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editor of the National Intelligencer, and the 

 intimate friend of two generations of states- 

 men ; Mr. Tyler's Life of Chief-Justice Roger 

 B. Taney ; and, in the history of science and 

 its application to the useful arts, the Life of 

 Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, by the 

 Rev. Dr. Ellis, fills a place that has been too 

 long vacant in the portrait-gallery of Ameri- 

 can worthies none the less to be so reckoned 

 that his love of country \vas overborne by in- 

 ferior sentiments. Nor should we fail to in- 

 clude among works of historical interest the 

 Life of General Robert E. Lee, by John Esten 

 Cooke ; and that of the Rev. George Junkiu, 

 D. D., by D. X. Junkin ; and two literary bi- 

 ographies, that of Miss Catharine M. Sedgwick, 

 by M. E. Dewey ; and that of John P. Kennedy, 

 by H. T. Tuckerman. Mr. Kennedy's biogra- 

 pher in no long time after closed an honorable 

 life given to the interests of art and letters. 



Some special histories should be noted: 

 " History and Analysis of the Constitution of 

 the United States, with a Full Account of the 

 Confederacies that preceded it, of the Debates 

 and Acts of the Convention that framed it, 

 and of the Judicial Decisions that have con- 

 strued it," by Nathaniel 0. Towle ; " Compara- 

 tive History of Religions," by James C. Mof- 

 fatt; "History of the Church of God," by 

 Enoch Pond, D. D. ; " History of the Foreign 

 Missionary Work of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church," Part L, by Rev. S. D. Dennison ; " The 

 Children's Crusade, anEpisode of the Thirteenth 

 Century," by the Rev. George Zabriskie Gray. 

 Also a few local histories : "Ecclesiastical His- 

 tory of Rochester, N. Y.," by F. De W. Ward, D. 

 D. ; " History of Elizabeth, N. J., 1 ' by E. F. Hat- 

 field D. D.; "History of Wallingford, Conn.," 

 by 0. H. S. Davis; and "Chronicles of a 

 Border Town : History of Rye, Westchester 

 County, N. Y.," by Charles W. Baird. Among 

 popular histories should b^e mentioned: Mr. 

 J. S. C. Abbott's " History of Frederick the 

 Great," a work that will tell many readers of 

 what only a few will extract from the tomes 

 of Mr. Carlyle, and is written with the author's 

 usual narrative skill and with more than his 

 usual care. His series of smaller histories is 

 extended by those of Louis XIV. and Louis 

 Philippe, each of which, the former especially, 

 does very good justice to its subject. Mr. 

 B. J. Lossing, whose books on American his- 

 tory have made him many friends, has pro- 

 duced a popular "History of England," hardly 

 equal to his best previous works, but having 

 similar characteristics. 



History of Florida. By George E. Fairbanks. 



The Cretan Insurrection of 1866. By W. J. Still- 

 man. 



School History of the United States. By G. F. 

 Holmes. 



Condensed History of the United States. By W. 

 Swinton. 



School History of the United States. By Alexan- 

 der H. Stephens. 



The Year of Battles; or. The Franco-German 

 War of 1870-' 71. By L. P. Brockett. 



The Paris Commune ; or, The Ked Rebellion. By 

 L. P. Brockett. 



Eise and Fall of the Paris Commune. By "W. 

 Pembroke Fetridge. 



Life and Campaigns of General E. E. Lee. By 

 James D. McCabe, Jr. 



The Life of Major John Andre". By Winthrop 

 Sargent. 



Memoir of Ulric Dahlgren. By Eear-Admiral 

 Bahlgren. 



Life of Alexander Campbell. By E. Eichardson. 



Memoir of the Eev. John Eaton Smith. By E. 

 Edwards Beardsley. 



The Model Pastor. Memoir of the Life and Cor- 

 respondence of the Eev. Baron Stow, D. D. By J. 



C. Stockbride, D. D. 



Memoir of the Life and Character of the Eev. 

 Lewis Warner Green, D. D., with Selections from 

 his Sermons. By Leroy J. Halsey, D. D. 



Journal of John Woolman. With an Introduction 

 by J. G. Whittier. 



Fifty Years as a Presiding Elder. By Peter Cart- 

 wright, D. D. 



One Woman's Mission. A Narrative of the Life 

 and Labors of Mrs. Harriet C. Dickson, for Many 

 Years a Missionary to Greece. By Albert N. Arnold, 



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Life of Walter Scott. By E. Shelton Mackenzie. 



Father Taylor, the Sailor Preacher. By Gilbert 

 Haven and Thomas Eussell. 



Life of the Eev. John McVickar, S. T. D. By his 

 Son, William A. McVickar, D. D. 



Ninety-four Years. Memoir of Agnes Paschal. 

 By G. W. Paschal. 



Life of John Bunyan. By D. A. Harsha. 



The Prince of Pulpit Orators. A Portraiture of 

 the Eev. George Whitefield. By Eev. J. B. Wakely. 



The Life and Times of the Eight Eev. John Timon. 

 D. D., the first Catholic Bishop of the Diocese ot 

 Buffalo. By Charles G. Denther. 



Lives and Works of Civil and Military Engineers 

 of America. By Charles B. Stuart, C. E. 



Married Women. Biographies of Good Wives. 

 By L. Maria Child. 



PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE. No elaborate 

 work in this department has appeared, except 

 "Alwato," by Stephen Pearl Andrews an 

 exposition of "Universology," and a new lan- 

 guage. It is the fruit of much labor, whether 

 profitably employed or not, sufficient attention 

 does not appear to have been given to it as 

 yet to determine. But several discussions of 

 philosophical questions, essays of marked abil- 

 ity and value, have been published. " Mechan- 

 ism in Thought and Morals," by Dr. Olivei 

 Wendell Holmes, deals in the author's pene- 

 trating way with the obscure relations between 

 physical and mental action. "Science, Phi- 

 losophy, and Religion," by Prof. John Bascom, 

 is an able vindication of the psychological 

 method in mental philosophy, and of the re- 

 ality and validity of intuition, including a de- 

 fence of the intuitive system of ethics, and 

 discussing the relations of philosophy to sci- 

 ence and religion. Prof. Bascom's style com- 

 bines in an unusual degree precision in the 

 use of terms, and sturdy logical force, with a 

 power of energetic expression easily kindling 

 into eloquence. ; Dr. Noah Porter, the newly- 

 elected President of Yale College, argues ably 

 on the same side with Prof. Bascom in the 

 issue between the physicists and the meta- 

 physicians, in a brief essay but one compacted 



