19. The Government and the Currency. New Edition with Illustrations. By HENRY MIDDLETON. 12mo., pp. 190. New York: Charles B. Norton.

The present treatise was orginally published in two parts. The first part, in the pamphlet form, was favorably received by the public, and highly commended in the North American Review. The second part was originally contributed, by the author, to the pages of the Merchants' Magazine, where it attracted the attention of a respectable and intelligent portion of our readers. The whole, with the author's alterations and corrections, is now presented in a more permanent and desirable form, with the addition of an appendix, in which the author discusses, with singular force and clearness, the "Doctrine of the Protective Policy." The work is written in a remarkably clear and schollarly style, and will, in our view, be regarded as a valuable contribution to the science of currency and banking.

20.-The Works of J. Fennimore Cooper. The Red Rover, Complete in One Volume. New York: George P. Putnam.

We congratulate the admirers of Cooper on the prospect of possessing an edition of his tales of the Sea, as worthy of the improved state of the typographic art in this country, as they are of the genius of one of America's best and most successful authors. And we think that the demand for this portion of Mr. Cooper's writings will be so large as to induce the enterprising publisher to produce, in the same beautiful style, his complete works. The present tale has been revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new introduction, notes, &c., by the author.

21.-The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith. Including a Variety of Pieces now first collected. By JAMES PRIOR. In four volumes. Vol. II. 12mo., pp. 558. New York: George P. Putnam.

We noticed the publication of the first volume of this new and beautiful edition of Goldsmith's miscellanies in a previous number of this Magazine. The present volume, the second, contains the "Letters from a Citizen of the World to his friends in the East," one hundred and twenty-three in number; and “a familiar introduction to the Study of Natural History. The Chinese Letters were commenced in the "Public Ledger" newspaper in January, 1760, and collected under their present title, in two volumes, 12mo. in May, 1762.

22.-New York By Gas-Light: With Here and There a Streak of Sunshine. New York: Dewitt & Davenport.

Mr. Foster has distinguished himself by his "city items," and "New York in Slices." His design in the amusing, if not instructive, work before us, is "to penetrate beneath the thick veil of night, and lay bare the fearful mysteries of darkness in the metropolis," exhibiting "the festivities of prostitution, the orgies of pauperism, the haunts of thefts and murder, the scenes of drunkenness and beastly debauch, and all the sad realities that go to make up the lower stratum-the underground story-of life in New York." His illustrations are drawn from life, as he has met with it in his perigrinations; and we presume his descriptions are graphic. The influence of such works on the morals of their readers will doubtless be considered by some as questionable. 23.-The Sea-side and the Fireside. By HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Boston: Ticknor, Reid & Fields.

This new collection of the more recent productions of the author, appropriately divided into two parts, as indicated by the title. The poems by the "Sea-Side," seven in number, are among the best efforts of the poet. "The Building of the Ship," the first and longest in the collection, is in the author's happiest vein, and the "Lighthouse" one of the most graceful and graphic pieces of this most artistic poet. In a word every poem in the volume. though of varied merit, bears the impress of Longfellow, which is only saying what his numerous and increasing circle of admirers will understand and appreciate more fully than any misplaced, lengthened criticism we are capable of giving in our "book trade" notices.

24. Frank Farleigh: or, Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil. London and New York: George Virtue.

The interest of this story, although it has reached its twelfth part, continues undiminished. It has scenes as interesting as any to be found in the works of “Boz." Each part is illustrated with two of Cruikshank's capital pencil sketches.

25.-The Peer's Daughter. By LADY LYTTON BULWER, author of "Cheveley," &c. New York: Stringer & Townsend's Library of Choice Novels.

26.-Philo: an Evangeliad. By the author of "Margaret: a Tale of the Real and the Ideal." 12mo., pp. 244. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.

We have read enough of this work to create a relish for more. It is evidently the production of a religious, philosophical mind, well read in the mysteries of life, and in the deeper mysteries of the human heart, in its inmost workings, and in its external developments. It abounds in passages of great power and beauty; and breathes, throughout, a genial and hopeful spirit. It will, perhaps, be considered by some as transcendental in its philosophy. But it is the transcendentalism that transcends the inanities and sophisms of antiquated error, while it shakes off the dust and cobwebs from Truth, as reverend as Time, and as unbeginning and unending as Eternity. Its teachings will be acceptible to a large and increasing class of unbiased minds, who seek for nude truth embellished with the graces of a spiritual, progressive Christianity. 27.-Poems. By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. In two volumes. 18mo., pp. 251 & 254. Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Field.

A volume of Mr. Lowell's poems was published in 1843, followed by a second series in 1847. The present edition, in two volumes, embrace most of the poems included in the former collections, with the addition of several new poems not before published in a collected form. On the publication of the former volumes, we expressed a high opinion of the genius of this poet. We have no disposition, or no good reason for retracting one iota from the views formerly expressed. We regard Mr. Lowell as a true poet inspired, (not to speak irreverently,) if our readers please, with the spirit of Progress, Liberty, and Humanity-as a poet of the Present and Future, rather than of

the Past.

28.-Essays Upon Authors and Books. By W. ALFRED JONES. 12mo., pp. 235. New York: Stanford & Swords.

The present collection, the second that Mr. Jones has published, consists of selections from his contributions made from time to time to our periodical literature. Written for Journals and reviews of a varied character, the several papers exhibit considerable divesity of style. In making this selection, Mr. Jones informs us that in some instances the essay matter of a gossiping retrospective review has been retained, and the illustrated literary potraits excluded; and again, in other cases, literary potraits have been extracted, without any reference to the text in which they occur. Jones' style is moddled after the old English prose writers, and his views, clearly and classically expressed, will not be likely to frighten the more orthodox admirers of the past. The volume furnishes a fine illustration of the benefits of classical education and culture, and will be appreciated by a large class of readers.

Mr.

29.-Websters Quarto Dictionary. We cheerfully give place to the following extract from the Annual Report of the Hon. Christopher Morgan, Secretary of State, and Superintendent of Public Schools for the State, presented to the New York Legislature, January, 1850:—

"In connection with the subject of district libraries, the Superintendent deems it his duty partic ularly to direct the attention of the trustees and inhabitants of the several school districts to a work of undoubted utility, and pre-eminently of a national character, which should find a place in every library, namely; Websters' Unabridged Quarto Dictionary, published by Messrs. G. & C. Merriam, of Springfield, Massachusetts. As a standard of orthography and orthoepy, its claims to general adop tion have been recognized by the most eminent scholars and statesmen of our land; and as a purely American work, prepaired at great expense, and emanating from a source entitled to the highest credit and respect, it commends itself strongly to the adoption of our school districts generally." 30.—Shakspeare's Dramatic Works. Boston: Phillips, Sampsom & Co.

The sixth and seventh parts of this splendid edition of the great dramatist, embraces the play of "Much Ado About Nothing," illustrated with a potrait of "Beatrice," and a memoir of Shakspeare, with a potrait. Both of these illustrations are in the highest style of the art, and equal to anything that has adorned the London Art Journal. The present numbers complete the first volume of this edition, including six plays and the life of Shakspeare.

31.-Pelham; or, Adventures of a Gentleman. By EDWARD LYTTON BULWER, Esq., M. P. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co.

This is a new and cheap edition of one of Bulwer's celebrated novels. It was originally published in 1828, and is one of the earliest productions of the author.