Mr. Frank Moore's "Rebellion Record," with its monthly issue, cannot overtake the progress of "American Events." To the volume of pulpit discourses, which we have heretofore noticed, it has been found necessary to add another Supplementary Volume, filled with a variety of important documents, for which no room could be found in the regular series of numbers. In Part I of this volume we find, among other documents, the speech of John Bright, M. P., to his fellow-townsmen," at Rochdale, England, December 4, 1861,-speeches of Joseph Holt and William Curtis Noyes, at New York, September 10, 1861,-Senator Sumner's oration, entitled "The Rebellion: it origin and mainspring," and the stirring and effective speech of Daniel S. Dickinson, at Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, August 10, 1861. We find in it, also, the speech of John S. Carlile, (now Senator in Congress from the hypothetical State of Virginia), delivered in the Virginia State Convention, March 7, 1861,-a speech which, with not a little forcible reasoning against the madness and treason of secession, propounds incidentally, and by way of conciliating favor, the atrocious creed "that African slavery, as it exists in the Southern States, is essential to American liberty." What can be expected, at this crisis, from a Senator with such a profession of faith?

But in some respects the most interesting document in this part of the volume is the "Letter to Richard Cobden, Esq., M. P.," by our friend, Dr. J. P. Thompson, of New York, on "The United States and England: their international spirit." Though written for publication in Great Britain, it is well suited to relieve some painful feelings which have been excited in this country by persistent misrepresentations on the part not only of the London Times, but of many other organs of British opinion. Dr. Thompson, writing as a witness, handles briefly but effectively three leading topics. "1. The prevalent spirit of the people of the United States toward the people of England. 2. The social, political, and moral condition of the loyal States during this intestine war. 3. The bearing of the war for the Union upon constitutional liberty, human freedom, and Christian civilization." Should the progress of events produce a serious and lasting alienation of feeling between these two great and free nations, the effect would be disastrous to all human interests.

AMONG THE PINES: OR SOUTH IN SECESSION TIME.*—A_well written narrative of a four weeks spent in South Carolina just before the outbreak of the present rebellion. The reason for its publication is given by the writer. An important service had been rendered to him by a slave named Scipio, and when about to leave the State he asked the negro in what way he could express his gratitude.

"I likes you, massa," Scipio replied, the tears coming to his eyes; "I tuk ter you de bery fuss day I seed you, 'case I suppose," and he wrung my hand till it ached, "you pitied de poor brack man. But you caint do nuffin for me, massa; I doant want nuffin; I doant want to leab har, 'case de Lord dat put me har, arn't willin' I shud gwo. But you can do suffin, massa, for de poor brack man,-an' dat 'll be doin it for me, 'case my heart am all in dat. You kin tell dem folks up dar, whar you lib, massa, dat we'm not like de brutes, as dey tink we is. Dat we's got souls, an' intelligence, an' feelin', an' am men like demself. You kin tel 'em, too, massa- -'case you's eddication, and can talk-how de poor wite man 'am kep' down har; how he'm ragged, an' starvin', and ob no account, 'case de brack man am a slave.

You's seed dis, massa, wid your own eyes, an' you kin tell 'em on it; an' you will tell 'em on it, massa ;" and again he took my hand while the tears rolled down his cheeks; "an' Scipio will bress you fur it, massa; wid his bery las breaf he'll bress you; an' de good Lord will bress you, too, massa. He will foreber bress you, fur He'm on de side ob de poor an' de 'flicted. His own Book say dat, an' it am true; I know it, fur I feels it har;" and he laid his hand on his heart, and was silent.

I could not speak for a moment. When I mastered my feelings, I said, "I will do it, Scip; as God gives me strength, I will." Reader, I am keeping my word.

Written by one who calls himself a Conservative, an Old Line Whig, and a voter for Douglas, the book shows no trace of the bitterness which too often colors the accounts of more radical men. Personally, its representations are rather favorable to the slaveholder, and therefore the facts narrated show the system in even

* Among the Pines: or South in Secession Time. By EDMUND KIRKE. New York: J. R. Gilmore, 532 Broadway. Charles T. Evans. 1862. 12mo, pp. 310. For sale by T. H. Pease. Price $1.

darker colors. Appearing as a serial in the Continental, it has no doubt already been widely read, and is deserving of a more extended circulation.

HON. ALFRED ELY'S JOURNAL.*-The circumstances of the capture of Hon. Alfred Ely, member of Congress from Rochester, by the Confederate forces at Bull Run, are well known. The journal of his confinement in the Tobacco Factory at Richmond for five months, until he was exchanged for Mr. Charles J. Faulkner, form a most interesting volume, throwing important light on the conduct of the war. He saw almost nothing of Richmond, and does not discuss the condition of affairs at the South, but in a sprightly style, full of details, he tells whatever occurred under his own eye during his dreary confinement in the confederate prison. As a member of Congress, he was a man of decided mark among all the captives, and at times was almost overwhelmed with calls from prominent Southerners, Governor Letcher, John C. Breckinridge, Minister Faulkner, and many more. He gives a statement

of their conversation. He also relates the various contrivances of the prisoners of war to overcome the tedious monotony of their life. This volume makes no pretensions to literary elegance, but

a political and historical narrative, it is of high value. The perusal has keenly impressed us with the privation, anxiety and distress which so many of our brave countrymen have been subjected to, and with deeper convictions than ever that the monstrous enemy of our country must be thoroughly put down.

UPRISINGS OF A GREAT PEOPLE.t-Mr. Scribner has issued a revised edition of Count Gasparin's admirable volume on the origin of the present war in this country. We have before heartily commended this work as the best exhibition of the "Uprising of a Great People." The revised edition contains a translation of Count Gasparin's comments on the Trent affair, entitled, "A Word of Peace."

* Journal of Alfred Ely, a Prisoner of War in Richmond. Edited by Chas. Lanman. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1862. 12mo.

Uprisings of a Great People. By Count A. DE GASPARIN. Second Revised Edition. N. G. C. Scribner. 1862. Price $2.

MISCELLANY.

LESSONS IN LIFE.* The indefatigable Timothy Titcomb does not easily tire in offering to the public his pleasant and instructive moralizings. That the public does not tire in reading these moralizings is evident from the circumstance that this, his latest production, has already reached its tenth edition. Whatever our cheerful, humane and hopeful author writes, is marked by the same general characteristics of style, thought and feeling; characteristics which have justly made him one of the most popular of American essayists. And yet he does not repeat himself, but each of his works is marked by distinctive peculiarities in accordance with the demands of his varying themes. It would be an interesting subject for the critical essayist to compare the peculiarities of the Country Parson and Timothy Titcomb. Each in his excellencies and defects is peculiarly English and American.

BROWN ON HEALTH.†-This is a delightful little book, written in a natural, sprightly style, and fitted to be interesting to many who do not belong to "the working classes." Three out of the five sermons were delivered at a missionary station in Edinburgh, and we are sure that the hearers must have been benefited by this clear and simple statement of the rules of health. The sermons are remarkable for their plain common sense, the writer being impressed with the idea that it is necessary to speak plainly to working people. And then without the slightest cant or pretension, he manages in a most adroit way to lead his hearers to a consideration of their spiritual well-being. The duties which they owe to their physician leads him most naturally to speak of their obligations to the Divine Healer of souls-the kindness and patience of their physician reminds him of the patience and longsuffering of their Heavenly Friend. The volume is characterized by the same quiet humor which has charmed so many readers in the "Leisure Hours" of the author.

* Lessons in Life. A series of Familiar Essays. By TIMOTHY TITCOMB, author of "Letters to the Young," "Gold-foil." Tenth edition. New York: Charles Scribner. 1862. 12mo. pp. 344.

* Health. Five lay sermons to working people. By JOHN BROWN, M. D. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers. 1862. 16mo.

WORKMEN And their DIFFICULTIES.* This is another of the admirable works which have been written in England within a few years past in the interest of the lower and working classes of Great Britain. It is addressed particularly to workmen, and aims to benefit them by sympathy, instruction, and Christian counsel, and by enlisting the sympathy and coöperation of the classes more highly favored. It takes a sound and Christian view of the relationship between the employer and the employed, points out the difficulties of both classes, and the errors into which they are apt to fall in their attempts to remedy them, and suggests the remedies of patient forbearance, a clear understanding of each other's interests, and especially the elevation of the suffering classes, in mental and moral culture. It deprecates the prevalent hostility between capital and labor, and points out the ruinous folly of "strikes," as well as of all violent forms of remedy for real or imagined grievances. Those who have read "Ragged Homes, and How to Mend them," by the same author, will be likely to be attracted by the volume before us. The author shows a thorough understanding of her subject, and a hearty sympathy with the class for whose benefit she writes.

ANNUAL OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY.-This annual has been so often noticed in these pages, and is so widely and favorably known, that we need not stop to remark now on its general character or merits. The volume for 1862 sketches the progress of science during the past year, and presents a record of the leading discoveries and inventions pertaining to its several branches; as, for example, in Mechanics and the useful Arts, the various improve

* Workmen and their Difficulties. By Mrs. BAYLY, author of “Ragged Homes, and How to Mend them." New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 530 Broadway. 1861. pp. 235.

Annual of Scientific Discovery: or, year-book of Facts in Science and Art for 1862. Exhibiting the most important discoveries and improvements in Mechanics, useful Arts, Natural Philosophy, Chemistry, Astronomy, Geology, Zoology, Botany, Mineralogy, Meteorology, Geography, Antiquities, etc. Together with Notes on the progress of Science, during the year 1861; a list of recent Scientific publications; Obituaries of eminent Scientific men, etc. Edited by DAVID A. WELLS, A. M., author of Principles of Natural Philosophy, Principles of Chemistry, Science of Common Things, etc. Boston: Gould & Lincoln, 59 Washington street. New York: Sheldon & Co. Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard. London: Trubner & Co. 1862. pp. 415.