Editors' Cable. A NEW YEAR AND NEW HOPES. THE Present is only known to us by the Past. We must look the OLD YEAR in the face as he is dying before we can comprehend the great task imposed on the New Year in the burden he has to take up. Turn to the FRONTISPIECE, where, in an allegorical illustration, you will read these lessons. At the top of the picture the palms of peace are rocking the Infant Year; there, too, is the emblem of promise, nursed by winged hopes and pious wishes. On the right side is the decrepit Old Year, as a man on crutches, turning to gaze on his infant successor. Ah! the old year departs burdened with the sorrows of millions, and scoffed at by a thankless world. But let us remember that his path was beset with difficulties. The New Year! Is there not a glorious opportunity before the New Year? "What will he do with it ?” Look on the left side of the picture; see the little group of happy helpers, symbolizing the hopes and prayers of those who love peace; see them carrying away the weapons of warfare and ensigns of military strife, so that the influences of love and good-will may have room to work; and glance at the bottom of the plate; there are the emblems of happy meetings, of concord, prosperity, and joy. But the centre PORTRAIT is the magnet that will draw all true American hearts to feel that Union must be peace. Who can look on that august face, where passion is subjected to duty, and every line and expression show the patriot who loved his whole country, and not feel that "Peace greatness best becomes." Heaven grant our New Year's dream may soon be realized! Then how dearly we shall enjoy the blessings of peace, with its bright anticipations, its leisure for mental improvement, and its wide range of benevolent interest that finds its best pleasures in the general happiness of society! Dr. Franklin's old motto-"Take care of the minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves”—may be applied to a wider range of thought. Let every citizen take care of his or her own conscience, character, soul; keep these pure, right, and just, and the Commonwealth will take care of itself. We always approach our readers on these anniversaries with feelings akin to warm personal friendship and confidence. So many years have been given, or at least a large part of our time and thoughts, to the questionsWhat good can we do, what advantages offer to our subscribers?—that the idea of contributing to their happiness has become a necessary part, as it were, of our life. We trust this feeling is reciprocated. We believe our readers will welcome this first number of our new volume with kindly desires for the happiness of the Editors, and accept with pleasure our sincere greetings and good wishes for the NEW YEAR, 1963. A NEW YEAR'S GIFT. SEE PLATE. "What though my heart be crowded close with objects dear nor few, Creep in, my little smiling babe; there's still a niche for you." Ax, yes; there is always room in the loving heart of womankind for the new baby! It is this instinct of the sex which these three dear little girls are obeying, as each lets fall her choice holiday presents to gaze with yearning tenderness on the sweetest gift of the New Year, their own baby brother. "Isn't he a darling?" they all exclaim. When our first mother went out, weeping sorrowfully, from her Paradise Garden, she carried in her heart, like a holy gift of perpetual youth and hope to humanity, the blessed promise that her "seed" should restore the lost glories of Eden. But Eve did not find her first-born what she anticipated. Why was this cross of her hopes? Might it not have been caused by her over indulgence of Cain's appetites and passions? Her unwise tenderness thus fostered his egotism and selfishness, till, when his brother Abel came and claimed a share in the mother's love, the jealousy and hatred of the elder born was aroused, and never afterwards slumbered. Here is a subject demanding the inquiry of the educator. We do not recollect that any writer has analyzed the effect which might be wrought on the sensitive nature of a young child, two or three years of age, who has been the worshipped of the nursery, when a new baby comes to displace the first idol. It is a terrible trial to an affectionate and indulged little child. Every young mother should watch carefully when her first-born is put away from her immediate tendence by the presence of a new claimant on her affections; she must see that the elder one is not made to feel forsaken, as the thoughtless words of servants, or visitors, even, would imply. She should never permit expressions of preference for the baby to be made in the hearing of the other, and all the changes which must be felt by the first autocrat of the nursery should be made up to him by new enjoyments and resources for self-amusement. More than this, great pains must be taken to cultivate the tender feelings of love and care for his little brother or sister. Very much of the real happiness of children depends on giving them something to do for themselves or for each other in promoting the means of amusement and happiness. Encourage them to do this, and praise and caress them when they show a spirit of generosity and self-sacrifice towards each other. It is an unspeakable blessing to a family if the mother has rightly trained her first-born; the child, son or daughter, is the index of the mother's character in the household, and also of her capacity to mould the minds of her children. The example of this elder one, if right, leads all the others rightly, almost without the need of authority from the parents. Look at the trio of sisters in the plate, as they bend over their little baby brother! Will they not be almost like guardian angels to his opening life?-tending his steps, watching his wishes, keeping him from harm, and helping him, so far as they can, to become what they will surely believe he may be if he tries—one of the best and noblest men in the land. HOUSEHOLD WORK. Women show their parts When they do make their ordered households know them. KNOWLES. THOSE who read our Table for December (we hope all our friends have that number) will recollect the "Letter from a Lady of Pennsylvania," concerning the changes which, coming over our country, must affect the condition and character of American women. We now give the thoughts and suggestions of another dear friend, whose excellent ideas on "household work” will, we hope, make a deep impression on the hearts and minds of our readers. LETTER FROM A LADY OF NEW ENGLAND. MY DEAR MRS. HALE: The Lady's Book, which has always been foremost in every good word and work relating to women, seems to me a proper channel through which to express some of the sentiments, the exhortations, the hopes, and the fears called out by this unhappy war, so far as women alone are concerned. The good which has been elicited out of evil, certainly among New England women (with whom mostly I have been conversant) is one of those mysterious Providences which make us feel that we know nothing about the management of the world or of human beings. When I have seen young creatures whose fingers have been too dainty all their lives long to do a useful thing; who not only did not know how to do a useful thing, but really piqued themselves on this delightful ignorance; when I see such girls, heartily entering into the making of coarse shirts and drawers, and knitting coarse yarn for stockings: when I see them do this, not once, but all the spare hours, formerly given to idleness or to delicate fancy-work; when I see these girls, whose only delight seemed to be a ball or a concert, to dress and be admired, patiently and industriously working away, week after week, at common clothes and the making of comfortable garments for the sick and wounded; when I hear the talk of these girls, deeply interested in something apart from themselves, above themselves, relating to something altogether aside and above the petty interests of daily life, and involving the highest contemplations of the human mind; when I look at this and at these, I feel that there is good in all evil, and that the regeneration of so many young hearts almost pays the price of blood and suffering. This war is to make widows and orphans, sisters with no brothers to care for them, mothers with no sons to uphold their age and comfort their infirmity. The whole face of society will be changed. How, then, shall women prepare for such a change, for such a new order of things? From being cherished they must uphold themselves; the wind that formerly must not blow rudely on their tender cheeks, will strike blastingly, with the tempestuous force of poverty and desertion. Whatever the political result may be of this war, the social and domestic results are inevitable. It is of no use to thrust them aside; better look them squarely in the face. It seems to me there will gradually and imperceptibly open a way for these mothers, daughters, and sisters to maintain themselves, merely from the circumstance of their sex being in excess of the other, for a long future. Many of the occupations which have heretofore been monopolized by men, but which are suited much better to the strength and ability of women, will be open to women. Work of all sorts will be necessary and fashionable. If it is fashionable now to strew the drawingrooms with blue shirts and brown stocking yarn; if the belle comes to receive her morning calls with her knitting in her hand, much more will it be fashionable to continue to labor when that labor shall be sanctified with deeper than patriotic motives, with higher and closer impulses than a country's love. It is well for our young girls to look forward to this state of things. Not despondently, not fearfully, but hopefully, fearlessly, cheerfully. Better a thousand times that you wear out" in the quiek attrition of active exer tion than to “rust out” in the inane idleness of a useless existence. If to be a cherished and petted wife be denied you, you can still be a helpful sister, a devoted daughter, or a cheerful, patient, and soothing companion to a wounded or helpless husband. We know-for even in the middle of the blind rush there was virtue enough in the country to say and feel it we know that we have drifted, as a people, far out of sight of the principles of our fathers, on which the country was settled and this republic founded. We have been warned, over and over, that we were going down to ruin, through the corruptions of prosperity, as fast as we could possibly go. We heard the voice of prophecy and of denunciation; the "Wo upon this goodly land!" We heard, but we folded our hands, and said: "Apres nous le deluge." But the deluge has come upon us, the guilty ones, and not on our innocent children; for them opens a brighter path through suffering. No more luxury or pampering, no more laziness and dissatisfaction; but, instead, cheerful labor, fortitude, and Christian dignity. For one, I rejoice in the prospect of new virtue in the body politic, beginning, as it must and ought, with women. If they must give up, during their whole lives, the pleasing task of decorating their persons, and even in some measure of adorning their minds, still they will have gained immeasurably in mental elevation, and their whole plane of action and thought be far higher. There is a large class of single women who will be thrown out of employment by this war. There will be more teachers than schools; more instructors of music than pupils or pianos; more ready to give drawing lessons than children to avail themselves of such blessings. This state of things will necessitate a broader and different field of action for these women. In the increased and factitious refinement of manners and employment in the country, all the pleasantest part of domestic life has long been sacrificed, and an imitation of European style substituted. In the sparse condition of our native population, it has been necessary to employ emigrant labor for all domestic purposes. This has had a bad effect on both employer and employed. I could dwell on this at great length, and yet it cannot be necessary. You hear constantly pathetie lamentations over the "old nurses, "old nurses," the "old help" (when servants were not) that were so faithful, so friendly, so to be relied on at all times; and mournful chats over the faithless cook who left you that morning without warning, or the ungrateful waitress, who "won't stay under two dollars and a half." There will be a better opening for labor for the large class of efficient and active young women in domestic service. Hitherto, they have declined to enter into competition with emigrants, and have chosen-partly with a laudable, and partly with a foolish pride-rather to confine themselves to needle work and teaching, than to enter the lists of active household labor with foreigners. Everybody who is at all conversant with the real state of the country (I mean as distinct from the city) knows that there is always a glad opening and liberal remuneration for domestic service. For Americans, much more. There is friendly interest and attachment. I should be very glad, for one, to see the days of almost feudal distinction, which have obtained during the last thirty years among us, abolished; and the old times returned where to aid and serve in the family, was associated with no degradation, but, on the contrary, with pleasure on both sides. Theu there will not be so much starving in city attics, because women prefer to make shirts for fourpence a piece to washing dishes and cooking dinners for two dollars a week. They will feel a proper self-respect and selfappreciation which will not be lowered by sweeping the house, or speaking properly to their employers. A new state of feeling and interest will spring up among all. We shall all be grateful for aid, and glad in our turn to aid others. Heretofore we have been hard. There has been no possible room for kindly feeling or interest beyond the day, for domestic service, which was liable to cease at any hour, when increased wages called, and where interest was the sole propelling motive. We acknowledged that it could not be helped; that it could not be expected; that it should be otherwise. Still, we mourned over the good old days when everything was so different! I apprehend that in the immediate future of our country, there will be a closer in weaving of all classes, through the intense and common interest in the general good. There will be more upholding and assisting of those who need it. A development of character from within is better than any amount of encouragement from without; and persons who cannot be or would not be benefited by public aid, are inexpressibly consoled and fortified by private sympathy and encouragement. They begin to feel themselves strong and able to cope with life; nay, more, to feel that labor is itself a dignity and a blessing; and that to adapt themselves to the kind of labor most healthful for them, is the truest dignity as well as common sense. MEMORIAL To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled: WHEREAS, there are now more than two millions of children in our country destitute of the opportunity of education, demanding sixty thousand teachers to supply them at the same ratio as is common in our best educated sections, your memorialists beg to call your attention to these considerations: 1. That while the Great West, California, and the wide Ocean, invite young men to wealth and adventure, and while the labors of the school-room offer so little recompense or honor, the sixty thousand teachers needed cannot be obtained from their ranks, and therefore the young women of our country must become teachers of the common schools, or these must be given up. 2. That the reports of common school education show that women are the best teachers, and that in those States where education is most prosperous, the average of female teachers to that of the other sex is as five to one. 3. That while, as a general rule, women are not expected to support families, nor to pay from their earnings to support the State, they can afford to teach for a smaller compensation than men, and therefore funds bestowed to educate female teachers gratuitously will, in the end, prove a measure of economy, and at the same time will tend to render education more universal and more elevated by securing the best class of teachers at a moderate expense. 4. That those most willing to teach are chiefly found in the industrial class, which, as yet, has received few favors from National or State Legislatures. 5. That providing such gratuitous advantages for women to act as educators, will secure a vast number of well educated teachers, not by instituting a class of celibates, but by employing the unoccupied energies of thousands of young women from their school-days to the period of marriage; while, at the same time, they will thus be qualifying themselves for the most arduous duties of their future domestic relations. In view of these considerations, your memorialists petition that THREE OR FOUR MILLIONS OF ACRES OF THE PUBLIC NATIONAL DOMAINS be set apart to endow at least one Normal School in every State, for the gratuitous education of Female Teachers. These institutions could be modelled and managed in each State to suit the wishes of its inhabitants, and young ladies of every section would be trained as instructors for children in their own vicinity. This would be found of immense advantage in the States where schools have hitherto been neglected. While such vast portions of the national domains are devoted to national aggrandizements, or physical advantages, we humbly petition that a moderate share may be conferred to benefit the Daughters of our Republic, and thus at the same time to provide Educators for two millions of its most neglected children. BOOKS FOR BIRTHDAYS, HOLIDAYS, AND HOME READING.-The list of expensive books, prepared expressly for the holiday season, has greatly diminished, much to the advantage of better literature, and also as preventing useless expense. This year new books of all descriptions are few, compared with our "halcyon days of peace." Still, there must be gifts for Christmas and New Year, and those who wish to find a worthy literary souvenir for a Christian lady (old or young), which shall have an impressive interest for the present and be a rich addition to the family library, let them select the five volumes of Dr. Cummings' works, lately republished in New York.* THE GREAT TRIBULATION: or, Things Coming on the Earth. 2 Vols. THE GREAT PREPARATION: or, Redemption Draweth Nigh. In 2 Vols. TEACH US TO PRAY. 1 Vol. These books are wonderful productions, and breathe the true spirit of Faith, Hope, and Charity. The style is perfect of its kind, clear, cogent, impressive, and yet simple and tenderly careful of offences. The subjects discussed are the highest, noblest, and of most awful import to the whole human race. Upward flights which the greatest poet would not dare attempt are here opened to our view; grand and awful scenes that no human genius could conceive or delineate are here shown, through the veil of prophesy, to be surely approaching. Every true Christian, who believes what the Great Redeemer (They shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.-MATT. XXIV. 30.) declared to his followers should happen ought to read these books. MY SHIP. In the purple flush of the twilight dim, Pray tell me, good friends, have you seen my ship, I say sometimes with a quivering lip. "What's the captain's name?" they ask, with a smile, So o'er that dark ocean I still keep my eye, ESTELLE. WOMAN'S UNION MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, FOR FOREIGN LANDS.-We have had encouraging Reports from Mrs. Mason since her return to her School for Karen girls. All her labors in regard to the Karens are prospering. Our missionary, Miss Sarah A. Marston, who went out, October, 1861, to found a School for Burman girls at Tounghoo, has been successful: her school is established: also five native women are also employed as teachers of children at different mission stations in the East. These teachers, except Mrs. Mason, are paid by * Mr. Carleton, Publisher, 413 Broadway. The volumes are bound in handsome style, the paper good, and type fair, making a valuable gift for a lady's library. our Woman's Union," etc. It is encouraging to record that the collections have been successful. The ladies of New York and Boston are ready with their funds; those of Philadelphia will not be found wanting. But the hopes we cherished of assistance from ladies in the Western States have not yet been fulfilled. We still hope that contributions of "Fancy articles and of Children's clothing," which can be sold by ladies at our missionary stations to much advantage, will be forwarded. Boxes or packages may be sent to the Editress of the Lady's Book. MISS S. J. HALE'S BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL FOR YOUNG LADIES, 1826 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Penna. This school has now entered on its seventh year; its success and present prosperity are very satisfactory to its friends. The design of the Principal is to give a thorough and liberal English education, to furnish the best facilities for acquiring the French language, and the best instruction in music and the other accomplishments. The Assistants employed are of the best class and highest merit. French is taught by an experienced instructress, a lady lately from France who resides in the family; and thus the pupils have ample opportunities of acquiring the accomplishment of speaking the language. Particular and continued attention is paid to the moral training, and also to the health and physical development of the young ladies. References: Mrs. Emma Willard, Troy, N. Y.; Henry Vethake, LL.D., Wm. B. Stevens, D. D., Wm. H. Ashhurst, Esq., Louis A. Godey, Esq., Philadelphia; Charles Hodge, D. D., Princeton, N. J.; and others. Circulars will be sent wherever required. TO OUR CORRESPONDENTS.-We have accepted these articles: "Both Sides"-"Faithful to the end"-" Disenchanted"—"John Broad"-" At Sea at Night"-"Is Genius desirable ?"-" Homes and Husbands"-"Peace, be Still"-" Aunt Rachel" and "Reminiscences." These articles are declined: "Unreal"-"A Wish""My School" (a stamp must be sent when an answer is requested)-"Music of the Heart"-"Jane Archer""The Golden Gate"-" Agnes Day" (worth publishing, but we have no room)-"The Zephyr"—"Sunrise”—"My Wife" (has some beautiful imagery and the sentiment is tender and holy, but the rhythm is defective)"Fortunetellers and their Victims"-" The Way of Life” -"Edgetools"-"My Playmates" "Energy is the great lever of success"-"Stories"-"Beggars in the Street" and "Come to me" and the other poem. We hoped to have reported on all the MSS. in our hands; but are compelled for want of time to postpone a number till next month. And now we take pleasure in expressing our thanks to the many warm friends who have contributed to our pages during the past year. The letters which pour in their tributes of encouragement are most welcome now, when many circumstances are adverse to literary suc cess. We are glad to find that our magazine does not lose its interest, even when it is old, as our friends often assure us that the Lady's Book, in bound volumes, is treasured in their family libraries. A charming letter from Mrs. T. K. says: "Often when unfurnished with books to my taste I turn to your magazines, published years ago, and always find some new beauties." The lady goes on to thank us for herself and also in the name of the ladies of her own State, "for the instruction and entertainment afforded them by the Lady's Book:" wishing us "all prosperity and happiness in the future." Such friends, we feel sure, are with us to-day; we wish them all a Happy New Year. We don't return poetry even if stamps are sent; can't afford the time. Those who send poetry must keep a copy. Consult this department and you will see whether it is accepted or rejected. "Mary Mayfield." A letter sent to your address, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Health Department. BY JNO. STAINBACK WILSON, M. D. BEDS, COVERING, ETC. OF INFANTS.-Children, if allowed to sleep alone, should have bedding sufficiently soft to prevent injurious and disagreeable pressure, and the covering should be sufficient to protect from cold. But at the same time, excessive covering and over-heating should be carefully guarded against. Indeed, as things are generally managed, there is much more danger of over-heating than of cold. "It is too much the custom," as Dr. Condie truly remarks, "to lay an infant when asleep-with its body warmly clad-in a feather bed, and to cover it carefully with a thick blanket or two. The consequence is, that in mild weather, or in a warm room, a copious perspiration is quickly produced, which, besides weakening the child, exposes it to catarrhal or even more dangerous affections, when, upon its awaking, it is exposed to the air of the room, or perchance to the draft from an open door or window." There can be no doubt that many of the colds, croups, and bowel affections of children are produced in the manner indicated by our writer. To avoid these evils, children should sleep on a good thick hair or cotton mattress, and the covering should be just heavy enough to prevent chilliness. Of the two extremes there is more danger from too much heat than from cold. Feather beds should be entirely and forever banished from the nursery. They retain too much heat; they interfere with the electric currents of the body; they are a reservoir of offensive and contagious matters; and they are well calculated to occasion deformity in young children by their softness and compressibility. Pillows of feathers are particularly objectionable. "Occasionally it happens, that when a young infant is placed in a soft feather bed with a thick soft pillow, its own weight causes it to slip, so that its head is brought entirely beneath the external coverings, and, in common with its body, becomes so completely buried in the feathers as to endanger suffocation." Another great objection to soft feather pillows is that they keep the head excessively warm, thus exposing the child to colds, eruptions on the scalp and behind the ears, and even to inflammation of the brain, an affection to which young children are peculiarly prone. To guard against these serious dangers, pillows should be made, like the beds, of hair or cotton, and they should be flat, so as to raise the head but slightly above the level of the body, thus avoiding the difficulty of slipping down, and the deformity of round shoulders. The faces of children should never be covered when asleep or awake, and every impediment to the free circulation of air should be removed. INFANTS SHOULD SLEEP WITH MOTHER, ETC.-For the first month or two of their existence, infants should sleep with the mother. At this tender age they cannot generate sufficient heat of themselves without such a quantity of covering as to prove injurious by its weight. But after the first few months, the child should be placed in a cradle or cot by itself. The practice of leaving children to sleep with old and infirm persons is attended with the most serious difficulties. It is a well-established fact that old and diseased persons of feeble vital powers will abstract from the vitality of younger and more healthy persons when brought in contact with, or close proximity to them. This must certainly predispose strongly to disease; while children thus exposed are liable to contract actual disease from imbibing the foul secretions, and breathing the impure air arising from diseased persons. On the same principle, the kissing and fondling of children by diseased people, strangers, and servants should be avoided. Literary Notices. BOOKS BY MAIL.-Now that the postage on printed matter is so low, we offer our services to procure for our subscribers or others any of the books that we notice. Information touching books will be cheerfully given by inclosing a stamp to pay return postage. When ordering a book, please mention the name of the publisher. From PETERSON & BROTHERS, Philadelphia: ANDREE DE TAVERNEY; or, The Downfall of French Monarchy. In two volumes. Being the final conclusion of the "Countess of Charny," "The Memoirs of a Physician," "Queen's Necklace," and "Six Years Later." By Alexander Dumas, author of the "Iron Mask," etc. etc. Written in its author's best vein, this is undoubtedly the most exciting and absorbing novel of the series to which it belongs, and of which it is the conclusion. Price 50 cents per volume. From J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., Philadelphia: THE PHANTOM BOUQUET. A Popular Treatise on the Art of Skeletonizing Leaves and Seed-vessels, and Adapting them to Embellish the Home of Taste. By Edward Parrish, Member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, etc. etc. The author has kindly furnished to the lovers of artistic recreation this little volume, giving as complete information concerning the process of skeletonizing leaves and seed-vessels as can be conveyed by words. We have no doubt many of our young friends who would gladly devote a portion of their leisure time to an employment so pleasing, will avail themselves of this assistance in preparing and grouping the delicate, lace-like bouquets which are at once so beautiful and so easily obtained. Price 75 cents. THE BOOK OF DAYS. Nos. 7, 8, and 9. We have received the above numbers of this valuable work. We are certain that every one who could secure a single number of this work would subscribe for it at once. Price 15 cents per part. CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPÆDIA. Nos. 53 and 54, with engravings. This Encyclopædia, when finished, will be a most valuable library work. The minds of the most eminent men in Europe are engaged upon it, and it is in its detail very full and satisfactory. Each number is a study in itself; we would want no better work to employ our spare hours upon. The quantity of information to be derived from its perusal is incalculable. It is an invaluable work. Price 15 cents per part. From HARPER & BROTHERS, New York, through J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co., Philadelphia: ORLEY FARM: A Novel. By Anthony Trollope, author of "North America," "Framley Parsonage," "The Bertrams," etc. etc. Trollope has excelled himself in the present work. It is by far the best of his productions that we have yet read. It is especially a character novel, and each figure is boldly and strikingly personified. Some portions of the book, on this account, remind us of Dickens. Lady Mason, the heroine, is a woman that challenges admiration at the same time that she repulses. Sir Peregrine Orme is one of the noblest specimens of the English gentry. Mrs. Orme is so gentle, so forgiving, so truly womanly and Christian-like, and carries all these qualities to such a degree, that we cannot help wondering at the boldness of the author for flying in the face of generally received sentiment, in thus daring to describe her. We cannot think of undertaking a description of the plot, but we cordially commend the book to our readers. It is finely illustrated by J. E. Millais. Price $1 25. A MANUAL OF INFORMATION AND SUGGESTIONS FOR OBJECT LESSONS, in a Course of Elementary Instruction. Adapted to the Use of the School and Family Charts, and other aids in Teaching. By Marcius Willson, author of "Willson's Historical Series," "School and Family Readers," etc. etc. We have given this work a careful consideration, both as to the theory upon which it is based, and the matter it contains. Though it is daring enough to propose a thorough reform in our present system of education, we are yet sufficiently convinced of the necessity of such a reform, to be willing to sustain it in all it proposes. Its plan is to depend less on the use of the memory of the pupil alone, and to develop and strengthen his perceptive faculties. We believe this book will prove an invaluable aid to the teacher who comprehends its purpose, and is ready to adopt its suggestions; though no good teacher will rely upon it altogether, but will see the advantage of carrying out the principle to an unlimited extent, drawing upon his own resources, in every branch of science. Price $1 00. A SYSTEM OF LOGIC, Comprising a Discussion of the various Means of Acquiring and Retaining Knowledge, and Avoiding Error. By P. McGregor, A. M. The system of logic here presented is remarkable for clearness, precision, and compact fulness. We cannot call to mind any similar work so well calculated to meet the wants of students. Without any effort at simplicity of language or style, its author has succeeded in making his book one that can be understood by those who are expected to apply to it for assistance. As a general thing, our "systems of logic," hitherto, have not possessed this desideratum to a noticeable extent. Price $1 00. MEMOIRS OF THE REV. NICHOLAS MURRAY, D. D. (KIRWAN). By Samuel Irenæus Prime, author of "Travels in Europe and the East,' "'" Letters from Switzerland," etc. etc. The biography of a clergyman, who, at one time, enjoyed quite an extensive reputation in the religious world. It is written in a familiar and easy style, and the materials furnished its author have been sufficiently well arranged. The work has evidently been a labor of love, and the friendly spirit thus evoked |
