2. _Nineteenth Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society._ Boston. 1844. 8vo. pp. 116. 3. _Prisons and Prisoners._ By JOSEPH ADSHEAD. With Illustrations. London. 1845. 8vo. pp. 320. 4. _Report of the Surveyor-General of Prisons on the Construction, Ventilation, and Details of the Pentonville Prison._ London. 1844. fol. pp. 30. 5. _Revue Pénitentiaire des Institutions Préventives_, sous la Direction de M. MOREAU-CHRISTOPHE. Tom. II. Paris. 1845. 8vo. pp. 659. 6. _Du Projet de Loi sur la Réforme des Prisons._ Par M. LÉON FAUCHER. Paris. 1844. 8vo. 7. _Considerations sur la Réclusion Individuelle des Détenus._ Par W.H. SURINGAR. Traduit du Hollandais sur la seconde Édition. Précédées d'une Préface, et suivies du Résumé de la Question Pénitentiaire, par L.M. MOREAU-CHRISTOPHE. Paris et Amsterdam. 1843. 8vo. pp. 131. 8. _Nordamerikas Sittliche Zustände._ (The Moral Condition of North America.) Von Dr. N.H. JULIUS. 2 Bände. Leipzig. 1839. 8vo. 9. _Archiv des Criminalrechts, herausgegeben_ von den Professoren ABEGG, BIRNBAUM, HEFFTER, MITTERMAIER, WÄCHTER, ZACHARIÄ. (Archives of Criminal Law, edited by Professors ABEGG, etc.) Halle. 1843. 12mo. pp. 597. The chosen and almost exclusive sphere of woman is home, in the warmth of the family hearth. Rarely is she able to mingle with effect in the active labors which influence mankind. With incredulity we admire the feminine expounder of the Roman law, illustrating by her lectures the Universities of Padua and Bologna,--and the charities of St. Elizabeth of Hungary are legendary in the dim distance; though, in our own day, the classical productions of the widow of Wyttenbach, crowned Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Marburg, and most especially the beautiful labors of Mrs. Fry, recently closed by death, are examples of the sway exerted by the gentler sex beyond the charmed circle of domestic life. Among these Miss Dix will receive a place which her modesty would forbid her to claim. Her name will be enrolled among benefactors. It will be pronounced with gratitude, when heroes in the strifes of politics and of war are disregarded or forgotten. "Can we forget the generous few Who, touched with human woe, redressive sought Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans, Where sickness pines?"