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29. MIRKHOND. HISTORY OF THE EARLY KINGS

OF PERSIA. From Kaiomars, the first of the Peshdadian Dynasty to the Conquest of Iran, by ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Translated from the Original Persian of MIRKHOND, entitled the "Rauzat-us-safa, with Notes and Illustrations, by D. SHEA. 8vo. 1832. 6s. 30. The TOHFUT-UL-MUJAHIDEEN; a History of the First Settlement of the Mohammedans in Malabar, and of their subsequent Struggles with the Portuguese. Translated from the Arabic, by Lieut. M. ROWLANDSON. 8vo. 1833. 4s.

31. ALFIYYA; ou, La Quintessence de la Grammaire Arabe; Ouvrage de DJEMAL-EDDIN MOHAMMED, connu sous le nom D'EBN MALEC. Publié en Original, avec un Commentaire, par SILVESTRE DE SACY. 8vo. Paris, 1834. 6s. 6d.

32. EVLIYA EFENDI; Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century. Translated from the Turkish, by J. VON HAMMER. Vol. I. Parts I. and II., and Vol. II. 4to. 1834-50. £1 4s. 33. A DESCRIPTION OF THE BURMESE EMPIRE; compiled chiefly from Native Documents, by the Rev. FATHER SANGERMANO; and translated from his MS. by W. TANDY, D.D. 4to. 1833. 12s. 6d. 34. ESSAY ON THE ARCHITECTURE

OF THE HINDUS. By RAM RAZ, Native Judge and Magistrate at Bangalore. 48 Plates. Royal 4to. 1834. £1 11s. 6d. 35. ANNALES DES EMPEREURS DU JAPON. Traduites par M. ISAAC TITSINGH. Ouvrage revu, complété et corrigé, sur l'Original Japonais-Chinois, accompagné de Notes, et précédé d'un Aperçu de l'Histoire Mythologique des Japonais, par J. KLAPROTH. 4to. 1835. £1 1s.

36. HARIVANSA; ou, Histoire de Famille de Hari; Ouvrage formant un Appendice du Mahabharata; et traduit sur l'Original Sanscrit, par A. LANGLOIS. 2 Tomes. 4to. 1835-36. £2 16s.

37. The DIDASCALIA; or, Apostolical Constitutions of the Abyssinian Church. Translated from the Ethiopic, by T. P. PLATT, Esq. 4to. 1834. 8s.

38. LES AVENTURES DE KAMRUP, par TAHCINUDDIN; traduites de l'Hindoustani, par M. Garcin de TASSY. 8vo. 1834. 8s.

39. The CHRONICLES OF RABBI JOSEPH BEN JOSHUA BEN MEIR, THE SPHARDI. Translated from the Hebrew, by C. H, F. BIALLOBLOTZY. 2 vols. 8vo. 1836. £1.

40. The POLITICAL AND STATISTICAL HISTORY OF GUJERAT. Translated from the Persian, by J. BIRD, Esq. 8vo. 1835. 8s.

41. LE LIVRE DES RECOMPENSES ET DES PEINES. Traduit du Chinois, par STANISLAS JULIEN, 8vo. 1835. 17s.

42. HAJI KHALFÆ LEXICON ENCYCLOPÆDICUM ET BIBLIOGRAPHICUM. Edidit G. FLUEGEL.

Tom. I., II., III., IV., V., VI., VII. 4to. Leipzig, 1835-54. £4 4s.

43. CHRONIQUE D'ABOU-DJAFAR MOHAMMED TABARI. Traduit sur la version Persane, par L. DUBEUX. Livraison I. 4to. 1836. 15s.

44. LAILI AND MAJNUN. A Poem. From the Persian of Nazámi. By J. ATKINSON, Esq. 8vo. 1836. 4s. 6d. 45. The HISTORY OF THE TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM. Translated from the Arabic of the IMAM JALAL-ADDIN AL SIUTI. With Notes and Dissertations. By the Rev. J. REYNOLDS. 8vo. 1836. 12s. 46. The SANKHYA KARIKA; or, Memorial Verses on the Sankhya Philosophy; translated from the Sunscrit by H. T. COLEBROOKE, Esq. Also, The Bhashya; or, Commentary of Gaurapáda; translated and illustrated by an Original Comment. By H. H. WILSON. 4to. 1837. 10s. 6d.

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52. The VISHNU PURANA; a System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition. Translated from the original Sanscrit, and illustrated by Notes derived chiefly from other Puranas. By H. H. WILSON. Second Edition, by Dr. FITZ-EDWARD HALL. In 4 vols. 8vo. Vol. I., 1864. [Vols. 11. to IV. in the Press.] 1. 6d.

53. AL-MAKKARI. The History of the ohammedan Dynasties in Spain. Translated by ASCUAL DE GAYANGOS. 2 vols. 4to. 1840-3. £38s.

54. EL-MAS'UDIS HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, entitled "Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems." Translated from the Arabic by Dr. A. SPRENGER. Vol. I. 8vo. 1841. 16s.

55. SAMA VEDA. Translation of the Sanhitá of the Sáma Veda. By the Rev. J. STEVENSON. 8vo. 1842. 73. 56. SPECIMENS OF THE POPULAR POETRY OF PERSIA, as found in the Adventures and Improvisations of KURROGLOU, the Bandit-Minstrel of Northern Persia; and in the Songs of the People inhabiting the Shores of the Caspian Sea. Orally collected and translated by A. CHODZKO. 8vo. 1842. 12s. 6d. 57. IBN KHALLIKAN'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. Translated from the Arabic by BARON MAC GUCKIN DE SLANE. Vols. I. and II. 4to. 1843. £2 2s. 58. HISTORY OF HYDER NAIK, otherwise styled NAWAUB HYDUR ALI, by MEER HUSSEIN ALI KHAN KIRMANI. Translated from an Original Persian MS., by COLONEL W. MILES. 8vo. 1842. 10s. 59. The DABISTAN; or, School of Manners. Translated from the Persian, with Notes, etc. By D. SHEA, and A. TROYER. 3 vols. 8vo. 1843. £l 1s.

60. HISTORY OF THE REIGN OF TIPU SULTAN, being a Continuation of the NESHANI HYDURI. Written by MIR HUSSEIN ALI KHAN KIRMANI. Translated by Colonel W. MILES. 8vo. 1844. 8s. 6d.

61. OUSELEY'S (Sir GORE), Biographical Notices of Persian Poets; with Critical and Explanatory Remarks; prefixed to which is a Memoir of the Author, by the Rev. J. REYNOLDS. 8vo. 1846. 68.

62. The KALPA SUTRA, AND NAVA TATVA. Two Works illustrative of the Jain Religion and Philosophy. Translated from the MAGHADI. With an Appendix, containing Remarks on the Language of the Original. By the Rev. J. STEVENSON, D.D. 8vo. 1848. 6s. 63. The APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTIONS; or, Canons of the Apostles, in Coptic; with an English Translation, by Dr. H. TATTAM. 8vo. 1848. 8s.

64. MAKAMAT; or, Rhetorical Anecdotes of ABU'L KASEM AL HARIRI, of Basra. Translated into English Verse and Prose; and illustrated with Annotations, by the Rev. T. PRESTON. 8vo. 1850. 12s.

65. KALIDASA. The Birth of the War God; a Poem, translated from the Sanskrit, by R. T. A. GRIFFITH. 8vo. 1853. 4s.

66. The POEMS OF THE HUZAILIS, edited in Arabic by J. G. L. KoOSEGARTEN. Vol. I. 4to. 1854. 17s. 67. SPICILEGIUM SYRIACUM, edited and translated by the Rev. W. CURETON, Royal 8vo. 1855. 9s. 68. MEMOIRES SUR LES CONTREES OCCIDENTALES, par HIOUEN THSANG; traduit du Chinois, par STANISLAS JULIEN. 2 vols. Each £1 Is. 69. KITAB-I-YAMINI; Historical Memoirs of Early Conquerors of Hindustan, and Founders of the Ghaznavide Dynasty; translated from the Persian, by the Rev. JAMES REYNOLDS, B.A. 8vo. 1858. 12s. 6d.

70. CHRONIQUE DE MATTHIEU D'EDESSE; translated from the Armenian, by M. DULAURIER. 1858. £1 1s.

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Death openeth the gate of fame and extinguisheth envy.-LORD BACON.

A GREAT calamity has fallen upon the American people. Their twice-chosen ruler has been struck down by the hand of an assassin, and his body has been borne to the grave amid the heartfelt regrets, not alone of his countrymen, but of every man of thought in the civilized world. Sprung from the humblest rank, having fought well and bravely the battle of life, ABRAHAM LINCOLN attained an elevated position which he adorned by his virtues. To him was committed the responsible task of steering his country through difficulties having no parallel in molern times. How he succeeded the future alone can tell-but if a sincere love for his country, an unceasing desire to serve it, and the concentration of every faculty of body and mind to this one end, deserved success, then his labours richly merit it. Of Mr. LINCOLN as a politician it is not our province to speak; but of him as a man, truthful, honest, and honourable, how can we say enough!-a warm heart, a considerate, gentle disposition, a desire at all times to sacrifice his own comforts to the good of others-these are qualities all can prize, and by which his countrymen will long remember him. M. LAUGEL, in the Revue des Deux Mondes, relates from personal observation two or three little incidents which draw our sympathies towards this gaunt melancholy-looking man, whose face and brow were marked with lines of suffering and care for his country's griefs, which he had made his own. A soldier's wife, reduced almost to destitution by the absence of her husband, sought to obtain his discharge from the army-this, Mr. LINCOLN told her, was beyond his power; but he listened patiently to the poor creature's tale of suffering and sorrow, cheered her and comforted her, reminded her how not herself alone, but the nation generally were passing through a season of trial, and dismissed her not only with many kind and thoughtful words, but with substantial proofs of sympathy. And what a beautiful and touching picture is that which M. LAUGEL places before us. Mr. LINCOLN, in that fatal theatre-months before the real tragedy which ended his life-listening to that representation of manly sorrow in "King Lear" with his little son pressed close to his ample breast, at times answering patiently the little pratling fellow-then showing in every feature how keenly he felt the great dramatist's representation of the sorrows of paternity. To him SHAKSPERE was, as to all true men, a great teacher, whose words cannot be heard too often, and cannot be rendered more powerful by any extrinsic circumstances. "It matters not to me," he said one day, "whether SHAKSPERE be well or ill acted; with him, the thought suffices."

Though not a man of commanding intellect, he had that strong common sense which in times of emergency often fits its possessor better than mere intellect for positions of trust and power. He was a man of inflexible will, resolute and determined in what he believed right; yet free altogether from that obstinacy which attempts to carry out a project regardless of surrounding circumstances. However much he may seem to have hesitated about the Abolition of Slavery, we fully concur in M. LAUGEL'S opinion-that from the first moment he entered the White House he had made up his mind that he would be the liberator of the four millions of slaves in the United States. Indeed, as an honest man, which he really and truly was, no other course was open to him. He had again and again expressed his opinion that Slavery was an evil; but it would have been foily to have forced his individual opinion upon the nation. He waited patiently

till, in this matter, his countrymen were educated up to his standard; and then, assured of his power, he had no hesitation about an act which wiped the stain of Slavery from the American nation. The violent political animosities towards him death has silenced, and not alone his friends, but his sincerest political opponents have readily yielded their testimony to his virtues, and dropped the tear of sorrow on his grave.

We cannot speculate upon what might have been had LINCOLN lived. We know his heart yearned towards his brethren in the South. We cannot fathom the mystery of Providence in permitting the deed which deprived his country at such a time of the services of such a man. It is for all to bow submissively to His will, remembering that with nations as with individuals

"Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction;

And oft the cloud that wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days."

• Le Président des Etats-Unis, Abraham Lincoln. Souvenirs Personuels par M. Auguste Laugel.

AMERICAN LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX TO CHAUCER.-Mr. F. Leypoldt, of Philadelphia and New York, announces his intention to issue by subscription in one large 8vo. volume of about 800 pp. "A Complete Verbal and Glossarial Index to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, to which are added special Verbal and Glossarial Indexes to the Vision and Creed of Piers Ploughman, La Mort D'Arthure, Gower's Confessio Amantis, Wycliffe's Bible, Spenser's Poetical Works, and Chapman's Homer. With an Appendix, containing Obsolete Words from Douglas' Scotch Translation of Virgil's Eneid, Shakspere, Milton, Fuller, Taylor, Holland, Golding, etc. With a Grammar of the English Language of the Fourteenth Century, and an Essay on the Versification of Chaucer prefixed."

COWLEY'S COMPLETE WORKS.-" My desire has been for some years past," writes Cowley in his preface to his Poems, "and does still vehemently continue, to retire myself to some of our American plantations, not to seek for gold or enrich myself with the traffic of those parts (which is the end of most men that travel thither) but to forsake this

world for ever, with all the vanities and vexations of it, and
to bury myself there in some obscure retreat (but not without
the consolation of letters and philosophy)." Having pre-
viously expressed his intention to abandon the Muse, he adds,
"I think Dr. Donne's Sundial in a Grave is not more useless
and ridiculous than poetry would be in that retirement."
Has the lingering glance cast towards the then peaceful
America enlisted the sympathy of our American friends in a
poet who, with all his beauties, and they are many, has failed
to maintain his place among the poets who are read and
thought of here? Whatever may be the cause, it is proposed
to issue a magnificent large paper edition of his complete
works in prose and veise, in three large octavo volumes with
rubricated title-pages. 150 copies to be printed on the best
fine laid paper at 57. each; 35 copies on hot-pressed vellum
paper at 97. 10s. each; 10 copies on India paper at 157. each;
and 3 copies on vellum, which will be-priceless. Cowley's
poetical writings, especially his Love verses, are exquisite;
but their freedom and amorousness unfit them for modern
readers. There is a singular aptness, however, in their re-
publication in America now. Many of them were written
immediately after the Restoration of Charles II. when the
English nation was beginning to realise the blessings of peace
and the absence of civil war and discord. How many in the
United States will now heartily endorse his lines.

Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought
Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught

Smiths who before could only make

The spade, the ploughshare and the rake,

Arts, in most cruel wise,

Man's life t' epitomize.

Then men (fond men alas !) ride post to the grave,

And cut those threads which yet the Fates would save..
Then Charon sweated at bis trade,

And had a larger ferry made;
Then 'twas the silver hair,
Frequent before, grew rare.

LARGE PAPER COPIES.-O for the pen of a Dibdin to tell with true bibliographic enthusiasm of the present Paradise of Bibliopoles. Time was when English book collectors by the hundred would revel in the wide uncut margin of a large paper copy; now, alas!--sad is the pen that writes—the large paper collectors are few, few and far between. Shelves for small octavos fill the spaces once set apart for the quarto and the folio, and utilitarianism lords it, even in literature. Books that can be held in the hand while reading are now the mode, and a large paper copy of Macaulay or Tennyson would be looked upon as an absurdity. Not so with our American friends. Ye who sigh with regret for the days that are passed, think of large paper copies of the Noctes Ambrosianæ, with the Life of Wilson, in 6 vols., only one hundred printed, price to subscribers £15; of large paper copies of the "Wit and Wisdom of Sydney Smith," only fifty copies printed, price to subscribers £2 10s; of large paper copies of a "Biographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts," in 2 vols., with 100 photographic portraits, an edition of one hundred only, price to subscribers £10, raised to £15 on publication, and buyers who have missed the chance of getting early copies prepared to pay double these prices. New York has publishers to speculate and book worms to buy these treasures. May we not reasonably call it, then, the Paradise of Bibliopoles.

AN AMERICAN EDITION OF BURKE'S WORKS.-Messrs. Little, Brown, and Co., of Boston, will issue in June the first

volume of a new edition of the works of Edmund Burke, to
be completed in twelve monthly volumes, crown 8vo.
Messrs. WALKER, FULLER, and Co., of Bosten, are issuing
a new and carefully revised edition of Miss Martineau's "His-
tory of the Peace," for which edition Miss Martineau has writ-
ten an additional book bringing down the narrative to 1854.
"NOTHING TO WEAR."-The author of this admirable
satire has nearly ready for the press a Novel entitled "Mary
Brandegee." If the latter only sustain the author's reputa-
tion, it will have a marked success in England as well as in
the United States.

"RUTLEDGE."-The writings of the author of this novel have had a very wide circulation, something like one hundred thousand copies having been sold of his four works, "Rutledge," "Sutherlands," "Warrington," and "Louie." His new novel "St. Philips," is looked for with interest, and great curiosity is excited as to the actual name of the writer.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON.-Messrs. Little, Brown, and Co., of Boston, announce for early publication, "The Life and Speeches of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States." Edited by Frank Moore, Author of "The Rebellion Record."

THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY.-We refer our readers to the synopsis of contents of the first two numbers of this valuable journal, which will be found among our "American Periodicals." The editor leaves nothing to be desired by his readers; for, in addition to the ordinary contents of such a work, he gives, in each number, a careful summary of the Literature of Conchology.

THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL LIBRARY FOR ENGLAND has arrived, and we believe is now in the hands of Professor Goldwin Smith. It consists of a very choice collection of modern American literature. Messrs. Bancroft, Everett, Bryant, Dr. Holmes, Longfellow, Boker, Whittier, Bayard Taylor, Kennedy, Epes Sargent, Tuckerman, Alger, W. Botta, P. M. Irving, Darley, Parton, Ruggles, Lieber, Schoolcraft, Carey, Whipple, and other authors have contributed copies of their works, while publishers and private gentlemen have been eager to show their sympathy with the object. The collection as a whole forms a complete literary exposition of the history, progress, resources, culture, taste, and political and social life of the United States.

LITERATURE OF the Rebellion.—Mr. J. R. Bartlett, of Providence, has in the press a quarto volume which, under the title of "The Literature of the Rebellion," will contain a Catalogue of all the known books and pamphlets printed in Europe and the United States which relate to the rebellion. We believe the number of such publications will be little, if at all, short of 5000 in number. A few copies will be printed on large paper.

THE PRINCE SOCIETY, BOSTON, at its meeting on the 27th February, resolved upon reprinting the following interesting works, carefully edited-Wood's "New England Prospect," Norton's "Life of John Cotton," and Cotton Mather's Life of John Elliot " They have in the press the second volume of the "Hutchinson papers."

HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN.-An exceedingly interesting collection of 1057 French and Spanish MSS. relating to the Early Settlement and History of the Mississippi Valley, extending from 1672 to 1808, made by the late Lieut.Col. Sidney A. Bean, has been presented by the mother of that lamented officer, to the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The last annual address to this Society consists of a valuable paper of 45 pp. by the Hon. George Gale, On the History of the O-chunk-o-rau or Winnebago Indians.

HISTORY OF EASTERN VERMONT, from its earliest settlement to the close of the 18th century, with a biographical chapter and appendixes, by Benj. H. Hall. Mr. Munsell, of Albany, proposes before destroying the stereotype plates of this work to print, at the price of 57. per copy in paper covers, uncut, fifty copies only on large paper; of which, forty-five will be offered for sale. The volume will contain pages xiv and 799, forty-one illustrations on wood, and two indexesone of subjects and the other of persons, the latter giving a correct reference to every name mentioned in the work. The title-page will be rubricated. A lithographic copy of the original Record of the Inquest held on the body of William French, who has been styled the Proto-martyr to the cause of American Liberty, will be inserted in this edition.

THE DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI, with the original Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Hennepin, Membre, and Anastase Douay, by John Gilmary Shea,

LL.D., with a fac-simile of the Map of Marquette and that attributed to Jolliet. The first edition of this work having been long out of print, the author has been induced to prepare a new one, embodying the additional matter and corrections, resulting from the research induced by the appearance of the book more than ten years since. It will be printed uniformly with Munsell's Historical Series, in two volumes, small quarto. Edition limited to 100 copies small paper at 25s. per vol.; and 10 copies large paper at 50s. per vol. It will be followed by Iberville's "Voyage to the Mouth of the Mississippi," so as to comprise the whole French Exploration.

AMERICAN ARCHEOLOGY. - The first volume of the memoirs read before the Authropological Society of London, just published, contains two papers by Mr. William Bollaert, which can be strongly recommended to the notice of American antiquarians. The one is entitled "Observations on the Past and Present Population of the New World;"' the other purports to be an introduction to the Palæography of America, and consists of observations on ancient pictures and figurative writing in the New World; on the fictitious writing in North America; on the Quipu of the Peruvians, and examination of spurious Quipus. Under the auspices of the Paris Committee of American Archæology has appeared a reprint, from the original in the Imperial library at Paris, of the first work on America, which is known as Christopher Colom's Letter to Don Raphael Sanxis, Treasurer to King Ferdinand of Spain," dated Lisbon, May 3, 1493, originally written in Spanish, and translated into Latin by Aliander de Cosco. This Latin text is accompanied by a French translation, and notes by Lucien de Rosny. The edition consists of 125 copies only.

BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA. "Collection d'ouvrages inédits ou rares sur l'Amérique" is the title of a series which is published at Paris by Albert L. Herold. It will contain a collection of works on America, of which some have not been edited before, whilst others have become so rare that they may almost be considered inedited. The works will in every case be printed in the language in which they were written, and be accompanied by biographical, literary, and geographical notes in French. Among the editors the names of Ferdinand Denis, Brasseur de Bourbourg, Rev. P. Tailhan, Jegor de Sivers, d'Avézac and Diego Barros Arana, are to be found. The following three works are already published: -I. Puren indómito, poema por el capitan Fernando Alvarez de Toledo. Publicado bajo la direccion de Don Diego Barros Arana.-II. Suitte de l'histoire des choses plus mémorables advenues en Maragnan ès années 1613 et 1614. Publié d'après l'exemplaire unique conservé à la Bibliothèque Impériale de Paris, avec une introduction et des notes critiques et historiques sur le voyage du P. Yves d' Evreux. Edité par M. Ferdinand Denis. III. Nicolas Perrot. Memoire sur les Moeurs, Coustumes et Relligion des Sauvages de l'Amérique Septentrionale. Publié pour la première fois avec des notes et un index alphabétique par le Rev. P. Tailhan, The following are in preparation:-I. Histoire del S. D. Fernando Colombo nelle quali s'ha particolare et vera relatione della vita et de fatti dell' Ammiraglio D. Christoforo Colombo, suo padre. Venetia, 1571. (Excessivement rare, même en Italie dès 1614, époque où il en fut fait, à Milan une nouvelle édition, infidèle et mutilée). Edité par Mr. d'Avézac.-II. Histoire de la mission des pères capucins en l'isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines par le P. Claude d'Abeville, capucin. Paris, 1614. (Première partie, plus rare de jour en jour, d'une histoire dont l'introuvable Ÿves d'Evreux offre la suite).-III. Palafox y Mendoza. Las virtudes del indio. Imprimé, mais fort rare.-IV. Las Casas (Frai Bartolomé de) Algunos tratados relativos á los indios. Inédits.-V. Herrera (Antonio de, cronista de Indias). Vida y elojio del licenciado Vaca de Castro, gobernador del Perú. Inédits.-VI. Henriquez de Guzman (Don Alonso). Vida y aventuras de . . . escritas por el mismo. Sur la conquête du Pérou et les guerres civiles auxquelles l'auteur a pris part. Inédit. VII. Relations originales des Voyages de Robert Cavelier de la Salle, et de ses compagnons d'aventure. (M. Raymond Thomassy, qui a publié le premier une partie de ces documents, inédits encore à beaucoup d'égards, a réuni dans ce volume tout ce que l'on possède de plus complet sur des découvertes dont l'éditeur a lui-même visitéle théâtre).

THE PRIVATE JOURNAL KEPT BY MADAME KNIGHT, on a Journey from Boston to New York in the year 1704, is to

be published, with an Introduction and Notes. It will contain 100 pages, be handsomely printed on thick tinted paper, and only 300 copies will be issued, 50 on large paper to sub scribers at the price of 50s., and 250 on small paper at 258. New American Works in Preparation. Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts. New Edition. Captain Edward Johnson's Wonder Working Providence of Sion's Saviour in New England. New Edition.

The Expedition of Captain John Loverwell, his encounters with the Indians, and a particular account of the Battle of Pequaket. By Frederic Kidder.

Dr. Francis' Old New York, with copious Index. Memoir by Tuckerman, etc. (One hundred copies to be printed on large paper.)

Youth's History of the Rebellion, from the Capture of Roanoke Island to the Capture of Murfreesboro'. By William M. Thayer.

Pioneers of France in the New World, being the first volume of an historical series entitled " France and England in North America," by Francis Parkman.

The American Cyclopædia for 1864.

Life and Public Services of President Lincoln. By Frank Crosby.

Life and Speeches of Andrew Johnson.

Historical View of the American Revolution. By Professor George W. Greene.

Quantitative Analysis and Assaying. By Professor S. W. Johnson.

Bodemann on Assaying. From the German. By W. A. Goodyear.

Meigs on the Diseases of Children. Fourth revised Edition. Stille's General Pathology. New Edition, revised and enlarged.

The Volunteer Quartermaster. By Capt. Brinkerhoff.
Naval Duties and Discipline. By F. A. Roe.
Parker's Naval Howitzer Ashore.

My American Library. A Bibliographical Guide. By F.
Leypoldt.

The Church of the First Three Centuries. By Rev. A. Lamson, D.D. New Edition, revised and materially enlarged.

Reason in Religion. By Professor F. H. Hedge, D.D., of Harvard University.

Shakspere. By Grant White. Vol. I. completing the work. Sadi's Gulistan; with an Introduction. By Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Hesperus. By Jean Paul. Translated by Charles T. Brooks.
Freneau's Poems, relating to the American Revolution.
Edited, with Memoir, by Evert A. Duyckinck.

The Poems and Writings of Anne Bradstreet.
What I Saw on the West Coast of South and North America.
By H. Willis Baxley, M.D.

Dress its Physical and Moral Effects. By Mrs. M. M. Jones,
M.D. With numerous Cuts and Plates of Patterns for a
Physiological Dress, and a complete set of Rules, with Cuts,
for the Gymnastic Costume.

Superior Fishing. By Robert B. Roosevelt.
Recollections of Seventy Years. By Mrs. Farrah.
Henry D. Thoreau's Letters.

Atlantic Tales.

Atala. Translated from the French of Chateaubriand.
Retribution. By T. S. Arthur.

Fairy Fingers. A Novel. By Mrs Anna Cora Ritchie.
The Mute Singer. A Novel.

Look Before You Leap. A New Novel. By A. S. Roe.
My Married Life at Hill Side. By Barry Gray.
A New Book by Private Miles O'Reilly.

The Butterfield Papers, with humorous Illustrations.
The Squibob Papers. By John Phoenix.

Aunt Fanny's Fairy Stories and Legends, from the German and Italian.

Nut Cracker and Sugar Dolly. Translated from the German by Charles A. Dana.

Breathings of a Better Life. Edited by Lucy Larcom.
Mountain Rills. By John Todd.

AMERICAN MEDICAL PERIODICALS.-There are twenty-three medical periodicals at present published in the United States. I. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences.-II. Medical and Surgical Reporter.-III. American Journal of Pharmacy. -IV. Medical News and Library.-V. The Dental Cosmos all published in Philadelphia.-VI. American Medical Times. -VII. American Journal of Ophthalmology; and VIII. American Druggists' Circular, published in New York.IX. Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.-X. American Journal of Insanity (Utica N. Y.)-XI. Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal.-XII. Ohio Medical and Surgical Journal (Columbus).-XIII. Cincinnati Lancet and Observer.-XIV. Cincinnati Medical and Surgical News.-XV. Dental Register of the West (Cincinnati).—XVI. Eclectic Medical Journal (Cincinnati). - XVII. Chicago Medical Journal. - XVIII. Chicago Medical Examiner.-XIX. Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal (San Francisco). XX. San Francisco Medical Press. XXI. St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal. -XXII. The Medical and Surgical Reporter.-XXIII. The New York Medical Journal. Since the commencement of the war eleven medical journals have been discontinued in the Northern and thirteen in the Southern States.

NEW COPYRIGHT LAW.-In March last an act was approved by the President and became law, which extends the advantages of the Copyright Act of 1831 to photographs, and requires a copy of every original book, for which a copyright is claimed, to be deposited within one month of publication in the Library of the Congress at Washington. Publishers failing to deliver such copies after due notice, to lose the benefit of the Copyright Act. All new editions of copyright works having additions to be also deposited, but where no additions are made no such deposit is needed. We hope Mr. Black will take the hint and incorporate a clause of this kind in his new Copyright Bill. Our own law requires copies of every edition, whether having additions or not, to be deposited at the British Museum and the Libraries. We hardly think this is fair to

publishers, seeing that it only gives these Libraries duplicates which sooner or later are disposed of to the prejudice of the publishers.

MEXICAN LITERATURE..-"The Empress of Mexico," says the Presse, has just published a pamphlet of six pages only, with the title Le Llano de San Lazaro et le Camp de Tuajimalpa. Only 50 copies have been printed, and without the Author's name; it is only an account written with great simplicity of the little journey which she took to meet the Emperor when he returned from his expedition into the interior of Mexico."

IN MEMORIAM.

"And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."

Dr. Valentine Mott, Profesor of Operative Surgery in the Medical Department of the University of New York, died recently at the advanced age of 80. His name has been a household word in the annals of surgery for nearly fifty years, and his brilliant and successful operations of aneurism will shed a lustre on his name and country while the science

of surgery endures. The extent of his practice may be judged from the fact that he has tied the common carotid forty-six times, cut for the stone one hundred and sixty-five times, and amputated one thousand limbs. Sir Astley Cooper once said of him, "He has performed more of the great operations than any man living or that ever did live.

Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, President of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, died on the 15th March, at his residence, Newark, Delaware. He had for many years devoted himself to the promotion of Zoological Science, and his liberality and munificence in this direction were unbounded. The splendid collection of birds belonging to the Philadelphia Academy, which ranks as the third in importance in the world, was his gift, and the library of that institution was created mainly by his liberality.

AMERICAN PERIODICALS.

American Educational Monthly, devoted to Popular Instruction and Literature. April, 1865. New York. Subscription, 9s. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. Albany Academy.-II. Popularizing Geology.-III. Primary Instruction. IV. Science and the Spirits.-V. MedicoPsychological Views of Education.-VI. Petroleum.-VII. The Egg a Miniature Universe.-VIII. The Ice Flower (Poetry).-Editorial Correspondence.-Educational Intelligence, etc.

The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. (Quarterly). Edited by ISAAC HAYS, M.D. No. XCVIII. New Series. April, 1865. Philadelphia. 6s.

CONTENTS.-An Account of Four Cases of Gunshot Wounds, involving Bone and implicating the Knee-Joint, treated by Free Incisions into the Joint, with Comments. By John A. Lidell, M.D.—II. Plans for Exsection of the Upper End of the Humerus, and for Amputation of the Arm and of the Thigh, with Explanations. By David Prince, M.D.-III. On Orbital Aneurisms; with the History of a Case of Aneurism of the Ophthalmic Artery, successfully treated by Ligation of the Common Carotid. By T. G. Morton, M.D.-IV. On the Causes of Failure in Vaccination. By D. Francis Condie, M.D.V. Experimental Investigations to determine whether the Garden Slug can Live in the Human Stomach. By J. C. Dalton, M.D.-VI. Cerebro-Spinal Congestive Fever, or Spotted Fever. By Robt. Burns, M.D. VII. Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, as it occurred in Licking County, Ohio. By J. R. Black, M.D.-VIII. Description of a New Bone-Drill (with eight woodcuts). By B. Howard, M.D.-IX. Phosphorus Necrosis: Extirpation of the whole of the Right Half and Part of the Left Half of the Lower Jaw, without External Incision. By Wm. Hunt, M.D.-X. Exsection of Right Clavicle. By I. R. Tryon, M.D.- XI. On the Uses of Sugar and Lactic Acid in the Animal Economy. By Samuel Jackson, M.D.-XII. On the Therapeutic Action of Digitalis in certain conditions of the Brain. By R. B. Mowry, M.D.-XIII. Gunshot Wound of the Internal Carotid and Vertebral Arteries; Fracture of the Atlas; Secondary Hemorrhage and Death. Reported by Dewitt C. Peters, M.D.-Reviews.-Bibliographical Notices.-Quarterly Summary of the Improvements and Discoveries in the Medical Sciences.-American Intelligence.

The American Monthly, devoted to Literature,
Art, Science, and Politics. Edited by J. HOLMES AGNEW.
1865. New York. Subscription, 18s. per annum.
CONTENTS OF THE APRIL NUMBER.-I. Wendell Phillips.-II.
Reading as a means of Culture.-III.-The Sacking of Deerfield,
Mass. By D. D. Slade, M.D.-IV. The Two Hunting Excursions.
By H. B. Saintine.-V. Found Wanting. By Francis M. Bennet.-
VI. The last Poor Triumph. By J. R. G. Pitkin.-VII. Tea Leaves:
Souchong.-VIII. City Cousins. By Mary A. Howe.--IX. A Story
of the Pulpit and the Bar.-X. The Early Flowers.-XI. Observa-

tions on Horseback: Artesian Wells. By Prof. Christy.-XII Provings of Current Theories in Science.-XIII. The cause of our Strife and the Remedy. By Hon. W. D. Northend.

CONTENTS OF THE MAY NUMBER.-I. Colony Rights and State Rights in Massachusetts. By Prof. W. C. Fowler.-II. The Verandah. By Dr. Fred Mortimer.-III. Tea Leaves: Souchong.-IV. Forks of the Susquehanna. By Lenni Lenape.-V. Observations on Horseback Niagara Falls, Geologically. By Prof. D. Christy.-VI Wounded for Life.-VII. An Accident.-VIII. The Crescent City' By J. G. R. Pitkin.-IX. Two Scenes in a Woman's Lifetime.-X. Provings of Current Theories in Science.-XI. Sweet Spring. - XII. The President's Speech. By the Editor.-XIII. A Chapter on Birds. By G. P. Disosway.-XIV. Found Wanting.-XV. A Desperate Race. -XVI. Night Ascent of the Jungfrau : from Saintine.-XVII. Echo. By I. B.-XVIII. Christopher Columbus. By Hamilton C. Browne. -XIX. The Despotic Principle.-Editor's Table.

American Presbyterian and Theological Review. (Quarterly). April, 1865. New York,

5s.

CONTENTS.-I. The Westminster Assembly. By Philip Schaff, D.D. -II. The Messiah's Second Advent. By Edwin F. Hatfield, D.D.III. Missionary Interference at the Hawaiian Islands.- IV. The Government of the Primitive Church. By George Sidney Camp.-V. Queen Candace. By J. C. M. Laurent.-VI. The Hymns of the Church. By Henry Harbaugh. D.D.-VII. Schelling on the Characteristics of the different Christian Churches.-VIII. Duns Scotus, as a Theologian and Philosopher. By Dr. J. E. Erdmann.-IX. Exegesis of Romans ii. 18, and Phil. ii. 10. By Rev. F. Adams.-Criticisms on Books, etc.

American Quarterly Church Review and EccleSIASTICAL REGISTER. Conducted by N. S. RICHARDSON, D.D. April, 1865. New York. 3s. 6d.

CONTENTS.-I. John Henry Newman.-II. Church Work in Large Cities.-III. Dr. Anderson and the English Church Mission to the Sandwich Islands.-IV. New England Forefathers' Day in New York. -V. The Atlantic Monthly and the Poets of Connecticut.-VI. Buckle's History of Civilization in England.-Notices of Books, etc.

American Journal of Conchology. Edited by G. W. TRYON, Junr. (Published Quarterly.) Philadelphia. Subscription for the year, £2 16s. Single parts, 18s. each. CONTENTS OF PART I, FEBRUARY 25th, 1865.-Portrait of Thomas Say, and 9 Plates.-I. Catalogue of the Eocene and Oligocene Testacea of the United States. By T. A. Conrad.- II. Description of two New Species of Goniobasis. By John G. Anthony.-III. Description of two New Species of Gonioi basis. By S. S. Haldeman.-IV. Description of New Species of Strepomatidae. By George W. Tryon, Junr.-V. Description of New Species of Pholadida. By George W. Tryon, Junr. VI. Observations on the Genus Io. By George W. Tryon,

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