and entirely on the strength of it, stopped a day at that house. I can indorse what you said of it to any amount. The memory of that handsomely-furnishedchamber, and the luxury of the sound sleep on that spring-bed, after an eighteenhour ride by rail-road; the view from the tower; the well-kept table, and the oblig. ing hosts; the pleasant drive to Niagara and the second sight of it! Well, go there, and see about it. From Niagara I went to Detroit over the Great Western RailRoad of Canada, and found the city of the Strait (D'etroit) a place to be commended. If you go there do n't neglect to take a drive along the River Road, then cross over in the ferry-boat to Sandwich, on the Canada side, and drive down to the Red House: it will pay. From Detroit to Mackinaw I took the steam-boat 'Planet,' and a model boat any one will find her; in twenty-four hours I landed at Mackinaw, and have found a most comfortable hostel in The Mission-House, the principal hotel on the island. As yet the summer travel has not commenced, and the writer, consequently, has plenty of elbow-room. They call Mackinaw the Laughing Island, and a more appropriate name could not have been given it; it is a fit abode for the Good Spirit, especially from June to September! An emerald, three miles long, by three miles wide, set in ultra-marine enamel; it is a gem that Nature must cherish as one of her most beautiful possessions. For miles on miles you can ride or walk through the shady woods, catching here and there beautiful views of the sparkling lake. Leaving the Mission-House, behind which rises the high grass-grown cliff, you can follow the beach for a short distance, and suddenly come to a lofty bluff of limestone formation, the base of which, covered with young trees and fallen rocks, the summit crowned with bright evergreens, the blue lake before you; over it, affording a fine contrast with the sky, the dark-green of the distant island, forms a scene of rare beauty. Now mounting the bluff you follow it through a wild woodland path, till suddenly the Arch Rock is before you, the noble arch of fine proportions descends to the Lake-shore, and the waves bathe the trees at its feet. If you do n't mind a nine-mile walk through the woods, you can make the complete tour of the island by following a wild path winding around the top of the high land, and by making a slight detour, visit Sugar-Loaf Rock, climb up among the clouds to the ruins of old Fort Holmes, the crown of the island, and be repaid by one of the most magnificent views the mind can imagine or eye look upon. If you want change of air, change of scene, a good appetite, sound sleep, and a feeling of peace with all the world and the rest of mankind, come to Mackinaw. It's a splendid place for families; one lady inhabitant of Mackinaw has eighteen or nineteen children. N. C. Fish! Parbleu! If you once taste the fresh yellow trout of the lake, you will keep Lent and never borrow a care the whole time you 're on the island. White-fish are good, but the 'yellow boys' have fascinated the writer; so let it be! Apropos of fish, I heard a story the other morning which proves the ever-longing, ever-sighing mutability of mankind. The landlady of a hotel in one of the Lake towns, served her boarders so long with fish, that one day as she was bringing in with her own hands, on a large plate, a noble specimen of a boiled trout, one of her fastidious boarders cried out: 'For God's sake, Mrs. G., bring that fish in tail foremost - just for a change!'

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'They still point out the buildings of the American Fur Company to you in Mackinaw, but their glory has departed. Like the singed cat who carried off the mackerel, Fish, not Fur, is the order of the day here, commercially. Thousands of barrels are annually shipped from Mackinaw, so that the trout and white-fish afford employment to great numbers of people here and at the adjacent fisheries.

'The Old-School Indians are scarce around Mackinaw, but the New-School or Half-Breeds abound. While sketching this morning at Arch-Rock, a pack of little urchins, with ventilating pantaloons, came out of the woods, and such 'execrable' French as they talked! One more adventurous than the rest climbed out on the rock till he was half-way over the arch, and was at once saluted by his youngest friend, of apparently six summers: 'N'allez pas la Pierre ! sacrée bougre d'une biche!' That's enough, is n't it? I shut up my sketch-book and came away, for I'm naturally pious.

'INDIAN CURIOSITIES. - This attractive sign is over several stores in Mackinaw, and acts admirably on the Johnny Raws who visit this wild West! Mococks o maple sugar, or little birch bark envelopes, worked with porcupine quills and filled with the sugar, are sweet little remembrancers to carry away to the young ones at home; but as for this bead-work and so on - Bashaw! Boshl 'Good-by, and if you hear from me again, you will!

II. P. L.'

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CHRISTINE, OR WOMAN'S TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS. BY LAURA J. CURTIS. CHRISTINE is a farmer's daughter, who early shows unmistakable signs of genius by a dislike of work of all kinds. She is educated by an aunt, who keeps a fashionable boarding-school. Here she attracts the notice of a young man, PHILIP ARMSTRONG, rich, talented, and slightly dissipated, just enough so to be interesting. She is on the point of marrying him, when he proves himself unworthy, and is dismissed; and CHRISTINE, urged on by a friend, becomes a champion of Woman's Rights. By this course her friends become estranged, and her father, Mr. ELLIOTT, expels her from his house. She lectures, and is becoming celebrated, when her father and aunt, incensed at her pursuance of a course which they think disgraces their family, determine to force her to retire from public life. By a well-concerted plan they place her in an insane asylum, and she remains there until nearly as insane as they have represented. However, she finally escapes, and establishes a sort of Home for poor women. It flourishes, and she finds herself at the head of a large establishment. All this time not a word has been heard of PHILIP, but now he appears in a dying condition, and as a dying man CHRISTINE marries him. But love, omnipotent as usual, restores him, and together they labor for the good of womankind. CHRISTINE's friends become reconciled to her, and she gives up lecturing, and becomes quite a model-wife. We like the book. It is well-written, the characters finely drawn, and well sustained; but we do not quite agree with the author in her advocacy of Woman's Rights.

DREAMS AND REALITIES OF A PASTOR AND TEACHER. Rev. Mr. CASTLEREAGH is a teacher who devotes himself to that calling from an ardent desire to do good. The book depicts his trials and discouragements, his strivings against them, and finally his overcoming them for a short time. Slight sketches are given of the characters of teachers and scholars, and of the manner in which the school is conducted. The health of Rev. Mr. CASTLEREAGH fails, and he is obliged to relinquish his designs. Broken down in mind and body, he retires from his school, and contents himself with thoughts of the good he has done. We do not like this book at all. It is written carelessly and incoherently, and in many places it is difficult to ascertain the author's meaning. Four or five pages are devoted to a discourse on the wickedness of playing marbles, and there is a very evident endeavor to introduce Latin quotations.

'PARISIAN SIGHTS AND FRENCH PRINCIPLES:' 'ITALIAN SIGHTS AND PAPAL PRINCIPLES.' BY JAMES JACKSON JARVES. - We like both of these books very much. They are written easily and entertainingly, and give, in a familiar way, pictures of French

and Italian home life. There is an interesting description of Pompeii in the 'Italian Sights;' and a dream, which the author has while there, is most excellently told.

'ELEMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY,' included in a Critical Examination of LOCKE'S Essay on the Human Understanding; translated from the French of COUSIN, by Professor HENRY, D.D., has been issued, in a fourth edition, by Messrs. IVISON AND PHINNEY, of this city. Nearly twenty years ago there appeared in the pages of this magazine an amusing ac count of a meeting of the Metaphysical Society, on which occasion the question was discussed, Whether a chimera, ruminating in a vacuum, devoureth second intentions?' We were forcibly reminded of this while reading the following passage in the work named at the head of this article:

'Tis theory, which considers universal and necessary truths as abstractions, but as abstractions which have their ground and reason in things, is more true than the exclusive conceptualism which we first indicated and rejected, a conceptualism, which, shutting up truth in the human intelligence, makes the nature of things to be a phantom of the intelligence projecting itself everywhere out of itself, at once triumphant and powerless, since it produces every thing and produces nothing but chimeras. But although the peripatetic theory contains a large portion of truth, it is itself too narrow, too exclusive.'

But to be serious. The work under examination is not presented to the public in that forbidding black, long sacred to theological and metaphysical tomes. Indeed the grace and external beauty of the volume very properly typify that clearness of analysis, and that transparent flow of the style, by which the subject-matter is distinguished. In the whole five hundred and sixty-eight pages we have found but few foggy passages: one of which is given above. The higher class of students, and all earnest and intelligent thinkers everywhere, who do not already possess the work, will hail the opportunity to secure so valuable a contribution to the shadowy subject of modern psychology. It may be regarded as a skillful mapping out of the Ideal, leading one up to the very mountain-tops of Thought: those severe regions of calm contemplation, where all things may be viewed in their eternal relations, and where the true student finds his most exhilarating atmosphere. With this eloquent extract we conclude:

MATTER is stirred and penetrated by forces which are not material, and it follows laws which attest an intelligence every where present. The finest chemical analysis arrives not to a nature dead and inert, but to a nature organized after its manner, which is not destitute of forces and of laws. In the depths of the abyss or in the heights of the heavens, in a grain of sand or a gigantic mountain, an immortal spirit rays forth from the grossest envelopes. Contemplate nature with the eyes of the body, but also with the eyes of the soul. Everywhere a moral impression will strike us, and form will seize upon us as a symbol of thought. We have said that with man and with the animal the figure is beautiful by its expression. And when you are on the summit of the Alps or in sight of the immense ocean, when you are present at the rising or the setting of the sun, at the breaking-out of the light, and at the coming on of night, do these imposing pictures produce in you no moral effect? Do all these great spectacles appear merely for appearance' sake, or do we not regard them as manifestations of an admirable power, intelligence, and wisdom, and is not the face of nature, so to speak, expressive as that of man?'

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