tures of Herrera, the elder; and a great number of the best works of Sanchez Coello, Llanos Valdes, Ribalta, Herrera, the younger, &c., all painters of great merit, and whose works are but little known out of Spain. Two great rarities of this collection are the Unutterable Anguish of Morales, and the 'Christ bearing his Cross,' of Sebastian del Piombo. The first of these pictures has always been considered in Spain as the very finest work of Morales, while the picture of Sebastian del Piombo is a work of such immense importance as to be almost unique in a private collection. Another masterpiece is the 'Tribute Money' of Titian, considered one of the finest works of that master. The whole collection offered for the three days' sale consists of a hundred and fifty-seven pictures, with two small enamels by Petitot, being miniature likenesses of Turenne and Catinat, some bronzes of no great pretensions, a mosaic or two, and a piece of Gobelin tapestry. Of the hundred and fifty-seven pictures, a hundred and ten are of the Spanish school, twenty-two of the old Italian masters, and twenty-five of the Flemish and Dutch schools. When it was first announced that the Soult gallery was to be sold by auction, the effect produced in the world of art was so great that it was at once seen how much importance was

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attributed to the dispersion of this collection. Although M. Bonnefons de Lavialle, the auctioneer, had allowed the collection to be viewed privately for ten days before the sale, and had afterward thrown it open to the world for three days more, it would really seem as if the curiosity of the public could never be satiated. The crowd which thronged the rooms on the three days of public view was so great as to render moving in it a work of labor, and on the last day of all a complete block-up took place more than once during the view."

Monument to Colonel Johnson. The NewYork Courier gave a description sometime since of a monument that Launitz, the eminent sculptor of this city, was making, to be erected to the memory of Col. R. M. Johnson, by order of the Legislature of the State of Kentucky. The Courier now states, from the Lexington (Ky.) Standard, that the Legislature of that State appropriated the sum of only nine hundred dollars toward the work. The relatives of the deceased hearing this, and learning that this sum was insufficient to erect a suitable testimonial, voluntarily added the sum of fifteen hundred dollars, which secures the fine monument upon which Launitz is engaged. This private aid is dishonorable to the State.

A Memoir of Thorwalsden has been issued in Germany, from the Danish of Thiele. There has been no satisfactory record of the great northern sculptor until the appearance of this work. It is highly commended, as not only thorough in research, and abundant in materials, but critically appreciative of the artist-a work which will rank among standard biographies.

Lamartine has completed eight of the popular biographies which are to appear in his forthcoming journal, (The Civilizer,) among which are enumerated those of Columbus, Joan of Are, Homer, Guttenberg, and Bernard Palissy, the potter.

M. Eugene Burnouf, the eminent orientalist, has yielded, in very youth, to a long and severe malady by which he had been afflicted, but from which the expectation of his recovery took even at the very last a form of expression which is one of the touching incidents in the case. One of the branches of the Institute, the Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres, elected him to the distinguished office of its Perpetual Secretary on the very day when he was engaged in the struggle with death. Though for a time his family despaired of conveying to his failing sense the knowledge of this final honor, the consolation of such a testimonial to the value of his labors was not denied him. He rallied to receive the crown decreed him by his brethren, but died before he could wear it. Amongst his labors may be mentioned the publication of the texts of Zoroaster, with a commentary on the old Prussian

Book of Prayers; his translations of cuneiform inscriptions found at Persepolis and other pla

ces; his lectures on the Vedas, and on the laws of Menu; his translations of, and commentary on, the Bhagavata Pourana, one of the ism; and the History of Buddhism-a work of vast research, which he completed only a few months ago.

most remarkable transformations of Brahman

The Easter Book Fair at Leipsic is to be un

usually important. The catalogue announces some five thousand seven hundred works, published and to be published, being eight hundred more than at the last Easter fair. They are house issues a hundred and thirteen; another from nine hundred and three publishers: one ninety-five.

A life of Kirby, the entomologist, is forthcoming, and is anticipated in England with considerable interest.

The Literary Gazette commends highly Madame Prus' "Residence in Algeria." It is said to abound in interesting topics and incidents, and to be accurate.

A volume has appeared from the English press under the title of "Alastor," proposing "a new Theory of the Universe," and attacking Humboldt and Herschell, and the entire theory of gravitation.

Joseph Bonomi, F. R. S. L., has sent forth an important work, entitled "Nineveh and its Palaces: the Discoveries of Botta and Layard applied to the Elucidation of Holy Writ." It is pronounced a very elaborate and careful précis of the results of these marvelous discoveries, and the illustrations they afford of sacred his

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Gogol, the "Russian Dickens," recently died at Moscow. His works were exceedingly popular, and illustrative of Russian life. Owing to "religious mysticism," it is said, he refused to re-edit them; he considered them a deadly sin," and died in deep poverty, not accepting the offers of booksellers for a revised edition of his publications. He burned all his unpublished manuscripts. When dying, he exclaimed, "Ah! if people knew how pleasant it is to die, they would not fear death!"

Louis Napoleon has suppressed the chairs of History and Philosophy in the University of Paris, by a formal decree. What may be expected next from this political coxcomb? Even the teaching of the physical sciences is, it is reported, put under serious embarrassments.

A prize of 4,000 francs has been offered by the French Academy for the best "Essay on Political Eloquence in England"-the proposition extends to the first of March, 1854.

M. Guizot has a new work in press, which will shortly be published,-" Corneille et son Temps." It will be a pendant to his Shakspeare, one of the most admirable critical works ever issued.

Gorgey has published his book on the Hungarian War, but the Government have suppressed it so thoroughly that not a copy is to be had. The cause of this interdict is supposed to be that he says the Hungarians were on legitimate ground up to their declaration of independence at Debreczin on the 14th of April, 1849. Then, he says, he withdrew from their

cause.

Among the students of the University of Edinburgh are three Egyptians, one Russian, one Greek, one Chinaman, two Persians, three Germans, one Arabian, and two Frenchmen.

The London Athenæum announces for sale, at auction, the large collection of original Royal, Cavalier, and Roundhead Correspondence made by Mr. Bentley, and embracing the whole period of the Great Civil War of the seventeenth century. "These documents," says the Athenæum, "comprise the Correspondence of Prince Rupert from 1643 to 1648-preserved in the family of his secretary, Col. Bennett, and sold to Mr. Bentley by Mr. Bennett, of Pyt House: also the collection of the Correspondence of the Fairfax family, preserved at Leeds Castle, It is certainly a misfortune that when the useful work of the collector has once been done, there should again be any separation of documents which individually lose a great portion of their value for want of the context and comment which they

History is greatly a Not only has each historian to do severally the work of collection over again for himself, but reasons are thus promoted why he must almost certainly do it imperfectly. The risk of historic falsification is incurred by the scattering of the documents after it had been provided against by their accumulation. Mr. Bentley offered this collection to the British Museum at a sacrifice."

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The admirers of the writings of Count Emanuel Swedenborg dined together lately at Freemasons' Tavern, London, to celebrate the fortysecond anniversary of the Society for Printing and Publishing his Theological Works. London Literary Gazette says:-"We have often been astonished at the huge issues of translations and reprints of Swedenborg's writings in London, and wondered alike where they would find either purchasers or readers. It seems that the works are published by a Society which contains a few wealthy enthusiasts in its members. Many excellent and ingenious things are found in the voluminous writings of Swedenborg; but that a goodly company of London citizens should be brought together to a public dinner in the busy month of June, in honor of the Swedish mystic, is a religious and literary phenomenon of curious occurrence."

The last number of the "Literary Gazette" for Sweden contains some interesting statistics of Swedish literature, journalism, and science in the year 1850. In that year ten hundred and sixty books and a hundred and thirty-three journals and periodicals were published in the country. Of these books the works on theology are by far the most numerous, for they muster to the strength of a hundred and eighty-two; next comes jurisprudence, with a hundred and twentythree law-books; history, philology, medicine, works; and the number of treatises on the fine mathematics, average from thirty to eighty

arts dwindles down to three. A hundred and

fifty-six novels were published, chiefly translations from English and French works. Of the hundred and thirteen Swedish newspapers, sixteen were published in Stockholm.

A brief and popular account of The Catacombs of Rome has been published in London. It is compiled chiefly from the "Roma Subterranea" of Bosio and Aringhi, and from an abstract of the recent labors of M. Perret, the French architect, in the "Revue des Deux Mondes" for September, 1851. Along with Dr. Maitland's work on the same subject, this little treatise gives to English readers a good general account of the researches of the learned, as to the subterranean antiquities of Rome. We mention, among our art items, the design of the French Assembly to publish the paintings and sculptures of the Catacombs. We shall probably soon have all the available aids of these antiquities for the illustration of Christian questions.

Longman & Co., London, announce for immediate publication "A Ride through the Nubian Desert," by Capt. Peel, and Dr. Sutherland's narrative of the Arctic Voyage of the Lady Franklin, and the following subjects among others in the "Traveler's Library:"-" Pictures from St. Petersburgh," by Edward Jerrmann, translated

by F. Hardman; "Brittany and the Bible," by J. Hope; "The Natural History of Creation," by T. Lindley Kemp; and "Electricity and the Electric Telegraph," by George Wilson. Among important literary works in preparation we may mention Bunsen's "Hippolytus and his Age," Freeman's "Life of the Rev. W. Kirby," and Lord John Russell's "Journals and Papers of the late Thomas Moore," containing much valuable and interesting matter, for which Messrs. Longman are said to have given the sum of $15,000.

The French Socialist refugees in London have projected a new paper for the promulgation of their opinions, to be called "Free Europe." MM. Louis Blanc, Etienne Cabet, and Pierre Leroux, are editors, with two English trustees, Mr. Vansittart Neale and Mr. William Coningham.

The chair of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, vacant by the resignation of Professor Wilson, has been filled by the election of Mr. Patrick E. McDougall, Professor of Ethics in the New College, Edinburgh. The patronage in the case of this, as of most other chairs of the University, is in the hands of the Town Council of Edinburgh. Mr. McDougall's chief rival was Mr. Ferrier, a Professor at St. Andrew's, and the son-in-law of Prof. Wilson. The choice ultimately lay between Mr. Perrier and Mr. McDougall, when Mr. McDougall obtained the preference by twenty votes against thirteen. Mr. McDougall has already a high reputation in Edinburgh; and his friends anticipate that under his professorship the chair will retain the eminence conferred on it by his distinguished predecessors, Ferguson, Stewart, Brown, and Wilson.

Dickens's "Household Words says that the three-penny weekly newspapers of England are entirely displacing the six-penny. The Weekly Times, for example, has a circulation of sixty thousand per week, and Lloyd's Paper at least fifty thousand. Douglas Jerrold is the editor of the latter.

The penny (two-cent) weekly literary papers also attain great circulations. The London Journal has a weekly circulation of one hundred and seventy thousand copies.

Douglas Jerrold, according to the author of "What I Saw in London," is "making a sad wreck of himself through the excessive use of intoxicating liquors."

The poet Rogers has presented to the British Museum the original covenant between "John Milton, gent., and Samuel Simmons, printer," for the sale of Paradise Lost, dated 27th April, 1667. By the terms of the covenant, Milton was to receive five pounds at once, and five pounds more after the sale of thirteen hundred copies of each of the first three editions! The sum actually received by Milton was eighteen pounds, for which the receipt still exists.

William and Mary Howitt have lately issued a work upon the Literature of Northern Europe. We give a quotation. The work is voluminous, containing biographical sketches of all the northern authors of any eminence, together with specimens of their writings.

A new edition of "Michael Angelo, considered

as a Philosophical Poet, with Translations," by Mr. Taylor, is announced in England. Condivi, who was cotemporary with Michael Angelo, informs us that the latter applied himself to the study of the Italian poets and orators, and composed sonnets before the accession of Julius II., who called Angelo to Rome; it is, however, more than probable that they were penned during various periods of his life. It is upon these sonnets that Mr. Taylor considers the artist entitled to be regarded as a philosophic poet; and, most undoubtedly, they abound with deeply-meditative thoughts, expressed in symbolical language. Religion, and the love of the beautiful, wherever it appeared in human form, are the pervading subjects of his poems.

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The Hon. Joseph F. Buckingham, a veteran of the Boston press, is about to issue an autobiois preparing a Memoir of John S. Popkin; it graphical work. Prof. Felton, of Cambridge, will include Dr. Popkin's Lectures on Education. John G. Saxe's poems are about to appear in a new and complete edition, with a portrait.

Major Richardson, author of Walanston and several other productions, died in New-York lately. He was from England, and had been an officer in the British army. At one time he was the Canadian correspondent of the London Times, His habits were prodigal; his pride too excessive to allow him to live within his means; and it is said he died indirectly, if not directly, of starvation.

John Howard Payne.-The Baltimore Patriot announces the death of this eminent author. He is well known as a dramatic writer, and the author of "Home, Sweet Home," a song which will long preserve his memory. He was our consul at Tunis.

At a recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, a letter was read from Bishop Upfold, in which he promised to furnish the Society such important historical facts as he might meet with during his travels through the State. Among the MSS. which the Bishop presented through Mr. Jordan, are copies of the original commission of President John Adams to Jacob Burnet and others, constituting them the Legislative Council of the Territory northwest of the Ohio River. It is dated at Philadelphia, March 4, 1799. One of this council, Judge Burnet, is still alive, and enjoying a vigorous old age.

A Great Publishing Establishment.-According to a report made at the late General Conference of the M. E. Church, the "Book Concern" of this denomination has a total balance of property of $663,189 62, deducting twenty per cent. for possible bad debts. A part of this is in real estate, consisting of houses and lots, and part in stocks. The profit or yield from the entire capital, for the four years past, is as follows:-For the year ending in 1849, $32,833 52; for 1850, $15,239 65; for 1851, $47,261 42; and for 1852, $63,806 14. In the different departments of the establishment there are at present about two hundred persons employed. Not only is the printing and binding done here, but the stereotype plates

are cast on the premises. All the works issued at present are stereotyped, except the Christian Advocate. Duplicate plates of The SundaySchool Advocate are made for every number, and transmitted to Cincinnati, for the use of the Western Book Concern. There are eight power-presses at present employed, and one hand-press. This is a decrease on former years in regard to number, but an increase in regard to effectiveness, several of the old presses having been advantageously exchanged for one more valuable. During the last four years there have been added to the General Catalogue sixty-eight volumes, of which eighteen are 8vo. and fourteen in 12mo.; the rest of smaller size. To these should be added the Revised Hymn Book in the various sizes, with fresh sets of stereotype plates. To the Sunday-school list have been added three hundred and thirty-four volumes; to the Youth's Library, in various sizes, three hundred and twenty-five volumes, besides the Almanac: making a total of seven hundred and twenty-seven new works, besides the Hymn Book. To this must be added, also, eight hundred and forty-four pages of Tracts.

The Literary World reports the following forthcoming works :

Messrs. Charles S. Francis & Co., Broadway, have in press "Grimm's Household Stories" and "German Popular Tales," complete in one volume.

In August will be published by Messrs. Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, a new work by William Ware, author of Zenobia, Aurelian, &c., entitled "Lectures on the Works and Genius of Washington Allston." Messrs. P., S. & Co. have now ready the sixth thousand of "A Peep at No. 5; or, a Chapter in the Life of a City Pastor."

Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. will publish immediately, in their Library of Readable Books, "A Journey to Katamandu; or, Life at the Court of Nepaul," by Laurence Oliphant. This journey was made in the company of Jung Bahadoor and suite, returning home from England

and France.

Mr. C. B. Norton, Irving House, announces to be published shortly, "A General Index to Periodical Literature," by W. F. Poole, Esq., Librarian of the Boston Mercantile Library.

Ticknor, Reed & Fields announce as forthcoming from their press, a new poem, by Alfred Tennyson; A new poem by the author of Festus ;" A volume of Barry Cornwall's Prose Stories; The Poetical Works of Rev. Henry Alford, "Vicar of Hymeswold; " Chas. Mackay's Poems; "Lydia, a Woman's Book," by Mrs. Newton Crosland, author of "Partners for Life," &c.; A new volume of De Quincey's Writings; Village Life in Egypt," by the author of "Adventures in the Libyan Desert;" "Hellenics," by Walter Savage Landor; "Palissy the Potter," by the author of "How to make him Unhealthy." Also, in preparation, "Jerdan's Autobiography."

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in the city of Cincinnati to endow a professorship of Biblical literature in the Ohio Wesleyan University. The subscriptions are a thousand dollars each. Six persons have already subscribed a thousand dollars each, on the condition that ten subscribers can be obtained. It is confidently expected that the other four thousand will be obtained.

Bangs, Brother & Co. commence the fiftysixth New-York Trade Sale on Monday, sixth private sale some superbly embellished works. of September next. They have on hand for We are indebted to the generosity of these publishers for several illustrated volumes which shall be noticed in our next No.

The Independent says, " Rev. Edward P. Humphrey, D. D., of Louisville, is chosen Professor of Theology at Princeton, in place of the late Dr. A. Alexander-a judicious selection. Dr. H. is the eldest son of Heman Humphrey, D. D., lately President of Amherst College, who lives to enjoy the Christian honor that has come to his family.

Methodist Institutions of Learning.-The Reports of the late General Conference of the Methodist

Episcopal Church state that there are no less than eight colleges belonging to the denomination, with property and funds amounting to $494,063; the oldest is at Middletown, and was founded in 1830. There are forty-six academies and seminaries, the oldest of which is at Wilbraham, and was founded in 1829. In twenty-nine of these there are four thousand nine hundred and

thirty-six students, an average of a hundred and seventy to each. The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, is not included in this report. Its literary institutions are also numerous; but we have not any summary of them at hand.

The New-York Courier and Enquirer notices a fact, very creditable to American literature, that in an English wholesale catalogue, in which, under the head "Popular Standard Works," are one hundred and thirty-three items, of which forty-seven, considerably more than one-third, are the product of American pens, and were first published by American publishers.

Dr. R. W. Grisicold denies having written the "Review of American Literature," in the Westread the article. minster Review, and says that he has not even

Prof. Olmstead has in preparation a treatise on the Aurora Borealis, in regard to which he holds an original theory. His treatise is to be published by the Smithsonian Institute.

Prof. Brown's valuable work on English Grammar is highly applauded by the London Literary Gazette. It declares that all that has been mology, syntax, and prosody of the English said worthy of record on the orthography, etylanguage is here methodically and amply illus trated. Prof. Andrews's Latin Lexicon is commended strongly by the London Spectator. Dictionary we have met with for the scholar or "It is," says that journal, "the best Latin the advanced student." The London Athenæum speaks in high terms of Dr. Anthon's editions of the classics, &c. It says that "whatever he has undertaken, he has performed in a scholarly style."

Jewett & Co., Boston, are issuing the works of the venerable Dr. Lyman Beecher in neat but cheap style. Two volumes have appeared. The first contains fourteen lectures on Atheism and six on Intemperance. The second volume contains eight sermons. Some three or four more volumes are to follow. Several of these productions have been before the public some years, and have had powerful effect on the questions upon which they treat. The Temperance Lectures are especially notable for the agency they have exerted in that important movement. Dr. Beecher's works are marked throughout by the strong individuality of the man; they abound in robust thought, lucid and very definitive statements of his subjects, closely chained argumentation, passages of energetic eloquence, and evangelical heartiness and zeal. He says, "I am the more desirous of publishing my doctrinal expositions of the Bible, inasmuch as they have generally obviated the more common misapprehension of the Calvinistic system; and have been, in the hand of the Spirit, the means of whatever success it has pleased God to give to my labors in revivals of religion." See our sketch of the veteran author.

The Public Addresses, Collegiate and Popular, of D. D. Whedon, have been published by Jewett & Co., Boston. They contain the following articles-Inaugural Address; Baccalaureate at the Wesleyan University; Baccalaureate at the University of Michigan; Phi Beta Kappa Address at the Wesleyan University; Second Baccalaureate at the Wesleyan University; Candidates' Oration at Hamilton College; Tribute to the Memory of President Fisk; Psychology; the Christian Citizen's Political Duties. The last three are the "Popular Addresses."

Strong's Harmony and Exposition of the Gos pels.-This is a book to make one's eyes sparkle; we are not aware that any critical work of the kind has ever been issued in this country with equal elegance. It is confessedly the finest publication ever sent forth from the extensive house which publishes it. Its plates are numerous, and executed with noticeable beauty. Several very valuable maps are inserted, which partake, also, of the rare nicety of execution that characterizes the work. The critical and literary value of the volume is worthy of its mechanical excellence. Mr. Strong is a learned layman, whose pecuniary circumstances enable him to spend his days in literary leisure, if, indeed, the appropriation of his time to his favorite and elaborate Biblical studies can be called leisure. He has in the present publication given proof that it is not learned idleness. His Harmony is founded upon both the parallel and combined plans, as exemplified respectively in Newcome and Townsend. The commentary is continuous and exceedingly suggestive, as well as popular; and the subjoined notes, though brief, are pithy and "to the point." In fine, we are highly gratified with this noble volume as an honor to both

American literature and American printing. Carlton and Phillips, New-York.

Fox and Hoyt's Quadrennial Register of the Methodist Episcopal Church and Universal Church Gazetteer is a valuable statistical volume, not only for the Church for which it is chiefly designed, but for the Christian public generally. It contains an abstract of the Methodist Discipline, abstract of the doings of the late General Conference of that denomination, Alphabetical Directory, comprising all its clergy, a Conference Directory, alterations of the Discipline, laws of different States affecting churches, &c., accounts of all the Methodist sects in the

with few of his defects.

Light's Keep Cool, Go-Ahead, and a few other poems. Boston: G. W. Light, 3 Cornhill. Here are a few examples of genuine poetry-good Saxon poetry, strenuous with the energy of our times, and our vernacular. The "Keep Cool" and "Go-Ahead are especially good, and will compare well with the similar productions of Tupper, Whittier, and Mackay-the "Good Time Coming" of the latter, for example. Mr. Light is chary of his pages-only about thirty-five are given-but these are worthy to be printed in gold. He has done wisely in publishing none but the very selectest of his productions; on this little brochure he will assuredly base an enviable reputation as a poct.

and some very interesting tables. It is a work evidently of great labor; but some errors we perceive have escaped the attention of the edit

ors.

Our very intimate friend, the late editor of Zion's Herald, is, for example, so marvelously tossed about into false positions, that we can hardly recognize him; however, he is so used to such things that we suppose there is no danger of his losing the consciousness of his identity. Hartford: Case, Tiffany & Co. NewYork: Carlton and Phillips.

A new Rhetorical Reader and Elocutionist has been issued by Riker, New-York. It has been prepared by Rev. William H. Gilder, the able teacher of St. Thomas Hall, Flushing. The principles of elocution are succinctly, but comprehensively presented in the introduction. The reading examples are numerous, and not the backneyed ones. We commend this book to the attention of teachers, and think they will find it among the very best works of the kind

extant.