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 REVIEW OF NEW "APART."- Under this title we find the following poem going the round of the newspaper press anonymously. Who is its author? The homeless wind sweeps up the rack From the waste of turbid seaI shudder to think that dismal waste Lieth 'tween thee and meLieth 'tween thee and me, And the dun earth shrouds thy breast; But I knew the verdant grass and flowers Are tender of thy rest. Heavily down on the eerie wind Beats the frozen Winter rainIt throbs, in the deep, dark forest depths, Like a human heart in painLike a human heart in pain; As my own throbs on to-night, Thinking of thee in the cold and dark, And I in the warmth and light. Never a message cometh to meOh! how cruel it seems! Never a word from the lost, lost one, Not even in midnight dreamsNot even in midnight dreams! Oh! could it only be! Send me a token! waken a thrill Of the old time ecstasy! Vain it is! wild it is! I will be still! Dead feet never come back! Why should they haste to the world again, Out of the Heavenly track— Out of the Heavenly track? Ah! sinks my heart like a stoneThou art resting in Paradise, I am wandering alone!

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REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Aids to Faith. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: D. Appleton & Co.-A collection of essays in defence of Christianity, written by eminent divines of the English church. There is nothing sectional in the volume. The matter is weighty, but the style popular. Such a book was greatly needed, for the assaults of skepticism shift their character continually, and Butler's " Analogy," as well as Paley's " Evidences," though they refuted the infidels of the last century, did not entirely meet the objections ofdisbelievers in this. It has been the fashion, within the last generation, for second-rate men of science to affect incredulity as to revealed religion, on account of presumed inconsistencies between the Mosaic record of the Creation and what they fancied to be the teachings of geology. These pretenders, with their " little learning," which Pope pronounced so "dangerous a thing," are utterly demolished by more than one of the essays before us. No true believer, indeed, requires the aid of such arguments to strengthen his or her faith; but it is wise to have a book of this kind at hand in order to silence skeptics. A Book About Doctors. By J. Cordy Jeaffreson. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: Rudd & Carleton.-A pleasant, chatty book, full of anecdotes about doctors, principally English A HINT TO THE SOLDIERS.-The captain ofthe barge on an ones, from the time of William Bulleyn and Sir Thomas Browne down. Here you may learn how physicians forrower each gives starting, are as they just race, Oxford boat a little slice of lemon to hold in his mouth. He knows the merly went about on horseback with a foot-cloth, a serphilosophy: Anything in the mouth that promotes the flow vant-man following on foot; how, later, they wore huge of saliva, and keeps the throat moist, answers as well, or wigs and carried portentous canes, as we see them in better, than drink, which often, in quantities, weakens the Hogarth's pictures; how they administered roasted mice stomach. A physician, who understood these things, used, to cure nervous maladies ; and to what a large extent in his long drives, to take a clove in his mouth, instead of quackery, as it would be called now, was practised even drinking frequently, as his inclination would have led him by the most eminent members of the profession. The to do. The advantage of cloves is that they contain much volume is exceedingly entertaining as well as instructive. in little space, and do not lose their strength. For the Ballads of the War. By George Whitfield Hewes. 1 soldier they would be peculiarly useful, since they are vol., 12 mo. New York: Carleton, successor to Rudd & Cararomatic, stimulating, and astringent, which last quality { leton. This is a collection of poems, called forth, as the would tend to counteract that tendency to irritation of the title indicates, by the existing war. The most pretentious bowels, which is the bane of the soldier's life. Half a of the poems are, "The Ballad of Everard Gray," "The dozen a day are enough; one clove may remain in the Lady of the Lieutenant-Colonel," and " A Picture of War." mouth for hours. If we had room we should like to copy a few of the best verses ; but our limited space more crowded than SKELETONS OF LEAVES may be obtained by the following usual, this month. The volume isis even very beautifully printed. process : Macerate the leaves in water, until they are in a The Channings. By the author of " East Lynne," " The state of putrescence or complete decay. The pulpy part of the leaves being thus destroyed, pour some boiling water Earl's Heir," etc., etc. 1 vol., 8 ro. Philada: T. B. Peter over them, which will detach the soft parts from the fibres. son & Brothers.- Everybody is reading the novels of this If carefully done, the fibres will remain unbroken, how- new writer, ofwhose " Earl's Heirs" we spoke at length last ever delicate they may be. To insure success, it may be month. "The Channings" is not inferior to its predecessor. well to do only one leaf at a time. The skeletons being Many persons will like it even better. The publishers issue obtained, they should be dried by placing them in the sun it in a large, double column octavo of three hundred pages ; rather than at the fire, which would have the effect of price fifty cents in paper covers, or seventy-five cents bound in cloth. No novel of the month is half as interesting. It wrinkling them and putting them out of shape. ought to have a sale of tens of thousands. A Popular Treatise on Deafness ; Its Causes and PreA NEW VOLUME.-With the July number begins a new volume. For those persons who do not desire back num- vention. By Drs. Lighthill. Edited by E. Bemford Lightbers, it will be a good opportunity to subscribe. We are hill, M. D. With Illustrations. 1 vol., 12 mo. New York: still able, however, to furnish back numbers from January, Carleton, successor to Rudd & Carleton.-We are not comif desired, with the earlier chapters of " The Jacobite's petent to speak of this treatise from our own knowledge. Daughter," and " The Murrays of Murray House," complete. But we hear it described, by professional men who understand the subject, as an exceedingly valuable work, which THE PINCH OF SNUFF. - Wo have rarely published a more ought to be in the hands of every person threatened with deafness. graphic engraving than this.