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cient Irish model, a round tower, and an Irish | lication by the Messrs. Lloyd & Brothers, Ludgate stone cross, of the most ancient form and character, and of the largest proportion. The material is to be the fine-grained granite of Ireland.

It has been proposed, and is, indeed, stated to be a very generally expressed wish, that a colossal statue of Prince Albert should mark the present site of the Crystal Palace. We find it mentioned, that MR. MAYALL, the American photographist, has taken a series of photographs, on an unusually large scale, of various points in the Great Exhibition, which are remarkable for their extreme accuracy and power. Transcripts from the sculpture (the most difficult of all the objects therein assembled in the ordinary way) have thus been rendered perfect! It is said, that Mr. Mayall intends to republish these photographs on paper. No more interesting record of the wonderful World's Fair, or, indeed, of greater value to the future historian or student of Art, could be prepared.

We find in a letter from a gentleman in Florence, recently published in " The Home Journal," a warm eulogium of a young American sculptor now in that city, whose works would appear to merit the meed of high praise. The artist of whom we speak is MR. RANDOLPH ROGERS. His first work (which is quoted as the greatest first attempt of modern times) is “Ruth, the Gleaner," executed for Mr. Dudley Selden. As the choice of subject was left to the artist, we cannot too warmly commend the selection. As in manipulating so obstinate a material as marble, the difficulties in the expression of intense animation or vivid action increase at every step, we deem it modest and judicious in the beginner to select those milder and gentler forms of beauty, which are not less attractive to the truly artistic sense, though far more likely to be successfully developed. Another work has been ordered by Mr. Selden from the same artist, who is, we would remark in conclusion, a native of Detroit.

Mr. Fisher, a well-known artist of New York, has recently turned his attention to the more practicable, though, considering the fate of most patentees, hardly more profitable pursuit of mechanical invention. He has recently patented a steam carriage for ordinary travel on plank and macadamized roads. A committee of The Mechanic's Institute has reported favourably of the invention.

A magnificent copy of an illuminated missal, studded with jewels, was recently presented by the Countess Montesquieu to the Choteau family of St. Louis. It may be remembered that this family showed great kindness to the two unfortunate sons of the Countess, while imprisoned in that city for murder while in a state of insanity.

We learn from a recent number of L'Eco d'Italia, that SIGNOR FRANZONI, an artist of merit, has recently finished an excellent bust of Kossuth. "The work is worthy of that eminent individual, and is a faithful transcript of the original. are happy to learn that in a few days Sig. Franzoni will have also concluded a bust of that tle of Italian democracy, G. Mazzini."

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MUSICAL ITEMS.-MEYERBEER, who has been dangerously ill at Boulogne, is now in Paris, still under medical treatment. He has been ordered by his physicians to suspend all exertion, profes sional and otherwise. So convinced does he appear to have been of the seriousness of his attack, that to a director who desired a new opera, he replied,-" Speak to me about my will." From more recent accounts we however learn that his health is improving, and that he will soon revisit Berlin, his native city.

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The following bit of musical criticism from "THE ALBION," will not be without interest to our opera-goers. Speaking of the relative merits of BETTINI and BADIALI, he remarks of the former, Bettini makes a noble Pollione and Fernando. His youthful fire and fervour of style, combined with his immense volume of voice, will always make him a favourite with hearers. We wish he could give as good a soft tone, as he can a loud one. But when he tries to sing piano, he flats, and becomes untrue to the pitch. think this rather a consequence of the great strain he puts upon his voice. A youthful and withal handsome lover in an opera is certainly a great advantage, however much a tenor like Salvi may steal our senses with his masterly skill alone. For Badiali we have but a single word, and that is unqualified praise. Nothing can surpass the polish and grace of this admirable artist. To have sung so long, and yet to sing so well, to have preserved to such a degree the freshness and vigour and soundness of tone peculiar to him, evinces both a very true school of vocalization, and a corresponding regularity of life every way praiseworthy."

A recent but not very well authenticated story reports, that FRASCHINA, the tenor-singer, has been assassinated, at Trieste, by the baritone, COLLINI.

SPOHR, distinguished, in former days, for his skill as a violin player, as, in modern times, for his operas of Faust, Jessonda, and Zamire, as well as his oratorios of The Last Judgment, and The Crucifixion, which have not been surpassed in the sublimity of many of their parts by any thing since the days of Handel, has been named an honorary member of the Philharmonic Society of St. Petersburg, and has been invited to come there next year, to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of that institution with an oratorio of his own composition.

neglects an opportunity to say a good word for We find it stated, in a weekly, which never the fair ones of our city, that "The opening of the Astor Place Opera-House was signalized by the attendance of an audience unparalleled in brilliancy, and which contained an array of beauty, the like of which had never before been witnessed-save in Philadelphia."

apos-cellent paper," SARONI'S MUSICAL TIMES," which We learn, from the foreign items, of that exdeserves to be found in every boudoir and parlour in the country, that a son of the Prince de Caraja, the Turkish ambassador in Berlin, has composed a set of waltzes, which he calls "A Smoker's Thoughts." A German paper says, that

The Inauguration of the Great Exhibition, by MR. SELOUS, is a painting at present exciting much attention in London. It is painted to commission, with a view to being engraved for pub

detti has not got all his voice back, yet; but it is all safe. He is 'himself again.' In the first act, he felt his position, evidently, the first appearance after an absence of three years, and all that time with an enfeebled voice. But how gloriously he came out in the second act: and how the old time came back,' in the great trio! A little practice among the Fernandos, the Edgardos, and so on, with the sometime suspended habit of looking his audience in the face, and he will be | all right.”

MABERLINI is said to possess a quiet and unostentatious spirit of charity, not inferior to that of any artist who has visited this country.

they contain more smoke than ideas. Apropos | reappearance of BENEDETTI on the stage:-"Beneof Turkey, we learn that the Turkish Government, formerly distinguished for its munificence in the bestowal of diamond boxes and other rewards of merit, has resolved to retrench, and distribute no longer any orders among travelling artists. Virtuosi are now presented with a diploma, which gives them permission, if they choose, to procure an order at their own expense. We wonder if this bestowal of orders, like that of certain Italian courts, is to become a branch of revenue or " contributions indirectes," to the Ottoman Porte. The Roman order of The Golden Spur costs, we believe, seven hundred and fifty francs. MR. J. B. WOODBURY, the musical teacher writes from London, RUBINI has retired entirely from the stage, a piece of information which vividly recalls the expression of the young lady in one of Albert Smith's little books, and which appears at one time to have been an indispensable commonplace in London evening conversation. "Ah!" she exclaims, "what a loss Rubini will be." LABLACHE is growing older, though we imagine that he will always be a favourite as long as he can invent a new extravagance in the style of his pantaloons in Don Pasquale, and display to humorous advantage, the difficulty which he finds in picking up a dropped handkerchief. GRISI is showing the marks of time, though her voice is but lightly affected. Apropos of Grisi, we find the following pretty anecdote relative to her first rise in life, in the Musical Times. There is a truth in the remark of Madame Pasta which will strike all familiar with La Norma.

On the first production of Norma, Madame Pasta had taken up the part of the Priestess with enthusiastic energy; but after six weeks study of the new opera, she sent for the Milanese manager: "We must have a change in the cast," she said. "It will never do for anything but a very beautiful girl to play the part of Adelgisa. Signorina

is very well as a singer, but she is very plain, and for the full success of the opera, the audience must see a reasonable excuse in the apparent plot. The centurion must have more show of excuse for his infidelity to Norma than the present Seconda Donna would any way furnish. Now there is that beautiful creature among the chorus girls; she looks an Adelgisa, and we must teach her to sing it. Send her to me!" The beautiful chorus girl was Giulia Grisi.

An opera, "Casilda," composed by the Duke of Coburg, has been produced in Vienna, and met with a good reception. THALBERG'S opera, Florinda," will be performed during the next season. LISZT intends to produce Berlioz's "Benevenuto Cellini" in Weimar.

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SONTAG, it is stated, will come to this country next year, with an operatic troupe, if a house is erected for her, and placed under her management, capable of holding four thousand persons. GRISI and MARIO are also coming. The latter is at present regarded as the greatest tenor living.

ALBONI, the greatest contralto of this or the past age, is at present in London, "astonishing Europe with her musical powers." The expression is correct, as referring to the immense number of visiters from the Continent, who still lingered in London after the close of the great Exhibition.

THE EXPRESS says of the recent and welcome

A Cincinnati paper says of SALVI, who is now been a great singer, but whether the upward one of Jenny Lind's troupe, "He undoubtedly has pressure of rich fluids and edibles in the gastronomic region has invaded the upper provinces occupied by the lungs, and thereby diminished their capacity, or whether they have suffered only from the wear of time and high notes, they certainly are not what they once were."

The Bostonians appear to have very generally come to the conclusion, that their fair fellow-citizeness, BISCACCIANTI, is on the high road to speedy perfection. "In voice, style, and execution," says the Transcript, "she has vastly improved since her last appearance here, and we are greatly mistaken if she does not, ere long, take her place by common consent among artists of the very first rank."

The largest organ in the world, and before which the monster organ of Harlem will have to hide its diminished head, when completed, is to be that of St. George's Hall, Liverpool. It is to be built by Mr. Willis, whose organ in the Great Exhibition attracted so much attention. Apropos of organs, do our readers remember the excellent old joke made on the introduction of a new organ to the chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge? The students of this college, from the fact of the crest of its founder being a wild boar's head, have acquired the unenviable nickname of "hogs," and, in consequence, the organ was christened, "Novum Organon Baconi." The finest organ in London is that of the Temple Church. This instrument was built in 1680.

SIGNORA BERTUCCA MARETZEK has, we learn, won golden opinions in New York, by her original and peculiarly independent style of singing. In La Favorita she has met with marked

success.

The celebrated ALFRED JAELL, spoken of by one excellent critic, in New York, as a "tip-top pianist; the best, perhaps, since De Meyer, whose reputation abroad would be considered an enviable one, even by older artists than himself," is rapidly rising in favour. The Journal of Commerce says, in more unbounded terms, that he is only twenty years of age, but has already acquired nist. His great musical genius is freely conceded a reputation superior to that of any other living piaby Liszt; and other professors, including our own Maretzek, pronounce him to be to the piano-forte, what Paganini was to the violin, the greatest master of the age, and unapproached by any of his competitors."

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"DEAR, gentle reader, and still dearer and gentler purchaser," we give you cordial New Year greeting. The melancholy retrospection that sombred the last hours of the departed year, hath with its presence fled, and left no shadow on our brow, no sadness at our heart; but full of happy anticipation we sit down to talk with you. We are assured of your sympathy, have an intuitive perception that you like us-else you would not be reader or purchaser. Well, we are now duly installed in office, and commenced upon a new career which we intend to make pleasant and prosperous. And why not? Will is fate, to the courageous, and we are so. With the present number, we make a fair start on the race that opens before us. Complete in all necessary appointments, and not a screw loose anywhere to bring us to a sudden halt, or hurl us from the track. We are in a thankful as well as hopeful mood to-day, for congratulations have come to us from many friends, and we are cheered and exhilarated by their kindly words,-the potent magic of humanity. One of these written testimonials, from a distinguished poetess, was received too late to allow of the disposition we would have desired in the earlier pages of our number, for the accompanying poem. Will she accept our grateful acknowledgments for her friendliness, and pardon the insertion of her note here, as the most fitting explanation for publishing the verses in our editorial column,-too appropriate in their sentiment to this gala time for children, to allow of postponement. MY DEAR SIR:

I was quite pleased with the announcement in the December number of "Sartain," that you were yourself to assume its editorial management; for I not only feel that it will be ably conducted, but that there is justice in your having the reputation of a work which your enterprise originated, and your exquisite skill has so long embellished.

I have observed, with the gratitude which all patriots should cherish, your liberality in encouraging intellectual effort and patronising the literature of our country.

I have not contributed to your pages during the past year, because I had no assurance that it was desired, and, also, because there appeared such a host of new writers, that I thought your editors were probably thronged with articles. But, as you have yourself assumed the chair, I hasten to make a little gratuitous offering, as a mark of the good-will to your periodical which has never slumbered, and a proof of my willingness to testify it in future.

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Make bright the hearth where children throng
In innocence and glee,

With smiles of love,-the carolled song,-
The spirit's harmony,-

The healthful sports the cheek that flush,-
The mother's fond caress,-
Nor let the stateliest father blush
His merry boy to bless.

For, far adown the vale of life,

When he his lot shall bear,
That hallowed gleam shall cheer the strife
And gild the clouds of care.

If midnight storms and breakers roar,
Its treasured spell shall be

A lighthouse 'mid the wrecking shore,
The star of memory ;-

Shall warn him, when the siren's wiles

His faltering feet entice,

Make bright the hearth where childhood smiles, So guard the man from vice.

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You are now entering upon a new literary campaign, and I volunteer, by way of congratulation, a brief and desultory epistle.

Your readers, ere this, have learned how much an enterprising publisher has been willing to invest in brain-labour, rewarding that labour with something more than the consciousness of fame. Your offer for a series of prize articles afforded a wider scope than is often for nished to the writing corps, and an agreeable miscellany has consequently been the result. The fact is, in this age of periodicals, there is room for an extended vanety of literature. Writers are not necessarily confined to a single leading idea, but, like judicious musical performers, may enliven the reader, as the latter do the be tener, with a pleasant medley composition.

It is much easier to say what a good magazine article should be, than to write one. It should at once please the reader and not be obnoxious to those who will not read. There is a much greater difficulty in the way of keeping on good terms with the snarlers who rail a writers of whom they know nothing, than may be supposed.

It is fashionable not only to commend "good selections," "solid" matter, "the cream of the literature of both hemispheres," &c., which they who profit most from the labour of others' brains promulgate, but also to indulge in illiberal flings at such publications, and sneer at them as "namby-pamby," "trashy" concerns! Yet they who thus denounce them are very willing to take the matter the "trashy concerns" pay for and publish originally, at second-hand, for their favourite "solid matter" monthlies! After "Mrs. Grundy" has endorsed them, they are willing to give them currency; but until they have felt licensed to yield their reluctant approval, these critics of "more elevated taste" fight shyly. Still, we have, perhaps, no right to censure the publishers of the latter class of periodicals. All should have their peculiar aliment furnished to them, and to have the same cooked to suit their palate. But this common cant, so disparagingly uttered, comes with a decidedly poor grace from such sources; and such a deportment towards publishers who spare no outlay to secure good talent, deserves harsher terms of denunciation than would be politic to use in this connexion.

To me. it seems that there is a certain degree of maliciousness in the objection to the practice of bestowing well-executed engravings in a magazine of choice reading; and it can only be accounted for on the same principle that "plain people always praise the beauty of the mind;" yet, if the mind shines out through a fair index, I say, all the better. It is a triumph, not to be sneered at, that a publisher can afford so many specimens of the fine arts at so small a remuneration, to say nothing of the valuable reading matter furnished gratis to the compilers of "substantial" (!) literature.

Will it be reiterated by those objectors that there is too much light reading in these magazines? Then let it be remembered that it is not intended to give corn-beef exclusively, to those, whose mental maws are already clogged with dull "solids," and whose dessert is composed of the rich, rank," creamy" substances from beyond the waters. Of all seekers after mental sustenance, they should least complain of that which is of a light and digestible quality. But it is not true, as is often alleged, that the light reading those magazines furnish, is of an objectionable kind. It is, in the main, good and wholesome, and as necessary to the general reader as the lighter viands are to every person who feeds in a civilized fashion.

That disposition, [sometimes evinced, to underrate a work that is not high-priced, may, to some extent, account for the sneers indulged in against highly-embellished threedollar magazines; and yet, inconsistent as it seems, a hundred dollar contribution in one of them, is valueless with some folks, until it is coolly transferred into a "select" publication, and then the "cute" compiler receives the credit, while the publisher who brought out the talent is only associated in their minds with a "trashy" publication!

Having some faint idea of what the literature of this glorious Republic of ours (for I must be "patriotic," too) should be, I am desirous, in the first place, that merit should have its reward, and that publishers, as well as authors, should receive evenhanded justice. I think that the "progress of the age" is kept in view, and that the nation's taste for pleasant entertainment meets its demand, to some extent, at least, in these handsomely-embellished, sprightly periodicals. That, in general, the literature they promulgate has a tendency to refine whatever is gross in our nature; to warm our affections wherein they may have grown cold; to awaken us to new harmonies to which we hitherto may have been deaf; and to remove from our vision an obliquity which oft may have prevented many agreeable images from falling within its scope,-that such is its tendency, no unprejudiced individual will dispute; and if the prejudiced could be induced to reflect on the subject, and were honest enough not to include these magazines with the many flexible-covered publications that really are pernicious, they would learn to appreciate, in a sub

stantial manner, the labour and expense you have incurred for their entertainment.

But, I spoke of writing a "brief" epistle, and I will observe a "prudent stop." Let me wish you a success commensurate with your liberality. Very respectfully, &c.,

S. I.

Our very friendly correspondent has touched on a subject which, we will freely confess, has not been regarded with indifference, although the injury has been hitherto borne without complaint. We object not that the reprint magazines occasionally transfer our articles to their pages; we only protest against the unfairness of their so transferring them without duly crediting the source from whence they are taken. The three words, "From Sartain's Magazine," would cost but little-are we not entitled to it in such cases? We ask it goodhumouredly, and do hope that a juster course in future will be the response.

This grumbling on our own account reminds us of the International Copyright agitation, which appears to be making some progress in Europe. A treaty is contemplated, having reference, however, to future copyrights only. M. Guizot, Villemain, and Baron Thenard, are on the Paris Commission. The English publishers, with singular inconsistency, are not very cordial in co-operating for the accomplishment of the measure, notwithstanding the outcry they make against American literary piracy.

We have received the following answer to the Enigma for November, from D. S. CLEGHORN.

What see we first? A sacred FONT,
Where sparkles pure within

The symbol of that heavenly grace,
That, showered, they say, upon our race,
Can save the soul from sin.

Between the first and third, quite plain,
We see the Hebrew letter AIN.
What is it shakes the slender reed?
What bends the lofty tree?
What is it that the sailors fear,

When storm-tossed on the sea?
When hurrying winds around them sweep,
And billows foam below,

They fear their bark will ne'er outlive

The fury of the (BLEAU) blow.

What princely mansion rears its towers
Within yon wood's embrace?
FONTAINBLEAU, once the royal home
Of Bourbon's banished race.

OUR EMBELLISHMENTS.-The customary notice of the engravings in the number (or, rather, of the artists who designed them) is crowded out by the press of other matter. However, they are all illustrated by the regular articles in the body of the Magazine, except the Vignette Title. We have a poem on this also, but it was written too late for insertion, and is too long for the space left us for this paragraph. Allegory is classed as the highest walk of Art; but, unfortunately, it almost invariably requires something analogous to the introductory chorus or figure of Fame in the old plays, to make its story intelligible.

OBITUARY.

ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER, D. D.-Among the recent deaths of those whose virtues, talents, and position, give a public interest to the event, we notice the decease of Dr. Alexander, on the 22d of October, one of the most learned and influential ministers of the Presbyterian Church. He was born in Rockbridge County, Va., in 1772. After completing his education, he spent some time in missionary labours; succeeded Dr. John Blair

Smith, as President of Hampden Sydney College; and married Miss Janette Waddell, daughter of the eloquent clergyman of that name. In 1806 he became pastor of the Pine Street Church, Philadelphia, where he was much beloved by his congregation. In 1812 he was inaugurated First Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, N. J., at which place he resided for the last thirtynine years of his life, and where he was buried on the 24th of October. Dr. Alexander has left a widow and several children; three of his sons belong to their father's profession.

GUTZLAFF, THE MISSIONARY.-In connexion with the same sphere of labour to which Dr. Alexander was attached, we have to record another loss, in the death of the celebrated Gutzlaff, who died at Canton, in China, on the 9th of August, at the comparatively early age of 48. He was a Pomeranian by birth, and in 1827 was sent to the east by the Netherlands Missionary Society. He spent four years in Batavia and Singapore, and proceeded to China in 1831. He soon became distinguished for talent and energy; his mastery of the Chinese language very much tending to his success. On his return to Europe, his published addresses attracted universal attention. During the next two years, he made three voyages along the coast of China. In 1834 he was employed by the British superintendency as interpreter, and acted as such during the war. At the time of his death he held the appointment of Secretary to the British Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of Trade. Chinese civilization and political interests during the latter period of his life, occupied his time exclusively.

DR. J. KEARNEY RODGERS.-The medical profession has lost a valuable member in Dr. Rodgers, whose scientific knowledge and practical skill won for him a high reputation here and in Europe. Dr. R. was the son of a physician of New York city, but was educated at Princeton, N.J., and studied medicine with Dr. Wright Post, in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, then in Barclay Street, New York. He graduated in 1816, then left for Europe, remained two years in London and Paris, and on his return to this country in 1818, established himself as a surgeon in New York. In 1828, he received the appointment of Surgeon to the City Hospital, and continued in that post till his death.

Dr. Rodgers has left no contributions to medical literature. His name will stand high, not for discovery, or theory, or discussion, but for his uniformly successful career as an operator. He was eminently practical in all things, conscientious, sincere and earnest, and of a noble and generous mind.

DR. GRANVILLE SHARPE PATTISON.-Another eminent man, whose loss will be deplored as a public one, is the Professor of Anatomy in the University of New York, who died after an illness of only five days, in the 61st year of his age. This distinguished anatomist was born in Scotland, in which country he early acquired a high reputation as a lecturer on Anatomy and Pathology. He came to America in 1820, bringing with him honourable testimonials of his talents. He was soon appointed Professor of Anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; afterwards to a like post in the University of Baltimore; then in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; and when the Medical College of the New York University was established, 'he accepted the chair of Anatomy, and continued to occupy it till his death. As a teacher of descriptive and pathological anatomy, he was characterized by singular precision and vigour; and his loss will be felt seriously by students in the medical profession.

OUR LIBRARY TABLE.

peace, while they deprecate the continuance of the terrific and melancholy system of war, bequeathed us by the savageism of the past, as a means of settling national difficulties or proving national power, must still acknowledge the important results that have been, and may yet be again-for the world grows better slowly-decided on the field of battle, and that a powerful interest is attached to those scenes of strife and carnage, where the victory or defeat of an armed force has advanced or retarded, for centuries, the onward march of a higher degree of freedom and civilization.

Mr. Creasy has selected the particular battles, that in the history of the world, appear to him the turning points in the destiny of nations, and have most affected the fortunes of posterity. He has the rare power of generalizing in description with fine artistic effect. The great points of interest are brought out in bold relief, unincumbered by voluminous subordinate details. The relative positions of the parties engaged, and a comprehensive view of the whole manner and course of action are clearly understood, without aid of further illustration than his written pictures afford.

The first four of these "signal deliverances" take place anterior to the Christian era.

Marathon, where the superiority of the European over the "indolent Asiatic" was first established: then the defeat of the Athenians at Syracuse; where Athens reverses the positions that won our sympathies at Marathon, and, secure in her own independence, appears as the aggressor of the rights of others;-and where it is said, "Had that great expedition proved victorious, the energies of Greece during the next eventful century would have found their field in the West no less than in the East; Greece, and not Rome, might have conquered Carthage; Greek instead of Latin might have been at this day the principal element of the language of Spain. of France, and of Italy; and the laws of Athens, rather than of Rome, might be the foundation of the law of the civilized world." The third is the battle of Arbela, where the hero of Macedon, whom Napoleon cites as one of the seven generals "from the study of whose campaigns the principles of war are to be learned," not only overthrew an Oriental dynasty, but established European rule and rulers in its stead: "and broke the monotony of the Eastern world, by the impression of Western energy and superior civilization." And the battle of the Metaurus. of which Mr. Creasy says: "Scipio at Zama trampled in the dust the power of Carthage; but that power had been already irreparably shattered in another field, where neither Scipio nor Hannibal commanded. When the Metaurus witnessed the defeat and death of Hasdrubal, it witnessed the ruin of the scheme by which alone Carthage could hope to organize decisive success-the scheme of enveloping Rome at once from the north and the south of Italy by two chosen armies, led by two sons of Hamilear. That battle was the determining crisis of the contest, not merely between Rome and Carthage, but between the two great families of the world, which then made Italy the arena of their oft-renewed contest for preeminence."

The fifth is the victory of Arminius over the Roman legions under Varus, the importance of which is thus estimated: "Had Arminius been supine or unsuccessfa... our Germanic ancestors would have been ensiaved or exterminated in their original seats along the Eyder and the Elbe. This island would never have borne the name of England, and we, this great English nation, whose race and language are now outrunning the earth. from one end of it to the other,' would have been utterly cut off from existence."

The discomfiture of Attila at Châlons is the sixth: "There the Christian Visigoths of King Theodoric fought and triumphed at Châlons, side by side with the legions THE FIFTEEN DECISIVE BATTLES OF THE WORLD, FROM of Aetius. Their joint victory over the Hunnish host MARATHON TO WATERLOO. By E. A. CREASY. New not only rescued for a time from destruction the old age York: HARPER & BROTHERS. 12mo., pp. 362. of Rome, but preserved for centuries the power and The most strenuous advocates of the principles of glory of the Germanic element in the civilization of

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