, and as is stated indeed by the
author in his preface, is to elucidate the influence of intellect and
passion upon the health and endurance of the human organization; an
influence which has been but imperfectly understood and appreciated in its
character and importance, by mankind at large. The volume under notice is
divided into two parts. Under the first are considered the intellectual
operations in respect to their influence on the general functions of the
body; under the second is embraced a view of the moral feelings or
passions, in the relation which they also sustain to our physical nature.
Of these a concise definition is offered, with such classification as is
necessary to the leading design of the work. Their effects upon the
different functions of the animal economy are next noticed; and a
description is given of a few of the most important passions belonging to
each of the three great classes; namely, pleasurable, painful and mixed,
into which they are separated; their physical phenomena and individual
influence on the well-being of the human mechanism being closely examined.
A forcible exposition is also given of the evil consequences resulting
from an ill-regulated imagination (acting through the instrumentality of
the passions, morbidly excited by its licentious operation,) to the
firmness of the nervous system, and the integrity of the general health.
The volume is not addressed to any particular class of readers, and being
free from technical expressions, is rendered plain and comprehensive to
all. We commend this volume of Mr. SWEETSER cordially to our readers,
firmly impressed with the belief that the principles which it advances may
be rendered subservient both to the physical and moral welfare of our
countrymen.

LIFE IN THE NEW WORLD, BY SEATSFIELD: translated from the German by
GUSTAVUS C. HEBBE, LL. D., and JAMES MACKAY, M.A. New-York: J.
WINCHESTER, 'New World' Press.

The fourth number of this very remarkable work has been published; and we
have had a fair opportunity of testing the merits of the mysterious
author. The circumstances must now be generally known, under which these
works appear before the public. It appears that MUNDT, a German scholar,
who is publishing a continuation of SCHLEGEL'S History of Literature, has
in his delineations of character given almost unbounded praise to an
American named SEATSFIELD. Among the various works attributed to him are
'Life in the New