range blending of pathos with humor, and the
'sentiment of society,' in which HOLMES equals, or, if you
will, surpasses PRAED, there are several exquisite examples.
But buy it for yourself, reader, and you will not regret the purchase,
for the harder the times, so much the more, as we opine, does the world
need cheering poesy.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

SOME OF THE MISTAKES OF EDUCATED MEN. A Biennial Address
before the Phrenokosmian Society of Pennsylvania College,
Gettysburg, Pa. By John S. Hart, M.D. Delivered Sept. 18, 1861.
Philadelphia: C. Sherman & Son, 1861.

An excellent address, which has attracted much comment and quotation
from different journals since its publication.

THE COTTON KINGDOM: A Traveler's Observations on Cotton
and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based upon three former
volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author. By
Frederick Law Olmstead. In two volumes. New York: Mason Brothers,
1861.

The best record extant of social or commercial facts and figures
illustrative of the entire South.

LADY MAUD. By Pierce Egan. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson &
Brothers.

We learn with regret that this is the only complete and unabridged
edition of Lady Maud, since from a hasty examination of its chapters we
judge that the more the work were abbreviated the better would it be for
the public.

RECORD OF AN OBSCURE MAN. '_Aux plus desherites le plus
d'amour_.' Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

A work of very decided merit, though one advancing views and sentiments
which can not fail to provoke opposition and argument from many readers.
Of its interest, as well as of the talent of the author, there can be
but one opinion.

SPARE HOURS. By John Brown, M.D. Boston: Ticknor & Fields,
1861.

A beautiful reprint of the _Horae Subscivae_, beginning with 'Rab and his
Friends,' followed by many congenial sketches, the whole forming one of
the most fascinating volumes of light reading which has appeared for
years.

THE SOUTHERN REBELLION AND THE WAR FOR THE UNION. A
History of the Rise and Progress of the Rebellion. New York: James
D. Torrey, No. 13 Spruce Street.

A well written, weekly current chronicle of the events of the war,
prepared from copious sources. The arrangement of this work is
excellent.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS. By Charles Dickens. Philadelphia: T.
B. Peterson & Brothers