entalism disfigures his
pages; he is a clear, keen observer and analyzer of human nature,
lashing its vices, discerning its foibles, and reading its subterfuges
and petty vanities. He says: 'The only apologies which he offers for
appearing as a censor and a teacher, are his love of men, his honest
wish to do them good, and his sad consciousness that his nominal
criticisms of others are too often actual condemnations of himself.'

He addresses himself in a series of letters to the Joneses of
Jonesville, each Jones addressed being a typal character and such as is
of frequent occurrence in our midst. Homely and excellent advice,
appropriate to their faults and needs, is administered to each
individual Jones in turn, as he falls under the salutary but sharp
scalpel of this keen dissector. There are twenty-four letters,
consequently twenty-four studies from life, true to reality and detailed
as a Dutch picture. We feel our own faults and foibles bared before us
as we read. While these pages are very interesting to the general
reader, the divine may learn from them how best in his preaching to aim
his shafts at personal follies, and the novelist find models for his
living portraitures and varied pictures.

THE WATER BABIES: a Fairy Tale for a Land Baby. By the
Rev. Charles Kingsley, Author of 'Two Years Ago,' 'Amyas Leigh,'
etc. With illustrations by J. Noel Paten, B. S. A. Boston: T. O. H.
P. Burnham. New York: O. S. Felt, 36 Walker St., 1864.

A lively tale, dedicated to the author's youngest son, and calculated to
entertain the elders who read aloud, as well as the children who listen.
There are in it many tender touches, and numberless satiric blows
administered in Mr. Kingsley's own peculiar way.

ADVENTURES OF DICK ONSLOW AMONG THE RED SKINS. A Book for
Boys. With Illustrations. Edited by William H. G. Kingston. Boston:
J. E. Tilton & Co. 1864.

Stories of the Western wilderness, and of life among the Indians, are
sure to meet with favor in the eyes of American boys, the descendants of
a race of pioneers.

MY DAYS AND NIGHTS ON THE BATTLE FIELD. A Book for Boys.
By 'Carleton.' Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864. For sale by D.
Appleton & Co., New York.

This is a useful book, containing sundry items of military information,
and many vivid descriptions of land and naval engagements during the
present war--all interesting to young people.

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