ENGLISH GRAMMAR. By William C. Fowler. Harpers. 675 pp., large Svo. Having ourselves been "guilty of the sin of writing an English Grammar," as once publicly charged by our friend Dr. Elder, we can afford to say, without offence to the hundred and one authors that have attempted the same theme, that Professor Fowler's book is by far the most important and valuable work on English Grammar extant. Its size-nearly seven hundred pages large octavo-shows that it is not intended as a mere school-book, while the slightest examination of its contents will convince any one that it is not crude matter huddled together to make a big book. It is, on the contrary, an elaborate, scholarly and logical digest of the whole subject, incorporating into a systematic treatise the fruits of the recent contributions to English philology by all the great English, American, and continental writers on comparative grammar, as well as the results of the more direct investigations into the English and its parent Saxon. As an authoritative book of reference for the common school teacher, as a text-book for colleges and the higher seminaries of learning, as an indispensable part of the library of every professional gentleman, and indeed of every educated gentleman, whether professional or not, and finally, as a work of laborious research, creditable alike to American scholarship and letters, we hail its publication as forming an era in the history of English Grammar, of which it affords incomparably the fullest and most satisfactory exposition.

GIBBON'S ROME. Harpers. This edition of Gibbon is now complete in six volumes. The whole work, in a good library style, can be purchased for less than two dollars and a half. As this extraordinarily low price is the result of a special competition, which may at any time be brought to an end, now is the time for buyers. For sale by Zieber.

POE'S WORKS. Vol. 111. The Literati. New York: J. S. Redfield. Some D'Israeli must bring out a new volume on "The Quarrels of Authors," and take the present publication as his text. Poe was himself in hot water all his life. By way of maintaining a proper analogy, this posthumous publication of his works is now setting all the literary world at loggerheads. The present ill-judged volume will necessarily breed heart-burning and quarrels. Between Mr. Poe's criticisms and those of his editor, there are few living American writers whose bile will not be stirred up. Such a many-sided fight we have not seen this many a day. For sale by Zieber.

ARTHUR'S TEMPERANCE TALES. Illustrated Edition. Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley. The many thousands who have hung with delight over these beautiful tales in their original form, will hail with pleasure their appearance in the shape of a large and handsome octavo, with illustrations by Croome and Dallas, a mezzotint likeness of the author by Welch after a painting by Lambdin, and though last, not least, a straightforward, sensible biography by Arthur himself in his own proper person.

A HUNTER'S LIFE IN SOUTH AFRICA. R. Gordon Cumming. Two vols., Svo. Harpers. To the lovers of sport, as well as to the lovers of science, these volumes are a perfect feast of good things. The early life of the author was one that engendered in him a settled passion for sporting adventure, in connection with the study of natural history. Having exhausted whatever of excite ment the preserved game of England could afford, he sought to gratify his propensity among the rolling prairies and rocky mountains of the Far West. Finding even this becoming common-place and tame, he embarked for South Africa, and after reaching the frontiers of European footsteps among the Caffres, boldly left behind all traces of civilization, and penetrated, rifle in hand, into the very heart of Southern Africa, where for five years he played Nimrod among the giraffes, lions, elephants, and savages of that heretofore unexplored region. What he saw, he noted in his journal on the spot, while still fresh in his memory. His volumes purport to be an almost exact transcript of these field notes. They are certainly the freshest and most stirring descriptions of personal adventure that have lately appeared. For sale by Zieber.

MENTAL HYGIENE. By William Sweetser, M. D. Putnam. 390 pp., 8vo. It is difficult to overestimate the amount of the reciprocal influence of the mind and body upon each other. How often does it happen that a man is physicked out of the world, when he should have been treated for a "mind diseased." Doctors, of every pathy, study too exclusively the material organization of the subject on which they have to practise, forgetting apparently that there is no bodily function which mental action cannot disturb, and almost no symptom of bodily disease which disordered mental action cannot produce. Theologians and philosophers, on the other hand, in estimating cases of conscience, or in dealing with moral or intellectual reforms, too often forget that there is no mental process which may not be disturbed, facilitated, or suspended by the condition of the physical system. We all forget that man is neither wholly material nor wholly spiritual, but a compound of both, that we have a stomach as well as a conscience, and may be ill-natured from a defect in the gastric juice just as certainly-perhaps quite as often-as from badness of heart. Dr. Sweetser's book is an examination of the intellect and passions of man, designed to show how they affect, and are affected by, the bodily functions, and their influence on health and longevity. It is a work well worthy of an attentive perusal, and of the second edition which it has reached. For sale by A. Hart.

AFTER-DINNER TABLE-TALK. By Chitwood Evelyn. Putnam. 192 pp., 8vo. A capital selection of choice sayings from the choicest authors, neatly printed, and adorned with a portrait of Sydney Smith, from whose writings a large proportion of the gems have been gathered. For sale by A. Hart.

THE RECENT PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY, ESPECIALLY IN THE UNITED STATES. Elias Loomis. Harpers. 258 pp., 8vo. None of the sciences, not even chemistry, seems to be making greater progress than that whose recent history Professor Loomis has undertaken to record, and few among the American contributors to this advancement have been more assiduous or more successful than the historian himself. Although, therefore, the work is entirely popular in its style, and free from technical terms, its statements may be considered as authentic; and it is but fitting that the American people should know, more generally than they now do, and from some one authorized to say, what American astronomers have been doing. We extract with pleasure the following notice of the Observatory of the Philadelphia High School.

"The erection of this Observatory formed an epoch in the history of American astronomy, in consequence of the introduction of a superior class of instruments to any which had been hitherto imported. It introduced the instruments of Munich fairly to the notice of the American public; and their superiority to the English telescopes was felt to be so decided, that almost every large instrument which has been since imported has been from the same makers. In the hands of Messrs. Walker and Kendall this Observatory became celebrated, not only in America, but also in Europe. It has furnished numerous observations of comets, especially the great comet of 1843, and also a long list of observed occultations and moon culminating stars."

COOPER'S WORKS. The Deerslayer. Putnam. 597 pp., Svc. Criticism upon a work which has been before the public a quarter of a century is hardly expected, certainly not in the crowded columns of a monthly magazine. All that our readers will expect of us in such a case is to give

them some information as to the character of the edition. On this point, those who have not seen the series may rest assured that it is in all respects admirable. Each novel makes a separate volume of convenient size for reading, and of suitable appearance and quality for the library. The edition is under the superintendence of the author, with new introductions and notes. It will, no doubt, be in future times the standard edition. For sale by A. Hart. New York: Samuel serial have been re

THE ILLUSTRATED DOMESTIC BIBLE. Hueston. Parts V. and VI. of this ceived.

SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS. Phillips & Sampson. No. 24, received, contains Part III. of Henry VI., with a portrait of Lady Grey. For sale by T. B. Peterson.

MARGARET PERCIVAL IN AMERICA. Phillips & Sampson. This purports to be a religious novel, written to counter. act some doctrinal errors supposed to be inculcated by the novel of "Margaret Percival" in England. We cannot answer for the whole book, not having read it. But for

one single chapter, describing Miss Percival's appointment as a school-teacher, to which we opened by accident, we can say that it is very amusing, and true to the life. If the whole book is equal to this chapter, the purchaser will not regret the money, or the reader his time, spent upon "Margaret Percival in America."

MERCERSBURG REVIEW. The September number is occupied entirely with an article of great learning, by the Rev. Professor Nevin, on the Doctrine of the Reformed Church on the Lord's Supper.

CHAUVENET'S TRIGONOMETRY. Among the recent mathematical text-books we recollect none that combine more happily the simplicity necessary for an elementary textbook with the evidence and the results of profound mathematical reading.

HYACINTHE; By Mrs. Gray. T. B. Peterson. Price 25 cents, in paper covers.

THE LILY AND THE TOTEM. By W. Gilmore Simms. Baker & Scribner. This new work of Mr. Simms belongs legitimately to that valuable class of writings known as "the Romance of History." He has grouped together the romantic adventures of the Huguenots in Florida and of

the colonial enterprises generally of Coligny in North America, in the form of a very charming fiction, in which, however, he assures us, he has everywhere made historical truth the basis of his work, calling only upon his fancy to fill up the blanks in the historical narrative. The work is one for which his social and literary position among the Huguenot families of South Carolina have given him peculiar qualifications. There is no class of books which we should more promptly welcome than those which revive and perpetuate the events of our early colonial history.

THE LIGHT OF THE WEEK. By John Younger. New York: Edward H. Fletcher. This is one of that remarkable series of essays called forth two years ago in England by the offer of a series of prizes for the best essays on the "temporal advantages of the Sabbath to the labouring classes," to be written by labouring men. Mr. Younger, who obtained the second prize, is a common shoemaker, and composed his work over the lap-stone. The American edition contains a biographical sketch of the author.

THE MOURNER'S VISION A POEM. By 1. L. Donnelly. Mr. Donnelly, already partially known to the readers of this magazine by occasional short poems, has ventured at length upon the broad and troubled waters of authorship, having launched upon the great sea of literature, if not a full-sized man-of-war or a frigate, at least a very respectable craft, sufficient for coast navigation, and possibly, in these days of adventurous yachting, capable of a trip across the Atlantic. We wish him a prosperous voyage, and grant him from this quarter of the horizon a favouring breeze.

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. Leonard Scott & Co., New York. The last number contains some articles of unusual ability, even for the Westminster. The article on "Classical Education" shows that the public mind in England as well as America is not at rest on this great subject. The wants of the age are not met by the existing institutions for higher education. This has been frankly acknowledged by Dr. Wayland in his report on the reor ganization of Browne University. Dr. Nott, President of Union College, when addressing the late National Convention of the Friends of Education as its President, made substantially the same admission. The Westminster reviewer does not formally discuss the subject, or propose any definite plan of reform, but he deals the old system some very hard blows.

HOMEOPATHY IN GERMANY AND ENGLAND. Dr. Neidhard, Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, has published, in a pamphlet of forty-five pages, the results of his observations on the new method of healing, during a visit to the two countries of Europe where it has chiefly obtained

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. Leonard Scott & Co., New York. The contents of the last number are Free Trade, Court

ship in the time of James I., Ledru Rollin in England, A Family Feud, Burnet's Landscape-Painting in Oil, PoliAntiquities of Scotland, The Temple of Folly, African tical and Literary Biography, Baronial and Ecclesiastical Sporting. For sale by Zieber.

LOSSING'S PICTORIAL FIELD BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION. Harpers. This work, so far from falling off in merit, is constantly becoming better. No. 6, now received, is the best yet. The fineness and beauty of the wood-cuts are worthy of all praise. For sale by Zieber.

THE NORTH BRITISH REVIEW. Leonard Scott & Co.'s Reprint. The contents of the last number of this sterling review are unusually rich. The leading article is a general overhauling of the "Scottish Universities." How is it that nearly every great organ of public opinion, both in this country and Great Britain, is discussing the subject of education in the higher seminaries of learning? Is the conviction becoming general, that these institutions, as at present conducted, are a failure? Among other articles of interest in the "North British" are the following:"Pendennis," "The English Language," "Wordsworth," "In Memoriam," "The Trial of Professor Webster," &c.

RUSCHENBERGER'S LEXICON OF NATURAL HISTORY. Phila delphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. Dr. Ruschenberger performed a valuable service to science, as well as to popular education, when he prepared his series of popular manuals on Natural History. He has now added to the value of his previous works by the preparation of this lexicon of scientific terms, which puts into the hand of the student the key to them all. These works, which cannot be too well known among teachers and schooldirectors, are, 1. Anatomy and Physiology, 2. Mammalogy, 3. Ornithology, 4. Herpetology and Ichthyology, 5. Conchology, 6. Entomology, 7. Botany, 8. Geology. Each of these subjects is treated of, in an elementary way, in a small duodecimo volume, about the size of an ordinary English Grammar, and suited for instruction in common schools and academies. The Lexicon, now just issued, is a volume of about the same size as the others, and contains a popular explanation of the technical terms used in the others. It is at once a key to the whole series, and also a valuable manual to the general reader, giving in small compass all the most important items in the nomenclature of Natural History.

THE IRIS, An Illuminated Annual for 1851. Edited by John S. Hart. Philada.: Lippincott, Grambo & Co. If we may not speak of the editorship of this beautiful book, we may, and we do, ask for it the kindly regards of our friends, in the profession and out of it,-reviewers and purchasers.

To all who may have seen the work, we feel that it will be unnecessary to say a word in its commendation. But as the edition is small, and as copies of it may not yet

have reached the towns and villages of the interior, we would say to the many thousands of our friends, who are now reading this paragraph in their quiet family circle, if you want to enliven that domestic scene with something on which the eyes of all its members may luxu riate, if, in your anticipations of Christmas, you want something peculiarly elegant and tasteful in its decorations, wherewith to gladden the heart of a relative, a friend, or a lover, you cannot be too early in securing a copy of this new Annual. It is a royal octavo volume of three hundred pages, with twelve embellishments of the most expensive kind. Four of these are Illuminations, each printed in no less than ten or eleven different colours. These, for general richness of effect, are altogether admirable. There is in them a degree of artistic skill in the grouping of the figures, a minute finish in the execution, a happy disposition and blending of the colours, and a pervading softness of tone, that give them at first view all the effect of fine oil paintings. The eight other embellishments are line engravings, executed in London in the highest style of the art, by Mote, Heath, Allen, and Brown. So beautiful a collection of really fine engravings is rarely to be met with, in a single volume. The exterior of this sumptuous book is such as might be expected from the well-known character of the publishers for producing every variety of elegance in the bindingart-we were about to say, business; but, in these days, book-binding is fast becoming, if it has not now become, one of the fine arts. The copy of the Iris before us is in a case of the finest papier mache, inlaid with pearl in the most exquisite shapes and colours, and looking more like a costly piece of jewelry than a book. This is one of many elegant styles of binding in which the work is prepared. Of the literary character of this princely Annual we have forborne to speak, for a reason already assigned. We ought, however, in justice to the publishers, to say that its contents are entirely original. Among the contributors are names well known in the republic of letters, such as Mr. Boker, Mr. Stoddard, Prof. Moffat, Edith May, Mrs. Sigourney, Caroline May, Mrs. Kinney, Mrs. Butler,

Mrs. Pease, Mrs. Swift, Mr. Van Bibber, Rev. Charles T. Brooks, Mrs. Dorr, Erastus W. Ellsworth, Miss E. W. Barnes, Mrs. Williams, Mary Young, Dr. Gardette, Alice Carey, Phebe Carey, Augusta Browne, Hamilton Browne, Caroline Eustis, Margaret Junkin, Maria J. B. Browne, Miss Starr, Mrs. Brotherson, Kate Campbell, etc.

PENDENNIS, No. 6, contains the best things by far that Mr. Thackeray has yet written. The work rises into a higher region of thought and feeling than we had thought him capable of. Published by the Harpers, for sale by Zieber.

BYRNE'S DICTIONARY OF ENGINEERING. Appletons. No. 16 has been received from the publishers.

V. B. PALMER'S BUSINESS-MEN'S ALMANAC, besides being a very good Almanac, explains the whole art and mystery of advertising.

SHAKESPEARE'S DRAMATIC WORKS. Boston Edition. Phillips, Sampson & Co. have issued Number XXIII. of their splendid edition of Shakespeare, containing the Second Part of Henry VI., and an engraving of Queen Margaret. For sale by T. B. Peterson.

SOUTHEY'S LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE. Part V has been received from the Harpers. One more nuinber will complete this valuable work. For sale by Zieber.

BLACKWOOD, for September, has been received with unusual promptness from the publishers, Leonard Scott & Co., through Zieber & Co., Philadelphia,-full of good things, as usual.

DOMESTIC HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Mrs. E. F. Ellet. Baker & Scribner. 1 vol. 12mo. The plan of Mrs. Ellet's book is shown, as that of every book should be, by its title. While the outline of the history of public events is kept up in her narrative, the filling up is with the events of private life, those events after all which give romance to history. These private incidents, thus dexterously interwoven with the immortal story, are not the coinage of fancy, the author assures us, but facts carefully ascertained. For sale by Lindsay & Blakiston. LIFE, HERE AND THERE. N. P. Willis. Baker & Scribner. 1 vol. 12mo. This very agreeable volume consists of sketches of life and adventure, all of them, the author assures us, having a foundation strictly historical, and to a great extent autobiographical. Such of these sketches as we have read are in Mr. Willis's happiest vein-a vein, by the way, in which he is unsurpassed. We know no writer equal to him in giving light, playful sketches of life and character.

HEALTH, DISEASE, AND REMEDY. By George Moore, M.D. The doctors are certainly coming down from the clouds rather more than formerly. Scarcely a month passes, but some physician of high professional standing condescends to discourse with the million on the healing art, in the language of common life. Dr. Moore, the author of the present duodecimo, a member of the Royal College of Physicians, has here discussed, in terms entirely within the reach of the unprofessional reader, and yet without any compromise either of truth or of the dignity of science, some of the most vital conditions of health and disease in the human organization. Harpers.

FASHIONS. See the introductory paragraph.

JENNY LIND. This wonderful woman seems to have quite crazed the heads of our eastern neighbours. How the contagion will operate when it reaches Philadelphia, we know not. We dare say, however, we shall come in for our share of the enchantment. At all events, we hold ourselves open to conviction. When the "Nightingale" comes to Philadelphia, we intend, Mr. Barnum willing, to hear her, and to give our readers the result of experience.

SOMETHING NEW.

We are authorized by the celebrated Swedish novelist, FREDRIKA BREMER, who has been spending the last twelve months in this country, to announce that she will commence the publication, in our January number, of an entirely new series of Tales from real life, written expressly for this Magazine, and entitled

LOVES AND LEGENDS OF THE NORTH,

BY FREDRIKA BREMER.

These tales will probably form the most brilliant and graceful series of articles that have ever come from her pen.

30. Christ calling James and John.

31. The Sermon on the Mount.

32. Giving Alms in Secret.

33. Conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount.

34. The House built upon a Rock.

35. Christ cleansing the Leper.

36. Christ curing one sick of the Palsy. 37. Christ sending out the Apostles.

38. The Disciples of John coming to inquire concerning Christ.

39. Christ praising his Father's wisdom in revealing the Gospel to the Simple.

40 Christ healing the man possessed with a Blind and Dumb Spirit.

41. Christ showing who is his Brother, Sister, and Mother.

42. Christ explaining the Parable of the Tares to his Disciples.

43. Christ healing the Daughter of the Woman of Canaan.

44. Christ feeding the four thousand.

45. Christ giving the Keys of Heaven to Peter. 46. The Transfiguration.

47. Christ exhorting his Disciples to be humble and harmless.

48. The Unmerciful Servant.

49. Christ Blessing Little Children.

50. Christ refusing the Request of the Mother of Zebedee's Children.

51. Christ putting to silence the Priests and Elders.

52. Christ answering the Pharisees in regard to the Tribute-Money.

53. Christ foretelling the destruction of the Temple.

54. The Eagles gathered to the Carcass. 55. The Ten Virgins.

56. The Final Judgment.

57. Jesus taken in the Garden.

58. Peter denying his Master.

59. Christ mocked, and crowned with Thorns. 60. The Crucifixion.

61. Christ laid in the Tomb.

62. The Angel proclaiming the Resurrection of Christ.

63. Christ cleansing the Leper.

64. The Resurrection.

65. Christ teaching by the Sea-side.

66. Christ restoreth the Daughter of Jairus to Life.

67. The People astonished at the teaching of Jesus.

68. Christ teaching the People-reproving the Pharisees.

69. Christ curing a Blind Man.

70. Christ casting forth a Dumb and Deaf Spirit.

71. Christ disputing with the Pharisees.

72. Christ answering the Question of the Scribe.

73. The Widow casting her Mite into the Treasury.

74. Precious Ointment poured on Christ's Head.

75. Christ betrayed with a Kiss.

76. The body of Christ prepared for Burial. 77. The Annunciation.

78. The Shepherds worshipping the Babe in the Manger.

79. Christ baptized by John.

80. Christ curing one possessed of the Devil. 81. The Disciples plucking the Ears of Corn. 82. The Blind Leading the Blind.

83. Christ raising the Son of the Widow of Nain.

84. Mary Magdalene anointing Christ's Feet. 85. Christ feeding the five thousand.

86. Christ healing the Lunatic.

87. Christ thanking his Father for his Grace. 88. Christ Dining with the Pharisee.

89. The Lesson of the Lilies of the Field. 90. The Shut Door.

91. The Return of the Prodigal Son.

92. Christ teaching his Disciples while at Meat. 93. The Servants giving an account of the use of the Talents.

94. The Husbandmen maltreating their Master's Servants.