speculates not, wrangles not, reviles not, but, while it every where testifies of the degradation we are under, touches our spirits to power and purity by the constant exhortation of "sursem corda!" The style of Dr. Hooker abounds in spontaneous interest and unexpected graces. It seems to result immediately from his character, and to be an inseparable part of it. It is free from all the commonplaces of fine writing; has nothing of the formal contrivance of the rhetorician, the balanced period, the pointed turn, the recurring cadence. Yet the charms of a genuine simplicity, of a directness almost quaint, of primitive gravity, and calm, native good sense, renders it singularly agreeable to a cultivated taste. Undoubtedly there is in spiritual sensibility something akin to genius, and like it tending to utterance in language significant and beautiful. We meet at times in Dr. Hooker's writings with phrases of the rarest felicity and of great delicacy and expressiveness; in which we know not whether most to admire the vigor which has conceived so striking a thought, or the refinement of art which has fixed it in words so beautifully exact. SUNSET. WRITTEN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE. BY R. S. CHILTON See with what pomp the golden sun goes down Behind yon purple mountain!--far and wide His mellow radiance streams; the steep hill-side Is clothed with splendor, and the distant town Wears his last glory like a blazing crown. We cannot see him now, and yet his fire Still lingers on the city's tallest spire,-- Chased slowly upward by the gathering frown Of the approaching darkness. God of light! Thou leavest us in gloom,--but other eyes Watch thy faint coming now in distant skies:-- There drooping flowers spring up, and streams grow bright, And singing birds plume their moist wings for flight, And stars grow pale and vanish from the sight! NEW-YORK SOCIETY, BY THE LAST ENGLISH TRAVELLER. The Hon. HENRY COPE has lately published in London a _Ride across the Rocky Mountains, to California_--a book abounding in striking adventure and description, and illustrating in its general tone the spirit of an English gentleman. Its temper and good sense may be inferred from the following specimen, on the never-failing subject of Society in New-York: