subtle,--a true simplicity of heart," etc.

M. Michelet does not undervalue the importance of his work. He thinks he
has ruined the dancing-gardens by the startling revelations respecting
woman contained in his book. He announces a still greater triumph:--"I
believe I have effectually suppressed old women. They will no longer be
met with." M. Michelet has not seen the columns of some of our weekly
newspapers.

These are scales from the husk of his book, which, with all its
fantasies, is a generous plea for woman. Wise persons may safely read
it, though they be not Parisians.

The translation is, and is generally considered, excellent. We notice
two errors,--_Jerres_, instead of _Serres_,--and _would_, for _should_,
after the Scotch and Southern provincial fashion;--with some
questionable words, as _reliable_, for which we have Sir Robert Peel's
authority, which cannot make it as honest a word as _trustworthy_,--
_masculize_, which is at least intelligible,--and _fast_, used as
college-boys use it in their loose talk, but not with the meaning which
sober scholars are wont to give it. With these slight exceptions, the
translation appears to us singularly felicitous, notwithstanding the
task must have been very difficult, which Dr. Palmer has performed with
such rare success.

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_Farm-Drainage_. The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining
Land, with Wood, Stones, Ploughs, and Open Ditches, and especially with
Tiles; including Tables of Rainfall, Evaporation, Filtration,
Excavation, Capacity of Pipes; Cost, and Number to the Acre, of Tiles,
etc., etc.; and more than One Hundred Illustrations. By HENRY E. FRENCH.
New York: A.O. Moore & Co. 1859. 8vo. pp. 384.

We remember standing, thirty years ago, upon the cupola of a court-house
in New Jersey, and, while enjoying the whole panorama, being
particularly impressed with the superior fertility and luxuriance of one
farm on the outskirts of the town. We recollect further, that, on
inquiry, we found this farm to belong to a Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas, who also exercised the trade of a potter, and underdrained his
land with tile-drains. His neighbors attributed the improvement in his
farm to manure and tillage, and thought his attempts to introduce
tile-drains into use arose chiefly from his desire to make a market for
his tiles. Thirty years have made a great change; and a New Hampshire
Judge of the Court of Common P