ate for women's rights, there
being two orders of human capacities, masculine and feminine. Man is
master of the outer world: woman cannot cope with him there; her sphere
is freer, deeper, higher, and of more importance to the future destinies
of the race. This book will be sharply criticized by the clergy, pure
and good men, but always hard on woman, although she keeps the lamp of
faith trimmed and burning in the churches, believing her always a mere
subordinate of man, and utter submission to him her chief virtue. The
lady-killers and men of pleasure will scorn it, for it exposes many of
their claims and vices, which they labor to hide with glittering veils
of dazzling sophisms. Will our women read it? We think not. Mrs. Farnham
treats of difficult subjects, with the freedom and innocence of an
anatomist; but will our fair and shrinking students enter the dissecting
room, even to learn some of the secrets of life?

We differ from Mrs. Farnham in many important particulars. We think she
has made some errors fatal to the well-being of her system. But she has
entered upon a new path, one in which there are indeed _lions upon the
way_; she has advanced freely and boldly through its dangers; her aims
have been generous and sincere; she has given the mature a suggestive
and thoughtful book; and shall we not greet her when she returns with
her hard-won trophies from the mystical land of earth's fair Psyches?

'O woman! lovely woman! nature made thee
To temper man; we had been brutes without you!
Angels are painted fair to look like you;
There's in you all that we believe of heaven!'

THE HOLY AND PROFANE STATES. By THOMAS FULLER.
With some Account of the Author and his Writings. Boston: Little,
Brown & Co. For sale by D. Appleton & Co.

A book from quaint old Fuller will always find its audience ready to
receive it. It is only by contrasting his works with those of his
contemporaries that we can do him full justice. He was an eminent
historian and divine of the Church of England, in the stormy times of
Charles I. and the Commonwealth. He made his first appearance as an
author in 1631, in a poem entitled 'David's hainous Sin, heartie
Repentance, and heavie Punishment.' He was much beloved in his day,
following faithfully as chaplain the fortunes of the royal army. As a
writer, every subject is alike to him; if dull, he enlivens it;
agreeable, he improves it; deep, he enlightens it; and if tough,