loyal States is represented in like manner by sermons from preachers of various religious denominations in various parts of the country. Two are from St. Louis; one from Washington; one from Baltimore; two from Philadelphia; one from Boston; one from Brookline, Mass.; and eight (including Rabbi Raphall's "Bible View of Slavery") from New York and Brooklyn. The Boston sermon is by Dr. Nehemiah Adams, and was delivered to his congregation on the day of the National Fast in September. It is well worth studying as a psychological curiosity. The "weeping prophet" of Essex street finds the source of all our woes in the uncharitable doctrine, so commonly accepted by the people of the free States, that the enslaving of two millions of human beings is a crime on the part of whoever may be responsible for the fact. He thinks that perhaps the States might even yet be reunited, and all our troubles pass away, if only the North could be brought to take unanimously a sufficiently "South-side view of slavery;" and he is quite sure that nothing else can save us.

HISTORICAL MAGAZINE, AND NOTES AND QUERIES.*-At the commencement of another volume of this valuable monthly publication we would bespeak for it once more the favor of all who are interested in the early history of our country. The work which it has already accomplished during the past five years, in bringing to light important documents and information respecting the antiquities of our country, and our colonial and Revolutionary history and biography, cannot be too highly estimated. The editor informs us that, in the forthcoming volume, he proposes "to give, in full, early tracts of an historical character which, like Lithobolia, have become so rare as to figure only in the libraries of the wealthiest book collectors. A volume of the Magazine will thus contain, at a trifling cost, what a hundred dollars would not give in any other shape."

NEW EDITIONS OF STANDARD WORKS.

IRVING'S WORKS.-The beautiful "national edition" of Washington Irving's works, which Mr. Geo. P. Putnam began to pub

* The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America. New York: C. B. Richardson. Monthly. $2 per annum. Postage 6 cents a year. Complete sets supplied.

lish in monthly volumes nearly two years ago, is completed; and we now have the writings of this most popular and genial of all our American writers in a form and style in every way worthy of his genius. (T. H. Pease, Agent in New Haven.)

LORD BACON'S WORKS.-Messrs. Brown & Taggard have not been deterred, by the convulsions attendant upon the rebellion, from going on with their princely edition of Lord Bacon's works. Since the appearance of our last number they have issued the second volume of the Philosophical Works. We hope that a liberal public will properly appreciate the enterprise which the publishers have manifested. (T. H. Pease, Agent in New Haven.)

DICKENS'S WORKS.-Mr. James G. Gregory, of New York, has added to the beautiful series of the works of Charles Dickens, which he is publishing, "The Old Curiosity Shop," in three volumes. There are now fifteen volumes of this edition ready for delivery. They are illustrated by steel engravings from drawings by F. O. C. Darley and John Gilbert. (T. H. Pease, Agent in New Haven.)

MISCELLANY.

THE REJECTED STONE.*-This book, with so quaint a title, written by a native Virginian, has as its theme, "Justice for the African Slave." Strange appeal to come from such a quarter! The writer uses language to which we have long been unused. All that deferential obsequiousness to the slave power which, for so many years, has been conventional, is thrown off. The book deals in the plainest truths about slavery, and about the rebellion; and utters them with a directness and fearlessness that is quite réfreshing. It reads as if it had been penned among the hills of the Potomac, within sight of the flashing of bayonets and within hearing of the crack of the rifle, and the booming of cannon.

The key-note of the book is struck in this paragraph, which we give entire :

"On either theory of the Constitution, that which binds it back forever to the shell, it is ready to cast, or that which empowers it to struggle up with the strug

* The Rejected Stone; or Insurrection vs. Resurrection in America. By a native of Virginia. Boston: Walker, Wise & Co. 1861. 12mo. pp. 132. Price, 50 cents.

gling world, conserving its principles of life in its principle of growth,—our nation's present emergency brings the whole country to the stone which the builders rejected, announcing the irreversible decree that either we must be wrecked upon that stone, or that it must be taken as the Head of the corner.

That stone is essentially, JUSTICE.

"The form in which it stands for us, is THE AFRICAN SLAVE."

We make room for a few additional quotations which serve to reveal something of the enthusiasm with which this straightforward Virginian pours out his intense convictions, and the keen and ready satire which he has at command and knows how

to use.

"Do our half million bayonets gleam to-day to defend and preserve the right, to nail up Northern freemen in tar-barrels, and roll them into the Mississippi River? Is it, in short, the Union as it was, that the people have with one voice declared must and shall be preserved ?

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"Unless the organic law is so amended as to nationalize the code of Slavery, to adopt and foster the institution, the South feels herself to be, and is, in the midst of advancing society, like the prisoner of the Inquisition amidst the ever-encroaching walls of his dungeon, who could compute the minute when they must crush him between them.

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The Devil's Year draws to a close; bring out the Ledgers! See, for every man bought and sold in the South, one was bought and sold in the North!

"But in the day when the Nation decided for the principle that Slavery had a right to be treated only as local property, and then with no more favor than other property, it touched the seat of life.

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"Slave property does not rest on the same basis with other property, and under the same treatment must inevitably pass away.

"It is not natural property, but the creature of enactment; consequently it cannot live on indifference. A mother cannot leave a child born without arms to make what way it can along with those who have two. Slavery has grown strong by being the darling of the Government; it can now live by nothing less.

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Would a General offer his army to recover a flock of sheep which had taken to their heels, affrighted by his advancing army? Would a Commander turn aside from an invasion to crush out with an iron-hand the army-worm, if it were devastating the wheat of a field by which he is passing?

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"Is not popular government involved? Assuredly; but Europe has decided already that popular government is not good; equally it has decided that cotton is good.

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"If the Union, with Slavery in it, is regained, all will know that it is but the lull of the volcano.

"The intrenchments about Washington may be very complete, but mark this: Washington is not safe until a black minister can be received there !"

THE DRIFT OF THE WAR.-This is an octavo pamphlet of twenty pages, in which is re-published a series of quite able papers on

subjects pertaining to the war, written by Edward Buck, Esq., for the Boston Transcript, in which journal they originally appeared. The views presented, of public affairs, are in the main sound; the reasoning is cogent and convincing, and the style is clear and forcible, with occasional touches of humor, which well set off the insane folly of the Southern rebels, and the too premature triumphing of our trans-Atlantic evil wishers. As a specimen of this last we make the following quotations:

"Are we going to Die?-A doctor of the Allison family, who has attended many sick nations, gives out, in the English newspapers, that we are going to die. He has assumed the office of International Coroner, and published a postmortem examination in advance: Departed this life, in 1861, without the hope of a glorious resurrection, the United States of America, in the eighty-fifth year of her age. The unhappy deceased, he adds, came to her end by Negro Slavery: a disease of which she might have been cured by taking, in season, his invaluable cordials. Then follows an undertaker's notice to surviving friends, implying a cheap funeral, without refreshments. In a short time, at this rate, we shall have the effects of the United States given over to John Bull, the only blood relation of the deceased.

"Not so fast, Doctor. Did not Mr. Bull go through his great reformation sickness in the sixteenth century safely? When it came to his Reform Bill sickness, in 1832, it was given out that he was going to die of it; yet he was never in better health.

"But, Doctor, be not unhappy; we shall not die, but live.' Has it come to this, that France, with the delirium tremens since 1800, is not dead yet; that Turkey, with polygamy and Mahommedanism since 1500, still lives; that Italy, deadly sick with popery and despotism, is getting better of her ailment; but the United States must needs die of that meanest of all diseases, negro slavery? The common death-bearers to nations have something to recommend them-some show of antiquity and splendor-some pretence of religion-something magnificent done in the past or promised in the future; but to die of African slavery in the nineteenth century, is the most contemptible of all exits for a nation; it is to have a more disgraceful ending than that Herod who was eaten up of worms while conceiving himself a god."

'Stephens's National Pile Driver.—After thirty years' toil, certain Southern statesmen have invented a machine for which they expect immortal fame. Stephens's National Pile Driver is intended to put Sambo and others effectually under the mud, in order that the splendid fabric of modern civilization' may rest securely upon their heads; and the people are expected to adopt this substitute for the worn-out Constitution of the United States.-29 De Bow, 151.

"In the history of despotisms there always comes this emergency for a pile driver; when all hands must lend their aid in raising the weight, steadying the machine, and keeping the victim in his place.

"The secession leaders see, with great sagacity, that the peaceful stages are all passed, and it is now or never time to exhibit the machine, work it, and fight

for it. They have gone through the preliminary stage, where, as a domestic institution, they modestly asked to retain their inherited form of labor till they could rid themselves of it. They have gone through the toil of carrying back the Southern mind to a condition of ignorance and prejudice not to be found thirty years ago; using, in this wretched toil, compromises as popes use decretals, when reformation is to be checked or despotism advanced. And now they are ready (cajolery, diplomacy, and compromise being all ended), to fight and die for the new machine."

THE REBELLION: ITS LATEnt Causes and TRUE SIGNIFICANCE. -We have referred, on several former occasions, to quite a number of the "War publications" of Mr. James G. Gregory of New York. A new publication of his is now before us, containing a series of letters, written by Mr. Henry T. Tuckerman, "to a friend abroad," which, we are sure, will serve a very excellent purpose at home. Nowhere is there to be found a truer or a more elevated patriotism than among a very large class of gentlemen throughout the North who have never been identified at all with party politics, and have been known only as devoted to literary or professional pursuits. It is cheering now to find such men everywhere, as the result of their independent investigation and reflection, uniting in the expression of substantially the same views with regard to the folly and wickedness of the Southern rebellion. Mr. Tuckerman is one of the class to which we refer. Some aspects of the condition of things at the South we have never seen so well described; and there is, throughout, a freshness of style and a vigor of thought which make his letters very readable, and well worthy of attentive consideration.

LLOYD'S MILITARY MAPS.-We take pleasure in calling attention again to the series of steel plate maps which Mr. J. T. Lloyd of New York is publishing. They are of the different Southern States to which the public attention is just now directed as the seats of war, and exactly meet the wants of those who are desirous of tracing the movements of the opposing armies. They have been prepared with great care and expense, are well engraved and cheap, and are printed in sheets which can be tacked up as wall maps. There are in the series a large colored map of all the Southern States, three feet by four, of which the price is 50 cts.; the official map of Virginia, two feet and a half by four, price $1.00; and the official map of Missouri, three feet square, price 25 cts., on the receipt of which Mr. Lloyd will send them by mail, post-paid, to any address. Postage stamps not received.