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condition can be improved except by becoming in the United States; 13 members of the Cabinet; 12
fact what they are in theory-free from sectarian Foreign Ministers; 32 Chief Justices of particular
control." The report also gives some account of States; 30 Judges of particular States; 29 Govern-
the condition of the college financially. The prop-ors of States; 82 Presidents of Colleges; 7 Vice
erty is worth about $1,000,000, and the annual Presidents of Colleges; 74 Professors in Colleges;
expenses of the institution have exceeded the re- and 5 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church-
ceipts from the legitimate sources of income about Clagget, Hobart, Meade, Johns, and M'Ilvaine.
$13,000 annually.
Of the clerical graduates 305 are still living, of
GENESEE COLLEGE, at Lima, N. Y., has, at whom 265 belong to the Old School, and 25 to the
present, 49 students.

Rev. William L. Curtis, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has been appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy and College Pastor of HAMILTON COLLEGE, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the decease of the Rev. John Humphrey.

UNION COLLEGE, at Schenectady, N. Y., has 227

students.

Rev. Edwin Hall, D. D., of Norwalk, Conn., has accepted the call to the Professorship of Theology in AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. Confident hopes are also indulged that Rev. Dr. J. B. Condit will take the Rhetorical Chair, to which he has been invited.

The recent disastrous fire at PRINCETON COLLEGE, which destroyed that ancient and venerable building, "Nassau Hall," or the "Old North," has been the occasion of sincere regrets to all those who have looked upon the old walls, so sacred in their associations. The Newark Advertiser says:

"Human enterprise will replace the sacred old pile with a more modern, more spacious, and, perhaps, more beautiful structure; but what energy, what money can restore those hard old timbers, carved all over with names now illustrious in our country's history, and walls covered with charcoal sketches the first efforts of their graphic skill. These were the results of mischief then, but now, the records of their youthful impulse, round which the best affections of riper years cluster as round the sacred relics of the family altar.

The Old North College was the original structure, built in

1756-nearly a century ago-and formed the nucleus round which gathered the numerous other buildings which have sprung up with the continued growth of the institution. It was 176 feet long by 50 wide, and four stories high, surmounted by a belfry, and containing students' rooms, and the old chapel, which had recently been converted into a picture gallery-the contents of which, we are glad to learn, were saved through the energy of the faculty. Previous to the battle of Princeton it was occupied by the British troops as their barracks, and the basement they used as stables. It was afterwards regained by the American soldiery, and during the struggle a cannon-ball from the American ranks passed through the walls and destroyed a portrait of King George II, which adorned the chapel; but the frame, which was uninjured, was subsequently filled with a full length portrait of Washington, painted by the elder Peale. It is stated that Washington, after the battle, made the trustees a present of fifty guineas to repair the damage sustained by the fire of his troops, and this sum they expended in procuring his portrait, which, among the other relics of the chapel, was saved.

This building was almost destroyed in a similar manner on the 5th of March, 1802. The substantial walls, however, resisted the flames, as they have done in this instance. The present fire appears to have resulted from the carelessness of one of the students; but the regular exercises of the institu

tion will not be interrupted."

New School Presbyterian Church.

each Professor meeting all once a day-instead of dividing the pupils into separate classes. This is also the plan of the Aberdeen school of the Free Church of Scotland.

The annual tax for the support of PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN OHIO is $2,843,598. This state has 11,661 schools, with 12,886 teachers, and 484,158 scholars. It has also 206 Academies, with 474 teachers, and 15,052 pupils. Besides these, there are 26 Colleges, with 180 teachers, and 3,621 students. This is a proportion of 1 to every 550 of the population, in college; 1 to every 180 in an academy; and 1 to every 4 in In MARIETTA COLLEGE, Marietta, O., there are

school.

A STATE NORMAL SCHOOL is about to be established in New Jersey, the Legislature having appropriated $10,000 per annum for five years. The number of pupils is not to exceed 240; or, in the proportion of three for each member of the Senate and Assem-sixty-two under-graduates. bly, from each county. A Model Public School will also be constructed, in which the pupils of the Normal School will have opportunity to practice the art of teaching.

The number of pupils in the PHILADELPHIA NORMAL SCHOOL for females is 210. The Principal of this school is Mr. A. T. W. Wright.

A bill has passed the Legislature of Michigan, requiring the Board of Regents of the MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY to establish a chair of Homoeopathy in

that institution.

Thirty thousand dollars has been raised in the Universalist denomination towards the establishment of a new college at Salisbury, Illinois.

The Rev. L. L. Hamline, late Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church, has given $25,000 towards a college at Red Wing, Minnesota, to be called the HAMLINE UNIVERSITY.

APPLETON UNIVERSITY has been located by the The annual report of Mr. C. A. Black, Superin- Methodist denomination at Appleton, on the Neetendent of the PENNSYLVANIA COMMON SCHOOLS, re-nah river, on the northern limit of the inhabited marks particularly upon the scarcity of well quali-district, but not far from Wisconsin's geographical fied teachers, and recommends the increase of center. The Appletons and Lawrences, of Boston, salaries. The date of the last official recapitula-have lavished endowments upon it. tion was June 1st, 1853, the whole number of scholars at that date being 474,555, and the cost of teaching each scholar per month being 43 cents. The thirty-sixth annual report of the Comptrollers of the PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PHILADELPHIA has just CALIFORNIA has the most munificent school fund been issued. There are now in that city 288 pub- of any State in the world. Gov. Bigler, in a late lic schools, 876 teachers, and 52,078 pupils. The message, states that the unsold lands, if disposed of whole expenditure for the last eighteen months has at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, will been $685,079. The average annual cost of teach-yield to the school fund the sum of $8,726,555, which will furnish $643,000 to be applied annually ing each pupil amounts to 88 79. The whole number of students in the UNIVERSITY for educational purposes. Mr. Paul K. Hubbs, SuoF PENNSYLVANIA is 814, four hundred and twenty-perintendent of Public Instruction, reports the six of whom are in the Medical Department. The number of children in the State, as per district reCollegiate Department has 94 pupils. turns, to be 18,649, 8,282 of whom are in San Francisco. The whole amount of the school fund apportioned on the 1st of January, 1855, among the various counties, was $38,087 62.

From the seventh annual report of the GIRARD COLLEGE FOR ORPHANS, it appears that there are 804 pupils who are receiving the benefits of that institution. Of these, 285 were born in the city of Philadelphia.

Rev. Drury Lacy, D. D., of Raleigh, N. C., has | been elected President of DAVIDSON COLLEGE, N. C. Major J. A. Leland, son of Dr. Leland of the Theological Seminary at Columbia, has been chosen Professor in the same Institution.

There are at present 195 students in the SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. The necessary expenses of each student amount to about $250 per annum.

The GREENVILLE BAPTIST FEMALE COLLEGE is to be organized about the commencement of the next

year.

The annual report of the Superintendent of common schools in MISSOURI shows that within sixtyfive counties there are about 200,000 children between five and twenty years of age; of this number 67,000 were taught within the past year, at an aggregate cost of $240,000; the average number attending school the whole time being only 20,000. In St. Louis county, the whole number taught the past year was 8,500, but the average attendance during the whole term was only 865. The report draws a sad picture of the "district school-houses," describing them as "ten by twelve log-cabins, with one oblong window; low, dismal, dreary things, the very appearance of which is sufficient to produce fever and ague."

The New York Times has had several communications presenting interesting facts from the last U. S. census, from which we gather some statistics as to the foundation of colleges in our country. The number founded previous to 1700, was three; from that period to 1750, one; between 1750 and 1800, twenty-four; between 1800 and 1820, twentyfive; between 1820 and 1840, one hundred; between 1840 and 1855, eighty-six. Of these, two hundred and thirty-nine institutions, 40 of the colleges, and 17 of the theological seminaries, are under the influence of the Presbyterian denomination; 26 under the care of the Baptists; 17 Congregational; 36 Roman Catholic; 16 Methodist; and 25 unsectarian. The compiler of these facts thinks that a more truly American college is needed, with five classes instead of four, and that it should teach the whole scientific structure and functions of the developed physical creation, the philosophy of language and history, the structure and functions of American government, the science of society, and the metaphysics of the New Testament.

In the celebrated bronze foundry at Munich, is now to be seen a noble statue of Beethoven, designed by Crawford, and intended for the city of Boston.

The building was insured for about $12,000, and the loss will be about that amount additional. The triennial catalogue of this institution has just been published by Prof. G. M. Giger, who is particularly desirous of obtaining further information respecting the Alumni of the college. The whole number of graduates has been 8,890; of whom 2,028 are still living; whole number of clergymen graduated, 688. The first class, that of 1748, contained six members, of whom five became clergymen; the In the Theological Department of CENTRE COLsixth was a signer of the Declaration of Independ- LEGE, Danville, Ky., some novelties in the mode of ence. Among the graduates have been the fol- teaching have been adopted. With the exception lowing one President and two Vice Presidents of of Hebrew, all the students are taught in one class- man.

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Notes and Queries.

Christian Examiner.

MR. EDITOR: In the notice of this periodical published in the last volume of your journal, (p. 577,) | no mention was made of the first two series of the work. It was begun in May, 1813, under the title of The Christian Disciple, and eleven volumes were published bearing that name.

The first series consisted of 6 vols., issued monthly between May, 1813, and December, 1818, inclusive. The first volume, containing eight numbers, closed with 1813, and the subsequent volumes began and ended with the year. Each number contained 32 pages. This series was edited by the Rev. Noah Worcester, D. D.

The second series, which bore the title of The Christian Disciple and Theological Review, consisted of five annual volumes, (vol. 1—5 new series,) not numbered continuously with the first series. The numbers contained 80 pages each, and were issued once in two months during the years 1819-1823, inclusive.

At the beginning of 1824 the title of the work was changed to The Christian Examiner and Theological Review, but its form and character remained unaltered. At this time a new series was commenced, not numbered consecutively with the preceding. With the number for March, 1829, the title was again changed to The Christian Examiner and General Review. In January, 1844, the "Monthly Miscellany" was united with it, and it then took its present name, The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany.

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Eulogies on Daniel Webster. A correspondent in Germany informs us that a discourse, commemorative of Daniel Webster, was delivered before a large German audience in Berlin, on the 12th of March, 1853, by Dr. F. A. Marcker, a Professor in the University of that city.

Hon. D. D. Barnard, late Minister of the United States in Prussia, also delivered a eulogy upon Mr. Webster, at Paris, on the 16th November, 1852, before an assembly of American citizens.

The two following discourses must therefore be added to the list published by us on the 15th January:

No. Author. Where Deliv'd. Date. Pages. 53. Hon. D. D. Barnard, Paris, France, Nov. 16, '52.

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amusing statements which occur in the Encyclopa- A. Goodrich. Hartford, 1829." The stories are dia of Geography, a ponderous 8vo. of 1600 pages, edited by Hugh Murray, F. R. S. E., assisted by Professors Wallace and Jameson, of the University of Edinburgh, and Professor Hooker, of the University of Glasgow, and Mr. Swainson, F. R. S. and F. L. S., and published in Edinburgh:

"The United States territory is separated from Canada by the St. Lawrence River." (p. 1827.) "New England, now the most flourishing of the States," &c. (p. 1837.)

given in chronological order, commencing with Hooker's journey through the wilderness and arrival at Hartford, and ending with the burning of New London, by Arnold, in 1781. The second edition was published in 1833, with a much longer and more attractive title.

For some reason this little book is exceedingly scarce. About five or six years ago the British Museum advertised for a copy, (by their agent in this country,) and, as I was informed, without success. "The President continues in office four years, The author is a brother of S. G. Goodrich, (Peter and may be re-elected. But this has not taken place | Parley,) and, at about the same period, wrote "Stowith any except Washington." (p.1388.) ries about Captain John Smith," "about Frank"The general aspect of the Eastern States is that lin," "about Lafayette," "about Putnam," and of an unbounded forest." (p. 1340.) others, all illustrated with cuts. Hartford, March 14th, 1855.

"The rivers running across the Eastern States have been united at different points, and it is expected that a continued interior line from North to South will be ultimately formed." (The writer is speaking of canals. p. 1342.)

"Dr. Franklin, once on a journey, judged it wise to bear upon his person a label, expressing his name, his business, whence he came, and whither he was going." (p. 1343.)

"There are twenty-five colleges and seventy-four academies under the patronage of the general legislature, and a national university has been planned." (p. 1344.)

"Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, of the State of New England, and, until lately, of the whole Union, is built on a peninsula." "East Boston, where all the business is carried on, consists of a number of narrow streets and alleys," &c. (P.

1346.)

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Mr. EDITOR: A recent number of your Gazette contained a notice of the death, at Kennebunk, Maine, of Madam Sally S. Wood, "the first authoress in

54. Dr. F. A. Marcker, Berlin, Prussia, March 12, 53, 48. Maine." Cannot some reader of the Gazette impart

Major Andre as a Writer.

MR. EDITOR: A gentleman of this city bought at an auction, last week, a volume of old newspapers, which proved to be a great rarity as well as a great curiosity. It was Rivington's New York Gazette for the year 1780, while the British had possession of that city. Among the many curious things contained in this volume are several communications from the pen of the unfortunate Major Andre. In this paper appeared originally his celebrated poem, "The Cow Chase," in which he lampooned the American officers in general and Gen. Wayne in particular, closing his Poem with these oft quoted

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more minute information respecting this lady's life and literary labors?

Mass., April 3, 1855.

Proc.

W.

What is the meaning of this word? It was used a century ago in connection with the currency "He gave £50 proc."

MR. EDITOR: In the Gazette for January 15, the article on A. de Gerando, from the Christian Ecaminer, is said to be by M. Lowell Putnam, Esq.; in the last number, p. 125, it is said to be by Mr. Lowell Putnam. Were not these articles written by Mrs. Putnam, who has written so ably on Hungarian history, in opposition to the late Editor of the North American Review?

REPLIES TO QUERIES.

Child's History of Connecticut.

D. Y. C.

Auction Sales.

B.

The INGRAHAM SALE was attended by a great number of literary men, from all parts of the country, probably the largest collection of oldbook buyers which has been gathered on a like occasion since the celebrated sale of Dr. Jarvis' library. Dr. Cogswell, of New York; Dr. Griswold, the author; Burnham, of Boston; J. Russell Bartlett, of Providence; E. B. Corwin, of New York, and other eminent Bibliographers, attended the sale in person, and a great many others were represented by Mr. Norton, Mr. Randolph, of Virginia, &c.

The Sales-room was thronged for a week previous to the day of sale, by those who were seeking after the curious and scarce, and the bidding was unusually exciting.

The catalogue, which was made out in a very loose and unsatisfactory manner, embraced 6,700 articles, and there were probably some 7,000 separate works, including at least, 25,000 volumes. In standard English literature, works of the Drama and Facetiæ, scarce volumes of American History and Biography, and in the department of Bibliography, Belles Lettres, and Lexicography, the library of Mr. Ingraham was especially rich and valuable. What rendered this collection peculiarly interesting and important, is the fact that an immense number of these volumes were accompanied by autographs of distinguished individuals and by cuttings from newspapers, letters, and other curious memoranda. The value of the various works

could only be ascertained, however, by personal examination, on account of the defectiveness of the catalogue, which left out many important items, and it is probable that, notwithstanding the high prices which were brought, the library would have sold for still higher prices if the books had been properly classified and catalogued.

The first work which excited spirited bidding was No. 11, Metcalf's Indian Narratives, which sold for $5 25.

No. 61. One vol., lettered "curious pamphlets," contained 23 pamphlets, printed in Philadelphia

The title of the first edition of this little book is from 1754 to 1765, and included a series of fourteen as follows: "Stories from the History of Connecti-tracts relating to the "Paxton Boys" insurrection. cut, designed for the instruction and amusement of This sold for $13, and went to Hartford. young persons. With engravings. By Rev. Charles

No. 69. Drayton's South Carolina, 2 vols.

No. 87. Ray's Stamp Act, N. Y., 1776, sold for work bears date at Wormsloe, 1851. Bought by $8. Went to Providence. Mr. Norton.

No. 127. Gov. Pownall's Administration of the Colonies, Svo., was Dr. Franklin's copy, with the author's autograph, and brought $19. This was bought by Mr. Norton for a gentleman of Georgia. No. 108. Bland Papers and Breckenridge Insurrection-autograph letters. $10.

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No. 8719. Pamphlets on American Colonial Affairs. $14 50.

No. 1487. Pennsylvania Chronicle, from Jan. The most remarkable and unique production 1767 to Jan. 1768. $10. in the collection was entitled "A Historical No. 1508. Pamphlet-personal and pugnacious-Sketch of the Continental Bills of Credit, from being a reply of Gen. Cadwallader to Wm. B. Reed. the year 1775 to 1781, with Specimens Thereof. $10. Bought by Mr. Griswold. By Samuel Breck, Esq. Written for the American Philosophical Society." This elaborate and very interesting essay, was transcribed in a careful handwriting, by Mr. Ingraham, from the author's MS., No. 1478. Congressional Globe, from 1847 to and he added to it numerous notes, newspaper cut. 1858. 12 vols. large 4to. $24.

No. 1653. Coxe's History of the Carolinas, with No. 284. Romans' History of Florida; New York, Southey's autograph. $5. London, 1727. Bought 1775. $9 50. by C. B. Norton.

No. 267. Bouquet's Expedition Against the Ohio Indians, Philadelphia, 1764, with an autograph letter. $83.

No. 282. Sparks' Franklin, large paper copy, 10 vols., with package of cuttings, autograph letters, &c. $61 20. Boston 1840.

Franklin's Pocket Almanac. The original editions; from 1742 to 1758, and 1764, '5, and '6, small 4to., $52. Each leaf was inserted in writing paper, and it was embellished with fine portraits. An exceedingly scarce collection, bought by a gentleman of New York.

No. 235. Call to Unfaithful Professors. By John Estaugh. 16mo.; a beautiful little volume printed by Franklin, brought $8 50.

No. 1702. Clarkson's Life of Wm. Penn. Autograph of Penn inserted with portraits. London 1818. $6.

tings, and other illustrations, with a vast number of specimens of old continental money, neatly mounted-being an accumulation of more than twenty years by Mr Ingraham; and the whole is No. 2109. Dibdin's Tour in France and Ger- superbly bound in yellow morocco, with gilt edges. many. 4 vols., roy. 8vo. $28. London, 1821. The frontispiece is a fine copy of Welch's engravNo. 2110. Dibdin's Antiquarian Tour in Eng-ing, after Pine, of the portrait of Robert Morris. land and Scotland, 2 vols., roy. Svo. $11. London, This sold for $105. 1888.

No. 2111. Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron, 8 vols., roy. 8vo. $30. London, 1817. No. 2112 Dibdin's Bibliomania, roy. 8vo. $3 25. London, 1842.

Bangs, Brother & Co. have sent us a catalogue of 4,500 volumes of miscellaneous books, chiefly European editions, to be sold at auction, on Tuesday evening, April 25th, and the four following evenings; comprising works on Theology, History, a No. 2118. Hogarth's Works, folio. Sold at the considerable number of Political works, and numerous curious and rare books. Mr. C. B. Norton will execute any orders which may be sent to him.

No. 286. Whitefield's Journal. Printed by Frank- low price of $28. lin. $11 50.

No. 296. Cicero's Cato Major. Printed by Franklin. $21. A small volume about six inches square, with Franklin's autograph, printed in 1744. No. 276. Almon's American Remembrancer, from 1775 to 1784, 17 vols., containing valuable Revolutionary details. Sold for $119.

No. 277. Journals of Congress, containing proceedings from 1774 to 1788, with autograph letter of John Hancock, and portraits. 13 vols. Went to Providence. $32 50.

No. 359. Cheetham's Life of Tom Paine, with autograph letters and portraits. $5 50.

No. 874. John Randolph's Letters, Autographs, Portraits, &c. 8vo. $41. Bought by Mr. Norton for a Southern gentleman.

No. 414. Wm. Penn's Great Love of Liberty of Conscience. London 1670. $42 50. A presentation copy from Penn, with his Autograph, with other pamphlets.

No. 509. Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette. 1

vol., 1789 to 1742. $30. Bought by Burnham, of

Boston.

No. 891. Sixteen old American Almanacs, by Birkett, Poor Will, Tobler, and Weatherwise, 1770 to 1779. $17 50.

No. 905. Folio Edition of Shakspeare. London, 1623. A reprint from the original edition. $15. No. 1225. Meyrick's Ancient Armour. A splendid work, illustrated, 8 vols., imp. 4to. London, 1824. $46 50.

No. 1226. Meyrick's Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Armour, 2 vols. London, 1880. $26.

No. 2125. McKenney's Indian Tribes, 8 vols., folio. $42. Philadelphia, 1836. No. 2132. Lord Herbert of Cherbury's Life, small quarto. $6 50. Strawberry Hill, 1764. No. 2197. Spencer's Works, the folio edition of 1611, superbly bound, with the autograph of Ritson, brought but $6 50.

No. 2265. One volume of this lot contained a series of pamphlets relating to the "Paxton Boys," (in continuation of those in lot 61,) and several on the Cherokee war of 1760. 5 volumes, $20.

No. 2278. Hamilton's Life, with autograph letter, 2 vols., 8vo. $12. New York, 1834. No. 2384. Mayster Alexis' Sonnets, black letter. London, 1559. $5 75.

Literary Intelligence.

AMERICAN.

Dr. George Osgood, of Danvers Plains, is preparing to publish a history of that portion of Danvers.

Hildreth is about to continue his history of the United States down to the end of Fillmore's Administration.

The Boston Transcript states that Mr. Geo. H. Boker, the author of several very successful plays, written for the American stage, has been, No. 2472. Richardson's English Dictionary, 2 for some time past, suffering from a painful vols. $18. Philadelphia, 1846.

affliction of the eyes, which has completely prevented him from engaging in any thing like systematic literary labor.

No. 2708. Walton and Cotton's Angler, large paper copy, 2 vols. 4to. London, 1836. $20. No. 2780. Catalogue of the private library of Dr. Ives, formerly Bishop in the Protestant Miss - of Eshton Hall, England, 1 vol., brought $17. A beautifully printed volume, of Episcopal Church, is not in a state of poverty, as which only 100 copies were printed by the accom-represented in the daily journals, but is now Professor of Rhetoric in the Roman Catholic plished collector.

No. 2958. A description of Strawberry Hill, 1784. $8 50. Curious cuttings inserted, 4to. No. 2974. Jackson's Treatise on Wood Engraving, 8vo., with third preface. London, 1839. $8. No. 2988. Singer's History of Playing Cards. 4to, autograph letter. London, 1816. $8. No. 8049. The Oxford Sausage, roy. 8vo. London, 1814. $5 12.

No. 8097. Sprigge's England's Recovery, 8vo., The two above were bought by Mr. Burnham, of London, 1674, with the book plate and autograph

Boston.

of Sir Thomas Fairfax, many portraits and autographs of John Locke, brought only $3 75.

No. 1227. The Ireland Forgeries, 4to. $10. No. 1816. Scarce old pamphlets, 5 vols., 8vo. No. 8112. An Address to Protestants, with $17 50. Wiliam Penn's Autograph. $17. Small 4to., No. 1820. Memoirs of the Kit Cat Club, with printed in 1679; a presentation copy. 48 portraits. $6 50. No. 1821. Old pamphlets, American, 10 vols.

8vo. $23 80.

No. 1394. Birch's Heads of Illustrious Men of Great Britain, folio. London, 1813. $13.

No. 1419. Barclay's Apology for the Quakers, large paper copy, 4to. $4.

No. 8465. Selections from Madison's Correspondence, 4to. $7. 4to. large paper copy privately printed.

No. 3585. De Brahm's Georgia, folio, pp. 55. Wormsloe, 1849. Brought $75.

No. 3586. Observations on Georgia, 4to. pp. 14. Wormsloe, 1847. $20. These two last were priNo. 1435. The Diary of Col. Winthrop Sargeant, vately printed-only 49 copies being printed. a folio volume of 58 pages, brought $80. Only 46 No. 8622. Scarce tracts. Three published by copies of this book were printed, by a wealthy Franklin, one by Bradford. 12mo. Philadelphia, Southern gentleman for private circulation. The 745, &c. Sold to Mr. Burnham for $6.

Seminary at Fordham, and Lecturer in the neighboring convents.

Mr. Jared M. Hurd, of the Divinity School at Cambridge, has been appointed Secretary of the Sunday School Society-the same office to which the Rev. F. T. Gray was elected. Mr. Hurd is a graduate of Brown University.

Mr. Mitchel, a younger brother of John

Mitchel, late editor of the Citizen, has invented a machine for setting type, and with its aid has just finished the setting up of an octavo volume by Bancroft, the historian, to be published in a few days by the Harpers. This new type-setter somewhat resembles a grand piano forte, and has a key board corresponding to the letters of the alphabet and the punctuation marks. Mr. Trow, the well-known printer, says that it is even better for newspaper than for book work. The price of the machine is $700.

FOREIGN.

The Athenæum states that Mr. Henry Reeve, translator of De Toqueville's book on America, has been appointed editor of the Edinburgh Review.

A biography of the late Rev. T. Kitto, is in preparation under the editorship of J. E. Ryland, Esq., author of the "Life of John Foster." It is to be published by subscription, for the benefit of Dr. Kitto's family, and will embrace extracts from his journals and correspondence.

Since the commencement of the year 1855 the weekly sale of the Illustrated London News has been upwards of One Hundred and Thirty Thousand copies.

The author of the "Plurality of Worlds," it is now said in English journals, is not Dr. Whewell, but Mr. T. S. Smith, of Baliol College, Oxford.

Louis Kossuth announces his having formed an intimate connection with the Atlas newspaper, from the seventh day of April. A series of articles from his pen will appear in that journal. It is said that Mr. Murray has bought a work of Mr. Russell's on the Crimean Campaign, for £1,000.

The English Stamp Duty on newspapers and advertisements has been removed by a vote of Parliament, amidst general rejoicing, and papers are now to be prepaid when mailed, but not before. It is doubted, however, by some, whether the English people have gained so great a boon as they imagine, as the old newspapers will be no longer merchantable after the first issue; but it will undoubtedly lead to the publication of cheap papers for the people.

A Paris paper announces the fact of the discovery of an unpublished fragment of a lost tragedy of Euripides, by M. Egger, of the Institute. M. Eugene Sue's romance, "Le Diable Medecin," appearing in the Siècle has been suspended by superior order; the story is said to have given offense in high quarters by its free description of "the luxury that is called prosperity." The Presse, also, which is now publishing Madame George Sands' memoirs, has received a warning not to publish that portion of her memoir which relates to 1812, and the retreat from

ing for public education, is now proposing to of Tacitus bears out the reading of the monu-
establish an institution of a superior order, ments. In the royal list of Manetho, too, the
which will, in a measure, combine the objects of name is that of Ramsés, and not that of Sesostris.
a University with those of technical schools. In his twelfth dynasty there is the name Sesosta-
The establishment will probably include six sen, also a conqueror, but he cannot be the true
departments:-first, an architectural school; Sesostris. In a communication to the French
second, a school of engineers for roads and Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres of
bridges; third, a chemical school; fourth, a Oct. 20, the Viscount of Rougé proposes a settle-
school for mechanics; fifth, a school of forestiers, ment of the difficulty on the ground of decipher-
and sixth, a philosophical faculty, with profes-ings from the papyri of the British Museum,
sors of philology and literature, law, mathemat- from which it appears that Ses or Seson was a
ics, history, &c., &c.
popular abbreviation of Ramsès: it sometimes
Among the distinguished men whom it is in- appears, too, as Sesion, which would give the
tended to invite to occupy chairs in this institu- form Sesoois of Diodorus.-L'Athenæum Fran-
tion, the name of Prof. Agassiz, now of Cam-çais.
bridge, Mass., but formerly of Neufchatel, is
mentioned in the European journals.

The French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences offered a prize of 10,000 francs for the best "Manual of Moral and Political Economy, for the use of the Laboring Classes." Cousin, Dunoyer, Count Portalis, L. Faucher, Mignet, and the Duke de Broglie, were the judges. Thirty-four essays were sent in, but the prize was not adjudged to any one, and it is continued for the next year. One "memoire" was esteemed the best, but not sufficiently matured. The author begins it by a narrative of scenes in a village, with all the circumstances and incidents of ordinary life, and from this starting point deduces the rules and maxims of moral and political economy. A prize of 3,000 francs is to be decreed in 1855 for the best work on "Pauperism in France, and its Remedy;" one for a history of the "Arabic Philosophy in Spain;" one for an essay on the "Relations of Ethics and Political Economy;" one for "History of Marriage Contracts;"-in 1857, one for "History of International Maritime Law."

The Cardinal Secretary of State is about to publish, in two large volumes, all the Pontifical acts of Pope Pius the Ninth, from the beginning of his reign to the close of the year 1854.

The London Critic contains an account of a great work in preparation by Count Tullio Dandolo, of Milan, upon early Christian history, entitled "Studies upon Rome and the Empire till the Times of Marcus Aurelius." The work is to be in six volumes, which are said to be all prepared-the sixth of them has been published under the title, "Nascent Christianity," in the "Bibliotheca Ecclesiastica" at Milan. The other five are to contain the general history of the Roman Empire in this, its most splendid period, its statistics, its manners and customs, and the history of the Latin and Greek literature. Count Dandolo is the author of several other works-one on "Dante and Columbus," "Italy in the Last Century," "Northern Europe and America in the Last Century," "Switzerland in the Middle Ages," "Switzerland Picturesque," etc. All of these works, with the one now in the course of publication, are again only parts of a still more comprehensive scheme, a "History of Thought in Modern Times," for which the author is represented as admirably adapted, and in which he has received the encouragement of the A large number of Greek and Latin MSS. have Pope. Some of the views cited from the "Nas-been found in the Ottoman Empire by a comcent Christianity " do certainly indicate a large pany of gentlemen, who have been deputed by comprehension of history, and fine powers of the French Government to make literary recombination and exposition. searches wherever opportunity was afforded by The Literary Convention between England the passage of the armies. The precise number of and Belgium has just been ratified. From this Oriental MSS. in all the libraries of Constantinodate the authors of new works of Literature and ple has been ascertained, and the whereabouts Art in either country, will be entitled to exer- of a valuable treatise on Ancient Egypt, by one cise the right of property in their works, in the Ald-al-Lathif, who lived in the middle ages, has territories of the other; and this protection will been discovered. be extended to translations, with certain stipulaWe are informed that a paragraph is going tions. Dramatic Works and Musical Performthe rounds of the German newspapers praising ances are included, under the restrictions of certhe great attention paid to educational matters tain laws. Printed works or articles will be in America, and saying that there is in Europe seized and destroyed. Works, to be protected, now a company of forty young men, whose ex- must be duly registered in either country, and penses are paid by the United States Govern- the duty on Belgian Works imported is reduced ment, who are engaged in investigating the to 15s. per cwt.; on Prints or Drawings, 1d. per pedagogical systems of different countries. The lb. Either of these classes imported in Belgium, story is, of course, wholly incorrect. It is prob will pay duty at the rate of 10 francs per 100 ably based on the fact that most of the students kilogrammes. from America in attendance upon lectures at foreign universities, make it a point, before returning home, to examine, with more or less care, the most famous schools which they have the opportunity of visiting.

Moscow.

The King of Prussia has just conferred the order of the Red Eagle of the second class, to Dr. Ehrenberg, Professor in the University of Berlin, and Secretary of the Physico-mathematical section of the Academy of Sciences. He has also awarded the Gold Medal for Science and Art to Dr. Herrig, whose collection of British and American Literature has already been noticed in these columns.

The Federal Government of Switzerland, which has heretofore in that capacity done noth

Sesostris or Ramsès. It is well known that

It is now believed that twenty volumes will hardly contain all the MSS. of the Emperor Bonaparte, collected by Louis Napoleon. Many letters, &c., written by the Emperor, are in a text hardly legible-it is only with the greatest difficulty that the exact words are made out.

The Book Trade.

since the discoveries of Champollion there has list of announcements of new books, and new edi-
The Daily Evening Traveler, of Boston, has a long
been a great difficulty in respect to the name of tions of former publications, which are in press by
the Egyptian conqueror of Central Asia, whom
Herodotus and all the Greek historians call Se-
soois or Sesostris, while the Egyptian monuments
designate him as Ramsès Meiamoun. The text

publishers in that city, by which it appears that the Boston publishers are preparing for an active trade this year. We append notices of works which have not already been announced in our columns:

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PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & Co. have in press "A History of Massachusetts," by Rev. John S. Barry, the | first volume of which is to be published in June, and will bring the history down to the union of the two colonies under a provincial government.GOULD & LINCOLN will issue an original work, entitled "My Mother; or, Recollections of Maternal Influence. Also, a "Memoir of Old Humphrey," the well-known author of "Homely Hints," &c., &c.; "The Angler and his Friend," by John Davy; Biography of Samson," illustrated and applied, by D. Bruce, of Scotland; "The Christian Life, Social and Individual;" "Velasquez and his Works," by William Sterling; also, a new and elegant library edition of "Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," with Milman's, Guizot's and Smith's notes, in 8 vols.-LITTLE, BROWN & Co. have in preparation a new revised edition of "Sparks' Life and Writings of George Washington," in 12 vols.; "Plutarch's Lives," partly from Dryden's translation, in 5 vols.; Prof. B. Peirce's "Treatise on Analytical Mechanics," in quarto; "John Adams' Works," vols. 1 and 10; "Norton's Translation of the Four Gospels ;" and the "Correspondence of D. Webster," edited by Fletcher Webster, in 2 vols.; besides a great number of law publications.-J. MUNROE & Co. will publish a volume of "Popular Tales," comprising "Trap to Catch a Sun-Beam," "Only," and other well-known stories; "The Magic Word," a volume of Poems; "Whately's Detached Thoughts and Apothegms;" "The Christian at Home," and various juveniles.-CROSBY, NICHOLS & Co. an"Christianity, its Influence and Evidence," by Rev. G. W. Burnap; "Memoirs and Sermons of Rev. C. M. Taggart ;" also, a series of juveniles, illustrated, and a series of writing books, by Payson & Dunton.-. A. TOMPKINS will publish "Rollo on the Rhine."-J. P. JEWETT & Co. have in press "The Augustan Age of France," or the Distinguished Writers of the Age of Louis XIV, by Rev. J. F. Astie, with Introduction by Rev. E. N. Kirk.-TICKNOR & FIELDS announce two new works by Mrs. Mowatt, the one containing further experiences of her theatrical life, the other a volume of plays-" Armand and Fashion ;" De Quincey's "Note-Book of an English Opium-Eater;" and "The School of Life," a story by Anna M.

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MILLER, ORTON & MULLIGAN have in press My Bondage and My Freedom," by Fred. Douglass, | illustrated; "Lives of Henry VIII. and his Six Queens," by Henry Wm. Herbert, with portraits; "The White Slave, or Memoirs of a Fugitive," (14th thousand,) edited, and with an introduction, by Richard Hildreth, Esq.; "Young Woman's Book of Health," by Dr. Wm. A. Alcott; "Stories to Teach Me to Think," a series of juvenile tales, by T. B. P. Stone.--Dr. Spring's new work, in press by M. W. DODD, is entitled "The Contrast."CHAS. SCRIBNER has in press "The Life of Alexander McLeod, D. D.," by Rev. J. N. McLeod; "The English Woman in Russia;" "Memoir of S. S. Prentiss," by Rev. G. L. Prentiss, D. D.; "Joy and Care," a book for young mothers, by Mrs. Tuthill; "My Father's House, or The Heaven of The Bible," by Rev. J. M. Macdonald.-BUNCE & BROTHER announce Mrs. Gore's new novel, "Mammon, or the Hardships of an Heiress;" "The Wife's Trials;" "Ariel and Other Poems," by W. W. Fosdick; "Men of Character," by Douglas Jerrold; and "Blanche Dearwood," a new American story; also, a new book from the pen of John Brougham, and a work by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. --GARRETT & Co. will publish, from advance sheets, "The Soldier of Fortune-a Tale of the

War," by J. F. Smith, Esq., author of "Minnie Grey."- -D. APPLETON & Co. have in press "Lyell's Geology," new edition; "The Geology of Common Life," by Dr. J. F. W. Johnston; "Osborne's Scutari and its Hospitals;" "The Golden Reed," by B. F. Barrett; "Leaves from a Family Journal," by Emile Souvestre; "Memoirs of a Stomach."--LINDSAY & BLAKISTON will shortly publish "Whately's Scripture Revelations" concerning a future state, and in respect to good and evil spirits, 2 vols.; Arnold's "Sermons on the Christian Life," and "On the Interpretation of Prophecy ;" "Hare's Parish Sermons ;" Cumming's "Family Prayers," and "Lectures to Young Men;" "Rev. Dr. Winslow's Works," 8 vols.

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Books published in the United States since
APRIL 2, 1855.

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lations thus; New Editions are inclosed in a parenthesis (.

AMERICAN System of Education: First Thoughts; or, Beginning to Think. By a Literary Association. 24mo. pp. 115. [D. Appleton & Co., N. Y.] 50 *ASHTON Cottage; or, The True Faith. A Sunday Tale. 16mo. pp. 200. Illustrations. [R. Carter & Bros., N. Y.]

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BLACK Diamonds; or, Humor, Satire and Sentiment Treated Scientifically. By Professor Julius Cæsar Hannibal, of the New York Picayune. 12mo. pp. 865. Illustrations. [T. L. Magagnos, N. Y.] pap. $1; cl. 1 25 BLAIKIE (Rev. ALEXANDER, Pastor of the Associate Reformed-the First Presbyterian-Church, Boston)-The Philosophy of Sectarianism; or, A Classified View of the Christian Sects in the United States, with Notices of their Progress and Tendencies. Illustrated by Historical Facts and Anecdotes. 12mo. pp. 362. [Phillips, Sampson & Co., Bost.] 1 00 BRYANT (J. D., M. D.)-The Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God, a Dogma of the Catholic Church. 12mo. pp. 322. [P. Donahoe, Bost.] (CARY (ALICE)-Poems. 24mo. pp. 899. [Ticknor & Fields, Bost.]. CHATEAU Lescure; or, The Last Marquis. A Story of Brittany and the Vendée. 18mo. pp. 198. [Edw. Dunigan & Bro., N. Y.] CARSTENS (HENRY W.)-A Tritolium. 16mo. pp. 197. [Jas. Munroe & Co., Bost.] *CUMMING (Rev. JOHN, D. D.)--Signs of the Times; or, Present, Past, and Future. 12mo. pp. 288. [Lindsay & Blackiston, Phil.] DENISON (Rev. H. M.)-A Review of Unitarian Views. 12mo. pp. 155. [Morton & Griswold, Louisville.]

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FIRST Annual Report of the Geological Survey of New Jersey for the Year 1854. 8vo. pp. 100; 4 plates. [Fredonian Office, New Brunswick.] *FLEETWOOD (JOHN, D. D.)-History of the Holy Bible, from the Creation of the World to the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. R. 8vo. pp. iv, 683. Map and Illustrations. [R. Carter & Bros., N. Y.] 2.00 FORBES (the late Rev. JAMES H., Rector)—Sermons Preached in the Church of the Epiphany, Philadelphia. [Printed for the Congregation, Phil.] FULLERTON (Lady GEORGIANA)-The Life of St. Francis, of Rome; of Blessed Lucy, of Varni; of Dominica, of Paradiso; and of Anne de Montmorency. With an Introductory Essay on the Miraculous Life of the Saints, by J. M. Capes. 12mo. pp. liv, 206. Frontispiece. [D. & G. Sadlier & Co., N. Y.] GREEN & CONGDON-Analytical Class-Book of Botany. Designed for Academies and Private Students. Part 1, Elements of Vegetable Structure and Physiology, by Frances H. Green. Part 2, Systematic Botany; Illustrated by a Compendious Flora of the United States, by Joseph W. Congdon. 8vo. pp. 228; 29 plates. [D. Appleton & Co., N. Y.] HARSHA (DAVID A.)-The Most Eminent Orators and Statesmen of Ancient and Modern Times. Containing Sketches of their Lives, Specimens of their Eloquence, and an Estimate of their Genius. 8vo. pp. viii, 518. Portrait of Webster. [Chas. Scribner, N. Y.]

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trine of Predestination Examined and Refuted. 18mo. pp. 181. [Higgins & Perkinpine, Phil.] HOWELS (Rev. WILLIAM)--Remains: Being a Collection of Extracts from his Sermons, taken down when Preached. By the Rev. William Prior Moore. 12mo. pp. 358. [R. Carter & Bros., N. Y.] 75 38*HOWITT (WILLIAM)-A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia; or, Herbert's Note Book. 16mo. pp. 359. Illustrations. [Ticknor & Fields, Bost.] INFANT-SCHOOL Hymn Book. 32mo. pp. 92. [11 Bible House, N. Y.] *JOHNSTON (JAMES F.)-The Chemistry of Common Life. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. vii, 291, 381. Wood Engravings. [D. Appleton & Co., N. Y.] 2.00 *KAVANAGH (JULIA)-Grace Lee. 12mo. pp. 392. [D. Appleton & Co., N. Y.] *KINGSLEY (CHARLES)-Westward, Ho! The Voyages and Adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight of Burrough, in the County of Devon, in the Reign of Her Most Glorious Majesty Queen Elizabeth. 12mo. pp. vi, 588. [Ticknor & Fields, Bost.] 1 25 *LAMBRUSCHINI (Cardinal)—A Polemical Treatise on the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin. To which is added a History of the Doctrine, by Father Felix, S. J. The French portion of the Work translated by Mrs. J. Sadlier; and

DOCTRINES and Discipline (The) of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 12mo. pp. 267. [Stevenson & Owen, Nashville.] ELLIOTT (Rev. —, D. D.)-History of the Great Secession from the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the year 1845, Eventuating in the Organization of the New Church, entitled the Methodist Episcopal Church South. 8vo. pp. 1144. [Swormstedt & Poe, Cincin.] *ENCHIRIDION Symbolorum et Definitionum, quæ de rebus Fidei et Morum a Conciliis Ecumenicis et Summis Pontificibus Emanarunt. In Auditorum Usum Edidit Henricus Denzinger, Pro

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