o mind,
An angel, crowned and holy;
A fair and helpless human thing,
Our hearts still keep her solely.

Sleep, baby, calmly in thy nest
Amid the fading flowers,
The while we strive to learn the words:
'God's will be done--not ours!'

HISTORY OF THE ROMANS UNDER THE EMPIRE. By CHARLES MERIVALE, B. D.,
late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. From the fourth
London Edition. With a copious Analytical Index. Vol. IV. New York:
D. Appleton & Co., 443 & 445 Broadway.

The character of this work is so high and so widely known that it is
only necessary to remind or inform our readers of the appearance of the
fourth volume to awaken their interest. Merivale succeeds in making his
subject intensely interesting. Beginning with the anticipations of a
constitutional monarchy, the indifference of the citizens on political
questions, the legislative measures to encourage marriage, the efforts
of Augustus to revive the national sentiment, this volume carries us
quite through his important reign, with all its great events and
domestic dramas. We have descriptions of the nature of life in Rome,
places of recreation, exhibitions of wild beasts and gladiators, the
schools of the rhetoricians, as well as studies of the authors, Livy,
Virgil, Horace, Propertius, Tibullus, Ovid, each reflecting in his own
way the sentiments of the Augustan age. It is a complex and important
period of history, and nobly treated by our author. Brutus and Cassius
evoke no false sympathy. The character of Augustus is closely analyzed,
and the sketch of the Roman dominion, in its political, social, and
intellectual outlines, is able and interesting.

RECEIVED.

CHRISTIAN EXAMINER. No. CCXLIV. July, 1864. Contents: Character and
Historical Position of Theodore Parker; The New King of Greece;
Robert Browning; Marsh's 'Man and Nature;' Robert Lowell; Renan's
Critical Essays; Edward Livingston; A Word on the War; Review of
Current Literature.

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. No. CCIV. July, 1864. Contents: A Physical
Theory of the Universe; The Property and Rights of Married Women;
The Philosophy of Space and Time; The Constitution, and it Defects;
The Navy of the United States; Our Soldiers; A National Currency;
The Rebellion: its Causes and Consequences; Critical Notices.

THE UNIVERSALIST QUARTERLY. July, 1864. Contents: When are the Dead
Raised? The