vantage over most books of advice designed for the same classes is that they grasp the living experiences as they are, while others talk about them as it is supposed they may be. Timothy Titcomb, instead of saying the thing which he considers ought to be said, says the thing he feels, and the thing that the nature of the case requires him to say. There is the most complete avoidance of nonsense, a refreshing moral health, a conscientious desire to take matters as they are, and make them what they ought to be. We understand that the author deliberately dispenses, sometimes, with dignity, and the rules of classical composition, to gain a shorter access to all grades of society, and make a more vivid impression. If the end demands the means, we have no doubt he is right. And even in point of style, his bright, energetic Saxon is a good compensation for the absence of a more fastidious rhetoric. As to sentiment, there is never the slightest deviation from the purest delicacy; indeed, there is, in that respect, the rare blamelessness of a genuine and righteous heart. Were the principles and spirit of these generous and brotherly counsels fairly diffused through the homes of New England, how wholesome, genial, peaceable, and holy our domestic life would be! It is not often that we read a writer touching so many of those topics of society, manners, every-day morals, about which tastes as well as consciences are apt to differ, of whom we are able to say so often, with emphatic affirmation, Yes, his view of this is exactly right. It is to be hoped that the popular cast of the book will not hinder its reception among those whose careful literary training has not exempted them from the mischiefs and miseries of the passions and foibles that are here exposed, and has still less lifted them above the noble and generous remedies here eloquently recommended. Men and Things. By JAMES L. 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[From the Edinburgh Review.] "Miller's descriptions in this work are fresh, eloquent, and true as any that have ever issued from his pen. We have renewed our recollection of them with infinite pleasure, and we have little doubt that this volume will share largely in the popularity of his other works." [From Prof. Huntington's Magazine.] "The present volume is not less entertaining, and hardly less instructive, than those that have gone before. It combines adventure and philosophy, pleasantry and learning, vivid description and serious reflection, romance and religion, with singular felicity." [From the Boston Journal.] "Its style alone would render it charming; but that is simply the translucent medium for conveying the choicest beauties of rare scientific knowledge; for accurate, yet brilliant sketches each of whose subjects stamps itself upon the mental retina; for noble and far-reaching views, and warm, healthful emotions." [From the New York Evening Post.] "The work displays the great geologist's strong, comprehensive sense, his keen observation of nature, his learning, and terse and graphic simplicity of style, which imparts a high and peculiar value to all his writings. On the whole, we think this volume is likely to prove the most popular of all the writings which the philosopher of Scotland has bequeathed us." [From the Philadelphia Presbyterian.] "The work has a double charm of a scientific treatise of high merit, and a glowing and most eloquently written narrative of travel." [From the Boston Courier.] "It has those marked and characteristic merits which have given to the previous publications of the lamented writer so wide a circulation, and so enduring a popularity. Indeed, we predict for the present work an unusual degree of public favor, because there is in it so much of animated description and spirited narrative." 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