mothers' milk. Almost as soon as they could walk, they assumed the cioccie, or mocassins of untanned leather, with which they learned to run fearlessly along the edge of the giddiest mountain precipices. When they had acquired the art of pursuing and escaping, of taking without being taken, the knowledge of the value of the different coins, the arithmetic of the distribution of booty, and the principles of the rights of nations as they are practiced among the Apaches or the Comanches, their education was deemed complete. They required no teaching to learn how to apply the spoil, and to satisfy their passions in the hour of victory. "In the year of grace, 1806, this sensual, brutal, impious, superstitious, ignorant, and cunning race endowed Italy with a little mountaineer, known as Giacomo Antonelli.

"Hawks do not hatch doves. This is an axiom in natural history which has no need of demonstration. Had Giacomo Antonelli been gifted at his birth with the simple virtues of an Arcadian shepherd, his village would have instantly disowned him."

MEMORIAL OF THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION AT ANDOVER, IN 1858.* This beautiful volume contains an historic account of the proceedings connected with the semi-centennial celebration in 1858, of the founding of the Andover Theological Seminary. Also the Commemorative Address delivered by the Rev. Leonard Bacon, D. D., of New Haven, and a large number of short addresses, which were made by distinguished gentlemen from among the alumni and friends of the institution. The space at our command will not permit us to give here any account of the Address of Dr. Bacon. It is enough now, to say that it will always be deemed a most important contribution to the ecclesiastical history of New England.

Among the shorter Addresses we have been particularly interested with some reminiscences of Dr. Murdock, given by Prof. Stowe. No student can fail to read with intense interest the extract which we have made:

"He had an intense love of books, a real affection, I may almost say, an ardent passion for them. Every volume in his large library was an individual, a person to him; it had a history; no duplicate could supply its place; its very binding and lettering and embossing were as minutely observed, and as accurately remembered by him as the great truths it might contain. Nothing gave him more pleasure than to have the students in his study, and there get them to look at, and handle, and feel of the beloved volumes to which he had referred in his lectures; and he would tell the story of each one, where it came from, and how he got possession of it, with all the ardor of a young lover giving a

* Memorial of the Semi-Centennial Celebration of the founding of the Andover Theological Seminary. Andover: W. F. Draper. 8vo. pp. 242.

confidential narrative of his first courtship. There is a great difference among literary men on this point. Professor Stuart was an insatiable lover of learning, a voracious devourer of the contents of books: but he had no care for a book as an individual, no love for it as a person. When he had mastered all that a volume contained, he no longer cared for that particular volume; it was no more to him than was the shell after he had eaten the nut. Hence, with all his rare attainments and genuine love of literature, he never was the owner of many books, and what few he had were usually very much out at elbows, for the way he would beat and bang them about, in the ardor of his discussions, was an astonishment to the uninitiated. Even the Bible and Greek Testament, on his lecture table, had hard usage, and scarcely lasted longer than a French soldier in a Russian campaign.

"Just the reverse in this respect was Dr. Murdock. He loved to accumulate books, to own them, to take a tender care of them; and he never willingly parted with a volume which he had once possessed; and when his shelves were full, he would push the old books back and set up a row of new ones in front of them, and his cases were purposely constructed for such an emergency. Every book was to him as a daughter, of whose person, and dress, and ornaments, he was fastidiously careful. The quiet delight with which, in his solitary old age, he would sit in his library and look round on his books, will never be forgotten by any one who has once appreciatingly witnessed it." pp. 219, 220.

M. BAUTAIN On the Art of EXTEMPORE SPEAKING.*-This book is written in the lucid and glowing style of which the Frenchman, above all other men, is master, and by which he knows how to give life to a dry theme. It handles the subject of extemporaneous speaking in a philosophical spirit, not dwelling on the details and externalities of speech-making, but rather on the mental and moral qualities, on the attitude of feeling and will, which give success to an orator. Yet, there are valuable remarks on the organs of speech, and on the physical training that is requisite. We have seen no work on this subject which so well describes the feelings of an inexperienced speaker, and none which offers him better counsel. It is not a complete treatise, but, as far as it goes, it will prove a valuable and popular manual.

SIGHT AND HEARING: HOW PRESERVED AND HOW LOST.t-The eye

The Art of Extempore Speaking. Hints for the Pulpit, the Senate, and the Bar. By M. BAUTAIN, Vicar-general and Professor at the Sorbonne, etc., etc. With additions by a member of the New York Bar. New York: Chas. Scribner. 1859. 12mo. Price $1. For sale by T. H. Pease.

Sight and Hearing: how Preserved and how Lost. By J. HENRY CLARK, M. D. New York: Charles Scribner. 12mo. 1859. pp. 351. Price $1.25.

and the ear are of such special importance to literary men that this book is deserving of their attention. In reading it we have been reminded of the fate of the French general who was the first to reach the summit of the Mt. Cenis Pass, at the commencement of the present Italian war. Heated and fatigued by the labor of the ascent, he called for a tumbler of ice water, drank it, and fell immediately dead. It was said if he had known one tenth part as much about preserving life as he did about destroying it, he would not have lost his life so foolishly. How many literary men have lost or have permanently impaired their sight or their hearing by ignorantly transgressing plain and simple laws which an hour's study of such a book as Mr. Clark's would have saved them. For those who are already sufferers, we quote two pieces of advice. One is, Obsta Principiis !-Attend immediately to the difficulty. In nearly every case of disease of the eye or ear, there was a time in its history when it could have been cured or prevented. The other is-Don't undertake to be your own physician! Consult some one who has made the subject a special study.

HOURS WITH MY PUPILS.*-The authoress of this book, Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, a sister of Mrs. Emma Willard, of Albany, was for many years principal of the "Patapsco Institute, of Maryland," a boarding school for young ladies. She has prepared various works for schools, among which "Lincoln's Botany" had some years ago considerable reputation. Her new volume contains a selection of more than forty of the lectures which she has been in the habit of reading to her pupils. They are on a great variety of subjects pertaining to the education of young ladies, their morals, their behavior, their intercourse with the world, suggestions with regard to reading, the formation of habits, and methods of usefulness. The lectures are all characterized by an earnest desire to inculcate the principles of virtue, and piety, and good taste; and in turning over the pages, we have met with much that we trust will prove an antidote to the fashionable follies of the day. With regard to "coming out in society," she says:

"Some parents with ill-judged kindness make the period of a daughter's leaving school an era of extravagance and dissipation; and instead of seeking to develop good principles, and confirm the habits of industry, order, and self

*Hours with my Pupils; or, Educational Addresses. By Mrs. LINCOLN PHELPS, Author of "Lincoln's Botany." New York: Charles Scribner. 1859. 12mo. pp. 363. For sale by F. T. Jarman. Price $1.

restraint, which the faithful educator has so carefully labored to cultivate, they seem in haste to change all, and before the daughter shall be called upon to encounter the realities of life, to suffer her to become dazzled with the false glare of pleasure, and rendered unfit for the scenes of duty and trial which await her. Poor girl!' they say; 'she has been long confined to school; she ought now to be indulged! The troubles of life will come fast enough!' And so she is permitted to destroy her health by dissipation, to lose her innocent simplicity in the search for adventure, and to acquire a fondness for excitement which will render the quiet scenes of practical life dull and monotonous. Surely, this is ill-judged kindness on the part of the parent!"

REVIVAL SKETCHES AND MANUAL.*-This book, prepared by the Rev. HEMAN HUMPHREY, D. D., of Pittsfield, Mass., is intended to furnish a sketch of the history of revivals in all countries and in all ages of the church. It will be found to be a valuable book for reference in every pastor's library.

SCIENCE AND ART OF CHESS.-This is no mere compilation of the games of chess played by the great masters of the chess-board. The author understands that there is a science of chess; and from the first to the last chapter, has gone on developing this idea, according to true scientific principles. Consequently, this is a book that can be intelligently studied. The "moves" in celebrated games are given; but each game is introduced for a definite object, and illustrates some principle that has been already explained. The theory of each different method of "attack" and "defense," of "exchanges" and of "different openings," is given. But most important of all, the reader is taught how to "plan" a game himself, as a general plans a campaign; and is made to feel that Napoleon's maxim in war, is the key to victory on the chess board as truly as on the field of battle. Tout l'art consiste à être le plus fort sur un point donné." Or, as the author expresses it: "A single principle underlies and determines all attacks. It is the combination and direction of the Pieces upon a given point."

KIEPERT'S NEW WALL-MAP OF PALESTINE. This "wall-map" of Palestine deserves to be more widely known in this country, than it is.

*Revival Sketches and Manual. In two parts. By Rev. HEMAN HUMPHREY, D. D. Published by the American Tract Society. New York: 12mo. pp. 476. For sale by F. T. Jarman. Price 50 cents.

Science and Art of Chess. By J. MONROE, B. C. L. New York: Charles Scribner. 1859. 12mo. pp. 281.

Price $1.

For Bible Classes and Sunday Schools, as well as for private study, it may be confidently commended, on account of its size, accuracy, and distinctness. It is five feet ten inches in length, and nearly four feet in width. If properly used, it cannot fail to be an invaluable aid to the pastor in his illustrations of Biblical history and geography to the young people of his charge. Aside from this, we can say from our own experience that the reading of any of the standard works on Biblical geography with this map suspended against the wall, is attended with a very great increase of interest and satisfaction. Messrs. B. Westermann & Co., German booksellers and importers, in New York, furnish this magnificent work, mounted on rollers, at $5.50, or in sheets at $2.75. The small school map, which is a reduction of this, is sold for twenty-five cents, but is necessarily somewhat deficient in distinctness.

PROFESSOR SHEPHERD'S BLANK SLATE GLOBES.-The ancients believed the earth to be an extended plain with an ocean-river around, in whose waters the sun, moon, and stars had their habitation. Along the banks of this river were located the abodes of the dead, and the Islands of the blessed. Indefinitely westward were the sweet fields of Elysium, fanned by gentle zephyrs. In process of time geometers and navigators dispelled the long cherished illusion, and taught the globular form of the earth. Yet, notwithstanding this, for the want of a cheap and convenient spherical apparatus, our schools have, as a whole, continued for centuries to teach the configurations of the earth, with the local relations of its different countries upon a flat surface, thereby from the first plunging the learner into a labyrinth of perspective, from which he is seldom if ever extricated.

This long-felt evil is now remedied by the simple Blank Slate Globes, invented by Prof. Forrest Shepherd, of New Haven. At a price less than the ordinary Geography and Atlas every child may be supplied with one of these globes mounted in a neat frame, and surrounded with a horizon made of slate, like the body of the globe. With it the child gains at once the ideas of north, south, east, and west; of axis, and revolution from west to east. Then, with an ordinary slate pencil, he may draw his meridians for east and west longitude, and, as it were, in a moment, by turning the globe, mark the equator, tropics and polar circles. Now he is prepared to trace with his pencil the outlines of sea and land, locate the course of rivers, mountain chains, &c, as well as mark the position of cities, and political boundaries. Upon the slated