"In the state induced by haschish, the singular and fantastic forins which those under its influence, and the parties surrounding them, have appeared to undergo, are of great interest. "The eyelashes,' writes one gentleman, lengthened themselves indefinitely, and rolled themselves as threads of gold on little ivory bobbins, which turned unassisted, with frightful rapidity.

I still saw my comrades at certain moments, but deformed, half men, half plants, with the pensive airs of an ibis standing on one foot, of ostriches flapping their wings, &c.'-'I imagined that I was the paroquet of the Queen of Sheba, and I imitated as well as I was able the cries of this praiseworthy bird.'"

The same gentleman "thought he could look at will into his stomach, and that he saw there,

in the form of an emerald, from which escaped millions of sparks, the drug he had swallowed." Here is some of the raw material of which ghosts are made.

ORGANIC CHANGE.-At the late General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a resolution of Dr. W. A. Smith was adopted, giving the college of bishops the privilege of presenting their objections to any rule or regulation adopted by the General Conference, which, in their opinion, is unconstitutional, and requiring a subsequent vote of twothirds in favor of the rule or regulation so objected to, to pass the regulation.

MACBETH'S CASTLE.-A correspondent of The Athenaeum says:-In the summer of 1852 I went to the top of Dunsinane Hill along with the "neighboring clergyman," a most accomplished gentleman. Of Macbeth's Castle, the "Great Dunsinane," nothing remains; there are, however, three mounds, which we imagined to be the site of "the outward walls" where the banners were ordered to be hung out :

"Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still, They come."-Macbeth, act v, sc. 5. When we came to the foot of the hill, we discovered that there was a very fine echo; and surely Shakspeare knew that this was the case, or else some one told him, for he makes Macbeth say to the doctor :

"I would appland thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.”—Act v, sc. 3.

BIRDS SPEAKING ENGLISH.-A traveler in South America, speaking of the birds of his native land, says it is pleasant to notice that, into whatever strange countries they may have wandered during winter, and whatever strange tongues they may have heard, they nevertheless come back speaking English. Hark! "Phoebe! Phoebe !" plain enough. And by-and-by the bobolink, saying, "Bob o' Lincoln," and the quail, saying, "Bob White." We have heard of one who always thought the robin said, "Skillet! skillet! three legs to a skillet! two legs to a skillet !" A certain facetious doctor says the robins cry out to him as he passes along the road, "Kill 'em! cure 'em! physic! physic! physic!"

JOHN RUSSELL BARTLETT'S "Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New-Mexico, California, Chihuahua," &c., has been published, in two volumes, by the Appletons. It is an interesting and instructive work, replete with incident and adventure. We quote

the following pleasing description of the loghouses of a small German colony, which he found on reaching the Guadaloupe River :

"Among these, I was not a little surprised to find one occupied by a gentleman of learning and taste, with a choice library of scientific books around him. In chemistry and mineralogy, his collection was particu larly rich; and even in other departments of natural science, as well as in history, voyages, and travels, it would have been a very respectable one in our large cities, where books are easily procured. Some good pictures, including copies from Murillo, evinced his taste in the fine arts. There was no floor or glass windows to this humble dwelling, and as much daylight seemed to come through the openings in the logs as

through the windows. A plank table, chairs covered with deer skin, and a rude platform, on which was spread a bed filled with corn husks, but destitute of bed-clothes, constituted the furniture. The walls were covered with books except one spot, where were arranged twelve rifles and fowling-pieces of various kinds, with other paraphernalia of a genuine sportsman; while here and there, jutting out from a projecting corner or log, were sundry antlers, evidence of the skill of the occupant. For want of closets and drawers, these antlers served to hang his clothes on.

"On entering this primitive dwelling, we found its owner, Mr. Berne, busily engaged upon his meteorological table. He received us with kindness and suav ity of manner; and we found him, as well as several others of his countrymen who had entered, communicative and intelligent. They had been here two years, and formed part of a large colony of Germans who bad settled in the vicinity. By invitation, we called at an adjoining house, equally primitive with that beforo described. On the rude wall hung some beautiful pictures, while other articles of taste, and a cabinet of minerals, had their appropriate places. Here, too, was a fine harpsichord, from which we were treated to selections from the most popular composers, played with an expression and feeling which indicated a master's hand... . It is pleasant to meet such emigrants. They bring cheerfulness and contentment with them, and impart to the pioneer population by which they are surrounded that love for refined enjoyments in which it is so often deficient."

JEREMY TAYLOR says:-"Marriage has in it less of beauty but more of safety than the single life; it hath not more ease but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity, and those burdens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities and churches, and heaven itself. Celibole, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites into societies and republics, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and obeys their king, and keeps order, and exercises many virtues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world."

A FRENCHMAN IN AMSTERDAM.-A Parisian, who, by some means, had found himself in Amsterdam, had his attention attracted by a remarkably beautiful house near the canal. For some moments he silently gazed on the edifice, as if lost in admiration; then suddenly turning round, he addressed himself in French to a Dutchman who stood beside him :

"Pray, sir, may I ask, To whom does that house belong?"

The Hollander answered him in his own language-:

“Ik kan net verstan," (I do not understand.)

The Parisian not doubting he was understood, took the Dutchman's answer for the proprietor's

name.

"O, O!" said he, "it belongs to Mr. Kaniferstan! Well, I am sure he must be very agreeably situated! The house is most charming, and the garden appears delicious! I don't know that I ever saw a better! A friend of mine has one like it, near the River Choisebut I certainly give this the preference!" He added many other observations of the same kind, to which the Dutchman made no reply.

When he arrived at Amsterdam, he saw a most beautiful woman walking on the quay, arm in arm with a gentleman. He asked a person who passed him who that charming lady was; but the man, not understanding French, replied:

"Ik kan net verstan."

"O!" said he, "this is too great an accession of good fortune! Mr. Kaniferstan proprietor of such a fine house, husband to such a beautiful woman, and to get the largest prize in the lottery. It must be allowed there are some fortunate men in the world !"

About a week after this, our traveler saw a very superb funeral. He asked whose it was.

"Ik kan net verstan," replied the person of whom he inquired.

"O gracious!" exclaimed he; "poor Mr. Kaniferstan, who had such a noble house, such an angelic wife, and the largest prize in the lottery! He must have quitted this world with great regret! But I thought his happiness was too complete to be of long duration !"

He then went home, reflecting on the instability of human affairs.

IDLENESS.-Old Burton says that idleness is the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, the step-mother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, the cushion on which the devil chiefly reposes, and a great cause not only of melancholy, but of many other diseases; for the mind is naturally active, and if it be not occupied about some honest business, it rushes into mischief, or sinks into melancholy.

FREAKS OF THE BRAIN.-It is curious, sometimes ludicrous, to observe the freaks which the brain plays in an "abnormal condition," as the doctors say.

Dr. Gooch relates the case of a lady who, in consequence of an alarm of fire, believed that she was the Virgin Mary, and that her head was constantly encircled by a brilliant halo. Dr. Uwins gives an account of an intellectual young gentleman, who, from some morbid association with the idea of an elephant, was struck by a

horrific spasm whenever the word was named, or even written before him; and to such a pitch was this infatuation carried, that elephant paper, if he were sensible it were such, produced the same effect. A similar case is told of a gentleman, who, on narrowly escaping from the earthquake at Lisbon, fell into a state of delirium whenever the word earthquake was pronounced in his hearing. The Rev. John Mason, of Water Stratford, England, evinced in every thing sound judgment, except that he believed he was Elias, and foretold the advent of Christ, who was to commence the millennium at Stratford. A lady, twenty-three years of age, afflicted with hysterical madness, used to remain constantly at the windows of her apartment during the summer. When she saw a beautiful cloud in the sky, she screamed out, "Garverin, Garverin, come and take me!" and repeated the same invitation until the cloud disappeared. She mistook the clouds for balloons sent up by Garverin. The Rev. Simon Brown died with the conviction that his rational soul was annihilated by a special fiat of the divine will; and a patient in the Friends' "Retreat," at York, thought he had no soul, heart, or lungs. There was a tradesman who thought he was a seven-shilling piece, and advertised himself thus: "If my wife presents me for payment, don't change me." Bishop Warburton tells us of a man who thought himself a 66 goose pie;" and Dr. Ferriday, of Manchester, had a patient who thought he had "swallowed the devil." In Paris there lived a man who thought he had, with others, been guillotined; and when Napoleon was emperor, their heads were all restored, but in the scramble he got the wrong one! Marcus Donatus tells us of one Vicentinus, who believed himself too large to pass one of his doorways. To dispel this illusion, it was resolved by his physician that he should be dragged through the aperture by force. This erroneous dictate was obeyed; but as he was forced along, Vicentinus screamed out in agony that his limbs were fractured, and the flesh torn from his bones. In this dreadful delusion, with terrific imprecations against his murderers, he died. The singularity, and indeed the mischief of many of such cases is, that they are monomaniacal, the patient being rational on all other subjects, and, therefore, when the hallucination relates to a matter of speculation, in science, in theology, say, it often has a grave result, being taken as rational matter of inquiry or the poor "cracked" author being held responsible as a heretic, and, in former times, burnt alive, with devout zeal by his orthodox brethren. We have fallen upon more merciful times, and assuredly need them much, for madness is amazingly rife among us.

Gold and the Gospel-Black Water Chronicle-Dr. Dempster-Scott's Daniel-Bow in the CloudsCamp-Meeting Manual-Plurality of Worlds-Chesney's Russo-Turkish Campaigns-Sunshine on Daily Paths-Fern Leaves-Hunter's Select MelodiesThe Bride of the Iconoclasts-Works of RogersArmenia-Miss Strickland's Lives-Bird's CalavarRecreations of Christopher North-A Defense of the Eclipse of Faith-Protestant Church in Hungary -Greece and the Golden Horn.

A VERY valuable book has been issued by Carlton & Phillips, New-York, entitled Gold and the Gospel. It contains two prize essays on the " Scriptural duty of giving according to means and income." They discuss fully the Biblical doctrine on the subject, and present it so distinctly that the book cannot fail of a profound effect. These essays are making a stir in England. It is certainly a hopeful sign of the times that the subject of "systematic beneficence" is assuming so much interest in the Christian world. It is precisely in this idea that we believe lies the chief hope of the Christian movements of the age. The world is yet to see a practical revolution on this subject.

Redfield, New-York, has sent us The Black Water Chronicle, an amusing sketch of "An Expedition into the Land of Canaan," a section of Western Virginia, in Randolph County. It was undertaken by "five adventurous gentlemen, without any aid from government." The region invaded by these unrivaled heroes "fillibusters " against panthers, bears, and wolves-is exceedingly romantic in its scenery and sporting opportunities; and the profound historian who has undertaken to record the memorable expedition, rivals, in some respects, the extraordinary claims of the venerable Diederich Knickerbocker, that ever-to-bevenerated historiographer, who has preserved from oblivion the history of New-York, "from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch Dynasty." The book is full of rollicking humor, and presents a large amount of information respecting a very interesting portion of the "Old Dominion."

We have received a very able Discourse on the Ministerial Call, addressed, by request, to the members of the Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H., by Rev. Dr. Dempster. While the style of the address is highly ornate, its tone of thought is vigorous and sober. We have not before seen the peculiar topic of the ministerial call more thoroughly sifted, or more intelligibly presented.

Daniel a Model for Young Men, is the title of a substantial octavo, containing a series of lectures which were delivered in New-Orleans,

by Rev. Dr. Scott, and introduced to the public by the Rev. Dr. Sprague. The book is too large to be very inviting to young men. It is replete, however, with good sense. The salient points of the prophet's history are well presented, and its lessons strikingly drawn out.

Monroe & Co., Boston, have issued a new edition of Briggs's Bow in the Clouds, a book not of the strictest accordance with some of our

theological opinions, but full of refreshing thought and noble sentiments, on the darker problems of human life. Some nine of the present discourses were not in former editions, and they are among the very best of the volume, as their titles will suggest. Among them are "Sorrow incidental to Man's Greatness," " The Ministry of Nature to Human Grief," "Action, not Repose, the Heavenly Rest," &c.

Everything has its peculiar literature now a days, not excepting the Methodist camp-meeting. Degen, Boston, has sent us the Camp-meeting Manual, a practical book for the camp-ground, in three parts, by Rev. B. W. Gorham. It is a curiously complete little affair, giving the history of such meetings, defending them against objections, telling you how to "go to campmeeting," how to behave there, and how to return; and detailing with much practical good sense, the "requisites of a good camp-meeting," and all desirable suggestions respecting" tents," 'buildings," "fixtures," &c.

The Plurality of Worlds is the title of a very remarkable book, reprinted from a London edition, by Gould & Lincoln, Boston, and prefaced by an introduction from President Hitchcock, of Amherst. The design of the volume is to dispute the hypothesis that the stellar worlds are inhabited. The argument is both geological and astronomical. It is strikingly plausible, and pretty effectually upsets the common reasonings in favor of the other worlds being inhabited, except in respect to Mars and Venus. We do not, however, believe in the author's theory; it appears to us an amazing fallacy; but we were not aware before of the great amount of plausible argument with which it can be defended.

We are indebted to the same publishers for another "valuable addition to our literature," on the Eastern question Chesney's Russ0– Turkish Campaigns of 1828 and 1829. It goes over the localities of the present war, and describes the actual state of affairs in the East; spondence of the four powers, and the secret and in an appendix gives the diplomatic correcorrespondence between Russia and England. The whole subject is made intelligible by excellent maps. The book will effectually aid the reader to appreciate the present posture and probabilities of the "Eastern Question."

A very interesting compilation of articles from Dickens's Household Words, entitled Sunshine on Daily Paths, has been published by Peck & Bliss, Philadelphia, and is for sale at Clark, Austin & Smith's, Park-Row, New-York. They consist of papers of a curious character, revealing "Beauty and Wonder in Common Things," and are illustrated by eight original and very good engravings. Charles Dickens, perhaps, wrote not one of these pages; but as he is the responsible editor of the Household Words, we have his indorsement of them, and the reader will pronounce them fully worthy of his pen.

Miller, Orton & Mulligan, Auburn and Buffalo, have issued a second series of Fern Leaves, from Fanny's Portfolio. They are all new pieces, and are illustrated by eight full page engravings. The first series, and the Little Ferns, had a sale, within six months average time of their first publication, of about one hundred and twenty-five thousand copies. Fanny Fern's popularity arises entirely from her intrinsic merits as a writer-her naturalness, wit, good sense, and good sensibility. Her books are everywhere, and deserve

to be.

Higgins & Perkinpine, Philadelphia, have issued a new edition of Hunter's Select Melodies, a little volume that comprises many of the best hymns and spiritual songs in common use, but which are not found in standard Church hymnbooks. It is a "curiosity of literature:" there are some specimens of outré composition, some of real doggerel, perhaps; but the book, as a whole, abounds in genuine melodies and in the most striking sentiments of religion. The translations from the mystic devotional poetry of Germany are especially good.

The Bride of the Iconoclasts, is the title of a poem by a young writer, as we learn from the preface, published in very neat style by Monroe & Co., Boston. There are evidences of a juvenile hand about it, but also of real poetic genius; a skillful use of language, a fine fancy, genuine sentiment, with occasional obscurity and other remediable faults. A fervent devotion to the "divine art" will, we think, secure enviable success to this young author.

Lord Byron in his time called Samuel Rogers the master of the living poets, and still the venerable bard lives on in his elegant residence, surrounded by all that art, and taste, and wealth can furnish for the enjoyment of a green old age. The volume of his works lately issued by Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, is edited by Epes Sargent, and issued in a style to which the fastidious elegance of the author could not object, while its price will place it within the reach of all. It contains the complete poetical works of Rogers, and a Prefatory Memoir by the editor gives the critical articles of Mackintosh and Jeffrey.

Messrs. Harper have issued Armenia -a Year at Erzeroom and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, by Robert Curzon. Whoever has read Curzon's "Monasteries of the Levant," will eagerly seize any volume from his pen. The one now presented to the public relates to a country which is dayly increasing in importance as the theater of events upon which the eyes of the world are fixed. The author was attached to a commission composed of Russians and English, appointed at the request of the Turkish and Persian governments to fix the boundary line of the two countries. It was hoped that this might end the border feuds which have existed between the two countries almost from time immemorial, rendering the whole region unsafe for travelers, and consequently almost unknown in civilized lands. It is a book one will not readily close, till he has reached the final sen

tence, and his only regret will then be that there is no more of it.

We have received from Messrs. Harper the fourth volume of Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses. It contains the biography of Mary Stuart, and is one of the most interesting volumes of the series.

Dr. Bird's Calavar; or, The Knight of the Conquest, has been republished, in excellent style, by Redfield, New-York. It ranks among our best indigenous works of fiction, having passed through three editions, and survived fourteen years-a considerable longevity, certainly, for a romance now-a-days. It is founded upon the invasion of Mexico by Cortes, and describes with much power, and as much historical accuracy, the first campaign of the conquest.

We are indebted to Magee, Boston, for Wilson's Recreations of Christopher North, as published by Phillips, Sampson & Co. The

whole of these favorite sketches are included in one volume. The mezzotint portrait is excellent, but the type and paper are execrableat least for so fine a work. It is like setting jewels in pottery.

Redfield, New-York, continues his fine series of Simm's works. The last volume we have received is Katherine Walton, the Rebel of Dorchester. It is a sequel to the "Partisan," which we lately noticed, and illustrates revolutionary life in Charleston, S. C., as his "Partisan" and "Mellichampe" illustrate the interior scenes of the movement. There is a remarkable historical accuracy in the fictions of Simm's, and they have done more than any other writings to bring out the resources of history and romance

in the South.

Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston, have published A Defense of the Eclipse of Faith, by its Author, a rejoinder to Professor Newman's "Reply." Also, Newman's " Reply," together with his chapter on the Moral Perfection of Jesus," &c. The whole field of this spirited controversy is thus laid open before the reader. Of course, Rogers is the victor; his rejoinder is overpowering.

Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, have published The History of the Protestant Church in Hungary, from the beginning of the Reformation to 1850. It has special reference to Transylvania, but presents a comprehensive and valuable, if not very entertaining outline of Protestantism throughout Hungary. D'Aubigne introduces it; we wish he had written it, for it lacks his graphic and dramatic skill.

President Olin's Greece and the Golden Horn is out, with an introduction by Dr. M'Clintock. Written some years ago, it is yet decidedly the best description of the modern Greeks in the market. Though a rascally race, they present some most interesting aspects. Dr. Olin's sketches are abundant in the variety of their details. They are marked by sober good sense, and his usual breadth, accuracy, and elaborateness of thought. We have already referred to this work; it deserves an extensive sale.

Boston Letter-Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthGriswold's Poets and Prose Writers of AmericaDiscovery of Galileo's Commentaries on DanteRoyal Society of Literature Encyclopedia of American Literature-Lamartine-Newspapers in Turkey-Oliver Goldsmith's Works-Quicksands on Foreign

Shores-Spiritualism-Macaulay-Cobbett's Articles-The Old Printer and the Modern PressReid's Scalp Hunter-The Athenæum.

OUR Boston correspondent sends us the following literary epistle :

BOSTON LETTER.

The town has adjourned to the country. Only those poor fellows whose business or poverty forbid their hegira at the height of the dog-star, hover, ghost-like, about the heated brick walls of the city. In all airy places, upon the mountains and by the sea-side, crowds of these refugees from heat and business are thronging.

The multitude of books, cool and comfortable duodecimos, which have been gathering upon bookshelves with such unprecedented rapidity during the past six months, a long appalling and appealing rank, pleading clamorously for a hearing, now have a fair chance to receive their proper attention. Under the trees, and in shadowy verandahs, between genial conversations, they may now step forth and present their claims to an undisturbed reading. The call will soon be for readers; books are so cheap who can help buying them? But to read them, a man must have as many heads as Briareus had hands. The question will be asked soon, who reads American books? for a very different reason from that which occasioned its first utterance.

The amount of volumes published in Boston for the few months past has been unprecedented: and they are most of them really valuable additions to the library, meriting a permanent place and a careful reading. Our largest booksellers are looking about for more ample quarters, their present shelves refusing to bear up the rapid and large editions pouring from the press. Phillips, Sampson & Co., who have heretofore conducted their business in chambers, in a few months move up town," as you would say in your city, to occupy a noble granite front store on Winter-street. The large rooms in the new building will afford accommodations for their immense publishing business, while the lower story will form the most elegant retail book-store in the city, and their counters will exhibit the gathered current literature of the English tongue. They have quite a number of new works in the press, every week introducing through their establishment some fresh claimant upon the public attention. The History of England, in thirteen volumes, by Lingard, the Catholic, is now being published at short intervals, it having been delayed for a few months back by the urgent demand for other publications. It forms an excellent and cheap library edition. The volumes of Talfourd & Campbell, which fell under your critical pen, will be re-stereotyped and issued in a more worthy dress. The present editions, however, are very respectable for the marvelous cheapness at which they are offered. The wonderful blacksmith, who has been covering England with his "Olive Leaves," and seeking to secure cheap international communication, in order to attain a permanent peace, has just issued from their press a volume of miscel lanies, entitled, "Thoughts and Things at Home and Abroad"-pleasant and profitable reading. A graceful Memoir of Mr. Burritt, by Mary Howitt, introduces the volume, and it is illustrated by an excellent engraved portrait of the polyglot author. "Blessed are the peace-makers" in these days of "wars and rumors of wars," and this benediction rests eminently upon the head of Elihu Burritt. The volume upon the "Poets and Poetry of Greece," a noble octavo by Mills, consisting of popular lectures upon the poetic literature of classic Greece, with admirable English translations, deserves, and undoubtedly will enjoy, a generous reception among the reading community. By a mutual arrangement with J. C. Derby, of NewYork, the books of the two establishments bear a common imprint, and the volumes of your spirited bookseller enjoy the circulating medium of P., S. & Co.'s large business. Under this arrangement, the excellent.

volume of Dr. Olin, covering the scene of the seat of the present European struggle, "Greece and the Golden Horn," has been issued and has been very cordially received by the press and the public. This has been followed by the "Morning Stars of the New World," graceful biographies of the discoveries of our continent, and by a volume for the season, redolent of the forest and vivacious in its record of personal recreations and adventures, called "Hills, Lakes, and Forest Streams," a lively description of a sporting excursion in the counties of Northern New-York.

Our near neighbors, Jewett & Co., who have long beguiled their customers into our Crescent-street, have been crowded by their increasing business out of Cornhill, and have taken one of the finest stores upon Washington-street. With the increased facilities which they will enjoy in their new establishment for the retail trade, we may readily imagine that it will have few superiors in the country under the management of its enterprising proprietors.

The

Gould & Lincoln are taking a moment's breath in the publishing department, and yielding up their groaning presses to the reprinted editions of the valuable volumes they have lately published. "Plurality of Worlds" has made an uncommon impression upon the thoughtful portion of the reading community. It may not succeed in depopulating the stars, but it will serve to chasten speculative philosophy, and suggest a limit to the human fancy. notice that the English answer to the work is announced by two of your New-York publishers-Carter and Harper -as well as by our respected Boston firm. As Carter has purchased early sheets, he undoubtedly will usher in the new volume to the American field of the controversy.

There is one of our book establishments that is not obnoxious to the prevailing spirit of change. There it stands, with the same homely and inviting presence that it has borne for years, right under the shadow of its venerable friend, the "Old South Meeting House, all windows and doors upon the two streets of which it marks the corner, its shelves and extended tables crowded with all the rarities of the season, and ordinarily surrounded with those that prepare the reading matter from the raw material, or those whose ample income allows the expensive luxury of rare editions and richly illustrated volumes. Here Ticknor & Co. receive their multitudinous friends and patrons, and offer the numerous and excellent editions of the poets of the nineteenth century, which they have been busily collecting for the last few years. This must be the height of the season for these works. So portable, just fitted to the carpet-bag, and so wonderfully adapted to grove and mountain reading and to sea-side recreations. They have lately published one of the most characteristic of New-England tales, which first charmed the readers of Putnam's Magazine, and will be a traveling companion of many others during the summer tours, in its present beautiful form. It is called "Wensley," and is also styled a "Story without a Moral," which, after all, is the most serious objection which rests against this order of literature. They have also issued in their elegant style of publication, "Atherton, and Other Tales," by Mary Russell Mitford, author of "Our Village." It is illustrated by a beautiful steel engraving, from an original painting in the possession of Mr. Fields, of the delightful authoress-one of the pleasantest faces of age that we have looked upon, full of thought and covered with sunshine, although exhibiting a few lines significant of the severe physical pain to which she has been subjected. The principal story is marked with all the graces of Miss Mitford's style, although it was composed and writen under circumstances of almost incredible prostration and pain. It is a rural, moral tale, as are the others published with it-true to the charming scenery of England and to its social life.

Upon the opposite side of Washington-street we naturally enough tarry a moment before the inviting windows of Little, Brown & Co's, great law and foreign bookstore. It is a temptation that one with a small capital ought not to allow himself often to fall into. The gravity of many of the works, and the immense rows of portly octavos and quartos fairly subdue one's spirit, and we step more gently, and find ourselves on the point of raising our hat as we walk along by their side. A more goodly collection of the library editions