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 REVIEW

OF NEW BOOKS.

THE TRUEST THING YET SAID.- The Atlantic (N. J.) Journal says :- Peterson's Magazine for February is also received. This is the best two dollar Ladies' Magazine published, and has already a large circulation in our county. The fashionplates and patterns are equal to any magazine in the country, and the literary matter is superior to any other. No lady who has been in the receipt of it for one year is willing to give it up, and for that reason Peterson keeps all his old subscribers and is constantly adding to the list. For terms, etc., see Prospectus."

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in " The Mohicans," or Scott's narrative of the attack on the castle in Ivanhoe." The pictures of Western life and scenery are all life- like. The wind of the prairies blows freshly through the pages. The weakest part of the book is the conclusion, a result of that want of constructive power, to which we have alluded before . The volume is brought out in very handsome style. Price, $ 1.00 . T. B. Peterson & Brother are the Philadelphia agents. The Seven Sons of Mammon. By G. A. Sala. 1 vol., 8 vo. Boston: E. H. Burnham.- This is a reprint of a novel, which appeared in a London magazine. It is not only very ANSWER TO " A MOTHER."-Warm clothing, plain, whole- discursively written, but also very diffusively. Yet it is some food, and regular hours, are simple rules for bringing not without interest. Mr. Sala has something of the same up children; but beyond this cheerfulness is the best and skill in concealing his denouement, exhibited by Wilkie most efficient panacea. Parents overwhelmed with the Collins in "The Woman in White," and by Dickens in cares of the world throw gloom over their household, some- "Great Expectations." He has it, however- not to be mistimes weighing down the spirits, and sometimes alienating understood-in a very inferior degree. The most interestthe hearts, of their children. Strive to be the sunshine of ing character is Florence Armytage. Yet she is interesting your own home, and your children will love it better than only in the French sensation way : there is nothing good, any other place in the world. or loveable in her. Hugh Goldthorpe is the mystery of the book. In Ruthven Pendragon and the Hon. Letitia SalisON LISTENING TO EVIL REPORTS.- 1. To hear as little as bury, there is much strength, though both are drawn with possible to the prejudice of others. 2. To believe nothing a coarse hand. Magdalen Hill is a lay figure. Forgers and of the kind till I am absolutely forced to it. 3. Never to various other people complete the tableaux. From this, drink into the spirit of one who circulates an ill report. 4. the reader may see that the dish is highly spiced, but is Always to moderate, as far as I can, the unkindness which not one that people of refinement would care to partake of. is expressed toward others. 5. Always to believe that, if The book is in double column, and sells for fifty cents. the other side were heard, a very different account would Tom Tiddler's Ground. A Christmas and New Year's be given of the matter. Storyfor 1862. From " All the Year Round." 1 vol., 8vo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brother.-This is a series of GARIBALDI DRESSES FOR CHILDREN.-Among other of the stories, edited by Dickens, if not written by him, which promised improvements in our fashion department, the appeared in the last Christmas number of " All the Year reader will notice, in the present number, the beautiful Round." The best of the tales, we think, is that which decolored patterns for Garibaldi dresses for boy and girl.scribes a ride over our prairies in company with the Pony These dresses, just now, are very popular. They require Express. The other stories are not as good as those in the no description, for, with the aid of the engravings, any lady former publications of this character. Carleton, of New can cut out and make them up. York, has also printed an edition of the work. The price for either edition is twenty-five cents. TWO LITTLE MONKEYS.- This charming picture is as good, The Broken Engagement ; or, Speaking the Truth for in its way, as " Icicles," or " The Little Wood-Chopper." a Day. By Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth. 1 vol., 8 vo. Philada: T. B. Peterson & Brother.-A story of about a hundred pages, one of the latest and best of Mrs. Southworth's. Price twenty-five cents. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Pilgrims of Fashion. A Novel. By Kinaham CornJohn Brent. By Theodore Winthrop. 1 vol., 12 mo. wallis. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: Harper & Brothers.Boston: Ticknor & Fields.-The author of this novel was A story of incident rather than of character. It is handthe late Major Winthrop, who accompanied the Seventh somely printed. Regiment to Washington, and afterward fell in the fight at Big Bethel. He left behind him various unpublished tales and sketches, of which " Cecil Dreeme" and " John Brent" HORTICULTURAL. have been already printed. "Cecil Dreeme" we noticed FLOWER BEDS AND FLOWERING PLANTS.- Of these. the Rose several months ago. The present novel increases the sorrow, which "Cecil Dreeme" awakened, that Major Win- is first in order, most attractive in color, and generally the throp met so untimely a fate. He displayed so many favorite of the amateur. With the almost endless variety excellencies as an author that it is regretted he did not of new and old roses, there need be no difficulty to choose live to perfect himself, as a novelist, by study and practice. a few sorts. The Rose is divided into classes, such as Teas His English was pure, his style terse, and his descriptive from their peculiar odor ; the Bengals, also called China, and powers unusually good. He was deficient, however, in con- Daily or Monthly; the Bourbon, from the island of Bourbon, structive ability and dramatic power. As a thinker, also, whence they were originally introduced ; the Noisettes, from he was passing through a transition state. The fermenta- the name of the originator or introducer of this class : the tion of youthful fallacies was not quite over, so to speak ; Remontant, called erroneously Hybrid Perpetuals. Hybrid but the clearing process had begun ; and if Winthrop had China; Prairie, Provence, Gallica, Damask Moss, Perpe lived, he would have been a happier and wiser man. We tual Moss ; Miniature Roses ; Banksia ; Ayrshire, or Scotch make these remarks, so as not to mislead our readers into Perpetual, and several minor classes or sections. In these distinct classes there are grouped many varieties; the belief that we are praising indiscriminately, when we say that there is much in " John Brent" which is full of in one of them, over five hundred, said to be distinct. Each genius. Indeed, the novel, so far as our tastes are concerned, Rose fancier has his favorites, so that it is an invidious task is better than "Cecil Dreeme." The pursuit to Luggerneel for any one to dictate his own choice. The history, nature, Springs is as vivid a bit of descriptive painting as we can and cultivation of the Rose forms an ample subject on which recall almost anywhere. In reading it, one catches his to write a volume ; indeed, several volumes have been probreath, as when one peruses Cooper's account of the flight & duced, and there is still room for another and better one.