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handling. In all their discussions there is 
a perfeet-and comforting absence of our 
stale English yiews and prejudices; no 
conflictings about corn-laws and political 
economy ; about .this interest and that.in- 
terest; no land against loom, or rich against 
poor—the fruits of hereditary and exclusive 
lawgivers,—of overpowering families, whose 
petty oligarchies goad the state, and whose 
cousins to the tenth remove must feed and 
fatten! on, the public purse,—of an over- 
ruling clergy, who bind their flocks in links 
of iron, and. .insult.and calumniate all dis- 
sentients,—of.exclusions from  office,—of 
privileges to elude the burdens of taxation ; 
but on the contrary, a catholic language, 
anda catholie spirit, which embrace the 
universal interests of the people without 
inflicting. injury on particular ones,—with 
no reluctance to go out of the beaten track 
for the attainment of general good, .and 
with a steady and united desire to enlarge 
the cirele.of ‘civilization and promote the 
benefits of ‘society, and the powers of man-. 
kind, without sacrificing the little to the 
great. 
Phe favourite subjects of the Review are 
discussions. upon: legal. and educational 
topics. The present number is rich in 
these respects, though inferior perhaps in 
others. A sketch of our law reports, and 
their abridgment. from the year-books to 
Comyns, upon the occasion of a new digest 
of -American law, is ably pencilled. _Why 
does ‘the writer.stop short at Comyns,—in 
ignorance or in contempt? An article on po- 
pular education, occasioned by Brougham’s 
pamphlet; another ona new “ Element of 
Ancient and Modern History;’’ and a 
third, on the Lexicography of the New 
Testament, to prove the Americans as com- 
petent to originate, as they are ready to 
adopt what is good, come it from what 
quarter it may. German books, that are 
scarcely known among us, are becoming 
familiar in their schools and colleges. But 
the article that struck us most is an ac- 
count of a society of reformed Jews at 
Charleston, South Carolina, of whom we 
had not heard before. It is the first at- 
tempt, indeed, we ever heard of, on the 
part of the Jews, to bring back their reli- 
gion to the standard of Moses and the 
Peutateuch. © The society was instituted in 
January 1825, after a fruitless remonstrance 
addressed to the rulers of their body. The 
objects of their remonstrance and peti- 
tion were to reform the service of the sy- 
nagogue, to cut down its repetitions, to 
shorten the length of it, to enforce better 
order during the performance, and to intro- 
duce the language of the country for the 
Hebrew, which few of them understood. 
These changes the reformers, in their new 
society, are introducing; and the farther, 
and, we believe, avowed purpose, is to 
abandon all rabbinical traditions; and it is 
said also,—but this is not avowed, —to be 
one of their objects to advance the Sab- 
Monthly Review of Literature, 
[Nov, 
, Agee sat 
bath one day forward, to make. ‘it. COrres- ~ 
pond with: the dayadopted by _ Chis= 2 
tian countries where they residey™ a 
Rough Notes; taken during some ona 
journeys across the Pampas, and a the 
Andes. By Captain F. B. Head : — 
Captain F, B. Head must” haye been h 2 
a fox hunter, or a centaur, Such ‘riding’ 
and galloping. the world never heard of ; 
since the days .of Nimrod... He has_ac- .. 
tually ridden five or six: thousand miles, we 
believe, we areafraid»to-say-in-how short: a-< 
time—from Buenos*Ayres‘across-the Pam= 
pas to Mendoza, and onward*over the Cor= 
dillera to Santiago, and back, sometimes © 
quite alone, twice, if not thrice. ~ “Phe ob= 
ject of this flying career was’ the search of 
mines, to set some Cornish miners at, Work, 
as speedily as possible 5, because | “wages 
were going on, and time was.going.on, too, 
and work was yet to be found. He had, 
it seems, the management ofa mining-com= 
pany—a joint stock ‘concernthe-directors 
of which had very wisely sent-over'acargo™ 
of workmen before they had ‘any mines, 
and machinery before they knew whéther * 
it was applicable. Of these ‘mines; “how- 
ever, first or last, we learn nothing, _ except 
the implication of failure. They are, says 
Captain F, B. Head, now_on. sale; and 
therefore I feel myself restricted. from 
giving any information,—a-restriction,-;how- 
ever, which is sufficiently expressive:" But. 
what then is the purpose of ‘the book?’ To * 
describe the country which*he has galloped * 
over; and he does describe it, though © 
hastily and roughly, yet vigorously “and ~ 
effectively. _ The. descriptions, are . “sttik-- 
ingly graphic; he suceessfully.. seizes. on 
the main. points, and. skilfully, enables the ... 
imagination to.complete-his.sketches,-.. — 
The Pampas:stretches:'900: miles;.to the: 
foot of the Andes,’ “A ‘dash.-of his Jively 
pencil gives a good conception ofthe ex- 
panding wilderness. - Thesé* 900 miles, in 
the part which he visited, though under 
the same latitude, are divided into tliree 
regions, of different climate’ and. produce. 
On leaving Buenos Ayres,’ the'first of 
these regions is covered for:180:miles with \ 
clover and. thistles 3’ the second,: of 4505 
miles, with long grass; | and: therthird, ex+) 
tending to. the (Gatdilexs| mite low ares i} 
and shrubs. (0 8 Qn mule 
The second and third arenieteRtaAs, agane, aver > 
nearly ‘the same appearance throughout’ ‘the! 'year,)/"" 
for the trees and shrubs ‘are éver’ green, ant thew 
immense plain of grass only changes its »eolonr:from ne 
green to brown ;. but the first region yaries avith the, 
four seasons of the year in”a most, extraordinary 
manner. In winter, the leaves.of., a 
large and luxuriant, and .the fe foe . 
the country has the rough appear 
field. The clover in this séason’ is ae Pest! $ 
and strong; and the sight of the wild’ Gatele” grazitig™ u 
in full liberty in such pasture ‘is’ Very Beawtifull’> 
In spring, the cloverhas:vanishéd) the leaves (of ‘thet 
thistles have extended along the’ groundjrandy thes 
country still looks like a roughecrop of !turnips ~Inow 
less than a month the change is most extraordinary.; 
