In his style there is a certain finish that denotes long in a severe pamphlet accompanying the volumes. We practice in composition, and we are not at a loss in set- have a single objection to the series-the adoption of the ting him down at once as a "Man of Letters" in the best Websterian spelling which, saving one or two alterations sense of the term. By this we do not mean a maker of made by it, we cordially abhor and abominate. books or pamphlets-for, besides occasional addresses J. W. Randolph has the Eclectic Series for sale. similar to the one now before us, delivered during his connection with a Georgia University, and now and then a fine article in the Southern Quarterly Review, he has produced little, but a man imbued with the love of classical learning, and drawing often from the best sources of human as well as divine knowledge. The chief fault of Mr. Reynolds as exhibited in this address, is what the French call l'embarras des richesses, a profusion not of ornament but of illustration, which a writer less opulent in literary treasures than he would not have been apt to commit. SHAKSPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS. With Introductory BULWER AND FORBES ON THE WATER TREATMENT. Ed- Bulwer's Letter from the Malvern Hills on the benefits he derived from the Water-Cure, has made the names of Priessnitz and Wilson known everywhere. This little volume is a reproduction of it, in connection with a scientific treatise on the subject by Dr. Forbes. The book com prises 227 pages and is handsomely printed. THE CASSIQUE OF ACCABEE. A Tale of Ashley River. Large type, fair paper and very handsome engraved A touching little story in the pleasing and musical verportraits of the heroines are the good points of this edi-sification of Mr. Simms. We are glad to see that he has tion of Shakspeare, which will doubtless meet with an not altogether relinquished his quondam dalliance with extensive sale. It is in royal-octavo form, and will be published in semi-monthly numbers-each number containing a play, with a portrait-until completed. It may be obtained at Mr. West's bookstore, under the Exchange Hotel, at the publication price-twenty-five cents a number. THE METROPOLIS. This is a weekly journal of literature and art, published in New York City, under the management of Park Benjamin, G. G. Foster and two other editorial confrères. It has been in existence a few months. We wrote a commendatory notice of the first number which by some accident did not appear; a fact which is not much to be regretted, since upon a more intimate acquaintance, we can now speak more confidently of the merits of the paper. It is a very excellent one. Mr. Benjamin is well-known throughout the country, and his name alone furnishes a sufficient guaranty for the agreeable and instructive character of the editorial columns. He writes well both in prose and verse, and there is a manly candor in his criticisms that we like especially. In the present condition of the American press as regards new works, when good and bad alike receive the common places of puffery, it is a good thing to have a reliable and well-informed person in the critic's chair, who speaks what he thinks, and who knows how to be caustic without being discourteous. the muses, in becoming the editor of the Southern Quarterly Review. No man has done so much for the literature of the South as the author of Atalantis, and we see in his popularity a gratifying earnest that his efforts to spread a taste for letters in our sunny region have not been in vain. Some of the minor pieces in the present brochure are very beautiful. The style of the publication is not worthy of the gems it contains, and though it has the imprimatur of Mr. Putnam, we suspect it came not from his tasteful and elegant establishment. Messrs. Lea & Blanchard of Philadelphia have lately published, among other interesting works, the Life of Wm Wirt, by the Hon. John P. Kennedy, 2 vols., 8 vo. This charming biography possesses an interest that no effort in the same walk of letters has afforded, since Mr. Wirt himself wrote the Life of Patrick Henry. We shall avail ourselves of the earliest opportunity of examining it more in detail. The same publishers have also issued Miss Pardoe's "Court and Reign of Francis the First," a work of high character and a most worthy companion to her former historical treatise on "Louis XIV." These volumes are for sale by Morris & Brother and J. W. Randolph. PRINCIPLES OF THE MECHANICS OF MACHINERY AND ENGINEERING. By Julius Weisbach. First American Edition. Edited by Walter R. Johnson, A. M., Cir. and Min. Eng. Professor of Chemistry, &c., &c. Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. 1848 and 1849. it is all that the most inquiring student of mechanics could This is really a splendid work. As a scientific treatise desire, and the exceeding clearness of the wood-cuts, of which there are more than eight hundred, lends additional value to the mathematical formulas which they are de These volumes belong to the excellent Eclectic Series of Dr. McGuffey which has obtained so wide and well de-signed to illustrate. The cost of its publication must have served a celebrity throughout the United States. An impudent attempt has been made by a rival publisher to avail himself of the popularity of this Series, by appropriating the name Eclectic, with the prefix of Southern, and thus facilitate the sale of inferior orks of a similar design; an attempt which Dr. McGuffey's publishers lash been very great, and the class of Engineers and Machinists in the United States owe Lea & Blanchard warm thanks for the enterprise which brought out a standard work of such high character. These volumes may be found at the bookstore of Morris & Brother. THE KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE. EDITED BY LEWIS GAYLORD CLARK. This is pronounced, by the press of America and England, "the best Magazine in America." 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