EXCITEMENT.
.WE cannot too strongly recommend a little volume which is published under this title. It is a. description of Annual, and. this is, we believe, its second appearance. We last year objected to the name; assuredly, this year, it is all we can establish Dii objection against. The contents are interesting, deeply so : but " Excitement " implies the application of an //id/oaf/by stimulus, and such cannot be said of the contents of this little corpulent duodecimo.
The contents of the present volume consist chiefly of such ex- tracts from the publications of the year as have contained con- nected adventures of great interest,—as, for example, expeditions of discovery, shipwrecks, hurricanes, and every other straggle in. which the qualities of human nature are represented in contest with the elements', or the constituent properties of the system in which we live.
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