The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-01-01

veteran and industrious author has entitled hinase
To the gratitude Of scholars throughout the world. BY
| placing in Q desirable form these important 10
searches and speculstons, which are fruits OF long
life's devotion TO the study Of Indian character
languages, traditions and history. When tho rod
race shall be extinct this great work Of his will re
| main their most impsrishsbls monument, and the
principal and most reliable Of information 70
specting them.
Nrs HARRIET BEscHER Stowe 10 busy with the
proof sheets Of Ter " Journal in Europe" A free
soil and progrsss-in general magazine was TO have
been commenced by her publishers on the beginning
OF the new year; but there was aareup Of some
5crt, We believe, and the scheme has been abandon
ed. 1t is doubtful whether . partisan magazine Of
the description proposed could be successful, not
withstandDg the fact that 100000 copies Of Uncle
Tom" have been sold in this country.
w. Fl. c. HosMsR, whose lyrics and poems, sug-
gested by Indian traditions, &C., have been eminently
popular, particularly in central and western New
York, has in press an edition Of his I" Poetical
Works." in two ample octave volumes, nearly 1000
copies Of which are subscribed for in advance. Mr.
Hosmer has peculiar and striking merits as poet,
and this collection Of his writings win be welcome
offering TO his friends and admirers.
JAMES T. FIELDS has given to the public an ex-
quistely printed edition Of his poems. Nothing
from the American press is in all respects more
daintily executed. Mr.. Fields, like Halleck, has
written very little; but all his pieces are remarkable
for the harmony Of their versifcaton for decacy Of
feeling refined sentiment, and an indeectable taste.
Of other new volumes Of poetry, the most noticea-
BILE are Passion Flowers" understood to be by
daughter OF one Of the most celebrated American
bankers Of the last generation, now the wife Of 9
world renowned philanthropist, and Poems and
Parodies," by Phebe Carey. The !" Passion Flow
ers are in the vein Of Tennyson, and have many I'M
osentatious but extraordinary merits, with occasion
al limitations Of philosophy something too lber-
all and progressive to suit oldfashoned thinkers.
Phebe Carey's Parodies" are as good as anything
Of their kind done, and her more serious poems
are nearly all deserving Of praise.
new volume of Poems, Sacred, Passionate, and
Legendary" by Mary E. Hewitt, is on the eve Of
publication. Mrs. Hewitt has written the best love
songs produced in this country-full Of Imagination
and tenderness expressed in noble and most musical
numbers.
The second series of Covernook, or Recollections
Of our Neighhorhood in the West" by Alice Carey,
Is filed with displays of wonany genius. Five rival
editions attested the popularity Of the first series in
England and the sale of nearly 10000 copies at
home .evirced the authors control of the common
sympathies and the strong hold she has acquired of
the general admiration and affection. This second
series is the most delightful American book of the
season, and II will have as large sale as its prede.
cessor.
The idea that the Roman Catholic Church is hos
Tile to the circulation Of the Holy Scriptures is in
come sort refuted by Dunigan's splendid edition Of
the Bible, publishing in quarto numbers, with the
Of Archbishop Hughes. This is the
finest edition Of the Roman Catholic English version
Of the Bible ever printed.
BONN, the great English pubisher-whose books
have the correctness of the Aldine editions every
Of intelligent and learned annexation and
Lo most convenient FORMS to commence with the
new yeara Historical Library to comprise the best
English historians-Hume, Gibbon, Robertson t&c.-
with the best histories from other languages. No
popular Libraries have ever been selected SO judi
ciously as those Of Bohn, and their unparalleled
cheapness insures for them circulation wherever the
English tongue is understood.
The most important historical publication in Anne
ca during the last year is the History of the Apos
tolc Church." by Professor SoHAF, of Mercersburg,
Pa. 1t is closely printed octave of about seven
hundred pages, and for learning, Judgment, temper
and style, is ranked by the Edinb.srg ReU,eD, by
the Cbevalier Bunssn, and by our own most distn-
guished scholars, with the most celebrated produc
tions Of this age.
Mr. HENRY JAMES, Of this city, will in few days
meet one Of the leading ideas Of Dr. Schaf in small
volume, under the title Of " The Church not an Ec
clesiasticism."
T. B. THORPE, author Of /" The Big Bar OF Arkan-
sas''-the most admirable exhibition ever made in
print Of Southwestern humor and extravAgance-has
in press Scenes and Characters down the Missssip-
pi."
6HIEL, the Irish orator, contributed, several years
ago, TO Campbell's Ne,0 Monthly Magazine, series
Of" Sketches Of the Irish Bar, which DR.. Shelton
Mackenzie who has for some time resided in this
city, will repubish in few days. with numerous ad-
ditions. The work win be one Of the most enter
tanning in the whole range Of anecdotal biography.
WILLIAM GILMORE SMMs is the most prolific Of
American novelists. He has written, under various
names, nearly as many novels and romances as Mr..
James and he keeps pace with that Industrious gen.
tleman in every years production. A new and very
handsome edition Of all his works has just been COM
menced, and win be completed in forty or fifty
Volumes OF which the series Of Revolutionary tales,
"The Partisan" The Yemasee," &C., will make
Eve. His Poems" in two volumes, will be out next
week.
Mr.. MAcAuLEY's speeches in Parliament and else
where were first collected in two volumes in this city
last year, and have had large SALE The threatened
republication of this American edition by viztelly,
of London, induced Mr.. Macauley to bring out 90
lection Of his speeches, in one volume, embracing
about half the contents of the New York copies.
Professor MAURICE, recently expelled from Kings
College, London, for heretical notions respecting the
word eternal has brought out new and enlarged
edition Of his theological Essays'-one ofthe most
brilliant religious books Of the present day. 1t will
be reprinted here Immediately.
The Rev. DR.. KIP, Bishop Of California, finished,