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Heaped on his country's lap his liberal gold,
Pierced the dim future's veil for him unrolled;
Saw science fostered by his leading hand,
And knowledge brighten round his native land,
And o'er the murmurs of time's sounding sea
Heard thanks from untold ages yet to be."

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"NOTE-Mr. John Lowell, Jr., of Boston, whose bequest of 9250,000 established the Institute in that city which bears his name. The codicil to his will is dated at Luxor, near Thehes. He died in 1836, aged 37. There is something more than commonly sublime in the spectacle of a young person, dying in a far country, surround ed only by the relics of past and forgotten institutions, yet amming, with a generous and hopeful confidence, to establish the future intellectual and

moral cultivation of his native land."

Of the shorter pieces which fill out the volume, printed with all the chaste typo graphical taste which distinguishes the press of its publisher, we will simply remark, that while they are of very unequal beauty, none are without some merit, though we are mistaken if we have not seen poems of Mr. Lunt better than any we observe here. Though perhaps we should except from the remark his happy retort upon Campbell's epigram on our flag, which went the rounds of the newspapers some time since, as follows:

"United States! your banner wears
Two emblems; one of fame;
Alas! the other that it bears
Reminds us of your shame!

"The white man's liberty in types
Stan is blazoned by your stars-
But what's the meaning of your stripes?
They mean your negroes' scars!

In every respect, both of poetry and truth, Mr. Lunt has the advantage of this, in the following:

TO THE ENGLISH FLAG.

"England! whence came each glowing hue,
That tints your flag of meteor light, —
The streaming red, the deeper blue,
Crossed with the moonbeam's pearly white?
"The blood and bruise, the blue and red,-
Let Asia's groaning millions speak;
The white,- it tells the color fled
From starving Erin's pallid check!"

The Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of THEODORE PARKER, Minister of the Second Church, Roxbury, Mass. Boston: James Munroe & Co., 1843. 12mo. pp. 360.

Mr. Parker, the author of these writings, is the pastor of a Unitarian Congregational Church in Roxbury, Mass., and has, within a couple of years, gained considerable celebrity in his own neighborhood, by his boldness in denouncing the Church and his clerical brethren, and in putting forth views which are alleged to be incompatible with a belief in the Divine Origin and Authority of Christianity. Some opposition, which, considering VOL. XII.-NO. LVI. 28

his position as a pastor of a religious congregation, his denunciations, and his speculations, could hardly fail to be excited in a Christian community, has been construed by his friends into persecution, and made, therefore, the occasion of magnifying him considerably beyond his natural dimensions. He is, in fact, no marvel; but a young man of very studious habits, of tolerable capacity, and very respectable attainments. He is not a man of very profound or original thought; but he is quite original, and often surprising as a rhetorician. He has run over a great variety of books, has his memory loaded with apt illustrations, quaint forms of expression, striking and sometimes exquisitely beautiful imagery, which he brings together in a manner new, peculiar, and surprising, rendering him very effective as a lecturer or preacher, though sometimes wearisome as a writer. As a writer he wants severity. He is quite too gorgeous, too brilliant, too much on the stretch to say something that shall dazzle. He ransacks all

creation for flowers to be wreathed into garlands, which he may hang in fantastic festoons around the topics of his discourse. We are fatigued, and often throw down his Essay or Discourse before we have half read it.

We would not charge Mr. Parker with a want of earnestness, but we confess we find it difficult to reconcile such a manner of writing with the seriousness of the preacher, much less of the Reformer. What has the Reformer to do with these meretricious ornaments? When the real man of God comes to regenerate the world, when the true prophet speaks out from the depths of a heart full of love and compassion, will he not speak in tones as remarkable for their simplicity as their power? Will he not direct the attention to the thought itself, fix it on the very NUMEN, and not suffer it to pause on the decorations of the shrine? All ornament, it strikes us, is in bad taste, if it arrest attention as ornament, or excite a single remark on itself. The beauty of the piece should be integrally one with its truth and force. That is an unfinished piece, the workmanship of an apprentice, not the master, in which the truth, the force and the beauty, coexist as distinct elements. That only is a finished piece in which the three are absolutely one. When Mr. Parker learns this, when experience has chastened his fancy and corrected his taste, and the vicissitudes of life have sobered his feelings, deepened the earnestness of his heart, and touched it with a more genuine pathos, he will deservedly hold a respectable rank among the scholars and authors of his country.

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The Essays which make up the volume before us have all, with a single exception, been before published, and most of them in The Dial, a Quarterly Journal, published in Boston, and at present edited by R. W. Emerson, who may be said to be at the head of our New England Transcendentalists, and who deserves to rank among the very first of our American poets. They are chiefly theological, and therefore chiefly interesting to those engaged in theological studies. Of the peculiar theological views they set forth, this is not the place to speak. We may be permitted, however, to say, that they strike us as more remarkable for the dogmatism with which they are urged, and the costume in which they are dressed out, than for their depth or novelty. As a theologian, we are unable to discover any originality in Mr. Parker. He proposes no new problems, and offers no new solutions, and aids us in obtaining no new solutions, of any old ones. He may have said something not generally known to the mass of readers, but nothing that we should consider new to his professional brethren; and, in point of fact, he leaves the whole subject right where he found it. He may be considered as standing, in the character and tendency of his views, on the extreme left of the movement represented in Germany by Strauss in his

"Leben Jesu."

But what reputation Mr. Parker has in his own neighborhood, he has obtained, not by his German Neology, which ninetenths of his admirers would reject with horror were they to see it, but by his earnest appeals for free thought in the investigation of theological subjects, for a high, uncompromising morality, and for a sanctuary, so to speak, whose service shall not be mere empty forms, but consist in the practice of the moral virtues. In making these appeals, he touches a chord which vibrates through many hearts; in them he is powerful, effective; for here he is in harmony with the spirit of his times, and with the true interests of religion and morality. But in making these appeals, he is only echoing the words which others in his own vicinity were uttering long before he began his career; nay, he is only uttering what all earnest minds, in every age of the Church, have uttered with what force and clearness were in them. No matter. Here he is great, for here he is true, and engaged in a work from which he need not shrink because he has had predeces

sors.

Life in Mexico, being a residence of two years in that Country. By Mme ČDe La B, Boston: Charles C. Little, and James Brown. 1843. 2 vols. 12mo.

There is but one thing about these volumes that we find to censure, and that is the refusal of the distinguished lady to whom we are indebted for them, to place her name in full on the title-page. The volumes are worthy of her high rank and character, and are more honorable to her than her rank, and her rank is none too high for her to acknowledge herself an authoress. There is no rank, royal or noble, but may derive new lustre from success in literary pursuits. We hold the dignity of Letters above all earthly dignities, saving always the dignity of true Christian morals, which, after all, is scarcely an exception, for no man or woman without the last is entitled to the first. The pure in heart shall see God, and it is only by purity of heart and nobility of aim and purpose, that one can arrive to high rank in the cultivation of Letters. But enough of this.

These volumes are beautifully printed, admirably written, full of wit, sprightliness, good feeling, and solid information, on a topic of intense interest, with which the great mass of us have very little acquaintance, and concerning which we have the most vague and erroneous notions. They deserve a more extended notice than we can now give them. They must and will be read, and so far as read they will tend to dissipate many of our errors concerning our Mexican neighbors, whom we are in the ungenerous habit of underrating, and increase our respect for them. Mexico is full of romance, and the struggle of the Mexicans for liberty, for a free republican government.deserves more sympathy than we have ever extended to them. We had been bred to republican habits from our childhood, and our Revolution introduced very little alteration in our internal and domestic life. We were nearly as republican before we threw off our allegiance to the British Crown as we are now. Not so with the Mexicans. They had been royalists, bred under a royal government, and governed by a sort of vice-kings, with regal authority and splendor. They had to change all their habits, their internal modes of thinking and feeling, as well as their external relations. What wonder, then, that they should not have at once settled down into a government as fixed and as stable as ours ? We believe the Mexican Revolutionis worthy of profounder study, and of altogether more respect than it has as yet received from our countrymen. We are

glad to find, therefore, that we are to have one of these days, a history of Mexico, from a pen every way competent to do it justice. And who but the historian of Ferdinand and Isabella should write the History of Mexico and Spanish America? In the mean time we commend these two admirable volumes to the public, as the best work which has as yet, so far as our knowledge extends, appeared amongst us on the life and character of our southern neighbors.

Life of Jean Paul Frederic Richter. Compiled from various sources. Together with his Autobiography. Translated from the German. Boston: Little & Brown. 1842. 2 vols. 16mo.

We are somewhat late in noticing these two beautiful and intensely interesting volumes, made up by a most excellent and accomplished lady from the German, concerning the Life and Character of Jean Paul, the peculiar, the undescribable, but great, noble, full-hearted German, overflowing with the fullness of life, and unsurpassed by any author of any age or nation in his power to quicken the heart and soul of his readers; but though late, we are far from regarding them with indifference, or from withholding our thanks to the author for her very valuable present. There is no German writer who is more worthy of our study and admiration, and none whose works would exert a more wholesome influence on our countrymen. Right glad are we that these volumes have appeared to give those of our readers unacquainted with the German, an introduction to one with whom they cannot commune without pleasure and profit, and from whose communion they will go away greater and better men. We are glad, also, to learn, that a friend, well known as a successful translator from Goethe and Schiller, has now nearly ready for the press his great work, the Titan, which we hope some of our enterprising houses will soon give to the American public.

Handy Andy, a Tale of Irish Life. By SAMUEL LOVER, Esq., author of "Rory O'Moore," "The Gridiron," "Barry O'Reirdon," &c., &c. With twenty-two illustrations on steel by the Author. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Philadelphia: George S. Appleton.

After the vast accumulation of jokes and jests which have been garnered up in our literature against that merry and

warm-hearted fellow, Pat, it might have been reasonably supposed that fun had at length fairly exhausted its resources at his expense. The completion of this serial, however, has given us a goodly octavo volume, the three or four hundred pages of which are abundantly racy with bulls, blunders, and ludicrous adventures of every description, as if Mr. Samuel Lover had just broached a fresh topic of amusement. To be sure, a few of the stories and jests strike us somewhat familiarly, yet they are either so admirably told, or appositely introduced, as to be, if not quite new, yet quite as good. Understanding the art of story-telling too well to lose himself in lengthy and labored descriptions or attenuated wit, Mr. Lover manages, by a few striking points, to lay at once his whole idea before the reader. His pen, too, in the present production, has had a fit auxiliary in his pencil. The illustrations are remarkably spirited, and would not be unworthy of the artist world-famous under the sobriquet of Phiz.

Handy Andy, possessing all the mirth and true-heartedness of his nation, is nevertheless so ignorant and unfortunate a fellow, that if, under any circumstances, there is the smallest loop-hole or crevice by which it is possible to escape from doing right, he is sure to be thrust through it somehow or other. Suddenly transplanted from a shanty to a squire's mansion, he of course acquits himself most laughably there in a long catalogue of mistakes, and thenceforth is made to run the gauntlet wherever he goes. Though there is the usual number of deaths, marriages, disastrous chances, and hairbreadth 'scapes, the book contains, after all, not much of a plot. It is a succession of stories strung together by one or two connecting links, and has a commencement and end only because these could not be very well avoided. Thus, after Handy Andy stumbles and tumbles through a twelvemonth of mishaps, he is suddenly, for want of a better termination, converted from a poverty-stricken servant, who has just iced his master's champaign by pouring it out into the tub of ice, into a wealthy lord, and other almost equally marvellous things are accomplished during the course of the work.

Fiction in this shape, however amusing it may be, will only be read to be forgotten. Its readers can be obliged to their author for little more than a few hours' entertainment. Mr. Lover's writings, like those of nearly all the periodical school which Dickens' example has called up to the portrayal of popular manners,

although they may be very agreeably perused, contain few evidences of any such deep philanthropy or warm generosity as characterize that dear and delightful writer-(we can tell Mr. Dickens that these epithets are now worth having from our side of the water). We can at any rate say this for Handy Andy, that right merry and funny as he is, there are none who will not be pleased with his acquaintance, and sorry for that elevation of him to the peerage which was to be the signal for its termination.

Six Nights with the, Washingtonians: a series of Temperance Tales. By T. S. ARTHUR, author of "Insubordination," "The Temperance Pledge," "Tired of Housekeeping," &c., &c. Philadelphia: Godey and M'Michael, Publishers' Hall, 101 Chestnut-street. 1843. 8vo. pp. 192.

Temperance Tales. By the same. In two volumes, 12mo. Same Publishers. 1843.

It is needless to invoke God's blessing on the movement of the "Washingtonians." Its presence in their midst has been already made sufficiently manifest. These tales are, in many passages, of striking force in illustration of the moral they are written to teach, and we can safely recommend them for the sake of their own merit, to the same wide circulation which we most heartily wish them for the sake of their spirit and object.

Fables of La Fontaine. Translated from the French, by ELIZUR WRIGHT, Jr. 2 vols. 16mo. Third Edition. Boston: published by Tappan & Dennet, 114 Washington-street. 1842.

This cheap and neat form in which Mr. Wright has here reproduced his admirable translation of the great French fabulist, is chiefly designed for the benefit of schools and families, as a reading book equally amusing and instructive. The expensive elegance of the octavo edition -of the merits of which we speak only from report-placing it beyond reach for this purpose, for which the original is almost universally used wherever its language is spoken, the translator has rendered a public service, which, we trust, will not fail of its well-deserved reward, by the issue of the present one. The felicity of the translation does justice to the unanimous praise with which the former was everywhere greeted; rendering, with peculiar spirit and vigor, all of La Fontaine that could be translated. Every school and every family into which it is introduced will be the better, as well as the pleasanter for it.

The Sleepwalker. A Tale from the German of Heinrich Z. Zschökke. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 1842.

Our readers need no other inducement to look over this little volume, than to be told that it is by the author of " The Fool of the Nineteenth Century," which has appeared in our pages.

MONTHLY LITERARY BULLETIN.

AMERICAN.

The revolutionizing new system of cheap periodical issues of works of all kinds, seems to have checked, for the present, all enterprise with the publishers as to the production of new books. We hear the Harpers are about re-issuing the volumes of their "Family Library" at one-half the original price, and it will be seen that the other publishers are adopting their plan with other works of the day. Five additional volumes of the "Natural History of New York," have just been completed for publication; ten volumes will finish the series of this great and important work, a copy of which is, we understand, about to be forwarded to the British Museum.

Our readers will be happy to learn that the work of Rev. Justin Perkins, on Persia, is just published by Allen, Morrill & Wardwell, Boston. It presents important facts respecting the establishment of the American Mission among the Nestorians.

Dr. Thomson's "Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias," comprising the alterations and additions of the last London work together with the French and American remedies, &c. Edited by an American Physician. This invaluable manual for the student and practitioner, will be ready for delivery in a few days. J. & H. G. Langley are the publishers. Dr. Sweetzer, author of a well-known work on "Consumption," has a new work in progress of printing, on "Diet," which will comprise much

valuable and curious information on a topic which has heretofore received but a very inadequate share of the attention of the learned. It is to be issued by the Langleys. The same publishers have also just completed a new edition of that admirable text-book, which has been introduced into most of the Medical Institutions of our country, as it has long been in those of Great Britain. This volume is one of acknowledged merit, and indeed, "The Dublin Dissector" is admitted to be without a rival in works of its class. The popular work of Mr. Norman, entitled "Rambles in Yucatan," has passed through another edition, and seems still to vie successfully with the work of his competitor, who previously invoked the public attention on this interesting subject. Lester's new volumes, "The Condition

and Fate of England," have followed their well-known predecessors, published under the title of" The Glory and Shame of England," with great success. Besides one large edition, the greater part of another has been already taken up.

D. Appleton & Co. have just published "Handy Andy," by Samuel Loverthe complete work illustrated with twenty-two humorous plates. Also, a cheap edition with two plates. They have just ready the first number of Lover's new work, " L. S. D., (Pounds, Shillings, and Pence,) or Account of Irish Heirs," furnished to the public monthly, with illustrations. "Dr Ure's Dictionary of Art, Manufactures, and Mines" this valuable work is now being re-issued in five one-dollar monthly parts of 300 pages each. Parts 1 and 2, are ready. "Masterman Ready," vol. 3. and last of this popular work for the young, is just out. Also Part 1 of "Cooley's American in Egypt," to be completed in six semi-monthly parts. The same publishers have also in press, "Parochial Sermons," by John Henry Newman, B. D. The six volumes of the London edition to be in two 8vo. volumes. "The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton," uniform with their edition of Cowper and Burns. Also, "The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott," uniform with Milton, &c. "The Book of the Navy," by Professor Frost, in four monthly parts. A new and cheap edition of "The Pictorial Life of Napoleon," 500 plates.

In preparation, and will be published speedily, by Tappan & Dennet, Boston, a history of the Hawaïan or Sandwich Islands, embracing their ancient man

ners, customs, poetry, &c., their early traditions, with a particular account of their re-discovery by Cooke, life of Tomehamer the Great, and their civil and political history, with rise and progress of Christianity and civilisation unto the present year. By James J. Jarvis, member of the Oriental Society, &c., late a resident in that group. This work is brought out in splendid style of typography, &c., in one vol. octavo, steel plates of scenery, portraits, map, and numerous wood illustrations of the best description. Harper & Brothers announce the following for early publication: Hoboken, a romance, by Theo. S. Fay. Conquest and Self-Conquest, or, Which makes the Hero, 18mo. Adam Brown, the merchant, by Horace Smith. The Last of the Barons, by Sir E. L. Bulwer. The Mayflower, or Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the descendants of the Pilgrims, by H. B. Stowe. Italy and the Italian Islands, by Spaulding-forming three vols. of Family Library. Polynesia, or an historical account of the principal islands in the South Seas, including New Zealand, by Dr. Russell. Now out, The School and the Schoolmaster, a manual for the use of teachers, &c., of common schools. Dr. Anthon's new Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities. Rev. D. W. Clarke's Elements of Algebra. Rev. S. Olin's Travels in Egypt, Arabia, &c, in 2 vols., plates.

ENGLISH.

The following are said to be just ready for publication:-"The Pope and the Actor," a new novel by Miss Burdon, the author of "Seymour of Sudley." Another from the pen of Miss Pickering, entitled "Sir Michael Paulet." Also, a book of travels by A. J. Strutt, "A Pedestrian Tour through Calabria and Sicily."

"A Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature," under the editorial superintendence of the able editor of the "Pictorial Bible," is now preparing for publication. Mr. Kitto will enjoy the co-operation of many distinguished scholars and divines, whose names will be affixed to their respective contributions. The design is to produce a work which, within reasonable limits, and at a moderate price, shall present not only a digest of all the information which is contained in the voluminous works of this description, but also the results of modern

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