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to lofty plane of morality, and conduct ourselves here in New England on the Sabbath much as they do elsewhere in the world? It is becoming every day a question of more and more importance, whether Sunday shall be given up to a very large and ever-increasing class of operatives as a day of harmless pleasure and relaxation from toil; or, as heretofore, shall the labor of the six days only be a prelude to the still more tiresome and repulsive exactions of the seventh? Not merely is it to be asked, Are horse-cars to run? for that question everywhere else has been answered affirmatively, even by the most rigidly devout; but shall parks be thrown open; shall picnic parties be tolerated by the moral sense of the community,in a word, shall any lawful means of enjoyment be denied to a needy class of people on the only day when it is possible for them to obtain it? People will answer this question differently; but for us, it does seem, that if choice is to be made between the Puritanic Sabbath and the comfort and happiness of the most industrious classes, painful as the alternative is, we had better give up an observance which, we firmly believe, has little to recommend it save its antiquity. We do not solicit that anything be subtracted from the holy character of the seventh day; not a word is offered against any of those cherished institutions which the piety of centuries has hallowed; all, as we understand it, that is claimed, is for all to be allowed, consistent with order and decency, to spend the Sabbath as they please.

We are very glad that the Union Company have taken this step; not that the measure in itself is of any great importance, but because we hope, as the pamphlet before us fears, that this is only the beginning of a complete reform. Whether or not steam-cars shall be run, or post-offices set in operation, is quite another question, one which concerns only the ordinary operations of business. But the reform which we hope to see carried out concerns the well-being and the physical comfort of almost one half of the community. It is urged, however, that if the laboring classes must have recreation, let them get it during the six days of ordinary labor, and not on the seventh. Why on one of the six days, and not on the seventh? Is there any excuse for such an unreasonable demand, better than merely gratifying the hitherto undisputed prejudices of a moral fanaticism? To suspend all business operations for a whole day each week, and nothing less would answer the purpose, close stores, mills, and factories one or two hours earlier each day, would soon paralyze commerce. A great loss would ensue, and

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some one would have to bear it. The poor operative could not, and the rich proprietor would not.

To ask that any other day, in addition to the seventh, should be given up to the wants of the laboring class is idle talk, and can only serve as an empty excuse for those who really do have fellowfeeling for the needy, and are yet unwilling to abate one jot of their own time-honored prejudices in order to gratify that feeling. If infidel France or beer-drinking Germany had no weightier crime to answer for than this one of encouraging their laboring classes to enjoy themselves on Sunday, by throwing open every avenue to pleasure, their national salvation would not be uncertain.

NEW BOOKS.

Agnes of Sorrento. By Mrs. H. B. STOWE. Boston: Ticknor and Fields.

1862.

THIS story, which has been recently appearing as a serial in the “ Atlantic," has now been published in book-form by Messrs. Ticknor and Fields. It will hardly, we think, gain an unqualified enthusiastic approval from its reader, who, if dissatisfied with nothing else, can scarcely be pleased with the abruptness with which the plot is disentangled in the last short, but important chapter. A novel-reader does not like to have the Gordian knot, which has been tied with so much care, cut so imperiously at a blow. The scenes are laid successively in the cities of Sorrento, Rome, and Milan, and its plot is made to include some of the most prominent events and characters of the fifteenth century.

The Pearl of Orr's Island. A Story of the Coast of Maine. By Mrs. STOWE. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1862.

ONE can hardly read a few of the novels which, at the present day, succeed each other so rapidly and bewilderingly, without becoming aware how useful an occasional introduction to the ocean, or an occasional mention of the sea, is in helping to keep alive the story's interest. There is an uncertainty which attends every mention of rising and falling waves which well suits the spirit and tastes of the professed novel-reader. He only asks that he may be sure of reaching land at the novel's end; and he is willing, and rather prefers, to meet a few shipwrecks scattered through its middle chapters. Such novels and scenes must, however, be perfectly natural, VOL. VIII. NO. 74..

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never liable to the criticism of Professor Wilson upon the sea-novels of his day. "There are waves, waves, waves, but never a sea. A ship manouvres as if she were on wheels, and upon dry land, and all the practical glory of the power of sail and helm is gone." Such a description does not, we think, apply to the present novel. It is the natural way in which the waves are heard beating and dashing in the pauses of every chapter, and in which "the stream of true love" is connected with the sea that surrounds Orr's Island, which gives the story much of its charm. This, together with the humor and earnest tone of the book, should make it one of Mrs. Stowe's most popular novels.

COLLEGE RECORD.

ORDER OF PERFORMANCES FOR EXHIBITION, TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1862. (Excellent music by the Pierian Sodality.)

1. A Latin Oration. "De Patriæ Caritate." Arthur Reed, Boston. "Poland in 1861." Joseph Perrin Burrage, West

2. A Disquisition. Cambridge.

3. A Latin Version.

From J. S. Mill's "Contest in America." Edgar Adelbert Hutchins. Brooklyn, N. Y.

4. A Dissertation. "The Judicial Corruption of Lord Bacon." Samuel Cushman Haven, Portsmouth, N. H.

5. A Disquisition. "Alexis de Tocqueville." James Green, Worcester. 6. A Greek Version. From Franklin. Frederic Brooks, Boston.

7. A Dissertation. "The Novels of Rodolphe Töpffer." Edward Eli Ensign, Sheffield.

8. An English Version. From De Gasparin's "Uprising of a Great People." William Augustus White, Brooklyn, N. Y.

9. A Latin Dialogue. From "The Heir at Law." Arthur Mason Knapp, Boston. Moses Grant Daniell, Grantville.

10. An English Oration. "The Demos of Athens." William Tucker Washburn, Boston.

11. A Disquisition. "Value to the United States of the German Immigration." James Milton Loring, St. Louis, Mo.

12. An English Version. From Flechier's Funeral Oration on Marshal Turenne. Edmund Souder Wheeler, Roxbury.

13. A Greek Version. From General McClellan's Address to the Army of the Potomac. George Lewis Baxter, Quincy.

14. A Disquisition. "The New-Zealanders." Charles Follen Folsom, Jamaica Plain.

15. A Greek Version.

Craft Davis, St. Louis, Mo.

16. An English Version.

From Washington's Farewell Address. Samuel

From De Tocqueville, "L'Ancien Régime et

la Révolution." Joseph Anthony Gillet, Lebanon Springs, N. Y. 17. A Dissertation. 66

Wilmington, N. C.

Allegorical Poets." William Hobbs Chadbourn,

18. An English Oration. "Can one of our States commit Treason? George Edwin Chapman, Cambridge.

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SONS OF HARVARD IN THE FEDERAL ARMY AND NAVY.

WE are permitted by the compiler to transfer the following list from the columns of the Courier to our pages, not only for the sake of preserving it as matter of history, but as a subject of interest to every alumnus, as well as every undergraduate of our alma mater.

The list is necessarily still incomplete and perhaps incorrect. We should be glad to transmit to the author any suggestions as to alteration or improvement which may occur to our readers. — EDS.

Class of 1825.

C. H. Davis, Commander, U. S. N.

1828.

Charles Babbidge, Chaplain Mass. 6th.

1833.

Fletcher Webster, Colonel Mass. 12th.
William Mack, Surgeon, by special detail.

1834.

Joseph Sargent, Surgeon, by special detail.

1836.

S. Cabot, Surgeon, by special detail.

1838.

Charles Devens, Colonel Mass. 15th.

1840.

Henry Bryant, Surgeon Mass. 20th, and Brigade Surgeon.

S. Kneeland, Surgeon U. S. V. N., and to Burnside's Expedition.

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Luther Parks, Surgeon Mass.- Battery.

H. B. Sargent, Lieutenant-Colonel Mass. 1st Cavalry.

1844.

J. C. Dalton, Assistant Surgeon New York 7th.

E. A. Wild, Captain Mass. 1st.

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Chester Harding, Jr., Adjutant-General, Missouri.
R. M. Hodges, Jr., Surgeon, by special detail.
James W. Savage (General Fremont's Staff).

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Charles G. Loring, Jr., Quartermaster, General Reno's Brigade.

L. M. Sargent, Jr., Surgeon Mass. 2d, and Captain 1st Mass. Cavalry.
William O. Stevens, Major N. Y. 3d.

W. P. Tillman, Captain N. Y. 30th.

1849.

C. A. Curtis, Master's-Mate U. S. N.

J. D. Green, Jr., Lieutenant-Colonel Mass. 5th, and Lieutenant-Colonel 17th Infantry U. S. A.

Everett Peabody, Colonel Missouri 25th.

J. O. Williams, Lieutenant Mass. 12th.

1850.

W. H. Cudworth, Chaplain Mass. 1st.
N. Hayward, Surgeon Mass. 20th.

1851.

R. M. Copeland, Major (General Banks's Staff).
H. P. Curtis, Lieutenant Mass. 1st Cavalry.

S. A. Green, Surgeon Mass. 24th.

A. P. Hooker, Surgeon Mass. 26th.

F. W. Palfrey, Lieutenant-Colonel Mass. 20th.

W. D. Sedgwick, Captain (General Sedgwick's Staff).

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