ful. It is a real
pleasure to turn over its attractive leaves with the names of loved old
flower-friends greeting us on every page, and new claimants with new
hopes and types of beauty constantly starting up before us. What with
Waltonian cases, hanging baskets, Wardian cases, &c., our ladies may
adorn their parlors with _artistic_ taste with these fragrant, fragile,
rainbow-hued children of Nature.

'Bright gems of earth, in which perchance we see
"What Eden was, what Paradise may be.'

'From the contemplation of nature's beauty there is but the uplifting of
the eye to the footstool of the Creator.'

HOSPITAL TRANSPORTS. A Memoir of the Embarkation of the Sick and
Wounded from the Peninsula of Virginia in the Summer of 1862. Compiled
and published at the request of the Sanitary Commission. Boston:
Ticknor & Fields. For sale by D. Appleton & Co., New York.

A book which should be in the hands of all who love their country. The
Sanitary Commission deserve the undying gratitude of the nation. Their
organization is one of pure benevolence; the men and women working
effectively through its beneficent channel have given evidence of some
of the noblest and divinest attributes of the human soul. It is
difficult to form any idea of the magnitude and importance of the work
the commission has achieved. 'Never till every soldier whose last
moments it has soothed, till every soldier whose flickering life it has
gently steadied into continuance, whose waning reason it has softly
lulled into quiet, whose chilled blood it has warmed into healthful
play, whose failing frame it has nourished into strength, whose fainting
heart it has comforted with sympathy,--never, until every full soul has
poured out its story of gratitude and thanksgiving, will the record be
complete; but long before that time, ever since the moment that its
helping hand was first held forth, comes the Blessed Voice: 'Inasmuch as
ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done
it unto me.''

'The blessings of thousands who were ready to perish, and tens of
thousands who love their country and their kind, rest upon those who
originated, and those who sustain this noble work.'

This book is full of vivid interest, of true incident, of graphic
sketches, of loyalty, patriotism, and self-abnegation, whether of men or
of noble women, and recommends itself to all who love and would fain
succor the human race.

AUSTIN ELLIOT. BY HENR