ubject of his narrative, and the
familiar knowledge of his career gained by the researches of several
years, Mr. Dixon has produced a genial and instructive piece of
biography, sustaining the claims of the illustrious Quaker to the noble
and elevated rank in which he has been placed by the general voice of
tradition.

_Physico-Physiological Researches on the Dynamics of Magnetism, &c._, by
Baron CHARLES VON REICHENBACH, translated from the German, by JOHN
ASHBURNER, M.D., is a scientific treatise, showing the relations of
magnetism, electricity, heat, light, crystallization, and chemism to the
vital forces of the human body. It is founded on an extensive series of
experiments, which tend to bring the mysterious phenomena of Mesmerism
within the domain of physics, and in fact to reduce the whole subject
of physiology to a department of chemical science. The papers, of which
it is composed, were originally intended as contributions to the "Annals
of Chemistry," conducted by the celebrated Professor Liebig, in which
periodical they appeared in the year 1845. In the present collected
form, they have received some necessary corrections, but their spirit
and substance are presented without alteration. The investigations, of
which the results are here described, are of a singularly curious
character, exhibiting the most astonishing developments, with a
philosophical calmness that is rare even among German savants.

_The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter_, is the title of a novel
illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont, by the author of
"The Green Mountain Boys," published by B. B. Mussy and Co., Boston. It
gives many agreeable descriptions of Vermont scenery, with sketches of
its social life during the war of the Revolution, and shows considerable
skill in combining the prominent historical facts of that day with the
fictitious incidents of a lively and exciting plot.

_The Ballads and Songs_ of WILLIAM PEMBROKE MULCHINOCH (published by T.
W. Strong), is a collection of fugitive poetry, inspired with the
genuine breathings of Irish patriotism, frequently displaying great
facility and sweetness of versification, and pervaded throughout with a
winning sentiment of tenderness and human sympathy.

Harper and Brothers have published a neat volume, entitled _Nature and
Blessedness of Christian Purity,_ by Rev. R. S. FOSTER, with an
Introduction by EDMUND S. JANES, D.D., one of the Bishops of the
Methodist Episcopal C