The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-04-26

be got up. The learned and laborious John
d'Alva published, at Salamanca, forty-eight folio
volumes, for the establishment of the dogma
| recently declared TO be the true Catholic faith
the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Vir-
GIN" Nor did he exhaust the subject which
has so recently received the pontifcal sane
ton. ~
A YEAR o THE WAR BY Adam d g. Gurowskl. New
York: ID. Appleton & Co For sale by R Farnham
Washington ID. C.
The author is an able man, well versed in
the affairs of Europe, very decided in his opin
ions, and no less decided in his expression of
them. Although Pole, his sympathies are
now with Russia as they were during the later
contests between that Power and Poland; and
he is at pains to point out in this book the
great advantages of closer intimacy between
Russia and the United States, both progressive,
as he assumes, but under different forms, by a
different method.
THE CHRISTIAN Examiner and Religious Miscellany.
| March, 1855. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Il Co
The Examiner for March contains a fine va
| riety of articles Of general interest, of which
good idea may be got by glance at the fol-
lowing table of contents:
Auguste de Gerando;
A Song of the Night;
Ecclesiastical Crisis in Germany;
Reflection;
Facts from the Last Census;
Barnum's and Greeley's Biographies;
Neander's Church History;
Arius and Athanasius;
Nnt,oao &C Raaapf D,,hl ,,,I
Notices.
We cannot forbear calling special attention
to the "Song of the Night" poem great in
| thought, and all glowing with devotional feel
| ing. A Poem by the same author, Mr.. Fox
| TON, graces the columns of the Era this week.
The New York QUARTERLY. Vol Nv, No. l. April 1855
New York: James G. Reed Three dollars per annun,
In advance.
We have not seen many numbers of this
| Quarterly, but we should judge, from what we
have seen, that its discussions generally have a
particular relation to questions of practical in
terest to this country. In the number before
US, the administration of Mayor Wood in New
York is ably sustained, rnd there is a very
elaborate and instructive article on Post Office
Improvements, in which full exposition is
given of the money order system which has
worked so admirably in England.
The AMERICAN JOURNAL of the Medical Sciences Isaac
| Meyer NJ. d.. Editor. Philadelphia Blanchard & Lea.
| April, 1855 Five dollars per
We always look over the pages of this ample,
wellconducted Quarterly, with much interest.
In this number there is peculiarly interesting
paper on the registration of Births, Deaths, and
Marriages, in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
Jersey, and Kentucky. 1t is to be regretted
that such registration, careful and complete,
is not prepared in every State of the Union.
The subject of vital statistics is, to say the
least, of as much Importance as tables of popu-
lation, commerce, and manufactures.
NORM AMERICAN REVIEW April, 1855 Boston: Crosby
| & Nichols For sale by Franck Taylor, Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington. Six dollars a year.
Among the leading papers are Dissertation
on the Elements of Political Science, Review
of Bancroft, and an Inquiry into the Causes OF
| the American Revolution Modern Necromancy,
and an article on the French Revolution of
| l84S, in which several French works are brought
under review. Gayarre's History of Louisiana
receives great deal moro attention and praise
than it deserves and the critic who "does up''
| the critical notices." in his remarks on the
poetry of Alice Carey, must be either preju-
diced or deficient in taste, or he knows too lit
tie about it to speak intelligently.
PI-rSAMs MONTHLY April, 1855 New York G. p. Put
man, Three dollars year
This Monthly embraces in its scope articles
on National Welfare, Popular Science, General
| Literature, also Sketches of Travels, Biograph.
| zeal and Historical Sketches, Stories, Satires,
| &c. We observe in the present number Sc
| we're critique of Abbott's Life of Napoleon,
which is pronounced "the least creditable as
an intellectual performance, and one OF the
most exceptionable on moral grounds" " of all
the popular works which have recently come
from the American Press"
| B1AcKwooD's EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. March, 1855 New
York: Leonard Scott Co. For sale by Taylor d
/ Maury, Washington, D. C. Three dollars year
Table Of Contenls.-Beggar's Legacy; Zai
dee, Romance; Vagabond Life in Mexico
Civilization-the Census; A Peep at Paris
The Story of the Campaign in the Crimea; The
Ministerial Changes.
| HOUSEHOLD WORDS. By Charles Dickens. March, 1855
| Double Number Republished by j. A. Dix New York
Price 50 cents.
We need not say that this is one of the most
attractive and readable of periodicals.
| Mypc.L EXAMINER and Monthly Record s. L. Holdings
worth. NJ d., Editor Philadelphia: Lindsay Blakis
| Ton No Nv, Vol XI, New Series. April 1855 Three
| dollars year.
An excellent Monthly, worthy the patronage
of the profession.
ST. DOMINGO lis Revolutions and Its Hero, Toussain
Louverture BY c. w. Elliott New York; j. H. DIX
/ A Historical Discourse, condensed tor the
New York Library Association, and printed
for the use of the Committee.
II To allay prejudice against the colored race
and stimulate that race to efforts at self-im
provement, is the two-fold object of this sketch
Its theme is one of great interest, and it is han
died with ability and spirit. The events and
actors treated of have for this country 9 pecu
Fl har interest and significance.