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6 < e et e e el e s et e O B i e NEW PUBLICATIONS. hazty, exaggerated, but with genius. 'Wo krow few e things so intensely, wildly humorous as N HUMOR. of the young man who was “SWINGIN' ROUND THE CIRKLE By PETPOLEUM | Lauks of the Peacus Riv that writer's humor tended €9 serongly to the bur- ¥. | Jesque that it beeame annatural, a fault which we ashy at timos, forinstance, when he giv ms,” which are the least meritorious let- ¢ | ters 6f this collection, The writer of Nashy atten racter, but fi #ea and the charming seannp Pirdofredum Sawin, by | yns Ward and Hosea Biglow, nor even a rude Jesqne like John Phanix. The artof the humorist and stronger w » Mr. Lincoln is said 1o | ens has done this so well asto b actor to the race. ideney, quaintly | in a world that knew sot Wilkins M \ivy Gamp, nor -1 Weller and his AMERIC V. NASBY, late Pastor of the Ciureh of The Yew Dis- ponsation, Chaplain to 1is Excellency the, T and P. M. at ( rate ¥ Roads, Ke ed by Thotus Nact. Mr. Lowell takes his & wantonly killed the gentle and erudite Homer Wil Ber—and taken from us forever our enthusiastic Ho- @aiming the rank of emerikuy, aud welcomin successor * that gennine avd delight{nl iumor ** Rev. Petroleun V. Nasb, have fouud the satires of Nashy ring the gravest honrs of the Pre ereat comfort du- | ¢ offering 1o exchavge places with the writer—if '¥ | never heard of Betacy Prig nor of making the exchange he could obiain the Nasby gift. | held perso 1 that no writer in the West did as | respected parent, not to speak of the Rev rously fell from grac anch was first drawn he w D as though he had been ¢ L by tipsy men drinking al ‘We think if ¢ mnah 10 seeure the trivmph of "the 1 publie a8 the author of this volume, His lettors we! #n all the Republican journals, read at political m: mas, quoted af forge and dinner-tal Land on t etump, and their irony mauy a political argument. ot to be mmindfnl of the oolu and Mr. Lowelt, justi : copied Mr. Nasby's @aims to be considered a true fumorist. him on Broadw Jand are | angry, pleasant, 1i 18 writers of B Althongh the Lo more popular in Awer the humor of America i @and as it is from (he or the grim and ponderous hiono England, it issomething spitefol. When the mian josts, he ehaffs. He has little respect for feel- Ings, and will say hnpert way, without the | Mr. Dickens’s Notes The American chapters in Martin Chuzz wit are de- 18 distinet from tha r of Germany. In tightfal. In Evgland they were no doubt considered | and ** paroxysm cashun” and * gorgeously™! common word improparly and the diificult word haps we are 1 y for words over oneor two syllables, 1him poorly, for on one page “Dimmyerat, wve much gquiet, harmless foy i in America they offense. You way langh at the Americau’s coat, but you must not mock the o1 Kp We enjoy the licate humor of Lanb one of our writers has attained his finish and pene- | we find Fothen gs an exguis- | Democs s—but with a | anan” as it were pervading every page, and al- | had been tration. We regard Kinglake Wely humorons hook—not osténta fragri ways present t And yet King- | th Jake 1 professed huworist, it a writer of tr and history. Som wot belong to a comntry but 1o a generation. ‘The | proper English. € Bumor of Shakespeare Las an uncertain flavor. Most | is artistically bad—we sce the Kitehen in At the Dbest, of Shakespeare’s humorists were phrase-fanc ford of double-n words with Polonius, we do n Jence. The incomparable , pert, keen senten Take the wooing scene betw Prineess Katharine, in some vespeets, perhaps the most mmorons in Shakespeare, both in s rse and profane. andl dialogue, and we find it tase and cold. formal | Leard in every tay and strained, wanting nature. Swift's fun was | something to know ilat onr gic v one of | pronounce ¢ he most humorons characters in the English rural— | Jous™ always, and that the first genius of New-En 1 when he should 1) bas done for the beastly. Fielding gave us in Sqgnive W the traditional * Leavy father™ of romanece and com- | edy ; and yet we il e f Burns was hearty am O'Shav ter require t jnst as much as ( The humor of F d than any rgantua or | sducation to Rancho Pan our higher stand: writers, with the ¢ f the ble line in a letter to o laogh over Joel Barlow's r sorrow when we see the ¢ Jies of the lust g i Even jokes heeo and buvicd whimsicali . sk 2 like that of England. The Mr. LowelPs the humor of Ameri Euglish are fond of Artemus Wi most ardent adw Dickens and Mr. fiud the most enthnsi- | strels went to London with their blackened i erigp, curly wigs, and quaint hnmorous songs, they | £ prefe « no hmuor more sweet aud | the nd twict I wuz Arew crowds. We l matural than that which came from the poor slave, | sod we trust that some writer will do it justice. With | the exception of Hos Western. Artewns Ward comes fiom Olio. T writer called * who has not done mnch | beyoud showing prowise, s from California. M, Webb, who did seme clever things when in New- York, and from whom we . mgain, is from the West, we belie Mr. dent of Obio. The humor of the W Wroader than that of the East. We might say i woarser: hut this wonle © from ending. Perbaps we may say that i the Turtis’s Potiphay Papers wonld be dull readhg Ylinois farm-honse, and there are Jarsin New-York where a chapte « mever be f & were coarse. We fear we must say they were mor tributions to Funch are stupid. Indeed, the el of this writer 1o be yanked among true b guay be disputed, even at the risk of offe; < L'harles Reade, who calls him * delicious, Jhomas Hughes—himself one of the truest hu Jets of England—who recently told ws how much he enjoyed the showman at Egyptian Hall. weption of Artemns W mame happens to be that of a Revelationary patiiot, | 1 Tiggers,” his odd, shrewd sense, and at tiwes ineon- | 1 zeivable stupidity, with the wife Betsey Jane, of | mmost essential requirements of humor. and | house withi tooth of Time.” » valgar bigotry which makes them now unpleasant - geading. lio is, perbaps, the only distinctively Awerican humorist who went out of his way to ap- pland Slavery. Wa presume he is as mnch asham of this element of his career as we are. Onr p suthor deserves the high Lonor of always having written on the side of truth and freedom, an houor | which he shares with Mr. Lowell. The point of Ar- Yemus Ward's humor lay in the fact that he individ- [ ualized his character absolutely, and said at times | ent | wxquisitely funny sentences, ‘The Lumor of his aa- | surance that he would prosecute the war if it took all | is wife's able-bodied relations, is perfect. His erit- icism on Chancer, that he may have been a good poet, Wt could not spell, and that uo ane conld he a poet without that accomplishment, is very droll, **There was many affectin’ 1ies” he onee, wiote, when speaking of bis courtship, “ which made we bauker mrter Betsy Jaue. Her fathers farm jined onrn; their | gows and ourn squench’t their thirst at the same | spriong; our old mares had stars on their forrerds; the ancasles broke ont in both families at nearly the same | yeriod; our parients (Betsy's and mi Jarly, every Funday, in the same . the nabers used to obsarve, ‘How thick the Wards | and Peasleys sir? 1t was a saurhlime sight in the 1 #yring of the year, 10 see ourseveral mothers (Betsy’s and mine), with their gowns pinned up 8o they would 't sile ‘em, affectionately Bilin' soap together snd abusin’ their pabers.” Leech conld have drawn Sour or five cartoons from the ideas contained iu this yassoge. I tel] yer, feller 7 ‘bin ten dollars in Joff. Davis's pocket if- he'd never been born,” is to us intensely hnnorous. Indecd, Mr. ) slept regu- | in’ honse, and | De Fe cloh " Iny th Ward's clafins to be a genuine humorist thus far rest | JF J0C S o o Here are the opinions of a *“neutral” Kentuckian : #n about & dozen cléver conceits. The writer known ©" sa Jobn Phonix had, perhaps, more natural power as # humortst than auy oiber American. Had he lived, Hfi%“nfi‘;’m# Sashoored e tat, atter Watfles, he ‘we might have had one writer who wonld have been, | any I,’y:fy hemore nootraller tha th ‘4 8 bumorist, what Poe is in our poetry, sud Irving | Soaed poy. N'Jfifi' o our prose, The fow thines by wioty were crude, NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, 8 ed banner under wich 1d their children; nnder ants and made-se That banner hed off, Who &0 Pro rabals, wieh alluz re- f it wuz possible? The i also uy that gelorions star spangl s horn unto me. ccidentally shiot on the The “very wildness. of and home-made servan bi fheir pursoot €2 t wpermises wuz our best hing, all we hed to do wus the Dimocrisy , wicl inklooded, ez a rool, at we asked, and pass it to sa Union wuz worth havin, and I opposcd all nececded I aliod the only nigger us his ¢ Hed the South or Kentueky alon T the North—wood hev bin hel tears hev T shied when co bt 1 cood do nothin to avert it. s to individnalize his Kentucky wuz en 1t creates. arded as a ben- ndfathers live pecomes ¢ ini i i becomes cl '« opinion of Garret Davis, communi- How did onr gri (tan, * the poor old man isn't acconntable. k many years ago, and keeps talkin 't know when to &t et 8, I woodent por what the vet e i, bt 1 ABul Hitnp tea hez hed to, for the past fow L party | ging who ¢ The elasticity of Pemocracy is thus quaintly de- The boy Who set a hen on a hundred eggs acknow ledged puld not kiver em; but he )1 thing spred herself. We We kin aceominod I with chareo: aw rved to point and strengthen | gueer, crippled, hampty-dunipty creature, grote ail parent that she remarked he wanted tosee th that spreadin capacity. ices uy the people uv all the various Jocalit ticut we are singin John Brown's hody lies a o the grave, in a moderately Jond tone, and orting & Ablishnist who voted for doin away with ¢ in the Distriet of Columby and for the Cou tucky we are kangin men uy the and mobbin all vy the has become g0 ¢4 Leech and D pularity, | and wnnatural, ppreciation of Mr. Liv- | pletely idealized by & s in examining his | that we should s b if we m We know him in all bis mood ing & Derby vace, in the presence Ity, lolling on the Brighton beaches, playing tof Fn. | croguet, or eauntering down Bond-st. with hat and + than iu their own country, | of v —kin hev but one great centr: 1y Uy opinion, and o wi 18 PosT-Orrice! wischievous bumor of France, | cane and thin, tapering ¢ such ife to ns, and indeed if he had any rea her ideas is sub hes, with her long, white plumes, she was :?rikina and majestic A::lx again, said she, to sce you,’ waid Caroling was here stances attending the de: then proceeds to a philosophic polic terest of history and biograpl sents a diseriminating, almost the characterof the & and_hope ol ) i sidd ] haunted Lonis the Bleventh Orar rise to shake thelr gory locks he got rite on that question, required uy us, glish- | would be dispelled by the drawing of Mr. which has neither taste, fin inent things in a droll, wild | we find any distinctiv st idea of being impertiment. | phy, 1t is arbitrary and does not give any n Awerica wasa stinging book. | Thus we find him spelling “ glimerin” guished,” *“ishooed” and care not wat else The most humorons letter in the collection is Mr. Nashy’s appeal to the President to give the Democ- racy the Post-Offices as an assurance of his devotion ¢, His report on the condition of the Bu- rean in Kentucky is a keen travesty on the report of Tullerton and Steadman, ple of the North just e fore the elections, setting forth that the true issue before the Demoeracy was whether “thoy wanted o My @ nige upon the style of avgument made familiar to us hy The Hevald amd The World, President after the elections in which he endeavored nsole the seeond Jackson for his defeat, is thus h, nor humeor. in the Nashy ort 1 to the peo- v each case spelling the was a fine satire { Yankee | properly. Wk sueeringly of The National Bird. | used a dictio and yet no | but his dictiona Mis interview with the “ Democrisey t,” while Mr. Buchanan D would have been as “T'w siek,” murmured he, ln| & husky volee, \\!:!rh writes in Yankee dialect, we and consisteney as in the « Yellowplush's ¢ el | When Hosea Biglo imes we think that humor does | have as much in wwed the agitash 7 he breast hen Z Bito Wi ite drink uv rye whisky flasored with hourbe rs— | lable. suings—punsters. When Hawmlet | these tricks of ¢ chaffe the gravedigger, or cuizzes Osric, or bandies | mends itself by bad spelling wnd o humor, but inso- | generally has no other feature. humor of Falstaff is that | have written as strongly if he had spelt *Book- | wan” Buchanan, and * noomerions” nnmerons, to literature by tern idiowmw, snd thast le hed one bold, ¢z Delaware hed sustained him, Saction pissed « hnmor that eom IR otrn now ouv them Massach e fore the next ¢ ista will hay the " and W gave s ¢ Mr.* Nasby would Wy ulsls e g wid a tetehin vecasion. The dedication is a gem inils W Hemy Voand the | he might have done some s vice e of | taking a Western man, tion | giving us a pure We diglect, snch as may be or grocery of 1lino Lincoln was Member uy the ks Pesident and Pre ght ey bin Diktater, Wiio hez Wi arol nnot enjoy Squire Western with- | gpeak of Pier out blusbing. He eould never come into our good | Yankee, Mr. Nashy should have done for the Hoosier, 1€ | and it is with sometbing o 1 peculiar | do not find the true Hoosier in this hook. not forany art or sexvices worth payin for; ppointment that we ! TOsIMASTLR GENRAL t deyoted Servant, ishin vz Postmaster, Therefore it is wre that Nasby klin comes nearer | has become popular. st centory | humor, and ¢ , perhaps, of Goldsmith. | iy the Letters of Jack Downing ; but who reads Juck Yet Frauklin does not hesitate 10 write aguestions- | J)g (dy. It wonld be difficult to | Quring the w vives, and 3t gives 08 | war by showering ridieule on s oppos adapting irony as the form ¢ n brought from the grave. | in writing is wore difficult than irony toms, and look ghastly. Who | snecessful when well mana reads Knickerbocker's famous history, or fiuds enter- | treme Democrat, and he wri tainment in the Salwagundi that used to set this | Democratic point of view. le i one of thoss malig- poodly town in a roar. | nant Gelden-Cird | ‘he humor of to-day is not that of Trving; nor is | lower part of Indiana during the war, too cowardly 100 poor 10 own @ ne was vicions in the Sonthern 1 Let him gell his own history : Twiot L wuz drufted nto o servico | N R > wu torn from the wstic admiration in America. When the negro min- | i\-x:;‘:ml'lllgnh’-u;‘n‘."u el esand | bozzum ive me sich washin mo 111 10 squander it upon bread i v, 1 wuz pulled fnto the servis, | o 1o desert to the Diwoerisy uy the u. When fivadly the thumh ntully shot off. owin to my d into the lock uy my gun b Whose antograph i There was a faui Is Resero rre ey Depigaiemn. We have given Mr. Nushy « 1 will see Li< strength and feel that the writer | It can searcely be conceit—begun de erticism. ble its author to support the | wning now ? of these extracts has vare power eallid the power of the true humorist, for it is power Betore My, Nushy ) lelightinl and genuine humerist” e most stidy and so create that lines—so observe the manhood of his does not become monst ful and delicate finishing is the most ex es from the extromest winy know the child of Li Copperheads, who infested the who Bad all that « muel as trone ture, with none of the 1o figh these hasty newspaper publications, written toserve thrown into the po! No sitch plea What is worth print Narby should which even now Wl just as Mr. | good. ¢ the fire bla be respected in eritic ing is worth eavefal writing, and My not trifle with a fame by that of few Ameri sugh, even ef the wife uy my | ‘i teackers, is hable to @ | | CxATY 10 10y CXIAt hildren—twiet, 1 B BOOKS OF THE WEEK. The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the w. by Isaac NU A sents a copions hiog t, regarding his official of view of the the work in his cap itary dooty and e 1 only steered ¢ e st Mirshels defian bumpin onto Chary the ridin upon ruils-- but why shood | Lurrow np the public t v i the point acity of member of Congr linois enjoy ed the largest opportanity for perse i took part hiwsell in the principal events which he elaborately deseribes, brief retrospect of the history of ery from 1785 o the compromise repeal of the xpeet mnch cleveruess | ped, compelled to kneel outo . 1. | snow, the extr pshun the nam wind, and by a erowd uv laffin folje and drink a pint_uv ra at feathier bioke the back uy the ¢ uv the brane and th nd for six long we fessing . i X " | forbids me to iough professing to come from New-Jersey, is azesi- | Jacon ! 1o take th | ted from the atel oath give mply an ipjustice we are far | flamashen uy the stud | wreck uv iy former selt. Es T arose from tho | N N N N Py 2 SaW in @ glass the remalns uy my pensive beaut Weat it isnatural, in the East it is artificial. Mr. | 10 wags & uncaastn war on the party wich caused sich oc, and I liey kept 1y oath. 1 biznis more extensively than tie uy Paul. Firs i nocrats in e little ousis | Ohio, to wit, at Wikger veeries, but nary within four miles, and whose » gacy and true than his recent contributions., Hiseon- | Dously Dimocratic, the cn | @ Compronise Kansas, and wivutely ta hain Lincoln in relation to an | hav 1 he good many par- | any of Nasby would | chureh uy I d - Artemus Wand's earlier wiitings | o Tht o nun sence the nancipation from his de 1linois 1o the elosing Mr. Amold had been ident for twenty y nd sympathy with the canse of whickh e was the Te bas evidently trth of history, without bias fro imed, lLoweyver, erec drank and woz Y, and u the fall wy '63 that ~ | went Ablishin, and_agin, foreed to pull np, and wend 1 where, ut Confedri The con- | sychoosets ideas can't penetrate us ve in freedom uv speech, hut the supervision over it, that they may ot be lod astray. , § iy bloeve they'r Tite, I admirable The old Western showman-—keeu, un- | """)'I'l"":":‘l" nn;u!]n. il SVer-pres “ with anybody, ef the scrupulons, illiterate—with his everpressmt “Wax- | Thay towangs shoot him ez disturher 160sits can’t disturh us here ; the 4 bids fair to coutiny oo so. ud the few remainin y and cussid, and @ the wunderin weary wiy 10 Ki feel that T am s The singnlar f ¥ by Mr. Donglas utter 4, although the felicitons | Ml ik, does not now see the lig for the dsest time, but, at all repeated. On that day, i making a New-Yea's will be the resnlt of and his associates to di and Jooking,’ say Donglas replied they'd be forced 1o , and who inguired, * what florts of Jufifrson e ndividooal gits the bettel i pulashen is unanl- mtlv'unly lnl«nnu-m ic, and eric 1 hope to whom more wight be made, answers some of the | fullife. g informant, * 1i he cotton States are effort to draw in the horder States 1o the ssion, and Tam but too fearful If they do sucee ivil war the world has ever { amoment, he excl nel-honse, but the ph of the Union cau forts will be to take possession of this e them prestige ahroa wrs Uy event 10y the hopes ot Offis, with four well regulated stun’s throw, and a distillery orna- rter uv amile frow where o I uv & burnt iiger scliool . " " site uv my winder, from wich vises the odor, pow yielded (let us say it sadly) to “the edacions | wratetul to a Democratic nostril, aud w it ..1“ off, and_ suy Iy;.! '1.“.' ta, B . wich wiz_consuined when it wuz bu Artemus Ward's first adventures were filled with | 1 want? 1feel that Tam iove than repaid for all sufferins. and that 1 shel xale smoothly down the strewm uv tiwe, unvexed and There 15 a good deal of fi WOney necessary 1o my | deseription of being waked up at might and com- rse, but will be as mineh | UY, 4 Democrats, 4 | groceries within » character as our dearly-beloved pastor of Jaakwm, | meutin the landscape only a with his whimsical classics, his homely pedantry, | Lrite these lines, with the ru they will sue- , there will be the most te 3 ol end will bo th One of their first ef- el L can snoff v a Lalf dozen niggers but they will n North will rise en masse to e of hospitals —the and wounded-— even this house (Minuesota block, afterward, and during the war, the Douglas Ho: it to that purpose hefore the en hom this was said ingu The * washin | i capital. The 1 pelled to take the oath is rather o | appreciated in those parts of the West where the loy- o ~if they will 11 o s far as 1) jaintain their just wjority of Congress we he, again rising to his feet, *if the Southern States attenpt to | alty of our friends was demonstrative and personal The * four well-regulated es within a stun’s throw,” is quaint, but the | exaggeration of the burning negroes is offensive, If exaggeration is an offense, then our American homor, as shown by Mr. Nasby, Mr. Wared, and Mr Biglow, would become intolerable, Theye is not u page in this volume that does not offend vs by an Even M. Nast copies Lis author, and in she pictures we bave the wretched artifice of | large heads drawn on small hodies. A Jarge head | way perheps give more expression, but the true artist may give us huwor without becoming hidcous | and deformed. There is sometbing comical in the | face of our President as drawn by the caricaturists, n will permit, 1 do not tluuh'l . socede from this Union, withoot further can in favor of their having jnst so many skayes, and just so much slave territory, as 1l of the bayonet, and we mor ancedote of Mr. Lincoln is also give not recollect to have seen before, South Carolinalady, the widow of aNorthern seholar, proud, aristocratic, and conscious of “the blood of all the Howards,” and to whom Lincoln had been vepre- sented as a demon, half ape, and half tiger, the v dovil bimself—called npon himat Willard's Hote! v The President elect came into the parlor accompanicd by Senntors Hule, Seward, and others, prominent members of Congress. . w exaggerstion. A distinguished his inauguration. was sweetened with the Christian m serenity to whieh throngh life | He found pence in gazing on th np whose prece his whole eaveer b perpetual outrage. The secret of this a tradiction is to be sought in the persuasion that he was doing right, The acts horvor his contemporarics, and which crated by posterity were, in his view, in with the will of God. He had grown np to consi Jf as the divine vicegerent on e aw, and he was subject to nons coneeived himself as absolute in kis dom and was the Pope in spiritual matters t ower from God, and not from man ttempt to restrain t por and death was but the deserved pen wad the right to inflict, when, wh leased, whether by tie stroke of il tioner, by the seeret dager of the slow it snre action of poison. Wh b, if death wan right the justice of the K still exe sacrilege, which he I how ssion, not hatred, ever was carried all lus wway by any sad trolled storms in bullitions of Lis Leart never their hot fumes the icy chambers of his h was @ horrible but earnest sin an awfal Lonesty of p ny, o frivhifal delosion pic 1o i The in his criw in his v i wind the form of the logie of reetitude bis treatment of othe Tanee acter he sevinees raro sound mmoral intuitions. artistie skill, adorned with taste ity which gines the volume have even finish, betraving not a little scholaily as rhetorieal practice, Ir infrequent, thovgh we notice ing of Henry 1V, Fr I asant in the kit iis pot on Sunday.” wished ev The French Mawual, by M. Avizen Haver (D. Ap pleton & Co.), presents a method of acquiring a con versational knowledge of the French langoaage. “without dragging the weary interminable 1waze portant forms and prineiples of the langange, accon panied by familiar exercises. This is follow conversational courses, extracts for Freneh au clowes the G wystem for Jearnin marked superi method, whie ho work elaims to b think shows o ¢ many of the hest practical elycctions as reea ardening for Drofit, by Peter 1ENDEESON Orange, Juid nily war ne of the Itivation of th wderson has lonz b successful ¢ den. Me. He most snecessiul warket gardences, and t the resalt ¢ of our culinary veg:tabkes, r | English anthors treating of h not adapted to _our climate ctions for the selection of in fact all the P to w { practical operations in the coltive & site for t there are mach o o |-I.- in this line, althon ate treatises. Joseph 11. and His Court, by L. MUsiBacH, transla- n, by Apraing D V. Cia isa historical romarce by a German authoress who b acquired a with interest hoth as an illustration o velopment of an exciting plot The Story of a Trooper, by P, & Fitzgevald), relatos the personal oxpe alry soldier, and professes to have concerniug the campaign of the Penins written.” A tabular summary of the Census of 1 and Territories, and of British America, compil J. Distukxete, is published by the America Company, ZINES. handsome Riverside o — MORL MAC( The Sccond Number of Mayg iseellancous stories for young people, dr ou Shakespeare for the interest of its con wives the commencement of aseries of stories fron his plays, relating the tragic history and his Threo Danghters” in familiar language, though not striving to win attention by namby- pamby puerilities. Another article, ts and teachers, rather than for children, dis- enssing the subject of ~ Books for Young Pe warmly recommends the reading of 8h maintaing its mid by many plausible arguments, As to the ‘nfh'l'll Mt there words in Shakes peare unfit for t that such word the chikl’s miud, and is nnintelligible, w e wloud skips becanse it is unbecoming, The Historical Magazine for December, which has Just been Jail on our table, opens with a discussion of the part ta carly Methodists in the American Revolution, arguing that they had Lttle sympathy for the popular cause, and bringing o variety of documents in suipport of the &-l\.l il :run;]unulm are given from Spani relating to the i y of the Atlantie Coast of North Amerfea” In uruyl:h«n appended to the number, Mr. Thomas . Amo ‘!mmn, b * Vindication of the Character of Gen. John Sullivan a8 & Soldier and a Patiiot,” detgnding b against the strietures of Mr, Baneroft on his discretion and gen- l-rulnluim This is followed by a correspondence be- tween 3 fr. William B. Reed of Philadelphia, and Mr. John C. Hamilton, in regard to the comnents of the latter on President Reed of Pennsylvania, and a ro- l-ly of Mr. Georgo H. Moore to his Boston crities on ed by ar a8 in ore skips because it erson in reading he subject of ** Slavery in Mussachusetts.” The Phrenological Journal is growing s{ronger and stronger in the department addressed more par- | the pugnacious nose, the petulant mwouth, the angry ridges that ron down his cheeks; but Mr. Nast { deadens it hy the small body and feet. It may _lum-.ly belong to this book, but, now tha Jeet comes to us, we think good taste requires a firm | protest against this tendency in onr humor. What cannot be written or skefched withont violatiug | taste is vieions, } We can but give our re she approached, (she was nearl; tall she hissed in his ear, -fi.’.’ni'.' (‘:ml;:\;:; - gentlemanly politeness, : 'M“r lluyv nlwnu-umll-l‘:miubml. she said to . Lincoln, you look, net. and spe a humane, kind, and benevolent m, n’!‘" g 1id you take e for & say Tdid," aaid she. Bach was the impression his genil henevoleut nature made upon her, that «he said 1 him, * Mr. Lincoln, the best way for p(ll:t;' is to o to ’(' ,'illl'lt;hm. and s what you are, and tell them you have 1 injnring them.” She went h e where were assembled a pas Sonth Caroling, she entered, ‘1 s wadam T Cortain), 010 Preservo ow the people ders an idea of what fo ns ekl g g ;1::;: ::o strength of Nasby, by waking some “ Here 1o the grate Stait nv Kentne entering i rooul Of Kecessionist? Ly, the last hope nv exclaimed a8 tent, and here 1 Georgia, and Alabai y’. Who bas a mortguge onto ave scen him! Thave seen him! uired they. “That terrible monster, 1 hat is more, I am going to his first le ‘The evening of the reception herself in a black velvet dress, with two long white umes in her hair, this tall danghter of South Caro- ved, and dressing ticularly to clergymen and the religious public. The number for Fobruary continues the portraits of eminent divines, with biographical notices, and contains an edifying, old fashioned scrmon by the Rev. Dr. Weston. — The miscellancons portions are Intflm‘l‘hl.n! asual. A sketeh is furnished of some of the “Representative Men of Michigan,” and Dr, Griscom gives his favorite hobby an airing in an ex- cellent article on * Health at Home.” Every seusiblo iy must be glad to find a physician trying (o keep wll‘n;]l'::{"ke.""' instead of caring only (o cure themw The Herald of Health, among othier important top- ies of physical culture, discusses the ** Source of Mus- cular Power,” detailing tho results of the experi- ments of Fick and Wicislinus, and Professor Frank- Jand, of which we recently gave an account in our columms, Henry Ward Beecher contributes an arti- ele on * Laws and their l'emn‘lli--“.‘"’ "(‘i‘lw‘,flflr@nlny rflnmfllh Cood “:;n 4. “My ? i week-minded man ju WY Sl pors § gz (g rml lli ;’lu: “{.’i"‘i“""“' &8 7 ack bair, Dlack eyes, a Callionn or 1rigpds It Ler velyet Being nearly six t 0 St ‘8 LiGE urges the importance of appropriate ** Buildings for the Poor,” Professor L. v”i&'\fi r treats of the o.|.| siutivae o8 " Mewory,” wgd g, Buodsiues scluies o ATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1867. ence of ** Spectral Illusions,” of which he was hm thefsubject. Our School Day Visitor is anothe young people, edited by ALEXANDER and published in Philadelphia, by J. W+ Pauxlpldy & Co. It is a valuable aid in the cause of juvenile edu- for a reading-book in The contents of full of usefnl information, sy diligones l oo Pilludetynin, P, & ltier.” 65 end on Jous rdbryet mer: « a yery rn’lro. Fode :lnppn?{:hedxtlm i er instantly. *Here I am Erapidaithe mc?fi‘:\”éoulh C:lmlinln"l’l.’ ‘1 am glad he, *and [ assuro you that the first X heart is to preserve peace, and ‘Iv‘.“lot:\':»'l";: :«n and lYlllll(lh‘r of nPanul that 1 might tell the P r magazine for CLARK, A. M., ] : oation, Dbeing Philip IT. of Spain, by CuanLES GAYARRE. (W. J. | gehoa! and a companion ab Widdleton.) In this historical monograph, the an- thor has adopted a different course from t] tnmrkgl ont for himself by the late Mr. Prescott in his ** His- tory of Philip 1L,” of which he lived to completo only three of the six volumes which e intended to devote to that work. Nor bas he followed the stops of Mr. Motley in his admirable works on the history of the Netherlands, but has treated the subject from an independent stand-point, presenting o series of disquisitions on the reign and character of Philip, rather than a consecutive relation of the course of events. 1is volume commences with the cireum- I of that monarch, and analysis of the most memorable features of his dowestic and foreign At the same time, the personal traits of Philip are brought iuto the foreground of the picture, s0 that, to a great degree, the work combines the in- Mr. Gayarré pre- subtle, estimate of Pa . Heropresents | him as dying with the fortitude, the religions faith a martyr, in the midst of eruel and Al imparted in an attraetiv. and gkill ow {lie part of the editor, The seleetions in wnuber of Mr, BIDWELL'S ectic, a3 nsus), aro good, and quite enjoyable. Ti0 | §iona, the whots raaking nearly aiz thowsand very ta m“-""'.‘ ‘ refreshinent in iteolf, and suggests more wholesomo Yolo instruetion than wany popular velumnes. Loudon Society, a popular London Illustrated Mag- from Ttaly, azine, devoted to light and amusing literature, e ished in Now-Y - “ Pleak House, Great published in New-York by Thud & Houghton by - z ~ (m‘l-“rm -hd'r-o.:';lu arrangement W portrait of Liehig which forms the frontispiect is a "TK’u,-m e - h the London. pnblishers. The Jan- Notes, Uncommerelal Traveler,aud A b w Publicati OUNCEMENT. 499, 78 may as well raport to their custowers, Rers for Mis Evanss new LI Tor all, that for the present el o ST. LLMO, omot be lled for seversl dags aftr rec ng pressos dn New-York, apy * * There are pot arently, to keep the sapply pe to till onters + » o BT find it out all ) but for the preseat it is out of the ques FEMO is 4 vonderful novel, and peaple are begi over the country. xt week we shall publisn. three new Religious Works, all of which le sufferings. With no scose of remorse for deeds, which we can scarcely think of without a er, Philip was free from the terrors which of France, and other tyrants, on their death bed. The specters of Carlos, " Egmont, Horn, and other yictins, did not t t the dying inurderer. He evinced no regret for the streams of human blood in which he had steeped Limself to the lips. His Teness and . THE LAST WARNING CRY. By Dr. Cumuming, suthor of iy ngs, ori- olmme of devotional exposure of the Papal Religion. * 94510, W LETON & Co., Poblishers, N ¥. E DIAMOND DICKENS. 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