ch forms an appropriate companion to the
_History of Rome_, published by the accomplished author four years
since. The purpose of Dr. Schmitz in each of these Histories is to give,
in a popular form, the result of the researches by modern scholars which
have placed the subject in a new light. In the composition of this
volume, the author has availed himself of the erudite labors of Bishop
Thirlwall, abridging his great work in some portions, and interweaving
his masterly views into the texture of his narrative, where a free style
was more suitable to the subject. As a manual for young students in
Grecian history, and a work for general and family reading, this volume
is not surpassed by any production of the present day. The experience of
the author as a practical educator, his admirable classical attainments,
and the caution and soundness of his historical judgments, give him
peculiar qualifications for the task he has undertaken. His style is
simple and condensed; his illustrations are singularly apposite; and his
grouping of topics is picturesque and forcible. For popular use, we have
no doubt, that both the Grecian and Roman Histories of Dr. Schmitz will
speedily take the precedence of all others in this country, as they have
done, to a very considerable degree, in Great Britain.

The popular series of _Franconia Stories_, by JACOB ABBOTT (published by
Harper and Brothers), is completed by the publication of _Mary Bell_ and
_Beechnut_. The excellent author has placed the whole juvenile community
under new obligations by the issue of these delightful stories. He is so
perfectly at home in every phase of country life, and so ingenious in
working up its daily occurrences into a charming narrative, that he can
never fail of a listening audience. Few American authors have the power
of so impressing themselves on the memory and the heart of their
readers. The present series will doubtless add to his beautiful
influence and to his fame.

The Third Number of _London Labor and The London Poor_, by HENRY MAYHEW,
is issued by Harper and Brothers, and will be found to increase the
interest with which that remarkable series has been received by the
public. His pictures of the condition of the laboring classes in London
have a minuteness and vividness of detail which would not disgrace a
Dutch painting.

_The Roman Republic of_ 1849, by THEODORE DWIGHT (published by R. Van
Dien), is a brief historical view of the recent revolut