abroad. It can not compare as yet with similar foundations | low wages; yet the necessity of laying it before the public in Europe; but with the liberal aid of an Enlightened Go on the instant, requires Sabbath labor, night-labor, and invernment, it may ere long rank with the noblest Literary and jury to the mind, morals and health of a hundred men and Scientific Establishments of any country. The British boys, and young women, who are obliged to ply their finAssociation has expended since its establishment £83,000, gers unremittingly in folding and stitching an edition of a about $410,000 in Scientific investigations. A meeting of work which runs through from fifteen to forty thousand cothe learned in this Country will be held in April next, in pies from a single press. This out of the way, read, thrown Washington, under the auspices of the National Institute. aside, the appetite makes its demand again, and is again The Association of American Geologists and Naturalists satisfied-and while the public are reading what they call and other Scientific and Literary bodies will attend; and CHEAP LITERATURE, if its price was footed up in Saban address will be delivered by Hon. Senator Walker. It baths violated, the consequent moral injury, the pain and will be a noble gathering, we trust, worthy of the cause and unceasing toil, the wearing out, the miserable compensathe occasion. Hon. John Quincy Adams has consented to tion the laborers earn, the social unhappiness and evils, deliver the annual address before the Institute. **** and deprivation of all that makes a moral creature comforThe Biography and speeches of John Randolph of Roa- table and happy-they would think that after all it costs noke of which we have spoken, by a fellow congressman as much as it comes to!' and yet the people do not think!' from New-York, will soon be published by William Robinson of New-York. We trust that the Work will become the subject. The Virginian who is engaged in a similar task will have an opportunity of learning and supplying the congressman's defects. Jacob Harvey of New-York has been entertaining the readers of the New Mirror with But there is a still more direct view of the question. some lively and graphic sketches of the distinguished The republication of many standard works neatly bound, Orator. In portraying some of his eccentricities, some have was done very cheaply before the era of "Cheap Literathought that Mr. Harvey presented him in too unamiable ture" commenced. Since then, however, those works have a light. Certainly the writer had no such intention. The been thrown off in numbers, unbound, often from stereofriend and companion of Mr. Randolph, he had an oppor-type plates, at very little cost. These, no doubt, constitunity of studying his character, and noting his thoughts; tute the most wholesome portion of the so called Cheap and be reveres his memory too much to make the least as- Literature; and the mere fever of the thing has given upon it, directly or indirectly. A friend requests us them a most extensive circulation. But in many cases, to unite in a call for a just and suitable memoir of Mr. the entire number costs as much, or more, in proportion, Randolph. We hope that the works in progress will meet than the older issues. They must be bound for preservahis wishes. Many private papers have been furnished by Mr. tion, and even for convenient use. Many numbers are lost, R.'s relatives to the Virginia Editor, whose work, therefore, or injured, and must be replaced; a loss, to which those at will be full and authentic. We are requested to solicit in- a distance from the binder are particularly exposed. In formation and materials for the "Memoir" from any who proportion, too, the binding is more expensive, than when may be able and willing to furnish them. All communica- it is done by the regular publisher. In this way, many tions on the subject can be addressed to the Editor of the have paid more for works in No.'s, than they could have Messenger. * A letter from the West informs us, bought the same editions for, in handsome form, from the that the Harpers will soon issue a new novel, exhibiting book stores. Directly and indirectly, morally and ecotrue pictures of the manners and condition of early Wes-nomically, we do sincerely doubt, and in a great degree tern Society, entitled "Young Kate." totally deny, the benefits and cheapness of CHEAP PUBLICA When these results are seen, and young men are obliged to resort to unlawful means of procuring subsistence, and young women are obliged to sacrifice their honor, is there not a greater price paid for the cheapness, than if the means of useful, happy and dignified labor were meted out to them." sault The author was formerly of Virginia and is a gentleman TIONS." of taste and talent. that CHEAP PUBLICATIONS. It does not seem to have occurred to any one actually to doubt the cheapness of much that comes to us under this ad captandum garb. It has long been an established fact, that the lowest priced is not always the cheapest; and much goes about with the sweet name of "Cheap Literatare" would be excessively dear if a high bounty were attached to it. How many, to save a little money, have bought demoralization, licentiousness and falsehood; have encouraged speculations and extortions that they are wont severely to condemn. To all such we commend the following pointed extract from the Long Island Star, Edited by Wm. Oland Bourne, a contributor to the Messenger. "The great law of nature, which requires an equality of interest, cannot be violated with less impunity than any other law, and, if it be, its penalty will come along with it. The commercial spirit, as we have termed it, effects this, and brings with its operations a fearful penalty. Notices of New Works. [COMMUNICATED.] MEXICO AS IT WAS, AND AS IT IS. BY BRANTZ MAYER, late U. S. Secretary of Legation to that country. New York, 1844. J. Winchester, 8 vo. pp. 360. We have scarcely time, at this moment, to do more than call the attention of our readers to the very interesting and valuable work before us. At a future day, we promise them and ourselves, the pleasure of dwelling more at large upon its contents, in connexion with the other important publications, relating to Mexican life and history, which have recently issued from the press. The Republic of Mexico has been, as our readers well know, any thing but a favorite, of late years, with the good "The demand for cheap books-the competition in fur- people of this country. The Texas question and some nishing cheap-cheaper-cheapest-is effected at the cost other matters of unadjusted difficulty have not left our of an amount of evil which is more than equal to the ad- judgments in that state of perfect equilibrium, which imvantages which ensue. A steamer arrives-two or three partiality demands. We have heard but one side of the publishers receive a copy of a new work-the commercial story, and have believed it to be true, because the other spint impels them to seize the moment for its publication, side has not reached us. In this state of our minds, it is and the low price at which it is sold obliges them to give particularly important that we should call to our aid the testimony of intelligent and impartial witnesses. If it is worth while to know any thing of our sister nation and neighbor, it is certainly worth while to know the truth. It is, moreover, especially important, that, at the present moment, we should possess ourselves, fully, of all possible, accurate information, in relation to a country, whose revolted province, not less than herself, is intimately associated with one of the most important political measures, in which the interests of the South has ever been at stake. We refer, of course, to the annexation of Texas to the Union, and the increase of the influence of Great Britain in Mexico herself. Every item of information, political, social or statistical, which goes to enlighten our citizens, as to the real character, power, resources and tendencies of the people, whose action may so deeply involve our whole Southern population, should be deemed an actual, beneficial service rendered to our country. clearly, as in the work before us, that reliance can be MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, by Charles Dickens, Esq. Harper and Brothers, New York; Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia; Drinker and Morris, Richmond, Va. What has become of "Charles Dickens, Esq. ?" We It is with a view to this, even more than to the admira- scarcely ever hear a word of him now. But it is a pity ble entertainment which is afforded every where, by the that he should be entirely forgotten and we come generously graphic pages of Mr. Mayer, that we commend his book to snatch his name from oblivion. We have not, as yet, to the especial perusal of our readers. Mr. M. has long been induced to take any farther notice of Chuzzlewit, been known as a graceful and accomplished writer, whose than to publish its funny title, and to brand the infamous taste has been refined by travel and cultivation, while plagiarism of which Dickens was guilty towards Joseph C. his previous opportunities of enlarged observation have Neal of Philadelphia. Our reason for passing him by was rendered his means of comparison and accurate judg- to show the contempt we feel, and to pursue the course of ment particularly extensive. Introduced, by his perso- indifference which a just pride should suggest. On this nal character and official position, into the most distin- subject the last North American Review has the following guished circles of Mexican refinement and intelligence, he very appropriate remarks. "The folly we yearly practise, has been enabled to do that justice to the real worth of the of flying into a passion, with some inferior English writer, nation, which no traveller, with similar advantages, has who caricatures our faults, and tells dull jokes about his ever rendered. The external peculiarities of the Mexican tour through the land, has only the effect to exalt an insigpeople-as well as their in-door life-their amusements, nificant scribbler into notoriety, and give a nominal value politics, religious ceremonials and observances, are sketch- to his recorded impertinence. If the mind and heart of the ed with all the skill, which a keen eye, an enlightened country had its due expression; if its life had taken form taste, unfailing humor and a graphic pen, have enabled him in a literature worthy of itself, we should pay little regard to exercise. For the beauties of nature, so prodigally to the childish tattle of the pert coxcomb, who was disconscattered over the whole surface of the Republic, Mr. tented with our taverns, or the execrations of some bluff Mayer has displayed equal fondness-having preserved sea-captain who was shocked with our manners." ****** many of them by his pencil, for the admiration of his read-"If Bishop Berkeley, when he visited Malebranche, had ers, and having warmed his eloquent descriptions, with the paid exclusive attention to the habitation, raiment and maninspiration of both poet and painter. Sufficiently an anti-ners of the man, and neglected the conversation of the mequarian to find pleasure among the ruins of a mighty but taphysician, and, when he returned to England, had enterdeparted civilization, he has likewise, with commendable tained Pope, Swift, Gay and Arbuthnot with satirical deand accurate industry, delineated a large number of the scriptions of the complement extern' of his eccentric host, principal Indian monuments which will be found among he would have acted just as wisely as many an English the numerous illustrations of his volume. Those of our tourist, with whose malicious pleasantry on our habits of readers who have directed their attention to this subject, chewing, spitting and eating, we are silly enough to quarrel. as treated in the elaborate history of Mr. Prescott, will To the United States, in reference to the pop-gun shots of find the plates and descriptions of Mr. Mayer to afford a foreign tourists, might be addressed the warning which most interesting accompaniment to their investigations. Peter Plymley thundered against Bonaparte, in reference The latter part of the work is confined to historical, politi-to the Anti-Jacobin jests of Canning: Tremble, oh! thou cal and statistical history. Mr. Mayer appears to have land of many spitters and voters, for a pleasant man has labored zealously in the collection and collation of the come out against thee, and thou shalt be laid low by a joker mass of facts, which he has given, for the first time, to the of jokes, and he shall talk his pleasant talk to thee, and world-and he has presented an accumulation of materials thou shalt be no more!'" which, together with his profound and able reflections, the statesmen of our country will find of no small importance in the formation of sound conclusions, upon our future political bearing towards Mexico. What has gratified us as much as anything in Mr. Mayer's book, is the total absence of that carping and censorious spirit, which is apt to accompany travellers from prosperous and highly cultivated nations, to those of humbler position. Racy as is his narrative throughout-redolent of wit and gayety, and sparkling and amusing incident-we no where find that truth has yielded to the love of caricature-or that the ambition to be brilliant has weakened the control of kind and liberal feelings. To us, this is by no means the smallest recommendation that a literary traveller can bring. It proves good sense, not less than rightfeeling, and it convinces us, whenever we see its existence The opinions of Americans as to Dickens' last effort is We have, unanimous and requires no expression from us. indeed, a right to complain that he does us injustice in not exhibiting that talent and genius in his caricatures, for which we had given him credit. Any critique from us would not only be superfluous but would appear to proceed from national pique. As this motive can not be ascribed to his own countrymen and that he may not be entirely forgotten, this side the Atlantic, we have concluded to give our readers, the following critique from the December No. of the Westminster Review; a work which might be expected above all others to deal kindly with the author. "Martin Chuzzlewit," says the Reviewer, "is a 'failure' compared with the former tales of Charles Dickens. We should scarcely say that Martin Chuzzlewit' displays no originality of talent; but the whole novel, as far as it has were of a higher character, and it might have occurred to Mr. Dickens that the universal recognition of those claims was a fact not less honorable to the Americans than to himThe universality of his reputation in the United States said something for an universality of education of which he would in vain look for similar evidence nearer home. In what part of England, Scotland, Ireland, or Wales, would Mr. Dickens count an equal number of readers and admirers, relatively to the whole population, than he found in every city, town, and village of the United States? We are sorry Mr. Dickens has adopted this course; for it rarely under any circumstances, and in his case least of all, is expedient for an author to seek materials for satire in other countries than his own. The good sought to be effected by it commonly fails, for even when the satire is perfectly just, it is received as only the offspring of national antipathies, which it never fails to increase; and we are not surprised to see from the American Journals that Mr. Dickens' attacks are treated as the mere ebullition of spleen consequent upon his want of success in obtaining an International Law of copyright: his present writings will certainly not promote that very desirable and important object. We make these remarks more in sorrow than in anger--sorrow that they appear to us needed; but we really have felt angry at our monthly disappointments of pleasure from Mr. Dickens' last publication. We trust the source of much former gratification is not yet exhausted." yet proceeded, is founded upon a mistake,—the mistake of • But perhaps the greatest fault of Martin Chuzzlewit' is an just and ungenerous attack upon the people of the United States, in the shape of a broad and bitter caricature. That a vast continent like America, somewhat twice the extent of Europe, should contain in its maritime cities a body of slanderers and swindlers is not very strange: were none to be found there, considering how many have been sent from our on shores, the fact would be much more extraordinary; but strange it is and new and unaccountable, that such an ob server as Mr. Dickens, travelling from Dan to Beersheba, should find all barren of goodness, and discover no other facts worth signalizing in a country, the rapid growth of which is without a parallel, than the knaveries of land-jobbers, and the abuses of a press conducted often by English editors. We were present at the supper, which Dickens was teased into accepting in Richmond. The worthy President on that occasion took leave, as he was so much older, to warn Boz against reclining upon his laurels. Dickens replied in a feeling speech, assured us that he would remember the caution and that the admiration of Americans would be his stimulus. He has not, properly speaking, reclined upon his laurels; but his course has been even more fatal to his reputation. His charm is gone. His pictures of pure and humble life, of virtuous hearts will lack the glow of sincerity and lose all their former attraction, for his own heart is wrong. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS. By Charlotte Elizabeth. pp. 357, 8 vo. THE WRONGS OF WOMAN. The Little Pin Headers, by the same, pp. 115, 12 mo. John S. Taylor & Co., New-York. Joseph Gill, Richmond. Personal Recollection is an interesting autobiography of its remarkable authoress. At the solicitation of her friends, and to prevent falling into unjust hands hereafter, she details her own history. We certainly do not admire mock modesty, and have more faith, than most persons, in one's capacity to know and judge himself; but a contempt for mock modesty may run into unnecessary boldness and, at least indirect, glorification. Charlotte Elizabeth, however, "What a false idea of American shrewdness and sagacity as shown in their choice of eligible sites for new townsb ps, one of which, in twenty years from the time of its foundation, (Cincinnati,) contained a population of thirty is so open in the matter and writes so fluently and indethousand inhabitants, is given by Mr. Dickens, in his dependently, that the reader will not feel very harshly towards semption of a new settlement in a swamp, which its landsharking originators had denominated Eden! her, though he may think the autobiography of a living writer rather out of the way. She has opinions of her own But a more serious fault in the work is the ungrateful and dares maintain them. Indeed she often writes not only return (for ungrateful it must appear in the eyes of every like a man; but like one engaged in Public affairs. She American) for the enthusiastic reception Mr. Dickens met says herself, that her writings have been objected to as too with in the United States,-in an extravagant satire of their political; but that this could not have been otherwise from lion-hunting propensities. Martin, with no other recom the discussions she so often heard in her father's house, by mendation than that of being a dupe, who, with the uncon- many eminent men, and among whom was the celebrated sciousness of a Peter Simple, is about to bury himself in a Doctor Parr. The manner in which she was allowed to spot from which no one had returned alive, has his levée mingle in their society; and the interest she took in their thronged from curiosity by the whole population from morn- conversations must have tended to invigorate and stimulate ing till night. We wonder it did not occur to Mr. Dickens her mind. She sometimes indulges in considerable aspethat this satire might tell against himself. Was he only a Mar-rity of language; indeed her expressions are generally ten Chuzzlewit to the people of America, when they crowded to strong. She denounces O'Connel as a murderer of the do him homage? But in truth his claims to the distinction Irish, and says she was so disgusted with him, the only time she ever saw him, that she withdrew from all connec. I than fourteen hundred of which are from original designs tion with the anti-slavery association of which he was a by J. G. Chapman, the author of the National painting at member. Still she exhibits the intensest devotion to Ire- Washington, the Baptism of Pochahontas, and an artist of land, which her letters from Ireland also evince. some celebrity. The illuminations are brilliant and Mr. Adams, the Engraver, has displayed great proficiency in his beautiful art. The whole will be completed in about fifty No.'s at twenty-five cents each. At another time she says she had been learning to prize her native land in a disgusting region of all that is most directly opposed to liberty, civil or religious; to honorable feeling, just conduct, honest principle, or practical decency. In short, she had been in Portugal." Her recollections are vivid and graphically described. She is a bold and an enthusiastic writer and has done good; but, as a woman, we can not make her a favorite. We certainly admire her patriotism, her zeal and her absorbing nationality. D' AUBIGNE'S HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION. Abridged by the Rev. Edward Dalton. Second American Edition. New York, John S. Taylor & Co., 1843. Joseph Gill, Richmond. As to the other little work, we can not see why it The original work of D' Aubigné is among the most inshould be styled particularly "The Wrongs of Woman." teresting of modern times. Its subject is the most imporLittle Joe excites our sympathies even more than his de- tant, his characters the most remarkable and conspicuous voted sister; and men and boys are as much oppressed and and the execution in many respects inimitable. It posexhausted by Factory employments as women and girls. sesses a great deal of Dramatic power; and contains much The unkind step-mother of the principal “little pin headers" of the most curious and engaging biography in the world. introduced drove her husband from his home; and this and Luther, Melancthon, Zwingle, Erasmus, Spalatin, Mycoother incidents remind us strongly of the wrongs of man. nius and a number of others possess uncommon interest. Still it presents some vivid and true pictures of the merci- We have been engaged, at intervals, in reading the entire less exactions and oppressions practiced under the manu- work; but absorbing as it generally is, its length is appalfacturing system of England. But the whole is not as for-ling to many readers, and some of its disquisitions, however cible as her own Helen Fleetwood nor as some papers important to the theologian and controversalist, are certainly founded on the same facts and disclosures that have ap- tedious. The narrative itself is often exceedingly prolix; peared in the Messenger. England, with oppressed, starving and murdered HEATHEN children in her own bosom, heeds not their groans, nor the appeals of the philanthropists; but stretches out her powerful hand to enlighten China, to Christianise and guard India and to liberate the contented, because well fed, well treated and, compared with many of her own operatives, the well instructed, negroes of the United States. How animating the contrast in our own Factories! Where in all England is there a "Lowell Offering." This we suppose might appropriately be styled "the RIGHTS of woman." HARPER'S ILLUMINATED AND NEW PICTORIAL BIBLE. and the repetitions numerous and useless. All these faults appeal in favor of an abridgement. The one before us seems to be designed for youth, whose tastes and capacity might neither induce nor enable them to wade through the Extended History. Mr. Dalton has, as far as possible, retained the language of the author, thereby preserving, in some degree, the qualities of style and enthusiasm which lend such charms to the original. Every one should examine the History of the Great Reformation; and laying aside its Sectarian tendencies, no one presents it in more attractive form than D' Aubigné. IRELAND. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork and the Kilkenny Races, the Round Towers, the Lakes of Killarney, the County of Wicklow, O'Connel and the Repeal Association; Belfast and the Giant's Causeway. By J. G. Kohl, New-York. Harper & Brothers; Drinker and Morris, Richmond, 1844. pp. 115, 8vo. LETTERS FROM IRELAND, 1837. By Charlotte Elizabeth. John S. Taylor, New-York, 1843. Joseph Gill, Richmond. Drinker and Morris have sent us the 1st No. of this Work. Its Splendor and Beauty filled us with admiration, and we thought the highest credit due to the enterprise and taste of the Publishers. We have since seen a sort of protest against the publication, by some clergymen of New Jersey, who not only object to the principle of illustrating the Inspired Volume; but pronounce many of the illustra tions to be obscene. The fine arts can not be better employed than in illustrating and impressing the Word of God. THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. Leonard Scott, The nature and wants of the human mind render this highly & Co., New-York. Joseph Gill, Richmond. beneficial; whilst the cultivated taste and the sense of the No country surpasses Ireland in Historic and Intellectual beautiful are gratified by the representations. There can interest. Her deeds and her eminent Poets, Philosophers be no doubt, then, as to the propriety and advantage of the and Orators have embalmed her forever. Whatever may plan of this costly Work; but all depends upon the execu- befal her and however long it may continue, there is a vition, the purity, the appropriateness and expressiveness of tality in her associations that can not be destroyed; but the artist's designs. Without proof to the contrary, we will, like the seed buried three thousand years with the strongly incline towards the Work; from the known princi- mummy, spring up and flourish. We do not, as at present ples and habits of the publishers. It is certainly a disad-informed, anticipate any immediate benefit from the agitavantage attendant upon serial publications that one may, in tion of Repeal in Ireland; but the Emerald Isle will be their progress, become dissatisfied. The only security is brought prominently before the world-Her associations the character of the publishers; and we feel disposed to will be rekindled; Her History read; Her territory exrely upon that of Harper and Brothers and Mr. Chapman, plored. In this way the vast centralising tendency towards who would not forfeit the reputation they now enjoy, by England will be checked, and more of nationality be imoffending against modesty. There will inevitably be blem- parted to her. How long has England shorn Ireland of all ishes in the work. In the No. before us we would like to her glory, claiming and enjoying the splendor of all her gechange some of the illustrations, which are badly chosen nius, besides exhausting her substance and expending her and worse executed. But we do not doubt, that its merits resources! The English majority must first have their senwill far outweigh its defects and it will stand a monument timents gradually changed towards Ireland, before she can of American skill, taste and liberality. The entire Work derive any of those benefits, which are hoped for in vain will contain sixteen hundred historical engravings; more from an immediate repeal of the Union. Ireland should have a powerful Literary Organ; one that could force its | which should enable us to propose to young girls the career Irish principles into England. Such a work would widely of teachers, without presenting to their minds the idea of circulate in this Country. The republication of the Dublin becoming mothers. What could be better imagined than to University Magazine is to be suspended. We are not sorry engage them in teaching the children of the poor? The perfor it. It is not very able and it is not Irish enough in spective of instruction, either in teaching one's self, or in its tone to render the Country the service it needs. Char- overlooking those so employed, is perhaps the most favorlotte Elizabeth well says, "when Englishmen learn to viewable of any to the acquisition of solid information. It Ireland as she is, the first great step will be achieved to-obliges the individual, to comprehend principles which are wards making her what she ought to be." THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, for January, 1844. This able Review makes a bold and admirable entrance upon a new year. The first article is upon Griswold's Poets and Poetry of America. He uses Mr. Griswold fairly and kindly, for his excessive amiability and charity in admitting so many writers amongst the poets of America and giving such numerous evidences of their claims. When a Compiler or Editor undertakes to discriminate, he should be required to do so; and his judgments are fair subject of criticism. It is impossible to deduce what was the standard of admission to the Grand Entrée. But for the absence of some names, we might infer it was the fact of having scribbled some verses in America. Even then, would not one or two specimens have sufficed for some who are honored with pages? As a Collection of American Poetry it is too limited and exclusive as to authors and productions; as a knowledge. Our authoress does adhere to this, and opens Selection, which it was intended to be, it lacks discrimination. The labors and difficulties of the work, however, must have been very great; and we are exceedingly obliged for a book which puts at our disposal a great deal of whose existence we would otherwise have been ignorant. too often neglected in the education of women. The different degrees of advancement in young girls will be be expected to bestow. They may choose elementary found to correspond with the kinds of instruction they may books, translate them from other languages if necessary, and prepare useful reading of every kind." The various humane and charitable institutions would afford an excellent opportunity, for carrying out this principle. It is very obvious that important movements in publie sentiment are taking place in favor of woman. Her position in the more civilized nations, is as high as needs be; for she commands and sways. But seeing that her position is thus elevated and her power thus controlling, it becomes our duty, pride and interest, to consider how she may best be fitted to adorn her station and to wield for good her towering influence. As long as the guiding principle, of confining her to the private circle is adhered to, we will rejoice at the efforts to elevate her in purity and The Reviewer despatches Judge Haliburton of Nova Scotia, somewhat to our taste. The Judge is probably worthy of his notice; but "The Attaché” and “Change for American notes" certainly are not. Who would deal with coin small enough to change Dickens' "notes?" We should have to borrow from the Savages some of their worthless representatives of value and subdivide them infinitesimally. The Review of Prescott's Mexico is labored; but interesting. It justly extols the splendid work; but wants arrangement; and for the space it occupies gives too little information about the Conquest. You know all about the book; but not about its absorbing subject. This may have proceeded partly from the recent appearance of the article on Cortés' Despatches. The other articles we can not now specify-The one on State debts is very seasonable. THE STUDY OF THE LIFE OF WOMAN. By Madame This interesting work is after the order of "the Education of Mothers," to which the authoress refers, with merited praise. But the present work goes a step farther, and presents a novel idea in educating those who may not be mothers. There is much philosophy as well as philanthropy in the suggestions. a rich mine of thought and suggestion, tending to the improvement and blessing of every stage of existence. The work is exceedingly systematic, and combines the most beautiful and sweeping generalization with the commonest details of domestic concern. And then the spirit of true religion sanctifies its philosophy, and breathes its perfume over every page. We would recommend to mothers and trainers of girls to bind it up with "The Education of Mothers," and to use them as a manual. REMARKS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. By Henry Lord Brougham, F. R. S. Member of the National Institute of France, and of the Royal Academy of Naples. Containing the concluding Series of Statesmen who flourished in the time of George III. Philadelphia, Lea and Blanchard. Drinker and Morris, Richmond. The French Revolution has engaged the pens of some of England's greatest Statesmen, from Burke to Lord Brougham. In the present day, the writers who have taken it in hand, might be supposed to have exhausted the subject; but it will ever continue to be most fruitful and to give rise to the greatest extremes of opinion and deduction. An Englishman elevated by Majesty, to the titles of the realm, must be liberalised indeed, to think even soberly of this grand melodrama. As a general rule, we think it will appear, that those who have been elevated to rank, in England, from comparative obscurity, have been tories, and especially will this be shown by the History of the Lord Chancellors. We observe that such a Work is now in progress from a very distinguished source. Lord Brougham may not always "The business of teaching is adapted to women, and were have been very consistent; but now, he is decidedly liberal it not for the immense inconvenience and danger of exci- and enlightened in his principles. This appears conspicuting expectations that might never be fulfilled, it would be ously in the merited castigation he has given Lord Lydenin preparing them to be mothers, that we should best suc- ham, in the work before us. Lord S., Governor General ceed in forming their characters and their minds. Morali- of Canada, where he had full opportunity of imbibing prety, intelligence, sensibility, all the faculties would be de- judices and none of correcting them, was pleased to write veloped under the auspices of this hope; but who would some letters to England, betraying as great ignorance and dare to brave the dreadful grief caused by the feeling of narrow-mindedness, as malignity. Among other things, he having failed in the object of life, that grief which in marned women without children, is carried sometimes to a deplorable excess? That would then be a happy discovery pronounces our Political System a "bubble," which he hopes to see burst and does not think he will have to live very long to do so. He seems rather to exult at the idea of |