The popular and practical study of physiology is too much neglected in this country, and we rejoice to see this effort to commend its important truths to public attention. Perhaps no people existing are in greater need of a heedful regard to the lessons of this work than the over-fed, over-worked, and over-anxious people of the United States. The pursuit of wealth, honor, and power, the absorbing and health-sacrificing devotion to advancement, impels our people from the moment they first enter the school-house until they are snatched from the scene of their over-wrought strugglings. At the school, the child is treated as a man. The fresh air, the blue sky, the bright and happy hilarity of boyhood are too often proscribed indulgences. And this is called, not murder, but education. Those who survive it, having been taught that an American youth should never be satisfied with the present, that excelsior should be the only motto, and that all pleasure should be denied, health sacrificed, and time unremittingly devoted to win the eminence struggled for, rush into the business of life before their time. They win wrinkles before they attain manhood, and graves before the wild ambition thus kindled and inflamed can receive its first chaplet. All our literature teaches this unquiet and discontented spirit as to the present, and this rash and impatient determination to achieve immediate success. Now, this is a peculiarity of our country, the land of all others which should cherish a disposition to be gratefully contented with the unequaled blessings with which it is endowed. There is no necessity for this forcing system to expand properly and in due time the real energies of our people. The truly great in every walk of science and literature have been generally patient students, and have lived, in tranquillity, to a good old age. The impatient ambition which scourges our people on to the farthest stretch of their energies in any adopted pursuit, is inconsistent with the permanent and healthful character of a race. It made Rome great; but it left her people, as a race, so physically exhausted that the weakest tribes of the North dictated to her the terms of her degradation. The physical character of a nation moulds its intellectual nature, and shapes its destinies. The study of health is therefore the great study, and it will be found in all things accordant with those loftier truths taught by the Great Physician. Strangers of intelligence often remark that, with unbounded means of happiness, affluence for every reasonable want, security against every danger, and the high prerogatives of conscious and elevated freedom, we are still the most unhappy of the sons of Adam. They assert that we grow old before our time; are restless, excitable, and ever worrying for an attainment, in reference to some ruling passion beyond our reach. Comfort, health, calmness, and content, are sacrificed to grasp at something more. Our cheeks grow pale, our brows wrinkled, our hearts clouded, from a settled, taught, established habit of discontent with any position that is not the highest. There is much of truth in all this, as every one who treads our crowded marts and finds each man, however prosperous, cankered with the thought that he is not prosperous enough, will admit. All this constitutes American energy; all this renders our country great in the world's eye; but does it constitute happiness? It may be gravely doubted. The study of health is essentially the study of happiness. Life is with our people, as a general rule, a thing of little value. Those who think, in a better spirit, and remember its duties and its ends, will come to a different conclusion, and regard the conservation of the even and steady physical energies of the body as superior in importance to any result to be gained by the forced and unnatural efforts from which more is attained than nature sanctions.

A work like the one before us is calculated to be of great service, and especially so if it be placed in the hands of children. It claims, and certainly deserves, no praise as an original work of science; but it has this merit—no ordinary one—that it communicates the most important truths of physiology in language which any intelligent child can understand; and does so in a manner that every moralist will commend.

This work has been known to every scientific horticulturist and pomologist for many years. Its author has devoted a vigorous and enlightened intellect to this purest and noblest of pursuits; and has won a reputation of which this work will form the coronal wreath. The past editions of this work, and they have been many, have elicited the strongest praise here and abroad. The classic poets of every land have valued the praise which rewarded their dedication of the first triumphs of the muse to subjects connected with the cultivation of the soil, to the arts that rendered the breast of our common mother lovely, and wedded the labors which sustain life with the arts that render it happy. The work before us has an established reputation. It is written by one whose labors upon this subject are known as well abroad as here, and who has won the applause of all who regard pomology as worthy of an earnest support. He is the Prose Virgil of our country. This work contains eighty-four colored engravings of apples, pears, cherries, apricots, peaches, plums, raspberries, and strawberries. These plates have been, at great expense, executed at Paris, and are worthy of all commendation. Among those that seem to us worthy of especial commendation are, in the plums, the Columbia, the Coe's Golden Drop, and the Jefferson; among the pears, the Bartlett, the Bosc, the Flemish Beauty, the Frederick of Wurtemburg; among the apples, the Gravenstein, the Yellow Belle Fleur, the Dutch Mignonne, Ladies' Sweet, and Red Astrochan. All the plates are, however, good; and the work is, to all who love nature, invaluable.

The leading horticultural societies of this country have recently endeavored to counteract the confusion which has heretofore prevailed in pomological nomenclature, by adopting this work as the American standard; and we learn that it has been so recognized and adopted, in reference to this country, in London. Horticulture is greatly indebted for the advances it has made within the last few years to the author of this work. He is well known to all those who cherish the science of the soil, as the popular editor of the Horticulturist, and as one of the ablest, most scientific and enthusiastic horticulturists and pomologists in the country.

Tristram Shandy.—Original or not, Sterne gave to the literature of this language that which must last and should last. This edition, published by Grigg, Elliott & Co., is cheap, and should be cheap, for it is got up for universal distribution. It is well illustrated by Darley.

This is a work long and well known to the nation; and the edition before us, being the tenth, is an enlargement and improvement on those which have heretofore appeared. Dr. Chapman has pronounced it to be indisputably the most useful popular treatise on medicine with which he is acquainted; and a large number of the most celebrated professors of the country, as Caldwell, Shippen, Barton, Woodhouse, and others, have very emphatically commended it to the confidence of the public. The edition before us is a great improvement upon those which have preceded it, having, in addition to corrections resulting from the advance of the science, a treatise on Hydropathy, Homoepathy, and the Chronothermal system. It is published by Thomas, Cowperthwaite & Co., Philadelphia, and does, in general appearance and character, great credit to those enterprizing publishers.

This work embodies the floating intelligence which has reached us in relation to the present Mexican war, and is illustrated by wood-cuts worthy of the text. We can say no more. This book is not inferior to others which the curiosity of the community has invited, and will doubtless sell, as they have sold, well.

This volume seems to be as picturesque and as veritable as other works of a like character, and is as well written and as well printed as the best. Perhaps this is not saying much; but can we say more?

This work has passed through two editions in Italy, and one in France. A hasty examination of the volume has excited a degree of curiosity and admiration which a more careful perusal than we can now give it will enable us hereafter to do justice to.

This beautiful volume is dedicated to the readers of the Lady's Book, (why not to its amiable proprietor?) of which she has long been an able and successful editor. We have not found time to examine the volume page by page—that is a happiness reserved to us, and we feel, in so much, the richer in our capital of future enjoyment; but we know that Mrs. Hale is one of the purest, most powerful, truthful, and tasteful of our writers; and we are certain that the volume before us is worthy of more than praise.

Evangeline.—This beautiful poem has been beautifully complimented by an artist-poet whose contributions enrich

our pages, Thomas Buchanan Read, or, as he has been aptly characterized by a contemporary, "the Doric Read." The painting is worthy the subject, the artist, and the poet; and is one of the richest productions of American art.

This work, though, perhaps, beneath the dignity of a formal review, is still good reading, and we have gone through its pages with pleasure.

This treatise on Physics, by Professor MÜller, is the first of a series of works, on the different branches of science, now passing through the press of BailliÉre, in London. The American editor has made many additions and improvements; and the work, as presented to the public, is worthy of all praise and all patronage.

These volumes have been prepared to supply the want of a system for teaching reading in Primary Schools. The task has been well performed, and the series will be found of value both to the teacher and the taught.

The title of this volume sufficiently indicates its purposes and character. It is a work calculated to contribute, in a considerable degree, to improve the methods of teaching the English language.

This work is well designed to correct prevailing vices of articulation. There is much room for reform in this branch of education, even our best public speakers being guilty of provincial errors, and faulty enunciation. The rules are lucidly explained, and the selections made with taste.

This is a more advanced and more valuable branch of the same series of class books, and is designed for the highest classes of public and private schools.

The Home Journal.—This admirable periodical maintains and advances its enviable reputation. With Morris & Willis as its editors, it needs no endorsement from its contemporaries. It must be, with such genius, tact and experience, all that a weekly periodical can be. We invite attention to the advertisement upon the cover of this number of the Magazine. Those who know the Journal will complain that the advertisers have not told half its merits.

Transcriber's Note:

1. page 133--corrected typo 'mizzen-rroyal' to 'mizzen-royal'

2. page 133--corrected typo 'them erchant' to 'the merchant'

3. page 137--punctuation mark at end of paragraph '...not gone the voyage.,' corrected to "

4. page 139--period in sentence '...of a Kentucky rifleman. I brought...' corrected to a comma

5. page 139--typo in '...I get acquaiuted with her?' corrected to 'acquainted'

6. page 139--typo in '...I beg you wont get out' corrected to 'won't'

7. page 140--typo in sentence " 'Sartainly, sartainly," said he... changed to "'Sartainly, sartainly,' said he...

8. page 140--typos in sentence '...expect you early, gentlemem. Adieu--and with...' corrected to '...expect you early, gentlemen. Adieu'--corrected spelling mistake and added single quote mark

9. page 140--comma at end of sentence '...Is she so handsome, Ben,' changed to period

10. page 140--single quotes added in sentence "Egad! you don't say so!", so resulting sentence reads " 'Egad! you don't say so!'

11. page 140--later same sentence, corrected typo 'thonght' to 'thought'

12. page 142--added missing single quote at start of sentence "Mr. Stewart,' said Don Pedro...

13. page 143--removed extraneous single quote in sentence ...and answer me frankly. 'Do you really love... sentence is part of a continuing quotation

14. page 144--typo '...make love À la modÉ?...' corrected to 'À la mode...'

15. page 144--typo 'wont' corrected to 'won't'

16. page 145--single quote added at start of sentence "What!' cried Clara...

17. page 145--double quotes changed to single in sentence "'Oh Pedro!" continued his sister...

18. page 146--corrected typo 'an' in sentence '...but to cut an run, and favored...' to 'and'

19. page 148--typo 'Giacoma' corrected to 'Giacomo'

20. page 158--typo 'hour's' in sentence '...only a few hour's drive from...' corrected to 'hours''

21. page 158--colon at end of line 'At the sunny hour of noon:' changed to semi-colon

22. page 162--typo 'interpretaion' corrected to 'interpretation'

23. page 163--typo 'wtth' in sentence '...much, compared wtth its village-like...' corrected to 'with'

24. page 166--typos in sentence '...je sins un pr[-e]tre.' corrected to '...je suis un prÊtre.'

25. page 167--typo in sentence '..."How should I know, monsieur?,' corrected to ' "How should I know, monsieur?" '

26. page 167, later--double quote added to sentence "Pretty--very pretty lodgers, said I.

27. page 168--extraneous double quote removed from sentence 'I knew from its position...'

28. page 168--missing initial double quote added to sentence Oui, monsieur."

29. page 169--period substituted for comma at end of sentence '...at length, then?" said I,

30. page 169--same error at end of '...black upon his arm,"

31. page 169--extraneous double quote removed from sentence '...before me, dying!" The concierge...'

32. page 170--added missing quote at end of sentence '...cher?--it is a sad story.'

33. page 171--extraneous " removed at end of sentence '...had not found her friend.'

34. page 171--extraneous " removed at end of sentence '...He is dead, too, then?'

35. page 171--changed comma to period at end of line '..enchanted, wander evermore,'

36. page 172--added quote at start of sentence 'Emma will have it that...'

37. page 173--removed extra 's' from 'disinterestednesss'

38. page 175--added missing quote at end of '...flirts À discretion.'

39. page 180--added 't' to word 'eloquenly'