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 76 Ornamental Trees.—The taste for ornamental trees is increasing so rapidly in this country, that the following remarks from a contemporary, in reference to planting them, will be of service, “Our deciduous trees,” says the Home Journal, “do not bold their foliage half the year, and on this account, over- |mate, wo think, may be had on this side of thy Atlantic, where the prejudices of English partine-

= in England, by the political opinions of ka greens shonld enter largely into the = ship, at least, do not exist. Alison, it moet be at

erition, Tho “ Quarterly’ and Blackwood” are nerve weary of his praise; while with the “Edinburgh” aad “Weetminster* he is a standing jest <A fairer evti-

planting of grounds aronnd the dwelling; they { mitted, ia paine-taking and sincere, and though 3 should be planted densely on the sides toward the § high Tory, doea not intentionally misrepresent the prevailing cold winds, and placed toward the bound. § liberal side; but then, es with all men who feel w aries, in irregular and natoral belts and masses. } well sa thick, bis partialities frequently peavert bis The moat rapidty growing, and one of the most bean- | judgment unconsciously to himself. With thie kuse- tifal, is the Norway fir. The white pine, on fayor- {ledge of Hm, any refiecting reader may omeily tz able soila, will grow about as fast, Age the latter } where to believe Alison implicitly, and where to bald gtows to a large tree, it should be placed on the } his opinion suspended. Alison's style is often bom most diatant points, and allowed as much room ag $ baatio; but it is also fervid; and he certainly has the may be practicable, The hemlock, balaem, Gr, { feculty of awakening and mainteining the interes American arbor-vitew, white and black spruce, andj of bis reader. In an age Hke this, moreover, wha American pine, may be ittrodnoed and variously in- 3 thera ia ap much scarcely concealed skepticiem, it is termingled. Among the smaller evergreens, to be } s merit to be, like Alison, on the aide of Christianity. placed toward the inner side of tho plantings, sre % Such being the characteristics of thia writer, wa need the juzipor, the red cedar, the tree box, savin, £0.” 3 not say that we congider these two yolomes, on the — } Whole, a voluabie contribution to our historical liters- Progress or Ant. Gas Frxrrvaes.—In nothing | ture, The period is one of whieh leas is known ® is the progress of art, in the United States, mors per- } the rising generation than of any other period sines seplible than iz the improved etyler that are boing 3} the downfall of Constantinople; end this for the very introduced in gas-fixtures, First-rate pictures are} reason that it has been heretofore considered tao re- eostly affairs, and quite above ordinary purses. But} cent to engage the pan of the annalist. Jt will be sverybody, at least in sities and even villages, must § long alec bofore thers is a better history of the epech. have gas-fixtures. Those used to be whoily without $ To s repablican reader, the opinions of Alison on the elegance. But lately the most besutifal forms have } European revolutions will savor of m love of despo- been introduced for chandeliers, side-lights, and $ tiam; dat on the other hand they ere quita tos hibernl, other fixturea: and among the mannfaoturers, who 3 we have no question, for the Metternichs and King bare taken a lead ia thie reform, are Archer & War-$ Bombs, who have tyrannized, or still tyreeuisa, not of Philadelphia. These gentlemen are really $ abroad: so that even when one cannot join in the doing a vast deal for art, by making the most $ historian’s canolusiong, one is benofitted by the necw- artistic fixtures as cheap as the ugliest used to be, { sity that ariece of re-examining one's own opinions, and are thus familiarising the public with classic j and while rejecting what is erroneous, holding faut models, and so elevating tha popular taste. They 3 therenfter, all the more firmly, to what is tras. The print, we believe, & book of patterns, which they {two volames before ua hring the story down to the mail gratis when written for, 20 that persons, in any ¢ year 1832; but they are to be followed by othm, part of the United States, ean order from thia enter. ? which will condnot it to the coup @etat. Each rolume prising firm, Archer & Warner are at No.' 318 { contains searly five hundred octavo pages, printed Chesnut Stree Philadelphia. in double column, to match the preceding work by —_— the same author, “The History of Europe During Fare Pray.—Tho newspapers still continwe to} the French Revolution.” It would be an improve copy three stories from “Peterson” where they copy 3 ment, we think, if standard works, like this and Mot one story from any other Magazine, But, in some 3 ley’s “ Datoh Republic,” were substantially bound is easea, they forget to give ua credit, Fair play, gon-} half calf, inetead of in flimsy maaglin, which is & tlemen! As all our own atorien ars original, and ag } only for novels and other ephemeral books. you admit, by copying them, that they are betterthan; The Youth of the Old Dominion. By Samad those found elaewhere, it im but simple justice to ¢ Hopkins. iol. Boston: J. P. Jewett & Co.—This eredit them to “ Peterson.” in nots novel, nor even 8 history az history is gear
 * tally written; but a compound of both; for while the

} manner ie that of a fiction, the matter iz strictly es. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. The work is principally devoted to the extraordixary History of Exrope from the Fall of Napoleon in $ career of Capt. John Smith, the most eminent and 1815 to tha accesston of Zouts Napoleon in 1852, By § chivairie of the founders of Virginia, whove reecme Sir Archibaid Alison. Vols. and If, New York: § from death, by Pocahontas, iz one of the beat knawn Harpe & Brotherr, Philada: YT. B. Peterson— } and moat romantic eventa in history, The volume Alison’s merits a8 a historian are gonerally dater-} is handsomely printed.