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The History of Usury, from the earliest period to the present time; together with a brief statement of general principles concerning the conflict of the Laws in different States and Countries, and an examination into the Policy of Laws on Usury, and their effect upon commerce. By J. B. C. Murray. 8vo. cloth, pp. 154. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co. 1866.

The right to receive money for the use of money has, until our own time, strange to say, been looked upon by governments and communities as an act worthy of condemnation. Indeed, one half of the sufferings the Jews have ndergone in various countries may be traced to this feeling. Yet usury was actually sanctioned by Scripture, as far as strangers were concerned, though strictly forbidden among brethren. The difference between interest and usury was supposed to be broad and palpable; thus interest was a fair and legal profit, and usury an exorbitant profit for money lent. Yet money being a commodity, at times scarce, and at other times plentiful, it seems to us now a mystery how statesmen could attempt to fix what was fair and legal, and what was exorbitant for an article ever varying in value. In Alfred's reign, usurers not only forfeited their chattels and estates, but lost all right to Christian burial. In the time of Edward the Confessor, to these punishments were added outlawry and the disinheriting of the heir of the usurer. William the Conqueror added whipping, exposure to the pillory, and perpetual banishment. The excessive severity of these laws doubtless originated in the fact that the Jews were considered the main transgressors, and no punishment was deemed too severe for them. But about the year 1235, we find that Christian craft came into operation, according to Matthew of Paris, much to the amusement of the Jews. A number of Italian "merchant strangers," agents for the Pope in England, opened up a very lucrative trade, by advancing money for the first three months without interest, covenanting that they should receive 50 per cent. for every month afterwards that it should remain unpaid; this evasion of the law they justified on the ground that they lent their money absolutely without interest, and what they were to receive afterwards was a contingency that might be defeated; supported by the Pope, these adventurers laughed to scorn the anathema and excommunications of the English Bishop. Notwithstanding the laws against usury, the expulsion of the Jews and the denunciations of the church, usurious practices continued to prevail, and down to the 17th year of her present Majesty's reign the history of usury seems to have been one continued attempt on one side to extinguish legitimate traffic and on the other a systematic scheming to avoid the We have found it to our advanpains and penalties of law.

tage to allow negociations in money to be as free as any other transaction of commerce. In the United States the old system prevails, but every state has its own peculiar laws and penalties on the subject, thus in California the legal rate for money is 10 per cent., in Alabama, Florida, and Texas 8 per cent., in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, South Carolina, and Wisconsin 7 per cent., in Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennesee, Vermont, Virginia, and Columbia the legal rate is 6 per cent, while in Louisiana the rate is as low as 5 per cent. The penalties for breach of law are very varied-in Delaware the whole debt becomes forfeit, in New York not only is the contract void, but the act is a misdemeanour and punishable as such, in Virginia the contract is void and the lender is liable to a penalty of twice the debt, recoverable in qui tam action, in North Carolina a forfeiture of double the amount of the loan is the penalty for the offence. In other States the punishment varies from a for

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feiture of the excess of interest only to a forfeiture of three times the usury. Mr. Murray, in the very interesting volume before us, contends, we think, justly, that these usury laws embarrass business, check enterprise, and offer a premium for unfair dealing, and strongly commends the example of EngHis volume land in this respect as deserving of imitation.

is very comprehensive and presents in a comparatively brief
compass a mass of information on this subject nowhere else
to be met with. As a manual for the guide of reformers in
the United States it is of value, but as an historical mono-
graph it cannot be too highly estimated-it should take its
place by the side of our standard histories, and hereafter,
when the laws against usury are forgotten, it will be trea-
sured alike by the antiquarian and the historian for its
curious facts and its indirect references to curious social
problems.

The Masquerade and other Poems. By John Godfrey Saxe.
12mo. pp. vii. 237. Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866.
Mr. Saxe has well earned the reputation he enjoys of being
the best humorous poet America has produced. There is
sparkling wit and humor in his productions and a thorough
He reminds us often of
appreciation of the ludicrous.

Barham in the jingle of his rhymes and the broadness of his
conceptions, but he is more easily understood than Barham.
In this volume he gives us a collection of clever things, some
The first
of which certainly have appeared in print before.
poem which gives the title to the volume is not, however, a
There is no parti-
pleasant one-the subject is ill chosen.
cular humor in sending a rake of a father to be captivated at
a masquerade by the charms of his own daughter: the idea
is revolting, and the cleverness of the rhythm will not save
the poem from condemnation. "Othello the Moor," "Venus
and Vulcan," and "Jupiter and Danaë," are capital render-
ings of well known stories. The moral of the last will be
appreciated in May Fair and elsewhere.

"Hence suitors may learn that in matters of love
"Tis idle in manners or merit to trust;

The only sure way is to imitate Jove

Just open your purse and come down with the dust."
"The Parrot of Nevers" may be looked upon as a new
Ingoldsby Legend; it has all the humour of Barham, and
would pass well for one of his productions. It tells how a
parrot brought up among nuns lived a quiet and decorous
life, rebuking the levity of his admirer with an "orate," or
other pious exclamation, until he attained the honour of
A rival
being talked of far and wide for his sanctity.
nunnery prayed for a visit from a bird so well spoken of,
Unfortunately, to
and which clearly had saintly virtues.
reach his destination he had to pass some hours in company
with very wicked folks, whose language was not of the most
refined description, and he discovered

"Their slang surpassed in freedom, pith, and force,
The purer language which the missal taught,
And seemed, besides, an easier tongue to speak,
Than Prayer Book Latin or monastic Greek."

In a word, that short journey turned him from saint to
sinner, and his new friends were horrified by a succession of
Parblicus, Morblieus, and other "azure curses," in reply to
their tenderly expressed enquiries. Sent back in disgrace,
he was doomed to solitude and penance; at length grew
meek, reformed his wicked ways, and died a hopeful peni-
tent at last. A madrigal," Wouldn't you like to know?"
and a song, "Kiss me softly and speak to me low," are very
musical, and are destined to have a great popularity. Here,
too, is an epigram worth noting-

Lucus A NON

You'll oft find in books rather ancient than recent
A gap in the page marked with "cetera desunt,"
By which you may commonly take it for granted
The passage is wanting without being wanted;
And may borrow, besides a significant hint
That desunt means simply "not decent to print."

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American Educational Monthly, devoted to Popu- Military Drill for Schools. (Part 2, Company Drill.) By Col. C. E.

lar Instruction and Literature. 1866. New York. Subscription, 73. 6d. per annum.

CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER.-I. Shortcomings of Public Schools. By R. W. Hume.-II. The Potato. By J. J. Stephenson.

-III. A Plea for Compulsory Education. By John Mucturk.-IV.
Sprague.-V. Glycerine and Nitro-Glycerine. By Richard S. Jame-
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-By Mrs. Mary C. Vaughan.-VII. Not at Home. A Dialogue. By
Eliza A. Chase.-VIII. Editorial, Correspondence. Etc., etc.

The Atlantic Monthly, devoted to Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. 1866. 1s. 6d. each number. Boston.

CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER.-I. The Harmonists. By the author of "Life in the Iron Mills."-II. Abraham Davenport. By John G. Whittier.-III. Last Days of Walter Savage Landor. 2. By Miss Kate Field.-IV. To-morrow. By Henry W. Longfellow.-V. Doctor Johns. 16. By Donald G. Mitchell.-VI. Passages from Hawthorne's Note-books. 5. VII. The Fenian "Idea." By Frances Power Cobbe. - VIII. The Chimney-corner for 1866. 5. By Mrs. H. B. Stowe IX. Edwin Booth. By E. C. Stedman.-X. Among the Laurels. By Mrs. Akers.-XI. Griffith Gaunt; or, Jealousy. 6. By Chas. Reade.-XII. What will it cost us? By E. H. Derby.--XIII. Mephistophelean. By C. J. Sprague.-XIV. Mr. Hosea Biglow's Speech at March Meeting. By James Russell Lowell.-XV. Question of Monuments. By W. D. Howells.-XVI. Reviews and Literary

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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER.-Microscopy of the Dental Tissues. By J. H. McQuillen, D.D.S.-11. The Tumours of the Mouth. By Jas. E. Garretson, M.D.-III. Gastric Acids; their Deleterious Influence on the Teeth. By A. C. Castle, M.D.-IV. The Injurious Results of an Early Extraction of the Permanent Teeth. By A. C. Hawes.-V. Clasps as Fastenings for Artificial Dentures. By J. W. Clowes.-VI. Dr. E. A. Bogue's Improvement upon the Kingsley Artificial Palate. By George H. Cushing.-VII. Restoration of the Natural Expression of the Face. By John Allen, D.D.S.-VIII. Filling Pulp Cavities. By C. E. Latimer.-IX. Cobalt as an Application for Exposed Pulps. By W. Dickinson.-X. Proceedings of Dental Societies. Etc., etc.

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CONTENTS OF MAY 1.-I. The Stereograph as applied to Statuary, etc. By Professor Towler.-II. Poisoning by Cyanide.-III. Working of Mr. Swan's Carbon Process.-IV. The Glass Room and its Contents.-V. Printing by Development. By M. Carey Lea.-VI. The Bromide Patent. - VII. The Specific Gravity of Alcohol. VIII Painted Backgrounds. IX. A good, cheap and easily prepared Varnish, etc, etc.

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CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER.-I. The Gospel and its Successful Preacher. By Rev. L. Kellog, A.M.-II. The Man to Win Souls. By Rev. J. M. Hoppin.-III. The Christian's Duty in respect to the Temperance Cause. By Rev. G. T. Jackson.

New Englander (The). Edited by Professor GEORGE P. FISHER and TIMOTHY DWIGHT and WILLIAM L. KINGSLEY, Esq. April, 1866.

CONTENTS.-I. The New Era. By President Woolsey.-II. Systematic Training for the Ministry.-III. A Biographer at Work.-IV. Review of Dr. Bushnell on "the Vicarious Sacrifice." By Professor Noah Porter.-V. Review of Rev. Dr. Beardsley's "History of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut." By Rev. Dr. Bacon.-VI. Review of Mrs. L. H. Sigourney's "Letters of Life."-VII. The Political Situation.-VIII. Notices of New Books. A Monthly

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Record of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences. New York. Subscription, 30s. per annum.

CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER.-I. Tuberculosis: an Ab-tract from Virchow's Kraukhaften Geschwulste. By Francis Delafield, M.D., New York.-II. On the Pathology of Reflex Paralysis, and its Relation to the Sympathetic System. By M. Gonzalez Echeverria, M.D.-III. Delivery of a Headless Trunk of an Emphysematous Child. By T. Gaillard Thomas, M.D.-IV. On Cholera: an Account of its History, Etiology, Pathology, Prophylaxis, and Treatment. Prepared by C. C. Terry, M.D.-V. Reviews and Bibliographical Notices.-V1. Quarterly Report on Surgery.

Occident (The) and American Jewish AdvocateA monthly periodical devoted to the diffusion of knowledge of Jewish Literature and Religion. Edited by ISAAC LEESER. Philadelphia. Iyar, 5626 (May, 1866). Subscription, 16s. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. Progress, No. 2.-II. Did indeed the Jews Crucify Jesus.-III. Sacred Stones of the Vicinity of Newark-Lecking, Co. Ohio.-IV. Address by David Naar, Esq.-V. Hebrew Sunday School of Philadelphia.-VI. News' Items, etc.

The Radical. A Monthly Magazine devoted to Religion. Edited by S. H. MORSE. Subscription, 12s. per annum. Boston.

CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER.-I. Principles. By John Weiss. --II. Concerning the Nation's Soul. By the Editor. III. Revolutions. From Matthew Arnold. IV. Sursum Corda. By M. D. Conway.-V. The Policy. By Wendell Phillips.-VI. Jesus, the Sublime Radical. By H. W. Beecher.-VII. The Patriot. By A. Bronson Alcott.-VIII. A Tale from the Gulistan.-IX. Letter from Paris. By Samuel Longfellow.-X. The Lesson for the People. By the Editor.-XI. Wall Whitman's Drum Taps.

CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER.-Spiritual Needs and Certainties. By Samuel Johnson.-II. The World's Triumphs.-III. Encouragement. By Joseph Marvin.-IV. Tablets. By A. B. Alcott.-V. Ministering Angels to the Imprisoned Soul. By D. A. W.-VI. Prepared to Die. By Charles K. Whipple.-VII. Ġodward. By F. E. A.VIII. Letter from James Freeman Clarke.-IX. Man and Institutions. By W. H. K.-X. Movements. By the Editor.-XI. Book Notices.

United States' Service Magazine. (Monthly.) Vol. V. New York, 1866. Subscription, 30s. per annum. CONTENTS.-I. The Defence of New Orleans. II. The Fourth Army Corps. From the Chickamauga to the Chattahoochie. By a General Officer. - III. My First Capture. By a Gentleman of the Staff. IV. Major General B. H. Grierson.-V. The Peace Work of the Navy. By De B. R. Keim. VI. Ana of the War. By C. G. Leland. VII. The Army of the Potomac.-VIII. Editorial Notes, etc., etc.

Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. Edited by J. T. TROWBRIDGE, GAIL HAMILTON, and LUCY LARCOM, June, 1866. Vol. II. No. 4. Boston, Subscription, 8s. per annum.

CONTENTS OF THE JUNE NUMBER.-I. The Little Southerners. By Mrs. E. A Walker.-II. The Violet's Lesson. By S. E. Dickinson.III.-The Bird's Question. By John G. Whittier.-IV. Sea Life. By the Author of "Seven Little Sisters."-V. A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life, No. 6. By the author of "Faith Gartney's Childhood." VI. The First May Flowers. By Kate Putnam.-VII. Mother Magpie's Mischief. By Harriet Beecher Stowe.-VIII. Spring Song. By Rose Terry.-IX. The Four Seasons, No. 3. By Lucretia P. Hale.X. A Tennessee Farm House. By J. T. Trowbridge.-XI. The Dew Fairies. By Margaret T. Canby.-XII. Round the Evening Lamp, etc.

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