The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17
Such men constitute the true wealth of our

edition. Phadelphia: w S. Young. For sale by
Gray Ballaniyne. One vol, PIP 3ei
The book is written to show the evils result
ing from this secret order of our countrymen,
and the point made, which seems to be the one
of weight, and must be so, if true, is, that it
usurps the place of the Church of Christ. OF
this we see no satisfactory proofs in anything
we have seen in the Order as it exists 1t is
among the events of this century, that Secret
Society, whose name is already myth, has
become the largest society in existence not
even KisoaO Nottings" can compare with the
Lodges of Odd-Fellowship for number and
memberships. The Church of Jesus Christ is,
after all, the best of all associations to do good,
and of all other societies in existence, we prefer
that; and for ourselves, we are confident that
a good Christian is I" the highest style of Man."
Nor does the open daylight of the Masters
teachings, his world-embracing sympathy, fail
to command our deepest reverence. ~
ASHTON COTTAGE; or The True Faith New York: Car
Brothers For sale by Gray & Ballantyae, Wash
ington. One vol. illustrated.
A pious tale, beautifully illustrated. ~
ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY For 1855 Edited by Da-
vd A. Wells. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. For sale by
Gray Baantyne, Washington. One VOL PIP 39i.
This work has now become standard pub
LEGATION, and the series are valuable contribu-
tions to every library. The amount of labor
and research which it has cost, cannot well be
estimated. We have here in this one volume
the most important discoveries and improve
ments in all the various sciences and useful
arts, made in all the world for 1854, reported
in the various publications of societies devoted
to science, in this and other lands.
This volume has very excellent likeness of
Lieutenant Maury, of the National Observatory
of this city, who has laid commercial men of
all countries under obligation to his contribu-
tons to science. M
THE WORDS OF JESUS One vol, PIP. 49, TIKI MIND OF
JESUS. One vol. PIP 1872. BY the author of Morning
and Night Watches" New York Carter & Brothers
For sale by Gray x Ballantyne, Washington.
These works are full of pious thoughts, grace
fully expressed, and are well worthy of the pop
ularity they have already attained. ~
WISDOM, W.T. WHr,Is, DISTINGUISHED ANCIENT PHI
LosoPnERs. BY Joseph Bauvard A. NJ New York
Sheldon Lamlort, & Brakeman. For sale by Taylor
* Maury and Gray & Ballan,yne, Washin gion. One
vol, pp. 40S.
We have had this book on our table for some
months, every day reading it with pleasure and
profit far exceeding any other book which it
has been our lot to meet with for many day.
1t is full of riches-the biographies of the great
minds of all ancient times, their brightest say
ings. their choicest wit, and their various eccen-
tricities, are all here, culled out of library of
ancient authors. In the price, there is no book
which has been printed of late which will so
well repay the money back to the purchaser
who shall transfer these pages to his brain.
A HISTORY TIE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BY DIR. Charles
Huse, Professor of Theology in the University al Jena
New York ID. Appleton & Co. For sale by Taylor &
Maury, Washington, ID. C.
The popularity of this work is shown by the
fact that it has passed through seven editions
in the German, each time having received the
careful revision of its author. The present
translation, by Professor Blumenthal, of Dick
inson College, and Rev. Conway p. Wing, of
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is from the seventh
German edition.
In the form of large octave of over 700
pages, it presents the great drama of the His
tory of the Christian Church. free from those
partisan comments and cumbrous details which
render ecclesiastical history so unattractive to
the general reader. 1t will serve alike as a
manual for the scholar, and a compendium for
popular use The translators, whose judgment
is entitled to great respect, remark, that the
work is not merely history of the hierarchy,
of the nobility, or of great men, but of the
Church. His descriptions therefore embrace
especially traits of common life, the progress
of the arts, and indications Of advancement in
social freedom"
THE HEALING NATIONS. BY Charles Linton with
an Introduction and Appendix by Nathaniel Z. Tall
madge. Published by the Society for the Diffusion Of
Spiritual knowledge New York
1t is an illustration Of the spirit of the age
and the genius of this country, to see an Ex-
Governor, an Ex-senator, and Ex-Politician
generally, changing his whole life, and devotng
himself to the cultivation of the science of the
Invisible and the Spiritual Mr.. Tallmadge
clearly is believer in the new science, so
called, and jealous apostle of it. He informs
US that this volume, a large octave of 536
pages, is the work of Charles Linton, a young
man of good natural capacity, but limited edu-
cation. A native of Bucks county, Pennsylva-
mia, he obtained such information as could be
furnished in the earlier common schools of his
district, and never had an opportunity of going
tha Of Cd
At sixteen, he was apprenticed to blacksmith,
and continued in that calling till he was TWEEN
ty-two. He then became clerk in dry goods
store, Philadelphia, subsequently book keeper
in another concern and, while thus employed,
became what is called "writing medium
year ago he was directed to quit writing IN
desultory style, and to give his attention to
work which would be dictated to him through
spiritual influence. He procured, accordingly,
a thick, bound blank volume, of the largest
sized letter-sheet, commenced writing, and the
present volume is the result.
Such is Mr.. Tallmadge's account of it, who
adds, that the chirography is beautiful, entirely
unlike his ordinary handwriting; that there
are 430 pages in the volume, and not a word
of importance in the volume erased or interlined
throughout; that large portion of it was
written in his presence, and from five to ten
pages written a day.
All these circumstances being duly vouched,
it must be admitted that the work is very curl
Gus one. CHANGING here and there at its con.
tents, and remembering the age, ordinary abil-
"a. 81 ii. 4