Enlargement of the Journal.
The requests of readers for the enlargement of the Journal are already coming in. It is a great disappointment to the editor to be compelled each month to exclude so much of interesting matter, important to human welfare, which would be gratifying to its readers. The second volume therefore will be enlarged to 64 pages at $2 per annum.
“Irene, or the road to Freedom.” 612 pages, $1; published by H. N. Fowler, 1123 Arch street, Philadelphia; called the “Uncle Tom’s Cabin of Woman Slavery.” Ostensibly a novel, it is a doctrinaire book, presenting a series of almost impossible incidents to enable the characters to present their ideas of woman’s rights and wrongs and conjugal relations. The full development of the writer’s doctrines (who is a woman) is postponed to another volume. The ideas in this would please only the most extreme radicals. The Journal is over-loaded with its special themes, and has not room for discussions of such subjects.