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C4RlsTIAN LIVING AND BELIEVING. Sermons bv F. B
Pb,GNTINGT9N, D. d Preacher to the University and
hummer PTOfe sor Of Christian Morals in ard Col
iege' lvol l2mo., PIP. 52S. 1860
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"ed relating to the Government finances legislation
"public institutions, internal improvements and re-
"sources of the United States and the several
States. This useful and complete Annual Regis
ter is well known and very generally appreciated
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TIE GREAT TRBULATIoN or THINGS COMING ON THE EARTH
BY the Rey JoHN CUNNING d. D. F, r. s E. Minister of
| l2mo., PIP. sos 1860 w.
| From E. D. Long & Co., New York; for sale by
| Henry Taylor:
THE LEISURE MOMENTS of Miss Martha Ianes Butt A. NJ
| vol l2mo PIP. 442 1850.
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TIE MAN BLACK Historical Romance of the days of
gas's Page &c, &c In paper Philadelphia; T. B. Peter
son Brothers. Complete in one vol.
From j. B. Lppincott & Co., Philadelphia and
for sale by Jas. S. Waters and John Murphy & Co..
Baltimore street:
THE RIVALS tale of the times of Aaron Burr and Alex
ander Hamilton. BY Hon. JERE. CLEMENS, author of
1860. Pr -
The imagination can never be more out of place
than In attempting to correct of fact, to
which class all historical misrepresentation belong
To accomplish this the judicial and not the nven-
tive faculties should be called into reuuistion old
fctions should be exposed-not new ones sub
stituted and the justice rendered should be sub
stantal and not poetical. The author of this novel
history, rather than historical novel, declares 81
collected many old pamphlets and documents rela-
ting to Burr and Hamilton, and endeavored to ex-
tract from them enough of the truth to enable me to
form just estimate Of the characters of both That
estimate once formed, the book was made to CORES
pond with it; the main historical facts alone being
preserved, while all the rest is the offspring of the
imagination" He adds: "of Alexander Hamilton |
have written nothing of which do not believe he
'1aS capable, after the fullest examination of his
own writings, and those of others. That Ihave en-
tertaned strong preudices against him from boykood
| IS true" We are responsible for the itaI-
| les In these quotations, which will serve to
illustrate the philosophy with which this book has
been written. Starting with violent prepossessions
| against the man who stands among the first of
| those whom more than one generation has learn
ed to honor as it learned to spell, and with pre-
| sumptions probably equally decided in favor of
him, whose honor died long years before its desert
a6 toha o1a
ping short with ''enough of truth to confirm the
impressions with which he started into the concu-
sions he desired to reach he proceeds to construct
semi-history of the relations of these men in con-
formity with the views thus conscientously attain
| ed That in such way Alexander Hamilton
| and Aaron Burr have been made to change places,
with the aggravation that the great Secretary of
| the Treasury is made to seem fool as we'll as knave
| will surprise no one. In this way, George Wash
ington might be made to appear the per6dious and
/ selfish chieftaip, and Benedict Arnold a brave
and injured patriot. We do not wish to be under
stood as assuming that the verdict of history in
| reference to the great "rivals' may not be i'm
peached, and perhaps in particulars set aside:
but certainly not by an attempt like this which is
| wholly unjusti6abe. 1t is therefore not without
satisfaction that we find there is nothing in the ex
ecution of the work to render it at all dangerous
| The pill will never be swallowed for its sugar Or
| gliding.
Horsemen and Vikings to the present day. Bv the Rev
Wan Languages and Literature in the University Of New
York New York: Pudney Russell. i vi i2mo., Hp
To compress the "hstory'' of a land not sterile
in facts and certainly Astounding in fables, for Pc
Rod of some fifteen hundred years, into about one
fourth of that number of duodecimo pages of large
| well-leaded type with handsome margin, would
seem to be little less marve llous than the Arabian
| legend which describes the getting of the Genie
| into the casket.
1t is manifesty impossible that such an attempt
can be anything more than catalogue raisonne of
the astounding names and startling events which
the more deliberate and philosophical historian of
the "wOmb Of nations" may hereafter elaborate
The author admits that his knowledge of the
| language which he uses is not sufficiently ac-
curate to enable him to write with ease and per-
spicuity-a fact which is sometimes amusingly ap-
parent. For example, p. $50, referring to the
laughter of Col. Sinclair with his Scotch merce.
naries, the reader is told "The Norwegian ,asants
highly provoked at their plunderngs and cruelties
took up whatever arms they could Law hold of,
'boldy encountering the Colonel and his Scotsmen
Sin Guldbrandsdalen (the Gulbrand vallev), south
'of the mountain Dovrefed where the Scottish chief
''and his 400 soldiers save two in the most horri
"ble massacre, were formally slaug htered." Again.
p. 80. we learn that "Struensee had fornaoUy mo
"nopOlized the favor of the young queen Certainly
such formalites are highly Objectionable At
25S the author quotes the translation 'made BY
| 'Professor Longfellow" of the celebrated Danish
| war-song:
| Kong Christian stod we'd Hoien Mast
(hing Christian stood by the high mast
and then proceeds to say at affords me much plea
''sure to quote this excellent translation, in which
"the Danish original has not lost more of its power
ethan is the with every translation" This
work is an attempt to supply an acknowledged de-
fciency in the historical department of English
literature, but we fear will not be regarded as a
successful one.
From }. B. Lippncott Il Co., Philadelphia: for
sale by Armstrong Berry:
| TITLE HUNTING. By F. L. LLEwELLEx l vol l2mo m
The book before us, we presume is the work of
an American; although the scenes of the story are
lald In England among the higher classes. The
writer falls into the folly of making beauty the un-
disputed possessor of the cardinal virtues, whilst
homely face, form little at fault in its proper
tions is the index of vicious nature and the abode
of unholy passions We know that this is false
|
wherein is placed the priceless jewel of a pure and
true heart; nor, the other hand, are those
less favored the embodiment of all that is hateful
| IN our nature. consciousness of personal def
ciencies tends to develop their virtues: for they
soon learn that the absence of external attractions
| makes them dependent on better things to secure
that recognition which every human heart so earn
estly and naturally desires
The plot of the story presents little of originality
| An old Baronet dies, and on his death-bed is at
tended by his fast FRIEND, Mr.. Sinclair the Baronet
| has son and Sinclair daughter, and an arrange
| ment is made between the two parents that when
their children shall reach the proper age they shall
be married. The boy grows up handsome, and pos
sessed of the nobes qualities, and the girl ripens
into beautiful womanhood-a most amiable and
lovely character; but, contrary to the wishes of her
parents, and utterly disregardng her engagement
with the Baronets son. she falls in love with Willie
Lee, youth with whom she had been acquainted
all her life, and if possible, possessed of even nober
traits than her titled fance, whose advances she
therefore rejects Miss Nettie Fairthorne rich but
with no attractions of form or feature having a
eartfull of all manner of guile is brought upon the
stage to ensnare Sir Alfred Norton in her matrimo
NAL net but all her Vaccinations fail When Miss
Sinclair shows the true state of things to her