Popular Literature Published by Harper & Brothers.

Life of Madame Catharine Adorna.

5

Including some leading Facts and Traits in her Religious Experience. Together with Explanations and Remarks, tending to Illustrate the Doctrine of Holiness. By T. C. UPHAM, D.D.. 12mo, Muslin, gilt edges, 60 cents; Muslin, plain, 50 cents.

This is a very curious piece of biography; the sources from which it has been principally derived were the manuscript notes of Madame Adorna's confessor, Marabotti. She lived during the latter half of the fifteenth century, and was a remarkable instance of exemplary piety and eminent moral worth. The story of her life presents à rare and highly interesting chapter in the records of religious experience.

Cowper's Poetical Works.

Illustrated by Seventy-five exquisite Designs. With a Biographical and Critical Introduction by Rev. THOMAS DALE. 2 vols. 8vo, Turkey Morocco, gilt edges, $5 00; Imitation Morocco, gilt edges, $4 25; Muslin, gilt edges, $3 75.

Cowper has long been regarded as the favorite Christian poet; his muse devoted to the inculcation of the domestic virtues and the sublime truths of religion, will ever take elevated rank among the great classics of the language.

Milton's Poetical Works.

With a Memoir and Critical Remarks on his Genius and Writings, by J. MONTGOMERY. Illustrated by 120 Engravings. 2 vols. 8vo, Morocco, gilt edges, $5 00; Imitation Morocco, gilt edges, $4 25; Muslin, gilt edges, $3 75.

Says a distinguished critic, "He possesses sublimity enough to command our fear, and gentleness enough to awaken our affection. He unites the fancy of Spenser to the majesty of Eschylus, and the delicate finish and grace of Canova to the bold and sweeping outlines of Michael Angelo. The humblest thought, subjected to the alchemy of Milton's genius, became transmuted into something precious and costly. He was an enchanter who changed all the earthen edifices of the imagination into pure gold."

Life of the Chevalier Bayard.

By W. GILMORE SIMMS. With Engravings. 12mo, Muslin. $1 00. The present production is the most valuable that has appeared from the pen of Mr. Simms, and will do more than all his preceding works to establish his reputation. It displays considerable research into the history of the period to which it relates, and is clothed with all the fascination which beauty of style and chivalric adventure can throw around it.-Literary Régister.

The Discipline of Life.

A Novel. 8vo, Paper. 25 cents.

This work is intended to show how much of happiness depends on self-discipline; and it can not fail to place the authoress in the first rank of female novelists. It contains passages of great beauty and pathos, evidently written by one who thinks much and feels deeply, and impresses us with a high idea of the talent of the author.-Britannica.

Brothers and Sisters.

A Tale of Domestic Life. By FREDRIKA BREMER. Translated from the Original unpublished Manuscript, by MARY HOWITT. 8vo, Paper. 25

cents.

"Brothers and Sisters" will share in the popularity the author's former works have acquired, as it possesses the like qualities.-Chronicle.

Jane Eyre: an Autobiography.

8vo, Paper. 25 cents.

There is a freshness and purity of thought and sentiment that one rarely meets with stamped on every page. We repeat it-if people will read novels, let them peruss Jane Eyre.-Neal's Gazette.

latitude fifty-six degrees and thirty-two minutes south, longitude sixty-eight degrees and forty-five minutes west, three in number, of an oblong shape, presenting a barren and desolate appearance. During the day, cape pigeons and albatrosses were flying about the ship in great numbers. One of the latter was caught by a sailor with a hook. It was a majestic looking bird, with a large beak, and wings extending from ten to thirteen feet, and might probably have weighed from twenty to thirty pounds. Its color was white, variegated with streaks of black and gray. Albatrosses are extremely voracious, and devour great quantities of fish.

The next morning a light was reported one point on the weather bow, which was supposed to proceed from a ship. A lantern was hoisted in the main rigging, but the light soon after disappeared. The night was rather dark, and the sky overcast with clouds, but on a sudden the clouds parted, and discovered to our astonished vision that the lantern had been placed in our rigging to speak the moon, as if on her way from Symzonia! The next day we gave our adios to the Pacific, and doubled Cape Horn. We went nearly round with studding sails set, and without encountering any severe gale. The weather was chilly, and the thermometer stood at thirty-eight degrees. We passed Staten land about five o'clock, P. M., in latitude fifty-four degrees and forty-eight minutes south, longitude sixty-three degrees and forty-two minutes west. This island is covered with sharp pointed mountains, two thousand feet high, studded with trees to their summits. At

The book is one of the most remarkable and profoundly interesting that we have ever read. No man who has not read it should venture to form a judgment of Cromwell's character, pú. poses, and conduct. Here, for the first time in our reading, he is exhibited as a true, conscientious, noble-hearted, and great man; a veritable hero. Here we are enabled to see what he aimed at, what he accomplished, and the means by which he worked. It is a very remarkable and instructive book.-Commercial Advertiser.

This book will, of course, command attention. The life of Cromwell, by a man so eminently qualified to understand and to set forth to the public the character and deeds of this great warrior and statesman as Carlyle, can not fail to arrest attention and reward it. It displays the same remarkable powers of discrimination, the same ardent sympathy with whatever is heroic in action and in speech, and the same enthusiastic admiration of energy, earnestness, and truth, and the same emphatic, and occasionally eloquent, style which, in spite of all its faults, is not without a peculiar power, as have distinguished his previous publications.-Courier and Enquirer.

It is unquestionably the most marked and important book of the season, and must be universally and attentively read.-Journal of Commerce.

These are stirring pages. Earnest, picturesque, unique, grotesque, graphic.-Knickerbocker Magazine.

Most ably executed, as only Carlyle could.-Albion.

It is a book that will be read universally, and which, moreover, well deserves to be thus widely and most closely studied.-Christian Advocate.

Uniform with the foregoing, in One Volume. Price $1 00. PAST & PRESENT, CHARTISM, & SARTOR RESARTUS.

By Thomas Carlyle.

A most profound and elaborate politico-ethical disquisition, replete with grave and impressive wisdom, which can not be too attentively studied by those who believe there is a moral government over nations. It posseses a powerful fascination, and leaves an impression not readily got rid of.-Evangelist.

Carlyle is a powerful writer; he tells many truths of transcendent importance in a most striking and effective manner. No writer of the present day, certainly, and few of any age. seem to have exerted a more powerful influence over the thoughts, opinions, and mental habits of the times than Carlyle. This volume is one of the most valuable of the series.-Courier and Enquirer.

To say that the book is replete with instructive thought and quaint fancy is unnecessary: but we may mention that it is one par excellence which should be read at the present juncture.-Tribune.

Like all Carlyle's productions, it exhibits evidences of great intellectual vigor, and of high, cultivated, moral feeling: take him all in all, England holds very few men on a level with Carlyle. No single writer has produced the same or an equal impression upon the age, with himself. His writings contain at least one, and the highest, evidence of being the product of genius. They are eminently suggestive. They do more than convey thoughts. They engender the process of thinking. They are not mere demonstrations. Carlyle does not seek to convince others of the results of his own reasoning. He succeeds in the higher effect of transferring his own mind and spirit into that of his readers, leading to the discovery, and not the mere acknowledgment of truth. This volume contains two of his best works. "Past and Present," particularly, should be read by every one who wishes to see what is really in the author. Neither of these will be read without interest and profit.-Herald.

"Sartor Resartus," the tailor patched, is a book not easily described. If we are not entertained with his companionship, it must be our own fault. Brilliant thoughts are poured forth in a strange idiom, learning lends its aids at a call, and recondite truths are made manifest.Presbyterian.

These are, perhaps, the author's best works-containing his best thoughts most vigorously expressed. In the first he develops, in the most explicit style, with illustrations, the idea that lies at the basis of the whole matter-that there is in human nature a principle of reverence for what is truly noble, and manlike, and divine. "Sartor Resartus" is much the best of Carlyle's works-the one which contains the elements of all his subsequent writings, and the true picture of the life of man. It is not only the fullest of matter, but, as we think, the best written, the raciest, compactest Saxon.-Evening Post.

evening we were favored with a sublime prospect. 'The sea was agitated by waves curling and whitening over all the waste';" the rays of the sun, though partially obscured by an intervening mist, were beautifully reflected by the waters; and when this glorious orb sunk to rest in the bosom of the ocean, it left behind it a golden path, which one might easily imagine would lead to the bright "Isles of the Blessed."

Between the latitudes of forty-seven and forty-four degrees south, and longitudes of fifty-four and fifty degrees west, an island was reported about nine miles distant on the weather bow. This intelligence somewhat surprised me, as there were no islands laid down on the chart in these latitudes, though I thought we might possibly be near one of those said to be discovered by Capt. Morrill! A nearer approach discovered to us that it was an island of ice. At first it appeared to be of a dark color, but as we passed along, it assumed a beautiful blue, and finally appeared white as the falling snow. It seemed a huge mass resting on an immoveable basis, while the waves foamed and dashed against it, as if it were a rock in mid ocean. It was judged to be two hundred feet above the surface of the sea. Fortunately for us it was discovered by daylight, for had our ship struck against it the evening previous, sailing at the rate we did, we must inevitably have been wrecked. In the course of the day, we saw several icebergs, varying much in their appearance, some of them resembling houses, castles, and churches with lofty steeples. We passed one towards evening, which presented