ican Anti-Slavery Society; he helped found the Colonization Society (which he was first to leave when he thought it left first principles), the Bible Society, the Tract Society, the American Education Society, Oberlin College, the N. Y. Journal of Commerce, and other good things, which, though they have not all followed precisely in the direction which he gave them, have been great powers in the country and the world. His gifts during the years of his business prosperity flowed like fructifying streams in all directions, often with a noiseless flow, making glad but concealing their source. The great lesson of his life was courage to do right whatever the consequences. The clear grit of the man was told in the short answer he gave to his business friends who were solicitous to aid him out of his heavy pecuniary difficulties. "You demand that I shall cease my anti-slavery labors, give up my connection with the anti-slavery society, and make some apology and recantation-I will be hung first!" Those who have seen him in his later years as a courteous and gentle old man, reticent and grave it is true, but living tranquilly in the shade of an affectionate home circle, shrinking from notoriety, and evidently dwelling in daily communion with God and higher thoughts, could hardly believe that this was he who was branded and mobbed, who was despised and hated, who sacrificed fortune and had a price set on his head, in the days of anti-slavery agitation.

The narrative of his early days, and of the quaint and rigid manners of old Puritan society, as well as glimpses of later years, through the sketches of his daughter, are highly interesting. Letters of Whittier, Schuyler Colfax, and William Lloyd Garrison, especially the last (on p. 399), are valuable additions, and speak well for the writers.

THE COUP d'ETAT OF NAPOLEON III.* M. Tenot has written what seems a trustworthy narrative of the events attending that usurpation of power on the part Louis Napoleon Buonaparte, which had the effect to stifle freedom in France for the last twenty years, and to inflict an injury upon the intellectual and moral life of the French people, for which no amount of material prosperity can compensate. Now that the career of the successful adventurer

* Paris in December, 1851, or The Coup d'Etat of Napoleon III. By Eugéne Tenot, Editor of the "Siécle," &c. Translated from the 13th French edition, with many original notes, by S. W. ADAMS and A. H. BRANDON. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1870. 8vo. pp. 350.

who has ruled France for almost a generation, has been brought to a stop by the war which he precipitately kindled, a fresh curiosity is awakened in regard to the steps of perfidy and cruelty by which he attained his elevation. M. Tenot writes in a dispassionate tone, and apparently without any attempt to give a party co loring to his recital. Incidentally, as well as directly, he conveys much information respecting the public men who have figured prominently in French politics for the last forty years.

MRS. WILLSON'S "ADVENTURES OF THE 126TH REGIMENT NEW YORK STATE VOLUNTEERS."-We welcome every instance of seasonable care taken to collect information in a permanent form regarding the late war, and to perpetuate the memory of the men by whose endurance and valor it was carried on to success. Besides those conspicuous facts which will find a place in formal history, numberless incidents of the struggle and personal details which deserve to be recorded, as growing more significant and interesting with time, are now within the reach of compilers, as they cannot be a few years later. The traditions, associations, and partialities of particular regiments furnish motives and facilities for such works relating to their own services and members. The volume before us is an admirable example of what may be done in this direction. We congratulate the 126th Regiment N. Y. S. Volunteers, on having such a memorial of their three years' service, and on the spirit that must have pervaded them as a body, first to make their career worthy of this record, and then to issue a record so worthy of their career,

The first half of the book is a history of the services and fortunes of the Regiment from its organization till it was disbanded at the close of the war. Mrs. Willson's accomplished pen was already known to us in other productions, and here it has been used in a patriotic and loving labor. The narration is clear and lively, and the style graceful. The military movements described are made the more intelligible by pictures and drawings of their localities. Portraits of some of the officers are interspersed. We happen to have been cognizant of the pains the author has conscien

* Disaster, Struggle, Triumph.-The adventures of 1090 Boys in Blue, from August, 1862, to June, 1865. By Mrs. ARABELLA M. WILLSON, author of "Lives of the Mrs. Judsons" &c., &c. Dedicated to the 126th Regiment of New York State Volunteers. With an Appendix containing a Chronological Record of the principal events in the History of the Regiment. Albany: 1870. 8vo., pp. 590.

tiously bestowed in studying and arranging the mass of materials furnished by the "historical committee," especially soldiers' journals and letters. She has herself properly described her task in this department:-"For more than a year we have followed the fortunes of this Regiment, examining for the purpose every document, printed and manuscript, within our reach; sparing no labor of research; writing and re-writing again and again, as fresh ma terials came to hand, the simple story, which we now, with mingled hopes and fears, commit to the public."

Besides the elements of interest in all military history, one of an exciting quality is made prominent in the fortunes of this regiment. "Disaster," as well as "struggle" and "triumph," might well be expected among the vicissitudes of war, but in their case disaster seemed premature and peculiarly disheartening. In the outset, as yet inexperienced, it was their misfortune to be stationed at Harper's Ferry, and to have part in the insufficient defence of Maryland Heights. The remembered surrender of those places was not only disastrous but discreditable to our arms. This was one of the regiments then made prisoners and parolled. Thus early they had to spend two months in inactivity at Chicago before being exchanged. Worse than this, they had to bear the aspersion, from certain witnesses, and even from'superior governmental authority, of panic and flight on Maryland Heights, without an opportunity of being heard in their own vindication. It seemed incredible to those who knew the good material of this regiment. Of course we cannot go into such a question here, but the reader of this work, we think, will find reason for discrediting those witnesses, and for putting the responsibility for the surrender of these places on "the stupidity or faithlessness" of Col, Miles, who there commanded this and other regiments. He will find proof too that these men, recruited as they were, did good service even in that field, and need not be ashamed of their record when fully exhibited. And it would seem as if a censure which they felt to be unjust the more stimulated their zeal on many subsequent occasions. At Gettysburg, and in many a sharp action, as part of the "Army of the Potomac," they made their name beyond doubt honorable and created a regimental pride which has produced this memorial. Their losses of officers and men make a record for them at once sad and glorious.

The latter half of the volume, in smaller type, is occupied with the "Chronological Record" and "Biographical sketches" pre

pared by the Committee of the Regiment, whose diligence and patience in gathering and arranging so great a mass of materials are above all praise, These condensed pages are really so many "Soldiers' Monuments," with the most ample inscriptions, both for the fallen, and for their surviving comrades, We commend them to all who study the literature of the war, as showing how much an intelligent and spirited regiment may do in honor of its members. To those families who find here the history of their dead, there is no need of our commendation to make this history a household book.

The mechanical execution of the volume is most suitable and attractive, particularly Mrs. Willson's narrative, which is in a type that these "Boys in Blue" will like to read when they become veterans. We wish there may be many like contributions to our national history.

DANTE GABRIEL ROSETTI'S POEMS* come to us heralded by the applause of eminent poets and practiced critics as worthy of the admiring homage of all who shall read them. They are anything but common place imitations of any of the modern schools, There is great power of diction, clearness, and daring imagery and intensity of passion, and earnestness of devotion. All these are so conspicuous in single poems as to compel our admiration, We should not dare to assert that the diction is never abrupt and obscure-that the imagery is not extravagant-that the passion is not sustained, whether it takes the form of sentiment or serious desire-and that the religion drags heaven nearer to earth more than it elevates earth to heaven. With these suggestions we add our testimony, to that of other admiring critics.

* Poems. By Dante Gabriel ROSETTI. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1870.

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An Introduction to the New Testament. By Frederick Bleek. Edited by J. F. Bleek. Translated from the German by the Rev. William Urwick, M. A. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. For sale by Scribner, Welford & Co., Broadway, New York. (2 vols. 8vo.)

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Companions of my Solitude. By Arthur Phelps, author of "Friends in Council," &c. From the seventh London Edition. Boston: Roberts Brothers. 1870. 8vo.

pp. 276.

The Choice of Paris; a Romance of the Fronde. By S. G. W. Benjamin, author of "The Turk and the Greek." New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1870. 8vo. pp. 334.

Superstition and Force: Essays on the Wager of Law-the Wager of Battlethe Ordeal-Torture. By Henry C. Lea. Second Edition. Revised. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea. 1870.

The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Arnold. By Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, M. A., Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford. Two volumes in one. Boston: Fields, Osgood & Co. 1870. 8vo. pp. 378 and ix.; 400.

The Women of Israel. By Grace Aguilar. New York: Appleton & Co. (2 vols. 8vo. pp. 270, 336.)

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