their absence, Herman, Duke of Suabia, | passing by, and hearing the screams of the infant, took compassion on its neglected and abandoned state, had it removed to his castle, and adopted it for his own. Years flew by, and the child was approaching to manhood, when the emperor came on a visit to the duke. The young count's interesting appearance attracted his attention, and inquiring who he was, Herman related the singular manner in which he had come by him. Suspicion immediately entered the emperor's mind, but he concealed his alarm; and pretending he had taken an extraordinary interest in the youth, desired the duke to cede him over to him, saying that he intended to make him one of his pages, and would provide for his welfare in life. Though the duke loved the count almost as much as if he had been his own child, he could not refuse the emperor's demand, and young Caln departed with his sovereign in the quality of page. On his arrival at his palace at Suabia, the emperor forth with summoned to his presence the two servants whom he had eighteen years before commissioned to destroy the infant in the Black Forest, in order to elicit from them more positive proof as to the count's identity. The two men, terrified at the king's demand, fell upon their knees, and confessed how they had imposed upon him, but declaring, at the same time, that if it were their sovereign's will that they should die for what they had done, they would rather submit to the worst of deaths than exist as murderers. The enraged monarch dismissed them from his presence. There being no longer any doubt about the young count's origin, the prophecy returned to the emperor's recollection with increasing force and renewed poignancy, and he determined that the object of his alarm should not this time escape him. He dispatched young Caln to the empress, who was then residing at Aix-la-Chapelle, with a letter containing this terrible injunction-" As you set a value on your life, see that the bearer of this be secretly and speedily destroyed."

The traveller, little knowing that he carried his own death-warrant, proceeded on his journey, which lay over Speyer, where, on his arrival, he lodged, according to the orders he had received, at the house of the dean of

the cathedral, who was a most worthy pillar of the church; but, fortunately for the young count, his spiritual affairs were not altogether so important, or so multiplied, as to deprive him of a great deal of worldly curiosity, which was more than usually excited on the arrival of the emperor's page, bearing dispatches for the queen-not an every-day occurrence. He sounded the count on the occasion of his mission, but could elicit nothing from him that could at all satisfy his curiosity; and whilst he was exhausting his interrogatory resources, and drawing largely upon his patience, the wearied traveller fell asleep. Then the excited dean, unable to resist any longer the impulse of his feelings and the favor of the moment, approached the sleeping youth, gently drew the letter from his bosom, where it was concealed, with trembling hand broke the imperial seal, and, as he finished perusing its contents, he could not forbear shedding tears; and turning his eyes towards the innocent victim of his sovereign's bloody designs, who was now buried in peaceful slumber, he felt convinced that he had done no crime to merit such a death-for the guilty could not sleep as he then slept, and resolved to avert the fate that menaced him.

By the alteration of a few letters, he changed the sense of the words containing the cruel order to the queen to this--" As you set a value on your life, see that the bearer of this be secretly and speedily married to our daughter.' The honest dean then consigned the letter back to its deposit. Soon after this, the page awoke, took leave of his host, and departed for Aix-la-Chapelle, where, soon after, he was married to the emperor's daughter.

When the emperor heard of this, he was greatly astonished and dismayed; but, when he discovered that his daughter's husband was the Count Caln's son, he forgave the past and made him co-regent in the government; thus fulfilling the prophecy which had been foretold to him in the hut in the Black Forest. Out of gratitude to the Dean of Speyer, who had prevented his shedding innocent blood, he made him chancellor, and founded the imperial vault within the precincts of the Speyer minster.

THE notices of the leading literary Journals of the publications of the month are contained in the following lists:

The Letters and Works of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield; including numerous Letters and Papers now first published from the Original Manuscripts. Edited, with Notes, by Lord Mahon. This volume of "Miscellanies" completes Lord Mahon's admirable edition of the Letters and

Works of the wittiest and ablest of the Stanhopes, It contains his speeches in the House of Lords, his diplomatic and viceregal addresses, a political pamphlet supposed to be his, his various essays in periodical publications, his poems, some letters not before printed, others not until now printed correctly, several important passages (chiefly political) restored from the original manuscripts of the letters to his son and to the Bishop of Waterford, four very striking papers which see the light for the first time, the letters of elementary instruction to Philip Stanhope omitted in the former volumes, and (not the least of its merits) an excellent index. The Examiner says of the book, "it is little to say, that its contents may be studied with advantage by all who wish to obtain a mastery and facility in the writing of good English. Nowhere are the graces of style more consummately displayed, or the art of concealing art more happily practised. But the book has also merits of a much higher cast. There are in it stores of good sense, of sound and subtle observation, of just and even high thoughts, which all who care to seek may find. It has been the fate of Lord Chesterfield (which few perhaps could have borne even go well as he has done) to be principally judged as a public writer by letters written without the most distant view to publication, and including matters of the most delicate and close familiarity as between father and son. From these, without regard to their specific purpose, his own principles have been assumed; and out of them a system of life has been constructed,-founded on trading theories of morals, and substituting the decencies for the virtues,-which good men have raised their voices against, and a saying of Johnson's has marked as with the sign of the plague. Yet the last thing Lord Chesterfield thought of doing when he began those letters was to set up any general example for fathers and sons."

Memorials and Correspondence of Charles James Fox. Edited by Lord John Russell. Vols. I. and II. This is the first instalment of a work which the public has looked for with eager interest ever since Mr. Fox's death in 1806. Mr. Fox was long-and is still, perhaps the great hero of Whig worship: -a position which his large attainments, his suavity of manner, and probably his strict political integrity, entitled him to become. Like his illustrious rival, Mr. Pitt, Fox was the representative of a great political party; and the effects of the services which each rendered to his followers continue still

to influence political connections, and even society itself. The biographer of Mr. Fox was to have been the late Lord Holland,-Mr. Fox's nephew,and from 1806 to 1853 public attention has been kept alive to a belief that the biography would be one worthy of the subject aud of the reputation of its writer. The final disappointment of expectaabout Mallet's "Life of the great Duke of Marlbotions that were rife for twenty years, and more, rough" was scarcely more sore than that which a perusal of the book before us will occasion to every believer in Holland House. His Lordship collected, it is true, and the materials were entrusted to Lord John Russell. The Athenæum, noticing it, calls it a disjointed and irregular performance. may be the defects of these volumes, they will give Lord John, however, is of opinion that whatever to Englishmen "a better knowledge than they now possess of one of the most striking periods of their history, and of one of the greatest men."

Correspondence, Despatches, and other Papers, of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of Londonderry. Edited by his Brother, Charles William Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, G.C.B. Vols. IX.-XII. These volumes complete the Castlereagh papers and despatches. They embrace the period when Lord Castlereagh was Secretary for Foreign Affairs, from 1813 to 1822. There is no question as to the great historical value of these records of a statesman who long held a position so prominent in the British government, and exercised so great an influence both at home and abroad. With abilities and eloquence far inferior to those of Fox and Pitt, Grattan and Canning, and other great men of his times, it was the good fortune of Lord Castlereagh to bring to a successful issue transactions which had baffled them all.

A Selection from the Correspondence of the late Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. Edited by his Sonin-Law, the Rev. William Hanna, LL.D. The present volume is supplementary to the four which contain Dr. Hanna's 'Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Dr. Chalmers.' The Literary Gazette thinks "the letters now printed do not add much to what is generally known of the public career of Chalmers, or of the events in which he took a leading part, but they reveal many striking and pleasing traits of his private character, his warm affection, his busy energy, his devoted piety, and what gave a charm to so much intellectual and moral excellence-his unaffected humility."

Family Romance; or, Episodes in the Domestic Annals of the Aristocracy. By J. Bernard Burke, Esq. These volumes contain some of the gleanings of Mr. Bernard Burke's more elaborate researches into the history and genealogies of the British aristocracy. A number of miscellaneous anecdotes, traditions, legends, and romantic episodes in the domestic annals of well-known families, are collected and arranged, so as to form a work of most entertaining reading, not

cessary conditions and laws of thought, and the phenomena of mind which are proper subjects of inductive treatment. The metaphysician, in observing and studying the phases of his own intellectual or emotional nature, proceeds according to the rules expounded in the Novum Organum,' which are applicable to the investigation of all subjects, mental as well as physical. The processes of mental introspection afford the richest materials for the inductive science of mind, while by German metaphysicians, and by Mr. Morell as one of their too obsequious admirers, more attention is given to them for the sake of speculative and transcendental metaphysics. The distinction between Psychology and Metaphysics is plainly enough set down at the commencement of the treatise-the first as occupy ing itself with the phenomena of consciousness, the latter determining the necessary modes of mental existence; but throughout the work Mr. Morell appears sometimes as metaphysician where he ought to be psychologist, and at other times what is referred to as objective ought to be included among the subjective materials of inductive inquiry. The reader accustomed to these studies, and imbued with the Baconian spirit, will readily perceive this confusion, and will at the same time appreciate the general learning and acuteness of the author. In the present volume the investigation is confined to the intelligence as distinguished from the feelings and the will, the consideration of which is reserved for a second part of the "Elements of Psychology." History of Scotland, from the Revolution to the Extinction of the last Jacobite Insurrection (16891748,) by Mr. John Hill Burton, which to the Examiner "appears not only admirably written, but marked by careful research, excellent principles of judgment, and views of events both original and striking."

The Orations of Hyperides, "now first printed in facsimile, with a short account of the discovery of the original manuscript at Western Thebes, in Upper Egypt, in 1847, by Joseph Arden, Esq., F.S.A." Not more for the circumstances attending its discovery than for its literary value, this volume possesses remarkable interest. It supplies an addition to what had already been found (in the same locality) of the apology for Lycophron, and contains an entire oration for Euxenippus-and, as in a future notice we shall show, exhibits more of the manner and style of this famous orator, whose reputation was hardly second to that of Demosthenes whom he so warmly opposed, than has been derived from any previous authority.

narratives. The lady painter is indeed less quaint and elaborate; she is also looser in the texture of her production; but she is more natural and real." Classic and Historic Portraits. By James Bruce. This work comprises biographies of the following classic and historic personages:-Sappho, Esop, Pythagoras, Aspasia, Milo, Agesilaus, Socrates, Plato, Alcibiades, Helen of Troy, Alexander the Great, Demetrius Poliorcetes, Scipio Africanus, Sylla, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberias, Germanicus, Caligula, Lollia, Paulina, Cæsonia, Caracalla, Heliogabalus, Zenobia, Julian the AposBoadicea, Agrippina, Poppaa, Otho, Commodus, tate, Eudoxia, Theodora, Charlemagne, Abelard and Heloise, Elizabeth of Hungary, Dante, Robert Bruce, Ignez de Castro, Agnes Sorel, Jane Shore, Lucrezia Borgia, Anne Bullen, Diana of Poitiers, Catherine de' Medici, Queen Elizabeth, Mary Queen of Scots, Cervantes, Sir Kenelm Digby, John Sobieski, Anne of Austria, Ninon de l'Enclos, Mdlle. de Montpensier, the Duchess of Orleans, Madame de Maintenon, Catherine of Russia, Madame de Staël.

The Autobiography of a Missionary. By the Rev. J. P. Fletcher, Curate of South Hampstead, Author of "A Two Years' Residence at Nineveh."

The Harmonies of Physical Science in relation to the Higher Sentiments; with Observations on the Study of Medical Science, and the Moral and Scientific Relations of Medical Life. By William Hinds, M.D., &c. A view of the wonders of nature, especially in chemical and medical science, as evidences of design; accompanied with remarks on the proper feelings and conduct that should characterize the medical man, and the spirit in which he should undertake his professional duties.

Traits of American Indian Life and Character. By a Fur-Trader. A set of sketches drawn from the lifelong experience of an old servant of the Hudson's Bay Company, whose employment has chiefly though not wholly lain beyond the Rocky Mountains. The incidents of fur-trading, Indian character, Indian life, and Indian treachery and massacre-the last by no means the least-form the substance of the book.

The Adventures of a Lady in Tartary, Thibet, China, and Kashmir, through portions of territory never before visited by Europeans; with an account of the journey from the Punjaub to Bombay, overland, viû the famous Caves of Ajunta and Ellora. Also, an account of the Mahalleshwur and Neilgherry Mountains, the Sanataria of the Bombay and Madras Presidencies.

Sam Slick's Wise Saws and Modern Instances; or, What he Said, Did, or Invented. This new work is well received. The Athenæum says: "Let Sam Slick go a mackerel fishing, or to Court in

gentleman's own. The book before us will be read and laughed over. Its quaint and racy dialect will please some readers its abundance of yarns will amuse others. There is something in the two volumes to suit readers of every humor."

The sixth volume of the reprint of Mr. Hildreth's | History of the United States, draws from the Athenæum the following estimate: "As Mr. Hildreth proceeds with his history, we become more and more possessed with the feeling to which we have already given expression in noticing the previous volumes-that it will require a very different style of treatment, from that of which Mr. Hildreth seems to be capable, to render the history of the great American Republic interesting to readers on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Hildreth, we have again to repeat, is pains taking, lucid, and we believe accurate; but, with all these merits, his work is uniformly and preeminently dry. But to us, who want only the essence of American history, and to whom every record of American events must carry with it an indication of the significance of those events from a general, or at least an Anglo Saxon point of view, such a detailed chronicle as Mr. Hildreth persists in giving, is wearisome and unprofitable."

Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West; or, the Experience of an Early Settler. By Major Strickland, C. M. Edited by Agnes Strickland. This, we believe, is the third, if not the fourth, book on Canadian emigration which we owe to the Strickland family, in its authorship not unpleasantly betraying difference of sex from its predecessors, and for this reason worthy of being considered together

The History of New York, from its earliest Settlement to the Present Time. By W. H. Carpenter and T. S. Arthur. A series of histories of the States of the American Union in small compass and popular style, the Athenæum thinks, "is a good idea, and if well carried out, would have its welcome in this country as well as in America. We cannot, however, congratulate Messrs. Carpenter and Arthur on their contribution to such a series. Their narrative is dry and colorless; their facts may be correct, though they abstain from quoting any authorities; but we look in vain for life, for animation of thought, for any pulse of the old Puritan heart. This is not the tale that might be told of the pilgrim fathers of the sailing of the Mayflower-of the progress of the colony of the revolutionary war."

The Educational Institutions of the United States, their Character and Organization. Translated from

the Swedish of P. A. Siljeström, M.A. By Frederica Rowan. The result of a journey to America, at the public expense of Sweden, to inquire into education in the United States. The information in the volume is mainly derived from public reports on the schools, or the laws under which they are established and regulated, with such correction as oral inquiry and examination could supply, as to the actual working. The book contains a good digest of the schools and systems of education in the model States of New York and New England, with notices of some of the other States and of the higher colleges: there are notices, too, of the character and qualifications

of the teachers.

The War of Ormuzd and Ahriman in the Nine

teenth Century. By H. W. Davis. This able and vigorous book is well spoken of by the Athanæum. "Under its fanciful title it professes to review the great political questions of the age-the war of principles as between East and West. Liberty is Ormuzd,-Despotism, Ahriman. Mr. Davis exhibits the history of the two principles for the last thirty or forty years-taking America as the representative of freedom, Russia as that of slavery. He urges on his countrymen the absolute necessity of taking a part in this war of principles; undertaking to show from historical documents that Russia has more than once dreamed of putting down the Republicanism of the United States by force of arms. The book is often eloquent, and almost always suggestive."

A new edition of De Lolme on the Constitution of England has appeared, under the auspices of John M'Gregor, M. P. The Literary Gazette says of it: "Although it is easy to point out errors and defects in De Lolme, it is universally acknowledg ed that it is far the best book ever written on the English constitution. Its value is not diminished, but rather increased, by the lapse of time since it was written."

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THE last number of The Museum of Classical Antiquities is one of unusual interest and value, containing an elaborate dissertation on the site of the Holy Sepulchre and other places in Jerusalem. The examination is continued in a supplementary number to the second volume. The articles state, as the result of the best researches of travellers and Sepulchre is not the true one; and it is melancholy of learned men, that the received site of the Holy to reflect that, from the Crusades down to our own day, a superstition and a lie have exercised so much influence throughout Christendom. So long ago as 1741, Jonas Hortius, a German traveller, spoke thus decidedly on the subject: "Among other results of my journey, I must specially mention the discovery, that what is now received as Mount Calvary cannot be the true one. I trust that the veil of error will now be removed from the eyes of the whole world, and such a blow be given to the godless honoring of this place, that the deceived people may at length open their eyes, and consider how long they have been groping in the dark, and fancied that those offerings could be well-pleasing to God which are so opposed to the service which God requires." The proofs and arguments now collected will set the matter at rest in the minds of all disinterested and candid inquirers.

Touissant Louverture, the negro hero who so nobly distinguished himself by his resistance to the attempt of the French to impose their yoke on his country, Saint Domingo, and who was carried to France and confined in a dungeon till he diedthis noted man must now be included in the list of modern authors. A work has just been published containing memoirs of his life, written by him when in the fortress of Joux, in France. They were principally destined to be placed before the First Consul Bonaparte. They contain a full account of the remarkable events in which he figured, and a complete refutation of the false and scandalous charges which Bonaparte caused to be brought against him, as a pretext for keeping him in confiuement. They are written with much simplicity and feeling, combined with a certain degree of dignity.