book without seeing that the West has a Symphony to utter, whose keynote is already struck, and which is to make the world pause and listen. The world has heard the song of Memnon in the Orient; it must now turn to hear the Memnon, carved by the Ages, as it shall respond to the glow of the Occident.

The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical. With Quotations and References; for the use of students. By WILLIAM FLEMING, D.D., Prof. of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. From the second revised and enlarged London Edition. With an Introduction, Chronology of the History of Philosophy brought down to 1860, Bibliographical Tables, Synthetical Tables, and other additions, by CHAS. P. KRAUTH, D.D., translator of "Tholuck on the Gospel of John." Philadelphia: Smith, English & Co. 1860.

The great difficulty on the appearance of a really good book is to get it into the hands that need it and can work with it. Of all men the real student of philosophy has the liveliest suspicion of your Omniumgatherum books, with a theory of God on one page, and a receipt for making jelly on the next. He knows that it is these great, unassimilated masses of facts which make the Professional Schools little better than Hotels des Invalides. He would rather pay any one who would take away the mass of indigestibles he already has, upon which others felicitate him, as if it were accumulated culture. Now, if this word of ours shall reach any such student, let it say to him with full emphasis: Go to G. S. Blanchard of this city, who manages to look up some inestimable books in the philosophic line, and buy this particular work of Dr. Fleming's. We have known scholars who felt their need of it so much that they have sent to London and procured it at a cost two or three times as large as yours will be. No man can read the substantial Literature of the day, such as the works of Emerson, Martineau, Comte, Lewes, Ruskin, without coming across invaluable ideas which must surround themselves with such expressions as Subjective, Objective, Consciousness, Contingent and Necessary, Immanent and Transcendent. These are not fancy-words, but words which mark the determinations of knowledge- Pillars of Hercules. How few understand them! We frequently hear well-educated men use the word "sensuous" as equivalent to "sensual," or "analogy" as identical with "example." This work collecting with each such term, first, its etymological meaning as a word, then the definitions, in brief, of able thinkers, from Aristotle down to the most modern, is sufficient, of itself, to give those to whom metaphysics, though no specialty, are of interest, all the literature of the matter which they need know.

Miss Gilbert's Career: An American Story. By J. G. HOLLAND. New York: Chas. Scribner. Cincinnati: Rickey, Mallory & Co.

The indefatigable Mr. Holland, who, amidst the seemingly sufficient cares of editing one of the best Dailies in America, puts forth some little annual episode in the way of an Ethical Guide-book or an Epic Poem, comes before the public this year with a pleasant New England tale. It is remarkable how the mental habit of a people will stick to them amid all changes. Formerly, in New England, the Catechism was the theme of Poetry, and the imagination soared only to the writing of some such book as Buttons for Believers' Coats. Children's stories bear to this day the most convincing argument to the young and depraved heart: James and John go a-boating on the Sabbath; the boat is logically capsized, and James is drowned, according to a distributed middle. The Yankee fancy was harnessed to the Five Points in that age; in this it is to the Moral and

Sanitary Reforms. A story which only pleases, without proving any abstract point, is still accounted profane. We do not mean to say that Mr. Holland is not beyond the Catechism and the "Buttons;" his horror of Calvinism is evident; but in his work the old method prevails:- the school children all march in as so many pale-faced minor premises to demonstrate the bad effects of cramming the infant mind; Miss Gilbert, overhurried by ambitious training, enters on her career too soon, and her book is a failure-taught by this, she goes on the "slow and sure" principle, and her "Rhododendron" is syllogistically caressed in 20,000 homes! We close the volume exclaiming, Q. E. D.!

Self-Contradictions of the Bible. One hundred and forty-four Propositions, Theological, Moral, Historical and Speculative; each proved affirmatively and negatively, by quotations from Scripture; without comment. Embodying most of the palpable and striking self-contradictions of the so-called inspired Word of God. Fifth Edition. New York: A. J. Davis & Co.

There is about this little pamphlet (price 15 cts.,) an honesty, a simplicity, a thoroughness and a comprehensiveness that makes it the best thing we know to put into the hands of one exercised on the subject of inspiration and the Bible. Whatever falls under these sturdy blows, every one dealt by the Bible itself against the superstitions which are, under guise of protectors, sapping its real and healthy influence, is that which no man is any better for holding on to. The matrix is broken for the gem it contains: so let the dogma of the "Word of God' be broken, that the glorious truths uttered by Prophets and Seers may shine forth. Harrington: A Story of True Love. By the author of "What Cheer?" etc. Boston: Thayer & Eldridge. Cincinnati: Rickey, Mallory & Co. Although it is on the real side, we must say that it is a shockingly unreal book. Its personalities make it readable; but it can do little credit to the liberal cause. Its pictures of plantation cruelties are extravaganzas, calculated to make a Southerner feel as if it were a clever attempt to out-hered Mrs. Stowe: the work is really one of the many gaily painted boats which have gone out to toss on the waves left in the wake of her large steamers. When we consider that in all the renditions which have disgraced Boston, not one Bostonian has had a scratch, the death of Harrington seems rather satirical. The book is suggestive of footlights on every page: Harrington attitudinizes, and Fernando is an Iago badly rehearsed. It is ingeniously unoriginal in all but the use of words: we stand aghast before "hellion," "wobbling" etc. Parker's learning is gigantesque! Goethe is a scientifician! We can imagine that a philologist would spell the name of this book Harrowington.

The King of the Mountains: From the French of EDMOND ABOUT, author of the "Roman Question," "Germaine," etc. By MARY L. BOOти. With introduction by Epes Sargent. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co. 1861. Cincinnati Rickey, Mallory & Co.

As Tolla was the Roman Question dramatized, so is the King of the Mountains the Greek Question dramatized. And it is even more successfully done. Neither of these semi-political novels seem to us so sweet, so far-reaching as Germaine; but the present one in wit, in humor, in admirable character-sketching, is unequalled by any other work of the Author's, unless it be the nouvelette, Trente et Quarante. If ever there was a mirror held up to English and American humanity it is that now wrought of the mingled glass and quicksilver which enter so largely into this witty Frenchman.

The Conduct of Life. By R. W. EMERSON. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1860. To be found at G. S. Blanchard's, in this city, after the 11th inst. Having been kindly furnished, in advance, with sheets of this work, we can give our readers promise of a rare delight.

After having the spell cast by this book broken by the only ugly words in it, "THE END," -we fastened even on these two, and they seemed to be a mystic key, fitting each link that bound us. Emerson's power seems to be in his method; and this lies in his reporting "the end," or flower, in which each thing culminates. However clamorous the festooners are for leaves and buds, he will not touch his growths until the last purpling touch of sun or frost has been garnered in flower or cluster. Not a sip of grapy wine, even, will he give us,-if one sun-beam or dew-drop of its vintage fails to sparkle in the cup, it must wait its century in the cellar. Provoking as this is to our fast age, it is plainly necessary to the "ministry of reconciliation," to Poet, Seer, and Sage. These bringing the "flower of the mind," must deal with flowers of things; under the sod, root strives with root, but all their blossoms harmonize in the vase of poetry. With the Poet, the Seer of Unity, the New Genesis begins, and the Garden of God reappears, where the lion and the lamb strive not, for the new-born child leads them. As thorns are characteristic of stems, not blooms, so are the antagonisms of the world, and of thought, mere indications that the petals, which carry the eye beyond stems, are yet unopened. The antagonism without is counterpart of that within. The mass of men going into the park, and seeing the waters of a fountain, now leaping high into the air, now precipitated into the basin below, conclude that there are two Laws at work; at length they find that one Law uplifts and casts down the jet. But it must be long ere the hint gets translated into the world of vital antagonisms; long, ere from the realms of God and Evil, Actual and Ideal, Sin and Virtue, the kneeling worshippers shall cry, "The darkness and the light are both alike to Thee!"

This, then, is Emerson's Method: seeing that statements pressed very far seem to exclude others, logicians hurry back, and "hide behind a tomb;" but our Sage has read too far for that, he presses them still farther, and finds that they include all the other sides, when they too are pressed to their largest results. Like a trained naturalist, who, plucking a grass, should read what stratum, and fossils, and metals were beneath his feet, and what beasts around, and where the isothermal line lay,- Emerson performs miracles of simplicity; shows Luther and the Pope twining the same thread, each at his end, and he does not care to conceal how, as an idealist, he must sketch on a back-ground of materialism. He is an Antimonian in "Fate," an Arminian in "Power;" in "Wealth" we see the head whose range

"Has Olympus for one pole, for t'other the Exchange;"

in "Culture," the great value of quantity,—in "Behavior," of quality. And then in the Chapters on Worship," "Considerations by the Way," and "Beauty," the eternal Sea, toward which we had been drifting on all the streams, breaks on our vision, and the thunder-roll of its waves is in our ears then toil no more at the oars, mariners! Qua cursum ventus.

Why labor at the dull, mechanic oar,
When the fresh breeze is blowing,
And the strong current flowing,

Right onward to the Eternal Shore?

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