No person is better qualified than Dr. Lieber for the work to which he was thus invited, and the monograph thus called out will be found to be an admirable resumé of what may be considered the law of war toward so-called guerrilla parties. It is well deserving of the wide circulation which it is to have, as it has very properly been ordered by the department of war, to be printed for distribution in the army.

MISCELLANY.

The recent

DR. HILL'S ADDRESS ON LIBERAL EDUCATION.* election of the author of this address to the presidency of Harvard University, and the publication of the discussions which took place in the Board of Overseers respecting the propriety of this election, have turned our attention a second time to the principles avowed by him in this brief discourse on Liberal Education. Indeed, the address has now all the interest of a new publication, by reason of the prominence in which its author stands before the public. The positions taken by Dr. Hill are not disguised. They are frankly and even boldly avowed. They are, briefly, that in consequence of the rapid advances that have been made in the last two centuries in the sciences of nature, greater attention ought to be given to them in a course of mental culture than is generally conceded by the judgment of the learned. While he allows just honor to all those branches of study usually regarded as of prime importance, viz, the study of language in a philological spirit, of mathematics, history, politics, and metaphysics, he contends that a much greater attention should be given than heretofore to physics and natural history.

Some alarm has been expressed lest the author of the sentiments, thus avowed and defended, should prove a bold and reckless innovator in the administration of the ancient and justly venerated university at Cambridge, so long and so honorably known for its attention to, and attainments in, classical learning. We think this alarm is needless, and that a considerate perusal of this address will tend to dissipate rather than increase it. It is true Mr. Hill does not adopt all the accustomed formulas of phraseology in respect to a college education, and that if judged by a few bold utterances he might be set down as a daring reformer; but on the

* Liberal Education. An Address delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College, July 22, 1858. By Rev. THOMAS HILL of Waltham. Cambridge: Published by John Bartlett. 1858. 8vo. pp. 34.

other hand, we find that his estimate of the time-honored studies is so generous and profound, and that it springs from no mean scholarship in them all, and is justified by the rational grounds which he knows so well how to appreciate. We cannot, therefore, bring ourselves to believe that a scholar so enlarged in his comprehension, so generous in his sympathies, so exact in his knowledge, and so enlightened in his appreciation of the true ends of all learning, will fail when he comes to apply his theories to the actual situation and real wants of the young men whom he will encounter in college. We assent to all that he says of the importance of a study of nature to the young student. We give our earnest adhesion to all that he can urge respecting the beneficial effects upon the intellect and upon the character which might be expected to result from an enthusiastic devotion to many branches of natural history at a very early period.

But the practical question still returns; can these studies, from their nature, be employed so largely as he fondly thinks, for the disciplinary uses of a college and even of a university education? We think not; and we argue from the known dispositions of young men and the peculiar process through which it seems inevitable that they should pass, that no very important changes can be effected in the relative proportion of such studies in the curriculum of the university. Nor do we expect that President Hill, with all his genius and power, will himself find that his experience of college life at Harvard will increase his desire to make them more prominent. We augur and wish for him all that success in his new position which his carnestness of purpose and his scholarly enthusiasm deserve to win.

REV. PROF. WILLIAM A. LARNED.-President Woolsey's Funeral Discourse, delivered in the Center Church, New Haven, February 6th, 1862, commemorative of REV. WILLIAM A. LARNED, Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature in Yale College, has been published. (8vo. pp. 32). A photographic portrait accompanies it, of unusual excellence, which will be in every way satisfactory to the numerous friends of the deceased.

LORD BACON'S WORKS.-Volume IV of the princely edition which Messrs. Brown & Taggard of Boston are publishing, has just been issued from the Riverside press. Nine volumes have now appeared; six more are yet to come. [T. H. Pease, agent in New Haven].

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