PARTE. Nearly all have expressly desired that the revision should be effected in the mode and time prescribed by the constitution itself. The LITERARY INTELLIGENCE from abroad lacks special interest. The Magazines for September contain nothing worthy of mention, which will not be found in the foregoing pages of this number. BULWER commences a new novel in Blackwood, the opening chapters of which are here reprinted. It is in continuation of "The Caxtons," and promises to be exceed ingly interesting. It will, of course, be given to our readers as rapidly as it appears. Our opening paper this month is a spirited and eloquent notice of WORDSWORTH, evidently from the popular and effective pen of GILFILLAN, who is a constant contributor to the London Eclectic Review from which it is taken. 'David Copperfield' by DICKENS, and 'Pendennis' by THACKERAY, draw toward their end, and our readers may therefore anticipate new productions from their pens ere long.- -The question whether an American can hold a copyright in England comes up before the English Courts in a suit brought by Murray for interference with his rights by a publisher who has issued an edition of Washington Irving. It is stated that Irving has received from the Murrays the sum of £9767 for the English copyrights of his various works.The Gallery of Paintings of the King of Holland has been sold at auction and the returns are stated at $450,000. The Emperor of Russia, and the Marquis of Hertford in England, were extensive purchasers. Two portraits of Vandyke were bought by the latter at 63,000 florins.- -LAMARTINE writes to the Debats from Marseilles, denying, so far as he is concerned, the truth of statements contained in MR. CROKER's article in the London Quarterly upon the flight of Louis Phillipe. He has commenced the publication of a new volume of "Confidences" in the feuilleton of the Presse. -The Household Narrative in its summary of English Literary Intelligence, notices the appearance of an elaborate work on Tubular Bridges by Mr. Edwin Clark, with a striking folio of illustrative drawings and lithographs. Also of an Essay in two goodly octavos on Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs, by Mr. Kenrick, full of learning, yet full of interest, because grafting on the ascertained old history all the modern elucidations of travelers and artists, critics and interpreters. It appears to be but a portion of a contemplated work comprehending a complete history of those countries of the East whose civilization preceded and influenced that of Greece; and to our proper understanding of which, the discovery of the hieroglyphic character, and such researches as those of Mr. Layard, have lately contributed an entire new world of information. Another book remarkable for the precision and completeness of its knowledge, is Doctor Latham's Natural History of the Varieties of Man, a very important contribution to the literature of ethnology; and with this is connected in subject, though not in any other kind of merit, an ec fragment on the Races of Man, by Dr. Ru Knox. Mrs. Jameson has published a secr series of her Poetry of Sacred and Leg Art, in a volume of Legends of the Monar Orders, similiarly illustrated; and nothing be more graceful than this lady's treatment i subject which has not much that is gracefriz itself. To biography, a new volume of t Life of Chalmers has been the most interests: addition. A Life of Ebenezer Elliott, by i son-in-law, possesses also some interest; with a little less of the biographer and more the biography, would have been yet more cessful. In English fiction, a semi-chartist novel called Alton Locke, full of error and earnestness, and evidently by a University man of the so-called Christian Socialist school. is the most noticeable work of the kind that has lately appeared. The other romances of the month have been translations from the German and French. The Two Brothers is somewhat in the school of Miss Bremer; and Stella and Vanessa is a novel by a graceful French writer, very agreeably translated by Lady Duff Gordon, of which the drift is to excuse Swift for his conduct to Mrs. Johnson and Miss Vanhomrigh. The subject is curious and the treatment (for a Frenchman) not less so. Nothing painful or revolting is dwelt upon. and if it does not satisfy it fails to offend.— The London Morning Chronicle has an extended and elaborate review of MR. TICKNOR'S great "History of Spanish Literature,” in which it pays the highest possible compliments to the accomplished author. "The masterly sweep of his general grasp," it says, "and the elab orated finish of his constituent sketches, silence the caviller at the very outset, and enforce him to respectful study, while the unaffected ease of the style, lively but not flippant, charms the attention, and not seldom disguises the amount of research and indagation which has been bestowed upon each stage of the history." It closes its review with this emphatic praise: "this History will at once take its position as the standard book of reference upon Spanish literature, but it will not take the cold honors of the shelf usually accorded to such volumes, for it will not only be consulted but read. We cordially congratulate our American friends upon possessing a compatriot who is able to make such a contribution to English literature -we are not aware that we are equally fortunate.". -The third series of SOUTHEY'S Common-Place Book has just appeared. Unlike the former series, which consisted of selections of rare and striking passages, and so possessed a general and independent value, the present volume consists mainly of brief notes or references to important passages in a great variety of works, bearing upon the subjects of Civil and Ecclesiastical History, Biography, and Literature in general. The references are so brief, and the works referred to so rare, that the book will prove of little service except to those who have access to large public libraries. | the wire from the ravages of the ocean's denizens, Probably not one book in ten of those re- the assaults of ships' anchors, and the shifting ferred to is to be found in any library in this sands which are known to underlie the Straits country. The volume, however, furnishes evi- of Dover.A duel took place at Perigueux dence still stronger than the others, of the between MM. CHAVOIX and DUPONT, in which wonderful extent, variety, and accuracy of the latter was killed. The latter was editor of Southey's reading; it shows that he was a sort a paper called Echo de Vesone, and had offended of living library, a walking study; he read al- M. Chavoix, a wealthy proprietor, by severe most every thing that appeared, and method- strictures on his conduct. Both were members ized, and laid up in his mind all that was worth of the Assembly. They fought with pistols at preserving, of what he read, and thus gained a twenty-five paces. M. Chavoix won the throw super-eminence of information which has rarely for the choice of position, and M. Dupont for been surpassed. The third volume of his Com- first fire. Dupont fired and missed. Chavoix, mon-Place Book is not altogether destitute declaring that he could not see clearly, waited of those quaint and singular selections which till the smoke of his adversary's discharge passed, gave so rare a charm to those that preceded. and fired at an interval of some seconds. His -The North British Review for the current ball struck the forehead of Dupont, who fell stark quarter, from which we gave some extracts in dead upon the plain without uttering a cry or a our September number, has an article upon the groan. The distinguished French Novelist disputed claims of Messrs. Stephenson & Fair- M. BALZAC died at Paris on the 18th of Aubairn to the credit of having invented the Tubular gust, aged 51. He was in many important rebridge. If the facts upon which the reasonings spects, the foremost of French writers. He was of the reviewer are based, are correctly stated, originally a journeyman printer at Tours, his there can be no doubt that a large, perhaps the native place. His earlier works obtained a fair larger share of the credit due to this greatest measure of success, but it was not until after triumph of modern engineering, belongs to WILL- many years' apprenticeship, either anonymously IAM FAIRBAIRN, of Manchester, by whom all the or under assumed cognomens, that he ventured experiments were undertaken that demonstrated to communicate his name to the public. And the practicability of the undertaking, and proved no sooner was the name given than it became that a square form was much stronger than the popular-and in a little while famous-famous elliptical one, which was originally proposed. not in France alone, but all over Europe. His Mr. Fairbairn, it is stated, showed conclusively success was almost as brilliant as that of Walter by actual experiment, in opposition to the opinion Scott himself. In addition to his romances, of Mr. Stephenson, that suspension chains, as an Balzac wrote some theatrical pieces, and for a additional means of support, were not needed, while edited and contributed a good deal to the thus avoiding an outlay of some £200,000. Revue Parisienne. Since the revolution Balzac Successful as the experiment has been in a published nothing, but was engaged in visiting scientific point of view, the railroad of which the battle-fields of Germany and Russia, and in this bridge forms a link, has been most unfor- piling up materials for a series of volumes, to tunate in a pecuniary aspect. The stock con- be entitled Scènes de la Vie Militaire. sists of two kinds, the original, and preferential. leaves behind several MS. works, partially or In July, 1850, the former was selling at a loss wholly completed. His design was to make all of £72 10s., and the latter at a loss of £33 6s. his romances form one great work, under the 8d. on every £100, involving a total loss to the title of the Comedie Humaine,—the whole being stockholders of £1,764,000.-The Barbarigo a minute dissection of the different classes of Gallery at Venice, celebrated for ages for its French society. Only a little while before his rich collection, especially of the works of Titian, death, he stated that, in what he had done, he has been purchased by the court of Russia for had but half accomplished his task. Next to 560,000 francs, or £22,400 sterling. A new his great celebrity, the most remarkable feature singer, Madame Fiorentini, has appeared at Her in his career is a strong passion which he formMajesty's Theatre in London, who attracts con- ed for a Russian countess, and which, after siderable attention. She is a native of Seville, years of patient suffering, he had the satisfacand married to Mr. Jennings, an English officer. tion of having rewarded by the gift of the lady's She received her musical education in London, hand. Shortly after his marriage-which took and made her first public appearance at Berlin place some two years ago-he was attacked only twelve months since.The telegraphic with a disease of the heart, and that carried him wires between Dover and Calais, or rather Cape off. He and his wife had only been a few Grinez, have been laid and got into operation. months in Paris when this sad event took place. Dispatches have been received in this country His funeral was celebrated with a good deal which were sent from Paris to London by this of ceremony, and an eloquent funeral oration means. Thirty miles of wire, incased in a was pronounced by M. VICTOR HUGO.-Sir strong coating of gutta percha, have been im- MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, President of the Royal bedded, as far as this could possibly be done, in Academy, died at Brighton on the 19th, in his the bottom of the channel, by means of leaden 80th year. He was elected to the above office weights. It remains now to be seen whether in 1830, on the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the precautions taken are sufficient to protect when he received the honor of knighthood. He He retired in 1845 from the active duties of the office, which have been since performed by Mr. Turner. The late Sir ROBERT PEEL has left directions in his will for the early publication of his political memoirs, and has ordered that the profits arising from the publication shall be given to some public institution for the education of the working classes. He has confided the task of preparing these memoirs to Lord Mahon and Mr. Cardwell. In the settlement of GERMAN affairs little progress has yet been made by the Congress at Frankfort. At a meeting on the 8th of August, at which Count Thun, the Austrian plenipotentiary, presided, it was decided that Austria should formally invite all the members of the Bund to assemble at Frankfort on the 1st of September next. A circular note of the 18th of August, in which the Minister-President reiterates the assurances so solemnly given in the circular of the 19th July, that it is the earnest wish of Austria to make such reforms in the Act of Confederation as may be required by the recent change of circumstances in Germany, and may conduce to the unity of the common fatherland, was accordingly dispatched with the Frankfort summons to the different courts on the 15th. It remains to be seen whether Prussia and the League will accept this proposal. -The third meeting of the General Peace Congress commenced at Frankfort on the 22d of August. There were some two thousand delegates in attendance, mostly from England, France, the United States, and Germany. Gen. Haynau was present for a time. Resolutions were submitted, discussed, and adopted, deprecating a resort to arms, and urging the propriety and expediency of settling all international differences by arbitration. Dr. JAUP presided, and speeches were made by delegates from every nation. Among the most prominent representatives from the United States were Elihu Burritt, Professor Cleaveland, Dr. Hitchcock, and George Copway, an Indian chief; Mr. Cobden, of England, and Cormenin and Girardin, of France were also in attendance. The session lasted three days. In PIEDMONT & great sensation has been produced by a collision with the papal power. The Sardinian Minister of Finance, the Cavalière Santa Rosa, who had supported the ministry in passing the law which rendered the clergy amenable to the civil courts, being on his deathbed, was refused the sacrament by the monks, under the direction of Franzoni the Archbishop of Turin. At his funeral such excitement was manifested by the people, that to avoid an actual outbreak, the monks were ordered to leave the city, and the possessions of their order were sequestered. In the search through their house, documents were found which inculpated the Archbishop Franzoni himself, and he was cosequently arrested and imprisoned in the fortres of Fenestrelles. Both Austria and France, hv ever, have interfered; and, in consequence, the editor of L'Opinione, a liberal journal, has bee banished from the Sardinian States. It is stated that Lord Palmerston has addressed to the Court of the Vatican a most energetic note, in which he cautions it against adopting violent meas ures toward Sardinia, and persevering in the system hitherto pursued by the Pope with regard to that Government. A letter from Rome, of the 20th, in the Costitutionnel, states that several persons have been arrested there for a supposed conspiracy to as sassinate the Pope, on Assumption day, by throwing crystal balls filled with explosive substances into his carriage when on his way to church to pronounce the benediction. The discovery of the plot prevented all danger. There was some agitation on the following Sunday, as it was supposed that there had been a plot against the Austrian Ambassador, on the anniversary of the birth of the Emperor. A strong armed forse was placed near his palace to protect it, and in the evening some arrests were made. A continuance of heavy rain in BELGIUM the 15th, 16th, and 17th has produced disastrous inundations in various parts of that country. At Antwerp there was a tremendous storm of rain, wind, and thunder. The lightning struck several buildings; many of the streets were under water; and large trees were uprooted in the neighboring country. At Ghent a large sugar manu factory was destroyed by lightning, and people were killed by it in different places. A great part of the city of Brussels and the neighboring villages were under water for nearly two days; and many houses were so much damaged that they fell, and a number of persons perished. Near Charleroi all the fields were submerged. and the injury done to the crops was immense. At Valenciennes the Scheldt overflowed, inundating the neighboring country, and causing vast devastation. The damage done to the crops has produced a rise in the price of flour. Many bridges have been swept away, and the injury done to the railways has been immense. From SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN, we learn that the continued rains have prevented all renewal of operations in the field. The Danes have established a permanent camp near Ramstedt, and the marshes in that vicinity have been completely flooded. The Emperor of Russia has created General KROGH, the Danish Commander-inChief, Knight of the Order of St. Anne of the first class, for the distinguished bravery and prudence which he displayed in the engagements of the 24th and 25th of July, at Idstedt. | the etymology of each word given-the logical deduction of all its significations, which occur in the New Testament-the various combinations of verbs and adjectives-the different forms and inflections of words-the interpretation of difficult passages—and a reference to every passage of the New Testament in which the word is found. No scholar can examine the volume, without a full conviction of the eminent success with which this comprehensive plan has been presented to the accuracy and thoroughness of American scholarship. The practical use of the work will be greatly facilitated by the clearness and beauty of the Greek type on which it is printed, being an admirable specimen of the Porson style. Rural Hours, by A LADY, published by G. P. Putnam, is an admirable volume, the effect of which is like a personal visit to the charming scenes which the writer portrays with such a genuine passion for nature, and so much vivacity and truthfulness of description. Without the faintest trace of affectation, or even the desire to present the favorite surroundings of her daily life in overdone pictures, she quietly jots down the sights and sounds, and odorous blossomings of the seasons as they pass, and by this intellectual hon-executed, and of the value of the memorial here esty and simplicity, has given a peculiar charm to her work, which a more ambitious style of composition would never have been able to com. mand. Her eye for nature is as accurate as her enthusiasm is sincere. She dwells on the minute phenomena of daily occurrence in their season with a just discrimination, content with clothing them in their own beauty, and never seeking to increase their brilliancy by any artificial gloss. Whoever has a love for communing with nature in the "sweet hour of prime," or in the "still twilight," for watching the varied glories of the revolving year, will be grateful to the writer of this picturesque volume for such a fragrant record of rural experience. The author is stated to be a daughter of Cooper, the distinguished American novelist, and she certainly exhibits an acuteness of observation, and a vigor of description, not unworthy of her eminent parentage. The Berber, or Mountaineer of the Atlas, by WILLIAM S. MAYO, M.D., published by G. P. Putnam, is toned down to a very considerable degree from the high-colored pictures which produced such a dazzling effect in Kaloolah, the work by which the author first became known to the public. The scene is laid in Morocco, affording the writer an occasion for the use of a great deal of geographical and historical lore, which is introduced to decided advantage as a substantial back-ground to the story, which, in itself, possesses a sustained and powerful interest. Dr. Mayo displays a rare talent in individualizing character: his groups consist of distinct persons, without any confused blundering or repetition; he is not only a painter of manners, but an amateur of passion; and hence his admirable descriptions are combined with rapid and effective touches, which betray no ordinary insight into the subtle philosophy of the heart. The illusion of the story is sometimes impaired by the introduction of the novel should hardly have looked for in a writer who is so obviously well acquainted with the resources of artistic composition as the author of this volume. Harper and Brothers have issued the Fifth Part of The Life and Correspondence of ROBERT SOUTHEY, which brings the biography down to the fifty-fifth year of his age, and to the close of the year 1828. The next number will complete the work, which has sustained a uniform interest from the commencement, presenting a A new edition of the Greek and English Lexicon, by Professor EDWARD ROBINSON, (Harper and Brothers) will be received with lively satisfaction by the large number of Biblical students in this country and in England who are under such deep obligations to the previous labors of Dr. ROBINSON in this department of philology. The work exhibits abundant evidence of the profound and discriminating re-ist in the first person, a blemish which we search, the even more than German patience of labor, the rigid impartiality, and the rare critical acumen for which the name of the author is proverbial wherever the New-Testament Lexicography is made the object of earnest study. Since the publication of the first edition, fourteen years since, which was speedily followed by three rival editions in Great Britain, and two abridgments, the science of Biblical philology has made great progress; new views have been developed by the learned labors of Wahl, Bret-charming picture of the domestic habits, liteschneider, Winer, and others; the experience of the author in his official duties for the space of ten years, had corrected and enlarged his own knowledge; he had made a personal exploration of many portions of the Holy Land; and under these circumstances, when he came to the revision of the work, he found that a large part of it must be re-written, and the remainder submitted to such alterations, corrections, and improvements, as were almost as laborious as the composition of a new Lexicon. The plan of the work in its present enlarged form, embraces rary enterprises, and characteristic moral features of its eminent subject. Mr. Southey's connection with the progress of English literature during the early part of the present century, his strong political predilections, the extent and variety of his productions, and his singular devotion to a purely intellectual life, make his biography one of the most entertaining and instructive records that have recently been published in this department of letters. His son, Rev. Charles Cuthbert Southey, by whom the work is edited, has acquitted himself of his task 716 Whittemore, and Co., Boston, is an original | York, where they are still remembered summary of excellent physiological precepts, respect and esteem by the thousands of re-t expressed with the simplicity and distinctness ers scattered all over our immense country with affection and gratitude by many wifor which the author is celebrated. Songs of Labor and Other Poems is the title fortunes were aided, and whose credit was s of a new volume by JOHN G. WHITTIER, pub-tablished, by their generous confidence and tielished by Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, Boston, containing the spirited lyrics which have already gained a large share of favor in the public journals. Poems of the Heart, by GEORGE W. NICHOLSON, (G. S. Appleton, Philadelphia), is the “last production of the author's boyhood," and hibits the most decided marks of its origin. The Mariner's Vision is the title of a Poem by T. L. DONNELLY, Philadelphia, evidently written with little preparation, but showing some traces of poetic talent, which may ripen into excellence at a future day. A beautiful reprint of Æsop's Fables, edited by Rev. THOMAS GARNES, with more than Fifty Illustrations from TENNIAL's designs has been issued by Robert B. Collins, New York, in a style of superb typography, which can not fail to command the admiration of the amateur. aid. Mr. BENJAMIN S. COLLINS is now living dignified retirement, on his farm in Westchester County. Several other members of the fam formerly connected with the bookselling busine have also retired with a competency, and are usefully devoting their time and attention to the ex-promotion of the various charitable instituteS of the country. Mr. HANNAY died about a rest since-and here we may be permitted to reed our grateful memory of one of the best men, and one of the most enterprising booksellers ever known in our country. His exceeding modesty prevented his marked and excellent qualities from being much known out of the small circle of his in mediate friends-but by them he is remembered with feelings of love and veneration. The house of Collins & Hannay became subsequently E & S. Collins; Collins, Keese, & Co.; Collins, Brother, & Co.; and Collins & Brother; now at last ROBERT B. COLLINS, the publisher of the work under notice. We trust he may purse the path to fortune with the same honorable purposes, by the same honorable means, and with the same gratifying result, which sig nalized the efforts of his worthy predecessors. Nor are the names of the printer and stereotyper of the present volume without a fraternal interest. The printer, Mr. VAN NORDEN, one of our early and highly esteemed associates, may now be termed a typographer of the old school. The quality of his work is good evidence that he is entitled to the reputation, which has The stereotyper been long accorded to him, of being one of the best printers in the country. We are of this work, our old friend SMITH, is by no means a novice in his department. glad to see that he, too, so ably maintains his long-established reputation. May the publisher, the printer, and the stereotyper of this edition of Æsop, ever rejoice in the sunshine of prosper ity, and may their shadows never be less! The volume before us awakens recollections of "by-gone days," in the Publishers of this Magazine, upon which we love to dwell. Æsop's Fables was among the first books which passed through our press. Some thirty years since, we printed an edition of it for the late EVERT DUYCKINCK, Esq. (father of the present accomplished editors of the Literary World), one of the leading booksellers and publishers of his day, and, in every sense, "a good man and true," as well as one of our earliest and best friends. His memory to us is precious-his early kindness will ever live in our recollection. The name of COLLINS (publisher of the present edition), has been so long and closely associated with the book trade in this country, that we apprehend the public may feel some interest in a short sketch of the rise and progress of this most respectable publishing firm. ISAAC COLLINS, a member of the Society of Friends, was the founder of the house. He originally came from Virginia, and commenced the printing and bookselling business in the city of Trenton, New Jersey, about the close of the Revolutionary War, where he printed the first quarto Bible published in America. This Bible was so highly esteemed for its correctness, that the American Bible Society was at some pains to obtain a copy, from which to print their excellent editions of the Scriptures. It would take too much space to follow the various changes in the firm, under the names of Isaac Collins, Isaac Collins & Son, Collins, Perkins & Co., Collins & Co., down to the establishment of the house of Collins & HanThis connay, about the close of the last war. cern was composed of BENJAMIN S. COLLINS (the son of Isaac), and SAMUEL HANNAY, Who had been educated for the business by the old house of Collins & Co. The enterprise, liberality, and industry of this firm soon placed them at the head of the book trade in the city of New Geo. P. Putnam has published a work entitled New Elements of Geometry, by SEBA SMITH, which can not fail to attract the notice of the curious reader, on account of the good faith and evident ability with which it sustains what must be regarded by all orthodox science as a system of enormous mathematical paradoxes. The treatise is divided into three parts, namely, The Philosophy of Geometry, Demonstrations in Geometry, and Harmonies of Geometry. In opposition to the ancient geometers, by whom the definitions and axioms of the science were fixed, Mr. SMITH contends that the usual division of magnitudes into lines, surfaces, and solids is without foundation, that every mathematical line has a breadth, as definite, as measurable, and as clearly demonstrable as its length, and that every mathematical surface has a thickness, as definite, as measurable, and as clearly demon |