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Show NEW BOOKS- The Life of Napoleon B-apakti;, by William Hazlitt. In thivc volumes, ml. l. Philad-'.pbia: J. B. Lippw-oott Lippw-oott di Co., ISTo. Silt La1.?: .lsua , JJwtlt. Price for tiie cr, $4.60; K-r vol.", $1.50. This was Hazlitt's last work and probably his beat. It is that upon which he was willing to rest his claim to distinction, li has reached several editions iu England, and is still regarded re-garded with favor, and the publication publica-tion of an American edition by Lip-pincott Lip-pincott is au evidence that Hazlitt's work supplies a view ot Napoleon the great and his times which is largely accepted by scholars. Although Chambers terms the or.tor an "enthusiastic "en-thusiastic admirer" of Napoleon, the term is unjust as applied to this work, which deals rather with the philosophy philo-sophy of the Napoleonic em and its results than with the man at il head, j The first volume comprises the period l from the birth of Napoleon in 1739 lo j his return to Paris in 1797. A Familiar ExrusiTms of the Con STITUTIOJ. OF THE UxiTKD STATES, widi a brief commentary, etc., and aa appendix; by Jo-epli Siorv, L. L. D. 2.-wYork: Harper & Brother. 1874 Salt Lake ; James Dwyer. Price. $1.80. The publication of a new edition of this well-known and excellent work for schools aud private libraries, is a gratifying evidence of a popular disposition dis-position fo return to the ancient landmarks land-marks of our Federal republic, from arhich the government has departed, to an extent that has already led to thedemora'uition of the body politic, the corruption of our rulers and a too general disregard by society of law and morality. It appears to be as, true in public aa in private life that1 only by a rigid adherence to the principles of right and justice and un observance of its own Inws, can a community maintain U government intact. ' Whea the United States, under the fanatical impulses of Bee-tional Bee-tional madmen on both sides of the line, rushd into a civil war without the sanction of the constitution, to avenge a so-called .moral idea( it placed the country on a revolutionary basis, and left it a prey to reckless politicians and military adventurers. The terrible results of this fatal step we are now daily witnessing, and our only escape from still deeper ruin is by a return to the oldfashioned principles prin-ciples of the Constitution. |