Eyelids, connected with Shortening of the Palpebral Fissure: by the Implantation of Integument behind the Outer Portion of the Upper Lid (David Prince, M. D.).—Spotted Fever as observed in Breckinridge Co., Ky. (Jtecture.-Ecce Homo.-The Bishop of Exeter, Tract W. Moorman, M. D.).-On the Changes of Type of Diseases (R. E. Haughton, M. D.).-Memoranda of Cases (Richard McSherry, M. D.).—Rupture of the Uterus; Abdominal Section; Subsequent Pregnancy and Safe Delivery (Edward Whinery, M. D.).Case of United Twins (Philip Harvey, M. D.).— Arrest of Hemorrhage by Styptic and Compression, with a Case involving the Posterior Tibial Artery, Incised Transversely (J. W. Sherfy, M. D.). Shoulder Presentation. Version in the Position on the Knees and Breast (Jno. G. Bigham, M. D.). Transactions of Societies; Reviews; Bibliographi cal Notices; Quarterly Summary of the Improvements and Discoveries in the Medical Sciences; American Intelligence. Philadelphia: H. C. Lea. The New York Medical Journal. October. tober. of a Text (W. G. T. Shedd, D. D.).—Jesus Christ The Different Species of Sermons, and the Choice and Criminal Law (Rev. E. Ballantine).-The Sand wich Island Mission and its Calumniators (J. Tracy, D. D.).-The Athanasian Creed (P. Schaff, D. D.). Divine Revelation (from the German of Dr. Rothe). of Recent Books. New York: W. Sherwood. Problems of the Age.-Song.-Cowardice and Courage.-Saint Lucy.-The Godfrey Family; continued.-The Founders of French Unity.-My Tears. Notes on Fractures of the Upper Extremity (John H. Packard, M. D.).-The Treatment of Fracture of the Lower Jaw by Interdental Splints (Thomas Brian Gunning).-On Inhalation in the Treatment of Diseases of the Respiratory Passages, particularly Legend of Count Julian and his Family.-Recent as Effected by the Use of Atomized Fluids (J. M. Da Costa, M. D.).-Reviews and Bibliographical Notices; Report on the Progress of Medicine. New York: Baillière Brothers. Monthly Religious Magazine. October. Second Letter to Rev. D. A. Wasson (Rev. E. H. Sears).-A Word about Preaching (Rev. R. Ellis). -Hymns from the German (Rev. N. L. Frothingham, D. D.).-Church and State: a Sermon (Rev. C. Palfrey, D. D.).—Waiting for a Blessing.-The Character of Zimmerman (Rev. W. R. Alger).Requisites for Communion with God (Rev. J. C. Kimball). Some Old Books (Rev. S G. Bulfinch).Scriptural and Philosophical Ethics. Random Readings.-Literary Notices. Boston: L. Bowles. European Events.-Summer Days are Gone.-Un- tober. The Preaching for the Times.-The Trinity in Redemption.-The Monophysite Churches of the East.-Forsyth's Life of Cicero.-The Missionary Enterprise, in its Bearing upon the Cause of Science and Learning.-Ecce Homo.-Dr. Williams's New Translation of the Hebrew Prophets.--Short Notices. Literary Intelligence. Philad.: Peter Walker. LAW. BOOK NOTICES. Commentaries on the Law of Criminal Procedure: or, Pleading, Evidence, and Practice in Criminal Cases. By Joel Prentiss Bishop. 2 vols. pp. xii., 744; vii., 712. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. In addition to his work on Marriage and Divorce, Mr. Bishop is well known to the legal profession by his Commentaries on the Criminal Law, the two volumes of which appeared respectively in 1856 and 1858, having since passed to a third edition. The present treatise is a sequel to the Commentaries, although we are told, in the preface, that it is not so closely connected with that work as to render their separate use inconvenient. Our author has broadly separated Law from Procedure, as he claims that this mode of treatment possesses decided advantages, and such will probably be found to be the case where the respective subjects are as fully developed as in the present instance. The first of the volumes in hand relates to Pleading, Evidence, and Practice, while the second volume consists of an examination of specific offences, arranged in alphabetical order. Mr. Bishop has certain peculiar views touching the manner in which legal textbooks should be prepared, and these views lead him into discussions of principles, instead of confining himself merely to an enumeration of adjudica tions. Even where we may not agree with his opinions or method, we find him writing with freedom, and not unfrequently with originality and force. The volumes are elaborate in their character, and seem to have been carefully prepared. The index is copious, and we have no doubt that the work will be found to be an important addition to NOV. 1, 1866. the literature of the subject, and we trust the future | effects upon Adam and upon the succeeding race. may verify the author's somewhat complacent pre- The race, therefore, has not, as is argued, missed, as diction [§ 1095] that it "will have a manhood such, its destiny, and is not, therefore, with referfollowing its more infantile days." ence to its original condition, in a lost and ruined state, though each one of the different human creatures that compose it has missed the path of his true destiny, and is in a lost and ruined state through his own sinfulness. A prominent portion of the volume is a minute examination of the narrative of man's creation and history in the garden of Eden as contained in the first three chapters of Genesis. A Treatise on the Law of Suits by Attachment in the United States. By Charles D. Drake, LL.D. pp. lxxxv., 613. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. The first edition of this work appeared in 1854. The present is the third edition, in the preparation of which the last has been carefully revised, many pages have been re-written, and a new chapter added on the subject of judgment against the garnishee. More than three hundred volumes of American Reports have been issued since the publication of the second edition, all which we are told have been carefully explored, and more than six hundred additional cases are cited: yet by diminishing the size of the type, the bulk of the volume has not been increased. It is a practical, useful work, and has been received with professional and judicial favor. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. The Life of Simon Bolivar, Liberator of Colombia and Peru, Father and Founder of Bolivia: Carefully written from Authentic and Unpublished Documents. By Doctor Felipe Larrazabal. Vol. I. pp. 410. We have here an elaborate endeavor to trace minutely the career of the South American Liberator. The author devotes himself with enthusiasm to his subject, and the chapters we have read we found extremely interesting. Occasionally, as might be expected, we meet with un-English expressions, as, for instance, in the first sentence, where we read "it is a difficult task to compendiate the lives of heroes." These, however, are slight blemishes, and easily remedied. The volumes bid fair to become an important addition to our biographical literature. Such a work is needed, for there is a great deal of ignorance or error respecting Bolivar. In the most popular works in Europe, as our author states, even the year of his birth is not correctly given. Great in Goodness: a Memoir of George N. Briggs, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from 1844 to 1851. By William C. Richards. pp. 452. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. Everybody in the "Commonwealth of Massachusetts" is quite as sure to have a Life as he is to have a death. The late Governor Briggs was undoubtedly a very worthy gentleman, yet we suppose that most of our States have, or have had many a governor whose lives could be equally said to be "noble" and "to brighten into the pure and steady radiance of a meridian fulness." Indeed, Mr. Richards frankly says, "the need of this formal biography to preserve it from oblivion is not half so apparent" [as what?]. Yet he nevertheless gives it to the public, though expressing a consciousness of the "manifold imperfections of its doings." Among the illustrations is the picture of the Governor's house. The work is published in Gould & Lincoln's usual good style. RELIGIOUS. The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism. The author of these lectures is a member of the modern scientists. Our Passover, or the Great Things of the Law. By The author gives impressiveness and force to the idea of sacrifice as embodied in the passover, and to various features of the ceremonial law. It is a volume of an admonitory and hortatory rather than a theological character. PHILOSOPHICAL. The Philosophy of the Conditioned, comprising some He does The Rise and Fall, or the Origin of Moral Evil. pp. ix., 311. New York: Hurd & Houghton. existence of free will. Indeed, Mr. Mansel conThe contents are divided into three parts, entitled, siders the question of free will as the real battlerespectively, The Suggestions of Reason, The Dis- ground between the two philosophies. The gravity closures of Revelation, The Confirmations of The- of the subject would seem to have called for a more ology. The author's leading thought seems to be elaborate treatment than has been here bestowed that man was not originally a moral being, and the upon it; but Mr. Mansel is a thinker of such high original transgression of Adam was neither a fall nor order that we gladly receive whatever, be it much a sin, nor necessarily productive of either, but may or little, that comes from his pen. The beautiful be believed to have been in accordance with the typography of the volume deserves commendation. divine wishes and designs, and entirely consistent It is a double pleasure to read a book so handwith benevolence and justice both as regards its somely printed. to the laws of material phenomena, and denies the SCIENCE. NOV. 1, 1866. Familiar Lectures on Scientific Subjects. By Sir John F. W. Herschel. pp. xii., 507. New York and London: Alexander Strahan. There are here fourteen papers on scientific subjects. The topics discussed are all of a most interesting character, and the essays are written in a style to render them quite intelligible to the general body of readers, although in some instances they contain the results of quite recent investigations. The subject to which most prominence is given is Light and its Qualities. Among the other topics we have Volcanoes, the Sun, Comets, the Weather, Celestial Measurings and Weighings, the Origin of Force, etc. The paper on "The Yard, the Pendulum, and the Metre," discusses the advan tages and the correctness of the French Metric Sys tem, and the mathematical doctrine of chances as applied to target-shooting is discussed in the closing article. The entire volume most happily blends agreeableness with instruction, and its author occupies a position in modern science which gives value to what he says. Practical Mineralogy, Assaying and Mining; with a Description of the Useful Minerals, and Instructions for Assaying and Mining, according to the Simplest Methods. By Frederic Overman, Mining Engineer. pp. x., 230. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. This volume is well known, and the favor with which it has been received is indicated by the fact that the present is the seventh edition. The contents are divided into three parts, Mineralogy, Assaying, and Practical Mining. The aim has been to present the subject in popular language, avoiding, as far as possible, the use of scientific and technical terms. POLITICAL. The Body Politic. By William H. Barnes. pp. xiii., 309. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin. Mr. Barnes here endeavors to promote the study of our political system, as he understands it, and to induce the popular mind to reflect upon political subjects. The treatment, however, is not scientific, but rather discursive, and, at times, rhetorical. It does not strike us that the volume contains anything very new or original. FICTION. An American Family in Germany. By J. Ross Browne. pp. xiv., 381. New York: Harper & Brothers. The characteristic style of Mr. Browne's "Yuseff," " "Crusoe's Island," etc., is well known. We have here "An American Family in Germany;" "A Whirl through Algeria ;" and "A Visit to the Salt Mines of Weiliczka. The volume abounds in graphic illustrations, and the text is full of humor. Some of the salient features of German life and manners are sketched with a pleasantness so lively that even one who has never been abroad to see such originals will enjoy the perusal. pp. 239. New ticed at length in the reviews and critical journals abroad, and will doubtless be largely read in this country. Milly; or, the Hidden Cross. By Lucy Ellen Guernsey, author of "The Sign of the Cross," etc. pp. 186. Boston: Loring. Those who are fond of a pleasant story of feminine friendship and experiences will doubtless be pleased with the story of Milly. It is written in an unaffected style of naturalness, not without occasional touches of pathos. Too Good for Him. By Florence Marryat (Mrs. Ross Church), author of "Love's Conflict," etc. pp. 193. Boston: Loring. Miss Marryat is the daughter of the late Capt. Marryat. In this novel, as in her previous ones, there are tokens of ability, which have been recognized and commended by the English critics. It appears as an addition to Loring's Railway Library. All in the Dark. By J. Sheridan Le Fanu, author of "Guy Deverell," etc. pp. 107. New York: Harper & Brothers. This is No. 276 of Harper's Library of Select Novels. One Hundred Dollars. By Mrs. J. E. McConaughy. pp. 255. Philadelphia: J. C. Garrigues & Co. Talk of "gold dollars" has rather an antiquated sound just now, but nevertheless, under this title we have a good story, intended to make boys good, by pointing out the true mode by which riches may be acquired by honesty and industry. MEDICAL. Orthopedics: A Systematic Treatise upon the Prevention and Correction of Deformities. By David Prince, M. D. pp. 240. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. A valuable treatise for those engaged in general practice, who will here find the latest improvements in the medical and mechanical treatment of deformities gleaned from the numerous essays and monographs upon this important subject which have appeared within the last twenty years. The work is illustrated by good wood engravings. History of the United States Sanitary Commission; being the General Report of its Work during the War of the Rebellion. By Charles J. Stillé. pp. 553. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. A knowledge of the labors performed by the Sanitary Commission is absolutely necessary to a complete understanding of the great and noble efforts made by the people of the North to sustain. the Government of the United States against the greatest rebellion ever inaugurated for the overthrow of popular government. When the troops first called out were placed in the field, a few of the clear sighted, experienced, and philanthropic men and women of the North, perceived that the provisions of the medical branch of the public serfellow-citizens who had taken up arms in their device were not sufficient to protect those of their fence from those evils always incident to exposure "that Aware of the military axiom more campaigns are decided by sickness than by the sword," they organized a Commission upon the voluntary system, to supplement whatever might be found deficient in the government. Thus constituted, it was called into official existence by the Medical Bureau, and made use only of the govern mental channels for the conveyance of the popular bounties. Margaret Maitland, of Sunnyside. By Mrs. Oly- in camps. Felix Holt, the Radical. By George Eliot. pp. 529. This new novel, by the well-known author of "Adam Bede," and "The Mill on the Floss," has been generally regarded in England as worthy the pen of the author, and as indicating, at least, no diminution of the writer's power. It has been no The labors it performed were vast and multifarious. It organized a system of inspection for the camps and army; examined into the condition of the hospitals, and prepared plans for new ones; |