Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-10-18

dHE NoHTH AMERICAN REvIEw. No. cIxxxy. 0cto-
Der, 1859 Boston: CROSBY, NICHOLS & Co.
The current number Of the North american con-
tAins ten able articles besides the literary notices.
There has never been time when this Quarterly
has been 30 well conducted as at the present period
OF Its existence. The editor, Mr. PEABODY, is gen.
ueman Of sound taste and what is Of more import
anes, Of great discretion. He knows how to reject
as well TO accept and has secured the services Of
an able corps Of contributors.
There are three sympathetic and discriminating
biographical and critical reriews-On CoOPEe, the
novelist, DOUoL-As JEREOLD and PRAED. COoFER is
considered as the father of American romance;
while his faults, both as a writer and man. are
admtted and explained, his ehivalric excentsici-
ties are accounted fo- by his enthusiastic devotion
10 whatever cause he espoused. The charge of
cynicismlusually made against DoUeL,ss JERROLD, is
denied snda tender vein of sympathy is shown to be
underlying all his hearty sarcasms. In these times
of pressure on the mental development of youth,
not instructors only but parents would do well to
read the article on the Causes of Mental Disease.
The author considers that there is as much danger
in a constant strain on the brain as in continually
overlooking the stomach. There is more truth than
poetry in the statement that youthful preeocity is
Among the critical notices is brief but favorable
notice of the novels Of william GILMORE Sims Our
space viii not allow more lengthy notice Of this
number. w. 7. BERRY Co have il for sale.
THz Mississippi BusBuE; Memoir by Adoph
Theirs and accounts Of the DAEEE REPETITION and the
sOuTH SCHEME Translated and edited BY Frank s. Fske
VA Townsend q Co., New York
To commend anything written by N. .THIERs, the
great French historian, idle. This account of
the Mississippi Bubble, which occupies about two
thirds Of the book, was one of his earlier prOduc-
lions and attracted the attention of thinking
men, to the remarkable genius of its author. The
remainder of the book is made up of an account Of
the Darien Exped ition, from the Encyclopedias Bri
tannica; and the South Sea Scheme, from Mackay's
Memoirs Of Popular Decisions" The editor has
thus brought in juxtaposton the three most remark
able financial delusions that eapdvated the
popular fancy
The book is both interesting and instructive. II
treats both Of currency and commerce, and Of both
quite phiIosophically To young America il reads
lesson of prudence which to heed would be wis
dom. Our financial atmosphere is full of bubbles,
not as extrsvagant or as universally cutched at
these even but STILL sufficient the country
every year with wrecks of broken fortunes lost
among the shoals and qucksands of unstable specu-
latons. The instances here presented show to what
a pitch of blind infatuaton these golden dreams Of
suddenly acquired wealth may carry community,
and here, where the specializing mania so RACES as
10 produce a financial crisis" about once in ten
years. on the average, the lesson should not be lost
The book is worth reading and viii be found gen
orally interesting W. T. BERRY & Co. have it for
sale.