of the same shell encircled the legs, which were sometimes of a shape to gratify the relate to the slave discussion are particu larly obnoxious, and no opportunity escapes nicest exactions of the civilized standard. The forms of our Indian damsels were genof indulging a sneer at the expense of the erally syminetrical and erect; their move- South, her institutions and her statesmen ments at once agile and graceful-their fore- Nothing but rottenness he finds in this Denheads high, their lips thin, and with a soft, mark. One extract we should like to give, persuasive expression, inclining to melancholy; while their eyes, black and bright, from the speech of Mr. Scott, of Pennsyl always shone with a peculiar forest fire, that vania, (who, it would seem, was the original seemed happily to consort with their dark, author of the "higher law" doctrine,) made but not unpleasing complexions. Well, indeed, with a pardonable vanity, might the in the first Congress under the Constitution, people call them, The Daughters of the upon the subject of slavery. Mr. Hildreth Sun.' He had made them his by his warm-reports the debate in such a manner as comest and fondest glances. These were the women, whose descendants in after days, as Yemassees, and Muscoghees, and Seminoles, became a scourge of so large a portion of the Anglo-American race." 18. HILDRETH'S HISTORY UNITED STATES. History of the United States of America. By Richard Hildreth. Vol. IV. New-York: Harper & Brothers. 1851. The volume before us is the first of a new series, the author having previously published three others upon the Colonial and Revolutionary times. He has here to deal with the period which immediately succeeded the adoption of the Constitution, and contemplates, in two volumes more, to bring the whole subject, through the administration of Adams, the downfall of the federalists, the transfer of power to the republicans, the elevation of Madison, etc etc., to the administration of Monroe, in which the old party lines were greatly worn away, or entirely obliterated. We have read this first volume, which is entirely occupied with the administration of Washington, with very close attention, and much instruction, from the novelty and amount of information embodied; but so keen and bitter are the prejudices and antipathies of the author towards the South, and everything Southern; towards Mr Jefferson, and the whole republican party afterwards, and so delighted is he to dwell upon any points which may be tortured to their disadvantage, that we can place but little confidence in his integrity as a historian, and none whatever in his feelings as a man. Never before was history so prostituted to gratify personal or party malevolence. We had marked a great many passages for comment and condemnation, but space mits him to an approval, or at least we have no evidence of his disapproval, of the odious sentiments of the speech. In fact, he has introduced it immediately after his remark: "The patience of some of the Northern members, at length, began to give way," 21.-Nile Notes of a Howadje. New-York: and time do not now admit. Those which the genuine Oriental prose-poetic style. 22.-Malleville, a Franconia Story, by the 1 author of the Rollo Books. New-York: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-st. 1850. "FIDELITY OF A SLAVE. "It was a delightful, calm, summer evening, and the family had just taken an airing around the environs of the city in their carriage. As they alighted on their return, the nurse happening to meet them with the 23.-Wallace; a Franconia Story, by the youngest child, a lovely little girl, in ber arms, obtained permission to ride out a short distance to amuse the infant. No one else author of 24.-The Rollo Books. New-York: Har- went, as the horses were thought to be perper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-st. 1850. These are instructive and entertaining lit-it happened, in descending a steep hill which tle books, by Jacob Abbot, an author who has acquired a deserved popularity by his series of interesting volumes for the education of youth. We cordially recommend them. 25.-Consuelo; by George Sand, translated of 26.—Mississippi Scenes, or Sketches Southern and Western Life. By Joseph B. Cobb, of Longwood, Miss. 1851. Philadelphia: Carey & Hart. New-Orleans: J. C. Morgan. The work is moulded upon the plan of the "Georgia Scenes," and dedicated to their author, Judge Longstreet. Many of the stories have been told before, over the sig nature of Rambler, in the Mississippi papers. They possess quite interest enough to sustain the reader's attention, and we have no doubt they will enliven many a tedious hour in the Southwest. The writer is a Geor gian by birth, and we therefore regret his introducing the story of the boy Joe, on page 92, which might do very well for the sickly sentimentalist of the North. We have seen more misery from the separation of white parents and children, dictated by the stern laws of necessity, than we have ever seen from black, and this is universal Southern experience. Mr. Cobb gives several interesting stories, showing the devotion of negroes to their owners, from which we ex tract one: fectly gentle, and as all confidence was placed in the driver's care and skill. But arose beyond the river on which the little city was situated, that a breast-chain broke, and the carriage being pushed suddenly upon and evidently in a fright. The bridge was the horses, they started off at a furious gait, to be passed, and the faithful driver, more alarmed for his precious charge than himself, shouted to the nurse with trembling voice that he had lost all control over his horses. The honest creature did not hesi tate, but took her resolve in a moment. With wonderful self-possession, which could have been inspired by nothing short of her devotion to her owners, and their beloved offspring, and, as the only possible chance, she hastily unfastened the door, and then turning so as to make sure of alighting on fant at arins' length above her, that it might her back, at the same time holding the in thus escape the slightest jar, she threw her. self out with a spring, perfectly regardless of everything but the safety of her master's child. Her plan succeeded; for several running up to her aid immediately, discogentlemen who witnessed the whole affair, vered that the infant was entirely unhurt, though the devoted nurse had sustained severe injury. Fortunately, the horses were stopped in time to prevent any serious acci dent; and afterwards, when the same gentlemen called to congratulate the distinguished father on the child's escape, they declared to him that he possessed a treasure of priceless value in this devoted nurse-a fact of which he was, by the by, fully aware." 27.-LETTERS FROM THREE CONTINENTS. We noticed in our last, the letters of Matthew F. Ward, Esq., written from different points of the Old World, and have more lately given them a closer perusal, from which it is impossible to rise without forming a high notion of the intelligence and ability of the author. We trust that his future labors may not be grudgingly expended in the cause of letters. The following we have thought possesses sufficient general interest to be extracted from the many good things in the volume: "THE BAZAARS OF CONSTANTINOPLE." 29.-London Labor and the London Poor. By Henry Mahew. 30.-Time, the Avenger. By the author of the Wilmingtons. These are late tales and novels from the prolific and splendid press of Harper & Brothers, and are delivered us by J. B. Steel, Bookseller, of New-Orleans. 31.-Josephine. By Grace Aguilar. Forrester. 34.-The Jenny Lind Songster. By Frank Townsend, of New-York, through our neighCheap publications from Stringer and bor, J. C. Morgan, of New-Orleans. They make capital light reading for the summer for steam-boats and rail-roads. SLAVERY AND LIBERIA. 35.-Essay on Slavery. By Thomas R. Dew. 36.-Annual Report Colonization Society, I hastened to these celebrated marts of Eastern luxuries. I entered, and all the gorgeous illusions of fancy at once faded into a dark covered passage, whose lofty arched roof was supported by stone pillars, and along whose narrow sides were ranged the shelves, which were crowded with the goods of the petty merchants who occupied the bazaar. Each partition of shelves is closed at night by two large shutters hung on hinges, one of which, during the day, is hoisted above, and the other is let down on a stone parapet, which runs along both sides of the passage, and forms a low counter, upon which is squatted the merchant, and upon which the purchasers usually seat themselves whilst bargaining for his goods. Most generally in his shelves, about twelve feet long, and his counter, from which he rarely descends, about four feet wide, consist the entire shop of the Turkish merchaut, possessed, as I had imagined, of countless treasures. His stock in trade is composed of striped mixtures of cotton and silk from Damascus-of Persian silks, which are but sorry imitations of Cashmere shawls-of numerous importations from Europe, of inferior silks, muslins, and other articles of ladies' apparel-of handkerchiefs and napkins for the table, worked in colored worsted of gaudy caps for the side of the head and sashes and bags richly embroidered in gold, which, being tastefully arranged about his little shop, give it a gay, showy appear. ance. Such articles as these, stowed away in narrow little cribs, ten or twelve feet by four, were all I could discover to represent those luxurious splendors of the bazaars, of which modern tourists so enthusiastically rant. The bazaars are only lighted by windows in the side of the lofty roof, which, although they afford a slanting indistinct light, very favorable to the good appearance of rather ordinary goods, do not dispel the gene. ral gloom of the large passages; these pas sages, some eight or ten feet wide, being as rudely paved as the streets, and having in their centre a gutter, down which, of a rainy day. flows a little torrent of liquid filth. We have the Colonization Society, and could not but think, while groping my way they will enable us, with a mass of other I Liberia papers, under consideration, and through a dense crowd, over their very rough and somewhat dirty floor, how vastly documents, to prepare one or two elaborate inferior, in elegance, both of goods and ac- articles upon the subject, to appear in our commodation, were the far-famed bazaars to pages in the next two or three months. We Stewart's or Raphael's; yet books have have no prejudices. Our object and purnever been written in praise of either. But, although the bazaars are so lamentably defi- pose is a fair investigation, to whatever it cient, both in elegance and comfort, yet they may lead. are as full of novel and curious things as Mr. Oldbuck's antiquarian collection; and in wandering amidst the thousand and one rare sights of their almost endless passages, that branched off in every direction, like the intricate avenues of some grand cavern, I have managed to spend most delightfully some four or five days." 1851. 37.-Mr. Gurley's Report on Liberia. We are indebted to a friend in Virginia for Professor Dew's letters on Slavery, which we have long desired to obtain, and which for some months to come. No argument was we shall republish in parts in our Review ever more conclusive in favor of the South than this, and the work being nearly out of print, deserves to be perpetuated. alike among the friends and the opponents We have many dear friends of the Society. It is with pain that we find some of them yielding every point for which the South has so long contended. To think that our old friend, and guide and pastor, Dr. Fuller, who had battled so gallantly with Wayland in defence of the South, should at 28.-The Moreland Cottage. By the au- last be heard in the Colonization Society de thor of Mary Barton. livering a speech, which the Society itself, 23d of February, 1851. Its tone is elevated, and matter logical and instructive. Professor Miles has one of the most powerfully metaphysical minds in the country, as bis late work upon philosophical theology evinces. The Charleston College may well take pride in his fame. in a note, is obliged to dissent from, in the, ating class of the Charleston College, on the fear it will irretrievably ruin their prospects at the South! Great God, it is time to pause and be serious when we hear a southern man, and a leader, use such language as this“Does not a sacred duty to Africa and the salvation of this country-truth, justice, love, require that Congress should be ready to interpose not only to deport, but to redeem-to PURCHASE the slaves of those who are willing to engage in an arduous, tedious, but most sublime undertaking ?" QUEM VULT DEUS PERDERE, ETC., ETC. 38.-The Romish Confessional: or, the 40.—The Plays of Shakspeare.-Phillips, The books which we mentioned in our last as from Blanchard & Lea, have not as yet come to hand. 41.-NOTES. One of our agents in Mississippi writes: "There is no state in the Union where the peach, the pear and apple grow to greater perfection than here, and none where the peach lasts so long. Whilst at Vicksburg, I visited Col. Hebron's plantation, who has devoted 125 acres to the cultivation of fruit. I have never seen the peach-tree so healthy in any part of the Union. He has 4,000 peachtrees nearly matured, 1,000 bearing appletrees. 1,500 pear-trees, 300 of which are bearing, besides great varieties of plum, fig," &c. Professor J. W. MILES has favored us with a copy of his Address before the gradu We have received from A. Hart, (late Carey and Hart,) Philadelphia, a valuable work on PLANK-ROADS, by Wm. Kingsford, of New-York, with some useful addenda. We shall make some extracts from it in our future numbers, in the way of notes, to Mr. Gregg's able article upon the subject, now on our table. We regret not having space to insert any of it this month. CHARLES GAYARRE, Esq'rs work upon Louisiana, will be largely noticed by us next month. The first volume has already been issued, and the second is ready for the press. We remind our readers that Mr. Kendall's "Views on the Mexican War," which we noticed last month, have been received in New Orleans. The enormous expense which has been incurred, and the splendid manner of the execution, ought to bespeak for the work a large patronage. NEW ORLEANS AND NEW-YORK STEAMERS. At last we have the prospect of a speedy, regular and certain communication between these great cities, by a line of steam-ships, wholly disconnected from any other business whatever. This is what New Orleans bas long wanted. There has been too much uncertainty and too little accommodation, to say nothing of periodical interruptions, in the way the old line inanaged it. We herald the change as a great public benefit, and doubt not there will be the most liberal encouragement offered. There is no mode of reaching the North which presents anything like the same advantages. The new steamers are the Union and the Winfield Scott-the former commanded by Captain Budd, a southern man by birth and feelings, and a gentleman well known to the traveling public of the South. We wish the company all success. 42.-EDITORIAL ITEMS. appear up South, and in no respect local to any part of Though NEW ORLEANS and CHARI.ESTON are the head-quarters of its operations, it is issued simultaneously in all the cities of the southern states, from Baltimore to Galveston and St. Louis. Every part of this field is entirely occupied in every thing that regards their industrial progress, without excluding the general facts of Northern, American, and European industry. 2.-The Review occupies a ground which does not interfere with any work in the Union. It is the only one of the kind in the South, and is rather a co-laborer than rival of Mr. Hunt's Magazine, which, published at the North, cannot be supposed so well informed in regard to our peculiar affairs. The works are supplemental to each other. The continuation of our Texas Story-it. "The Regulator," was unavoidably crowded out of the present number, but will in our next. We have also received another number of Mr. Chilton's able papers upon Mississippi, and a very valuable article on the Management of Negroes upon estates, from the pen of a planter of Mississippi, which will appear next month. Our friend, Judge Monroe, of the Louisiana Law School, has had the honorable degree of LL.D. conferred upon him by the University of Louisville. Lieut. Forbes, of the Royal Navy, England, has published a work on Africa, in which he charges the Liberians with hold ing many negroes in slavery. We have sent for the work. The posthumous papers of Mr. Calhoun will soon be issued from the Charleston press, together with a complete edition of the speeches of that great man. The work will be embraced in five or six volumes, and is published at the expense of South Carolina. A. G. Pickett's History of Alabama will appear in a few months, from the same press, with many handsome illus. trations. We agree in the words of a contemporary: "We have long known Col. Pickett's devotion to literature-his zeal, liberality and perseverance in the acquisition of knowledge -his patient industry in condensing and arranging his materials, and the high order of his mind; and we expect from him a work which will be of great historical interest, and particularly acceptable to the people of the South-west." R. G. BARNWELL, Esq., who has been for some months assistant editor of the Review, and has contributed several able and valuable articles to its pages, will travel during the following year in the states of South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia, for the purpose of stirring up the goodly denizens of those ancient commonwealths in the cause of the Review, which at present numbers but a very few supporters in that quarter of the Union, where Northern magazines and books of every kind, supply almost the entire demand. In introducing Mr. Barnwell, it can hardly be necessary for us to say, that: 1.-The Review is altogether a Southern work, originated and conducted by Southern men, published at the South, treating of the 3. The Review has no politics, touches upon no party discussions, and has but one great and exclusive argument to conduct— the prosperity, social and industrial, of the Southern States, and their entire independ ence in this behalf. It is believed that the friends of the South will everywhere rally around Mr. Barnwell, and that through his labors and theirs, seve ral thousand new subscribers will be added to our lists very soon. The expenses of the work are enormous; and if our friends in those old states of the sea-board, where we were reared, will do as well for it as the generous ones we have found in the Southwest, the Review will speedily vie with the most prosperous ones of the North, if it does not eclipse them. Shall we have to South rally around us, who have been the appeal in vain for this, or will not the whole first to move; and who, after years of struggles and heavy losses, begin but the present year to see the clear light of day upon us? Our hopes for the future are high, and we shall go on adding with untiring assiduity from month to month, every possible improvement to the Review, which now enters upon the sixth year of its existence. Review during the past year in Arkansas Mr. BRABAZON, who has traveled for the and Texas, will now make a tour of the western and north-western states, and also in the northern and eastern states, for the purpose of obtaining advertisements and sub |