writings of men like these, in the hope of finding some scrap or fragment which may convict them of inconsistency. Their present doctrine is avowedly one of conciliation and compromise, some portion of which is probably dictated not by their own best judgment, but by the magnitude of the present occasion and by the pressure of circumstances. The debt of gratitude that is due to them for their past services can be repaid only by having confidence in them now; and by trusting all to their management, we firmly believe that the country would best consult its own interests.

There are some pleasing indications, that the sober and reflecting portion of the people are inclined to take these matters wholly out of the hands of the professed politicians, who have so wretchedly mismanaged them in Congress and elsewhere, and to confide them to the only persons who can conduct them with discretion and fairness. The opinion in favor of a compromise seems to be daily gaining ground in all portions of the country. Many of the most distinguished men at the South, who had retired from public life, have published letters to signify their joyful assent to the propositions of Mr. Clay. And from New England a loud voice has gone forth in cordial approbation of the course of their great statesman. Men who never meddled with politics before, except to cast a vote on election day,-presidents of colleges, professors of theology, grave merchants, eminent lawyers, and the like,have signed a letter to declare their undiminished confidence in him, and to urge him to persevere. With such testimonials in his favor, he can well afford to endure for a time the reproaches of the intemperate and the factious.

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Letters of a Traveller, or Notes of Things seen in Europe and America. By William Cullen Bryant. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 12mo. pp. 442.

The Other Side, or Notes for the History of the War between Mexico and the United States, written in Mexico. Translated from the Spanish, and edited, with Notes, by Albert C. Ramsey. New York: John Wiley. 1850. 12mo. pp. 458.

Woman in America; her Work and her Reward. By Maria J. McIntosh. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1850. 12mo. pp. 155. Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise, or Sketches of Prominent Female Missionaries. By Daniel C. Eddy. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields. 1850. 12mo. pp. 359.

Outlines of the Prominent Circumstances attending the Hungarian Struggle for Freedom; together with Brief Biographical Sketches of the Leading Statesmen and Generals who took Part in it. By Johann Pragay. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 12mo. pp. 176.

Life of Jean Paul Frederic Richter, compiled from Various Sources; together with his Autobiography. Translated by Eliza Buckminster Lee. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1850. 12mo. pp. 200.

M. Tullii Ciceronis de Officiis, Libri Tres. With English Notes. By Thomas A. Thacher. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1850. 12mo. PP. 194.

The Acts of the Apostles; according to the Text of Augustus Hahn, with Notes and a Lexicon for the use of Schools, Colleges, and Theological Seminaries. By John J. Owen, D.D. New York: Leavitt & Co. 1850. 12mo. pp. 276.

Propositions concerning Protection and Free Trade. By Willard Phillips. Boston: Little & Brown. 1850. 12mo.

pp. 233. Elements of Intellectual Philosophy; designed for a Text Book and for Private Reading. By Hubbard Winslow, A. M. Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 1850. 12mo. pp. 414.

Mohammed, the Arabian Prophet. A Tragedy, in five Acts. By George H. Miles. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1850. 12mo. Pp. 166.

The War with Mexico Reviewed. By Abiel Abbot Livermore. Boston: Published by the American Peace Society. 1850. 12mo. pp. 298.

King Rene's Daughter; a Danish Lyrical Drama. By Henrik Hertz. Translated by Theodore Martin. Boston: Crosby & Nichols. 1850. 12mo. pp. 75.

Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations, with a Sketch of their Popular Poetry. By Talvj. With a Preface, by Edward Robinson, D. D., LL. D. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 12mo. pp. 406.

A History of Jesus. By W. H. Furness. Boston: Crosby & Nichols. 1850. 12mo. pp. 291.

A Treatise on Baths; including Cold, Sea, Warm, Hot, Vapor, Gas, and Mud Baths; also, on the Watery Regimen, Hydropathy, and Pulmonary Inhalations; with a Description of Bathing in Ancient and Modern Times. By John Bell, M. D. Philadelphia: Barrington & Haswell. 1850. 12mo. pp. 658.

The Unity of the Human Races proved to be the Doctrine of Scripture, Reason, and Science; with a Review of the Present Position and Theory of Professor Agassiz. By the Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 12mo. pp. 406.

The Elements of Astronomy, or the World as it is and as it appears. By the Author of "Theory of Teaching." Boston: Crocker & Brewster. 1850. 12mo. pp. 376.

The Gospel its own Advocate. By George Griffin, LL. D. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1850. 12mo. pp. 352.

El Dorado, or Adventures in the Path of Empire: Comprising a Voyage to California, via Panama, Life in San Francisco, &c. By Bayard Taylor. With Illustrations. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 2 vols. 12mo.

Redwood: A Tale. By the Author of "Hope Leslie," &c. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 12mo. pp. 457.

The Prometheus of Eschylus, with Notes, for the Use of Colleges in the United States. By Theodore D. Woolsey. Boston and Cambridge: James Monroe & Co. 1850. 12mo. pp. 108.

The Angel World, and Other Poems. By Philip James Bailey. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Co. 1850. 12mo, pp. 114.

The Poems of Alfred B. Street. New York: Clark & Austin. 1850. 12mo. pp. 319.

Frontenac, or the Atotarha of the Iroquois. A Metrical Romance. By Alfred B. Street. New York: Baker & Scribner. 1849. 12mo. PP. 324.

The Optimist. By Henry T. Tuckerman. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 12mo. pp. 273.

The Jamaica Movement for Promoting the Enforcement of the Slave Trade Treaties, and the Suppression of the Slave Trade, with Statements of Facts, Convention, and Laws. Prepared at the Request of the Kingston Committee. London: Charles Gilpin. 1850. 8vo. PP.

630.

History of the Polk Administration. By Lucien B. Chase. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 8vo. pp. 512.

A Modern History, from the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon. By John Lord, A. M. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co. 1850. 8vo. pp. 544.

The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, including a Variety of Pieces Now First Collected. By James Prior. In four volumes. Vols. III. & IV. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850. 12mo.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Edward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes by the Rev. H. H. Milman. Ă

New Edition, to which is added a Complete Index. In six volumes. Vol. II.-V. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1850. 12mo. pp. 593.

A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America, as they appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux Varieties of its Population. By Daniel Drake, M. D. Cincinnati: Winthrop B. Smith & Co. 1950. 8vo. pp. 878.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, published quarterly. Boston: Samuel G. Drake. 1850. 8vo.

pp. 94. Tea and the Tea Trade, with a Postscript. By Gideon Nye, Jr., of Canton. New York: George W. Wood. 1850. 8vo. pp. 56.

An Appeal from the Absurdities and Contradictions which Pervade and Deform the Old Theory of English Grammar. By James Brown. Philadelphia: John T. Lange. 1850. 8vo. pp. 18.

A Response to a Professor, and a Speculation on the Sensorium. By Bennet Dowler, M. D. New Orleans: Weld & Co. 1850. 8vo. pp.

16.

An Oration delivered at Malden, on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the Town, May 23, 1849. By James D. Green. Boston: George C. Rand & Co. 1850. 8vo. pp. 53.

The Church and the World; a Lecture delivered at the Chinese Museum, Philadelphia, on Thursday evening, January 31, 1850. By the Rt. Rev. John Hughes, D. D., Bishop of New York. New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother. 1850. 8vo. pp. 31.

An Essay on the Opium Trade, as carried on in India and China. By Nathan Allen, M. D. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1850. 8vo. pp. 68.

Review of Webster's Speech on Slavery. By Wendell Phillips. Boston: American A. S. Society. 1850. 8vo.

PP. 44. Remarks upon the Establishment of an American Prime Meridian. By Lieut. Charles H. Davis, U. S. N. Cambridge: Metcalf & Co. 1850. 8vo. pp. 40.

Parallels between the Constitutions and Constitutional History of England and Hungary. By J. Toulmin Smith, Esq. Boston: Ticknor, Reed, & Fields. 1850. 8vo. pp. 64.

Researches on the Natural History of Death. By Bennet Dowler, M. D. New Orleans: 1850. 8vo. pp. 22.

The Joys of Toil; a Poem, delivered before the Mechanic Apprentices's Library Association, February 22, 1850. By George Coolidge. Boston Ticknor, Reed, & Fields. 1850. 8vo. pp. 16.

Transactions of the Agricultural Societies in the State of Massachusetts, for the year 1849. Collected by W. B. Calhoun, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Boston: Dutton & Wentworth. 1850. 8vo. pp.

421.

Household Words. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. London: Nos. I.-VII. 1850. 8vo. pp. 168.

Latter Day Pamphlets. Edited by Thomas Carlyle. Nos. I. VII. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co. 1850. 12mo. pp. 60.

The Sixteenth Annual Report of the Executive Committee of the Benevolent Fraternity of Churches. Boston: John Wilson. 1850. 8vo. pp. 33.

Report to the Smithsonian Institution on the History of the Discov

ery of Neptune. By Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Jr. Washington. 1850. 8vo. pp. 56.

Remarks on the Comparative Value of the Different Anæsthetic Agents. By George Hayward, M. D. Boston: David Clapp. 1850. 8vo. pp. 11.

Report to the Corporation of Brown University, on Changes in the System of Collegiate Education, read March 28, 1850. Providence: George H. Whitney. 1850. 8vo. pp. 76.

Dr. S. G. Howe's Report on Training and Teaching Idiots. 1850. 8vo. pp. 72.

Nature, Progress, Ideas; a Discourse on Naturalism, as opposed to the True Scriptural Doctrine, delivered at Union College, Schenectady, July 24th, 1849. By Tayler Lewis, LL. D. Schenectady: G. Y. Van Debogert. 1850. 8vo. pp. 56.

The Burden of the Bell, and Other Lyrics. By T. Westwood, Author of "Beads from a Rosary," &c. London: Edward Lumley. 1850. 8vo. pp. 217.