the most graphic delineation of character could, what Isaac T. Hopper was. Truly he was a noble man! There is, to our mind, more pure and undefiled religion in such a life as that happy, brave old Quaker lived, than half the exclusive, evangelical and union-saving politicians ever thought off.

The publishers deserve the thanks of Mr. Hopper's numerous friends for the two excellent engravings of him--a full-length and medallion-with which they have enriched a volume not unworthy to be called a companion to Uncle Tom's Cabin. Is the race of Hoppers all dead?

W. H. R.

21. A Universal and Critical Dictionary of the English Language: to which are added Walker's Key to the Pronunciation of Classical and Scriptural Proper Names, much enlarged and improved; and a Pronouncing Vocabulary of Modern Geographical Names. By Joseph E. Worcester, LL. D., &c. Boston: Jenks, Hickling & Swan, &c. &c. 1853. 8vo. pp. lxxvi. 956.

We mention this well known and extensively used Dictionary, only to say, that it appears to be regarded as the standard of orthography by our best American scholars. We fear that we ourselves

do not always conform to it, as we would like to do. Our spelling has been partially vitiated by familiarity with books published according to Dr. Webster's innovations.

The same publishers have also issued revised editions of Dr. Worcester's "Comprehensive and Explanatory Dictionary," and his "Primary Pronouncing Dictionary," for the use of Common Schools, -each of them containing the vocabularies of Classical, Scripture, and Modern Geographical, Names.

22. Appeal to Husbands and Wives in favor of Female Physicians. By Rev. William Hosmer, Editor of the Northern Christian Advocate ; author of the Young Men's Book; the Young Lady's Book, etc. New York: Published by George Gregory, &c. Boston: Redding & Co., &c. 1853. Pamphlet, 8vo. pp. 24.

Re-published from the "Young Lady's Book," by the same author. There is a good deal of indignant declamation in this " Appeal," and some rough handling of the Medical Faculty, that might as well have been spared. But, under all these faults of manner, there are important considerations here presented, which deserve and we think demand, to be dispasionately weighed by those to whom they are addressed. That female physicians ought to be provided for certain cases, seems to be a dictate of nature itself.

23. Henri; or, the Web and Woof of Life. By William G. Cambridge, &c. &c. Boston: Abel Tompkins and B. B. Mussey & Co. 1853. 12mo. pp. 432.

Notwithstanding the very humble claims which the author makes in behalf of this tale, we find several good passages in it, and some

scenes that are well presented. Taken as a whole, it is perhaps wanting in elevation and manners, if not sometimes of sentiment. It describes human nature, but human nature in phases that are not always worth describing. We should at least point to this as the main fault to be avoided in any future effort of the kind.

24. Narrative of a Journey round the World. Comprising a Winter Passage across the Andes to Chili; with a visit to the Gold Regions of California and Australia, the South Sea Islands, Java, &c. By F. Gerstaecker. New York: Harper & Brothers, &c. 1853. 12mo. pp. 624.

A rapid, off-hand, sketchy narrative, in which personal adventure, reflections, extempore descriptions of scenes, and places, and countries, remarks on the people, accounts of natural productions, of manners and of social condition, succeed each other just as they seem to have been suggested to the sprightly cosmopolitan German traveller. Such is the general character of his work. By subjoining to this, a list of the places he visited, we shall give the reader as good an idea of the whole, as by a more labored critique.

He sailed from the mouth of the Weser to Rio Janeiro, and then to Buenos Ayres; rode over the Pampas to Mendoza; crossed the Andes to Valparaiso; sailed to San Francisco; went up to Sacramento City, and to the mining region; sailed from San Francisco to the Sandwich Islands, and stopped at Honolulu; went on a whaling cruize; visited the Society Islands; sailed for Australia, and landed at Sydney, whence he made excursions to the gold region, and other parts of the country; sailed to Java, and from Batavia made excursions into the interior of that island. And here his work ends.

25. A Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Adoniram Judson, D. D. By Francis Wayland, President of Brown University, &c. In Two Volumes. Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company &c. &c. 1853. 12mo. pp. 544, 522.

These handsomely printed volumes came to hand only on the eve of our publication, so that we have had no opportunity to examine them. But the name of Dr. Wayland as a writer and compiler of the Memoir of such a life as that of Mr. Judson, is to us a sufficient guaranty that that the work has been executed with much ability, and that it will be found instructive as well as interesting. We have ever regarded Mr. Judson as a man of action, rather than of profound thought or of genius,-a most devoted servant of his Master's cause, as he understood it, ready at all times to sacrifice his personal choice, and even his life, to the noblest objects; and God forbid that we should be disposed to withhold due honor from such a man, because "he followeth not with us."

26. Six Months in Italy. By George Stillman Hillard. In Two Volumes. Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields. 1853. 16 mo. pp. 432, 455.

It was rather a hazardous venture, for one who had a literary reputation at stake, to come before the public with another book of travel in Italy, when the country, and every thing in it, along the beaten routes, had been described by all kinds of seers and writers, and there seemed nothing left for a new tourist to say, except to repeat. Mr. Hillard has justified the confidence which he must have felt in his own powers to rise above difficulties from this cause, and to accomplish his task in a creditable manner. His work does honor to him as a scholar, a judicious observer of men and manners, and a lover of nature and art. One or two of the Italians tours which we first read, awakened perhaps as lively an interest in our minds, by introducing us to our first acquaintance with the country; but since that time, we have seen none from which we derived so much gratification, as from the careful perusal of this. Though written in the form of a journal, and pervaded by a thread of personal narrative, it is not sketchy, does not give us merely the first crude impressions, as they arose along the way. The views which it presents, whether of natural scenery, of places, and particular objects, or of social condition, modes of life, historical features, and works of art, are characterized by completeness and maturity, the result of study and reflection, as well as observation. And the whole is described in a style, which though marked perhaps with a little mannerism, seems everywhere to reflect the warm and rich sun-light of Italy.

His tour opens with the pass of the Simplon. After visiting Lago Maggiore and Milan, he proceeded by the pass of the Stelvio to the Tyrol; where his narrative is suspended, till he reached Adelsberg, on the mountains north east of Trieste. From Trieste to Venice. Thence to Verona, Parma, Bologna, and across the Appenines to Florence; next to Pisa, Leghorn, by steamer to Civita Vecchia; and to Rome, whence he made excursions to the remarkable places in its vicinity. From Rome he journeyed to Naples, and visited Pompeii, Vesuvius, Sorrento, Baiæ, &c. On his return, after stopping again at Rome, his route lay by the Falls of Terni, Perugia, Florence, Lucca, and Genoa.