The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-06-14
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SoBrR AND T~smpERArE LIFE. Discourses and
Letters and Biography of Louis Coruaro.
20 cents EnuaIai & Walls New York.

cheerful and happy atthe age Of ninety five
years. He was a patriarch of the celebrated
Comedian family in Venice, and in his close
of life seems to have had a foretaste oil Q
higher state of existence when the soul
should be uuencumbered with the decaying
frame. He speaks like enjoying a celestial
existence in the anticipation Of his happy
thoughts. His physical and mental powers
were healthy until bis life sank away like
the Pickering light of an expiring lamp
Until near his death, he tells US in these let
lers, he could mount on horseback without
assisiance-,hai he wrote eight hours per
day when he pleased TO do go, tina, his voice
was melodious, and that his grandchildren
around him were fangels in minialure."-
He visited the different cities of Italy at the
age of eiehiy-fve, and took a lively IN lerss,
10 the improvement Of the city. He tells us
that he continued to learn something every
day, ard his life seems 10 have been all that
man could desire. How he lived 10 pleas
unity told BY him in this book.
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The controversy bet,veen Senator Brooks and
John, archbishop of N. York.-Growiug out
OF the speech of Senator Brooks on the
Church property Bill, in the N. Y. State
Senate, March 9Th 1855. Arranged for
publication with an Introductory preface
by w. S. Tisdale. Dewitt & Davenport,
Ne York. 25 C.
This controversy occupied much of the
public attention, and it will exhibi, to the
public not only The food for reflection
as-;--. p~-ao- put also agatns. american
and Protestant hierarchies. The blow which
the Protestant clergy struck in an un-Cbrist-
ian and envious spirit against their Catholic
brethren will rebound against themselves
very seriously. There are Protestant churches
which, even iftisy do not own quite as much
real estate as Archbishop Hughes holds 70:
tae Catholic church Ct New York, have yet
given abundance of vldence that their treas
ures aud concerns are not all Of a spiritual
kind, and that they strive for much that is
terrestrial. 1t is not the figures or power that
determines the morality of these things but
the disposition and will-the animus, as The
lawyers say. The quarrel will no doubt re-
suit in the passage Of very severe mortmain
laws in most States. In Pennsylvania the
Supreme Court decided the British statutes
of morlmain are in force here as a part Of
our common law, and The legislature went
pretty fat in that direction. As a chapter in
the study of this exciting subject the present
book is interesting.
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num-.
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written with ability, and It's selections and
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The KNIcKERBockIR MAGAZINE for June
contains the usual amount Of genuine, genial
enjoyment, we always find within it's covers.
The "edilor's table," a peculiar feature of
this work, is incompsrabIy inleresiing--ful
Of humor, spicy, jovial and inspiring. He
who fails to read told Kuick," monthly,