Scotland have just appeared. We have commended both works as excellent specimens of biographical and critical writing, and they have already a standard char

for. We have it here under the title of the Lessons in Proverbs. Mr. Trench will derive additional fame as a scholar from his agreeable researches into proverbial love. His lectures might well be styled "Proverbial Philoso-acter. The new volumes of the royal memoirs are writphy," if Tupper had not rendered that phrase odious in all ears. The Speeches of Thomas Babington Macaulay in two handsome volumes in another benefaction of Mr. Redfield. Sparkling and antithetical as his Essays and specious as some passages in his History, these forensic displays of Macaulay will take their place among the classic Orations of England's eloquent Statesmen of all time.

Macaulay is indeed a marvel. At once the most versatile and the most similar of writers, he now delights us with a bit of exquisite versification, and now bears us up on the tide of an impassioned rhetoric, thundering in the Senate house or whispering in the vale of Tempe, yet Macaulay still, unmistakable Macaulay-toujours le même.

J. W. Randolph has all these works for sale.

ten in the same spirit of good taste and careful research as their predecessors, while Chambers' edition of the Scotch poet has superseded all others on account of its completeness.

MISERIES OF HUMAN LIFE. New York: Geo. P. Putnam & Co. 10 Park Place. 1853. [From A. Morris, 87 Main Street.

This book is well entitled' an old friend in a new dress.' It is very amusing, and we advise all troubled with the blue-devils to read it. The wood cuts are as clear as they are funny; the quotations apt, and the dialogue full of repartee and suggestion. It is very neatly printed and bound.

From Messrs. G. M. West & Brother, we have received two recent English publications bearing the imprint of Messrs. Ingram, Cooke & Co., the well known publishers of the Illustrated London Library. One of these, a large and well printed octavo, is a popular life of the Duke of Wellington, with spirited wood-cuts of passages in his eventful career. It is from the pen of J. H. Stocqueler, Esq., a military writer of some reputation. The narrative seems to us perspicuously drawn, though with that intense admiration of the subject almost amounting to idolatry, which makes every Englishman blind to the weaknesses of the hero of Waterloo. The work when completed, will be in two volumes, of which the first is now before us. The other work is a charming little series of American Sketches by Sealsfield, the German writer whose sudden appearance in literature, some years since, was attended with so much eclat. It is adorned with several capital engravings on wood.

J. W. Randolph has sent us two other recent English books from the press of Bohn. They belong respectively to the Standard and Classical Libraries of that enterprising publisher, and will be acceptable to the large class of readers who have already stocked their shelves with the former issues. In one of these books, three Roman historians are translated together-Sallust, Florus and Paterculus in the other we are presented with M. Guizot's Lectures on the History of Representative Govern

ment.

Messrs. Bangs, Bros. & Co., are the American agents of both Ingram, Cooke & Co., and Bohn, and are ready to fill any orders addressed to their warehouse in Park Row, New York.

Among the pleasantest of our exchanges is the Literary World. Decided as has been the success of this jour nal, we think it would circulate more extensively, if the fact were generally known, that besides being the very best compendium of literary intelligence published in the country, it is always filled with racy and agreeable criticisms, sketches and essays. In reading the editorials. one feels the comfortable assurance of communing with sensible men who know what they have to say and how most delightfully to say it.

An excellent reprint of" Household Words by Charles Dickens," is issued by McElrath & Lord of New York, at the low price of Two Dollars and a Half a year. It is an exact fac simile of the English journal, and contains in addition thereto, a summary of American news done by a skilful hand.

De Bow's Review for 1853 presents a greatly improved appearance; the enterprising proprietor having brought it out in new and larger type. No work in this country deserves greater success than this, and simple justice to its claims on the part of the South would place it upon a basis of enduring prosperity. Apropos of this, we cannot resist again calling the attention of our readers to the Industrial Resources of the South and West compiled by De Bow. It may be found at all the large book stores in the United States, and J. W. Randolph and A. Morris

have it for sale in Richmond.

THE LIFE AND WORKS OF ROBERT BURNS. Edited by
Robert Chambers. In Four Volumes. Vol. IV. New
York. Harper & Brothers. 1853.

We continue to receive from Messrs. Nash & Wood

My

house the Foreign Reviews and Blackwood. Novel" is at last completed-we record the fact with sorLives of the QUEENS OF SCOTLAND. By Agnes Strick-row, for the sweet satisfaction, derived from its monthly land. Vol. III. Same Publishers. [From A. Morris,

97 Main Street.

The fourth volume of Chambers' edition of Burns and the third of Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of

perusal, had grown to be a craving of our intellectual nature, and what to do now, without our regular communings with Riccabocca and Violante and Harley L'Estrange and Leonard, we know not.

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The Nineteenth Volume-1853—commences with the January number; and it will continue to present its readers with Reviews, Historical and Biographical Sketches, Novels, Tales. Trav els, Essays, Poems, Critiques, and Papers on the Army, and Navy and other National Subjects. Among its contributors are ladies well known in the literary world, and gentlemen of the highest distinction in the various departments of knowledge,

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