ions of scenery are singularly vivid and
distinct, and are given in a style of much energy and richness. The
chapters on Suwarrow's Passage of the Glarus, Macdonald's Pass of the
Splugen, and the Battle of Waterloo, are admirably done. That on
Macdonald is especially interesting. Those who doubt Mr. Headley's
talents will please read this short extract: "The ominous sound grew
louder every moment, and suddenly the fierce Alpine blast swept in a
cloud of snow over the mountain, and howled like an unchained demon,
through the gorge below. In an instant all was blindness and confusion
and uncertainty. The very heavens were blotted out, and the frightened
column stood and listened to the raving tempest that made the pine
trees above it sway and groan, as if lifted from their rock-rooted
places. But suddenly a still more alarming sound was heard--'An
avalanche! an avalanche!' shrieked the guides, and the next moment _an
awful white form came leaping down the mountain_, and striking the
column that was struggling along the path, passed strait through it
into the gulf below, carrying thirty dragoons and their horses with it
in its wild plunge."

_Principles of Zoology. Touching the Structure,
Development, Distribution and Natural Arrangement of
the Races of Animals, Living and Extinct. Part I.
Comparative Physiology. By Louis Agassiz and Augustus
A. Gould Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. 1 vol.
12mo._

The name of Professor Agassiz, the greatest of living naturalists, on
the title page of this volume, is of itself a guarantee of its
excellence. The work is intended for schools and colleges, and is
admirably fitted for its purpose, but its value is not confined to the
young. The general reader, who desires exact and reliable knowledge of
the subject, and at the same time is unable to obtain the larger works
of Professor Agassiz, will find in this little volume an invaluable
companion. It has all the necessary plates and illustrations to
enable the reader fully to comprehend its matter. The diagram of the
crust of the earth, as related to zoology, is a most ingenious
contrivance to present, at one view, the distribution of the principal
types of animals, and the order of their successive appearance in the
layers of the earth's crust. The publishers have issued the work in a
style of great neatness and elegance.

_The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay, including
Speeches and Addr