SHAKESPEARE A TAILOR OR A PUBLISHER.-In ridicule of the numerous absurd speculations which Shakespeare's universal knowledge has given rise to, and especially in reply to the assertions of George Steevens and Dr. Farmer that Shakespeare must have been apprentice to a butcher or wool-stapler because of the technical trade expressions manifest here and there in his plays, Mr. Grant White, in his newly published Life of Shakespeare, thus humorously proves that the immortal bard must have been a tailor or a publisher. "I have found," he says, "that the word 'tailor' appears in his plays no less than 27 times; 'measures' occurs nearly thrice as often; shears' no less than six times; thimbles' thrice; goose' no less than 27 times; and when we see that in all his 37 plays cabbage' occurs but once, and then with the careful explanation that it means 'roots,' and is good cabbage; must we not regard such reticence upon this tender point as touching confirmation of our theory? His plays abound with like evidence. He says of the use to which his favourite hero Prince Hal will put the manners of his wild companions that

"Their memory

Shall as a pattern or a measure live

By which his Grace must mete the lives of others.'

He makes one of the Two Gentlemen of Verona, as his severest censure of the other, reproach him with being badly dressed; 'Ruffian, let go that rude uncivil_touch, Thou friend of an ill fashion.'

And how unmistakeably he gives us in Hamlet a reminiscence of a highly ornamented style of children's clothing :

"The canker galls the infants of the spring

Too oft before their buttons be disclosed.'

What more natural than that a tailor, vexed with the memories of peevish customers, should make the incensed Northumberland compare himself to a man who is impatient of his fit?' And yet this evidence, so strong and cumulative, need not be too much relied upon. For who but a publisher, anxious about the health and the progress in her work of a popular authoress, could have written thus in Twelfth Night. 'Lady, you are the cruellest she alive,

If you will lead these graces to the grave
And leave the world no copy.'

W. C. BRYANT.-Harper's Weekly Journal of the 2nd September contains a fine portrait and brief memoir of this distinguished poet. The criticism on Bryant's writings is exceedingly good and just. "The spirit of his works and of his life," says the writer, "is singularly harmonious. They are both marked by the healthiness, freshness, and sober cheerfulness of American nature. His poetry is not only faithfully pictorial of our scenery, but it is full of its inward character. The solemn, shadowy, warm-scented forest aisles; the hills, rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun; the new-leaved trees; the amber air; the yellow violet and the fringed gentian; the singing birds and the humming bees; the cliff and the mountain peak, with the clear sparkling blue above all live again, and for ever, in the simple melody of his verse. Familiar with languages and literature, his sinewy muse knows no tropical languor, no foreign passion, but breathes serenely her native temperate air. Bryant is as American as Chaucer is English and Boccaccio Italian."

PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW has recently completed an English blank verse version of the "Divina Čommedia” of Dante, which it is rumoured will be issued before the present year terminates.

DR. T. W. PARSONS, of Boston, who recently issued a Translation of the first Seventeen Cantos of the Inferno of Dante, has nearly ready his translation of the remaining portion of this great poem.

NEGRO POET.-It is proposed to issue a volume of poems by George Horton, "the negro bard of North Carolina." George Horton was a slave, too fond of tippling for his own welfare, but a great favourite with both male and female members of the community. It is said that many a fair beauty has now in her possession loving rhymes which George has written at the instigation of sighing lovers. The students were pleased with and encouraged his manifestations of poetical genius, but his dissipated habits caused him now and then to be very summarily ejected from society.

OLD ENGLISH POETS.-We recently announced the contemplated issue of Cowley's Works. We have now to add that it is proposed to issue uniformly an edition, limited to

BURNS' COTTER'S SATURDAY NIGHT will shortly be issued in New York with 50 designs by Chapman of Brooklyn.

MR. SWINBURNE's Atalanta in Calydon is announced for re-publication by Messrs. Ticknor and Fields, of Boston.

MR. R. H. STODDARD is preparing for publication a collection of some two or three hundred of the best short poems, in the English language. It will be issued in small 4to. under the title of "Melodies and Madrigals."

LIBRARY OF OLD ENGLISH DIVINES.-Messrs. Hurd and Houghton, of New York, in conjunction with Messrs. E. P. Dutton and Co., of Boston, will publish very shortly the first portion of this Library, consisting of Dr. South's Sermons, in five library volumes, reprinted from the Oxford University Edition, and carefully edited. In this series the enterprising publishers propose to incorporate the complete works of Barrow, Bates, Baxter, Bull, Bunyan, Butler, Charnock, Chillingworth, Clarke, Cudworth, Davenant, Donne, Flavel, Hall, Hooker, Howe, Latimer, Leighton, Owen, Pearson, Stillingfleet, Sibbes, South, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, Usher, and Waterland. All the works will be handsomely printed in good type, and be well edited. It is a noble scheme, and we trust sufficient support will be given to the enterprise to enable the publishers to carry it out in its entirety.

DR. PUSEY'S LECTURES ON THE BOOK OF DANIEL will shortly be republished at the Methodist Book Concern, in New York.

"FATHER" BOEHM, an old German preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now in his ninety-first year, is about to issue his reminiscences of sixty-four years in the ministry, a work which has been twelve years in preparation, and which will bring before the reader all the distinguished men who have been the means of extending the system of Methodism throughout the United States.

THE REV. T. H. PEARNE has in preparation a work giving religious and general incidents in the life of a pioneer itinerant preacher in Oregon.

BRAZIL AND THE BRAZILIANS.-The Rev. J. C. Fletcher, who has just returned from Brazil, has nearly ready for publication a new revised and enlarged edition of his valuable work on Brazil. This book is without exception the best account of Brazil in the English language; and no one, during the last few years, has had better opportunities than the author for acquiring a thorough knowledge of the country and its resources. Mr. Fletcher has just succeeded in obtaining a subsidy from the Brazilian Chambers towards establishing a line of steamers between Brazil and the United States.

To the literature connected with President Lincoln, we have to add a brochure of forty pages, entitled As Exequias de Abrahao Lincoln, com um Esboco Biographico do Mesmo offerecido Ao Povo Brasileiro, por seu Patricio José Manoel da Conceicao, just received from Rio Janeiro.

THE HOME WEEKLY, a family newspaper, published in Philadelphia, and conducted with great spirit and ability by G. W. Childs, announces that it is the invariable rule of their office not to read any story or poetry offered for publication, and for which pay is expected, until the price is first marked on the MS.

MR. BAYARD TAYLOR is, we understand, engaged upon a new novel. That modern Phoenix, Mr. P. T. Barnum, in a recent letter to The Nation states that he "has tried to hire Bayard Taylor to scour Europe" with him to make purchases and obtain contributions of duplicates from institutions abroad for his twin paying and free museums. Bayard Taylor, he says, will go next summer, but in the meantime he advertises for an educated, intelligent gentleman to start at once. Barnum has set going an idea which we trust will be taken up in a proper spirit and dissevered from the puffing and vulgarity which unfortunately hangs to everything P. T. B. takes in hand. He suggests a Free National Museum, which shall be for America what our British Museum is for the British Empire.

DESTRUCTION AND SPOLIATION OF LIBRARIES IN THE SOUTH.-The Virginia State Library, amid the confusion of war, has been robbed of many of its most valuable books and MSS., and has had numerous interesting volumes mutilated and destroyed. Some valuable copies of Old English Records, made at considerable expense in England, have been taken away. Maps and surveys have been torn out of volumes with the most malicious and unreasoning determination. These acts of vandalism deserve the strongest reprehension. In the capital of Georgia, the State Library, numbering 2,000 volumes, has been subject also to similar disgraceful malpractices. Rumour states that "it was ransacked by men of literary tastes, and cartloads of books taken away." This is not the first time, we believe, that kleptomania and bibliomania have gone hand in hand. We sincerely hope that if there be no legal power to compel restoration, there will be at least a moral power at work to shame the perpetrators of such acts into restitution. Among nations laying claim to an advanced civilisation, the storehouses of learning ought at least to be sacred from pillage and devastation.

SAN FRANCISCO.-As a pendant to our notice of books, bookselling, and printing in California, we have to add the following significant sign of progress. The "What cheer House," an hotel in San Francisco, advertises among other attractions that it offers for the use of its inmates a well selected library of 5000 volumes.

DR. DODD'S DAUGHTER. - The Washington Intelligencer announces the death at the age of 100 of Mrs. Maria Thornton, widow of Dr. W. F. Thornton, First United States Commissioner of Patents, and daughter of the unfortunate Dr. Dodd.

MR. POLLARD'S concluding volume of the SOUTHERN HISTORY OF THE REBELLION is rapidly progressing through the press. More than half of the volume is printed.

DR. J. W. DRAPER, the able historian of intellectual development in Europe, has nearly ready for publication a History of the American Civil War, in 3 vols. 8vo.

MR. PAUL MORPHY, the great chess player, is preparing an annotated edition of the games played by him in Europe and America. It will contain a careful analysis of the works of Lowenthal and Staunton, and will form a volume of about 500 pages.

MR. JOSEPH SABIN, OF NEW YORK, is preparing a Bibliotheca Americana, which promises to be very full and complete.

JUDGE DEAN, of Albany, is preparing for publication a History of Civilization, which in interest, philosophical perception, and research, will be, we are assured, far superior to Buckle's able work.

BIBLIOTHECA AMERICANA VETUSTISSIMA.-We have before us the first eight pages of this valuable work, and are amazed at the labour and skill bestowed upon it. In these pages every statement has its authority, and the authorities in this small compass number between 60 and 70. Typographically and mechanically it is all that could be wishedexcellently printed, with wide margin, and on fine thick paper, it is a model for such books. TYPOGRAPHICAL JOURNALS. From L'Imprimerie we learn that in France, Switzerland, Germany, England, and America, there are fifteen journals exclusively devoted to the progress of typography :-În France, I. Le Gutenberg, Journal des Imprimeurs, etc. published in Paris twice a month, and com

menced six years ago. II. L'Imprimerie, a monthly journal, established in January, 1864. — In Switzerland, ÎII. La Typographie Helvetique, published in German, twice a month, at Berne. IV. The Magasin Typographique, published quarterly at Basle.-In Germany, V. The Journal für Buchdruckerkunst, published weekly at Brunswick, founded 32 years ago. VI. Der Correspondent, a weekly Leipsic paper. VII. The Archiv der Buchdruckerkunst, issued monthly at Leipsic, commenced in May, 1864. VIII. The Veleslavin, published at Prague, in Bohemia, every quarter. IX. La Typographie Autrichienne, published in German, at Vienna, twice a month.-In England, X. The Typographic Advertiser, published monthly in London. XI. The Printers' Journal, fortnightly. XII. The Printers' Register, monthly. XIII. The Scottish Typographical Circular, published monthly in Edinburgh. In the United States, XIV. The Typographic Advertiser, published quarterly in Philadelphia. XV. The Printer, published monthly in New York, of which the 6th volume is now in course of issue.

DUYCKINCK'S CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.A new and revised edition of this valuable work is nearly ready for publication. It will contain a supplement bringing down the work to the present year.

THE LAW OF SEX, of which we have heard a good deal latterly as having been discovered by M. de Ferrendi, seems to have been known in Germany at least a hundred years ago. The whole theory is enunciated in a work written by Dr. P. F. Sixt, practising as a physician at Erfurt a century ago, but first published in the United States.

THE LOYAL PUBLICATION SOCIETY.-This Society was established in New York in 1863, under the Presidency of Dr. Francis Lieber, for the publication and distribution of tracts, papers, and journals of unquestionable loyalty-thus to diffuse knowledge and stimulate a broad national patriotism, and to aid in the suppression of the Rebellion by the extinction of its causes. Many of its Publications are of more than mere ephemeral interest, and we are sure our readers will be gratified at having a full summary of the literary labours of the Society placed on record. The following will, we think, be found a complete list:-1. Future of the Northwest. By Robert Dale Owen.-2. Echo from the Army. Extracts from Letters of Soldiers.-3. Union Mass Meeting, Cooper Institute, March 6, 1863. Speeches of Brady, Van Buren, etc.-4. Three Voices: the Soldier, Farmer, and Poet.-5. Voices from the Army. Letters and Resolutions of Soldiers.-6. Northern True Men. Addresses of Connecticut Soldiers. Extracts from Richmond Journals. -7. Speech of Major-General Butler. Academy of Music, New York, April 2, 1863.-8. Separation; War without End. By Ed. Laboulaye.-9. The Venom and the Antidote. Copperhead Declarations. Soldiers' Letters.-10. A few words in behalf of Loyal Women of the United States. By One of Themselves.-11. No Failure for the North. Atlantic Monthly.-12. Address to King Cotton. By Eugene Pelletan. 13. How a Free People conduct a long War. By Stille.-14. The Preservation of the Union, a National Economic Necessity.-15. Elements of Discord in Secessia. By William Alexander, Esq., of Texas.-16. No Party now, but all for our Country. By Francis Lieber.-17. The Cause of the Wars. By Col. C. Anderson.-18. Opinions of the early Presidents and of the Fathers of the Republic upon Slavery, and upon Negroes as Men and Soldiers.-19. Einheit und Freiheit, von Hermann Rafter. -20. Military Despotism! Suspension of the Habeas Corpus! etc.-21. Letter addressed to the OperaHouse Meeting, Cincinnati. By Col. Charles Anderson.22. Emancipation is Peace. By Robert Dale Owen.-23. Letter of Peter Cooper on Slave Emancipation.-24. Patriotism. Sermon by the Rev. Jos. Fransioli, of St. Peter's (Catholic) Church, Brooklyn.-25. The Conditions of Reconstruction. By Robert Dale Owen.-26. Letter to the President. By Gen. A. J. Hamilton, of Texas.-27. Nullification and Compromise a Retrospective View. By John Mason Williams.-28. The Death of Slavery. Letter from Peter Cooper to Gov. Seymour.-29. Slavery Plantations and the Yeomanry. By Francis Lieber.-30. Rebel Conditions of Peace. Extracts from Richmond Journals.-31. Address of the Loyal Leagues, Utica, October 20, 1863.-32. War Power of the President: Summary Imprisonment. By J. Heermans.-33. The Two Ways of Treason.-34. The Monroe Doctrine. By Edward Everett, etc.-35. The Arguments of Secessionists. By Francis Lieber.-36. Prophecy and Fulfilment. Letter of A. H. Stephens. Address of E. W. Gantt. -37. How the South Rejected Compromise, etc. Speech of Mr. Chase in Peace Conference of 1861.-38. Letters on our National Struggle. By Brigadier-General Thomas Meagher. —39. Bible View of Slavery. By John H. Hopkins, Ď.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont. Examined by Henry Drisler.-40. The Conscription Act: a Series of Articles. By Geo. B. Butler.-41. Reponse de MM. De Gasparin, Laboulaye, etc.-42. Reply of Messrs. Gasparin, Laboulaye, and others.-43. Antwort der Herren De Gasparin, Laboulaye, Martin, Cochin, au die Loyal National League.-44. Proceedings of First Annual Meeting of the Loyal Publication Society, February, 1864.45. Finances and Resources of the United States. By H. G. Stebbins.-46. How the War Commenced. From Cincinatti Daily Commercial,—47. Result of Serf Emancipation in Russia.-48. Resources of the United States. By S. B. Ruggles.-49. Patriotic Songs. A Collection by G. P. Putnam.-50. The Constitution Vindicated. By James A. Hamilton.-51. No Property in Man.

By Charles Sumner.-52. Rebellion, Slavery, and Peace. By N. G. Upham.-53. How the War Commenced. (Germ. Trans.) By Dr. F. Schutz, for the Society.-54. Our Burden and our Strength. By David A. Wells.-55. Eman. Slave and his Master. (Germ. Trans.) By Dr. F. Schutz. for the Society.-56. The Assertions of a Secessionist. By Alex. H. Stephens.-57. Growler's Income Tax. By T. S. Arthur, Phil.-58. Emancipated Slave and his Master. By James McKaye. -59. Lincoln or McClellan. (German.) By Francis Lieber.-60. Peace through Victory. (Sermon.) By Rev. J. P. Thompson.-61. Sherman vs. Hood. Broadside. By the Secretary.-62. The War for the Union. By William Swinton.-63. Letter on McClellan's Nomination. By Hon. Gerrit Smith.-64. Letters of Loyal Soldiers. Parts 1, 2, 3, 4. By the Secretary. 65. Submissionists and their Record. Parts 1 and 2. By the Secretary.-66. Coercion Completed; or, Treason Triumphant. By John C. Hamilton-67. Lincoln or McClellan. (English.) By Francis Lieber.-68. The Cowards' Convention. By Charles Astor Bristed.--69. Whom do the English wish Elected? By Frederick Milne Edge.-70. Collection of Letters from Europe. By G. P. Putnam. -71. Lincoln or McClellan. (Dutch Translation.)-72. Address of Dr. Schutz, at Philadelphia, October 5, 1865.-73. Loyalty and Sufferings of East Tennessee. By N. G. Taylor.-74, The Slave Power. By J. C. Hamilton.-75. The Great Issue. Address by John Jay.-76. Sufferings of U. S. Prisoners of War. By U. S. Sanitary Commission.-77. On Secession. Delivered by Dr. Lieber, in South Carolina, in 1851.-78. Proceedings of Second Annual Meeting of the Loyal Publication Society, February 11, 1865.-79. To Hon. E. D. Morgan, on Amendment of Constitution. By Francis Lieber. -80. America for Free Working Men. By C. Nordhoff.-81. General McClellan's Campaign. By F. M. Edge.-82. Speech on Reconstruction. By Hon. William D. Kelley.-83. Amendments of the Constitution. By Francis Lieber.-84. Crimes of the South. By W. W. Broom. -85. Lincoln's Life and its Lessons. By Rev. J. T. Thompson.-86. National System of Education. By C. Brooks.

New American Books in the Press. Historical.-Thomas Budd's account of Pennsylvania and New Jersey in 1685. New edition. With Notes and Life. By Edward Armstrong.-Dr. Francis's Old New York.Martin's History of France. Eighth Division. Translated. Military and Naval History of the United States during the Rebellion.-The Last Six Months of my Administration. By James Buchanan.-Eight Years in Congress. By S. S. Cox.-The Life and Public Services of Samuel Adams.

War Literature. -Sherman and his Campaigns. By Col. S. M. Bowman and Lieut.-Colonel R. B. Irwin. i vol. 8vo. With seven steel Portraits, maps, plans, &c.-Grant and his Campaigns: a Military Biography. By Henry Coppée, A.M., editor of the United Service Magazine.Massachussetts in the Rebellion. By Rev. P. C. Headley. -Military History of Wisconsin. By E. B. Quiner. Theological.—History of Rationalism, embracing a survey of the present state of Protestant theology. By Rev. J. N. Hurst.-Essays on the Supernatural Origin of Christianity. By Professor Geo. P. Fisher.-The Vicarious Sacrifice. By Dr. H. Bushnell.-Notes from the Plymouth Pulpit. A new edition greatly enlarged of the Discourses of H. Ward Beecher.

Law. Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Illinois. Vol. XXXII. By Norman L. Freeman.-Bracton and his relation to the Roman Law. A contribution to the History of the Roman Law in the Middle Ages. By Carl Gütterbock. Translated by Brinton Coxe.

Science. Semeleder on Laryngoscopy and Rhinoscopy.Lectures on Inflammation. By John H. Packard, M.D.A Manual of Zoology. By Professor Sandborn Tenney, A.M. The Structure of Animal Life. By Professor Agassiz.

Poetry.-Golden Leaves from the Dramatic Poets. Collected by John W. S. Hows-Humorous Poems. By Oliver Wendell Holmes- and Religious Poems. By Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe, in continuation of the Series of Companion Poets for the People. Poe's Raven. Illustrated by

Billings, Nash, Darley, Lumbley, &c.-Song of the Rivers. By Emily T. B. Bennett.-Gouttes de Rosée. Poésies et Chansons. -Freneau's Poems.-A new Edition of Henry Howard Brownell's Poems.-A new Edition of the Rev. W. R. Alger's Poetry of the Orient.-A Second Series of Hymns for Mothers and Children. By the Editor of "Hymns of the Ages."-A Festival of Song. Arranged by Frederick Saunders.-Melodies and Madrigals. Illuminated.-The Poets of the Elizabethan Age.-The Late English Poets.-The King's Bell. By R. H. Stoddard. Novels and Tales.-Sidney de Grey; or, The Rival School Boys. By Lawrence Lancewood.-The Huntingdons; or, Glimpses of Inner Life. By Marie Louise Haywood.Sweet Clover; or, Nellie Milford's Housekeeping.-Frank Nelson; or, the Runaway Boy. By Mrs. Hanaford.-The Hole in the Pocket. By Aunt Hattie.-Sans Merci.-A new novel. By Richard B. Kimball.-Arthur Merton; or, Sinning and Sorrowing. By Miss Caroline E. Kelley. -Home Heroes. Saints and Martyrs. By T. S. Arthur. -Beyminstre. By the author of "Silent Woman.”Jargal a Novel. By Victor Hugo.-Erring, yet Noble : a Tale of and for Women.-What Came Afterwards: a Novel. By T. S. Arthur.-Marian Rooke; or, Quest of Fortune a Novel of American Life. By Henry D. Sedley. -The Mute Singer. By Mrs. Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie. Juvenile Works.-Sunny Hours.-The Wooing of the Fox. -Aunt Fanny's Fairy Stories.-Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes.-The Yankee Middy-Fighting Joe, and Brave Old Salt. By Oliver Optic.-Work and Win-Hope and Have-Haste and Waste-Golden-haired Gertrude. By Theodore Tilton. Illustrated by H. L. Stephens.-Walter in Athens. By D. C. Eddy. Miscellaneous.-Inner Rome; Political, Religious, and Social. By Rev. C. M. Butler.-West Virginia, as seen by the Farmer, Miner, and Oil Hunter. By J. R. Dodge, U.S. Agricultural Department.-Plain Talk on Familiar Subjects. By Dr. J. G. Holland (Timothy Titcomb).—Recollections of Seventy Years. By Mrs. John Farrar.

IN MEMORIAM.

MISS HANNAH FLAGG GOULD died on Tuesday, Sept. 5th, at Newburyport, Mass., at an advanced age. She was a native of Lancaster, Vermont, but has been resident at Newburyport for more than 50 years. She was the author of several volumes of poetry, which have been more popular in America than the productions of any other female poet. In 1832 she published her first volume, in 1835 her second, and in 1841 a third, all of which passed through several editions. In 1846 she published a collection of her prose writings, under the title of "Gathered Leaves," and has since then issued four volumes, two of which contained original poems.

On the 4th July, at San Francisco, died Dr. Alonzo Potter Bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania, a liberal minded and philanthropic prelate, whose name has been associated for some years past with nearly every important social movement in Pennsylvania. His writings have attained some celebrity in the United States. They are-I. The principle of Science applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts, and to Manufactures and Agriculture. New York, 1841.-II. Political Economy, its objects, uses, and principles. New York, 1841. III. The School and the Schoolmaster. IV. Handbook for Readers and Students, 1847.-V. Discourses, Charges, Addresses, etc. 1858.

Our readers will remember that the publication of Mrs. Stowe's popular tale of Uncle Tom's Cabin was almost immediately followed here by one bearing the title of The White Slave, which for a time promised almost to rival Mrs. Stowe's work in popularity. The author of that tale, RICHARD HILDRETH, Consul for the United States, died on the 11th of July at Trieste, at the age of 58. He was a political writer of considerable eminence, and especially distinguished for his History of the United States, deemed by many the best ever published. He also translated Bentham's Theory of Legislation from the French of Dumont; published a capital account of Japan; issued under the title of Atrocious Judges, a selection from Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors, and contributed several works to the political literature of America. Before undertaking the Consulship he was editor of the New York Tribune.

American Educational Monthly, devoted to Popular Instruction and Literature. September, 1865. New York. Subscription, 7s. 6d. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. The Story of Peter Pedagogus, a Swiss Schoolmaster. -II. Means of Mental Development. By Professor Hooker, of Yale. -III. Pedagogical Law. -IV. Early Theories concerning the Earth. -V. French Novelties in Education.-VI. Object Lesson on Iron.VII. The Unfinished Problems of the Universe, etc. etc.

The American Monthly (now the Fœderal American Monthly), devoted to Literature, Art, Science, and Politics. Edited by J. HOLMES AGNEW and A. J. H. DUGANNE. September, 1865. New York. Subscription, 18s. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. Reinstatement and Suffrage. By J. Holmes Agnew. -II. A National System of Education. By Charles Brooks.-III. My Mother Earth. By A. J. H. Duganne.-IV. Guerillas in Our Town.V. Our State Prison System. By Blanchard Fosgate.-VI. Ildegerte. From the German of Kotzebue.-VII. New Life. By Carlos Max.VIII. Junius. By G. W. E.-IX. Friends of America in England. Eboracus.-X. Thomas Moore's Epicurean. By Jaques Bonhomme. -XI. The Stars and the Earth. By the Author of "Provings," etc.-XII. Bureau of Military Statistics. By A. J. Duganne.XIII. Manuscript of the Queen's Court. From the Bohemian.XIV. A Summer Night. By Alfred B. Street.-XV. Literary Record -Editor's Table.

The Atlantic Monthly, devoted to Literature, Science, Art, and Politics. September, 1865. 1s. 6d. each, number. Boston.

Part I.

CONTENTS.-I. Coupon Bonds. By J. T. Trowbridge. II. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship. By D. A. Wasson.-III. Twilight. IV. Needle and Garden. Chap. IX.-V. Scientific Farming. By Gail Hamilton.-VI. Doctor Johns. Chap. 8. By Donald G. Mitchell.-VII. Natural History of the Peacock. By T. W. Parsons.-VIII. Up the St. John's River. By T. W. Higginson.IX. A New Art Critic. By Eugene Benson.-X. The Luck of Abel Steadman.-XI. At Bay Ridge, Long Island. By T. B. Aldrich.XII. "Running at the Heads."-XIII. The Chimney Corner. Part IX. By Mrs. H. B. Stowe.-XIV. A Visit to the Edgworths. By Mrs. Farrar.-XV. On a Pair of Old Shoes. By C. J. Sprague.XVI. Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration. By J. R. Lowell.-XVII. Our Future Militia System.-XVIII. Reviews and Literary Notices.

Banker's Magazine and Statistical Register

Edited by J. SMITH HOMANS. September, 1865. Subscription, 30s. per annum. New York.

CONTENTS.-I. National Bank Note Redemption.-II. Frauds on Banks: Remedies and Preventions.-III. Quarterly Return of the Na ional Banks of the United States, 1864-5.-IV. Apportionment of National Bank Capital in each State.-V. Quarterly Returns of the Banks of the State of New York.-VI. Bank Note Redemption.-VII. List of 1530 National Banks.-VIII. Frauds and Robberies.-IX. Bank Items.-X. Private Bankers' List of New Firms.-XI. Daily Price of Gold at New York, 1865.-XII. Notes on the Money and Stock Markets.

Boston Review (The). months). September, 1865. The Christian Examiner. months). September, 1865. per annum.

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The Church Monthly. Editor, JOHN COTTON SMITH, D.D. August, 1865. Boston. Subscription, 18s. per an

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CONTENTS.-I. Professor Cooke's Lectures.-II. The Government of Priests and its Anomalies.-III. The combat of St. Paul with Beasts at Ephesus.-IV. Clerical Elocution. (Continued).-V. Bryan Maurice. Chap. XI.-VI. A Few Thoughts on Church Unity.-VII. Literary Notices.

Dental Cosmos (The). A Monthly Record of Dental Science, devoted to the Interests of the Profession. Edited by J. H. McQUILLEN, D.D.S., and GEO. J. ZIEGLER, M.D. Vol. VII. 1865. Philadelphia. Subscription, 18s. per

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CONTENTS OF THE AUGUST NUMBER.-1. Consultation. By J. H. McQuillen, D.D.S.-II. Sensitive Dentine. By Dr. C. E. Francis.III. The Tumours of the Month. By J. E. Garretson, M.D.-IV. Anniversary of the Society of Dental Surgeons of New York. By W. H. Atkinson, M.D.-V. Orthodontia. By J. Foster Flagg, D.D.S. -VI. Instructing Patients. By L. D. Shepard, D.D.S.-VII. Crystal

Gold. By C. A. Marvin, D.D.S.-VIII. Opening Address, Connec ticut Dental Association. By A. Hill, D.D.S.-IX. Steam Pressure in Vulcanisers. By Alfred Welch.-X. Proceedings of Dental Societies.-XI. Periscope of Medical and General Science in their relations to Dentistry. By G. J. Ziegler, M.D.

The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America. Vol. IX. No. 8. August, 1865. New York. Subscription, 12s. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. Bancroft and Graham on Clark of Rhode Island.II. An English Officer's Account of his Service in America.-III, Notes and Queries-Societies and their Proceedings-Notes on Books --Miscellany.

Hours at Home. A Popular Magazine of Religious and Useful Literature. Edited by J. M. SHERWOOD. September, 1865. New York. Subscription, 15s. per

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CONTENTS.-I. Dangers and Demands of the New Era. By J. R. Spalding, Esq.-II. Geoffrey the Lollard. Chaps. 5 to 9. By Frances Eastwood.-III. The Home Feeling. By H. Harbaugh, D.D.-IV. Discoveries in the East. By L. P. Brockett, M.D.-V. The Spirit's Call. By Meta Lander.-VI. Nobody's Heroes. By Sarah Pritchard. -VII. The Sea of Galilee. By W. C. Prime, Esq.-VIII. By Summer Woods. By G. Cooper, Esq.-IX. A Passage from the Life of an Inventor.-X. Mr. Lincoln's Favourite Poem, and its Author. By J. G. Wilson.-XI. Magdalene. By E. S. Phelps.-XII. Song of Asbiorn. By Nina Claus.-XIII. Hero Worship of Lake Lucerne. By Mrs. Professor S. S. Robbins.-XIV. Sir Walter Scott and his Biographer. By Hon. C. T. Hulburd.-XV. The Wonders of Photography. By E. L. Wallace.-XVI. Elm Blossoms.-XVII. Brown Studies. By R. Turnbull, D.D.-XVIII. Short Sermons for Sunday School Teachers. No. 4. By Rev. C. S. Robinson. XIX. The Snow Bird. By C. S.-XX. Brigadier General Ransom. By J. P. Thompson, D.D.-XXI. Toast to the Bee.-XXII. White Lilies. By M. M. Hunt's Merchants' Magazine and Commercial

REVIEW. Edited by W. B. DANA. (Published Monthly). No. 319. August, 1865. New York. Subscription, 30s. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. The Detroit Convention.-II. The Plague.—III. American Manufactures and Productions -IV. Marine Insurance.V. Finances of the State of New York.-VI. Prices of Gold at New York. VII. The United States Debt.-VIII. Commercial Law.— IX. Commercial Chronicle and Review.-X. Journal of Banking, &c. -XI. Passenger Railroads in New York.-XII. Minnesota: its Resources.-XIII. Commercial Regulations.

Journal of the Franklin Institute of the State of PENNSYLVANIA FOR THE PROMOTION OF THE MECHANIC ARTS. Devoted to Mechanical and Physical Science, Civil Engineering, the Arts and Manufactures. Edited by Professor JOHN F. FRAZER. Third Series. Vol. L. No. 1. July, 1865. Philadelphia. Subscription, 30s. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. General Problem of Trussed Girders. By Professor De Volson Wood, C.E.-II. On the Size of Pins for Connecting Flat Links in the Chains of Suspension Bridges. By Sir Charles Fox.III. On the Wear and Tear of Steam Boilers. By F. A. Paget, C.E. -IV. The Problem of the Gyroscope. By James Clark, Esq.-V. A New Process for Extracting Gold from Ores, &c. By H. W. Jackson and W. A. Ott.-VI. Atmospheric Pressure as a source of Mechanical Power.-VII On Methods of Treating Cast Iron in the Foundry. By Zerah Colburn.-VIII. Notes on Ship-building in New York and vicinity. IX. Work and Vis-vava. By J. W. Nystrom.-X. On Aniline Black. By M. Lauth.-XI. Proceedings of Monthly Meeting. -XII. The Meteorology of Philadelphia. By James A. Kirkpatrick, A.M.

Monthly Religious Magazine. Edited by Rev. EDWARD H. SEARS and Rev. RUFUS ELLIS. Boston, 1865. Subscription 20s. per annum.

CONTENTS OF AUGUST NUMBER.-I. Conditions of Life and Progress in a Christian Society. By Edmund H. Sears.-II. Intimations of the Spirit.-III. The Executions at Washington.-IV. Perfection.V. The Kingdom Within.-VI. "Entered through the Gates into the City."-VII. A Sunday School Teacher's Lesson.-VIII. Morning Side.-IX. Sensibility to the Beauty and Fragrance of Flowers.-X. Swedenborg on the Incarnation.-XI. Random Readings.

The National Preacher and the Prayer-Meeting. New York. 1865. Subscription, 8s. per annum. CONTENTS OF THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER.-I. Advantages of Denominationalism. By Rev. Elbert S. Porter, D.D.-II. Adorning the yard. Doctrine. By Rev. Charles W. Baird.-III. Working in God's Vine

September, 1865. New York. Subscription, 10s. per annum. CONTENTS.-I. A Yarn by an old Salt.-II. How shall we Furnish our houses? China, Glass, and Silver ware.-III. Mr. Street's Gift to Yale College.-IV. Note from Mr. Calvert Vaux.-V. Notes here and there.

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CONTENTS OF NO. 5, AUGUST.-I. Hints towards the Treatment of

Uræmia. By J. C. Peters, M.D.-II. Report of Committee on the "Progress of Ophthalmology in the Year 1864" to the American Ophthalmological Society. By B. Joy Jeffries, M.D.-III. Statement of Cases of Gonorrhoeal and Purulent Ophthalmia treated in Desmarres (U.S.A.) Eye and Ear Hospital, Chicago, Illinois; with Special Report of Treatment employed. By J. S. Hildreth, U.S.A.-İV. A Case of Ophthalmia Intermittens. By H. Derby, M.D.-Proceedings of Societies-Correspondence, etc.

Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls. Edited by J. T. TROWBRIDGE, GAIL HAMILTON, and LUCY LARCOм. No. 9, September, 1865. Boston, Subscription, 8s. per annum.

CONTENTS.-I. The Lights on the Bridge. By Lucy Larcom.-II. Apologising. By Gail Hamilton.-III. Margery Grey. By Julia C. R. Dorr.-IV. The Cloud with the Silver Lining. By Mary N. Prescott.-V. Farming for Boys. By E. Morris.-VI. The Swallow. By C. K. Chanter.-VII. Lessons in Magic. No. 5.-VIII. Winning his Way. By Carleton.-IX. A Few Plain Words to my Pale-faced Friends. By Dio Lewis.-X. Half Hours with Father Brighthopes. By J. T. Trowbridge.-XI. Aunt Esther's Rules. By H. B. Stowe.XII. Among the Studios. No. 1. By T. B. Aldrich.-XIII. Stars at Bedtime. By Mrs. A. M. Wells.-XIV. The Boy of Chancellors. ville. By E. Kirke.-XV. Round the Evening Lamp.

A monthly periodical devoted to the diffusion of knowledge on Jewish Literature and Religion. Edited by ISAAC LEESER, assisted by the Rev. Dr. J. BONDI. Ab. 5625. August, 1865. Philadelphia. Subscription, 16s. per annum. CONTENTS.-I. Rabbinical Authority.-II. The Import of Sabbath. -III. Clara.-IV. Opening Lecture of a Course on the Hebrew, Chaldaic, and Syriac Languages.-V. St. Louis, Mo.-VI. Proposed Exploration of the Holy Land.-VII. Literary Notices-News Items,

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Journal devoted to Photography. No. 20, August, 1865. With a photograph of Crum Creek. Subscription, 18s. per annum. Philadelphia.

CONTENTS.-I. Phenomena of Development. By M. Carey Lea.II. Identity in Principle of the Collodion Process and the Daguerreotype. By M. Carey Lea.-III. The Story of a Carte de Visite.-IV. Rockwood's Photographic Van or Travelling Car.-V. Remarks on Parallactic Instruments. By P. H. Vander Weyde, M.D.-VI. Hints on Miscellaneous Photographic Subjects. By M. Carey Lea.-VII. The Porcelain Picture. By J. Q. A. Tresize.-VIII. Photographic Summary. By M. Carey Lea.-IX. Our Picture-Editorial.

The United States Service Magazine (Monthly). September, 1865. New York. Subscription, 30s. per

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CONTENTS.-I. Board of Visitors at West Point.-II. Military Education in Prussia.-III. Drill and Discipline.-IV. Retaliation in War.-V. The Quarter-Master General's Report.-VI. Great Battles in History. No. 5.-VII. Women in the War.-VIII. The Origin of Signals. IX. The Horse-Marine's Story.-X. "Saved."-XI. The Soldier's Mother.-XII. Literary Intelligence-Editor's Department, etc.

Proceedings of the California Academy of NaTURAL SCIENCES. Vol. III. Parts 1 and 2. 1863 and 1864. San Francisco. 18s.

CONTENTS.-I. Description of a New Species of Melica. By H. N. Bolander.-II. On the Inaccuracy of the Eighth Census as to the Metallic and Mineral Statistics of the United States. By J. D. Whitney.-III. Description of Two New Species of Plants from Nevada Territory. By A. Kellogg, M.D.-IV. Description of Two New Species of Bivalve Shells. By Auguste Remond.-V. Description of Two Species of Scutella. By Auguste Remond.-VI. Description of Two New Species of Collomia. By A. Kellogg, M.D.-VII. Description of a New Genus and Species of Plant from Nevada Territory. By A. Kellogg, M.D.-VIII. Infusoria from the Moving Sands in the neighbourhood of San Francisco. By James Blake, M.D.. F.R.C.S.-IX. Description of Two New Species of Plants. By A. Kellogg, M.D.-X. Description of a New Species of Hosackia. By A. Kellogg, M.D.-XI. Description of a New Species of Mentzelia. By A. Kellogg, M.D. - XII. Description of Three New Plants. By A. Kellogg, M.D.-XIII. On the Gradual Elevation of the Land in the Environs of San Francisco. By James Blake, M.D., F.R.C.S. -XIV. Description of Four New Species of Echinodermata. By Auguste Remond.-XV. Description of a New Species of Allium. By A. Kellogg, M D.-XVI. On New or Rare Mollusca Inhabiting the Coast of California. No. 2. By J. G. Cooper, M.D.-XVII. Description of a New Species of Alsine. By A. Kellogg, M.D.XVIII. On a New Genus of Terrestrial Mollusca Inhabiting California. By J. G. Cooper, M.D.-XIX. Description of New Species of Fishes. By Andrew Garrett.-XX. On New Genera and Species of California Fishes. By J. G. Cooper, M.D.-XXI. Enumeration of Shrubs and Trees Growing in the vicinity of the Mouth of San Francisco Bay. By H. N. Bolander.-XXII. On Californian Lepidoptera. No. 3. By H. Behr, M.D.-XXIII. On New Genera and Species of Californian Fishes. No. 2. By J. G. Cooper, M.D.-XXIV. Description of New Californian Plants. No. 1. By Professor Asa Gray.-XXV. Description of New Species of Fishes. No. 2. By Andrew Garrett.-XXVI. On New Genera and Species of Californian Fishes. No. 3. By J. G. Cooper, M.D.-XXVII. Descriptions of Nine New Species of Helix Inhabiting California. By W. Newcomb, M.D.-XXVIII. Description of a New Species of Virgularia from the Coast of California. By W. M. Gabb.-XXIX. Notice of Plants found Growing in Hot Springs in California. By Professor W. H. Brewer.-XXX. Description of a New Species of Pedicularia. By W. Newcomb, M.D.--XXXI. On Californian Lepidoptera. No. 4. By H. Behr, M.D.-XXXII. Earthquakes in California during 1863. By J. B. Trask, M.D.-XXXIII. Earthquakes in California from 1800 to 1864. By J. B. Trask.-XXXIV. On Cretaceous Fossils from Sahuaripa Valley, State of Sonora, Mexico, discovered by August Remond. By W. M. Gabb.-XXXV. Descriptions of New Marine Shells from the Coast of California. Part I. By P. P. Carpenter, B.A., Ph. D.-XXXVI. Notes on Californian Satyrides. By H. Behr, M.D.-XXXVII. Note on a Large Lump of Gold found on the

Middle Fork of the American River. By Professor W. P. Blake.XXXVIII. Note on the Fossil Remains of the Horse and Elephant, mingled, at Mare Island, San Francisco Bay. By Professor W. P. Blake.XXXIX. Ammonites or Ceratites from Oregon Bar. By Professor W. P. Blake.-XL. On Brushite, a new Mineral occurring in Phosphatic Guano. By G. E. Moore, Ph. B.-XLI. Note on the Discovery of Fossils in the Auriferous Slate formation of the Mariposa Estate, California. By Professor W. P. Blake.-XLII. Notes on some Fossils from the Gold Bearing Slates of Mariposa. By W. M. Gabb. -XLIII. Communication on the San Luis Obispo Quicksilver Fossils. By W. M. Gabb.-XLIV. On the Crystallization of Brushite. By James D. Dana, LL.D.-XLV. On New Californian Marine Shells. No. 2. By P. P. Carpenter, Ph. D.

Proceedings of the Portland Society of Natural

HISTORY. Vol. I. Part 1. &c. Portland. 1864.

CONTENTS.-I. A Catalogue of the Flowering Plants of Maine. By G. L. Goodale.-II. Catalogue of the Mammals of Maine. By C. H. Hitchcock.-III. Catalogue of the Birds of Maine. By C. H. Hitchcock. IV. Notes on the Geology of Maine. By C. H. Hitchcock.V. List of Reptiles and Amphibians of Maine. By B. F. Fogg, M.D. -VI. Fossils of the Potsdam Group in North America. By C. H. Hitchcock.-VII. Grooved Boulders in Bethel, Me. By N. T. True, M.D.-VIII. Catalogue of Fossils from Square Lake. By E. Billings, F.G.S.-IX. Influence of Location on the Growth of Shells. By N. T. True, M.D.

Journal of the Portland Society of Natural HisTORY. Vol. I. No. 1. Portland. 1864. CONTENTS.-Observations on the Terrestrial Pulmonifera of Maine, including a Catalogue of all the Species of Terrestrial and Fluviatile Mollusca known to Inhabit the State. By Edward S. Morse. With ten jull page Plates.

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of PHILADELPHIA. Vol. IV. No. 3. May and June, 1865. Philadelphia.

CONTENTS.-I. Contributions to the Natural History of the Cynipida of the United States, and of their Galls. By Baron R. Osten Sacken. -II. Descriptions of several New Species of North American Coleoptera. By J. H. B. Bland.-III. Descriptions of some New Species of Mutilla from California. By E. T. Cresson.-IV. Notes upon Papilio asterias and Saturnia Promethea Hermaphrodites. By W. H. Edwards.-V. Compiled Descriptions of North American Staphylinidæ. By J. H. B. Bland.-VI. Catalogue of Hymenoptera, in the Collection of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. By E. T. Cresson.-VII. Lepidopterological Notes and Descriptions. No. 1. By A. R. Grote and C. T. Robinson. And Index to Vol. IV.