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THE OKAVANGO RIVER: A Narrative of Travel, Exploration and Adventure. By CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON, Author of "Lake Ngami." With numerous Illustrations and a Map of Southern Africa. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1861. 8vo. pp. 414.

Mr. Andersson's last Expedition was commenced in the Spring of 1858. He started from Otjimbinque in Lat. 22° S., and reached the Okavango River at about Lat. 17° S.; and, although he struck and crossed the River several times, he was not able to explore it thoroughly. In rough adventure, and in deeds of daring, however, the story is full of interest. Some of his hunting exploits it seems to us border somewhat on the marvelous. After bagging two elephants in a single afternoon, and dropping we forget how many lions, which he fairly stared out of countenance as they were about to spring upon him, he ought, to make the story a really good one, to have thrown in a boa-constrictor or two. However, we never dispute with a sportsman. He says he looks upon Africa, "as a vast Zoological garden and a vast hunting-field at the same-time." The book is full of spirited illustrations of wild game and hunting scenes; and an excellent Map distinguishes those portions of Southern and Central Africa which have been partially visited by Andersson, and Cumming, and Livingston, and Burton, and Du Chaillu. The book is beautifully published.

THE NEW AMERICAN CYCLOPEDIA. A popular Dictionary of General Knowledge. Edited by GEORGE RIPLEY and CHARLES A. DANA. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Vol. XIII. 8vo. 1861. pp. 800.

The Thirteenth Volume is up well to the high character which the editors have kept constantly before them in conducting this really valuable work. Its biograph ical and geographical Articles, and especially those on the Natural Sciences generally, are almost always exceedingly well written, as are those on Intellectual Philosophy. Its papers on Moral Philosophy, and particularly those pertaining to Christianity, are less trustworthy, and are sometimes very exceptionable. We do not know what sort of religionist has been called upon to write on such Ecclesiastical terms as are common to all Christian Sects, but a poorer selection could hardly have been made. The author or authors of the Articles on the words 'Priest' and 'Pusey,' (and they are probably both from the same pen,) has only exposed his own ignorance and prejudice. Despite some such glaring defects, the Cyclopedia deserves and will doubtless receive a high place in public confidence.

TROW'S NEW YORK CITY DIRECTORY. Compiled by H. Wilson, Vol. LXXV, for the year ending May 1, 1862. New York: 1861. pp. 1068.

Mr. JOHN F. TROW, who, by the by, has one of the largest and best appointed Printing Offices in the country, and whose facilities for executing works in the Ancient or Modern Languages, accurately and neatly, are not surpassed, we suppose, any where, has issued promptly the Seventy-fifth Volume of the New York City Directory. It contains 991 pages, double column, agate type, of the record of names, containing 152,825 names, an increase of 2,522 over those given in the previous Directory. The compiler has taken the pains to show what are the relative predominances of the initial letters, and presents the subjoined curious list, giving the number of surnames, commencing with the different letters as follows:-A 3,566, B 14,603, C 11,578, D 8,396, E 2,663, F 6,666, G 6,955, H 12,329, I 541, J 2,771, K 6,610, L 7,188, M 17,450, N 2,419, O 2,880, P 5,120, Q 501, R 7,547, S 15,320, T 4,485, U 425, V 2,054, W 9,491, X 5, Y 489, Z 468. There are about 1,700 Smiths, with more than 200 John Smiths.

In addition to the usual catalogue of names, the Directory is full of information upon general matters pertaining to the city. All the "churches" of the city are given their location and pastors, banks and their officers, Common Council boards, heads of departments, list of cemeteries, lines of city railroads, colleges, omnibus routes, constables, consuls, coroners, custom-house employees, clubs, benevolent societies, commissioners of health, emigration, jurors, police, dispensaries, fire engine houses, distances in the city, ferries, civic societies, hospitals, insurance companies, newspapers, magazines, military companies, mining companies, rates of postage, junk shops, pawnbrokers, hack-hire, location of police stations, schools,

courts, telegraph lines, and so on through every branch possible of inquiry relative to the city, including a large and well executed map of the city. It is got up in the same style and size with the recent volumes, but of better quality of paper and type.

The main Avenues of the city are nearly all 100 feet wide; the numerical streets are 60 feet wide, except fifteen, which are 100 feet wide. The population of the city is estimated to be nearly one million, and the immediately surrounding neighborhoods, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Jersey City, Hoboken, &c., which are really parts of the city, must comprise nearly half a million more. Providence has designed New York to be the greatest city of the world; and in wealth, in works of art, and in public improvements, its growth during the last few years has been very great.

EXPLORATIONS AND ADVENTURES IN EQUATORIAL AFRICA, with accounts of the Manners and Customs of the People, and of the Chase of the Gorilla, Crocodile, Leopard, Elephant, Hippopotamus, and other animals. By PAUL B. DU CHAILLU, Corresponding Member of the American Ethnological Society; of the Geographical and Statistical Society of New York, and of the Boston Society of Natural History. With numerous illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861. 8 vo. pp. 531.

M. du Chaillu is an American, of French parentage. His father had been a trader near the mouth of the Gaboon River, where a large part of the son's childhood had been passed. His familiarity with the seacoast tribes and with their language, and his qualifications in other respects, have enabled him to prepare a volume which rivals in interest the late works of Livingstone, and Barth, and Burton, and Speke. Of the eight years which he passed in Africa, the volume gives an account only of his explorations in 1856, 7, 8 and 9. The region traversed lies mostly between the parallels of 2° N. and 2° S.; and into the interior he penetrated about 500 miles. M. du Chaillu made several excursions into the interior, always returning to the Gaboon in the intervals between his journeys. His first expedition began on the 18th of August, 1856, when he started up the River Muni, with the intention of penetrating to the heart of the Sierra del Crystal. Another expedition was the exploration of the country around Cape Lopez. A third was in the Camma country, south of Cape Lopez; when he took up his head-quarters at Biagano, explored the river Ogobay, resided among the Bakalai, and hunted the gorilla and other great apes of the interior of Equatorial Africa. A fourth time he visited the interior. He says, that while in Africa he travelled-always on foot and without white company-eight thousand miles; shot, stuffed, and brought home over two thousand birds, of which more than sixty are new species, and killed upwards of one thousand quadrupeds, of which two hundred were stuffed and brought home, with more than eighty skeletons. Not less than twenty of these quadrupeds are species hitherto unknown to science. He suffered fifty attacks of the African fever, taking, to cure himself, over fourteen ounces of quinine.

Among the most important of his discoveries is the River Ogobay, which, 350 miles from the coast is 500 yards wide, and three or four fathoms deep. He also says:-"Judging from my own examination, and from the most careful inquiries among people of the far interior, I think there is good reason to believe that an important mountain range divides the continent of Africa nearly along the line of the Equator, starting on the west from the range which runs along the coast north and south, and ending in the east, probably in the southern mountains of Abyssinia, or perhaps terminating abruptly to the north of Captain Burton's Lake Taganyika. In the northern slope of this great range originate probably many of the feeders of the Niger, the Nile, and Lake Tchad; while, of the streams rising in the southern slope, it is probable that some join their waters to the Rembo Okanda, the Rembo Ngouyai, and the Congo, and others flow south into the Zambesi, and into the great lake or chain of lakes in the eastern part of Africa."

In the department of Zoology, M. du Chaillu and his gorillas will certainly be remembered a long time. If some of his stories border on the marvelous, he writes as if he believed them himself; and his accounts of the Fans, the Cannibals and other interior tribes, and of his adventures in hunting, are told with an interest which never tires.

We see that an attempt has been made to support the "development" theory on the authority of the author, and some severe attacks have been made upon him on this ground, and we are not sure that they are not well deserved; yet his work, as a scientific production, has too little pretension to be used in this regard on either side. The furious assaults which have been made upon his book in England, while they have given to the work itself a large circulation, have brought to his defense some of the most distinguished of Naturalists, as Murchison, Owen and Burton, who unite in bestowing upon him the tribute due to his rare merits as a traveller and explorer. This little spleen at everything American, which has been so persistently followed up in the Athenæum, in the present instance, is, we are sure, not a fair indication of the temper of our English neighbors.

The work is handsomely printed, profusely illustrated, and, notwithstanding the hard times, is sure of being widely read.

THE WAYS OF THE HOUR. A TALE. Illustrated from drawings by F. O. C. Darley. 1861. 12mo. pp. 512.

PRECAUTION. A NOVEL. Illustrated, &c. 1861. 12mo. pp. 484.

Mr. J. G. Gregory, successor to W. A. Townsend & Co., has at last completed the illustrated edition of Cooper's Novels, by publishing "Precaution," the first novel which Cooper wrote. This concluding volume has also a striking likeness and beautiful portrait of the great Novelist; and it contains also, what we had been trying in vain to find, Bryant's Discourse on the Life, Genius, and Writings of the Author, pronounced in Metropolitan Hall, New York, soon after his death. Mr. Bryant's effort is discriminating and genial, and is worthy of both author and subject; its only defect is its want of thorough appreciation of those great principles, which were the basis of all Cooper's conceptions of ethics in morals and religion. Bryant and Cooper differ fundamentally here. And hence the tribute is more graceful and grateful. The paper in review of Cooper, which appeared in our last Number, will, we hope, induce many of our readers to add this beautiful edition to their libraries,

LIFE AND ADVENTURE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. By a Roving Printer. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1861. 12mo. pp.

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Without any pretension to elegance or even excellence of style, the story of a four years' whaling voyage is told in a plain straight forward way, with amusing sketches of incidents and adventures both by sea and land. There is an air of honesty in the book, and, barring a little attempt at sentiment now and then, the volume is altogether a readable one.

THE LAST TRAVELS OF IDA PFEIFFER: inclusive of a Visit to Madagascar. With an Autobiographical Memoir of the Author. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Steel Portrait. 12mo. Muslin, $1.25. (Uniform with Ida Pfeiffer's "Second Journey Round the World.") New York. Harper & Brothers. 1861. pp. 281. The impression concerning Madame Pfeiffer that she was a masculine woman is. judging from the memoir prefixed to this volume, quite an erroneous one. That she had great strength of purpose, firmness of character, insensibility to fear, and love of adventure, is certain; and that she possessed certain rare moral virtues we do not doubt. Rut her slanderous reports of the English Missions can not be forgotten. Born in Vienna in 1797, her individuality and eccentricity were partly the result of her early education, and partly of disappointed love, and of an ill-assorted marriage. Having been a great traveller, and in the course of her journeys gone twice around the world, she started for Madagascar, in May, 1856, and arrived there on the 1st of May, 1857. Here, during a residence of more than four months, where she "saw and heard more marvellous things" than she ever saw or heard before, she was seized with a malignant fever, which was aggravated by the inhuman cruelties which she received from the Queen; and although she lived to return to Vienna, she died Oct. 28, 1858, followed to her grave by many distinguished notabilities. This volume contains her diary during her last journey, and, aside from its intrinsic value, and it gives a minute account of the interior life of the strange people of Madagascar, it will be read now with a melancholy interest. The work is edited and very appropriately by her son, Oscar Pfeiffer, of Rio de Janeiro.

THE HOUSE ON THE MOOR. By the author of "Margaret Maitland." New York: Harper & Brothers. 1861. 12mo. pp. 405.

As a delineator of character, Mrs. Oliphant is one of the cleverest of modern novelists. The individuality of each of her heroes and heroines is well preserved throughout, and as an artist she understands the secret of keeping alive an interest in the mystery of the story, and of bringing about the grand denouement at last naturally and gracefully. The moral tone of the novel is very good, and there are households, we dare say, where "The House on the Moor" may be read to decided advantage.

SEASON WITH THE SEA-HORSES; or, Sporting Adventures in the Northern Seas. By JAMES LAMONT, F. G. S. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1861. 8vo. pp. 282.

In the spring of 1859, Mr. Lamont, a Scotchman, having had some experience in hunting reindeer, seals, walruses and Brent geese in the seas of Spitzbergen, and associating with him "that keen and brave sportsman," Lord David Kennedy, who also had had experience as a sportsman in India, made his way up into the Northern Seas, with every preparation for a successful cruise. The volume before us will prove interesting to all who are fond of such adventures, and, although not written by a man of science, adds somewhat to the stock of Natural History. The narrative ends as follows:

"In conclusion, I beg to direct attention to the following fac simile of an engraving executed by Lord David Kennedy on one of the cabin beams of the Anna Louisa, as it contains a concise summary of our game list:

LORD DAVID KENNEDY

and JAMES LAMONT
Hired this Sloop

ANNA LOUISA, not A 1,

In the Summer of the Year 1859,

And Killed in SPITZBERGEN

46 WALRUSES,

88 SEALS,

8 POLAR BEARS,

1 WHITE WHALE,

61 REINDEER.

TOTAL, 204 HEAD.

N. B.-In addition to the above, we sunk and lost
about 20 Walruses and 40 Seals."

LATIN ACCIDENCE and Primary Lesson Book; containing a Full Exhibition of the
Forms of Words, and First Lessons in Reading. By GEORGE W. COLLORD, A.
M., Professor of Latin and Greek in the Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic In-
stitute. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1861. 12mo. pp. 347.

The peculiar excellencies which Prof. Collord claims, and we think justly, for this introductory volume in the study of Latin, are its more perfect classification of the parts of speech, a more convenient and compact grouping of all that relates to each, suitable and full illustrative lessons, and such inferential remarks as the young student needs to bear in mind in the study of the Language, and which, as we well remember, we, in our youthful days, had to learn for ourselves. The book is well worth the attention of primary Latin teachers.

1861.

THE CLERGYMAN'S PRIVATE REGISTER. By the Rev. O. WITHERSPOON, Rector of St. John's Church, Buffalo, N. Y. Buffalo: Cap 4to. Besides the "Parish Register," which every Pastor must keep, and must of necessity leave behind him when he changes his field of labor, he will, as a matter of course, desire to carry with him a full and complete record of his official acts; and should his life long be spared, such a volume will become both to him and his famiily after him, one of the greatest interest and value. Mr. Witherspoon has with much ingenuity and good judgment arranged a blank volume, to be filled up with such items of information as he will wish to preserve. The plan of the Register

embraces the following Articles: History, Services, List of Sermons, Baptisms, Marriages, Confirmations, Burials, and Account. Under "HISTORY" are the items, Date and Event. Under "SERVICES," Date, Number, Part, Place, and Remarks: under "LIST OF SERMONS," Number, Text, Subject, and a Reference to Services; which latter shows at a glance when and where any sermon was preached. Under "BAPTISMS," are Date, Number, Name, Age, Parents' Names, and Place: under "MARRIAGES," Date, Number, Names, Age, Place, Fee; under "CONFIRMED," Date, Number, Name, a column in which to mark such as become Communicants, Age, Place, Bishop; under "BURIALS," Date, Number, Name, Age. Place of Service. Place of Interment. The book is issued in two styles, one having an "ACCOUNT" for such items as Collections, Disbursements of the same, and of the Communion Alms, Dues and Receipts on Salary, etc.; and another, from which the Account is omitted, and the space occupied with increased proportions of the other headings. CALKINS'S OBJECT LESSONS. Primary Object Lessons for a Graduated Course of Development. A Manual for Teachers and Parents, with Lessons for the Proper Training of the Faculties of Children. By N. A. CALKINS. Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1861. 12mo. pp. 362.

Whatever may be thought of Pestalozzi's theory of Education, of teaching things rather than words, there is no doubt that the present popular mode is radically defective. It is little more than a cultivation of the Memory, while the observing and reflecting powers are almost wholly neglected. The System, on which this work is based, has been introduced into some of the Public Schools of this country, and, it is said, successfully. Mr. Calkins's book is designed to embrace a period of about three years of training preceding that point at which the pupil begins to gain knowledge from books by study and the usual recitations. There are lessons on Form, Color, Number, Size, Weight, Sound, The human Body, Elementary Reading, Place, &c. The main theory and design of the book is, that the pupil shall not be taught to rehearse, parrot-like, but shall observe and think for himself. So important do we deem the principle, that we would commend the volume to all the teachers in the country. And yet, in our judgment, the true System of Education, that which is adapted to the nature of the Human Mind, must combine both the Memory and the Understanding; in other words, it must be based on both Faith and Reason; for the principle of this book really involves that whole subject. GUIDE TO THE ART OF ILLUMINATING AND MISSAL PAINTING. By W. & G. AUDSLEY, Architects. With eight pages of Lithographic Illustrations. London: George Rowney & Co., Rathbone Place. 1861. 12mo. pp. 72.

It is only within the last few years that attempts have been made to revive the beautiful Art of Illuminating, in England. In the United States it is as yet almost unknown. The best specimen among us that we know, is an illuminated copy of St. Matthew, St. Mark and St. Luke, in St. Luke's Hospital, in New York, executed by an American Lady, and to see it alone is worth a long journey. The little work before us is a Guide Book to the Art, and gives all the directions necessary in entering upon the study; such as materials, metallic preparations, vellum and papers, instruments, lettering, &c., gilding, and silvering, coloring, design, conventionalism, symbolism, &c., &c. The Art, first introduced into Rome in the second century, attained high perfection in Ireland in the sixth and seventh centuries; and after assuming the Celtic, Anglo-Hibernian, Franco-Saxon, and Anglo-Saxon styles, reached its culminating point in the twelfth century, when in its ground-work, scrolls, borders, and initial letters, it was executed with unsurpassed beauty and artistic finish. Wherever this Art may rank in comparison with Architecture, Music, Painting and Sculpture, none can doubt its beauty and value in illustrating, what it has been so largely devoted to, the Revealed Word of God. Its study would help to counteract the gross materialistic tendency of the age.

WOMAN'S RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW. In three Lectures, delivered in Boston, January, 1861. By CAROLINE H. DALL, author of "Woman's Right to Labor." Boston: Walker, Wise & Co. 1861. 12mo. pp. 165.

In noticing Miss Dall's "Woman's Right to Labor," we thought she had so far made out her case that some concession might well be made to her arguments. In her Lec

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