DE TOCQUEVILLE. Translated from
the French, by the Translator of Napoleon's Correspondence with King
Joseph. In two volumes. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1862.

No French writer enjoys a more truly enviable popularity in America than
M. DE TOCQUEVILLE. That he should have discussed the vital principles of
our political and social life, in a manner which not only made him no
enemies among us, but established his 'Democracy' as a classic
reference, is as wonderful as it was well deserved. The present work is,
however, a delightful one by itself, and will be read with a relish. We
sympathize with the translator (a most capable one by the way) when he
declares that he leaves his task with regret, fearing lest he never
again may have an opportunity of associating so long and so intimately
with such a mind. The typography and paper are of superior quality.

POEMS BY WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. ('Blue and gold.') First American Edition.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

'Fresh, beautiful, and winsome.'--Among the living poets of England
there may be many who are popularly regarded as 'greater,' but certainly
there is none more unaffectedly natural or simply delightful than
WILLIAM ALLINGHAM. We are pleased at his probably unconscious Irish-isms
in his humbler lyrics, which have deservedly attained the proud eminence
of veritable 'Folk-songs' in the mouths of the people, and are touched
by the exquisite music, the tender feeling, and the beautiful picturing
which we find inspiring his lays. It requires but little knowledge of
them to be impressed with the evident love of his art with which our
Irish bard is filled. It would be difficult to find in the same number
of songs by any contemporary so little evident effort allied to such
success.

THE CHURCH MONTHLY. Edited by Rev. George M. Randall, D.D., and Rev.
F.D. Huntington, D.D. Vol. II. No. 6. Boston: E.P. Dutton & Co. 1861.

This beautiful and scholarly magazine, which abounds in 'the elegant
expression of sound learning,' contains, in the present number, a noble
article on _Loyalty in the United States_, by Rev. B.B. BABBITT, which
we would gladly have read by every one. Almost amusing, and yet really
beautiful, is the following Latin version of 'Now I lay me down to
sleep,' by Rev. EDWARD BALLARD.

_In Canabulis_.

'Nunc recline ut dormirem,
Precor te, O Domine,
Ut defendas animam;
Ante diem si obirem,
Precor te, O Domine,
Us servares animam.
Hoc que pre