_Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire d'Hayti._ Par l'Adjutant-Général Boisrond-Tonnerre. Written to explain the defection of Dessalines from Toussaint, and the military movements of the former. The author was a mulatto. _Des Colonies, et particulièrement de celle de Saint-Domingue; Mémoire Historique et Politique._ Par le Colonel Malenfant, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, etc. A pretty impartial book, by a pro-slavery man. _L. F. Sonthonax à Bourdon de l'Oise._ Pamphlet. The vindication of Sonthonax for declaring emancipation. _Colonies Étrangères et Haïti._ Par Victor Schoelcher. 2 Tom. Valuable, but leaning too much towards the negro against the mulatto. _Histoire des Désastres de Saint-Domingue._ Paris, 1795. Journalistic, with the coloring of the day. _Campagnes des Français à Saint-Domingue, et Réfutation des Reproches faits au Capitaine-Général Rochambeau._ Par Ph. Albert de Lattre, Propriétaire, etc., 1805. Shows that Rochambeau could not help himself. _Voyages d'un Naturaliste._ 3 Tom. Par Descourtilz. Pro-slavery, but filled with curious information. _Expédition à St. Domingue._ Par A. Metral. Useful. _The Empire of Hayti._ By Marcus Rainsford, Captain in West-Indian Regiment. Occasionally valuable. [30] The independent Congos in the interior are more active and courageous, expert and quarrelsome than those upon the coast, who have been subjected by the Portuguese. [31] When the insurgents evacuated a fort near Port-au-Prince, upon the advance of the English, a negro was left in the powder-magazine with a lighted match, to wait till the place was occupied. Here he remained all night; but when the English came later than was expected, his match had burned out. Was that insensibility to all ideas, or devotion to one? [32] Praloto was a distinguished Italian in the French artillery service. His battery of twenty field-pieces at Port-au-Prince held the whole neighborhood in check, till at length a young negro named Hyacinthe roused the slaves to attack it. In the next fight, they rushed upon this battery, insensible to its fire, embraced the guns and were bayoneted, still returned to them, stuffed the arms of their dead comrades into the muzzles, swarmed over them, and extinguished the fire. This was done against a supporting fire of French infantry. The blacks lost a thousand men, but captured the cannon, and drove the whole force into the city. [33] _Think twice before you try me_: the name of a _morne_ of extraordinary difficulty, which had to be surmounted by one of the French columns. [34] Negro authorities say 750. REVIEWS AND LITERARY NOTICES. _Sunshine in Thought._ By CHARLES GODFREY LELAND, Author of "Meister Karl's Sketch-Book," and Translator of "Heine's Pictures of Travel." New York: Charles T. Evans. 16mo.