men, and an index of important papers, scientific reports, &c. No work that has been laid upon our table for the last month has proved more attractive than this annual. It is composed almost entirely of extracts from scientific journals and reports. It is a close printed volume of some 390 pages, small octavo. Nothing of consequence seems to have escaped the diligence of the editors. They have given us a very full account of the improvements in the electric telegraph, of the advances made in American Geology, and new facts in Natural History and Physiology.

Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady: By THERESA PULSZKY. With a Historical introduction by FRANCIS PULSZKY. Philadelphia: Lee & Blanchard. 1850.

The first third of this volume contains what we have desired to see-a history of Hungary, up to the present day, by an Hungarian. The memoirs of the lady, whose husband was engaged in the political movements for the liberation of his country, are full of political, and historical anecdotes, highly illustrative of the state of things in Hungary during the late revolution. Some portions of it are intensely interesting.

Household Words: a Weekly Journal, conducted by CHARLES DICKENS. George P. Putnam, New York. 1850.

Here we have an English weekly periodical got up, printed, and issued, in England, coming from the office of a New York publisher, as though it were an American work. A slip of paper, pasted on the date of the number, carries on it the name of the American publisher. This journal is not, properly, a journal, but is only a collection of stories, by Dickens and others, divided into weekly numbers, and has very much the air of a literary speculation. The printed matter in this pretended journal, as far as we have examined it, has no particular merit of any kind.

Linda; or, The Young Pilot of the Belle Creole. A Tale of Southern Life: By CAROLINE LEE HENTZ. Author of the prize story of" The Mob Cap," &c. Philadelphia: A Hart; late 1850. Carey & Hart.

Our recollections of the admirabie story of" The Mob Cap" lead us to form great expectations of pleasure from this volume. The style of the narrative is extremely fine, the plot intricate, and full of character, and the denoument exquisitely pathetic.

of the political condition of that country, we have now, at least, two correct sources, as far as they go, in our literature,-the novel before us, and the life of the Hungarian lady already noticed.

Eldorado Adventures in the Path of Empire: By BAYARD TAYLOR. New York: George P. Putnam. 1850.

As a portion of this work of Mr. Taylor has been already published in a series of papers in the Tribune newspaper, we have only to acknowledge the favor of the publisher in sending us the volumes, and to say that the author has added many unpublished personal incidents and pictures of society in California, together with an account of his journey across Mexico, which form the most interesting part of the volumes. The Report of the Hon. Thos. Butler King, on Californian affairs, has been added as an appendix.

Memoirs of the House of Orleans: By W. COOKE TAYLOR, L. L. D. 2 vols. Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette: By Madam CAMPAN. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Carey; late Carey & Hart. 1850.

The agents for these two works, Messrs. Stringer & Townsend, sent them, with a request that they might be fully noticed; but their value and importance entitles them to a full review, which will appear, if possible, in our August number.

An Essay on the Opium Trade: By NATHAN ALLEN, M. D. Boston: John P. Jewett & Co. 1850.

In a previous number we have called the attention of our readers to a very interesting and valuable history of the Tea-Trade, by Gideon Nye, Jun., of which a third edition has been called for. The present pamphlet on the opium trade supplies what is omitted in Mr. Nye's work, in regard to the preservation of, and the commerce in, opium, and the mode and extent of its use in Asia. These two pamphlets, taken together, will teach us all that is necessary to be known regarding two of the most important branches of commerce. By this trade in opium the government of India pays its English and Sepoy army. The opium is purchased by the Chinese with specie. It is said that eight million pounds of opium will be brought to China this year. It seems a possible thing that, by the use of this drug, the empire of China may be completely corrupted and destroyed, as, in former ages, by other vices, other nations and empires have lost their independence, and, finally, their place upon the surface of the earth.

The titles of the above publications were selected for notice out of a much larger number sent us by the courtesy of publishers. To give a full and accurate account of every new publicotion, to satisfy either their authors, or the public, would occupy the Review of every month.