Mobile register and journal., 1845-10-31

| JNo. X. RANDALL, Al Water street, has sent us
quite number of new publications. from The prolific
press of Harper & Brothers, among them several in.
terestng and valuable books:
! The Wandering JeW, No. 10, which completes the
series of this thrilling production.
| The Bosom Friend, by the author Of the Gambler ,
Wife, ETC.. being No. 81 of Harper's Library Of Sc
lect Novels.
| The EncycIopedia of Domestic Economy, No. II
the merits of which have heretofore spoken.
| The American Shepherd, being complete history
Of sheep, with their breeds, management and dseas.
es, illustrated with drawings of their breeds, etc ,
by L. A. MorreIl. This work ls highly spoken OF
by the northern press, and sheep raising is begin
ming to little attention in the south, we
shall lake an early occasion examine it and make
our readers better acquainted with branch Diane
rcan industry that should become mole popular with
US.
A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Children, by
James Stewart 81. D., etc. This book is written
| by an American, and as an evidence OF its excel
! lence, we observe that it has gone through three
editions, the present carefully revised and en-
larged.
| The Elements Of Morality, includi & Polity, by
William Whewell, d. D., author of the History and
Philosophy OF the Inductive Scences--In 2 vol. IL
no. These volumes constitute Nos. and of liar
pcr's New Miscellany enterprise which we hope
will be entirely successful the publishers promise
the shall be composed Of attractive and sterling
books.
This is new work, and will uaquesonaby take
a high rank among the productions of the day 1t liz
"rom the pen ofone Of the most eminent scholars of
| the age, exhibiting in lucid, exact and elegant
style the great principles Of moral, political and &C.
cesiastica science" So say the American publish.
ers in their advertisement In relation to the char
acler and aue of the work and the ability OF The
author, a New York paper remarks that "the Rev.
anthor brings to his task mind at once disciplined
by The exact sciences, and thoroughly imbued with
the spirit of that book in which lie the foundations of
all good morals-as well OF all sound religion
The aim OF the author is-as his title ihdcaiesnot
TO treat of moral philosophy, but of the elements
Themselves Of notwithstanding 10 educe and estab-
llsh them as axioms, or moral propositions deduced
BY successive steps of reasoning, go as to form II
connec ed ~ stem oil coral truth Il is from such
IONS or problems thai lie s,,sopliy oil system is
to be reasoned aboat-bui tins is entirely diae
rent from soaking ou and propounding the axioms
themselves. The principles which are the Iounda-
ton oflhe reasoning in this system of morality, SAYS
the preface, are these given in articles 269, 40,
27l, as The express principles Of humanity, justice,
truth, purity, order, earpestness and moral ends,
principles analogous. in some measure, in morality,
to The axioms in geometry. The author divides his
general subject into FIVE branches: Jurisprudence,
the Morality of Reason the Morality Of Religion,
PoIiiy, and International Law. The discrimination
made between the morality Of and that OF re-
Lyon is an improvements as il shows in many places
the guidance OF human reason to be insufficient
without re gon, and points religion as
ny higher guide"
But with all these high testimonials. we cannot,
as whole, approve of the book. II is 10 be regret
ted that the aulhor-wbo doubtless wrote fol other
readers than his own countrymen, and perhaps in
dulged in aspirations that his book should ouve the
mass of its contemporaries. should have gone into
the discussion and condemnation of slavery, not
" in the abstract, but as il exists in the planting
States of this Union. And it's, perhaps, 10
he regretted that he has, manifesly 10 strengthen his
position and arguments in regard TO American sIa-
very, made papable mistaements Of facts