HAVE LATELY PUBLISHED THE FOLLOWING CHOICE NEW BOOKS. Any of which they will send postpaid, on receipt of the price. In one elegant volume, tinted paper, and bevelled boards, price $1.00. POEMS, SACRED AND SECULAR. BY REV. WM. CROSWELL, D. D., LATE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH OF THE ADVENT, BOSTON. Edited, with Notes, and a Memoir of the Author, by REV. ARTHUR CLEVELAND COXE, D. D. "The memory of William Croswell, the first rector of the Church of the Advent, in Boston, is still fresh and fragrant, and his name is yet one of persuasive and winning power. Nature, says one of his admirers, made him a poet; his own choice made him a priest. This book shows how gracefully his holy office was adorned by the employment of the gifts of genius. Those of the communion in which he ministered, and of which he was, by his saintly example, so bright an ornament, turn to him with one consent as the model priest. The poems of Croswell, which were scattered through the pages of the memoir written by his father, bear the impress of the character, and are tinged throughout by the sweet spirit of the man and the priest their author was; and to all who knew him they will be a treasure above price, while they cannot but prove acceptable to all lovers of Christian poetry. The mechanical execution of this little volume is in every way so exquisite that it would do credit to any publishing house on either side of the Atlantic. In paper, print, and decoration, it is of such perfect elegance as to be a fitting crown to the numerous beautiful contributions made by the Messrs. Ticknor & Fields to our book wealth."-Home Journal. TICKNOR & FIELDS, PUBLISHERS, BOSTON. In one volume, Blue and Gold, 480 pp., price 75 cents. LEGENDS OF THE MADONNA. AS REPRESENTED IN THE FINE ARTS. Br MRS. JAMESON. CORRECTED AND ENLARGED EDITION, With fine Steel Portrait of Mrs. Jameson. 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THE opening chapters of the new story by this popular writer will appear in the MAY NUMBER of the ATLANTIC MONTHLY. Its title is AGNES OF SORRENTO, and it will be continued through this year and part of the next. As this Romance will attract marked attention throughout the country, we refer our readers to the Terms of this Magazine on the last page of the cover. The April and May Numbers will be of peculiar interest. Among the articles already in hand may be named a paper on "Cities and Parks," by Rev. Dr. BELLOWS, with special reference to the New York Central Park; a powerful story called "Life in the Iron Mills "Rest and Motion," by the Author of "The New World, and the New Man"; "Steam-Navigation on the Niger"; the conclusion of Professor Holmes's graphic Romance; and "The Lights of the English Lake District," by Miss HARRIET MARTINEAU, now a resident of that country. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1861, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. Press of the Franklin Printing House, Bostor. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS VOL. VII.-MARCH, 1861.-NO. XLI. GERMAN UNIVERSITIES. THE PROFESSORS. "WHICH of the German universities would be the best adapted to my purpose?" is the question of many an American student, who, having gone through the usual course in the United States, looks abroad for the completion of his scientific or liberal studies. Of Göttingen and Heidelberg he will often have read and heard; the reputation of the comparatively new university of Berlin will not be unfamiliar to him; but of Tübingen, Würzburg, Erlangen, Halle, or Bonn, even, he will perhaps know little more than the name. In the majority of the last-named places, foreigners, especially his own countrymen, are rare; none of his friends have studied there; they have followed the current, since the last century, and spent their time in Göttingen or Heidelberg, perhaps a winter in Berlin. They have found these institutions good, and affording every facility for study; but would not Munich, or Leipzig, or Jena, or any other one of the twentysix universities of Germany, better answer the purpose of many a student? During the last winter, in many conversations with a retired professor in Berlin, who manifested a special interest in American institutions, mainly in 17 VOL. VII. the American educational system, he was very particular in inquiring as to what we meant by our term College. He had read the work of the historian Raumer on America, and declared that from this he could get no notion whatever as to what the term meant with us. The very same thing occurs daily in the United States in regard to foreign, or, more properly, the Continental universities. Accustomed as we are to the prevalence of the tutorial system, the use of text-books, in many parts of the Union not defining clearly the difference between the terms University, College, Institute, and Academy, giving the first name often to institutions having but one faculty, and that at times incomplete, with no theological, and of ten no law or medical department, forgetting that the University should, from its very name, be as universal as possible in its teachings, comprehending in its list of studies the combined scientific and literary pursuits of the age, we are apt to look upon foreign schools of learning as similar in nature and purpose to our own, differing not in the quality or specific character of the teaching, but rather in the scope and extent of the branches taught. Yet nothing is farther from the truth. The result is, that, many a one starts for Europe full of hope, to seek |