LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THE CONNECTION OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. By MRS SOMER VILLE. Key and Biddle, Philadelphia.

We have taken a short extract from this work-se see 'Comets!' - The volume is a splendid proof of the talents and learning of the distinguished author: the lady philosopher of the age.

PICTURES OF PRIVATE LIFE. BY SARAH STICKNEY.

We can bestow on this volume the warm praise of the heart- it is a good book for the young, teaching the pure principles of our holy religion in the incidents of real life. We have given in another place, one extract-but here is a paragraph we wish was engraved on the minds of all our sex. < What a marked difference is shown by the world in its treatment of men and women.'

Your remark is but too just, Miss Irvine. Only think of me for one mo ment (I ask no more) - a spendthrift, who has ruined his father — a man without any honorable means of existing. to say nothing of my present habits, which are well known to every one here; yet so long as I can wear broadcloth, and drink wine, and tell a good story, and talk of the hounds once kept, there will still be gentlemen so liberal as to invite me to their dianers, and ladies so generous as to dance with me, laugh with me, and plan parties of pleasure, of which I am to be one; while my sister, the noblest, the most dignified, the purest minded of women, pines in her solitude, unheeded, and may not join the circles which she is only too good to adorn, because, forsooth! she prefers maintaining herself by her own exertions, to that worst of all slavery, dependence on the great. Will you, Miss Irvine, visit my poor sister sometimes? Will you cheer her loneliness, and make her feel that she is not altogether desolate?'

THE RELIGIOUS SOUVENIR FOR 1835. Philadelphia; Key & Biddle.

The specimen of engraving and typography we have seen is very good. The engraving Sunday Morning,' is particularly beautiful and spir. ited. We hope soon to see the work here.

THE NORTH AMERICAN ARITHMETIC, PART THIRD, FOR ADVANCED SCHOLARS. BY FREDERICK EMERSON. Boston: Russel, Odiorne & Co. pp. 288.

We have not examined the book, but from the acknowledged excellence of the other arithmetical works, by the same author, there is no danger in commending this to public favor.

A GEOGRAPHY FOR CHILDREN. By H. N. BRINSMADE, late Instructor in the American Asylum. Third Edition Revised. Boston: Allen & Ticknor.

Geographies must all be similar in many respects - but we f little manual gives the desired information in a very interesting way that children will like the book.

WE KNOW NOT WHAT A DAY MAY BRING FORTH.

THERE are many days of our lives, yea months and years, which pass away, leaving no trace upon the memory to mark their footsteps. Again, there are other days, aye, moments, which make their mark so deeply upon the mind, that time has no power to erase it. These are periods of either peculiar joy or sadness; such as give birth to new hopes, or new connexions, consummate long-cherished wishes, or confirm fearful apprehensions.

Sometimes a sudden and unexpected change in the aspect of things around, overwhelms us with a sense of the uncertainty of human affairs, and gives the mind a shock, too powerful to be forgotten even amidst the subsequent changes of life.

I will leave those who delight to explore the regions of imagination to deck their phantasms with her gorgeous colorings; for myself, I love to dwell upon those realities which memory has garnered up in her store of sacred relics. From these, I will select for my readers, the scenes of a day, marked by great and sudden alternations of feeling arising from change of circumstances.

The associations which bound me to my mother were even more endearing and more tender, than is common in this most interesting relation. I was her youngest child, the offspring of her advanced age, and my father was still many years older; in considering me as destined to become an early orphan, they both viewed me with an interest too deep and powerful to admit of that strict parental discipline which had marked the government of their elder children.-The baby, the appellation by which I was for many years known in the family, must by no means be crossed in her wishes or caprices, let them be ever so unreasonable. Though my health was as perfect as that of the young lamb, sporting upon the grassy turf, I was often tempted to complain for the satisfaction of seeing the immense power which I wielded over my mother's heart, in the expression of her deep anxiety.

At twelve I was much what might have been expected of a child of strong and undisciplined passions; selfish, self-willed, and imperious. About this time, my taste for books, which had hitherto been gratified by such works as the Tales of Marmontel, Madam de Genlis, and Richardson, received a new direction from the letter of an elder sister, then abroad at school. She dealt with me in a candid but affectionate manner told me of my faults and advised me to set about the work of self-education. Following her advice, I obtained Mrs. Chapone's Letters to her Niece,' ' Gregory's Legacy to his Daughters,' and Hannah More's works on Female Education.' As I read I endeavored to practise. Mrs. Chapone's letters On the Government of the Temper,' proved of great service in assisting me to govern myself. I began to keep a journal and to scrutinize my own conduct.

In two years I had become a very different being. A circumstance which contributed much to the softening my character was the declining health of my father. At his death it became my turn to watch over and comfort my mother, whose spirits sank beneath the stroke which separated her from her companion, friend, and counsellor. In her deep affliction she appeared for a time almost insensible to any attentions; but she was at length enabled to say in the spirit of Christian resignation, Thy will, O Lord, be done!'

A few years after this event, a new connexion placed me in a new sphere of action, and my venerable mother for years honored and blessed with her presence the home where were