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ferred, courses of study and principal prizes; describe local customs, the religious condition and habits of the several Institutions, the status and influence of Literary Societies, the demands of New Institutions or of New Educational Movements; in short, everything of interest or value to Students and Instructors, and of profitable publicity to the Institutions themselves."

The January number, now before us, is in every way creditable to the Association, and is an evidence that an amount of talent and energy is enlisted in the support of the Magazine, which will make it very acceptable and popular with the public at large. We give the Table of Contents, which, even without any comment from us, would show that the Number is one of rare interest. Our limits will not allow us to comment upon individual Articles, but we will mention that those bearing the titles "German Student Life and Travel," by Edward A. Walker ; "An English University," by S. R. Calthrop; and "A course of study in the English Language and Literature suitable for our Colleges and High Schools," by Wolcott Calkins, will be found of special interest.

"TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PROSPECTUS.-Flavius J. Cook, Yale College, New Haven, Ct.

ART. I. INTRODUCTION.-Flavius J. Cook, Yale College, New Haven, Ct.

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II. TESTIMONIALS.-See the Article.

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III. GERMAN STUDENT LIFE AND TRAVEL.-Edward A. Walker, University of Heidelberg, Germany.

IV. AN ENGLISH UNIVERSITY.-S. R. Calthrop, Bridgeport, Ct., late of

Cambridge University, England.

V. HORACE MANN AS AN EDUCATOR.-James De Normandie, Antioch
College, Yellow Springs, O.

VI. A STUDENT'S VOYAGE TO LABRADOR.—Albert Williams Bradbury,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me.

“VII. DICKENS-HOW FAR A LITERARY EXEMPLAR.-Frank Amasa Walker, Amherst College, Mass.

"VIII. MILTON, THE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FREE THOUGHT OF HIS AGE.Isaak B. Barken, Brown University, Providence, R. I.

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IX. RESPONSIBILITY OF WRITERS OF FICTION.-Henry S. Burrage, Brown
University, Providence, R. I.

X. LITERARY SOCIETIES OF YALE COLLEGE.-William C. Johnston, Yale

College, New Haven, Ct.

XI. A COURSE OF STUDY IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE SUIT-
ABLE FOR OUR COLLEGES AND HIGH SCHOOLS.-Wolcott Calkins,
Union Theological Seminary, New York.

"XII. COLLEGE CHARACTERS AND CHARACTERISTICS.-Luther M. Jones, Yale College, New Haven, Conn.

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"NEWS-ARTICLES.

I. UNIVERSITY OF ALBANY.-Hon. Amos Dean, LL. D., Albany, N. Y.
II. AMHERST COLLEGE.-Frank Amasa Walker, Amherst, Mass.

ART. III. ANDOVER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.-John Milton Holmes, Andover

Mass.

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IV. ANTIOCH COLLEGE.-Editors for Antioch, Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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V. BELOIT COLLEGE.-Prof. Joseph Emerson, Beloit, Wis.

(6 VI. BOWDOIN COLLEGE.-John Marshall Brown, Brunswick, Me.

"VII. OBERLIN COLLEGE.-Prof. J. H. Fairchild, Oberlin, Ohio.
"VIII. PEOPLE'S COLLEGE.-Address by Horace Greeley.

66 IX. STATE AND NATIONAL LAW SCHOOL.-Prof. J. W. Fowler, Poughkeep-
sie, N. Y.

X. TROY UNIVERSITY.-Albert Danker, Jr., Troy, N. Y.

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XI. WILLIAMS COLLEGE.-Edward Hooker, Williamstown, Mass.

"XII. YALE COLLEGE.-Charles H. Richards, New Haven, Ct."

We wish the UNDERGRADUATE all success. But we confess that we have had serious doubts as to whether it is advisable for those who are engaged in the important studies that are preparatory to professional and business life, to engage in so great an undertaking as this. We are confident that our doubts will be shared by multitudes among the friends Colleges. The hours of student life are golden hours, the full value of which no student can possibly understand till in after years he reaps the advantage of his close application to the course of study prescribed, or learns by bitter experience how great was the folly which led him to engage in outside employments, however fascinating at the moment. But we are glad to be informed, and take pleasure in making it known to our readers, that the Association contemplate employing a "General Secretary," who is to receive a salary and devote all his time to the management of the business connected with the publication of the Quarterly. This arrangement will effectually relieve the undergraduates themselves from the numberless demands upon their time, which must otherwise distract their attention from their proper studies.

We hope that this arrangement will be immediately made. We deem it absolutely essential to the best interests of those who have shown, by what they have done in this number, that if they now for a few years apply themselves with equal zeal to regular study, they will soon be fitted for successful labor in far more important stations.

With such an arrangement for a "General Secretary" carried out, a very interesting Quarterly may be made, as we should hope, without interfering with those other more important interests of which we have spoken. The correspondence and communications of American students who are pursuing their studies in European Universities, Professional Schools, Special Schools, and Art Schools, will be a very attractive feature. The "News-Articles" from the different Colleges and Schools

of this country, cannot fail to be interesting. And the freshness and vivacity of the discussion by young men of such questions as are of common interest to them, cannot fail to make the UNDERGRADUATE a popular periodical.

MISCELLANY.

FOOT FALLS ON THE BOUNDARRY OF ANOTHER WORLD.*-This work is divided into six books, entitled as follows:-Preliminary; Certain Phases of Sleep; Disturbances popularly termed Hauntings; Appearances commonly called Apparitions; Indications of Personal Interferences; The suggested Results. Some of these books consist chiefly of narratives of what are alleged to have been actual occurrences. These are exceedingly curious and interesting to all those who have a desire to dwell on the marvelous. This collection of narratives is very copious in its quantity and various in its quality. It labors under a single but most. serious defect. The stories are not properly verified, and hence though in the mass they are very imposing from their number, yet when taken in detail they shrink into less formidable dimensions.

The theory of the author in the first and sixth book, so far as he has a theory, appears to be not yet fully elaborated. He has gathered some important suggestions from Isaac Taylor, Braid, Carpenter and others, but has brought to the scrutiny and judgment of their opinions a wisdom in no way superior to theirs. His position in respect to the Scriptures would seem to be, to count their testimony as valuable, so far as it vouches for the reality of spiritual apparitions, the separate existence of the soul; but to reject their authority altogether, when it speaks of their destiny or the principles by which that destiny is fixed. The volume is valuable for its narratives, and its adduction of materials which may be made the subject of induction by some competent philosopher.

A LOOK AT HOME.t-This is "a tale from the annals of the poor." It brings to view a very important subject,-the condition of the Poor

• Foot Falls on the Boundary of another World, with Narrative Illustrations. By Robert Dale OWEN, formerly member of Congress, and American Minister to Naples. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 528.

A Look at Home; or Life in the Poor House of New England. By S, H. ELLIOTT. New York. H. Dexter & Co., 113 Nassau street. 1860. 12mo. pp. 410.

Houses in New England. The stories are founded on fact, and are written in a style that will attract the reader, and make him feel the force both of their humor and their logic. We have the poor with us alway. This may harden us, but cannot exonorate us from the duties which we owe to them. The selfishness, and meanness, and inhumanity, of which, as this book shows us, even the respectable poor may at last become victims, should draw out our sympathies for all whom old age or feeble health make dependent upon public charity.

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HITS AND HINTS.*-Here are plenty of hard "hits" at our can whims," and good "hints" for "home use." The follies of the day are always fair game. Good natured ridicule, such as abounds in many parts of this book, will find, we doubt not, plenty of readers. Our countrymen have the reputation in the world of being “thin-skinned,” as it is called, or very sensitive to criticism. There is, however, an obvious advantage in this, for it makes us, as a people, disposed to profit by the "hits" we receive, though rather unpalatable at the moment But while we commend very many of the chapters in the book, and think they are calculated to do good, there are two or three, which, for the author's sake, we are sorry to see. We allude to those entitled "What of the Night?"-" Pilgrimism"-and "The religious creeds of New England." It is enough to say that they are characterized by something of that spirit of disparagement of religious faith which render the lucubrations of the Professor at the Breakfast Table so objectionable. It is a very easy thing to raise a laugh on such subjects, and, by interweaving a little truth, make the most shallow criticisms wear a semblance of importance, but the attempt is itself at least prima facie evidence that the writer has gone beyond his depth, and has no just conception of what he is writing about.

Of the "hints" for home use, some are very good. We take at random the first one, as an example.

"How to make millionaires.—It may be done at very little expense. Everything thrown open to the public adds so much to each man's estate. The Boston public library has added fifty thousand volumes to the library of each citizen of Boston. There is not a poor man in Paris, who is not, in the best sense of the word, a millionaire. Be he rag-picker, laborer, student, invalid, clerk, or poor annuitant, he has still a hundred or more old estates, in and about Paris, that are worth their millions and tens of millions. * He has

* Hits at American Whims, and Hints for Home Use. By FREDERic W. SawBoston: Walker, Wise & Co. 1860. 12mo. pp. 274.

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his Louvre ; He can go to the Academy, and listen to interesting lectures on the useful Arts; he can if he pleases wander into the Garden of Plants; He may enjoy the cooling shade of his Bois de Boulogne, a beautiful wood near Paris, twice as large as all Boston, full of ponds, lakes, flowers, statuary and fountains.

All these things are his, to use and enjoy without fee or reward. Everything dedicated to the public is so much added to the private fortune of those whose situation admits of their enjoying it. Does a city lay out a park,then Mr. Trott, the hand-cartman, who rejoices in just one room in an attic, has so many broad acres added to his domicil. * Is a library made

free, then Mr. Trott's tenement is enlarged, he has a library room attached, where he may go and loll on his arm chair, and call for his book, and enjoy his property. Is a gallery of art added, -then Mr. Trott's tenement is enlarged again. Mr. Trott is a lord in all but name."

LIFE'S MORNING.*-This is a very beautiful volume, printed on tinted paper, elegantly bound, and containing "words of counsel and encouragement for youthful Christians," in prose and verse. It will serve admirably as a gift book.

SKETCHES FROM LIFE. Second Series.t-This is a book of some two hundred anecdotes, intended to illustrate the influence of Christianity in the different relations of life. They are selected from those which have been already published in the "American Messenger," and form a collection which will be highly prized, we doubt not, in every family where there are youthful readers.

HASTE TO THE RESCUE.-No book has been more popular among those who have been laboring practically for the spiritual good of the ignorant and degraded, than the well known book, published in England two or three years ago, entitled "English Hearts and English Hands." It has prompted to many self-sacrificing labors, on the part of the wealthy and educated, in all parts of our own country, in behalf of the poor and the destitute. We bave heard the inquiry made many times whether it was possible to accomplish the same kind of work as successfully in this country. This question we are not prepared to answer, but we are happy to inform all who were interested in the book of which

Life's Morning; or, Counsels and Encouragements for Youthful Christians. Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co. 1860. 18mo. pp. 266.

Sketches from Life; or, Illustrations of the Influence of Christianity. Second Edition. American Tract Society. 12mo. pp. 486. 1860.

Haste to the Rescue; or, Work while it is Day. By Mrs. CHARLES WNew York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1859. 18mo. pp. 224.

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