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EDITORIAL NOTES) ETC.
everywhere could not do better than to
make themselves familiar with their
philosophical teaching.
These publishers send also Hand and
Glove, a novel, by Amelia B. Edwards;
Sans Merci, by the author of Guy Living stone; Armadale, with illustrations, by
Wilkie Collins.
The first of the two works forms a part
of the series of select novels which has
reached 270 volumes, and which embrace
the most approved works of fiction in the
English language.
From Hurd & Houghton we receive 1. Skakespeare's Delineations; orr Insanity, Imbecility and Suicide, by A. O.
Kellogg, M. D. These essays were published originally in the American Journal
of Insanity; and time, the author says,
continues to establish the fidelity of the
great dramatist's delineations.
2. Brief Biographical Dictionary.
This is a neat and convenient little
volume, and is altogether taken up with
deceased characters in all periods of History. A second volume will embrace
living characters. The name, country,
occupation, date of birth and death, are
all that is given. Thus the whole work
is but a duodecimo. The author is the
Rev. Charles Hole, of Trinity College,
Cambridge, England, and the American
editor who has Inade additions is W. A.
Wheeler, M. A., editor of Webster's Dictionaries, etc.
3. 2vo Lectures delivered in the Law
School of ]Jarcard College it 1S65-6 by
Joel Parker, Royall Professor. This is a
pamphlet of 89 pages. The work is full
of sound constitutional doctrine, and is
remarkable as coming from such near
proximity to BOSTON. What will Mr.
Sumner say? For example, page 70,
"we mourn our honored dead, but shall
not call them to life again by taking vengeance on those through whose agency
they have been slain."... "But it is
said that we must have a guarantee that
no similar rebellion shall ever occur,
&c."-"The folly of such a position needs
no exponent. No such guarantee can pos
sibly be given," page 70, Speaking of
Emancipation, he says, page 73, "I could
have been better satisfied if the boon
could have been bestowed in a mode
somewhat less deadly." Page 73, again:
"There is no constitutional power in
Congress to admit or deny admission to
these disorganized States." P, 85, etc., etc.
WILLIAM B. GREENE, Esq., of Jamaica
Plains, Mass., forwards us a duodecimo
volume, in which he discusses the question of currency, maintaining the radical
deficiency of the existing circulating
medium, and of the advantages of a
mutual currency. We have not had time
to examine the work. What is meant by
the Mutual System of Banking is, that
members of a community or corporation
shall mutually guarantee or insure their
business paper, thus providing, as Mr.
Greene says, a currency for the people
at less than one-sixth of the present cost.
"Plain Counselsfor Freedmen" is the
title of a little volume issued by the
American Tract Society, and laid upon our
table, with the compliments of the author,
Gen. C. B. Fisk, head of the Freedmen's
Bureau of Tennessee.
Gen. Fisk has given good counsel, and
the circulation of the work among Freedmen would effect good, supposing that it
were read and acted upon. There is, to
be sure, something of clap-trap in what
he says of the " Red Sea of strife," the
"pillar of cloud by day and night,"
and the " Promised Land" of African
liberties; but we will not complain of this
as the General is addressing a people of
eminently religious instincts. He tells
his hearers that they must be kind to
their old masters, but adds, that "it is
natural they should feel severe towards
you." Now, General, we take issue on
that point. It is very unnatural, and the
fact is not as you state it. The old masters do not feel "unkindness." We are
one of them. Dinah and Cudgo begin to
uinderstand this very well, too. Pity is
the sentiment evoked, and this leads to a
thousand acts of good-will, now as when
slavery existed. Doubtless the negroes
expected to find enemies in their old
masters. They were so instructed by
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