ith excellent taste, being for the most part
extracted from the best authors in the religious literature of England
and America. Among them we observe the names of Fenelon, Thomas a
Kempis, Jeremy Taylor, Bunyan, Madame Guyon, Bishop Hall, Milton,
Southey, and Wordsworth; and of American writers, Bryant, Longfellow,
Whittier, Willis, and W. R. Williams.

_A New Memoir of Hannah More_, by Mrs. HELEN C. KNIGHT, has been
published by M. W. Dodd, giving a condensed and interesting view of the
history of the celebrated religious authoress. Her connection with the
development of practical religious literature, as well as her rare
qualities of character, will always give an attraction to every
authentic record of the incidents of her life. The present volume is
evidently written by one of her warm admirers. It relates the principal
facts in her brilliant career with remarkable vivacity. Indeed, a more
chastened style would have been better suited to the subject of the
memoir, whose own manner of writing, though florid and ambitious, in her
more elaborate efforts, always displayed an imagination under the
control of an active and discriminating judgment. As an instance of the
excessive liveliness of description in which Mrs. Knight not
unfrequently indulges, we may allude to her portrait of Hannah More's
father, the parish schoolmaster, "besides leading a flock of village
urchins to nibble in the green pastures of knowledge, his five little
girls follow the same friendly crook, and in their training he beholds
the buds and blossoms, as he hopes to realize the fruit of his
professional skill and parental fidelity."

Harper and Brothers have now ready two important standard works on
philology, _A Latin-English Lexicon_, founded on the larger
_Latin-German Lexicon_ of FREUND, edited by E. A. ANDREWS, LL.D., and _A
New Classical Dictionary_ of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology, and
Geography, by WILLIAM SMITH, edited by Professor CHARLES ANTHON. These
works have been subjected to a strict, laborious, and thorough revision
by the American editors; large and valuable additions have been made to
their contents; the very latest improvements in the science of philology
have been incorporated with the researches of their original authors;
and in point of exactness of investigation, clearness of method, and
precision and completeness of detail, may be warmly recommended to the
classical students of this country, as without a rival in