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wood. Boston: Ticknor,

PoEMs; by Grace Greenwood. Boston: Ticlnor,
Reed, s. Fields, 1850
To the praise of our best American Poets be it pok-
en-, that they generally belong to the progressive school,
and cherish in their bosorls sympathy Tor hui
manity and freedom Grace Greenwood (Sara j..
Ciarke) is no new candidate for public favor, and her
summary ejecment from the Editorship of Cooley
ladys Book because her reputation unpalaable TO
the South, has brought her prominently than ever
before the public. The volume before us is selection
OF the best of her poetic writings and will be sought
by the public, less for its own intrinsic merits than
from admiration of the character of the fair author
1t Is published in good style, with beautiful portrait
of the author For sale by j. Grout.
TRUE STORIES from History and Biography, by Ma
thanlel Hawthorne. Boston: Tcknor, Reed, &
Fields. 1850
Hawthorne is universal favorte, and no American
writer, perhaps, has been more successful than he in
narrative The work before us contains ssIhe whole
History Of Grandtahers Chair, complete in three
parts and Biographical Stories of BENJAMIN West, Sir
Isaac Newton, DR.. Sam. Johnson, Oliver Cromwell
Benjamin Franklin, and Queen Christina. In the His
tory of Grandlather's Chair are interviewer great
number of the most exciting and interesting incidents
OF cur history. The Biographical Notices also abound
in incidents, and the whole book is written in STYLE
peculiarly attractive to the young, for whose benefit
is chiefly intended. 1t is embellished with neat en-
cravings, and published in style that makes it au ex-
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present. For sale by ]. Grout.
6 WESTMINSTER REVIEW FOR OCTOBER. This
number is the first of new volume the 31st of this
admirable publication, and it offers good opportunity
to the reader to subscribe what do not hesitate to
call the best of the foreign quarterlies This is /.
Scott & Co.'S American reprint, and may be obtained e
E. n Tucker, for 3 year, Or if taken in connection
with another of the Reviews for year for the two
The contents of the October number are as follows:
l. Hindu Drama; 2 Natural Systems of Botany:
3, Consular Establishments; f. Tennyson's in Memori-
am; D, County Court Extension; 6, Memoirs of Will
liam Penn; T. Su nmary OF the Session. 8, Septenarv
Institutions; 9, Foreign Literature; 10, Critical and
miscellaneous Notices.
THE EDINBURGH REVIEW for October, is also
reprinted by L. Scott s. Co. Its contents are l. His
tory of the English Language; 2, the United States;
3, British Museum Commission; 4, History of the
Language and Literature of Ancient Greece; 5; The
Euphrates Expedition; g. Classical Romances; T. En-
gration and Industrial Training; 8, Difficulties of Re
publican France; 8, Horace and Tasso.
For sale by E. n. Tucker.
SARTAIN's MAGAZINE for December, is rich in
embellishments. One represents Gutenberg showing
his daughter the first proof sheet of his Bible printed
from movable types. Another is a coored engraving
of that American Mecca, Mount Vernon I'll. 7. Tuck
erman contributes a capital article on Christopher
North, and Geo. S. Burleigh has another on ''The
Beauty of the Useful, and the Use Of the Beautiful