ers, taking advantage of their ignorance and | between the Devil and a Jew" is the gentledebasement, have governed America. man from whom we have obtained most of The incidents of the book-startling and our knowledge of the circumstances condramatic as they always are-are true. Not nected with the writing of this work. Col. true in that they occurred exactly as there J is so real a sketch that he has been related. They did not transpire in the order recognized, and a protest entered against here given them, and occupied a wider range making the facts of his life public. He is of time in their occurrence. But every one no longer living, and Madam P, who is of them actually happened, and came under no less a real character, is now under the the immediate observation of the author. protection of Andy Jones. A very remarkThis is the fact, to the minutest detail. able incident affecting her welfare is related There is abundant material in the book to to us by the gentleman from whom we have confirm this, even if the high character of obtained the above facts. The colonel's the author admitted of its question. Char- widow has lately attempted to sell Madame acter is discriminated in it to the nicest P-to the brothel-panders of New Or shades of difference. No close observer can leans. On learning this of Andy Jones, his fail to believe that such portraits as he Northern factor (who was at one time also a makes are drawn from originals. The dia- factor of Col. J-) wrote to the widow lect of the negro, the poor white, and the that in case she did not abandon her design, corn-cracker is each given with a careful and at once give the octoroon her freedom, consistency which only years of observation remunerate Andy for his care, and save her among them could have enabled the author from present want, government should imto appreciate. Jim (the son of a white mediately be notified of $6,000 of her late man) on ordinary occasions talks like a husband's property, in the hands of his prescountry negro house-servant, but under ex-ent New York factors, which would at once citement speaks almost like a white man; be subject to confiscation. Measures were and it is an established truth that persons taken to send this letter, through our miliof mixed blood, when aroused, always show tary commanders in that vicinity, directly to predominating the characteristics of the Charleston. stronger race. Scip, a pure African, always talks and speaks in a high-toned, elevated manner (though he never gets out of the negro lingo), and it is a curious fact that the native African shows always, when brought in contact with educated whites, a higher order of character than do those whose fathers have had their souls crushed out by slavery. Old Pomp has the religion of a good old "nigger "-who gets an idea of the Bible thoroughly literal, and whose only conceptions of God are that he is a great good man, who can be approached and talked to by his children-the religion of the ignorant everywhere, but peculiarly that of the slave. Moye is a renegade Yankee the meanest specimen of creation that God has permitted to exist. He is just such an overseer as certain editors not a thousand miles from Boston would have made had their lot been cast on a Southern plantation. These are not the only characters sketched from life. Andy Jones, whose stump-speech we have given on our outside page, is a living man (yet, as we hope.) The factor who convinced him that a Yankee is not a "" cross

We trust that what we have said will be sufficient to awaken the reader's interest in this very remarkable exhibit of Southern life. It is a book which should be read and pondered by every patriot. There has been no publication issued giving so intelligent, so fair, and so thorough a view of the effects of slave institutions upon the mutual relations of the races of men and classes of society in this country. In this it is invaluable, and here is a point where we all of us especially need to be enlightened. But the work has a positive attraction which supersedes the necessity of its perusal as a matter of duty. Read in fragments in a magazine, it has awakened attention and enchained the interest of readers as few books have ever done. And in its completed form, it is a work which will be read and remembered as more original and suggestive in idea and purpose, and more dramatic in execution, than any issue of the press since "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

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DE GASPARIN'S NEW WORK.

offer, to encourage the resistance of the South and contribute to the prolongation of CHARLES SCRIBNER has published in one civil war, by manifesting the conviction that volume of over 400 pages Count Agenor de the separation (that is, the southern proGasparin's celebrated work, "America be-gramme) must necessarily prevail." fore Europe; Principles and Interests; These words were written before the fall translated from advance sheets by Mary L. of New Orleans. But now, after the reverse Booth." We have already given at some at Richmond, they come to us with a relength our high opinion of this searching newed significance.-N. Y. Evening Post. analysis of the American question, viewed in a European light; and a re-perusal of the work, now in its English dress-and very well dressed, too, by the translator only confirms the first impressions. De Gasparin's book is, undoubtedly, the most able and philosophic work which the present war has brought forth. It is founded upon immutable principles, which rise above the incidents of the war, that suggested De Gasparin's utterances. The work will there fore live after the conflict that brought it forth is over. The author himself says so.

"Thank God! the truth of the study which I published does not depend on events; it does not place one under the necessity of being right in case of success, and wrong in case of disaster. Through changing things, I seek that which will endure. My theories will subsist, whatever may be the result of the campaign in Virginia and Tennessee."

De Gasparin's preface is, by the way, one of the most remarkable features of the book. It is dated March 4, 1862, and in a brief space touches boldly on some delicate topics. Here, for instance, are a few significant remarks about intervention :

The Tariff Question. By E. B. Bigelow.
Little, Brown & Co., Boston.

THE author of this work has given it a very modest title. It is, in fact, a very thorough comparison of the doctrines of free trade and protection in their practical bearing and effect upon this country, explained by an array of statistics the most comprehensive, conclusive, and therefore valuable, which has ever appeared in a single volume.

Judging from the manner in which Mr. Bigelow has treated these great topics, we infer that he went into the investigation without any regard to pre-existing theories, with the purpose of collecting all the facts obtainable from past experience-especially of the experience of England-and from these, fully and fairly collated, examined and considered, to draw such conclusions as the evidence might warrant. We are inclined to think that if the facts had warranted such a conclusion, Mr. Bigelow would just as readily have given the result in favor of free trade, and therefore it is that his work is all the more reliable, because the irresistible array of the evidence he has collected has led him in the opposite direction. The great difficulty with most of our writers on political economy is that they investigate for the purpose of finding facts to sustain a pre-adopted theory, and that all such facts are presented to support that theory, while all others are carefully kept out of sight. There is nothing of the kind in this case.

"Convinced that the troubled sea is not calmed in an hour; knowing, too, that external triumph is of no value if it be not also triumphant in the region of ideas, I have not hesitated to continue my work. For ourselves as well as for America it is important to dissipate certain errors which have prevailed in Europe, and which we may say still prevail there. Let no one deceive himself; the thought of meddling in the American question is by no means so fully abandoned as it seems; if decisive verdict on the evidence, and we have also all successes be long in coming, if the suffer- the evidence in the case for our own examiings of our manufacturers become aggra- nation. As a book for reference it is invalvated; if our Mexican expedition produce uable, inasmuch as all statistics that have irritation, the peril will be grave anew.

We have the author's

There are more men in Europe than are any bearing on the issue are carefully preimagined who, at heart, desire the weaken- served and presented to the reader in a tabing and parcelling out of the United States, ular form, thus saving an infinite amount and who would not fear, should opportunity of research, and also because it contains a

vast amount of official information respect- ing in the great advantages which she deing trade and commerce which can nowhere else be found in a compact form.

Mr. Bigelow exposes most thoroughly the shallow pretensions of English statesmen to be the leaders of the free trade principle, by showing conclusively as the result of his long and patient investigation of facts-that the protective principle always has been and still is the policy of the British government. He says:

rived from improved processes and laborsaving machinery, she guarded with jealous care every useful invention and discovery; and when absolute protection had done its work, so that the manufactures of England could no longer derive any benefit from duties positively protective, she bestowed on that great interest the boon of qualified protection by the free admission of raw materials, and by reducing, as far as possible, the cost of living."

"The character and provisions of her customs-duties acts have been fully pre- We intended to have made some further That is the whole story in a few words. sented in the section which relates to England's tariff policy. It is certain that, in extracts, but it is hardly necessary, for no order to establish and develop her manu- man who pretends to be a statesman, or factures, England refused no form of aid even a politician, nor merchant, nor manuand protection which it was in the power of facturer-no one who has any desire to government to grant. When foreign pro- understand this great problem in political ductions encroached on the home market until he has carefully read the whole book economy-can consider himself well posted for himself.

We cannot speak too highly of the style

they were excluded by prohibition or by exorbitant duties of equivalent effect. Whenever an article of English manufacture (subject, however, to internal taxes) was struggling to get a foothold in the foreign market, in which the volume is printed. It reflects drawbacks were allowed; while in some great credit upon its publishers.-Boston cases of special need an export bounty was Journal. paid. To prevent rival nations from shar

PUNCH GOING TO THE DOGS.-Wishing to a Flower ditto. It was pleasant to see Beauty give Toby a treat, Mr. Punch took him the other occasionally patting some pet hound that she day to the Dog Show at Islington. On arriving had recognized, or else curiously peering at near the building (which is a great improve-blear-eyed looking bull-dog, and wondering for some wrinkled-nosed and bandy-legged and ment on the stifling shed in Baker Street, what prize, excepting one for ugliness, it could though we fear our farming friends in petticoats possibly compete. and pinafores will scarcely like to be so far removed from their loved Wax Works), Mr. Punch thought that the cabman had mistaken his direction, and had driven him to Barking. Such a chorus of canine sounds fell upon his ear, that all the dogs exhibited seemed members of the Bark Society. Every kind of voice was heard, from the baying of the blood hound to the yap of the toy-terrier and Mr. Punch could not help thinking in what terror all the cats within earshot must have been, and how their tails must have expanded with horror as they listened.

Upon entering the building, Mr. Punch made his bow; and Toby his bow-wow; and then Mr. Punch proceeded leisurely to take note of the celebrities, both human and canine. Among the former, Mr. Punch was pleased to see a fair proportion of the fairer sex, who flocked as eagerly to the show, as they would do to a

Toby was much envied in his progress through the show, not merely on account of his position in the world, but because of the mere fact that he happened to be loose. Mr. Punch indeed observed that envy is a passion to which dogs are sadly prone: for directly any dog was let loose by its keeper, and taken a short walk, the dogs it passed all snapped and snarled and growled most savagely, as though they could not bear to see it getting any pleasure which they could not share. Mr. Punch might have lectured them a little on this failing, but one can't well blame a dog for doing what one does one's self; and well nigh faultless as he is, Mr. Punch has very often felt a pang of envy when, sitting hard at work for the improvement of mankind, he has surveyed the outer world from the window of his study, and has seen men with their guns, their horses, and their fishing-rods, while he was fast chained to the desk.-Punch.

POETRY.-Three Hundred Thousand More, 338. The Canary Bird, in St. Mary's Church, 338. Early Rising, 384.

SHORT ARTICLES.-Charles XII., 359. The London American, 370. Peculiar Banquet, 370. Foster, vs. Bank of London, 370. New Plan for Lighting and Ventilating Theatres, 370. Defence of Crinoline, 370.

We commend to the reader's attention the articles on China, from The Spectator. England and France seem to have their beneficent energies so much engaged, that they may be willing to leave us to work out our own destiny.

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