Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Thomas Chalmers, D. D., LL. D. By his Son-in-Law, the Rev. William Hanna, LL. D. New York: Harper & Brothers. Vol. 3.
The present volume does not, as was contemplated, bring this interesting biography to a close. The Doctor is left at the end of it, full of energy and combativeness, instead of reposing in his coffin. The volume is full of attractive matter, being devoted to that portion of Chalmers’ life, between 1824 and 1835, when some of his most important works were written, and when his communications with men eminent in politics and letters were most frequent. Brougham, Peel, Melbourne, Mackintosh, Irving, Coleridge, and many other celebrities, appear in these pages. Among the letters in the volume, we should select those to his daughter as the most pleasing.
Home and Social Philosophy. From Household Words. Edited by Charles Dickens, First Series. New York: Geo. P. Putnam. 1 vol. 16mo.
The indefatigable publisher whose name is on this title-page, commences with this delightful collection of essays, a new “Semi-Monthly Library, for Travelers and the Fireside.” The present volume contains some two hundred And fifty well printed pages, and is placed at the low price of twenty-five cents. It is to be followed by a series of works, combining entertainment with usefulness, and intended in the end, to form one of the cheapest and most elegant “libraries” that an intelligent reading public could desire.
Essays on Life, Sleep, Pain, etc. By Samuel Henry Dickson, M. D., Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea. 1 vol. 12mo.
These essays, a specimen of which we furnish our readers in the present number, are the production of a mind singularly acute and tenacious, and are marked as the productions of a scholar and a profound thinker.
United States Monthly Law Magazine and Examiner. New York: John Livingston, 157 Broadway.