Three more numbers of the Student's Cabinet Library of Useful
Tracts are before us; all of' them being reprints from American publications. Their titles are
No. 10. VelteLascx's Discourse on the Right Moral Influence and Use of Liberal Studies. I I. WARR'S Lecture tta the Character and Duties of a Physician.
12. &DRY'S Discourse on the Progress of' Science and Literature. Their general character may be best described by the phrase of elegant commonplace: they are the result of study and reading, rather than thought and observation ; each, however, differing sufficiently from the others to possess an individuality of its own. The Honourable GULIAN C. VERPLANCE'S Discourse is the most finely rhetorical; Dr. WARE'S, as might be expected from a. physician treating of his own profession, the most just in senti- ment and the fullest of matter; the Honourable JOSEPH STORY'S remarks on the Progress of Science and Literature halts midway between the two. being more general in view and matter than the Doctor of Medicine, more sober in tone than the Meter of Laws, although inferior to the writer's former essay on the History, State, and Prospects of the Law. Altogether, they are highly credit- able specimens of Transatlantic composition by gentlemen w ho have left off school. We question whether many professional men in England could have written so well ; although the style, it mast be admitted, is " now forborne here," as the Judges said of torture.
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