LITERARY NOTICES. 139 expositions, that even of the discordant features | making the Review over theological, which would "HAWTHORNE," says a London critic, "has few equals among the writers of fiction in the English language. There is a freshness, an originality of thought, a quiet humor, a power of description, a quaintness of expression in his tales, which recommend them to readers wearied of the dull commonplaces of all but a select few of the English novelists of our own time. He is beyond measure the best writer of fiction yet produced by America, somewhat resembling DICKENS in many of his excellencies, yet without imitating him. His style is his own entirely." In a notice of HITCHCOCK'S "Religion of Geology," the London Literary Gazette remarks: "Dr. HITCHCOCK is a veteran American clergyman, of aigh reputation and unaffected piety. Officially, he s President of Amherst College, and Professor of Natural Theology and Geology in that institution. As a geologist, he holds a very distinguished position, and is universally reputed an original observer and philosophical inquirer. His fame is European as well as American. No author has ever entered upon his subject better fitted for his task. The work consists of a series of lectures, which may be characterized as so many scientific sermons. They are clear in style, logical in argument, always earnest, and often eloquent. The author of the valuable and most interesting work before us combines in an eminent degree the qualifications of theologian and geologist." by the English publishers, are the following:-" A Lady's Voyage round the World;" from the German Among the prominent forthcoming works announced of IDA PFEIFER, from which some interesting extracts have already appeared in Blackwood.-" Wesley and Methodism," by ISAAC TAYLOR-"Lectures on the History of France," by Professor Sir JAMES STEPHENS-A condensed Edition of DR. LAYARD'S "Discoveries at Nineveh," prepared by the Author TINE'S "History of the Restoration of the Monarchy for popular reading-A second volume of LAMARin France"-An improved Edition of the "Life and Works of Robert Burns"-Richardson's "Boat Voyage," or a History of the Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin. Rawlinson in relation to the inscriptions on the AsIt is said that the recent discoveries of Colonel syrian sculptures have awakened the British Government to the great historical value of those monuments and that a sum of £1500 has been placed at his disposal to assist toward the prosecution of excavawill, it is understood, proceed immediately to Bagdad; and from thence direct his explorations toward tions and inquiries in Assyria. Colonel Rawlinson any quarter which may appear to him likely to yield important results. and accomplishment, is about to publish, from the Mr. WILLIAM WEIR, a literary veteran of ability papers of one who mixed much with it, another view of English literary society in the days of Johnson. granted to the family of the late Rev. JAMES SEATON REID, D.D., Professor of Church History in GlasA pension of £100 a year on the civil list has been gow, and author of the History of Presbyterianism in Ireland, besides other works on theology. In consequence of the present delicate state of health of Professor WILSON, the renowned "Christo ments for dispensing with the delivery of his lectures on moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, pher North," he has been obliged to make arrange at the ensuing session. Principal LEE is to under take the duty for the learned Professor. 149 are already published. There yet remains five The London News briefly hits off an American work which has attracted little attention in this country: "A fast-sailing American clipper has appeared in the seas of philosophy. The author of Vestiges of Civilization; or the Etiology of History, Religious, Esthetical, Political, and Philosophical,' advertised as written within two months, has puz-not yet finished. It is to contain 258 sheets, of which zled the scientific public as much as did the original The map of France, which was begun in 1817, is MS. of 'Pepys' Diary.' The reader, however, may be comforted in his bewilderment by finding that the author himself is but little better off. In a note there is a confession which should certainly have been extended to the whole production: 'I freely own that, touching these extreme terms of the complication in Life and Mind, or rather the precise combinations of polarities that should produce them, my meaning is at present very far from clear, even to myself. And yet I know that I have a meaning; that it is logically involved in my statement; and is such as (perhaps within half a century) will set the name of some distinct enunciator side by side with, if not superior to that of Newton." The Westminster Review has passed into the hands of John Chapman, the well-known publisher of works on Rationalistic theology. The Leader rather naïvely remarks, "We rely too much on his sagacity to entertain the fear, not unfrequently expressed, of his nearly fifty years ago, his manuscripts were divided by ALEXANDRE DUMAS, the correspondent of the Literary Gazette indulges in a lively, exaggerated portraiture of the great feuilletonist: "Another addition to that class of French literature, called 'Memoirs,' is about to appear, and from the hand of no less a personage than Alexandre Dumas. The great romancer is to tell the world the history of his own eventful life, and his extraordinary literary career. The chances are that the work will be one of the most brilliant of the kind that has yet been published -and that is saying a great deal, when we call to mind the immense host of memoir writers which France possesses, and that among them are an Antony Hamilton and a Duke de Saint Simon. Having mixed familiarly with all descriptions of society, from that of crowned heads and princes of the blood, down to strolling players-having been behind the scenes of the political, the literary, the theatrical, the artistic, the financial, and the trading worlds-having risen unaided from the humble position of subordinate clerk in the office of Louis Philippe's accountant, to that of the most popular of living romancers in all Europe -having found an immense fortune in his inkstand, and squandered it like a genius (or a fool)-having rioted in more than princely luxury, and been reduced to the sore strait of wondering where he could get credit for a dinner-having wandered far and wide, taking life as it came-now dining with a king, anon sleeping with a brigand-one day killing lions in the Sahara, and the next (according to his own account) being devoured by a bear in the Pyrenees -having edited a daily newspaper and managed a theatre, and failed in both-having built a magnificent chateau, and had it sold by auction-having commanded in the National Guard, and done fierce battle with bailiffs and duns-having been decorated by almost every potentate in Europe, so that the breast of his coat is more variegated with ribbons than the rainbow with colors-having published more than any man living, and perhaps as much as any man dead-having fought duels innumerable—and having been more quizzed, and caricatured, and lampooned, and satirized, and abused, and slandered, and admired, and envied, than any human being now alive-Alexandre must have an immensity to tell, and none of his contemporaries, we may be sure, could tell it better few so well. Only we may fear that it will be mixed up with a vast deal of imagination. But n'importe!" whose name will ever be dear to the lovers of that poet's verse for the affecting manner in which it is therein enshrined. Few readers of Byron will forget his affectionate recurrences to his sister-made more touching from the bitterness of his memories toward all those whom he accused of contributing to the desolation of his home and the shattering of his household gods. The once familiar name met with in the common obituary of the journals will have recalled to many a one that burst of grateful tender ness with which the bard twines a laurel for his sis ter's forehead, which will be laid now upon her grave-and of which the following is a leaf: From the wreck of the past which hath perished In the desert a fountain is springing In the wide waste there still is a tree, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. Numismatic science has to lament the loss of a long known, learned, and distinguished cultivator, Mr. H. P. BORRELL, who died on the 2d inst. at Smyrna. His numerous excellent memoirs on Greel. coins, and his clever work on the coins of Cyprus, form permanent memorials of his erudition, research, and correct judgment. The last mail from China informs us of the death of Dr. GUTZLAFF, at one of the British ports in that country, on the 9th of August last, in his forty-eighth year. The decease of this distinguished Eastera scholar will be learnt with regret by those who take an interest in the progress of European civilization in China. Dr. Gutzlaff was one of the most arden. and indefatigable of the laborers in that cause: and it will be very difficult to fill up the void which his death has occasioned. He was a Pomeranian by birth; and was originally sent to Batavia, Singapore, and Siam by the Netherlands Missionary Society in 1827. He first reached China in 1831; and he appears to have spent the next two years in visiting and exploring certain portions of the Chinese coast, which, previously to that time, had not been visited by any European-or of which, at least, no authentic knowledge was possessed. On the death of the elder Morrison, in 1834, Dr. Gutzlaff was employed as an Interpreter by the British Superintendency; and at a subsequent period he was promoted to the office of Chinese Secretary to the British Plenipotentiary and Superintendent of Trade. That em In the course of a revision of the archives of Celli, a box has been found containing a collection of important documents from the Thirty Years' War, viz., part of the private correspondence of Duke George of Brunswick-Lüneburg, with drafts of his own epis-ployment he held to the time of his death. Dr. tles, and original letters from Pappenheim, Gustavus Adolphus, and Piccolomini. The Stockholm papers announce the death, in his seventy-first year, of Dr. THOMAS WINGARD, Archbishop of Upsal and Primate of the Kingdom of Sweden. Dr. Wingard had long occupied the chair of Sacred Philology at the University of Lund. He has left to the University of Upsal his library, consisting of upward of 34,000 volumes-and his rich collections of coins and medals, and of Scandinavian antiquities. This is the fourth library bequeathed to the University of Upsal within the space of a yearadding to its book-shelves no fewer than 115,000 volumes. The entire number of volumes possessed by the university is now said to be 288,000-11,000 of these being in manuscript. The London Athenæum announces the death of the Hon. Mrs. LEE-sister to the late Lord Byron, and Gutzlaff had ceased to consider himself as a missionary for some years past; but he never relinquished his practice of teaching and exhorting among the Chinese communities in the midst of whom he was placed. The death of Mrs. MARY SHERWood, the cele brated English authoress, took place at Twickenham about the middle of September. She had attained the ripe old age of seventy-six years, but her mind preserved its usual vigor and serenity, unimpaired by the influence of time. She died in the exercise of a tranquil spirit, and firm religious faith. It is said that a biography, prepared from materials left by the deceased, will soon make its appearance from the pen of her youngest daughter, a lady who inherits a portion of her mother's genius and character. A com plete edition of Mrs. Sherwood's works, published by Harper and Brothers, has found numerous readers in this country, by whom the name of the writer will long be held in affectionate remembrance A Leaf not from Punch. ETYMOLOGICAL INVEN WE perceive, with great alarm, the increasing number of abstruse names given to various simple articles of cloth ing and commerce. Rather to keep a head of the world than even to run with it, we intend to register or dispose of for a consideration-the sole right of producing the following articles: The Protean Crononhotontologos, or Changeable Surtout, the tails of which button under to form a dress coat; can be reefed to make a shooting-coat; folded into a cut-a-way; or taken away altogether to turn into a sailing jacket. It is black outside and green within, with sets of shifting buttons, so that it may be used either for dress or sporting, evening or morning, with equal propriety. The Oddrotistone, or Pumice Beard-leveler, for shaving without water, soap, brush, or razor, and removing all pimples and freckles by pure mechanical action. Strongly recommended to travelers with delicate skins. The Hicockolorum, or Patent Fuel, warranted never to smoke, smell, decrease in bulk, or throw out dangerous gases, and equally adapted for Calorific, Church, Vesta, Air-tight, Registering, Cooking, and all manner of stoves. By simply recollecting never to light it, all these conditions will be fulfilled, or we forfeit fifty thousand dollars. The Antilavctorium, or Perpetual Shirt-collar, which, being formed of enameled tin, never requires to be washed, is not likely to droop or turn down. The Thoraxolicon, or Everlasting Shirt-front, comes under the same patent, which may be had also, perforated in patterns, after the fashionable style. The Silicobroma, a preparation SEEDY INDIVIDUAL. "I've dropped in to do you a very great favor, of pure flint-stone, which makes a very excellent soup, by boiling in a pot, with the requisite quantity of meat and vegetables. OFF POINT JUDITH. WE A SLIGHT MISTAKE. E have been much grieved of late to observe the growing tendency among ladies to shave their foreheads, in the hope of intellectualizing their countenances, and this occurs more especially among the literary portion of the fair sex. We subjoin a portrait, but men tion no names. The mistake is this. OLD LADY."Now, my good man, I hope you are sure head depends upon the height of the frontal The height of a fore it will really do me good, because I can not touch it but as medicine." bone-not upon the growth of the hair; and, therefore, when the forehead retreats, it is ab OLD LADY-(holding a very small Cabbage).-"What! 3d. for such a small Cabbage? Why, I never heerd o' such a thing!" GREENGROCER." Werry sorry, marm; but it's all along o' that Exhibition! What with them Foreigners, and the Gents as smokes, Cabbages has riz." surd to suppose that height can be given by shaving the head, even to the crown. Added to this, it is impossible to conceal the blue mark which the shorn stumps of hair still will leave; and, therefore, we hope soon to see the practice abolished. NEW BIOGRAPHIES. MR. SMITH.-This celebrated personage has filled many important public and private situations: in fact, we find his name connected with all the great events of the time. He was a divine, an actor, an officer, and an author. But afterward getting into bad company, he was sentenced to the State Prison, and subsequently hanged. His family branches, which are very extensive, are fully treated of in the Directory. WARREN.-The discoverer of the famous Jet Blacking. Upon the backs of the bottle labels he wrote his celebrated tale of Ten Thousand a Year, thus shining in two lines. He lost his life at Bunker Hill. HE figure left, in the above illustration, The figure on exhibits beautiful dress. Flare in the rich texts, wav bel, rafhl evening, wreath of variegated geraniums, placed at the sides Plain silk dress, with silk-net ruchés about three inches apart, from the bottom upward. Sleeves, tight and short, edged with a ruché at bottom. The body is covered with silk-net, opening heart-shape. It is trimmed with two silk-net berthes, gathered a little, with a hem about half an inch wide, marked by a small gold cord. A row of variegated flowers runs along the top of the body. The upper skirt, of silk-net, is raised cross-wise, from the front toward the back, up to the side bouquet. The hem of each skirt is two inches deep, and is also marked by a gold cord. The side bouquet, of flowers like those in the hair, is fixed to the body, and hangs in branches on the skirt. The outer sleeves are silk-net, with a hen at the end, and raised cross-wise like the skirt, so as to show the under-sleeves. shows on the le ball costume, with jewels: Hair in raised bands, forming a point in front, leaving the forehead open, and spreading elegantly at the sides. A large cord of pearls is rolled in the hair, and forms, in two rows, a Marie Stuart, over the forehead, then mixed with the back hair, falls to the right and left in interlaced rings. Body low, square in front, but rather high on the shoulder. The dress is plain silk, the ornaments silk-net and lace. The whole of the front of the body is ornamented with rows of lace and silk-net bouillons. Each row of lace covers a bouillon, and leaves one uncovered. There are five or six rows of lace. They are gathered, and it will be seen they are raised by the row of puffs they cover. Two rows of lace are put on as trimming on each side of the stomacher. They start from the same point, spreading wider as they rise, as far as the back, where they form a berthe. The skirt Is trimmed with three rows, one over the other, composed of silk-net puffs; one at bottom, another one-trations of three styles of cloaks, the most fashionathird of the height up, and the other two-thirds up. Three lace flounces decorate this skirt, and each falls on the edge of the puffs. In the picture, upon the next page, we give illus. ble for the present winter. They are called by the Parisian modists respectively, PARISIAN, FRILEUSE, and CAMARA. The PARISIAN is a walking cloak of |