Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1858-08-27
BOOKS ON OUR TABLE.

Washington street, Boston, we have received " The
American Biographical Seriss." Lives of Israe Put
nam, OF Benedict Arnold Of Capt. John Smith. Three
. neat little volumes by George Canning Hill. This
is biographical series for the young, and as such
will be found highly useful and instructive. Its de-
sign furnish from the pages Of the worlds his
tory few eIamples of true manhood, lofty purpose
and perseverng effort such as may be safely held up
either for the admiration or emulation Of the youth
of the present day." These are pictures Of actual
life designed and executed for the youth Of the coun.
try; and the end is most exceently accomplished
The SERIES when completed will make most excel.
lent collection for the boys and girs libraryi and
by supplying the place of the yellow covered
trash novels of the day, work lasting benefit to the
morals of the young. For sale by j. w. Randolph,
Richmond.
From D. Appleton & Co., 346 All AsNew York,
we have received History OF Civilization in Eng.
lsnd"-by Henry Thomas Buckle. The new Month.
ly iLondon) Magazine, reviewing thls book, says:
"Mr Buckle selects Tor especial study the progress
of English civilization simply because, being less at
fected by agencss not arising from itself, we can The
more clearly dscern 10 ii the normal msroh OF society
and the undisurbsd operation OF those great laws by
which the fortunes Of mankind are ultimately regua.
ted he selects EnGldnQ IN preIereuOo tO TauCt oe
cause, although have been, and still are, greatly
indebted to the French for our Improvement in taste
in refinement in manners, and indeed 10 all the anne
mites Of life, We have borrowed from them nothing
absolutely essential, nothing by which the destines OF
nations are permanently altered while, on the other
hand the French have not only borrowed from Us
come very valuable political institutions; but even
the most important event in their history the hevo'
luton of l7S9 is due, in email degree to our inhu.
ence-,he leaders 10 that movement having learnt In
NH anphU and prin
to such fearful and yet sslutsry account at home.
And he prefers it to Germany, because the same
objections are still more applicable TO the Ger.
MANS among whom what he calls the protective prin
cipe has been. and Still is, stronger than In France
even the best OF the German governments constantly
interfering with the people, never leaving them to
themselves, always looking after their interests, and
u-ddling in the commonest affairs OF daily me- Inc
German intellect he regards as stimulated by tne
French into a sudden growth, and thus lrreEulary
MISUNDERSTANDING in fact hurried into an activity
greater than the average civilization OF the country
requires whence It results, that IN no European ma
lion do we find vide an interval between the high
est minds and the lswest-the German philosopher
possessing learning, and q reach OF thought whloh
places them the head of the civilized world while
the German people more supersttous more pre-
iudiced m0re really ignorant and unht 10 guide them
selves than are the inhabitants either oil France or o
England"
Also from the same house, We have received "A
Text Book OF Vegetable and Animal Physiology
Dsrigned for the use of Schools Seminares and Col
lsges in the United States" By Henry Goadby, NJ
D., Professor of Vegetable and Animal PhysiologJ
and Entomology, in the State Agricultural College il
Michigan; Fellow of the LinDaan Society OF Lon
DOM Corresponding Member Of the Albany IN T..
Institutes; Honorary Member of the Literary and His
torica Society of Quebec; and formerly Dissector
Minute Anatomy to the Royal College OF Surgeons o
England. Embellished with upward Of four bundret
and fifty illustrations. Yew York D. Appleton &
Co.
Physiology, or the science which teaches the func
ton of all the different parts organs of animals ant
plants or the offices which they perform in the econo
my Of the individual; Or in other words, the scenc
of life. is daily esteemed of greater Importance.
Physiology, as DOW understood, has become q1ite
modern ecence, and one that owes its great advance
ment and chief excellence to the Microscope alone
Without it's invaluable aid our notions and opin-
ions would be crude unsatsfactory, and erroneous
as were those Of our forefathers. Before ts might,
presence every fragment of tissue Ia bound to sue
cumb it has 40 preconceved theory to support III it
called upon to do but one thing to assist in
searches, and noby it does t-H tells the truth
whereby the laws OF physiological science are ren
dsred as certain as problem in Mathematics.
| Also, from the same house, we have received
"THE CoorERs, or Getting Under Way."-B,
Alice b. Haven, axthor of mo Such Word as Fail,
"An's Not Gold That Gtters," etc. This is nea
little volume, designed to offer wholesome advice t
those who marry without the faintest idea OF tn
carea and responsibilities involved, or with any de
finite aim in life, after the wedding, the bridal tour
and the gaiety that usually follows" have ended
| For sale by J. Woodbouse & Co.