ome are of the first order of excellence, while
some are weak and inadequate. Nearly all the _square_ blocks show
artistic thought and skill, and really _illustrate_ the poem. Those by
another hand (the artists' names are not given) betray paucity of mind,
as well as uncertain fingers.

The most attractive merit of this volume is the printer's part of it.
The red borders are as beautiful in their way as any ornamental
inclosures can be; and we have only to compare them with some others in
books published this year in America to note how superior they are in
every respect. The University Press, to which belongs the credit of this
work, has justly won to itself the first praise where printing is
appreciated as a fine art. We have recently seen an edition of the
King's-Chapel Liturgy, with rubrics, from this press, which must rank
among the best-printed books of our time.

_A Chronological History of the Boston Watch and Police, from
1631 to 1865; together with the Recollections of a Boston
Police-Officer, or Boston by Daylight and Gaslight._ From the
Diary of an Officer Fifteen Years in the Service. By EDWARD
H. SAVAGE. Boston: Published and sold by the Author.

This book can hardly be characterized as an important addition to
elegant or learned literature; nor, indeed, does it aspire to any such
distinction. We notice it, in passing, as giving us a glimpse into that
world within the world, over whose surface we walk every day, scarcely
conscious of its existence; and we accept also the opportunity to make
due and honorable mention of the services of that class of men through
whose sagacity, integrity, and steadfastness the rest of us are enabled
to become sleek-headed men and such as sleep o' nights. It is well
occasionally to recollect how far the safety and order of the city
depend upon a brave, vigilant, and trustworthy police, that a due
recognition of the fact may serve both as acknowledgment for the past
and increased security for the future.

The brief chronological sketch at the beginning of the book furnishes
many curious and interesting facts of old as well as new time, some of
which we should, on the whole, be rather glad to forget. Without
confessing that we were sinners above others, we yet are not so clean
given over to mutual admiration as to take special pleasure in learning
that Hugh Bowett was banished for maintaining that he was free from
original sin, (though in our day we ge