patient and resigned,--did we
not? But coffee and sugar--Good God! what is that blockade about?
To seize a poor innocent sloop--has Slavery no bowels? And its
helpless family of molasses barrels;--can hearts be so void of
pity? Slavery must end. The spirit of the age demands it. The blood
of a dozen captured freights crieth to Heaven in silveriest accents
against it.

'Brothers, there is a laughter that opens into the fountain of
tears.'

In a letter to the President, in which the Executive is reminded that it
is not often in this world that to one man is given the magnificent
opportunity which the madness of a great wrong has placed within his
reach,--as indeed in every chapter,--the real crisis in which this
country is now involved, and the only means of prompt and effectual
extrication, are pointed out with irresistible vehemence and shrewd
intelligence. The author declares, and truly enough, that there are
resources in this land, did we only draw on them, which would close this
war with the closing of this year. The futile and frivolous objections
which have been urged against this great scheme of warfare for the
present, and of national progress in future, are most ably refuted;
while through all runs the same vein of satire, wit, scholarship and
manly sincerity. It is, in a word, a good book, and one fully suited to
these brave and warlike times.

THE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, Baron of Verulam, Viscount of
St. Albans and Lord High Chancellor of England. Collected and
edited by James Spedding, M.A., Robert Leslie Ellis, M.A., and
Douglas Denyn Heath. Boston: Brown & Taggard. Volumes I. and II.

Much has been said in praise of the monks of old for preserving works of
solid wisdom; but why can not a good word be said for those publishers
of the present day who confer a service by not merely embalming, but by
reviving and sending forth by thousands into real life the best books of
the past? There are many authors who are quoted by everybody, and read
by very few, simply because good modern editions of their works, at a
moderate price, are rare.

BACON is preeminently one of these; so much, indeed, is he a
case in point, that BULWER in speaking of the celebrated axiom,
Knowledge is Power, employs him as an example to warn a young scholar
from quoting at second-hand an author whom he has never read.

The present edition includes all the works extant of Lo