fallacies as by a cannon ball. For instance, where the young
settler states as matter of experience:

'Those who say the treasures of the tropics are to be best won by
the brute force of ignorant labor, cannot have studied with
sufficient patience the march of invention. Intelligent laborers,
men who know how to make wood and iron do their harvest work to the
sparing of human sinews, men who can work steam in harness, these
are what is wanted here. Those, too, are mistaken who fancy that no
skin but a black one can cover the firm muscle and vigorous
endurance of a perfect and hardy manhood. The most manly workers I
have seen in this country are _white men_. They know how to obtain
and use the best class of labor-saving machines, and they trust no
one but themselves to manage them, for they know that superior
implements and the recklessness of brute force don't work well
together. Under the warm sun of the tropics white men and machinery
will yet open the grandest field of civilization.'

This goes to confirm us in the opinion we have long entertained and
advanced in these pages, that the result of the great political change
we are now undergoing will be for the benefit of white men. It has been
so often asserted that only black men can work in the tropics, that
people have come to acquiesce in the statement without investigation.
The record of this work is to the point in helping to dispel so
widespread a delusion.

Whoever, at this delightful season, wishes to enjoy a book written in
pure, gushing English, attuned to the gentle harmonies of nature, and be
refreshed by sympathy with its kind and grateful spirit, will not fail
to read 'In the Tropics.'

HARPER'S PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE GREAT REBELLION IN THE UNITED STATES.

This work is issued in semi-monthly numbers, at twenty-five cents per
number, appearing about the first and fifteenth of each month. The
introduction contains a succinct account of the formation of the
Confederacy of the States; the formation and adoption of the
Constitution of the United States, and the establishment of the National
Government; the origin, development, and progress of the doctrines of
nullification and secession, and the various phases which they assumed
until their final culmination in the Great Rebellion.

The illustrations comprise portraits of those who have borne a prominent
part in the struggle; map