to
the capacities of the human mind. The two numbers devoted to the American
Indians, as well as other volumes, present a good deal of new and curious
matter. The life of JETAU, the Indian VOLTAIRE, is very striking. The
Benefactors will be read with gratification by every one who loves to
dwell upon the actions of those who have been great in doing good. The
moral tendency of these works is excellent, and they may be read with
pleasure as well as profit by old and young. They are happily adapted to
the family as well as the school-library; and we are glad to know that
they have been adopted for the latter purpose in some of our principal
cities. They will constitute a wholsome check upon, as well as an
agreeable substitute for, most of the trashy and pernicious literature
that is now so freely poured upon the public. Mr. JOHN ALLEN, at the
office of the KNICKERBOCKER, is the agent for this city.

'WONDERS OF THE HEAVENS.'--A superb large quarto volume has recently been
put forth by Messrs. ROBERT P. BIXBY AND COMPANY, entitled, 'The Wonders
of the Heavens: being a Popular View of Astronomy, including a full
Illustration of the Mechanism of the Heavens; embracing the Sun, Moon, and
Stars, with descriptions of the planets, comets, fixed stars,
double-stars, the constellations, the galaxy or milky way, the zodiacal
light, aurora-borealis or northern-lights, meteors, clouds, falling-stars,
aerolites, etc.; illustrated by numerous maps and engravings.' We cannot
too highly commend this volume to our readers. The author, Mr. DUNCAN
BRADFORD, has kept constantly in view one object, viz: to make his subject
plain and interesting to the people. Instead of mingling mathematics with
his great theme, to such an extent as to alarm the neophyte at the very
threshold of the temple of astronomy, he has with a wise judgment selected
from the best works, including the latest, those parts that were least
encumbered with the abstruse and the unintelligible; and the illustrations
serve to make his sublime teachings still more clear.

ROGERS' POEMS.--We have not seen a more beautiful volume for a twelvemonth
than the new illustrated edition of 'Poems by SAMUEL ROGERS, with
revisions and additions by the author,' recently issued by Messrs. LEA AND
BLANCHARD, Philadelphia. It is indeed in all respects an _exquisite_ work;
being printed upon the finest drawing-paper, with a large clear type, and
illustrated with ten engravings on steel, fr