The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1854-02-23

which Mr.. Greeley has been long accustomed
to think and towrite 1t is work to be stud
led and treasured up for future use.
GUIDE TO ENGLISH COMPOSITION or One Hun
dred and Twenty Subjects analysed. and illustrated
frem analogy and the writings of celebrated ancient
and modern authors, to teach the art of argument
alton and the development of thought By the
Rev. DR.. Brewer. Boston C. S. Francis & Co
For sale by Taylor Maury, Pa. avenue, Wash
ington. d. c. vol, PIP. AIS.
We have no faith in any contrivances o.
teachers which will make the hill of science sc
easy that it will cease to be the strenuous and
the earnest who alone shall reach the summit
But we find in this book much to admire and
commend. 1t is by one Of the masters of Trim
ity Hall, Cambridge, England, and its method
is admirable and if only used as guide to be
gin with, until boy shall---to use the school
boy saying common in Nav England-ags
The hang Of the school us, it would do good ser
vice but, There must be butts everywhere, anG
oftsnest in such matters as these the DANCE,
of saving labor and making hard task easy
renders it questionable as to the ultimate re
suits of this and like books. +
HELEN MULGRAvB, OR JESUIT ExBcuToRsHIP
l vol. PIP. 312. Published by De Witt Daven
port, Nassau street, New York. Sold by Gray
BaIlantyne Washington.
Seldom have we read q work of such alb
sorbing interest, describing, as it does, the pro
cess by which young inquiring mind is led tc
CT off he or a. IL: e.:
which it was trained, and the prosecutions tc
which it is in consequence subjected, extend
ing through every relation of life.
The book contains many truths of vital i'm.
portance. G.
THE CONVENT AND THE MANsE. By Hyla Bos
ton: John P. Jewett l. Co. Cleaveland: Jowett
Proctor, Worthington. Sold by Gray & Ballan
tyne, Washington. l vol. Pp 242
We are here presented with delightful pic
ture of clergyman's home-a home where
intelligent industry presides, and governed by
the sweet law of love; where the heart is free
as mountain winds to gush forth in loving
words and deeds or in merry play with the
happy spirits that surround ia little heaven
NV sA0 A0o'0h "hoAO III ooiIoW rs, Out Wnere
it comes as a ministering angel to turn the
thoughts more trustingly upward, and make
the tried and purified spirit beam with more
heavenly lustre. Perhaps the author is cler.
gyman's wife, and her own home sat for the
portrait. If So we envy its inmates, one and
all-from the happy husband down to the Irish
servant girl. So
In strong contrast is presented the life of a
convene, where the glad gushings of the heart
of youth are represented as fettered by unnat.
ural restrictions. The author arraigns those
parents who, to crafty selfish ambition, and
gain political influence, send their daughters
away from free and happy homes, where they
have been tenderly reared by the hand of ma
ternal love- and shut them up within gloomy
walls where, he says, they are subject to the
artful persuasions and insidious teachings Of
Jesuits and Sisters, miscalled of Mercy. He
holds, that forbidden to think, to judge, to ac
for themselves, it is impossible that their mind,
should be as thoroughly disciplined asin schools
where free discussion and inquiry are encour
aged; and hence that they the more readily
receive the specious falsehoods and complicated
dogmas taught them for truth. To believe and
obey is their duty, and not to reason and reflect
Consequently, they soon learn to consider theil
parents heretics, and in the end fall into the
arms of Holy Mother Church" G.