as an English poem and as a rendering of Homer-a new and more complete collection of his own poems has also been publishedand we have also Bayard Taylor's translation of the mystical and perplexing second part of Goethe's "Faust," another volume worthy to rank with those others of superb shape in which America has given to English literature within five years its best versions of the world's greatest epics. Our catholic, all-absorbing position among the nations has probably much to do with our notable success in naturalizing the great works of other tongues. the poetry of Western changes, and displays a delicate, various, and beauty-laden fancy. Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt's "A Woman's Poems" are sweet and fanciful, but she loses herself among words. Mr. R. H. Newell's "Versatilities" are as their name, some of his humorous poems being capital; the same is to be said of Wm. Allen Butler's "Poems"; Lucy H. Hooper's varied "Poems" are of considerable merit, and there have been numerous other volumes of magazine poetry of less note. Whittier has collected the most beautiful child-poems in "Child-Life"; and The "sensation" of the year has been Joa- Edgar Fawcett, a promising magazine poet, quin Miller's "Songs of the Sierras," hailed in and Marian Douglas, have published volumes England as the glorious first fruits of that long- of juvenile poems, not, however, of exceplooked-for "new American school," of which tional merit. There has been exceptionally Walt Whitman had just before been regarded clever work in vers de société and the like: f. the pioneer. The latter, during the year, deliv- W. Loring's "Boston Dip," P. R. Strong's ered a characteristic poem of some length, "Awful' and other Jingles," and Gavilan "After all but to create only," before the Amer- Peak's "The Struggle for Existence"; but ican Institute, which is new evidence to show the main purely humorous works have been that behind all his silly affectedness and dry two fresh volumes from Mr. Leland-Hans cataloguing there is a fresh, broad, wholesome Breitmann "as Uhlan" and "in Europe,” Americanism that may some day prove his both capital fun-making-the former "doing" English admirers in the right. Miller, as re- the German war experience in France with published in his own country, was generally the old grim humor, and the latter burlesquing regarded as a poet of great dramatic power the Rhine sentiment, and finding good suband of intensity in description, but lacking in jects for clever treatment here and there about truth and genuine local coloring, and not so Europe. A bright book on "Macaronic Pophenomenally original as it was thought in etry," and other literary "curios," with a colEngland. This California comet has plunged lection of those specimens of Parnassian high into tropical America, and his promised re-life below stairs, comes from James Appleton appearance after two years' study may resolve the current doubts whether he is sufficiently strong to maintain the fame first accorded him. Second only to this "sensation" was that made by Col. John Hay-" Pike County Ballads, and other Pieces." An almost unfortunate cleverness in reproducing in telling verse the challenging blasphemy of certain productions of our Western border made him instantaneously famous; the other ballads, of some power and sweetness, would give him average rank among minor poets. Bret Harte's volume of "East and West Poems" is a monument of versatility, embracing more, but less great, of his crystallizations from rude mining life, tenderly poetic verses from New England subjects, and some parodies and satires-but unequal and much below his reputa tion. Morgan. There has been the usual "novel in verse,' even more trashy and more a failure than usual-" Stolen Waters," by Celia A. Gardner. Mrs. Cora L. V. Tappan's spiritualistic "Hesperia" is one of the most ambitious and absurd attempts in poetry, though with individual redeeming features; and another abomination worthy of note, as showing unfortunate tendencies of unlimited free thinking and unconsidered "free" speech, is "Amours Divines." The minor poetasters have been busy chiefly with imitations of Bret Harte and John Hay, in the so-called school of "dialect poetry," of which they are the founders and head. The results have been truly awful, and "dialect," too often made to serve as a convenient cloak for commonplace, is thus digging its own grave. Its popularity has been surprising. Of humor and satire in prose we have had little, unless we count "Lord Bantam” an American product, its author, the greatest satirist of the age, being Canadian born and bred, though now writing in and for England. Probably this wonderful exposé of the weak "The Wanderer," by William Ellery Channing, of the Emerson-Thoreau circle, is a philosophical study of Nature combining characteristics of both those writers. His frequent lack of clearness limits his reception. "Southern Voices," by Dr. Wm. H. Holcombe, Swedenborgian, discloses that seer insightness of the English hereditary principle and and sublime faith which is a function of the of the current highflying "isms" could not greatest poets, and as a promise is one of the have been written except by one trained to the most notable volumes of the year. R. H. more catholic vision of America. Orpheus Stoddard, in "The Book of the East, and C. Kerr's (Mr. R. H. Newell) comic novel, other Poems," has given us most graceful and "The Asters and Disasters of Society," i poetic adaptations of Asian lyrics, and origi- well constructed and clever, and burlesques nal poems of power and merit. Willie Win- certain styles admirably, but is weighed down ter photographs the reckless spirit of "Bohe-by a superfluity of puns and other cheap fun. mianism," and has pleasing love poems in "My Witness." J.-J. Piatt, in “Landmarks and other Poems," tenderly embalms Bret Harte has added burlesques of Disraeli and Reade to his “Condensed Novels," which have been well received, though pure buffoon ery. "The Life of Jefferson S. Batkins" is a fairly good satire against over-sharp country legislators. Richard Grant White has published a cheap Darwinian burlesque, "The Fall of Man," and a first part of "The Chronicles of Gotham," reviving, not with extraordinary success, his old mock-scripture diction; and a poor imitation-" Miss Columbia's Public School "-of" Dame Europa's School" has owed its success chiefly to Nast's illustrations. The peculiarly "American" humorists, Mark Twain and Josh Billings, have published characteristic but unimportant brochures, the one an "Autobiography," the other his "Alminax." Of fiction American in origin, subject, and tone, there has been a considerable production during the year, while in the average run of novels there has been a close competition with English fictionists, although the cheapness of uncopyrighted reprints gives the latter great advantage. Of American novels of the year, very nearly three-quarters, and those highest in merit, have been by women, and "the woman question," as the main social problem of the day, has been the subject of several. Mrs. Stowe's two novels, "My Wife and I," a vigorous work describing with a rare knowledge of life, but some practical blunders, the career of a young journalist, and discussing en passant, from the commonsense side, the current tendencies and eccentricities, and "Pink and White Tyranny," a highly colored picture of a flirt's life, were both so suggested. Eirene, a Woman's Right," by Mary Clemmer Ames, is a close study of life and character in New England towns, of great power, promising great things for the writer. Miss Phelps, in "The Silent Partner," a sketch somewhat overstrained and artificial in color, vindicates woman's rights in business. Both these, as also "The Mills of Tuxbury," a bright, affecting story from Virginia F. Townsend, deal largely with the New England cotton-mil people. But that book of the year in fiction, which will live, as for all time, and ultimately be considered greatest, is Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney's "Real Folks," though the circle which sees the importance of her work is yet small. There is no one writing who has so deep and true an insight into the great questions of life, as they present themselves day by day, in little things, while yet so clearly practical in holding and influencing her reader. A minor story, "Zerub Throop's Experiment," partakes of these characteristics. She belongs to a school growing up about Boston, of which also is Edward Everett Hale, the missionary Munchausen. A project of his, a joint novel by six of these authors, begun during the year, is worth mention. Mr. and Miss Hale, Mrs. Stowe, Mrs. Whitney, F. B. Perkins, and the late F. W. Loring were the original participants in the most notable example of collaboration yet undertaken. Of other works dealing with life in its deeper as well as social aspects are "Shiloh," by W. L. M. Jay, "Aunt Jane's Hero," by Mrs. E. Prentiss, and "Foundations," by Rose Porter-all bright, healthful, and good, the first-named especially. "The American Cardinal," a distinctively religious and, indeed, polemical work of fiction, directed against Rome, was so wooden and ill-written as to have won only general ridicule. "Married for both Worlds," by Mrs. A. E. Porter, whose title aroused attention in this direction, proved a commonplace "eternal love" story. "The Foe in the Household," by Caroline Chesebro', is a highly effective novel, making careful study of one of the numerous odd religious sects existing in this country. This growing tendency of our home writers toward special study and fitting record of the many local and other variations of life and character existing in America deserves all encouragement. Besides those already referred to incidentally as of this direction, Edward Eggleston's "Hoosier Schoolmaster" is a vigorous, graphic sketch of early life in the West; J. W. De Forest's "Overland" is a stirring, powerful novel of life on the Plains; Mrs. Stowe's "Oldtown Fireside Stories" are capital renderings of old New England traditions; "Dukesborough Tales," by "Philemon Perch," are worthy of mention as describing Southern characteristics with fidelity and spirit, and of much promise; and "Myself," an otherwise poor anonymous novel, is somewhat redeemed by truth to Yankee customs. Mrs. Yelverton's Yo-Semite novel, "Zanita," and Justin McCarthy's powerful Lady Judith a Tale of Two Continents," though by English writers, should be noted here. Of novels American in scene, but not specially distinctive in subject, are "Morton House," a Southern novel by Miss Fisher, fresh, interesting, excellently written, and of great promise; "Reginald Archer," by Mrs. Seemuller, which trenches on doubtful social topics unhesitatingly, and is vigorous and powerful, if not altogether acceptable; "Richard Vandermarck," by Mrs. S. R. Harris, author of "Rutledge," whose principal character is the fascinating, foreign, and melancholy tutor; "Lucia: Her Problem," by Amanda M. Douglass, which works out the opposing characters of a stern Calvinistic father and a sunny, elastic-tempered girl into a tale of considerable dramatic power; "Something to Do," a story largely theatrical, of average merit and power; "The Island Neighbors," a pleasing but not great summer story, by Mrs. Antoinette Brown Blackwell; "Milbank," by Mrs. Mary J. Holmes, of her good average; "The Widower," a lively, unpretending story, by Julie P. Smith; "Palaces and Prisons," one of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens's numberless alliterative novels; and a super-sensational tale from Mrs. Southworth, published as two, "Cruel as the Grave" and "Tried for her Life." The death of Frederick Wadsworth Loring, regarded generally as the young man of most literary promise in all America, has been our greatest loss in literature; his "Two College Friends," a noble, pathetic sketch from war memories, is his memorial. Also of war time is John Esten Cooke's Virginia novel, “Out of the Foam," of interest and of considerable merit; and "The Sisters of Orleans" is a frightful and, in many respects, ill-advised reproduction of one of the ante-war slavery horrors. Emma L. Moffatt, in "Crown Jewels," not a remarkable literary success, treats of Maximilian's history in Mexico. All the above-mentioned works "stick to the soil"-a most happy revolution from late literary fashions. The noteworthy Americanwritten novels laid abroad are: "Woven of Many Threads," a dilettante Italian novel of many merits; "Ina," a highly wrought tale of Italian tragedy, by "Katherine Valerio"; "Strife," a mistily metaphysical German story, by Mrs. E. D. Wallace; "The Cryptogram,' a story fearfully and wonderfully made, after Wilkie Collins, by James De Mille, and duly exciting; "Blue Jackets," a cheap nautical novel, by "Edward Greey"; "Arabesques,” weird fantasies of Middle-Age mysticism, quite successful after their unpleasant fashion, by Mrs. Richard S. Greenough; and that most wonderful product of the human brain, "Delaplaine," by Mansfield Tracy Walworth-a nineteenth-century Arabian Nights tale which is its own burlesque. In HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY: Ihne's History of Rome; Dixon's Her Majesty's Tower, Vols. 3 and 4; Hugh Miller's Life and Letters; Autobiography Premiers; Mrs. Hall's Royal Princesses; The of Lord Brougham, 3 volumes; Earle's English third volume of Allibone's Dictionary (American); Helps's Life of Cortez ; Thomas's Kings of Delhi; Memoir of Maclise; Masson's Milton, Vol. 2; Phillips's Dictionary of Biography; Life of Young the Tragedian; Bewick's Life; Rogers's Century of Scottish Life; Senior's Journals; Chambers's Life of Scott; Fitzgerald's The Kembles; Grant's The Newspaper Press; Rev. W. Harness's Autobiography; Memoirs of Chief Justice Lefroy; Forster's Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. 1. Campbell's Law of Negligence; May on Conveyances; Letters on International Relations (reprinted from the Times); Goddard on Law of Easements; Lee on Bankruptcy; Elphinstone on Conveyancing; Weightman's Law of Marriage; Glenn's Manual of Medical Law; Seaboard on Vendors, and the first volume of Sleigh's Criminal Law. In LAW: Ortolan's History of the Roman Law; In MEDICINE and SURGERY: Allen's Aural Catarrh; Tanner's Practical Midwifery; Oldham's What is Malaria ; Richardson Crooke's Chemical Analysis; Dillnberger's Wo on Diabetes; men's and Children's Diseases; Milne on Midwifery; Spence on Surgery, Vols. 3 and 4; Meyhoffer on Respiration, Vol. 1; Mackenzie on Growth in Larynx; Sansom's Antiseptic System; Important Books Published in England Simpson's Obstetrics, Vol. 1; Reynolds's Sys in 1871. In ARTS, SCIENCE, and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS: Proctor's The Sun, etc; Wood's Strange Dwellings; Darwin's Descent of Man (second installment); Bolton's Telegraph Code Dictionary; Clark's Electric Formule; Tyndall's Fragments of Science; De Morgan's The Book of Almanacs; Rollwyn's Astronomy of Spectrum Analysis; Crowe and Cavalcaselles Painting in North Italy; Davies's Saturn's Rings; Proctor's Light Science for Leisure Hours; Armour's Power in Motion; Wood's Insects at Home; Williams's Comets; Wooster's Alpine Plants; Thudickum and Dupré on Wine. In BELLES-LETTRES, ESSAYS, etc.: Wood's Changes in the English Language (Le Bas Prize 1870); Arthur Helps's Conversations on War, etc.; Taine on Intelligence (translated from French); Lowell's My Study Windows (American reprint); The Coming Race; Kavanagh's Origin of Language; Freeman's Historical Essays; Mackay's Under Blue Sky; Rosetti's Shadow of Dante; Taine's English Literature, Vol. I (translated from French); Blackie's Four Phases of Morals; Guizot's Christianity Reviewed; Hawthorne's French and Italian Note-Books; Robert Dale Owen's The Debatable Land (American reprint); Edkins's China's Place in Philology. In EDUCATIONAL and CLASSICAL: Translation of Plutarch's Morals (American); Church and Brodripp's Letters of Pliny; Canon Wordsworth's A new Greek Primer; Conington's Virgil, volume third; Professor Jowett's Plato; Seeley's Livy, Book I.; Nikal's History of France; Sargent's Materials for Greek and Latin Prose Composition; Rossiter's Elementary Handbook of Physics; Nicholson's Text Book of Zoology; Pope's Text Book of Indian History; Hiley's Mensuration; Wilkins's Classical Geography; Beeton's Classical Dictionary; Tate's Rudimentary Geology; Earle's Philology of English Tongue; Guizot's France (translated from the French); Williams's Euripides. tem of Medicine, Vol. 3; Green's Pathology; Williams's Pulmonary Consumption; Anstie's Neuralgia; Huxley's Manual of Anatomy; Reynolds's Clinical Electricity. Before Sunrise; Ford's Translation of Dante; In POETRY and DRAMA: Swinburne's Songs Bickersteth's The Two Brothers; Miller's Songs of the Sierras; Browning's Balaustion's Adventure, and The Saviour of Society; Bayard Taylor's Translation of Faust (American); Mortimer Collins's Inn of Strange Meetings; Ballantine's Lilias Lee; Buchanan's Drama of Kings. Women Can Make Money (American reprint); IN POLITICAL ECONOMY: Virginia Penny's How Maine's Villa Communities; Macdonall's Political Economy; Jevon s Political Economy; Fletcher's Model Houses for the Industrial Classes; Wheeler's Choice of a Dwelling. IN THEOLOGY, etc. We have had some invaluable contributions to Biblical Exegesis; Lightfoot on a fresh revision of the New Testament; the first volume (the Pentateuch) of the Speaker's Commentary; Lange's Commentary on Jeremiah, translated; M'Caul's Epistle to the Hebrews; Gardiner's Harmony of the Four Gospels; Boutell's Bible Dictionary; Neale's and Littledale's Commentary on the Psalms, Vol. 3; Girdlestone's Synonyms of the Old Testament; and the 6th volume of Bishop Wordsworth's Bible. Beecher's Life of Christ, Vol. 1, is reprinted from America, and is a valuable contribution to religious literature: the first volume of Mercier's Life of Christ; Higginson's Ecce Messias; and Casper's Footsteps of Christ are devoted to Messianic Biography. Pocock's Records of the Reformation, reprinted rom records in the British Museum; Jacob's Ecclesiastical Polity of the New Testament; Dorner's History of Protestant Theology; Bannerman's Essays on Church Unity-are among the numerous works on Church Polity. The first volume of Professor Hodge's Systematic Theology is reprinted from America, and is a most valuable addition to religious metaphysical literature. In TRAVEL and GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH: Hare's Walks in Rome; Tollemache's Spanish Towns and Pictures; Leslie Stephens's Playground of Europe; Buchanan's Land of Lorne; Oxenden's First Year in Canada; Russell's Pau and Pyrenees; Raymond's Mines of the Rocky Mountains; Herbert Barry's Russia in 1870; Stanley's New Sea and Old Land; Elliott's Mysore; Guinnard's Patagonians; Mrs. Harvey's Turkish Harems; Macleod's Peeps at Far East: Huyshe's Red River Exploration; Kingsley's At Last (West Indies); Tyndall's Hours in Aĺps; Campbell's How to See Norway; Bowring's Eastern Experiences; Harcourt's Himmalayan Districts of Kooloo; Brown's Coal Fields of Cape Breton; Ogier's The Fortunate Isles; Shaw's High Tartary; Murray's Hand Book of Asia. FROM BOSTON. BOSTON, Jan. 22, 1872. DURING the natural reaction following the business flurry and excitement of the holidays, our sea of literature is disturbed by scarcely a ripple. There is a general gathering up of results, a survey of the field, an examination of unused material, all in the main satisfactory, with the exceptions that always attend human endeavors. There are disappointed authors who will vary Solomon's injunction so that it shall read, "Put not your trust in publishers;" and these latter have their own version, "Put not your trust in authors." As a whole, the technical holiday trade, covering the sales for and at the season, has been satisfactory, perhaps as much so as for the two or three preceding years. New books have taken the preference, and many of them have been quite successful. "Old stock" is rather more abundant than is pleasant to the contemplation, and those who did not lay in largely, as a general rule, did wisely. There is a marked change in the dispositions and tastes, or perhaps more correctly in the purses, of retail buyers. Selections are made more cautiously, and to one acquainted with the average intelligence and culture of this community, it is gratifying to see the steady growth of a proper appreciation of books. Criticism is more rational, and of a higher standard, and authors, and opinions, and composition and engravings in their design and execution, are discussed in a manner that shows an increase of culture in literary and artistic directions. A casual observer might not notice this progressive change for the better, but to one conversant with our market in its details it is very apparent. As a consequence, our publishers and sellers are more careful than in former years, and aim at a higher grade in their own publications and in their miscellaneous stock. This in general. But off in the horizon are clouds not exactly like Elijah's, "the size of a man's hand," but the size of a book. I do not purpose in this initiatory letter to worry the reader with petty details, but rather to scan in a comprehensive way the field as it now appears. One of the most important works in a scientific point of view, now in progress, is George L. Vose's "Manual for Railroad Engineers." Mr. Vose's original treatise has been for many years out of print, and stray copies bring high prices. This edition is in fact a new work, rewritten, enlarged, and carefully thorough. As nothing has yet gone into print relative to its scope, it may be well to make a few specifications. It will contain all necessary rules and tables needed for the location, construction and equipment of railroads as built in the United States, with an examination of the principles to be followed in the management of the traffic, illustrated by actual results obtained on some of our important roads. Mr. Vose purposes to give all information required by the railroad engineer: (1.) In making the preliminary examination of the routes, in comparing the merits of different trial-surveys, in finally locating the line and adjusting the grades and curves, staking out the various works, estimating the quantities of material and preparing the specifications for carrying on the operations, the whole illustrated by actual examples of existing railroads. (2.) In the various operations of laying out and constructing tunnels, with numerous illustrations, both European and American, showing the precise dimensions and the cost of executing such works. (3) In the construction of bridges, whether of wood, iron, or both combined, illustrated by specifications and working details of the best bridges of all kinds, including nearly all which cross the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri rivers. (4.) In masonry, retaining walls, culverts, arches, mortars, cements and foundations. (5.) In the superstructure, ballast, sleepers, rails, joints, frogs, switches, material per mile, etc. (6.) In the equipment, use of locomotives, examples in various countries, grades, curves, patterns of engines and cars, relations of power to traffic, etc. (7.) Railroad management. The book will be a large royal octavo, with some hundreds of illustrative cuts, and thirty elaborate drawings, each between two and three feet in length, to fold with the volume. This publication may be looked for in March, and it will take its proper place as the standard work on railway construction. (Lee & Shepard, Publishers.) Lee & Shepard have several books in press, of which I will not say much to-day. Among them are "The American Girl Abroad," by Adeline Tafton, a lively, chatty book; "The Twilight of Faith," a religious story in which the twilight broadens into perfect day; a series of Latin and a series of Greek text-books intended to comprise a graded selection from different authors sufficient for a thorough "course," beginning with its simplest forms of composition, and arranged for use in academies and preparatory schools. As Mr. Gardner, principal of the Boston Latin School, stands sponsor for this enterprise, the public will have great confidence in its intrinsic excellence. J. R. Osgood & Co. keep the public well informed of their doings, but a few items will perhaps be new. A uniform edition of Mrs. Howell's books will be published in March; as also Vol. II. of Bryant's "Odyssey," and a new volume of poems by John G. Saxe; "Yes A OUR FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. terdays with Authors," by James T. Fields, 66 Blessings brighten as they take their flight," and this has been signally verified in the case of the purchase by President White, of Cornell University, of the very valuable library or the late President Sparks, of Harvard University. This library of about 6,000 volumes was remarkably rich in American history, and very many of its volumes were rare, and in some instances not to be dupli THE holidays being well over, the activity of the publishers seems about as great as before Christmas, which is perhaps the busiest season of the year. A large number of new books are either out or promised shortly. The great difficulty which all publishers have experienced during the last quarter in getting their books out of the printers' and binders' hands, especially the latter, will explain the appearance of a good many publications at this moment, which in ordinary times would have seen the light in December, or earlier. The delay in preparing the new Lectionary left large classes of the binders for months with almost nothing to do. Nobody wanted a stock of the old-fashioned book, so soon to be superseded. When the new one was finally printed it fairly swamped the trade. You can easily imagine what an enormous quantity must be produced to satisfy the needs of a church which is styled the National Church, and which counts its worshippers by millions, and expects all of them to be duly provided with the new service. To take but a single instance, the issue of the first volume of the new library edition of Tennyson was kept back about seven weeks after the date fixed for its appearance. That this delay was due to the binders I know, because I obtained a copy in difficulty in November. But now I believe the sheets, or in quires as the phrase is here, without pressure is a little abated. cated. Our Bostonians and our literati of] Cambridge have long known those facts, and Historical students will welcome the appearance now every one is astonished that the collec- of the fourth volume of Mr. E. A. Freeman's "Histion was not long ago secured for Harvard. tory of the Norman Conquest of England." The When the sale of the library was announced, first volume fixed Mr. Freeman's place among book-buyers took the admirable catalogue, English historians. So much patient learning, so and carefully marked the volumes they should much power of style, so much of the true spirit of try to purchase, all in a leisurely way. It philosophy, belong to but few among those who never occurred to any one to buy it as a whole, British history. It is not too much to say that the have dealt with any part of the great subject of although Harvard or Amherst, or Williams College, should have been wide awake to gain first time, be really known to the student who has history of the Norman Conquest can now, for the the prize. But President White quietly came no time for original research. The present volume on, and before we dreamed of what he was deals with the reign of William the Conqueror. about he purchased the whole collection, and As the scope of Mr. Freeman's work includes the will add it to the already excellent library of results as well as the causes and history of the his pet institution. The price paid was $12,- conquest, there is no point at which he is bound ooo, by no means exorbitant considering the character of the books. Mrs. Sparks says in her preface to the catalogue : "The library possesses quaint and unique volumes. There are also many not always easily found, which correspond to Mr. Sparks' expressed intention to own every book he might wish to use. For its historic manuscripts it has long been known. These papers were collected with intuitive skill and increasing ability during various tours undertaken since 1819 for the purpose: first, in the thirteen original States; often elsewhere in his own enlarged country; three times in prolonged visits to Europe; by means also of his extensive correspondence during the years 1819-1866. These letters are arranged in sixty large volumes with a daily index. The journals of the tours point out the deposits of many unknown treasures; sketching scenes, characters and incidents; thus preserving information and reproducing reminiscences of a period far more remote." to stop. But I believe one or two volumes more are expected to complete the work. The copyright in the revised 12mo edition of Lord Brougham's works has been acquired by Messrs. A. & C. Black, of Edinburgh, and they announce-no, they "beg to intimate"-that they will shortly publish a reissue of these works. Particulars will be given hereafter. I do not feel whether they really mean to republish all Lord sure, from reading Messrs. Black's advertisement, Brougham's works. Some of them have ceased to have much value except as mementoes of the amazing versatility and power of work of their au thor. A new and revised edition of Mr. Walter Bagehot's "The English Constitution" is among the announcements of Messrs. Henry S. King Poor Sibley of Harvard! How will he & Co., a firm which succeeded some time ago to a mourn the irreparable loss to that library in Smith, Elder & Co. I do not know of any single portion of the publishing business of Messrs. Gore Hall which seems to be his deity! let no one mention the sale of it to him, unless they the general reader a clear idea of the practical book so well adapted as Mr. Bagehot's to give carry some rare volume with which to pla-working of the English system of government. cate his grief and adorn his shelves. And Technicalities and formalities and legal fictions find |