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Lectures on the Nature of Spirit ; and of Man as a 

 Spiritual Being. By Chauncey Giles, Minister of 

 the New Jerusalem Church. 



HISTORY. This department of literature, in 

 which so abundant laurels have been won by 

 American authors, is still cultivated with zeal 

 and success. Prof. George W. Greene, whose 

 memoirs of his grandfather, General Nathaniel 

 Greene, are worthy of a distinguished place 

 among the literary monuments of our War of 

 Independence, has published a volume of 

 wider scope, entitled "Historical View of the 

 American Revolution." Mr. Richard Froth- 

 ingham has made a solid contribution to our 

 political history in his " Rise of the Republic 

 of the United States." The initial volume of 

 the "Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in 

 America," by Henry Wilson (now Vice-Presi- 

 dent of the United States), relates the political 

 and social prelude of the great internecine 

 struggle in which the institution of slavery 

 perished. Of the later stages of the struggle 

 Mr. Wilson may adopt the words, "all of 

 which I saw, and part of which I was." But, 

 while frankly avowing his own opinions, ho 

 has written with candor and in a temperate 

 and composed style. Another phase of the 

 antislavery struggle is commemorated in the 

 " History of the Underground Railroad," by 

 William Still. The same general subject, 

 looked at from an opposite point of view, is 

 treated in " Seven Decades of the Union," by 

 Henry A. Wise. A memento of the less pleas- 

 ing incidents of the civil war is "Memoirs of 

 the United States Secret Service, compiled by 

 Permission from the Department Records," 

 by Captain George P. Buruham. " An Ac- 

 count of the Battle of Banker Hill, compiled 

 from authentic sources : with General Bur- 

 goyne's Account of the Battle," by David 

 Pulsifer, A. M., gathers up what is known of 

 an affair which has been the subject of many 

 a literary controversy. " Princeton College 

 during the Eighteenth Century," by the Rev. 

 Samuel Davies Alexander, though seemingly a 

 local theme, is a work of wide general inter- 

 est ; the history of the college connecting it- 

 self at different points with the history of the 

 country as well as that of the church with 

 which the name of Princeton is identified. A 

 new and enlarged edition, containing the au- 

 thor's latest additions, of "The History of 

 Spanish Literature," by George Ticknor, is to 

 be received, we suppose, as the final form of 

 what has already become a monumental work. 

 The " History of the Oriental Missions of the 

 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

 Missions," by the Rev. Rufus Anderson, D. D., 

 LL. D., for forty years Corresponding Secre- 

 tary of the Board, has the value of unimpeach- 

 able authenticity, with the charms of a lucid 

 and graceful style. " The Life and Times of 

 Philip Schuyler," by Benson J. Lossiug, LL. D., 

 records and vindicates the career of a man 

 whom his country honored, but whom Mr. 

 Bancroft has disparaged. "Journalism in the 



United States, from 1690 to 1872," by Frederic 

 Hudson, is a work of permanent value and 

 great interest. Other works in this depart- 

 ment we must merely record : 



Ancient America, in Notes on American Archae- 

 ology. By J. D. Baldwin. 



History of the Indian Tribes of Hudson Kiver : 

 their Origin, Manners, and Customs, Tribal and 

 Sub-tribal Organizations, Wars, Treaties, etc., etc. 

 By E. M. Kuttenber. _ 



History of Annapolis and the United States Naval 

 Academy. By Owen M. Taylor. 



The Newspaper Press of Charleston, S. C. A 

 Chronological and Biographical History, embracing 

 a Period of One Hundred and Forty Years. By Wil- 

 liam L. King. 



History of the Empire of Kussia, from the Earliest 

 Period to the Present Time. By John S. C. Abbott. 



History of Christianity. By J. S. C. Abbott. 



The Principles of Church History. By the Kev. 

 Edward D. Van Antwerp, A. M. 



A Church History of the First Seven Centuries, to 

 the Close of the Sixth General Council. By Milo 

 Mahan, D. D. 



An Ecclesiastical History from the Thirteenth to 

 the Nineteenth Century. By Clement M. Butler, 

 D.D. 



Ancient History of TJniversalism. By H. Ballou, 

 D. D. 



The Theory and Use of the Church Calendar in 

 the Measurement and Distribution of Time ; being 

 an Account of the Origin and Use of the Calendar, 

 etc. By Samuel Seabury, D. D. 



The Vatican Council. By L. W. Bacon, D. D. 



Sketches of the Establishment of the Church in 

 New England. By Kev. James Fulton. 



History of Methodism in Texas, Statistical, Bio- 

 graphical, Anecdotical. By the Kev. H. S. Thrall. 



The History of St. Albans and of Sheldon, Vt. 

 From the Vermont- Historical Gazetteer. 



History of Lexington, Ky. Its Early Annals and 

 Eecent Progress, including Biographical Sketches 

 and Personal Reminiscences of the Pionser Settlers, 

 Notices of Prominent Citizens, etc. By George W. 

 Bank. 



History of Mayne County, Indiana, from its First 

 Settlement to the Present Time, with Numerous 

 Biographical and Family Sketches, embellished with 

 upward of Fifty Portraits and Views of Buildings. 

 By Andrew W. Young. 



BIOGRAPHY. Mr. Hawthorne's biography, 

 by the expressed determination of those with- 

 out whose assistance a satisfactory view of 

 his life and personal character cannot be given, 

 is to remain unwritten. But the " Passages 

 from the French and Italian Note-Books " are 

 valuable biographical indicia, and, in connec- 

 tion with previous volumes compiled from the 

 like sources, suggest the portrait which is not 

 to be painted. We are disposed to ask with an 

 English journalist whether there are not many 

 extant letters of Hawthorne, the publication 

 of which would be as legitimate as that of his 

 private journals, and would be, if possible, 

 still more welcome to the multitude of his ad- 

 mirers. " The Life of Abraham Lincoln, being 

 the Private and Public Life of President Lin- 

 coln, from his Birth to the Fourth of March, 

 1861," by Ward H. Lamon, embodies a vast 

 amount of hitherto unpublished matter re- 

 specting the early life of its illustrious subject, 

 and his professional and political career previ- 

 ous to his election to the presidency. But in 



