tling at Esher, he and Mrs. Howitt made another excursion into the North of England, Scotland, and the Western Isles, traversing the most interesting portions of their journey again on foot. They spent a short time with Mr. Wordsworth and his family at Rydal, and in Edinburgh made the personal acquaintance of most of the literary and eminent characters there. Mr. Howitt also attended a dinner given by the city of Edinburgh to the poet Campbell, and being requested to give as a toast "the English poets, Wordsworth, Southey, and Moore," he took the opportunity of pressing on the attention of that brilliant company, that if toasting poets did them honour, the true way to serve them was to secure them their "copy-right."

The

During Mr. Howitt's residence at Esher, he published the "Rural Life of England," having previously traversed the country literally from the Land's End to the Scottish borders, to make himself intimately acquainted with the manners and mode of life of the rural population. work is eminently popular; and while it is full of the kindly and cheerful spirit of the "Book of the Seasons," has yet higher claims to public favour even than that most pleasant work, from the more exalted nature of its subject, and the enlightened and philosophical views which it takes of society generally.

In 1838, Mr. Howitt published a work entitled "Colonization and Christianity," a popular history of the treatment of the natives by the Europeans in all their colonies; a work which proves that the writer's philanthropic sympathy is not confined to any race or nation, and unfolds a dark chapter in the history of human nature, and which could hardly fail to produce the most extensive and beneficial effects. In fact, the reading of this volume led Mr. Joseph Pease, Jun., immediately to establish "The British India Society," in which the zealous exertions of Mr. Pease have mainly contributed to the adoption of a new policy by the East India Company, pregnant with the most important benefits to this country; to the liberation of all their slaves, no less than ten millions in number, and to the cultivation of cotton, sugar, and other tropical articles for our market, by which, if continued, not only will the poor population of India be employed, but the manufacturing millions of our own country too, by the constant demand for our manufac

tured goods; of which every year already brings the most striking and cheering evidences.

Soon after this, Mr. Howitt published a little book, which has gladdened many a fireside, called "The Boys' Country Book," a genuine life of a country boy-being evidently his own life. The Boys' Country Book was followed by "Visits to Remarkable Places, Old Halls, Battle Fields, and Scenes illustrative of striking Passages in English History and Poetry." This book was received with enthusiasm ; and though an expensive work, had a large sale, and was followed by a second volume. These works soon found a host of imitators, and have had the beneficial effect of reminding the public of the valuable stores of historic and pcetic interest scattered over the whole face of our noble country. Mrs. Howitt's attention had for years been turned to works for the young. They were written for the amusement and benefit of her own children, and being tested by the actual approbation of this little domestic auditory, were afterwards published and received with equal applause by the young wherever the English language extends. Up to this period she had issued;-The Sketches of natural History. -Tales in Verse; and Tales in Prose.-Birds and Flowers. -Hymns and Fireside Verses.* The popularity of these works induced a publisher (Mr. Tegg) to propose to Mrs. Howitt to write for him a series of Tales for the People and their Children;" of which ten volumes have already appeared, namely;-1. Strive and Thrive,-2. Hope on, Hope ever.-3. Sowing and Reaping.-4. Who shall be Greatest?-5. Which is the Wiser?-6. Little Coin much Care.-7. Work and Wages.-8. Alice Franklin.-9. Love and Money. These volumes have never been introduced to the public by reviews, and it seems to be a system of Mr. Tegg's never to send copies to reviews; nevertheless they have had a vast circulation, and are scattered all over America in sixpenny reprints. They are in themselves a little juvenile library of the most interesting narratives, full of goodness of heart, and sincere moral principles. Translations of "Birds and Flowers," are in progress both in German and Polish, and all the works of William and Mary

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*We must not allow ourselves to be so overcome by a sense of the abundance of the Howitts', as to omit our tribute to the beauty of Mary Howitt's poetical productions, which are not, we think, sufficiently estimated in this article -Ed.

Howitt are immediately reprinted and extensively circulated in America.

Having resided about three years at Esher, Mr. and Mrs. Howitt quited England for a sojourn in Germany. They had for some time had their attention drawn to German literature; and the alleged advantages attending education in Germany, made them resolve to judge for themselves. Attracted by the beauty of the scenery, they took up their head-quarters at Heidelberg, where their children could. steadily pursue their education. Thence, at different times, they visited nearly every part and every large city of Germany, assiduously exerting themselves by social intercourse with the people, as well as by study, to make themselves perfectly familiar with the manners, spirit, and literature of that great and varied nation. During upwards of three years thus spent, with the exception of Mrs. Howitt's continuing the series of "Tales for the People," and editing "Fisher's Drawing-Room Scrap-Book," which was put into her hands on the decease of L. E. L., English literature was now abandoned for the continuous study of the German. The result on Mr. Howitt's part was the translation of a work written expressly for him, "The Student-Life of Germany," containing the most famous songs and music of the German students. This volume, which was vehemently attacked by some of our own newspapers, nevertheless received from the principal journals of Germany, the highest testimonies of accuracy and mastership of translation, and led to numerous applications on the part of German publishers for translations of works into English, as books for the use of students of English, one only of which, however, Mr. Howitt found time to undertake,—the fanciful story of Peter Schlemill, since published by Schrag of Nürnberg. After three years' abode and observation, Mr. Howitt published his "Social and Rural Life of Germany," which was at once well received here, and reprinted in Germany with the assertion of the "Allgemeine Zeitung," the first critical journal of Germany, of its being the most accurate account of that country ever written by a foreigner.

Perhaps, however, as concerns the English public, the most important consequences of Mr. and Mrs. Howitt's sojourn in Germany is, that they had their attention turned to the language and literature of the North of Europe. They had the pleasure of becoming intimately acquainted with an

excellent and highly-accomplished English family who had spent many years in Sweden, and were enthusiastic lovers of its literature. With them they immediately commenced the study of Swedish, and were so much charmed with its affinity, both in form and spirit to the English, that they pursued it with great avidity. The first results have been the introduction of the prose tales of Frederika Bremer, by Mrs. Howitt, to our knowledge;-a new era in our reading world. These charming works, so distinguished by their natural domestic interest, their faithful delineations, their true spirit of kindliness, poetical feeling, good sense, and domestic harmony and affection, have produced a sensation unequalled as a series since the issue of the Waverley novels, and in cheap reprints have been circulated through every class and corner of America. The rapidity with which, from various circumstances, it has been requisite to produce these translations, has, we understand, made it necessary, though appearing as a lady's work entirely in Mrs. Howitt's name, that both Mr. and Mrs. Howitt should latterly unite all their activity in translating, correcting, and passing them through the press.

The Howitts are enthusiastic lovers of their literary pursuits, and anxious to educate their children in the best possible manner, and therefore live a retired and domestic life. Though belonging to the Society of Friends, and attached to its great principles of civil, moral, and religious liberty, they have long ago abandoned its peculiarities; and in manners, dress, and language, belong only to the world. For the honour of literature we may safely say, that amongst the many consolatory proofs in modern times of how much literature may contribute to the happiness of life, the case of the Howitts is one of the most striking. The love of literature was the origin of their acquaintance, its pursuit has been the hand-in-hand bond of the most perfect happiness of a long married life; and we may further add, for the honour of womanhood, that while our authoress sends forth her delightful works in unbroken succession, to the four quarters of the globe, William Howitt has been heard to declare that he will challenge any woman, be she who she may, who never wrote a line, to match his good woman in the able management of a large household, at the same time that she fills her own little world of home with the brightness of her own heart and spirit.

DR. PUSEY.

"The angels, in like manner, can utter in a few words singular the things which are written in a volume of any book, and can express such things, or every word, as elevate its meaning to interior wisdom; for their speech is such, that it is consonant with affections, and every word with ideas. Expressions are also varied, by an infinity of methods, according to the series of the things which are in a complex in the thought."

SWEDENBORG, "Concerning the Wisdom of the Angels of Heaven."

In the vigorous and very ominous contest which has for a considerable time been raging between different sections of the Established Church, it will form no part of this brief notice to engage, on either side. A work like the present cannot, it must be obvious, afford space for lengthy and complex disquisition on any subject; and least of all would its design accord with controversies which are usually, in themselves, endless, whether on matters of religion, science, or politics. A few broad statements of leading principles and facts are all that will be attempted-intended solely for the benefit of those who do not know much of the subject, and have not time to study the "Tracts," but who wish for some concise information.

This necessary avoidance of theological conflicts and the inadmissibility of polemical treatises, must also prevent our taking into the present paper some account of Dr. Chalmers, the leader of the High Church party in the Presbyterian, as Dr. Pusey is in the Episcopal section of the Protestant Church in this kingdom; and must equally prevent any view of the natural opposites of both these leaders in their theological aspects; otherwise our design must have included the lectures of W. J. Fox, and those of the late Dr. Channing, whose transatlantic birth has not precluded his influence among ourselves. Our purpose, however, being limited to the consideration of certain novel doctrines which have been designated after the name of their originator, the following remarks are offered in elucidation.