Aids to Reflection. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with the Author's last Corrections. Edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq., M. A. To which is prefixed a Preliminary Essay, by John McVickar, D. D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in Columbia College. New York: Swords, Stanford, & Co. 12mo. pp. 324.

MUSIC.

The Vocal School, or Pestalozzian Method of Instruction in the Elements of Music; embracing a Practical and Philosophical Demonstration of the Philosophy of the Scale, &c., &c. By H. W. Day. Boston: Otis, Broaders, & Co. 18mo. pp. 279.

The Sacred Minstrel; a Collection of Psalm Tunes, Chants, Anthems, Sentences, and Select Pieces; Original, and Selected from Approved Authors, Ancient and Modern. By N. D. Gould, Editor of the "National Church Harmony," &c. &c. Boston: Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln.

NOVELS, TALES, AND ROMANCES.

A New Home; Who 'll follow? or Glimpses of Western Life. By Mrs. Mary Clavers, an Actual Settler. New York: Charles S. Francis. 12mo. pp. 317.

The Damsel of Darien. By the Author of "The Yemassee," &c. &c. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard. 2 vols. 12mo. pp.

Nix's Mate; an Historical Romance of America. By the Author of "Athenia of Damascus." New York: Samuel Colman. 12mo. 2 vols.

pp.

Margaret's Bridal. Founded on Fact. Boston: Whipple & Damrell. 18mo. pp. 56.

Confessions of a Schoolmaster.

Saxton. 18mo. pp. 318.

Andover: Gould, Newman, &

The Lecturess, or Woman's Sphere. By the Author of "My Cousin Mary." Boston: Whipple & Damrell. 18mo. pp. 124.

Morton's Hope, or the Memoirs of a Provincial. In 2 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers. 12mo.

Here is a work altogether unworthy of its author, whoever he may be. It bears abundant marks, on the one hand, of his possessing talent and culture, and, on the other, of his having been at no pains to give the public the fair benefit of his capacities. The notion in his mind seems to have been like nothing more than that of another Vivian Grey; but this he has slurred and burlesqued to the very extreme verge of German license. Many a scene reads as if it had been thrown off at a venture, and sent to the press, because the compositor was waiting. The plot is all as lame and dislocated as need be. About the end of the first quarter of the first volume, for instance, the hero tells of the hopes and disappointment of an early love. "She took a slight ring from her finger, and we broke it between us. She tied my fragment to a tress of her hair, and hung it round my neck. She kissed me fondly, and promised to be mine for ever. That raven braid, - that broken ring, lie now before my eyes. They are all that remind me of thy plighted love, Mayflower.” This is cruelly pathetic, no doubt; but the reader's distress is soothed, when he finds, at the end of the second volume, that, at the time of writing it, the hero was the happy lord of this perfidious Mayflower. It is plain, that the author has been at the German schools, and he appears to have there imbibed an admiration for very bad models, and especially a toleration for the habit of that class of

writers, not without credit in some quarters, in these whimsical days, who, when they put pen to paper, run for luck, throwing on their readers the responsibility of making a meaning for what is not significant, or reconciling contradictions in what is. The autobiography of Colonel Waldron is in no wise redeemed from being unspeakably tiresome, by its large share of rawhead-and-bloody-bones adventures; and his whole character is a mere monstrosity, yet scarcely more so than those of his son and daughter-in-law. The episode of the hero's intrigue with an actress at Prague, with his essay at a bandit's life, make another most lugubrious piece of business. As to such matters as attention to proprieties of time and place, lizards are made to "shoot to and fro in the patches of sun-light," (Vol. I. p. 25,) in the description of a place within ten miles of Boston, in which region, though it is true the animal has been seen, its shape is about as much known, from actual observation, as that of the rhinoceros. "The Connecticut River of Vol. I. page 244, is not "the Connecticut "of page 250. It is the Mohawk, if we understand the matter rightly (p. 253.); and along its banks the hero's progress is obstructed by "cane-brakes," (p. 249,) some degrees of latitude north of where any other observer has met with them. It was the laying of "exorbitant taxes" by the mother country, that brought on the opposition of the New England people; and, in a description of the " Boston Massacre," that transaction is represented to have taken place at high noon, in opposition to the homely authority of that popular engraving, in which the moon over the old Brick Church makes so conspicuous an object. As to the sketches of foreign manners, we have but to hope, that they are no more correct than they are entertaining. If otherwise, the more is the pity. Yet one thing helps to account for another; and if the German youth are really reared at the universities in such an atmosphere of beer, smoke, and blood, there is less occasion to be surprised at the figure which so many of them make, when, a few years later, they emerge as writers upon matters of theology, philosophy, and art.

After all, no one can read" Morton's Hope," without perceiving it to have been written by a person of uncommon resources of mind and scholarship. But this writing ad libitum will never do. It is simply deplorable and vexatious, that one so evidently qualified to do exceedingly good things, should, in this instance, have done a thing so exceedingly poor.

ORATIONS AND ADDRESSES.

An Address to the Literary Societies of Dartmouth College, on the Character and Influence of German Literature; delivered at Hanover, N. H., July 24, 1839. By A. H. Everett. Boston: H. L. Devereux. 8vo. pp. 60.

An Address before the Society for Religious Inquiry in the University of Vermont, August 6th, 1839. By the Rev. Joseph Tracey. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 8vo. pp. 28.

The Wine Question. An Address to the Friends of Temperance in Connecticut. By Nathaniel Hewit, D. D., Pastor of the Bridgeport Congregational Church, and late General Agent of the American Temperance Society.

Discourse on the Integrity of the Legal Character; delivered before the Law Academy of Philadelphia. By Job R. Tyson, Esq., One of the Vice-Provosts. Philadelphia: John C. Clark. 8vo. pp. 36. Address, delivered before the Vincennes Historical and Antiquarian Society, Feb. 22, 1839. By Judge Law. Louisville, Ky. 8vo. pp. 48. The Principles and Tendencies of Democracy; an Address, made in Belleville, St. Clair County, Illinois, July 4th, 1839. By J. M. Peck, of Rock Spring, Illinois. Belleville: J. R. Cannon. 1839. 8vo. pp. 11.

An Historical Discourse, delivered at the Celebration of the Second Centennial Anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Providence, Nov. 7th, 1839. By William Hague, Pastor of the Church. Providence: B. Cranston, & Co. 12mo. pp. 192.

An Oration on the Material Growth and Territorial Progress of the United States; delivered at Springfield, Mass., on the 4th of July, 1839. Ly Caleb Cushing. Springfield: Merriam, Wood, & Co. 8vo. pp. 32.

POETRY AND THE DRAMA.

Poems; by William Thompson Bacon. New Haven: B. & W. Noyes. 8vo. pp. 212.

The Poet; a Metrical Romance of the Seventeenth Century. A Keepsake for 1840. By W. J. Walker. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart.

The Poet's Tribute.

S. King. 16mo. pp. 325.

Poems of William B. Tappan. Boston: D.

This volume, in the costly and tasteful style of its mechanical execution, takes rank with the New Year's Gift-Books, though this purpose is not announced. It is chiefly composed of short pieces upon moral and devotional subjects. We certainly cannot undertake to commend them as being in a high style of poetry. But they have an easy flow of versification, and the tone of feeling which pervades them is so excellent, so sincere, so fervent, delicate, charitable, and modest, that we have been led on, from page to page, through the greater part of the volume, and have derived from it more pleasure than we have often owed to works of much higher pretension.

Calidore; a Legendary Poem, by William J. Pabodie. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, & Webb. 8vo. pp. 48.

THEOLOGY AND SERMONS.

"The Latest Form of Infidelity" Examined. A Letter to Mr. Andrews Norton, occasioned by his "Discourse before the Association of the Alumni of the Cambridge Theological School," on the 19th of July, 1839. By an Alumnus of that School. Boston: James Munroe & Co. 8vo. pp. 160.

Remarks on a Pamphlet, entitled "The Latest Form of Infidelity' Examined." By Andrews Norton. Cambridge: John Owen. 1839. 8vo. pp. 72.

The Teacher Taught; an Humble Attempt to make the Path of the Sunday School Teacher Straight and Plain. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union. 18mo. pp. 396.

A Wreath for the Tomb; or Extracts from Eminent Writers on Death and Eternity; with an Introductory Essay and Sermon on the Lessons taught by Sickness. By Professor Edward Hitchcock, of Amherst College. Amherst: J. S. & C. Adams. 16mo. pp. 250.

Sacred Philosophy of the Seasons; illustrating the Perfections of God in the Phenomena of the Year. By the Rev. Henry Duncan, D. D., Ruthwell, Scotland. With important Additions, and some Modifications to adapt it to American Readers, by F. W. P. Greenwood. In 4 volumes. Boston: Marsh, Capen, Lyon, & Webb. 12mo. The Future Life of the Good. Boston: Joseph Dowe. 12mo.

pp. 108.

The Sunday School the Patriot's Hope. By Jason Whitman. Portland S. H. Colesworthy. 18mo. pp. 90.

The Fruit of the Spirit. By Geo. W. Bethune, D. D., Minister of the Third Reformed Dutch Church, Philadelphia. Second Edition. Philadelphia: J. Whetham. 12mo. pp. 210.

Notes, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical, on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah; with a new Translation. By Albert Barnes. In Three Vols. New York: Robinson & Franklin. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 8vo.

Christian Morality; or a Series of Discourses on the Decalogue. By John W. Chickering, Pastor of the High-Street Church, Portland, Me. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 12mo. pp. 257.

The Bible an All-Sufficient Guide. By a Member of the Hampshire Association. Northampton: W. A. Hawley. 32mo. pp. 64.

The Life and Death of a Faithful Minister. A Discourse, delivered May 10th, 1839, at the Interment of the Rev. Sylvester G. Pierce, Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Methuen. By Samuel C. Jackson, Pastor of the West Church in Andover. 8vo. pp. 24.

A Sermon preached at the Request of the Board of Managers of the American Sunday School Union, Philadelphia, May 20th, 1839. By S. S. Schmucker, D. D. 12mo. pp. 32.

Universalism a Modern Invention and not according to Godliness. By Andrew Royce, Acting Pastor of the Congregational Church, Williamstown. Second Edition, with an Examination of certain Reviews. Boston: Whipple & Damrell. 18mo.

The Museum of Religious Knowledge, designed to illustrate Religious Truth. Edited by Marcus E. Cross. Philadelphia: J. Whetham. 12mo. pp. 264.

The Sacred Wreath; or Characters and Scenes of the Holy Scripture, illustrated by distinguished Writers of Great Britain and America. Philadelphia: Orrin Rogers. 18mo.

The Gift; or True and False Charity distinguished. Boston: American Sunday School Union. 18mo. pp. 90.

A Farewell Discourse to the Children in his Society, delivered in Harvard Church, Charlestown, June 23d, 1839. By James Walker. Cambridge: Metcalf, Torrey, & Ballou. 18mo. pp. 24.

A Discourse delivered in Harvard Church, Charlestown, July 14th, 1839, on taking leave of his Society. By James Walker. Published by Request, for the Use of his Society. Cambridge: Metcalf, Torrey, & Ballou. 8vo. pp. 40.

Discourses and Discussions in Explanation and Defence of Unitarianism. By Orville Dewey, Pastor of the Church of the Messiah, in New York. Boston: Joseph Dowe. 12mo. pp. 307.

Letters to an Only Daughter on Confirmation, being a Manual for the Youth of the Protestant Episcopal Church. By the Rev. J. L. Blake, D. D. Philadelphia: Joseph Whetham. 16mo. pp. 216.

A Defence of the Cosmogony of Moses. By J. Horwitz, M. D. Baltimore: Richard J. Maschett. 8vo. pp. 31.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

Memoranda of Foreign Travel, containing Notices of France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. By Robert J. Breckenridge. Philadelphia: Joseph Whetham. 12mo. pp. 342.

Glimpses of the Old World; or Excursions on the Continent, and in the Island of Great Britain. By the Rev. John A. Clark, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Wm. Marshall & Co. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 479, 471.

Society, Manners, and Politics in the United States; being a Series of Letters on North America. By Michael Chevalier. Translated from the Third Paris Edition, by T. G. Bradford. Boston: Weeks, Jordan, & Co. 1839. pp. 467.

Mr. Bradford has executed his task in a very faithful and able manner. He has translated the valuable work of M. Chevalier into fluent and elegant English, omitting only a few passages, which have no interest in this country. In some cases he has substituted, in the statistical statements, the results of information obtained since Chevalier's book was written, for those that are given in the French, and thus added not a little to its value as an authoritative work in the United States. The manner in which the work has been presented to the public, in respect both to literary and typographical execution, is deserving of the highest praise.