Woman physiologically considered : as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce : with an appendix, containing notes and additions, edited by an American physician / by Alexander Walker.

  • Walker, Alexander, 1779-1852.
Date:
1840
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Credit: Woman physiologically considered : as to mind, morals, marriage, matrimonial slavery, infidelity and divorce : with an appendix, containing notes and additions, edited by an American physician / by Alexander Walker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    LATELY PUBLISHED BV J. & H. G. LANGLEY No. 57, Chatham-street, New-York. BEHEMOTH: A LEGEND OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. 1 Vol. 12ino. NOTICES. This work embodies a fine conceplion—a grand subject for the imagination. We are carried back into the remote depths of antiquity, when the g-reat valley of tlie west was filled with a people whose pow- er and skill are attested in the relics of those vast and strange struc- tures that have survived the lapse of thousands of years. Long before the point of time, however, at which this story opens, the huge Mas- tadon, whose enormous bones are still extant, had been exterminated —all except one, and his existence had for many years been a dim tra- dition among the Mound.builders. He now appears the survivor and avenger of his race—moving in the darkness of a single night, over the five thou.-aad cities of the land, crushing down forests, people, dwellincr^, tovvers and sacred m.ounds—everything beneath his feet. New-York Review. The n.st thing that struck us in this work was the daring charac- ter of the conception. To endue again with all the attributes of life thatjjrodigious creature, who.-e relics are so widely scattered over our counl.y, and to connect his destinies v.ith that mysterious race whose sole .Ti^morials are the wonderful works of our west, was an idea both original and grand. Such a subject calls for high powers of imagina- tion : a.id Were we to say nieiely that the author has not failed, we should accord to him high praise. But we can say more : his concep- tion is embodied in a manner worthy of itself. A nice critic might point out defects—a cautious critic might hesitate to stamp with his imprima'v.-?ome passages; but we think none can dcnv the gene- ral merit ot'the work. In connection with indications of higher pow- er, the wiiter has at once given us an ad.nirable-gpecimrn of humor- ous dc.'3cri|)tion. Nor is it misplaced : for tiie episode of Kljckhatch is a necessary relief to the painful effect of the general story.—Sun- day Morning News. Behemoth is written in a nervous style, and more than one pas- -sage can be designated as grand arid eloquent. Its interest is high, wrought and intense.—Duihj Whig. This is a book of a novel character, and treating of a novel sub- ject. The antiquities of America have been so little known, that