PUBLISHEIE' BOULJTIN. 869

 Certainly the country hangs in the balance of his argument; eablnets
and councils hesitating to do or undo without some regard to his words,
well knowing the better constituency he better represents and speska
for, the PEOPLE, namely, whose breath can unmake as it has made .
 A. Baoason ALCOTT. I
 Jamer Redpath 221 Washington street, publishes, in a beautifully-
printed volume of 570 pages, Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, by Wen- "
dell Phillips. There are twenty-four pieces in thevolume,
n:tly speeches, beginning with the speech on "The Murder of Love-
jiv, dPlivtred toward the close of 1887, and ending with that on "The
rStae or' the Cnnntry," delivered early in 1868. They thus cover a
quarter of a century, and that quarter of a century, too, in which the
erruggle agunst the ascendency of slave-holding interest occurred. Mr.
Phillips, while yet in the prime of his wonderful inellect, lives to see
hi. views embraced by millions, most of whom used to condemn them,
and tl consider him a dangerous agitator. Even those who do not now.
agree with him must be pleased to see his great works collected; fbr
thome works are valuable as historical Illustrations, and would be so
even if they were, like Cicero'i PLhlippwcs, the monuments of a ruined
cause: but, as they are the everlasting liphut that come from the tri-
umph of truth, their value is inimmeasuralhfy inrrea-e. Let our quar-
r,. Le ,ettlk.l au it mav, the aboliti ni;is, ol'"who.ee opinion Mr. Phillips
i "the great exprniI,'r," have maldo E) .dihL-p an impression on the
American mind that Slavery c.n ineer again become what it was in
those days when it wa the predominant interest of the Western Workl.
 There probably has never been published a volumesl which
so much powerful matter is to e Ibound, while eloquent ex'resions
adorn almost every page. It is a work that will live long after the
quarrels of this time shall have become dull things in dull histories and
when men shall read them as we now read of the old narratives of the
struggles that took plaae in Corcyra and Athens.- Boston Traveer.





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HOSPITAL SKETCHES. By L. M. ALCoTrr. Izmo.
 pp. 102. Price,'50 cents. (Jlaf publifihed.)
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heroism that would mini tI-r tho sick and suffering. The contrast
between the comic iomeidnts and the rracie experience of a single night,
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