his labors in Gaul, as well as those of his disciples, both in the great monastery of Luxeuil and in the numerous colonies which issued from it and spread over the whole neighborhood, bringing the narrative down to the close of the seventh century.  At this point the portion of Montalembert’s work now published terminates, leaving, we presume, several additional volumes to follow.  For their appearance we shall look with much interest.  If the remainder is executed in the same spirit as the portion now before us, and is marked by the same diligent study of the original authorities and the same persuasive eloquence, it will form one of the most valuable of the many attractive monographs which we owe to the French historians of our time, and will be read with equal interest by Catholics and Protestants.

Eighty Years’ Progress of the United States, showing the Various Channels of Industry and Education through which the People of the United States have arisen from a British Colony to their Present National Importance.  Illustrated with over Two Hundred Engravings.  New York:  51 John Street.  Worcester:  L. Stebbins.  Two Volumes. 8vo.

A vast amount of useful information is treasured up in these two national volumes.  Agriculture, commerce and trade, the cultivation of cotton, education, the arts of design, banking, mining, steam, the fur-trade, etc., are subjects of interest everywhere, and the present writers seem to be specially competent for the task they have assumed.  If the household library should possess such books more frequently, less ignorance would prevail on topics concerning which every American ought to be well-informed.  Woful silence usually prevails when a foreigner asks for statistics on any point connected with our industrial progress, and very few take the trouble to get at facts which are easy enough to be had with a little painstaking.  We are glad to see so much good material brought together as we find in these two well-filled volumes.

Electro-Physiology and Electro-Therapeutics:  Showing the Rules and Methods for the Employment of Galvanism in Nervous Diseases, etc.  Second Edition, with Additions.  Boston:  Ticknor & Fields. 1861.

At a time when the partition-wall between Jew and Gentile of the medical world is pretty thoroughly breached, if not thrown down, and quackery and imposture are tolerated as necessary evils, it is agreeable to meet with a real work of science, emanating from the labors of a regular physician, concerning the influences exerted by electricity on the human body, both in health and disease.