It is not our place here to do more than record how that suddenly, in the early summer of last year, the true strong man was struck down by inflammation of the lungs and passed away. What the loss must be to all whom his influence touched the pages before us sufficiently attest. It is perhaps well, though, that no life can be faithfully lived in the world without leaving such sore legacies of loss behind it. * * * * * _Books Received._ The Relation of the Government to the Telegraph; or, a Review of the Two Propositions now Pending before Congress for Changing the Telegraphic Service of the Country. By David A. Wells. With Appendices. New York. The Country Physician. An Address upon the Life and Character of the late Dr. Frederick Dorsey. By John Thomson Mason. Second edition. Baltimore: William K. Boyle. Addresses delivered on Laying the Cornerstone of an edifice for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, October 30, 1872. Philadelphia: Collins. Mysteries of the Voice and Ear. By Prof. O. N. Rood, Columbia College, New York. With Illustrations. New Haven: C. C. Chatfield & Co. The Poems of Henry Timrod. Edited, with a Sketch of the Poet's Life, by Paul H. Hayne. New York: E. J. Hale & Son. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches. By Justin McCarthy. New York: Sheldon & Co. The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Household edition. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. The Earth a Great Magnet. By Alfred Marshal Mayer, Ph. D. New Haven: C. C. Chatfield & Co. The Two Ysondes, and Other Verses. By Edward Ellis. London: Basil Montagu Pickering. Jesus, the Lamb of God. By Rev. E. Payson Hammond. Boston: Henry Hoyt. Social Charades and Parlor Operas. By M. T. Calder. Boston: Lee & Shepard. The Yale Naught-ical Almanac for 1873. New Haven: C. C. Chatfield & Co. Julia Reid: Listening and Led By Pansy. Boston: Henry Hoyt.