entitled "The
Island World of the Pacific," (Harpers,) which for various personal
interest, fulness and accuracy of information, and right feeling, is to
be preferred to any book on the subject since the appearance of Cook's
Voyages. We know of no traveller in Polynesia who has had better
opportunities for observation than Mr. Cheever. His abilities as a
writer were illustrated by "The Whale and his Captors," published two or
three years ago. The style of the present performance is not at all
inferior, and it is especially commendable for a perspicuous
compactness. So much misrepresentation of the Sandwich and other Islands
has appeared lately, that we are glad of an opportunity to commend a
book so authoritative and satisfactory upon the whole subject.

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M. J. MOREAU of Paris, has completed a new version into French of the
_Imitatio Christi_, and has accompanied it with select passages from the
Fathers and other pious authors. The same writer has also published
under the title of _Le Philosophe Inconnu_, an essay on the ideas and
writings of the celebrated theosophist Saint-Martin. This remarkable
mystic, who in his lifetime was surrounded by so many disciples and
admirers, is now known only to the curious seekers among the dusty
shelves of libraries. M. Moreau attempts to show that his heresies
contained a spice of orthodoxy, and this he endeavors to develop for the
benefit of whom it may concern.

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BISHOP ONDERDONK of Pennsylvania is a person of large abilities; he is
one of the strongest writers of the Episcopal Church in the country; and
it is unjust that the unfortunate circumstances of his ecclesiastical
position should prevent the recognition of his merits as a scholar and
dialectician. We are pleased, therefore, that his friends have taken
measures for the publication of a collection of his _Theological Works_,
including sermons and Episcopal charges.

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NEW GERMAN POEMS.--Louise von Ploennies has published two new books of
poetry, one under the title of _Neue Gedichte_ (New Poems), the other
_Oskar und Giaunetta_. They are spoken of as superior to her former
productions, and worthy of a most honorable place among the productions
of German poetesses. Oscar and Giaunetta is a love story in verse. The
purpose of the writer is to exhibit the masculine and feminine
principles, Thought and