st of suitors, she destroyed the lovely
complexion to which she owed her name, by an application of
pepper and quicklime. But she was also a noble example of
filial devotion, and maintained her once wealthy parents,
fallen on evil days, by the labor of her hands.' All day she
toiled in a garden, and at night she worked with her needle.
She took the habit of the third order of St. Dominic, and died
in 1617. She was canonized by Clement X. According to the
Peruvian legend, the Pope, when entreated to canonize her,
absolutely refused, exclaiming, 'India y santa! asi como
llueven rosas!' (India and saint! as much so as that it rains
roses!') Whereupon, a miraculous shower of roses began to fall
in the Vatican, and ceased not till the incredulous pontiff
acknowledged himself convinced."

Among men saints have been more plentiful.

Authors and Books.

We have already briefly spoken of Dr. ANDREE'S work on America which is
now publishing at Brunswick, Germany, by the house of Westermann, a
branch of which is established in this city at the corner of Broadway
and Duane-streets. The book in question is to consist of three volumes
of some six hundred and fifty octavo pages each, devoted respectively to
North, Central, and South America. It is published in numbers of some
eighty pages each; of these numbers four are already issued, and we have
read them with great satisfaction. The broad and philosophical spirit,
the exhaustive learning, and the spirited and picturesque style of Dr.
Andree are beyond praise; among all the books on America which we have
met with this impresses us as unique, and if the remainder shall prove
equal to what is already published, we hope that some American publisher
may undertake a translation of the whole into English.

The work opens with an introduction of some forty odd pages, in which,
first, the physical characteristics of the new world are set forth with
great clearness and beauty: its mountains, rivers, lakes, climate,
vegetable and animal kingdoms; the origin of the aboriginal inhabitants,
their languages, races, manners, customs, and civilization; the
settlements of Europeans, the Spaniards, the Spanish and Portuguese
states, the Creoles, Mexico, Brazil, &c. Amalgamation of races, the
negroes, Slavery, influence of the Latin races, the Teutonic race, the
United States, their growth and destiny, are made the subjects o