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Palestine, Past and Present. By Rev. Henry S. Osborne, .4. M. 1 1:01., 8m. Philadrlphia: James Challen ct Sons. This is an elegant royal-octave volume, containing over ﬁve

hundred pages, and embellished with numerous beautiful engravings, colored and plain. The work is the result of recent researches in Palestine and a portion of Syria, and

My better half made it a condition precedent to the sale,

that I should become a subscriber for your Magazine; and in order to keep peace in the family. I have concluded to send on for the Magazine for her. I have also secured you seven other names and send herewith ten dollars.”

embraces the natural, scientiﬁc, classical and histoi ical fem

tures of the Holy Land, identifying and illustrating many Scriptural passages hitherto unnoticed. The engravings are Tn: Douaa NrwsrAPsa.—We call attention to the adver- t from original designs and drawings, the latter of which was tiscment of this excellent family paper—the best, we think, 5 taken on the spots they represent. They give an excellent published in Philadelphia—but especially to the liberal offer 2 idea of the scenery of Palestine, its cities, villages. architec of one thousand dollars in premiums to persons getting up ’ tnre. birds, ﬂowers, kc, kc.

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clnbs. For 32,60, cash in advance, the “Dollar Newspaper" § panics the work. The volume appears at an opportune and “Peterson” can be had for one year. Remit, in such i season, as it will make an appropriate and elegant Christmas cases, to Charles J. Peterson, 306 Chesnut St., Philadelphia. gift. It will be a valuable companion to " The City of the Great King," published by the same house. Balsa Ss'mucan—Curb your tendency to be satirical! It The Modern Cbok; a Practical Guide to the Ordinary Art is easier, often, to say a cruel thing, than a kind one; and in all its Branches. By Charles Cline Francatelh'. With is, therefore, no credit, not even to your intellect. Be loved, Sixty/4200 Illustrations. 1 ML, 81:0. Philadelphia: T. B. rather than feared! Peterson elf-Brothers. This is a work of a higher class than such compilations generally are. It comprises. in addition to English conkery, the most approved systems of French, REVIEW 01' NEW BOOKS. Italian and German cookery; and is indispensable, therefore» History of Frederick the Second, called Frederick the ' to hotel-keepers,confcctioners. and private families that wish Great. By Thomas Carlyle. In four rolumes. Vols. 1. and to keep first-rate tables. The publishers have issued it in a I]. blew York: Harper (t Brothers. The peculiarities of style corresponding to its merits. There are numerous en~ Carlyle’s writings are well known to the reading public. gravings of ornamental dishes, which will be found of great The author of “Sartor Resartus" has the merit, rare among value, especially in country localities, where professional literary men of this generation, not only of clothing his cooks cannot be got. as in a large city, at a moment’s notice. thoughts in a style of his own. but of stamping the thoughts No fashionable entertainment ought to be undertaken, we themselves with distinctive features. It is true that his should think, without Fraucatelli's cook-book. English is an English unknown to the good old standards Judge Haliburton’s Yankee Stories. With IIllustrations. of the tongue, a barbarous jargon against which every honest critic ought to protest. But, what with the eccentricitles of Two volumes complete in one. Philadelphia.- T. E. Peterson ti Brothers. The wit and droliery of Judge Haliburton, when his verbal style, and what with the almost Sardonic power of his irony, Carlyle, at least. ﬁxes the reader’s attention. writing. as in this work, under his soubn'qua of “ Sam Slick," which many writers fail to do, who are purists of the ﬁrst have never been surpassed. The sketches are all short, so water. The work now before us, for example, is profoundly that the book may be taken up, read for a few minutes, and interesting. The ﬁrst volume is devoted chiefly to the early then laid down without breaking the continuity of the text. history of the Prussian dynasty, and is full of those pano We do not know a more certain speciﬁc to cure the “ blues" ramic views, in giving which Carlyle excels all other writers. than these Yankee Stories of “8am Slick.” The volume is King and Kaiser, Margrave and Elector. Knight and Bishop handsomely illustrated. f'Jl‘/I(-f‘/lf/lI/I/Ifl

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pass before the reader, like spectres conjured up by the hand of some potent magician. In no other work. that we have peniscd, do we ﬁnd such vivid pictures of feudal Germany. It was said of Kean's acting, that it was reading Shakespeare by ﬂashes of lightning: and Carlyle’s Frederick is reading the Teutonic middle ages in the same way. The second volume brings us down to more modern times; but is not less graphic and interesting. It comprises the thirteen years of Prussian history, which preceded the death of Frederick the Grcat's father, a monarch whom most writers have either misunderstood, or misrepresented, but whom Carlyle cxzdts almost into a hero. We shall await the appearance of the ._

Jack and Harry; or, Pictures for the Young. By Mary and John Hewitt. 1 col. Boston: J. E. Tilton if 00. This is a small quarto, elegantly printed on cream-colored paper, illustrated with numerous superior engravings, and bound neatly in embossed cloth. The story is intended for children, and, like all stories by the Howitts, is admirably adapted for its purpose. We consider it one of the most appropriate Christmas books that has been published this year.

The Ministry of Life. By Maria Louisa Charlrsworth. 1 col., 12010. New York: D. Applcton et- Co. A religious ﬁction, adapted for young persons about entering life; and remaining two volumes with no little eagerness. and hope i from the. pen of an author who has already won for hcrselfa circle of warm, admiring friends. The volume appears op they will not be so long forthcoming as Macanley's promised ones, which, if report speaks truly, have been bought 00' portuncly, for it would make an excellent Christmas or New Year‘s gift. Two elegant steel embellishments adorn the book by the Hanoverian dynasty. for a peerage. _A~."’f/l’IJ'/,fl‘/I I-r/I I h'.~v

The Four Sisters. By Frederik-a Bremer. 1 vol., l‘lmo. T. B. Peterson d? Brothers. We do not think this novel inferior, as a work of art. even to the best of Miss Bromcr’s earlier ﬁctions; and having said this, what more can we say in its praise? There is so much exceptionable literature printed in these times. that a parent hardly knows what new book to introduce into the household. To “ The Four Sisters,"

however, no exception can be taken. It is deeply intercsb ing; is full of instruction; abounds in capital pictures of Swedish life; and breathes a pure moral atmosphere that in sensibly refines and spirltualizes the reader. A small edition was published, a year or two ago, under the name of " Hertha.”

Sclf-Made Men. By Charles C. B. Seymour. 1 001., 12m. New York: Harper it Brothers. In this neat volume we have about sixty biographies, the subjects being all self-made

men. Gen. Andrew Jackson heading the catalogue, and George Stephenson concluding it. Numerous graphic wood engravings, all portraits, embellish the book. We commend it as a capital work to put into the hands of boys. Gerald Noel. rol., 12m.

By the author of “ Louis” School-days."

New York: D. Appleton 4 (b.

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the former work by this author, will hasten, we know, to pur chase “Gerald Noel." The Appletons have issued the volume in their usual neat style.