people all fell on their knees with a feeling of ven- | The opposing characters of William and Harolderation. He was escorted to his residence by a representatives of their respective races-of Edward party of the Garde Mobile. The countenance of the Confessor, of Hilda the prophetess, and of the one of those gallant youths particularly struck him fair Edith, are vividly delineated, and the book is a as he had seen him fighting, and after having re- highly wrought historical romance-a picture of ceived a wound in the head, wrest a sabre from the life in the olden times. The historical and philohand of his assailant. He beckoned him to ap-sophical portions of the work arc in keeping with proach, and having still strength enough to raise the writer's reputation. his arms, he detached a small crucifix which he A First Book in Spanish. By JOSEPH SALKELD. wore suspended round his neck, and gave it to the young hero, saying-" Never part with this crossplace it near your heart, it will bring you happiness. The young man, whose name is François Delavrignère, of the 7th company of the 4th battalion, joined his hands in an attitude of prayer, and swore to preserve forever the precious souvenir of the venerable dying prelate. The pain he suffers is still very severe; the ball has not been extracted, and his medical attendants have little hopes of his life. We learn that at one o'clock this morning the Right Rev. Prelate still retained possession of his faculties, and bore his sufferings with a fortitude which virtue and Christianity alone can bestow, but no hope remained of his surviving beyond a few hours. New York: Harper & Brothers. MR. SALKELD is already known to the literary world by his " Compendium of Classical Antiquities." His present work contains full instructions lendorff method of constant imitation and repetition, in pronunciation, a grammar, exercises on the Olreading lessons and a vocabulary-all, in fact, that is requisite for the student. It seems easy, lucid, and attractive in style, as well as in all respects adapted to its purpose, combining the advantages of recent improvements, from the best foreign writers, enriched with much original matter. Chambers' Miscellany. Boston: Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. Part 22. LIKE every former number it combines varieties of literature, and will please all who desire general and sound information. Mary Grover; or, the Trusting Wife. A Temperance Tale. By CHARLES BURDETT. New York: Harper & Brothers. THE lessons suggested by this story are given with good effect. Illustrated by the touching details of the narrative they will produce the happiest results. Notes on James, Jude, Peter and John. By ALBERT PRACTICAL VALUE OF SCIENCE.-Many ignorant despisers of systematic natural history reproach us with wasting our time on nomenclature, or in watching and describing the metamorphoses and general economy of insects; and contend that it is only from what they call "practical" men-that is to say, farmers and gardeners-that effective means of destroying noxious species-one of the main objects of entomology, taken in its widest scope-can be looked for. Such objectors should be referred to a paper read by M. Guérin-Méneville to the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, in January, 1847, from which it appeared that while the cultivators of the olive in the south of France-who, in two years out of three, lost oil to the amount of nearly 6,000,000 of francs annually by the attacks on their olives of the grub of a little fly (Dacus olea)—were utterly unable, with all their" practical" skill, to help themselves in any shape, M. Guérin-Méneville, though no cultivator, applying his entomolog-public. ical knowledge of the genus and species of the insect, and of its peculiar economy, to the case, advised that the olives should be gathered and crushed much earlier than usual, and before the grubs had had time to eat the greater part of the pulp of the fruit; and by their adoption of this sim-able work, we find Josephine, Maria Louisa, Louis ple plan, the proprietors of olives in the years they are attacked by the dacus, can now obtain an increased annual produce of oil, equal in value to £240,000, which was formerly lost, in consequence of their allowing the grubs to go on eating the olives till they dropped from the tree.-Mr. Spence's Address to the Entom. Society, January, 1848. From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. ers. THIS is a new romance of Bulwer's, founded on the great event which determined the character and destinies of the British Empire-the contest between the Saxons and William the Norman, at Hastings. THIS new volume of Mr. Barnes' admirable series of notes on the New Testament completes, we believe, the design of the author. Annexed to the present volume we observe a long string of testimonials from distinguished clergymen of Great Britain, assigning a high order of merit to these familiar and ably condensed commentaries. purposes of private study of the sacred Scriptures, as well as for use in Sunday schools, &c., they cannot be too warmly commended to the religious For Kings and Queens; or Life in the Palace. By Among the royal persons portrayed in this agree Philippe, Ferdinand of Austria, Nicholas, Leopold, Isabella and Victoria-names that carry with them The Dying Robin, and other Tales, by JOSEPH A neat little volume of domestic sketches suitable for family reading. Like all the author's juvenile series, the present collection seems adapted to convey good instruction as well as amusement. Harper and Brothers are the publishers. 1. Seymour's Pilgrimage to Rome, 2. Chamber's Ancient Sea Margins, 3. French Sketches of the last Naval War, 4. Mrs. Somerville's Physical Geography, 5. Hospital for Infant Crétins, 6. Six Dramas of German Life, European Correspondence NEW BOOKS, 191. SCRAPS. Disinfecting Fluid; Phosphorence of the Sea; Rosse Telescope; Depth of the Ocean, 152.-Sale of Books; The Cuming Collection of Shells, 173.-Hint to Young Men, 179.-Practical Value of Science, 191. - PROSPECTUS. This work is conducted in the spirit of Littell's Museum of Foreign Literature, (which was favorably received by the public for twenty years,) but as it is twice as large, and appears so often, we not only give spirit and freshness to it by many things which were exluded by a month's delay, but while thus extending our Bcope and gathering a greater and more attractive variety, are able so to increase the solid and substantial part of our literary, historical, and political harvest, as fully to satisfy the wants of the American reader. 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It contains indeed the exposition only of the current literature of the English language, but this by its immense extent and comprehension includes a portraiture of the human mind aɛ the utmost expansion of the present age. J. Q. ADAMS 24 Climatology of the United States. By LORIN BLOD- n they dians, 30 a ten- 1. The Currency Question. Letters to the Honorable 2. Report of the Comptroller of the Currency for 1864. ant for tells of 147 , 2. Chamber's Ancient Sea Margins, 3. French Sketches of the last Nas 4. Mrs. Som 5. Ho Spectator, 66 145 147 6. Si highly w mountair History, the spar busy and comprehen tian Obser and Naval r the best arti Fraser's, Ta azines, and o consider it be from Punch; use of the thu variety by imp from the new The steamsh into our neighb nections, as M all parts of th XI. CRITICAL NOTICES Saadi's Gulistan, or Rose Garden, 260.— Stirling's Secret of Hegel, 264. LIST OF SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS. ילם T Complete hanasoinely b at thirty dolla Any volume bound, or a de Any numb De worth whi any broken ve hance their v Binding.good style; a good order, ca change withor 50 cents a vo pattern, there volumes. Of all the P has appeared to English langua the utmost exp LITTELL'S LIVING AGE.-No. 220.-29 JULY, 1848. From the Spectator. CATLIN'S NOTES IN EUROPE.* lin, and finally to Paris. The narrative of these volumes embraces Mr. Catlin's story from his quitting New York with his collection and a couple of grisly bears, through all his Anglican and Gallic experiences, until he settled quietly down at his atelier in Paris to paint commissions for Louis Philippe. The substance of the narrative consists of the characteristics of his bears and his right-hand man Daniel; his observations on fashionable life and royal personages; the conduct and ideas of his public audiences; and above all, the impressions which Europe and Europeans made on the minds of the Indians, with their behavior and discourse in the different situations into which they were thrown. Like his Letters on the North American Indians, Mr. Catlin's present work is somewhat literal in character and diffuse in style. It has also a ten In his former volumes, Mr. Catlin gave an account of his own rambles among the yet remaining tribes of Red Indians; intermingling accounts of the history, character, and condition of the Indian tribes with the autobiographical narrative of his adventures, and the incidents that occurred in forming his collection of curiosities and portraits of chiefs and "braves." His Notes in Europe continue the subject, with no other difference than arises from circumstances. Instead of the difficulties of forming his collection, we have now the troubles of conveying and the excitement of exhibiting it. The "noble savage" is transported from the wilderness to the populous cities of England and France, without much gain to the romance of his character, but without much loss, in compari-dency to the minute in description, which, though son to civilized men. The chiefs are no longer the sole objects; Queen Victoria, King Louis Philippe, the royal families, and the fashionable world, divide the crown; but in the speechful encounter with educated Europe the Red Indian maintains his preeminence as an orator. Measured against the great masterpieces of art, the spontaneous thanks of these Red men may not go for much, on account of the smallness of the occasion; but the matter was appropriate, the spirit fresh, and though the form is odd, the whole looks natural against the good-natured conventionalisms of fashion" saying something proper." It may be in the recollection of persons who give their attention to public amusements, that Mr. Catlin opened his Indian Gallery in 1840; and that after exciting the attention of London, the proprietor started on a provincial tour. When he was at Manchester, meditating a return to America, a party of the Ojibbeways arrived in this country on a speculation; and their importer, a Mr. Rankin, made an arrangement with Mr. Catlin for the Indians to exhibit in his gallery, under his superintendence and lectureship. When Mr. Rankin thought he had picked up enough to be able to assume the manager himself, he separated from Mr. Catlin, who again thought of returning to America; but a party of Iowa Indians, a more primitive tribe from the confines of the Rocky Mountains, arrived in the nick of time. Another arrangement was made with their importer. Mr. Catlin exhibited them in London, travelled with them through England and Scotland, next carried them to Dub * Catlin's Notes of Eight Years' Travel and Residence in Europe, with his North American Indian Collection. With Anecdotes and Incidents of the Travels and Adventures of three different Parties of American Indians whom he introduced to the Courts of England, France, and Belgium. In two volumes. With numerous Illustrations. VOL. XVIII. 13 CCXX. LIVING AGE. not fatiguing, because of the simplicity and unflagging animal spirits of the author, is yet unattractive. When we look at the opportunities Mr. Catlin possessed, and the novelty of many of the circumstances in which he was placed, a better book might have been expected. Besides that the minute and the literal predominate too much, the observer often seems not to penetrate to the core of what was passing before his eyes; and he shows a shade too much of the court chronicler in his minglings with the great. At the same time, his minuteness is so obviously natural and in good faith, that when the subject bears a full exhibition or a literal report his fulness conveys a matter-of-fact reality. On the other hand, when it is trivial the author becomes flat. The worst example of this both in point of literature and taste is a series of stories about some foolish woman who had a penchant for one of each set of Indians; and Mr. Catlin tells of the attendances and conversations of "the jolly fat dame" usque ad nauseam. This idle stuff is indeed a great blot in the book, and should have been omitted altogether. In spite of such blemishes, however, the volumes are real, readable, and amusing. The troubles with the bears during the voyage, on their arrival at Liverpool, and in their railway journey, are often very laughable. The determined enterprising character of Mr. Catlin, and his energy in the planning and conduct of his exhibition, are autobiographical. Mr. Augustus Murray, the traveller and novelist, was an old Prairie acquaintance of Mr. Catlin; and he comes out as active and determined in forwarding the interests of his former companion of the far West, among the fashionable world and with royalty, as he was in traversing the West itself; the masquerade at Almack's as Indian chiefs is quite a scene. The sketches of |