masses of unfinished heavy brick-work externally, but solemn and serene within; arrest our lingering steps, in strolling the city.

In keeping with the tombs among the cloisters, is the Museum of Natural History, famous through the world for its preparations in wax; beginning with models of leaves, seeds, plants, inferior animals; and gradually ascending, through separate organs of the human frame, up to the whole structure of that wonderful creation, exquisitely presented, as in recent death. Few admonitions of our frail mortality can be more solemn, and more sad, or strike so home upon the heart, as the counterfeits of Youth and Beauty that are lying there, upon their beds, in their last sleep.

Beyond the walls, the whole sweet Valley of the Arno, the convent at Fiesole, the Tower of Galileo, Boccaccio's house, old villas and retreats; innumerable spots of interest, all glowing in a landscape of surpassing beauty steeped in the richest light; are spread before us. Returning from so much brightness, how solemn and how grand the streets again, with their great, dark, mournful palaces, and many legends, not of siege, and war, and might, and Iron Hand alone, but of the triumphant growth of peaceful Arts and Sciences.

What light is shed upon the World, at this day, from amidst these rugged Palaces of Florence! Here, open to all comers, in their beautiful and calm retreats, the ancient Sculptors are immortal, side by side with Michael Angelo, Canova, Titian, Rembrandt, Raphael, Poets, Historians, Philosophers-those illustrious men of history, beside whom its crowned heads and harnessed warriors, show so poor and small, and are so soon forgotten. Here, the imperishable part of noble minds survives, placid and equal, when strongholds of assault and defence are overthrown; when the tyranny of the many, or the few, or both, is but a tale; when Pride and Power are so much cloistered dust. The fire within the stern streets, and among the massive Palaces and Towers, kindled by rays from Heaven, is still burning brightly, when the flickering of war is extinguished and the household fires of generations have decayed; as thousands upon thousands of faces, rigid with the strife and passion of the hour, have faded out of the old Squares and the public haunts, while the nameless Florentine Lady, preserved from oblivion by a Painter's hand, yet lives on, in enduring grace and youth.

Let us look back on Florence while we may,

and when its shining Dome is seen no more, go traveling through cheerful Tuscany, with a bright remembrance of it; for Italy will be the fairer for the recollection. The summer time being come; and Genoa, and Milan, and the Lake of Como lying far behind us: and we' resting at Faido, a Swiss village, near the awful rocks and mountains, the everlasting snows and roaring cataracts, of the Great Saint Gothard; hearing the Italian tongue for the last time on this journey; let us part from Italy, with all its miseries and wrongs, affectionately, in our admiration of the beauties, natural and artificial, of which it is full to overflowing, and in our tenderness towards a people, naturally well dispos ed, and patient, and sweet tempered. Years of neglect, oppression, and misrule, have been at work, to change their nature and reduce their spirit; miserable jealousies, fomented by petty Princes to whom union was destruction, and division strength, have been a canker at the root of their nationality, and have barbarized their language; but the good that was in them ever, is in them yet, and a noble people may be, one day, raised up from these ashes. Let us entertain that hope! And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her deserted palaces and prisons, she helps to inculcate the lesson that the wheel of Time is rolling for an end, and that the world is, in all great essentials, better, gentler, more forbearing, and more hopeful, as it rolls.

"A MAN'S look is the work of years. It is stamped on the countenance by the events of his life; nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily. There is, as it has been remarked repeatedly, something in a person's appearance, at first sight, which we do not like, and which gives an odd tinge, but which is overlooked in a multitude of other eircumstances till the mask is thrown off, and we see this lurking character verified in the plainest manner in the sequel. We are struck at first, and by chance, with what is peculiar and characteristic; also, with permanent traits and general effects. These afterwards go off in a set of unmeaning common-place details. This sort of prima facie evidence, then, shows what a man is, better than what he says or does-for it shows us the habit of his mind, which is the same under all circumstances and disguises."-Hazlitt.

EDITOR'S REMOVAL TO PHILADELPHIA.

THE EDITOR of the Ladies' Repository removes to Philadelphia, Pa., the first of October, and desires all Communications for this Magazine to be directed to him as above. All Letters of Business must be directed to the Publisher, A. Tompkins, Boston, Mass.

THE LITERATURE AND LITERARY MEN OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. By Abraham Mills, M. A. New York: Harper and Brothers.

1851.

This is a work, in behalf of which we would speak a good and a strong word. It is an admirable production, thorough, comprehensive, and every way a work of great talent. The author

was invited more than twenty years ago to deliver a course of lectures on the above subject, and these lectures have been delivered annually, since that time, with such additions and revisions as further study made requisite. Here then, we have the ripe fruits of twenty years careful labor, and no one can fail to prize the results so admirably placed before us. The work is in two volumes. They embrace forty-six lectures, and treat of the Literature and Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland from Ossian and King Alfred to the writers at the opening of the present century. We commend these volumes to our readers, as not only rich in their notices of Literary Men and in specimens of their writings, but as exceedingly interesting in the manner of treatment and style of composition. For sale by B. B. Mussey & Co., Boston.

THE DESTINY OF MANKIND; or, What do the Scriptures teach respecting the Final Condition of the Human Family? By O. H. Tillotson. Pp. 111.

Mr. Tillotson is the popular and useful minister of the Universalist Church in Worcester, Mass., and this volume was occasioned by a public, oral debate in that city between Mr. T. and a preacher of the Annihilation of the Wicked. Various tests proved the victory to be on the side of the Universalist. We noticed in our last, a work on the side of Annihilation, and as Br. T. says in his preface, it is evident that of late this doctrine has been gaining ground. It only shows the inconsistencies of the advocates of Partialism, for but a while ago they declaimed on the infinite value

THE LILY. For 1852. Edited by Mrs. M. A. Livermore. Boston. J. M. Usher. Pp. 307. This second issue of The Lily is in the same neat style as the publication of last year, and Mrs. Livermore has grouped together a series of interesting articles which will make her volume She has contributed acceptable to the public.

of her own writings nearly, if not quite, a third of the book, and she is aided by articles from the following persons :-Professor Alpheus Crosby, Miss Phebe Carey, Rev. A. B. Muzzy, Mrs. N. T. Munroe, Hon. Horace Greeley, Rev. J. W. Hanson, G. H. Ballou, H. Bacon, Rev. J. G. Adams, Rev. A. G. Laurie, James Lumbard, Miss E. Doten, Rev. R. Tomlinson, Mrs. C. M. Sawyer, Mrs. T. P. Smith-twenty-nine articles in all.

The contribution of Professor Crosby is a playful and yet serious allegory of The Water Sylph, and is a piece of good writing. Mr. Muzzy gives Jottings from a Foreign Tour, in which he describes, too briefly, his approach to Vesuvius, his descent into the crater, and his visit to the ruins of Pompeii. Mrs. Munroe gives an excellent po

em illustrative of the sentiment of one of the plates, "Lord, have Mercy upon us ;" and, as usual, Mr. Greeley treats a reformatory topic, and speaks a good word in reference to the Christian treatment of criminals, on the text, "Doest thou well to be angry?" Mr. Hanson presents a partial translation of Pergolesi's Sabat Mater, and Mr. Ballou contributes A Brazilian Sketch, in which no little skill at graphic delineation, is shown. Mr. Adams gives some Impressions of a Bi-centennial Day," in which he utters the fullness of feeling which such a festival occasions to one who intelligently enters, with heart and soul, into such a celebration. Mr. Tomlinson has a good, religious article on The Home of the Soul," and Miss Doten furnishes an interesting story and two poems; Mrs. Sawyer a fine allegoric poem, The Two Vessels, and Mrs. Smith a lively story of The Defaulting Brook. These, with the other

brief poems and Mrs. Livermore's contributions, give to the volume an attraction which will probably be considered in advance of the first issue of last year. Four plates, and the vignette, add artistic beauty to the literary contents; the subjects of the plates are good, and will be, we think, popular.

New

THE ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA. Designed for Beginners. By Elias Loomis, M. A. York: Harper & Brothers. 1851. Boston: B. B. Mussey & Co.

This is designed as an elementary book for schools. Its preparation was suggested by discovering the use of the author's Treatise on Algebra by younger scholars than those for whom it was intended. The work before us seems well adapted to the purposes for which it was prepared. By easy steps it leads the scholar from Arithmetic to the higher forms of Algebraic study.

A MANUAL OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. With Illustrations. By Charles Anthon, LL. D. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1851. Boston: B. B. Mussey & Co., Cornhill.

This is all that can be desired in a work of this character. It is thorough, well arranged, and finely illustrated. It forms a handsome volume of 451 pages, and for all ordinary purposes it is elaborate enough. Its use as a school-book, we think, must prove its excellence.

ARVINE'S CYCLOPEDIA OF ANECDOTES OF LITERATURE AND With THE FINE ARTS. numerous Illustrations. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. 1851.

This is a new serial work. This first issue contains eighty-eight pages, and is printed in a handsome style. It will be published semi-monthly, and will be completed in eight numbers, making a handsome volume of over 700 pages. The anecdotes are arranged alphabetically, and comprise a little of every thing. It will be a good book for the family, to fill up odd moments, or to suggest topics of useful and entertaining conversation.

PICTORIAL FIELD BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION. By Benson J. Lossing. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1851.

This is the handsomest of the Illustrated publications of the day. The plates are exquisite, delicate, yet bold, while the letter-press gives in graphic language the scenes which are illuminated by the pictures. The paper is of a quality that gives the finest effect to the artist's labors. We know of nothing that excels the exquisiteness of Lossing's engravings.

HARPERS' NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

This very popular periodical continues to receive that approval which is delightful to a publisher-a vast circulation. It is certainly a capital affair, though we think the "Editor's Drawer" no addition to the quality of the editorial department of the work.

NINETEENTH ANNUAL REPORT, of the Trustees of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind, to the Corporation. 1851.

This publication does not give any details of "cases," nor does it add any thing to the history of Laura Bridgman, but dwells on the general subject of the Education of the Blind, and on topics of universal interest in this connection. The rich common sense so abundant in whatever Dr. Howe presents the public on this subject, is met in this document, and we have read his report with unabated interest.

Accompanying our copy of the Report, comes a list of articles which are manufactured by the Blind at the Institution, orders for which will aid the Blind in the very best manner. Here may be

found most excellent mattrasses, beds, comforters, sheets, pillow-cases, mats, towels, bedticks, satchels, traveling-bags, &c. The Sales Rooms are at 20 and 22 Bromfield Street, Boston. It will be a sight for the curious to look in and see the variety and the nicety of this work, and to purchase helps the good cause of benevolence along.

TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN MEXICO. By Wm. W. Carpenter, late of the U. S. Army. N. York: Harper & Brothers. 1851. B. B. Mussey & Co., Boston.

The author of this volume volunteered for the Mexican War from Donisville, Ky., and gives us in his work sketches of his journeyings in Mexico on foot, of upwards of twenty-five hundred miles, illustrative of the manners and customs of the people, and the agricultural and mineral resources of that country. Mr. Carpenter tells us, in his preface, that his extreme poverty and apparent insignificance, prevented any suspicions of future disclosures, so that he had access to circles where reserve was thrown aside, which is usually worn in the presence of foreigners, and he was thus enabled to get better knowledge of the Mexican character than could otherwise have been the case. He journeyed through come towns seldom described by travelers, and his entire narrative abounds with interesting incidents and descriptions. He endured much, and has given us a book that adds to our stock of information concerning Mexico and the Mexicans.