His writings furnish the material for much quiet entertainment even at this day, and contain the germs of a large portion of subsequent philosophical disquisition. The works of Fenelon is too well known to be made the subject of comment, but we may say that the life of him by Lamartine and the Essay on his genius and character by Villemain render this edition of Telemachus more valuable than any with which we are acquainted. We heartily commend these volumes to public favour.

THE NEW AND THE OLD; Or, California and India in Romantic Aspects. By J. W. PALMER, M. D., author of "Up and Down the Irrawaddi," &c. With thirteen Illustrations engraved by A. V. S. Anthony, from original designs by John McLeanan. 1 vol. 12mo., pp. 433. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 130 Grand Street. 1859. [From the author.

Dr. Palmer is one of the most delightful of writers of travel. He understands the force of the French maxim that the art of writing is the art of interesting. He takes liberties with the reader and sometimes with the language, but he never wearies the patience, and one feels a livelier confidence as the narrative proceeds, that the drollery, the good sense, the pleasant fancies, the pathos of the book will be maintained to the end. "The New and the Old" is a transcript of personal experience at the " gates of the morning" and at the "golden gates," of sunset, or to speak less figuratively, in California and India. The "New" was Eldorado in 1849, the "Old" was India, which Dr. Palmer visited afterwards. Every Summer tourist should take the book with him to the mountains or the sea-side. It is a most exquisite specimen of the printer's art in America and is embellished with some capital engravings on wood.

ACADIA; Or, a Month with the Blue Noses. By FREDERICK S. COZZENS. New York: Derby & Jackson, 119 Nassau Street. 1859. [From James Woodhouse & Co., 137 Main Street.

A romantic and real interest attaches to Nova Scotia-it was the country of Evangeline and it is the land of Sam Slick. Mr. Longfellow's hexameters and Judge Haliburton's fun have prepared the public mind for the kindly reception of just such a humorous little volume as the present. Mr. Cozzens writes with ease, but unlike "the mob of gentlemen" with spirit, and his "Month among the Blue Noses" has given us much enjoyment. There is a very painful chapter, which we would commend to the conscientious agents of the "Underground Railroad" (if there be such people,) descriptive of the abject

misery and helplessness of the runaway negroes who have settled in Nova Scotia. The recital of such misery might touch the heart even of Horace Greeley. Neatness of typography and two lithographic portraits lend their attractions to the volume.

THE CASSIQUE of Kiawah. A Colonial Romance. By WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS, Esq. Redfield, 34 Beekman Street, New York. 1859. [From A. Morris, 97 Main St.

We had the satisfaction to present our readers in the last number of the Messenger with a full and just estimate of Mr. Simms' characteristic excellences as a novelist, and all the praise conferred upon him in that critique is justified by the animation and interest of the present story. He is here upon his old ground, dealing with the stirring incidents of the ancient time in Carolina, and reproducing characters that, but for his interference, would have faded out of the records of the past. The Cassique of Kiawah more than sustains his reputation, it would make a reputation for a new writer. The work is dedicated in a sonnet to the Hon. W. Porcher Miles of the House of Representatives, a sonnet so beautiful that we have given it to the reader on a previous page of the present number of our Magazine.

THE TIN TRUMPET; or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish. A New American Edition with alterations and additions." New York: D. Appleton and Company. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

The fun in this volume resembles old wine which has been bottled up a quarter of a century and which comes to the lip with a most agreeable smack for its long imprisonment. "The Tin Trumpet" has been out of print for years, and single copies at auction sales of old libraries, have brought fabulous prices. There is a refined cynicism, a malicious, epigrammatic commentary on the affairs of life, running through the definitions, which amuses while it stings, and the jokes will be enjoyed as much by the present generation as they were by the old fogies for whom, twentyfour years ago, they were printed. The following will serve as specimen squeaks from the Trumpet

CEREMONY. All that is considered necessary by many in religion and friendship. EXTEMPORE. A premeditated impromptu. EYE-GLASS. A toy which enables a coxcomb to see others, and others to see that he is a coxcomb.

FACE. The silent echo of the heart. SATIRE. A glass in which the beholder sees every body's face but his own.

"The Tin Trumpet is beautifully printed and is most tastefully bound in embossed muslin.