distinguished eminence. The work before us has been the means of encouraging the efforts of a promising young artist, Cheney, whose beautiful prints have ornamented its successive volumes, and who is now pursuing his studies abroad. Various other deserving artists have been incited to excel by the liberal compensation, which the publisher of works like these is able to offer. If no other benefit be derived from them, this, at least, may be justly mentioned to their praise.

The literary character of these annuals is very various, in other countries as well as here; and whoever is disposed to speak with harshness of our own in this respect, will do well to remember, that it is no extravagant compliment to say, that those of England are not at all before them. The object of publishers has too often been, to adorn their table of contents with distinguished names; when, in nine cases out of ten, the articles attached to them are poor enough. In works, consisting of so many articles by many different hands, there must of necessity be much diversity in point of merit; but so far as we have observed, the Token has had no undue proportion of bad ones, and a fair proportion of the good. As far as names of literary distinction go, it has probably been richer than any other in the country; or if the Atlantic Souvenir has formed an exception to the remark, it could probably claim no superiority.

It was, however, principally with a view to the ornamental part of the execution of these annuals, that we have been induced at this time to refer to them; and certainly in this respect they have been very creditable to the country, notwithstanding some great disadvantages under which the publishers have labored. Several of them have, in fact, been discontinued in consequence of these disadvantages; among others, the Talisman, which acquired much reputation in New York, the Western Souvenir, published a few years since in the city of Cincinnati, whose site was forty years ago a desert, and another, which was issued in the Territory of Michigan. The Atlantic Souvenir and Token are the only very prominent ones which yet survive, and they have been at length united. The extent of public patronage will not probably admit of so liberal expenditures in the preparation of these ornamental publications here, as in England: there is not the same privilege of selecting engravers, or the finest subjects for engraving, nor is there the same facility in executing the finest specimens of typography: but, with all these circumstances of dis

couragement, these works have been executed with uncommon skill and beauty. Those who praise the superiority of foreign ones to ours may recollect, that if they would encourage the latter as liberally as they do the former, the distinction would soon be removed. In point of beauty of typography, and of binding, the difference is very slight; as respects the prints, there are some in the work before us which foreign artists cannot easily excel: we refer particularly to those entitled Guardian Angels,' and the Portrait.' It is not unreasonable to suppose that it has been enabled to retain that place in the public favor, which others have lost, by the superiority of its execution, and the labor which has been devoted to it, in order to render it generally acceptable.

QUARTERLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ANNUALS.

The American Almanack and Repository of Useful Knowledge for 1833. Boston. Charles Bowen. 12mo. pp. 341.

The Old Farmer's Almanack for 1833. By Robert B. Thomas. Boston. Carter, Hendee & Co. 12mo.

The Pearl, or Affection's Gift. Philadelphia. T. T. Ash. 18mo. Pp. 216.

The Token and Atlantic Souvenir. A Christmas and New Year's Present. Edited by S. G. Goodrich. Boston. Gray & Bowen.

12mo. pp. 354.

BIOGRAPHY.

Family Library, No. 45. Indian Biography. By B. B. Thatcher. New York. J. & J. Harper. 2 vols. 18mo.

EDUCATION.

A System of Universal Geography. By S. G. Goodrich. Boston. Carter, Hendee & Co. 8vo. pp. 922.

Berney's Compendious Greek Grammar. Revised and Corrected by Herman Boken. Philadelphia. Towar & Hogan. 12mo. pp. 61. Book Keeping; suited to the Business of the Trader, Farmer and Mechanic. By Michael Walsh. Boston. Carter, Hendee & Co. 8vo. pp. 78.

Cours de Langue Francaise. Manuel de Proverbs Damatiques. By H. W. Longfellow. Boston. Gray & Bowen. 12mo.

Dialogi deposita por facilitare lo studio della Italiana. Tradotti do Fillarcinelli. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. 18mo. pp. 115.

Elements of Rhetoric. By Richard Whately, D. D. Cambridge. Brown, Shattuck & Co. 12mo. pp. 344.

Familiar Lessons in Mineralogy and Geology. By Jane K. Walsh. Boston. Clapp & Hull. 2 vols. 12mo.

History of the United States in French. Boston. Carter, Hendee & Co. 18mo. pp. 304.

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A View of the Elementary Principles of Education. By G. Spurzheim. Boston. Marsh, Capen & Lyon. 12mo. pp. 318.

La Bagatelle; intended to introduce Young Children to the Knowledge of the French Language. Boston. Carter, Hendee & Co. 18mo. pp. 152.

M. Tullii Ciceronis de Claris Oratoribus Liber, qui dicitur Brutus. Cambridge. Brown, Shattuck & Co. 12mo.

Stories from the Italian Writers, with a Literal Interlinear Translation. Philadelphia. Carey & Lea. 12mo. pp. 269.

The High School Reader, designed to be a First Class Book. By Rev. J. L. Blake. Boston. W. Hyde & Co. 12mo. pp. 408.

The Grammatical Instructer. By S. B. Emmons. Boston. Wait & Dow. 12mo. pp. 160.

The National Reader; consisting of Selections adapted for Rhetoric Recitations. By C. D. Cleaveland. New York. N. & J. White. 12mo. pp. 287.

HISTORY.

History of the Town of Plymouth. By James Thatcher, M. D. Boston. Marsh, Capen & Lyon. 12mo. pp. 382.

JUVENILE.

Annette Warrington; or Sequel to the Black Velvet Bracelet. Boston. B. H. Greene. 18mo. pp. 231.

Bible Letters for Children. By Lucy Bastou. Philadelphia. Latimer & Co. 18mo. pp. 162.

Charles Seymour, or the Good Aunt and the Bad Aunt. New York. Betts & Anstie. 18mo. pp. 176.

Common Incidents. By Philo-paidos. Portland. G. Hyde & Co. 18mo. pp. 108.

Easy Lessons, or Leading Strings to Knowledge. Munroe & Francis. 16mo. pp. 123.

Memoir of Florence Kidder, who died in Medford, April, 1832. Boston. Pierce & Parker. 18mo. pp. 71.

The Early History of the Southern States. By Lambert Lilly. Philadelphia. Key & Meikle. 18mo. 192.

The Little Reader, or Progressive Steps to Knowledge. Boston. Carter, Hendee & Co. 16mo. pp. 199.

The Young Voyager to the South Seas. Hartford. Durrie & Peck. 16mo. pp. 196.

LAW.

American Law. By James Kent. New York. O. Halstead. 2d Edition. 4 vols. 8vo.

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. By Octavius Pickering. Vol. I. No. 1. Boston. Hilliard, Gray & Co. 8vo.