turned to Constantinople, and
betook myself through Athens, where I worked nearly a year, and
thence through Italy, France, and Belgium, homeward to my
Fatherland.'

The first German edition of fifteen hundred copies of the work was at once
exhausted; a second speedily followed; a third was soon announced; and the
fourth is doubtless ere this before a wide class of German readers. We
cheerfully commend the book to the public acceptance.

BENTHAMIANA: OR SELECT EXTRACTS FROM THE WORKS OF JEREMY BENTHAM. With
an Outline Opinion on the Principal Subjects discussed in his Works.
In one volume, pp. 446. Philadelphia: LEA AND BLANCHARD. New-York:
WILEY AND PUTNAM.

This work contains a copious selection of those passages in the works of
JEREMY BENTHAM which appear to be chiefly distinguished for merit of a
simply rhetorical character; which, appearing often in the midst of long
and arduous processes of reasoning, or in the course of elaborate
descriptions of minute practical arrangements, demanding from an active
mind severe thought and unflagging attention, have scarcely had their due
weight with the general reader, nor secured their just meed of admiration.
He was singularly careless, writes his editor, in distributing his
pleasing illustrations of playfulness, or pathos, or epigrammatic
expression. His 'mission' he considered to be that of an instructor and
improver; and the flowers which, equally with more substantial things,
were the produce of his vigorous intellect, he looked upon as scarcely
worthy of passing attention, and deserving of no more notice than to be
permitted to grow wherever the more valued objects of his labors left them
a little room. The volume comprehends a vast variety of sound opinion, and
able though brief argument upon themes which relate to the social, moral
and religious well-being of mankind. Touching the style of the writer, as
evinced in these selections, we should say that it was formed mainly upon
a due avoidance of prolixity, (an observance not always characteristic of
BENTHAM'S writings,) concerning which he himself very justly remarks:
'Prolixity may be where redundancy is not. Prolixity may arise not only
from the multifarious insertion of unnecessary articles, but from the
conservation of too many necessary ones in a sentence; as a workman may be
overladen not only with rubbish, which is of no use for him to carry, but
with materials the most useful and necessa