ion's heart, and quenched its traditional love." The
eighth chapter depicts the views and characterizes the qualities of the
Northern European authors who have travelled in America and written
concerning us. In the ninth chapter our Italian visitors and critics are
treated in like manner. And in the tenth chapter the same task is
performed for the Americans themselves who have journeyed through and
written on their own country. Then follows the conclusion,
recapitulating and applying the results of the whole survey. And the
work properly closes with an index, furnishing the reader facilities for
immediate reference to any passage, topic, or name he wishes to find.

For the task he has here undertaken Mr. Tuckerman is well qualified by
the varied and comprehensive range of his knowledge and culture, the
devotion of his life to travel, art, and study. His pages not only
illustrate, they also vindicate, the character and claims of American
nationality. He shows that "there never was a populous land about which
the truth has been more generalized and less discriminated." His
descriptions of local scenery and historic incidents recognize all that
is lovely and sublime in our national landscapes, all that is romantic
or distinctive in our national life. His humane and ethical sympathies
are ready, discriminating, and generous; his approbations and rebukes,
vivid and generally rightly applied. These and other associated
qualities lend interest and value to the biographic sketches he presents
of the numerous travellers and authors whose works pass in review. The
pictures of many of these persons--such as Marquette, Volney,
D'Allessandro, Bartram--are psychological studies of much freshness and
force.

_Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American
Revolution:_ With an Historical Essay. By LORENZO SABINE.
Two Volumes. Boston: Little, Brown, & Co. 8vo. pp. 608, 600.

Mr. Sabine has attempted in these volumes to present in a judicial
spirit a chapter of our Revolutionary history which usually bears the
most of passion in its recital,--believing, as he does, that
impartiality is identical with charity, in dealing with his theme. The
first edition of his work, in a single volume, has been before the
public seventeen years. The zeal and fidelity of his labor have been
well appreciated. So far as his purpose has involved a plea or an
apology for the Loyalists of the American Revolution, his critics who
have at