METHOD OF PHILOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.* -We omitted in our last to notice this essay towards a plan or method for the grammatical and philological study of the English language. It is very cleverly done, and ought to be greeted most cordially by all who have at heart this very important but sadly neglected branch of study. It consists of a series of selections from Bunyan, Milton, Shakespeare, Spencer, and Chaucer, with a very copious list of questions at the foot of each page,-the answers to which are to be sought for in the books of referer.ce whose titles are given Prominent among these are the larger and abridged English grammars by Professor Fowler. We are sorry that we have no better grammars for philological uses than these, but we must be content with such as we have.

These exercises are progressive, being in the first place, grammatical, as are the extracts from Bunyan, and at last, phonetic, orthographic, historical, and critical of the text as in the extracts from Chaucer.

This is a very good beginning. The proper use to be made of it is to introduce it into schools and colleges. This will prepare the way for a more complete text-book, with more varied references.

A SUMMER IN SKYE. -Since the days of Dr. Johnson and Boswell, there has not been much to turn the attention of the literary world to the island of Skye! But the mists have been lifted a little, and Skye has been visited once more! Mr. Alexander Smith, once rather questionably known as "the poet,"-has written this very attractive book to tell us that the Cuchullins are still as wild and beautiful as ever, and that there is at least one corner of the British Islands yet left where there is a people living in true Gaelic simplicity. But the traveler who would verify his description, and see the country of the Isle-men in the light of Ossian must hasten his steps, for, as Mr. Smith says of the famous poems of Walter Scott, next year this volume will be "grated down into a guide book," and Loch Snizort and Duntulme will

* Method of Philological Study of the English Language. By FRANCIS A. MARCH, Professor of the English Language, &c., in Fayette College, Easton, Pa. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1865. 18mo. pp. 118.

A Summer in Skye. By ALEXANDER SMITH. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 423. New Haven: T. H. Pease. Price $1.75.

be on exhibition to the whole world of tourists, and "the wilderness of Skye" will be a wilderness no longer. We should like to dwell longer on this charming volume, for it is "as full as an egg is of meat." We have been astonished as we have taken it up day after day to find how famous a place is Skye, and how much is going on in that far away island in which the world should take an interest!

THE FREEDMEN'S BOOK.*-This book is in every way significant of the new order of things! It is an attractive looking volume, of some literary pretensions, edited by Mrs. L. Maria Child, and brought out by one of the most respectable publishing houses in the United States. The contents compare favorably with the best books of miscellaneous reading which are prepared for people of a whiter skin. The volume is dedicated to "the loyal and brave Capt. Robert Small, the hero of the steamboat Planter." It is worthy of notice that eighteen of the articles here published are contributed by eleven persons of African descent.

BROWNELL'S WAR LYRICS.t-Here is a little volume which has at once placed Henry Howard Brownell in the very first rank of American lyrical poets! His lines are instinct with true impassioned poetic fire, and breathe the very spirit of that hour when Farragut in the maintop fought the battle of Mobile Bay. It is fitting that the heroic deeds of "the grand old chief" should be thus nobly sung by one who was with him in the terrible fight of the River and the Bay. We quote from "the Fight in MobileBay."

But ah! the pluck of the crew!
Had you stood on that deck of ours,
You had seen what men may do.

Still as the fray grew louder,
Boldly they worked and well;
Steadily came the powder,
And steadily came the shell,

* The Freedmen's Book.

By Mrs. L. MARIA CHILD. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

1866. 12mo. pp. 277. New Haven: T. H. Pease.

+ War Lyrics: and other poems. By HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 1866. 16mo. pp. 243. New Haven: T. H. Pease. Price $1.50.

And if tackle or truck found hurt,

Quickly they cleared the wreck; And the dead were laid to port, All a-row on our deck.

Never a nerve that failed,
Never a cheek that paled,

And now as we looked ahead,
All for'ard, the long white deck
Was growing a strange dull red;
But soon, as once and again
Fore and aft we sped,

(The firing to guide or check,) You could hardly choose but tread

On the ghastly human wreck, (Dreadful gobbet and shred

That a minute ago were men!)

Red from mainmast to bitts!

Red, on bulwark and waleRed, by combing and hatchRed, o'er netting and rail!

And ever, with steady con

The ship forged slowly by

And ever the crew fought on,

And their cheers rang loud and high.

Grand was the sight to see

How by their guns they stood,

Right in front of our dead,

Fighting square abreast.

Ended the mighty noise,
Thunder of forts and ships,

Down we went to the hold

O, our dear dying boys!

How we pressed their poor brave lips (Ah, so pallid and cold!)

And held their hands to the last,

(Those that had hands to hold.)

There are over thirty of these "War-Lyrics," besides a larger number of "Miscellaneous Pieces," some of which are of a humorous character. Of this latter kind, one of the best describes the uncomfortable feelings of a sea-sick "Parsinger" on a "Californy Steemer."

"None of 'em seem to keer 64 cents
How bad a feller may feel,

Nur to talk to him—not even the saler
Foolin away his time on a wheel!"

MRS. BARRETT'S POEMS.*-Mrs. Barrett was the wife of Capt. Charles H. Barrett, who graduated at Yale College in 1852. She died of Asiatic cholera on board the merchant-ship which her husband commanded, on the voyage between Hong Kong and Shanghai, July 13th, 1863. This beautiful volume contains a collection of Mrs. Barrett's poems, some of which were originally published in the New Haven newspapers. An interesting account of her life, written by the Rev. S. Dryden Phelps, D. D., serves as a very appropriate introduction.

WINIFRED BERTRAM.t-We have just received at the last moment before going to press another volume which comes from the popular authoress of the "Schonberg-Cotta Family," and the "Diary of Kitty Trevylyan." The publisher is Mr. M. W. Dodd, of New York City, whose American editions of her works, -as the authoress in a card informs the readers of her books,-" alone" have her "sanction."

EVERY SATURDAY.-Messrs. Ticknor & Fields of Boston, the well known publishers of The Atlantic, and The North American Review, announce that on Saturday, Jan. 6th, 1866, they will begin the publication of a weekly journal, with the title which we have given above, which will be devoted to "choice reading selected from foreign current literature."

This new magazine is intended for Town and Country, for the Fireside, the Seaside, the Railway, and the Steamboat. Its plan embraces Incidents of Travel and Adventure, Essays Critical and Descriptive, Serial Tales, Short Stories,

* The Poems of Elizabeth G. Barber Barrett.-New York: Hurd & Houghton. 1866. 12mo. pp. 453. New Haven: Judd & White. Price $3.

+ Winifred Bertram: and the World she lived in. By the author of the "Schonberg-Cotta Family." New York: M. W. Dodd, 506 Broadway. 1866 12mo. pp. 479. New Haven: F. T. Jarman. Price $1.75.

Poems, Biographies, Literary intelligence, etc., in connection with judicious selections from the admirable popular papers on Science which are constantly appearing in foreign periodicals."

Every Saturday "is to contain each week thirty-two large octavo pages, handsomely printed in double columns, with an engraved title."

Terms.-Single Numbers, 10 cents. Subscription Price, $5.00 per year, in advance. MONTHLY PARTS will be issued containing 128 pages each, handsomely bound in attractive cover, price 50 cents. Subscription price, $5.00 per year in advance.

Clubbing Arrangement-Subscribers to any of the other Periodicals published by Ticknor and Fields will receive Every Saturday for $4.00 per year in advance.

Messrs. Ticknor and Fields, it will be remembered, are also the publishers of Our Young Folks. This magazine, so full of interest to children, reached during the first half year of its existence a circulation of over fifty thousand! The publishers announce that during the coming year (1866) they hope to make the magazine still more attractive and valuable.

NEW PUBLICATIONS OF MESSRS. SEVER AND FRANCIS OF CAMBRIDGE, MASS.-The Ballad Book. Selection of the Choicest British Ballads. Edited by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM, Author of "Day and Night Songs," etc. 18mo. 1866. pp. 397.

The Sunday Book of Poetry.-Selected and arranged by C. F. ALEXANDER, author of Hymns for Little Children, etc. 18mo. pp. 335.

BOOKS RECEIVED.

The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Ticknor & Fields. Blue and Gold. 24mo. pp. 240.

Golden Haired Gertrude. A Story for Children. By THEODORE TILTON. With Illustrations by H. L. STEPHENS. New York: Tibbals & Whiting. Small quarto. pp. 40.

Chastelard. A Tragedy. By ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE New York: Hurd & Houghton. 1866. 12mo. pp. 178.

Vital Godliness.-A treatise on experimental and practical piety. By WILLIAM S. PLUMER, D. D., LL. D. American Tract Society. 12mo. pp. 610. New

Haven: F. T. Jarman.

John Vine Hall; or Hope for the Hopeless. An autobiography edited by his son, Rev. NEWMAN HALL, of Surrey Chapel, London. 12mo. pp. 264. American Tract Society, New York. Price 60 cents. New Haven: F. T. Jarman

Analysis of Darwin, Huxley, and Lyell; Being a critical examination of the views of these authors in regard to the origin and antiquity of man. By HENRY A. DUBOIS, M. D., LL. D. Repulication from the "American Quarterly Church Review." 1866. 8vo. pp. 94.

A Brief Memoir of Rev. Giles Firman,-one of the ejected ministers of 1662. By JOHN WARD DEAN, Vice President of the Prince Society. Boston: 1866. Pp. 16.