in Philadelphia, by the delivery of a public discourse, and other Historical Societies will be invited to join in the festivities. It is also proposed to open a special correspondence with kindred associations, in order to insure some common plan of action. celebration of the landing of Columbus, should or general histories, particularly American. A Catalogue of the MSS., Maps, Medals, Coins, &c., was made in 1854 by Lewis Mayer, Assistant Librarian, The Society has now in negotiation the transfer of a collection of about 11,000 volumes, belonging to the Library Company, which will most probably be added to the present collection. The present list of officers is as follows: Gen. John Spear Smith, Pres.; Hon. J. P. Kennedy, Vice Pres.; J. M. Norris, Cor. Sec.; S. F. Streeter, Rec. Sec.; W. N. Travers, Librarian. The terms of the admission of all Active and Corresponding Members, are five dollars initiation and five dollars per annum. The Society's Rooms in the Atheneum building, Baltimore, are open daily from 9 A. M. to 2 P. M., and from 4 till 6 P. M. Monthly meetings occur on the first Thursday in each month, and the annual meeting in the month of February. At the last monthly meeting of the NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, the death of Mr. James Brown, bookseller, of Boston, was referred to by Rev. Dr. Osgood. It was mentioned that he had been largely concerned with historical publications, and was the first to bring out the great works of Sparks, Bancroft, Prescott, and others; and that he had been lately meditating a scheme for a Serial Cyclopedia of American History. The East Tennessee Historical Society was orThe Librarian read a letter which he had re-ganized in 1831, and chiefly for the purpose of ceived from Mr. Maunsell B. Field, late Record- collecting materials to enable Dr. J. G. M. Raming Secretary of the Society, dated at Paris, sey, the Cor. Secretary, to prepare a History of February 24, 1855, giving an account of a re- Tennessee, which was published a year or two cent meeting of the Academy of Moral and since under the title of "Annals of Tennessee," The objects of the New England Historic GenPolitical Sciences of the Institute, at which M. an octavo volume, embracing the first discovery ealogical Society is indicated by its title. The Guizot delivered an address upon the intellec- and exploration of the country, and the ap- meeting preliminary to its organization was held tual activity of the United States. Mr. Field proaches of civilization; the formation and in Boston, in October, 1844, and the Society was suggested the preparation of a paper which growth of "The Watauga Association," from 1769 incorporated in March, 1845. It has been a parshould present some account of the results of our to 1778; of that part of the State of N. Carolina ticular object of this Society and its members to intellectual activity in the department of His- from 1777 to 1784; of the State of Franklin from render assistance to those who are composing tory, and especially the labors of the Historical 1784 to 1788; of the State of N. Carolina again, works which elucidate New England local his- . Societies in the several States. The Rev. Dr. from 1788 to 1790; of the Territory of the Uni-tory; and it has been an equally important inRobinson then read an article entitled "Histor- ted States south of the river Ohio, from 1790 to stitution to those engaged in genealogical reical Notices of Capernaum," being a record of 1796; and of the State of Tennessee from 1796 searches. There have already been published, his journeyings in Palestine, with historical re- to 1800. The Library of the Society, and the under its direction, eight annual vols, of Histor. ferences to the places he had visited. museum and collections, are rather valuable than ical and Antiquarian matter, and a Quarterly extensive. The meetings are irregular, and Register edited by Samuel G. Drake. The Limembers but few. The officers are, Hon. Chand-brary is quite full of interesting MSS. and voller Reese, LL.D., Pres.; Rev. T. W. Humes, Vice umes. The officers for the present year are: Pres.; Hon. J. H. Crozier, Rec. Sec.; Dr. J. G. William Whiting, President; Timothy Farrar, M. Ramsey, Cor. Sec., Librarian, Custodian of Vice Pres.; Samuel G. Drake, Cor. Sec.; Charles Antiquities, &c. It is located at Mecklenburg, Mayo, Rec. Sec.; John Dean, Treasurer; Luther Knox county, near Knoxville. About the period Farnham, Librarian. of the formation of this Society, Prof. Cross and The Kentucky Historical Society has a pretty others founded a similar Society at Nashville, good library-mostly the gift of its first Presibut it soon died, and still another was commenced dent, the late Hon. John Rowan-but is, at there about 1851, with J. R. Eakin as Cor. Sec-present, doing but little. retary. The New Jersey Historical Society was founded The Georgia Society held its preliminary meet-in February, 1845. It has at present 313 resiing in Savannah on the 22d of May, 1839, and dent members (being those who reside within was duly organized in June of the same year. the State), who pay $2 annually, and 42 lifeThe meetings of the Society have generally been members (by payment of $20). By the report quite interesting, and occur on the second Mon- presented at the tenth annual meeting, on the day of every month. The annual meeting takes third Tuesday in January last, in Trenton, it applace on the 12th of February.. The Legislature pears that there were in the possession of the of the State have confided to the care of the As- Society, at that period, 1,930 volumes (2,000 of sociation the valuable documents obtained in duplicates being included), and 2 265 pamphlets, England by Rev. C. W. Howard, at large expense besides pictures, maps, paintings, coins, &c. Duto the State. These are comprised in 22 vols. ing the past year there have been 128 bound folio. Two volumes and one part of Collections volumes and 117 MSS. added. A site, 30 by 113, have been published in Savannah. for a fire-proof building has recently been purThe Maryland Historical Society was incorpo- chased in Park Church Place for $2,500, which rated in the year 1844, and is in a very prosper-sum has been subscribed by members and others. ous condition. From the commencement of the Association, up to the present time, the Society has enrolled 466 members, of whom about 300 remain. Besides the large number of printed State and federal documents in the Library, a large mass of original papers relating to the colonial days of Maryland, have been obtained from the British State paper office, and presented by George Peabody, Esq. The Library contains over 2,000 volumes, of which over 700 are local The AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY held its semi-annual meeting on the 24th of April, at the Library of the American Academy, in Boston. Hon. Stephen Salisbury, President, was in the chair, and the meeting was quite fully attended. The various reports were read: and by the Treasurer's account it appears that the Society is wholly out of debt, its invested funds amount ing to $28,696 84. The books being now arranged in the new building, where is more ample room for them than the Society formerly had at command, it is proposed to publish a catalogue, and to bind several hundred volumes of pamphlets, which need this for their preservation, The next volume of the Smithsonian Contributions is to be devoted to the Society's report on the Earthworks of Wisconsin, by Mr. Lapham, with an introductory paper on the history of the study of such remains, and the general position of the science of American Archæology, by Mr. S. F. Haven. It is intended to publish this volume during the coming summer. The Society has nearly completed a collection of the original publications of the laws of this State. There is no complete collection anywhere-not even in the State House. The Society has a fuller collection than is anywhere else collected. The accessions to the library during the last six months have been 136 books, 142 pamphlets. The following gentlemen were elected members of the Society: Edward Tuckerman, Esq., of Amherst; Rev. Dr. Henry Jackson, Newport, R. I.; J. R. L. McClure, British Navy; Dr. Kane, American Navy; Hon. A. H. Bullock, of Worcester; J. Hammond Trumbull, Esq., Hartford, Conn.; J. Wingate Thornton, Esq., Boston. The Society ordered that the annual meeting, in The building is estimated to cost $10,000. The last volume of the proceedings published is the sixth, and the seventh is in progress. This Society has published four volumes of Collections. The fifth volume of the Collections will contain an Analytical Index to the N. J. Colonial documents in the English archives, obtained through the agency of Mr. Henry Stevens, and now being prepared by Hon. W. A. Whitehead. It is also about to issue the early History of Newark, dat ing from 1666. Besides the annual meeting in January, at Trenton, there is another regular meeting held in May, at Newark, and still another, in September, at such place as the Society may designate. The officers elected at the meeting in January, are Jos. C. Hornblower, LL. D., Pres.; Hon. Jas. Parker, Hon. Stacy G. Potts, Hon. Wm. A. Duer, Vice Pres'ts; Hon. Wm. A. Whitehead, Cor. Sec.; David A. Hayes, Record. Sec.; Samuel H. Congar, Librarian. cy, and has not made great progress in collecting Published monthly, at $1, by Z. H. Paugborn, THE MASSACHUSETTS TEACHER. The Vincennes Historical Society is a local AsMonthly, $1 by Samuel Goodridge, Boston. sociation at Vincennes, Ind. In 1839, Judge THE CONNECTICUT COMMON SCHOOL JOURNAL. John Law delivered a very interesting discourse before this Society, which was published in a pamphlet form. The Minnesota Historical Society, at St. Paul, founded in 1849, has annually published its transactions, which will compare favorably with the publications of Eastern Societies. Monthly, $1, L. M. Guernsey, New Britain. Monthly, $1, Joel Munsell, Albany. Monthly, $1, T. H. Burrows, Lancaster. THE SCHUYLKILL COUNTY SCHOOL JOURNAL. Monthly, $1, Columbus, Geo. THE OHIO JOURNAL OF EDUCATION. Monthly, $1, Columbus, O. We append the names of other State and local Detroit. The Wisconsin Historical Society, located in the growing city of Madison, was first organized Jan. 30th, 1849, but accomplished very little till it was reorganized under its charter, in January, 1854. There were at that time 50 vols. in its library—now there are 1,200, of which 175 are bound files of newspapers. There are also on hand or secured about twenty portraits, to in clude all the Territorial and State Governors—a copy of Stuart's Washington, by Thos. Sully'; a fine copy of Black Hawk, by R. M. Sully, and The Iowa Historical and Geological Institute is Monthly, 50c., Pottsville, Pa. his originals of Black Hawk's Son and the located at Burlington. John N. Rauch is its THE DELAWARE SCHOOL JOURNAL. Prophet; a copy of Jarvis's General Geo. Rogers present Corresponding Secretary. About a year Monthly, $1, A. H. Grimshaw, Wilmington. Clark, &c., &c. The Legislature has granted since its Library, Collections, &c., were destroyed THE SOUTHERN SCHOOL JOURNAL. this Society a number of copies annually of the by fire, which was a sad blow to the prosperity State publications, in aid of its exchanges. The of the Society. The members are, however, trymonthly meetings of this active and enterprising ing, by renewed efforts, to make up for past missociety are full of interest, and the collections of fortunes. the Society are rapidly increasing in value. The library is open daily, during the sessions of the Legislature, commencing with the present winter. A large number of Legislators, members of the Judiciary, citizens and strangers, visit and consult the library. The first annual report is now in press, with several historical papers appended. The State appropriation of $500, together with the printing of the report, are of great assistance to the society. The State has also provided for the publication of an elaborate "Documentary and General History of the State," prepared by General Wm. R. Smith, President of the Society. The Secretary of the Society, Lyman G. Draper, is now engaged in preparing (in connection with B. J. Lossing) a series of popular volumes devoted to the history of the Western States, and to the biographies of the pioneers. Mr. D. is said to have been entirely engaged on this plan for sixteen years. The first volume, being a Life of Boone, will be issued this winter, and be followed by others when Mr. Lossing has completed his History of the War of 1812-15. The annual meeting took place on the first Tuesday in January last, when the following persons were elected the officers of the Society for the ensuing year: Gen. Wm. R. Smith, President; Geo. R. McLane, I. A. Lapham, Nelson Dewey, Cyrus Woodman, A. G. Ellis, M. L. Martin, Vice Pres'ts; John W. Hunt, Rec. Sec.; Lyman C. Draper, Cor. Sec.; S. H. Carpenter, Librarian. Mr. Henry S. Baird, of Green Bay, has been chosen to deliver the next Annual Address before the Society, in January, 1856. Monthly, $1, R. Spaulding, Dubuque. The Alabama Historical Society was organized in 1850, and the first annual report, with the proceedings of the first annual meeting, held at the University of Alabama, in Tuskaloosa, was published in the first number of the transactions of the Society, in 1852. The number of members is now 100. The Society is yet in its infan Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Mo. Historical Society at Ashtabula, Ohio. At Chapel Hill, N. C., is an Historical Society, In Massachusetts there are several Historical Michigan has no Historical Society. The Historical Collections of South Carolina, embracing many rare and valuable pamphlets, and other documents relating to the history of that State, from its first discovery to its independence in 1776, have been compiled, with Notes and Introduction, by B. R. Carroll, and published in two volumes, by Harper, in 1886, but we do not know that any Society exists. The SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION have just issued another circular calling the attention of publishers to the fact that two each of every book, map, chart, &c., copyrighted in this country, must be deposited, one with the Library of Congress and the other with the Smithsonian Institution. They may be sent by mail free of expense. T. B. PETERSON has in press a new novel by Mrs. Southworth, author of "The Lost Heiress," entitled "The Missing Bride." Monthly, $1, J. G. Hodgins, Toronto. In the above list, journals are not included which are intended more particularly for the scholars' use, such as The Student, (New York,) The Examiner, (Norwich, Conn.,) The Schoolfellow, (New York,) etc. MR. EDITOR:-The amusing errors observed by H. K. O., in "Murray's Encyclopædia of Geography," show how cautious we ought to be in forming our judgment of distant countries and nations from the epitomes usually consulted, when so elaborate and authoritative a work manifests so many transparent blunders in its description of a region which ought to be so well known to Englishmen. Allow me to suggest, however, that had your correspondent possessed himself of a copy of the American edition, revised by Bradford, he would have seen no cause for complaint. I have been comparing the two, and have found all the errors alluded to eradi cated in the greatly enlarged and improved section devoted to the United States. April 24th, 1855. II. The phrase, "almighty dollar," originated with Washington Irving, who first made use of it in his charming little sketch of "A Creole Village,” which appeared in 1887.-Exchange. Before the publication of the work named, the phrase was used in an editorial article in the Niagara Democrat.-Niagara Democrat. Where did he obtain it? REPLIES TO QUERIES. small alphabetical index, which might be bound and sold by itself, would have been sufficient for THE CLASSIFIED INDEX TO THE CATALOGUE OF THE those who wished only to obtain information re N. Y. MERCANTILE LIBRARY. D. Y. C. asks us a fair question as to the law of its construction and we hope he will be satisfied with a candid answer. It was undertaken with the notion (perhaps an erroneous one) that a classified catalogue was not a psychological curiosity, or a tour de force, but a thing for utility. Grant us this position, for argument's sake, and it follows that the classification which is most useful, that is most convenient, is the best. Now an alphabetical catalogue may fail in three respects. 1. You may not know under what letter to look for a book. You would look for Poor Richard's Almanac under F, for Old Humphrey's Works under G, but might never think of looking for Dragoon Campaign, (anonymously published,) under H. 2. You may not know the nature of a work. Is Nuts To Crack a title something like Notes & Queries, or is it a comical work? What does Baby lon the Great treat of? Such questions can only be answered by taking the books from the shelf, or, if that is impossible by reason of intervening space, by finding the book in a classified catalogue. 3. You may not even be aware of the existence of the book, and may merely wish to know, (not an impossible case,) what works on a particular subject are within your reach. Now it must be borne in mind that the best classification for one person may not be the most convenient for another. That which would best have served Henry VIII. would not have been best for Napoleon; and indeed that which would have been perfect for Plato would not have been so for Socrates. A classification then should be suitable for the mass of those who consult the catalogue as far as possible. I now turn to "page 346" to see what has particularly distressed D. Y. C. in the Section New England. As I am not a resident of New York and cannot consult the shelves of the Mercantile Library, I must guess out an answer by the aid only of the classified index. Well then I conjecture that Pierce is an ancient history of the early years of New England; that Barber includes more or later events; that Mather's Magnolia may not be a systematic history but certain interesting events of olden time; the Leaves of Margaret Smith ditto; the Terror of the Lord, a particular event of old date; Trumbull's Indian Wars may come down later; Farmer's Genealogy, and Morton's Memorial may be rather biography than history; the four next works specting some particular work whether it was in the library or not. Hoping that D. Y. C. will be satisfied with this hasty and necessarily imperfect ex planation, I remain His obedient servant, Meaning of the word PROC. I. F. H. In your "Notes and Queries," will you ask for a clear exposition of the fallacy contained in the puzzle first propounded by Zeno, in which Archilles and a tortoise are made to : an a race. "A tortoise is a mile before Achilles; Achilles runs a hundred times faster than the tortoise, yet he will never overtake it: because," says Zeno, "when Achilles has run the mile, the tortoise will have moved forward the hundredth part of a mile; and when Achilles has run the said hundredth part of a mile, the tortoise has moved forward the ten thousandth part of a mile; so that it is not yet overtaken. In the same manner, whilst Achilles passes over the ten thousandth part of a mile, the tortoise moves on the millionth part of a mile, and is not yet overtaken; and so on, ad infinitum." Dr. Whately says, that "this example furnishes a confirmation of the utility of an acquaintance with the Syllogistic form; in which form, the pretended demonstration cannot possibly be exhibited." Does he mean that it cannot be exhibited in the form of three propositions corresponding with the Major, Minor, and conclusion of a Syllogism? A. B. Johnson, in his "TREATISE ON LANGUAGE," from which I have copied the paradox, gives a very ingenious solution of the difficulty. Is his the correct solution? If not, will some one show in what it is defective. M. G. P. Tuskaloosa, April 7th, 1855. What is the title, or who is the author of a volditto; Examination of Claims to Commercial Pre-ume, labelled by the binder, "Poems and Translaeminence may be a mixture of argument and histo- tions from Schiller?" It is 8vo. and has pp. 346. ry; Whittier's Legends may be not so much history The first piece is "Lines to the First Anniversary of as illustration of the customs and habits of our fore-Waterloo." The beauty of a translation of the fathers, while the remaining three works may re"Chime of the Bell," contained therein, suggests late to the present state of New England. This is the query. The title page has been lost, and there the best defence I can make at a short notice and is no other mark that can direct to the author. The at a distance from the Library; and if D. Y. C. paper and type are indicative of an English press. shall prove by analysis of the works themselves that Who was the author, or who were the authors of it is in some respects incorrect, it will only illus-"Gespräche in dem Reiche der Todten," 17 vols. taate what I was going to add that the scheme of 4to. Leipzig 1720-40? The work contains "240 putting every book between the two that it most re-entrevuen." Each has a separate title and was pubsembles, is, in its perfection beyond the reach of finite wisdom, and I would only say to D. Y. C. "Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti; si non, his utere mecum." I do not see what would have been gained by an alphabetical arrangement of these 17 works or an arrangement according to the chronological order (of their publication;) for these two facts have no more to do with the nature of their contents than the names of their publishers have. Of one thing I am persuaded, that the body of the book ought to have been classified; and then a lished separately. There is also a good copperplate frontispiece to each interview; giving portraits of the heroes and heroines, and remarkable incidents in their history. Parts have passed to the fourth edition. The extent of the work, if nothing else, might make it worthy of note. It averages 1000 pp. in each volume, and was ten years publishing. Who wrote this distich? "No pent up Utica contracts your powers, It may be found in an Epilogue to Addison's Cato, as published in the "Columbian Orator." It has been attributed to Robert Treat Paine. But upon what evidence? For it is not in the copy of his works to which I have access. Please correct the public, in their mutilation of this quotation from Nat. Lee's "Alexander the Great." "When Greeks join'd Greeks, then was the tug of war!" C. St. Louis, 9th April, 1855. Literary Intelligence. Dr. Rufus W. Griswold, whose "Republican Court, or American Society in the Days of Washington," has been the most successful book of the last year, is preparing a work of greater interest, and which will be issued in still more magnificent style, illustrative of the colonial, provincial, and revolutionary history of this country. It will make a superb quarto, and will contain twenty-six portraits of characters celebrated in our social annals before the inauguration of the constitutional government, among which will be those of Mrs. Franklin, Mrs. John Hancock, Mrs. Robert Morris, Mrs. Arthur Middleton, Lady Temple, Mrs. Rutledge, Mrs. Livingston, the celebrated beauty, Miss Vining, &c. &c. &c. The materials for the forthcoming work are far more attractive, various, and abundant than those used in the composition of "The Republican Court;" and it is anticipated that the new volume will be even more successful than that. Judge Wm. Kent has received notice of his appointment as editor of the proposed collection of the New York Municipal Ordinances. No such re vision or collection has been made since 1845. The Corporation Counsel has been for two years at work on a compilation of the laws of the State referring to the city. It will contain some 1,100 pages, of which 500 are already in type. Mr. Holbrook, the special Post Office Agent, proposes to publish a volume of his adventures among the mail robbers, which will detail many curious frauds and incidents, and is designed for the use and information of all connected with the mail service. The METHODIST BOOK CONCERN of the Southern Church have in press, the Life and Correspondence of Hester Ann Rogers; Treffrey's Treatise on Prayer; Father Reeves, the Model Class Leader; The Hebrew Missionary, a new work by Rev. J. Cross, D. D., consisting of essays on the Book of Jonah; Way-side Flowerets, by Mrs. Jane T. H. Cross; Methodism, or Christianity in Earnest. The last three volumes are original. GOULD & LINCOLN have an important work in press, from the pen of the Rev. Dr. Harris, being the third of his "Contributions to Theological Science," and is entitled "Patriarchy; or, the Family, its Constitution and Probation." This will be issued from the advanced sheets. They will also publish the Crimea, its Towns, Inhabitants, and Social Customs," by a Lady resident near the Alma. J. P. JEWETT & Co. are about to re-publish Margaret Fuller Orsoli's "Woman in the 19th Century," edited from her MSS. (many of these papers not having been previously published), by Rev. A. B. Fuller and Horace Greeley. The title of Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie's new book announced by TICKNOR & FIELDS, is "Mimic Life; or, Before and Behind the Curtain." Another interesting work to be issued by the same firm, is "Excerpts from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor," in 2 vols.; also, "The School of Life," a novel by Anna Mary Howitt; Land, Labor, and Gold, a narrative of Travels in Australia, by Wm. Howitt; and "De Quincey's Note Book." Rev. C. Kingsley's Poems are to be prepared for the American press by the author himself. JAMES MUNROE & Co. have in press "Zornlin's Physical Geography," for the use of families and schools, a popular illustrated manual revised by Wm. L. Gage. sion of their business, on a very large scale. This moirs of the Court and Cabinets of George III." firm intend to occupy a commodious suit of ware- from original Family Documents, comprising the houses on Franklin Square, Pearl street, New York, period from 1800 to 1810," and completing the where they will shortly commence business, having work; "The Memoirs of Lieutenant Bellot, with made arrangements with the Messrs. Harpers to his Journal of a Voyage in the Polar Seas in search fill all orders sent to that firm for books not included of Sir John Franklin;" a new work by Mr. Leigh in their catalogues. They will continue their Bos- Hunt; "The Monarchs of the Main," by Mr. ton house as usual, where Mr. R. N. Price, the George W. Thornbury; "My Travels, or an Unjunior partner, will remain. sentimental Journey through France, Switzerland, and Italy," by Capt. Chamier; also, new novels by Mrs. Trollope, the author of "Emilia Wyndham," Mrs. Maberly, the author of "Temptation," and the author of "Singleton Fontenoy." The Portland Advertiser says that Ex-Governor Crosby, of Maine, is about removing to Boston to become connected with the editorial department of Littell's Living Age. Washington Irving is fast recovering from the LITTLE, BROWN & Co. will shortly publish the "Decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States, with Notes and a Digest," by Hon. B. R. Curtis. This edition will bring down the work to the close of 1854, and will be embraced in 18 vols. J. C. DERBY will issue a new companion for sum-effects of the serious accident which he met with a mer travel, entitled, "Country Margins," the joint little time since having been thrown from his production of S. H. Hammond and the author of horse and severely injured. "Up Country Letters." APPLETONS have in preparation a Cyclopædia of Classical Antiquity, being a translation, with additions, from the great work of Dr. F. Leubner, entitled, "Real Lexicon of Classical Antiquity." Mr. ROORBACH'S "Bibliotheca Americana," revised and enlarged, is just ready for publication. WM. S. & ALFRED MARTIEN, have in press an edition of the Bible on minion type, and 24mo. size. It will be printed on very fine white paper, and will compare favorably with the Oxford edition, of which it is a copy. It will combine a large type with a convenient and portable form. It will be issued in May. H. C. BAIRD announces, "The Women of the French Revolution," by J. Michelet. Translated from the French, in one duodecimo volume. This will prove to be one of the most interesting and attractive works of its distinguished author. Also, "The American Miller and Millwright's Assistant," by Wm. C. Hughes. A greatly improved edition, with additional engravings. WM. WHITE SMITH, Philadelphia, has in press, "The Match Girl; or, Life Scenes as they Are," with original designs. 12mo., to be ready in June. "The Prophets; or, Mormonism Unveiled," with illustrations. 12mo. Ready in June. ELLIOTT & GIHON, Phila., have in preparation a new political work entitled "The Origin and Progress of the American Party in Politics," embracing a History of the Philadelphia Riots, by J. H. Lee. WHILT & YOST, Phila., have in press a large edition of a popular work entitled "One of the First Families of Philadelphia," to be issued in one duodecimo volume. PECK & BLISS, of Phila., are preparing a quarto edition of the Bible, printed by the Electrotype process. The sheets sent to us for examination, have a very beautiful appearance, and the complete work will retail for about twenty-five dollars. It will contain all the late corrections made by the Bible Society, and is announced for August or September next. By a recent decision of the Postmaster General, all envelopes printed upon with the address of the party sending, will be charged one cent additional postage if unsealed and enclosing other matter. E. DARROW & BROTHER, Publishers and Booksellers, of Rochester, have removed to No. 65 Main street, having opened a spacious store where they will have ample facilities for conducting both their wholesale and retail business. KINGSLEY & Co.'s Express Establishment, so favorably known among the booksellers of this city, has been removed to the new marble building No. 72 Broadway. Rev. John Pierpont has just delivered his eightieth lecture of the present season, having traveled upwards of 12,000 miles to meet his literary engage The premium of $200, offered by Mr. Thomas Boardman, of Fall River, for the best tract upon "the scriptural and political remedy for the North in the present crisis on slavery," has been awarded equally to three clergymen, viz: Rev. S. Harris, of Pittsfield; Rev. S. B. Goodenow, of Warwick, R. I.; and Rev. E. E. Hale, of Worcester. The Sparrow-Grass Papers, in Putnam's Magazine, are said to be written by Frederic S. Cozzens, Esq., of New York. The original charter of the city of Albany, granted by Queen Anne through Col. James Dongan, then Governor of the State, has been found among the rubbish of the house lately occupied by Mrs. Van Rensalær, deceased. Mrs. Southworth's story of the "Lost Heiress" has been reprinted by a London Journal, under an assumed name, and was copied from thence by some New York papers. The American publisher has obtained an injunction on the further issue. Mr. S. HASTINGS GRANT, Librarian of the Mercantile Library Association of New York, has just sailed for Europe, for the purpose of visiting the Public Libraries and Educational Institutions of England, France, Germany, &c. ENGLISH. Messrs. LONGMAN & Co. announce as nearly ready for publication, "The Unity of Worlds and the Philosophy of Creation," by the Rev. B. Powell, M. A.; "The Phasis of Matter, or the Discoveries and Applications of Modern Chemistry," by T. Lindley Kemp, M. D.; "Commentaries on the Productive Forces of Russia," by M. L. De Tengoborski, Privy-Councillor of the Russian Empire, vol. 1; "The Christ of History, an Argument grounded in the Facts of his Life on Earth," by the Rev. John Young; "Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social," by W. J. Conybeare, M. A., and "Land, Labor, and Gold, or Two Years in Victoria, with Visits to Sydney and Van Diemen's Land," by William Howitt, in 2 vols.; "A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada, in the Summer of 1854," by C. R. Weld, Esq. In Mr. MURRAY's new list are announced, "A History of Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire," by H. G. Liddell, and "Caravan Journeys and Wanderings in Persia, Afghanistan, Turkistan, and Beloochistan," by J. P. Ferrier, translated from the original MSS. by Capt. W. Jesse. The first volume of Dr. Rogers' Modern Scottish Ballads," a work very carefully edited, is in press by Messrs. Black, of Edinburgh. "The Principles of Psychology," an important work by Herbert Spencer, is in course of publication. Mr. HUNTLEY GORDON, Sir Walter Scott's amanuensis, after examining fac similes of the letter to Mr. Spencer, which is said to have accompanied the pretended MSS. of Sir Walter, states that it is such a dexterous imitation of Scott's handwriting, that "Moredun" must be well worth reading, if the style and sentiments have as striking an air of vraisemblance as this letter. He yet believes that the MSS. will not bear a close examination. The Athenæum of 7th ult., contains a communication which gives a more accurate list of the New York Journals, and a more correct view of the operations of the News department by the "Associated Over 100,000 copies of "Barnum's Autobio Press," than we have hitherto seen in an English graphy," have been sold in England. journal. The new Newspaper Stamp Act continues Mr. BENTLEY, the eminent London publisher, has to occupy the attention of journalists and the pubyielded to the pressure of the times. The business lic generally in England. will probably be continued for the benefit of the creditors. Bentley's Miscellany, the sale of which had declined as low as 500 a month, has been purchased by Mr. Ainsworth, who is now proprietor and editor of three periodicals, viz.: the New Monthly, Ainsworth's and Bentley's. Mr. CROKER'S long-promised edition of Pope's works has been again delayed in consequence of Pope's correspondence with David Mallett, Lord Bathurst, and Dr. Arbuthnot, having fallen into the editor's hands. PARKER & SON announce, "The Lands of the Slave and the Free; or, Travels in Cuba, the United States, and Canada," by Hon. Henry A. Murray, of the Royal Navy. In two volumes. The Boston Traveller states that W. P. Fetridge HURST & BLACKETT have in press the third and & Co., of Boston, are about undertaking an exten-fourth volumes of the Duke of Buckingham's "Me FOREIGN. M. POUNSARD, author of "Luciece," "Charlotte Corday," &c., has been elected a member of the French Academy, in the place of M. BaourLorinian. A curious trial is now going on in the city of Weimar, the capital of the Grand Duchy, where Schiller, Goethe, and Wieland so long resided. Some shrewd penman has succeeded in imitating the handwriting of Schiller so exactly that none but the most skillful eye can detect the forgery. The Royal Family, of Prussia, purchased, it is said, for four thousand thalers, a collection of what purported to be the manuscripts of Schiller, but are now clearly proved to be merely the works of the forger. Even the heirs of Schiller, who yet live, were so deceived that they have also purchased largely of these pretended autographs. Such knavery is almost equal to Barnum's, there being this difference, that German laws do not permit such "humbug," and the offender is sure to meet his merited punishment. 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