n or
commendation of the author's genius; they will be likely to purchase
_Clovernook_ as soon as they are advised of its appearance. We have
nothing in our literature, descriptive of country life, to be compared
with it, for effective painting or for truthfulness. The scene is laid
in Ohio--near Cincinnati--while a suburban village is gradually growing
up from the simple cottage in the wilderness till it becomes a favorite
resort of patrician families; and few novelists have been more happy in
describing the "progress of society," or exhibited, in such
performances, more humor, tenderness, or pathos.

We have from Ticknor & Co., of Boston, a second series of _Greenwood
Leaves_, by the public's old favorite, GRACE GREENWOOD. The tales which
it embraces are in the author's happiest vein, and the letters are
dashing and piquant, but liable to some objections which we might make
in a longer notice. The same publishers have issued a capital book for
children, entitled _Recollections of My Childhood_, by the same author.

CAROLINE CHEESEBRO is another young magazinist, whose productions have
been very popular. Her _Dreamland by Daylight_ (published by Redfield),
a collection of tales and sketches, contains much fine sentiment and
displays a ready fancy and a just appreciation of social life, but she
has a little less individuality than Miss Carey or Grace Greenwood.

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It will gratify every reader of American history to learn that we are
soon to have three phases of the character of Washington, presented by
men so eminent as DANIEL WEBSTER, Mr. IRVING, and Mr. BANCROFT. Mr.
Webster, we have reason to believe, has nearly completed his Memoir of
the Political Life of the great Chief; Mr. Irving's work, which has been
some time announced, will make us familiar with his personal qualities,
and Mr. Bancroft's History of the Revolution will display his military
career as it has never before been exhibited, as it can be presented by
none but our greatest historian. The first volume of Mr. Bancroft's work
on the Revolution is passing rapidly through the press, and it will
doubtless be published early in the spring. It has been kept back by the
author's failure to obtain, until within a few weeks past, certain
important documents necessary to its completion.

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Mr. HART of Philadelphia, has just published _A Method of Horsemanship,
founded on new Pr