Kingsley's Social Choir. Vol. 2d. Consisting of Selections from the most distinguished authors, with several original Pieces of Music by the Editor.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Remarks on the Geology and Mineralogy of Nova Scotia. By Abraham Gesner, Esq., Surgeon. Halifax. Printed by Gossip & Coade. 8vo. pp. 272.

NEW PERIODICALS.

The Select Medical Library and Eclectic Journal of Medicine. Edited by John Bell, M. D., Lecturer on the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence; Member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and of the American Philosophical Society, &c. &c. Philadelphia. Haswell, Barrington, & Haswell. Boston. Otis, Broaders, & Co. Monthly. -8vo. pp. 252.

ORATIONS, &c.

A Discourse, pronounced at the Capitol of the United States, before the American Historical Society, Jan. 20th, 1837. By the Hon. Levi Woodbury, a Member of the Society. Washington. Gales & Seaton. 8vo. pp. 67.

POETRY.

Selections of Juvenile and Miscellaneous Poems, written or translated by Roswell Park, A. M. Philadelphia. Desilver, Thomas, & Co. 12mo. pp. 153.

These poems indicate a pure spirit, and a hearty love of the beautiful in nature. The descriptive poems, and those on serious subjects, are the best in the volume. The humorous pieces are less happy efforts. The style is generally chaste, and the grave measures sufficiently melodious. But it must be confessed that these poems have but few of the brilliant and racy expressions, in which a really creative genius naturally clothes its conceptions. They are rather the productions of an active and versatile mind, exercising its tastes and energies in a sort of poetical gymnastics. Their moral tone is elevated, and they are well adapted to the purpose modestly set forth in the author's well-written and unpretending preface," to warm and mend the heart, and to raise it above earth's cares and sorrows." It is in other departments, that he is destined to "gather all his fame."

A Month of Freedom: an American poem. New York. Geo. W. Holley 12mo. pp. 90.

The author of this poem seems to have suffered a great deal of distress of mind. He appears to think the world altogether too bad a place for gentlemen of refined sensibilities to live in. He has a low opinion of the mass of men, and despises their pursuits. He is "among them, but not of them." How a person entertaining such sentiments can condescend to live at all, is a mystery. One would naturally suppose, that he would seize the earliest opportunity of getting out of a condition so deplorable.

The poem, if poem it is to be called, is full of exaggerated feeling and false taste. A restless impatience under the duties and labor of life, however charming it may be to the admirers of the intense school, and to young ladies, is altogether unworthy of a man of sense. This writer seems to think it a natural expression of poetical sensibility. He is quite mistaken. The true poet takes life as he finds it; and his vocation is to No. 95. 72

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invest it with the charm of imagination. No one ought to be cheated by the appearance of these lines, into the notion of their being verse. Cut off the capitals at the left hand side of the page, omit the third-rate Byronism, and the volume would be just such a common-place journal as any merchant's clerk would keep, while "pleasuring" away a month's furlough in the summer.

The New York Book of Poetry. New York. Geo. Dearborn. 8vo. pp. 253.

Wallenstein's Camp. Translated from the German of Schiller, by Geo. Moir. With a Memoir of Albert Wallenstein. By G. W. Haven. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 142.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Elements of Political Economy. By Francis Wayland, D. D., President of Brown University, and Professor of Moral Philosophy. New York. Leavitt, Lord, & Co. 8vo. pp. 472.

THEOLOGY.

The Evidences of the Genuineness of the Gospels. By Andrews Norton. Vol. first. 8vo. pp. 248 and ccxc. Boston. American Stationers' Company.

The Works of Rev. Jesse Appleton, D. D., Late President of Brown College, embracing his course of Theological Lectures, his Academic Addresses, and a Selection from his Sermons, with a Memoir of his Life and Character. 2 vols. 8vo. Andover. Gould & Newman.

Exercises for Private Devotion. By the author of Pious Thoughts and Reflections in Retirement. Boston. S. G. Simpkins. 18mo. Discourses on the Philosophy of Religion, addressed to Doubters who wish to believe. By George Ripley. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 8vo. pp. 80.

A Discourse on Miracles, preliminary to the argument for a Revelation; being the Dudleian Lecture, delivered before Harvard University, May 14th, 1836. By the Rev. Orville Dewey. Cambridge. Folsom, Wells, & Thurston. 8vo. pp. 23.

The Religious Creeds and Statistics of every Christian Denomination in the United States and British Provinces. With some Account of the Religious Sentiments of the Jews, American Indians, Deists, Mahometans, &c, alphabetically arranged. By John Hayward. Boston. John Hayward. 12mo. pp. 156.

The Cause and Cure of Infidelity, with an account of the author. By the Rev. David Nelson, of Quincy, (Illinois,) late of Marion county, (Missouri.) New York. John S. Taylor. 12mo. pp. 348.

The New Testament, arranged in Historical and Chronological Order; with copious Notes on the principal subjects in Theology. By the Rev. George Townsend, M. A., Prebendary of Durham, and Vicar of Northallerton. The whole revised, divided into paragraphs. punctuated according to the critical texts, the Italic words reexamined, passages and words of doubtful authority marked, a choice and copious selection of parallel passages given, &c. By the Rev. T. W.

Coit, D. D., President of Transylvania University. Boston. Perkins & Marvin. 8vo. pp. 927.

On Profession of Religion. By Rev. Orville Dewey. Printed for the American Unitarian Association. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 42.

Thoughts on the Personality of the Word of God. By Noah Worcester, D. D. Printed for the A. U. A. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 23.

On the Use and Meaning of the phrase "Holy Spirit." By Henry Ware, Jr., D. D. Printed for the A. U. A. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 22.

The Sunday School. A Discourse pronounced before the Sunday School Society, by William E. Channing. First printed in the Christian Examiner. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 8vo. pp. 24.

New Heavens and a New Earth. A Discourse preached in HollisStreet Church, Sunday, January 1st, 1837, by John Pierpont. Printed at the request of the Congregation. Boston. Tuttle, Weeks, & Dennett. 8vo. pp. 18.

The Scripture Doctrine of Good Works. By E. B. Hall. Printed for the A. U. A. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 12mo. pp. 22.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

A Residence of Eleven Years in New Holland and the Caroline Islands, being the Adventures of James F. O'Connell, edited from his verbal narration. Boston. B. B. Mussey. 18mo. pp. 265.

AMERICAN EDITIONS OF FOREIGN WORKS.

The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth; together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the north of England. Now first published with his works. Edited by Henry Reed. Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. James Kay, Jr., & Brother. Boston. James Munroe & Co. 8vo. pp. 551.

We receive this, as well as some other valuable works, after our List is in the printer's hands. But we cannot deny ourselves the gratification of noticing it, as one of the most beautiful specimens of our American typography. So complete a collection of Wordsworth's writings has never before been furnished in his own country or in this; nor could a more acceptable present have been made to the admirers of that great genius.

Mammon; or, Covetousness the Sin of the Christian Church. By Rev. John Harris, Author of "The Great Teacher." Second American from the Tenth London Edition. Boston. Gould, Kendall, & Lincoln. 1837. 12mo. pp. 261.

This work has been well received, and appears to deserve its reputation. It abounds with forcible statements, so made as to command attention and respect, and is well adapted to affect the judgments of men on the important subject of which it treats.

Twelve Lectures on the Connexion between Science and Revealed Religion. Delivered in Rome by Michael Wiseman, D. D., Principal of the English College, and Professor in the University of Rome. First American from the first London edition. Andover. Gould & Newman. New York. Gould & Newman. 8vo. pp. 399. p. 11, 23.

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