gtibitt',s titbit say- Publishers will confer a favor by mentioning ale prices of all books sent to this Department. LONGFELLOW'S NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES •tre little more than a simple narrative, in dramatic form, and in (very) blank verse, of passages in the colonial history of Massachusetts illustrating the intolerance of which the colony was guilty towards a few fanatical Quakers, and the melan choly outbreak of superstition against the supposed witchcraft of Salem. The first Trag edy, " John Endicott," is named after a. son of Governor Endicott, who creates a breach between himself and his father by opposing the intoler ant laws of the colony, and by sympathizing with the Quakers. Only hints of the deeply interes ting and romantic elements, which we might have expected the poet more especially to elaborate, are given. There is nothing to move either laughter or tears, bat only a quiet, contempla tive judgment upon the intolerant age;out of which, in God's providence, have grown: the free institutions of America. Even the gist of the tragedy is given in words which will scarce ly be memorable for the beauty of poesy or the crispness of proverb. Norton, the Puritan preach-. er, referring to Satan, says : It is his cunning craft, The master-piece of his diplomacy, To cry and plead for boundless toleration. But toleration is the first-born child Of all abomb ations and deceits. There is no room in Christ's triunipant army For tolerationists. " Giles Corey" has a much deeper pathos, as well beseems the dreadful tale of the - one vic tim of the excitement who was executed by be ing crushed to death. But the author of Hia wathaand Evangeline cannot compass a tragedy. He can give no end of refined, gentle . pleasure, but he is utterly wanting in the majesty, mas siveness, intensity and profound mastery of char= actor, motive and passiOn, that ate indispensable in this kind of writing. He follows history closely, giving rather a more favorable view of. Cot ton Mather's part in the witchcraft, than could. be gathered from Bancroft. His versifications of Scripture passages are very successful. $1.50,, THE ATLANTIC AT,MANAO for 1869 is aide licious annual ; its articles are written with the airy gracefulness, and the refined humor which seem native to Boston and Cambridge, and which well become what is designed for rational enter.: tainment, rather than for scientific information. Not that any part of the well prepared pamph let is wanting in more or less value. Birds and flowers and farm work, with other topics, are treated by J. Russell Lowell, Charles. James Sprague, Donald Mitchell (the editor) and oth ers; Mrs. Stowe writes' on Choosing Pictures; Josiah Quincy of " The Middle States" (Missis sippi Valley), Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Human Body and its Management, and Dr. J. P. Thompson on the Risks and Failures of City Life. The illustrations are numerous, four being full page chromes and the others elegantly de signed and executed wood-cuts. Boston : Tick nor & Fields. Price, 50 cents. SMILES' LIFE OP GEORGE STEPHENSON, re printed by the Harpers, is the history of a life identified with the greatest feats of modern en gineering, particularly in railways and bridges. It is the life of one who rose from poverty and obscurity, through self-education and indomita ble courage and native talent, to one of the most eminent positions among, the leaders of the civ ilized nations in the extraordinary progress of the middle third of the nineteenth century. Those who would understand that progress, must acquaint themselves with the man who projected and carried through the first English railway, who greatly improved the locomotive, and who built the great tubular bridge over the Menai Straits and trained his son Robert to build a similar structure—the Victoria bridge.-"—over the St. Lawrence at Montreal. It is a story of ab sorbing interest, written in a clear unpretending style, and illustrated with many of the richest and most striking of the wood-cut illustrations for which the Harpers have such a high reputa tion. Bvo., pp. 501. JUVENILES. JEM MORRISON THE FISHER BOY is a reprint by Claxton of an English story, showing how by faithfulness and good principle, as well as the manifest leadings of Providence, a work-house boy got up in the world. " TOM AND SARAH NEAL," republished by the same house, is a story constructed with unusual skill and designed to illus. trate the liability of the man who is only mor ally and not graciously reformed, to pass from one kind of sin, as wasteful self-indulgence—to its opposite—parsimony and greed, accompanied with self-confidence and envy. One of the best of S. S. and juvenile books. DOTTY DIMPLE OUT WEST, from Lee & Shepard, is one of a series, which like Carter's "Bessie" series, has become deservedly famous in juvenile literature, al belonging to, and faithfully representing the real child's world. The ideas, the reasonings, the oravingsi the wonderings, the unconscious wit, the peculiar events and the ver nacular of six year old children 'are the, staple of these volumes. The Bessie books involve the child's conscience and religious nature, much more than the Dotty books, which are scarcely suited for Sunday reading, though most pure, healthful and enjoyable. Price, 75 cents. From the same publishers comes THE LIME THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 ; 1868. SPANIARD, one of the Helping Hand series, by May Mannering, in which the romantic life of a poor Spanish boy, who is the support of his aged parents, is patronized by American children, stolen by gypsies, &c., is made the ground-work of much valuable and skilfully conveyed infor mation about Spain. Price, $l.OO. From the same we have : How TO CONQUER, by CATHARINE M. TROWBRIDGE, a Temperance story of Falls and Recoveries, healthful and en couraging in tone, interesting in incident but deficient in skill and power. 16m0., pp. 297, il lustrated. Also : EDNA WILLIS, a thrilling story of the brave struggles of a motherless girl for the worse than fatherless family left to her care in the great world of London ; also, GRACE ROCHE'S LEGACY, by the favorite author of "Margaret and her Friends," illustrating the superiority of those who depend under God on themselves, rather than mope about what they re gard as their rights, unjustly withheld; and teaching in the most effective manner the Scrip tural lesson that a man's life eonsisteth not in the things that he hath. 16m0., pp. 193. COUSIN CLARA OR THE MISLAID JEWELS, by Francis Forrester, is one of the " Lindendale Stories," and is designed to illustrate the train of folly and sin into which the first misstep, un confessed, and craftily • concealed will lead the offenders and other associated with them. It is an excellent object and it is accomplished most effectively and• skilfully. The• unhappy stylish family in New York and the tipsy New Year's callers are Well described. 16rn0., pp. 246. THE PIVOT WORDS OF' SCRIPTURE by Philip B. Power, author of the "I Wills of the Psalms," &c., is not a philological nor exegetical discus sion, nor precisely a practical dissertation based on the deep significance of certain Scripture terms, but rather meditations on passages in which much of the sense turns upolia single word,• as gi Then," in the account of Christ's tempta tion, "Here,"in