ntend with in the earlier part of his literary career;
the worldly cares which pulled his spirit to the earth whenever
it would wing its way to the skies; the domestic afflictions,
tugging at his heart-strings even in his hours of genial
intercourse, and converting his very smiles into spasms; the
anxious days and sleepless nights preying upon his delicate
organization, producing that morbid sensitiveness and nervous
irritability which at times overlaid the real sweetness and
amenity of his nature, and obscured the unbounded generosity of
his heart.

"The biography does more: it reveals the affectionate
considerateness of his conduct in all the domestic relations of
life. The generosity with which he shared his narrow means with
all the members of his family, and tasked his precarious
resources to add to their relief; his deep-felt tenderness as a
husband and a father, the source of exquisite home-happiness
for a time, but ultimately of unmitigated wretchedness; his
constant and devoted friendships, which in early life were
almost romantic passions, and which remained unwithered by age:
his sympathies with the distressed of every nation, class, and
condition; his love of children, that infallible sign of a
gentle and amiable nature; his sensibility to beauty of every
kind; his cordial feeling toward his literary contemporaries,
so opposite to the narrow and despicable jealousy imputed to
him; above all, the crowning romance of his life, his
enthusiasm in the cause of suffering Poland, a devotion carried
to the height of his poetic temperament, and, in fact,
exhausting all that poetic vein which, properly applied, might
have produced epics; these and many more traits set forth in
his biography bring forth his character in its true light,
dispel those clouds which malice and detraction may at times
have cast over it, and leave it in the full effulgence of its
poetic glory."

THE LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ANDREW COMBE, M.D. By George
Combe. Philadelphia: A. Hart. 12mo, pp. 424.

The remarkable popularity of the works of ANDREW COMBE on Physiology and
Hygiene, in this country, will make the present biography an object of
interest with a very large number of readers. It is written with
singular impartiality, indeed with too little of the spirit of
affe