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seen, successfully attacked any of its facts in historical statement, or its deductions in philosophy. We are of opinion that the popularity of the New American Cyclopædia will grow greater and greater as each new volume appears.

SUMMER PICTURES. From Copenhagen to Venice. By HENRY M. FIELD. New York: Sheldon & Company. 1859. [From James Woodhouse & Co., 139 Main Street.

Although the countries which lie between Denmark and the Adriatic have been described again and again from every point of view, and the author of this volume, who is a new Field to us, journeyed over an old field of travel, he has given us an entertaining account of what he saw, and the book has a freshness and a simplicity which win upon the reader who tires of the sensation tourists. For there are sensation tourists as well as sensation novelists, who cannot tell a plain story of their ramblings, but must go in search of startling adventures wherewith to enliven the dulness of their narrative. In the earlier chapters Mr. Field describes Dickens' readings and Spurgeon's preaching with a good deal of spirit. The concluding chapter on "Domestic Life in France," is so full of good sense, and of a sort of information rarely introduced in books of travel, that we have ventured to lay it before our readers in the foregoing pages of this number of the Messenger.

THE GREEK TESTAMENT: With a Critically Revised Text, &c., &c. For the use of Theological Students and Ministers. By HENRY ALFORD, B. D., &c., &c. In Four Volumes. Volume I. Containing the Four Gospels. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. 1859. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

The students of Theology in this country owe a great debt of gratitude to the Harpers for their enterprise in bringing out an American edition of this imposing work. As originally published in England, the volumes were so costly that only men of large means could afford to purchase them, and the clergy of the United States, as a class, are impecunious. They could, therefore, only read of Alford's Greek Testament as something far beyond their reach, until the Harpers determined to reprint it at a price which places it within the means of almost every minister of the gospel. The first volume of their edition, containing the Evangelists, is now before us, in large, clear Greek type, with all the notes and emendations which give to Alford's

Testament its recognized value as a textbook.

THE AVENGER. A Narrative; and Other Papers. By THOMAS DE QUINCEY. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1859. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

The leading paper which gives its name to this collection of fresh articles from the pen of the Opium Eater, is a singular story of revenge gratified in a series of murders in a small interior town of Germany. The tragedy is developed with all the power of De Quincey, who revels in the horrible, though there is, perhaps, less of lurid splendour thrown around the culminating guilt of the murderer than in other narratives of the kind which he has heretofore published. The residue of the book's contents is perfectly characteristic of the author. De Quincey can never be a very popular writer, but his speculations will always be read with delight by those who can sympathise with his peculiar and original modes of thought. "The Avenger" is published in uniform style, with the long list of his works, which Ticknor and Fields have been publishing for years past.

THE RECOLLECTIONS OF GEOFFRY HAMLIN. By HENRY KINGSLEY. Boston: Ticknor and Fields. 1859. [From A. Morris, 97 Main Street.

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Mr. Henry Kingsley is a brother of the Rev. Charles Kingsley, whom he somewhat resembles in his portraiture of strong male and female Christians, and in the prolixity of his narrative. In this latter regard, the brothers are antipodes of Charles Reade. The muscularity of their religion is as remarkable as the brawn and vigour which the author of Guy Livingstone infused into his hero-their curates soldiers of the church militant, with mighty wills and arms, who "go in" with a rush. "The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlin" is a record of the Australian experiences of three families, embracing the departure from England, life in the Bush, love at home and abroad, marriage towards the conclusion, and the final return to the old manor-house. There is wonderful energy throughout the volume, which could only have been written by one who thinks independently and feels strongly, and who has the gift of poetic expression. The style is disfigured by coarseness which is wholly gratuitous and unpardonable, but the tendency of the book is good, as the aim of the writer is high.

For SCROFULA, or KING'S EVIL,

Is a constitutional disease, a corruption of the blood, by which this fluid becomes vitiated, weak and poor. Being in the circulation, it pervades the whole body, and may burst out in disease on any part of it. No org in is free from its attacks, nor is there one which it may not destroy. The scrofulous taint is variously caused by mercurial disease, low living, disordered or unhealthy food, impure air. filth and filthy habits, the depressing vices, and above all, by the venereal infection.Whatever be its origin, it is hereditary in the constitution, descending "from parents to children unto the third and fourth generation;" indeed, it seems to be the rod of Him who says: "I will visit the iniquities of the fathers upon their children."

Its effects commence by deposition from the blood or corrupt or ulcerons matter, which, in the lungs, liver. and internal organs, is termed tubercles; in the glands, swellings; and on the surface, eruptions or sores. This foul corruption, which genders in the blood, depresses the energies of life, so that scrofulous constitutions not only suffer from scrofulous complaints, but they have far less power to withstand the attacks of other diseases; consequently, vast numbers perish by dis orders which, although not scrofulons in their nature, are still rendered fatal by this taint in the system. Most of the consumption which decimates the human family has its origin directly in this serofulons contamination; and many destructive diseases of the liver, kidneys, brain, and, indeed, of all the organs, arise from or are aggravated by the same cause.

One quarter of all our people are scrofulous; their persons are invaded by this lurking infection, and their health is undermined by it. To cleanse it from the system we must renovate the blood by an alterative medicine, and invigorate it by heal hy food and exercise. Such a medicine we supply in

Ayer's Compound Extract of Sarsaparilla,

The most effectual remedy which the medical skill of our times can devise for this everywhere prevailing and fatal malady. It is combined from the most active remedials that have been discovered for the expurgation of this foul disorder from the blood, and the rescue of the system from its destructive consequences. Hence it should be employed for the cure of not only scrofula, but also those other affections which arise from it, such as Eruptive and Skin Diseases, St. Anthony's Fire, Rose, or Erysipelas, Pimples. Pustules, Blotches, Blains and Boils. Tumors, Tetter and Salt Rheum, Scald Head, Ringworm, Rheumatism, Syphilitic and Mercurial Diseases, Dropsy, Dyspepsia, Debility, and, indeed, all Complaints arising from Vitiated or Impure Blood. The popular belief in "impurity of the blood" is founded in truth. for scrofula is a degeneration of the blood. The particular purpose and virtue of this Sarsaparilla is to purify and regenerate this vital fluid, without which sound health is impossible in contaminated constitutions. Prepared by DR. J. C. AYER, Practical and Analytical Chemist, Lowell, Mass. PURCELL, LADD & CO., Richmond; and by all Dealers everywhere. MARCH 1859.

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LIST OF CONTENTS.

1. ORATION, DELIVERED BEFORE THE STUDENTS OF WILLIAM AND MARY

COLLEGE, JULY 4, 1859. BY HUGH BLAIR GRIGSBY, Esq.

2. AN INVOCATION. BY ANNIE CHAMBERS KETCHUM,

3. SELECTIONS AND EXCERPTS FROM THE LEE PAPERS, 4. A TWILIGHT REVERIE,

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5. "WHAT WILL HE DO WITH IT?"

6. ASLEEP. BY AMIE,

7. GREENWAY COURT; OR, THE BLOODY GROUND,

8. POESY: AN ESSAY IN RHYME, Delivered before the LITERARY SocieTIES OF COLUMBIAN COLLEGE, D. C., AT THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION,

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ON THE EVENING OF THE 28TH OF JUNE, 1859. BY THE EDITOR.

9. SONG. BY ALALCOT, AN INDIAN POET,

10. SOMETHING ABOUT SLEEP. BY H. T. TUCKERMAN,

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11. EDITOR'S TABLE:

Excursion on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road-The King of Siam-
Error of the Types-A. J. Requier's Address,

12. NOTICES OF NEW WORKS:

The Idyls of the King-The Roman Question-Theodore Parker's Experience as a Minister,

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