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26.-The Water-Cure in America. Two Hundred and Twenty Cases of Various Diseases Treated with Water, by Dor ors Wesselhoeft, Shew, Bedortha, Shiefedecker, Pierson, and others; with Cases of Domestic Practice, Notices of the Water-Cure Establishments, Descriptive Catalogue of Hydropathic Publications, etc. Designed for Popular as well as Professional Reading. Edited by a WATER PATIENT. 12mo. New York: Wiley & Putnam.

We have before expressed a favorable opinion of the water-cure, having some personal experience of the beneficial results of the system; which, we are gratified to know, is daily gaining converts from the most intelligent portions of society. The cases, if fairly stated -and, from our knowledge of several of the gentlemen engaged in the practice, we have little reason to doubt-are quite sufficient to impress every candid and fair-minded person with a reasonable confidence in the salutary effects of water, in its judicious application, as a curative agent for almost all the ills which flesh and blood is heir to. Indeed, in our opinion, a consistent believer in the system, with an ordinary constitution, may pass through a long life, without pain or sickness of any kind.

27.-Swan's Series of Readers. Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait & Co.

This series is composed of five books, embracing the "Primary School Reader," part first beginning with the alphabet, and easy lessons for beginners; parts second and third for those more advanced; and the Grammar School Reader, consisting of selections in prose and poetry, with exercises in articulation, designed to follow the Primary School Reader, part third; and finally we have the District School Reader, or exercises in reading and speaking, designed for the highest classes in public and private schools. This series of books appears to be admirably well adapted to every class of learners-from the lisping infant, almost, to the more advanced youth; and the selections have regard to good taste, and a sound morality. We rejoice, moreover, to find that Mr. Swan has rejected "those war and battle pieces of poetry, which have been so common in times past," as unsuited to the spirit and genius of the age.

28.-Orlandino; a Story of Self-Denial. By MARIA EDGEWORTH. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln.

This is the first of a series of small volumes entitled "Chambers' Library for Young People," which will consist principally of moral and religious tales, likely to influence the conduct and feelings of youth; and it affords us pleasure to state that Messrs. Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, of Boston, have made arrangements for a simultaneous publication of the series in America, and will issue future volumes promptly, and in equally elegant style with the Edinburgh edition. The present tale was written expressly for the series by Miss Edgeworth, whose success in this department of literature is sufficiently well known to secure for it a hearty welcome.

29. The Nineteenth Century. A Quarterly Miscellany. Vol. I., No. I.-January, 1848. Philadelphia: G. B. Zieber & Co.

If we are to take this first number as a specimen of what we are to expect in succeeding issues, we trust its editor will live to conduct, and its writers to contribute to its pages beyond even the precincts of the century it is designed to illustrate. It combines the solidity of the review, and the variety of the magazine. Its motto from Goethe, "Light! more light still," and its dedication to Douglass Jerrold, and the names of the contributors, indicate its aims and its objects, as clearly, perhaps, as we could describe them were we to make the attempt. It is fronted and embellished with a beautiful steel engraving of our worthy friend Horace Greeley, prepared expressly for the work.

30.-The Little Republic. Original Articles, by Various Hands. Edited by Mrs. T. P. SMITH, Woodville, Roxbury. New York: Wiley & Putnam.

The articles in this little volume, we are informed by the lady of Woodville Cottage, were contributed by the respective writers expressly for this purpose; and among them we notice the names of John Quincy Adams, Governor Briggs, of Massachusetts, Rev. Orville Dewey, and some others, scarcely less distinguished as writers or public men.

31.-Camp Life of a Volunteer. Philadelphia: Grigg, Elliott & Co.

This is a very clever account of a campaign in Mexico, furnishing a glimpse at life in camp, written amidst all its confusion and inconvenience, "with limited sources of information, and without any expectation of future publication;" a circumstance which, in our opinion, enhances its value. It is accompanied with a map of the battle of Buena Vista.

32.—A Universal History, in a Series of Letters: being a Complete and Impartial Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events of all Nations, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Forming a Complete History of the World. Vol. I., Ancient History. 8vo. New York: William H. Graham.

This work, we are informed, is to be published both at Leipsic and London, and brought out here in advance of the European editions, in accordance with an especial arrangement with the author, whose name will, therefore, be withheld until after the publication abroad shall have taken place, when it will appear. We shall speak of its character more fully as it advances. Four numbers will complete the present volume, which is devoted to ancient history.

33.-The Children at the Phalanstery: a Familiar Dialogue on Education. By F. CONTAGREI Translated by FRANCIS O. SHAW. New York: William H. Graham.

The friends of Association in the United States are deeply indebted to Mr. Shaw for his many correct and beautiful translations of French works bearing upon that subject; and for none more than the present publication, extracted from "Le Fouder Palais-Royal" of M. F. Contagrel, in which the author has stated, under the form of a dialogue, the most important points of the societary theory of Fourier.

34.-The Farmer and Mechanic; devoted to Agriculture, Mechanics, Manufactures, Science, and the Arts. W. H. STAR, Editor and Proprietor; J. M. STEARNS, Associate Editor. New York: 135 Nassau-street.

The plan of this periodical, as will be seen by the title, is very comprehensive. It is conducted with ability, and furnishes an amount of useful matter on all the subjects falling within its scope, which we should scarcely know where else to find in a single work. It is a work that we should suppose the intelligent farmer or mechanic could not well afford to dispense with. Each weekly number contains twelve large quarto pages, the whole forming an annual volume of more than six hundred. The price of the work is but two dollars per annum.

By S. M. SCHMUCKER, 12mo., pp. 480.

35.-The Errors of Modern Infidelity Illustrated and Refuted. A. M., Pastor of the First Lutheran Church, Germantown, Pa. The author of this treatise travels over all the ground of objections as they have been urged by the abettors of Modern Infidelity, of any grade or school, against the Bible, touching upon every point which has any very serious bearing on the truthfulness and the divinity of a religion which can so powerfully promote the welfare of mankind. There is an ingenious chapter, the first in the volume, which adopts the "infidel" objections against Christ, and goes on to prove, by way of illustration, that no such person as Shakspeare lived.

36.-Charcoal Sketches. Second Series. By the late JOSEPH NEAL, author of "In and About Town," "Peter Ploddy," etc. Illustrated by DARLEY: Carey & Hart.

This second series of Mr. Neal's agreeable sketches have been collected by Mrs. Neal, since the death of her husband. There is a fine vein of humor and good-natured sarcasm running through them; but "the profound philosophy and genuine philanthropy which these light and sparkling descriptions cover," will not perhaps be readily recognized, although read and admired by all.

We have received the February number of De Bow's Commercial Review of the South and West, which is well filled with commercial, agricultural, and literary matter. But we cannot exactly comprehend his fling at us for inserting a communication of Godek Gardwell, simply announcing his intention of publishing a work with the title of "Labor and other Capital: the Rights of each Secured, and the Wrongs of both Eradicated." As no doctrines are set forth or explained in that announcement, our worthy contemporary need entertain no fear that our sympathies may have induced us to publish or endorse the communication of our correspondent. Mr. De Bow, of course, has a right to doubt the fulfilment of Gardwell's promise, “although,” as he says, "endorsed (what?) by the editor of the Merchants' Magazine." The editor of the New Orleans Review ought to know before this that we do not necessarily endorse the statements in any communication that appears in our pages, especially when the author's name is annexed. We thank him, however, for his appreciation of our Magazine, and more especially for our character as "a most practical and useful man," although we cannot exactly comprehend what he means, when he says we "belong to the new sect of benevolents." After all, the highest compliment that has been paid us by our contemporary, is the establishment of a work on the "principle," as he announced, of "Hunt's Magazine," adopting part of our title"Commercial Review"—as his cognomen.

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