Article XI. "Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh. Edited by his son, Robert James Mackintosh, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1835." This Article we think upon the whole, better toned than the one upon the same subject, in the Edinburgh. It characterizes the work as a most interesting collection of _Mackintoshiana_, although not a good Life. Sir James is very justly styled an "idealogical writer, who, treating of human affairs, prefers to deal with _thoughts_, rather than _things_." NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. _The North American Review. No. LXXXIX--Vol. XLI. For October 1835. Boston: Charles Bowen._ It is now very generally known that Mr. Palfrey has become the editor of this Review, and the present number is the first issued since the announcement of the new arrangement. It is difficult to speak of a work like this as a whole. Particular articles strike us as being very good--some are worthless. We will briefly notice them one by one. Article I. "Life of Jehudi Ashmun, late Colonial Agent in Liberia. With an Appendix, containing Extracts from his Journal and other Writings; and a brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. Lott Carey. By Ralph Randolph Gurley. Washington." "The capacities of Ashmun's character were such," says the Reviewer, "that had he lived in any age or country, (pray, did he _not_ live in any age or country?) their energy must have hurried them into development as inevitably as the waters flow to the sea." All this we are willing to believe, and also that the man in question was a noble martyr in the cause of African colonization. We doubt, however, if there are not a crowd of books daily issuing unnoticed from the press, of far more general interest, and consequently more worthy the attention of our leading Review than even _The Life of Ashmun_. We shall soon, perhaps, have a Life of some Cuffy the Great, by Solomon Sapient; and then the North American will feel itself bound to devote one half of its pages to that important publication. In expressing ourselves thus, we mean not the slightest disrespect to either Ashmun or his Biographer. But the _critique_ is badly written, and its enthusiasm _outré_ and disproportionate. Article II.--1. "Ward's Law of Nations. 8vo. 2 vols. 1795." 2. "Vattel's Law of Nations, by Chitty, 8vo. 1829." This is an excellent essay--a practical exposition of the source and character of the Law International, and for which the works above-mentioned afford the _materiel_. A few articles similar to this would at once redeem the reputation of American critical literature. Our position in regard to France, gives to this review, at this moment, additional interest. Article III. "Matthias and his Impostures, or the Progress of Fanaticism. Illustrated in the Extraordinary Case of Robert Matthews, and some of his Forerunners and Disciples. By W. L. Stone. 12mo. New York, 1835."