Professor Tyler's New Book

To any thins; from the pen of Moses Coit Tyler his {ellow-townsmen are sure to accord the same cordial and aftectionate wel;.ome, which they alwaye have ready for bitaself whenever he returns amoDg them. Eis now work, (published by Houghton, MiiBin & Oo., in their series üf monograpbs upou "Amencac Statesmen,") on !he ereat Virginia orator and etatesman of ihe Revolutionary peiiod, Patrick Henry, conspicuously merits such a welcome. In the prepararon of his biography oí Patrick Henry, Professor Tyler's industriats aewch h&s been rewsrded by the disoovery of tnaterials oí information hitherio oneroployed. By the use of these sítenals he has been enabled to place beforo the world a view of his subject which ig aot only more complete, but more correct, than any hitherto published. And wbat is specially fortúnate is that Patrick Senry, eeen in the light of this new, more perfect, and more authentic acsount, deoidedly gains, rather than loses, in our esteem and admiration. Attacks ot'envy, directed gainst the character and actions of ?atrick Ilenry, are in the work before us aow first and finally disproved; and the mas himself, uniting ín mm tüose quaimes whioh peculiarly distinguish the best á.mericán citizenship, Í8 permitted to appear before us. In the congress at Philadelphia in 1774, Patrick Henry declared of himgelf', "I am not a Virginian, but an imerican." Profe6sor Tyler's work enWeB us with full right to class Henry UBong tkose typical Americans (such as iincolo in cur own times) who are incsmate definitions of what ík best and most worthily distinctive in American ijhsracter. Professor Tyler's style appears in the present volume at its best. In treating of the earlier and very unpromising years of ?atrick Henry's lite, he has a happy occasion, which he improves, for indulging in ib delighttul vein oí merry drollery eo peculiar to himeelf. In the more serious tnd inspiring tale of Henry's long continued suscesses, - of his wonderful eloquence, of his statesmanship, of the iuitiaiive he took in proclaiminu the elementary principies of American liberty, of the great part he had in eecuring their recognition, of his deeply ethical patriotism, and of bis Ohristian character and conviction, - the Tyleresque, as we may cali it, in our aathor's style disappears, and the latter becomes simply achromatic ; then it is not the writer, but the theme, that Bpeaks. We scarcely need bespeak - as we do - for Professor Tjler's book Ihe attention it deserve?.