ca, without going abroad in quest of subjects, in the
discussion of which we shall long be surpassed by foreigners, on account
of their superior facilities and larger sources of information. As a book
entirely American, we commend it to the reading public, confident that it
will be received with favor wherever it is read, and be considered a
valuable addition to the historical department of every gentleman's
library.

A NEW SPIRIT OF THE AGE. By R. H. HORNE. In one volume. New-York:
HARPER AND BROTHERS.

The Mr. HORNE who stands sponsor for this 'child of many fathers' must not
be confounded with Mr. HARTWELL HORNE, who in a literary point of view is
quite another person. The author of the volume before us, however, with
the aid of sundry fellow _litterateurs_ 'of the secondary formation,' as
CARLYLE phrases it, has collected together quite a variety of materials,
the whole being intended to form a sort of sequel to HAZLITT'S 'Spirit of
the Age,' a brilliant work, to which the present bears slight resemblance.
We quite agree with a contemporary, that it manifests little or no
independence of judgment or originality of thought. 'It is the result of
the labor of many hands, and those not the most skilful or experienced. It
consequently wants that homogenousness of style which one would expect in
a professed imitation of so excellent a model. The highest degree of merit
that can be accorded to it is that of a collection of magazine articles of
second rate merit. It is likely to prove popular with the generality of
readers who do not trouble themselves to dip beneath the surface of
things; but we must caution those who would form a just estimate of the
characters and merits of the distinguished writers whose works are
analyzed in it, that its premises are not always correct nor its
deductions sound.'

EDITOR'S TABLE.

A DAY WITH THE GREAT SEATSFIELD.--The Boston Daily Advertiser recently
divulged, with a most curious air of bewilderment, the name of a new, and
as it seems hitherto unheard-of, ornament to American literature--the
illustrious SEATSFIELD. Illustrious, however, only upon the other side of
the water; for it appears that we Yankee cotton-raisers have somewhat else
to do than to busy our brains about any letters except letters of credit,
or any fame that is not reverberated from abroad. No one, of course, at
all conversant with modern German literature, not even the slightest
skimmer of their