The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-08-07
Eitsrarp Notices.


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They have also in press, in three volumes, royal
octave, Encyclopedias Of Biography ancient and
modern, embracing more than two thousand arti-
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Greek and Roman Biography, and other sources,
edited by RUFUS w. GRIswoLD. From the atten-
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nected with American literature and history, we
have no doubt that this work will be a valuable
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The same publishers have preparing for publica-
ton A System Of .ancisnt and Medieval Geography by
CHARLES ANTHoN, L. D., and classical Atlas,
to illustrate ancient geography, by ALEXANDER G.
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in twenty-five maps, showing the various divisions
of the world as known to the ancients, with an in
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There are announced Sir JOHN BARRow's pos
thumous work entitled Sketches Of the Royal Society
and Of the Royal Society Club, and The War ,oith
JMerico, by Major RIPLEY, U. s. A.
Southey's Common Place Book. Edited by his SON.
Harper & Brothers For sale by Taylor e.
Maury.
The second and concluding part of the first series
is now before us. 1t completes the moral religious,
political, and miscellaneous "choce passages" from
numerous authors, and furnishes liberal collections
for the history of Manners and Literature in Eng
land. For more than twenty years Mr.. Southey
was in the habit Of marking every passage in his
reading which related to the history of English
manners, with the view of composing work
on the subject, blended with distinct History
of English Literature. The notes which he had
made for the purpose were very numerous, as he
had marked every passage on the subject in all the
old plays and poetry which he had. The colec-
ton from the plays he supposed to be lost, and the
editor thinks 1t was destroyed with some other
MSS. by fire. 1t is supposed that portion of it
was engrafted in the present collection
In running over the volume, we have marked
few of the lighter description of excerpts-which
will answer better than the graver passages for the
columns of newspaper.
V,olent Preaching
"A little child being at sermon, and observing
the minister very vehement in his words and bodily
gesture, cried out, Mother, why don't the people
let the man out of the box" Then entreat thee
behave myself well in preaching, lest men say,
truly, this is Jack in box. Simple Coolers Boy
pr.
Beatiie and Lord Monboddo
am told" says Beattie, he, Uord Mon
boddo) is angry at my last book, and says know
nothing of the origin of language. If that be the
case, it must be in great his fault as well
as my misfortune; for | have read all that he has
published on that subect-FoRBEs's Life of Beatiie,
vol. 2, p. l2l.
Senfimental-in Irish
LADY CovENTRY.-This is the lady of whom
Horace Walpole says, &C. at great supper the other
night at Lord Hertfords, if she was not the best
humored creature in the world, should have made
her angry She said in very vulgar accent, if she
drank any more she should be muekibus; Lord
said Lady Mary Coke, what is thatp-' Oh, it is
Irish for sentimental "-Letters, vol. !, p. 496.
"CHARLEs LLOYD told me that Miss Stewards ac-
quaintance and antagonist Weston, used to indent
sonnets with slate pencil upon his greasy leather
breeches"
Money and the JMagpis.l
An old woman in Wales, who was known to
be possessed of money died and left only two pence
halfpenny to be found in the house This occa-
stoned great suspicion of poor girl who lived with
her, and who solemnly declared she knew nothing
Of her mistress's affairs While the relations
were examining her, a maybe which the old
woman kept repeatedly cried, I'H hide more yet-IH
hide more yet--strkng his bill against the floor in
one place often that he attracted notice, and
carpenter was sent for to take up the plank. twas
fastened with wel-concealed spring, and more
than 600 was found under it."
Modern California.
I've heard those say that travel to the West
Whence this beloved metal is encreast,
That in the places where such minerals be
Is neither grass, nor herb, nor plant, nor tree
And like enough for this at home find,
Those who too earnestly employ the mind
About that trash, have hearts, dare uphold
Az barren the place where men dig gold"
WrrHER, Saiyr 8.
"We know how noisome and offensive slaugh-
ter houses in summer in great cities insomuch
that Tertio Richarda Secund, motion was made
that no butcher should kill any flesh within London,
but at knightsbndge, or some such distant place
from the walls Of the city."-Fuiiers Pigah Sight,
p. 1874. Stopt's Surrey, p. $40
1884 " Here is one Captain Baily; he hath been
a sea-capain, but now lives on the land about this
CITY, where he tries experiments He hath erected
according to his ability four hackney coaches,
put his men in livery, and appointed them to stand
Al the maypole in the Strand giving them instruc-
tons at what rates to carry into several parts
Of the town, where all day they may be had.
Other hackney men seeing this way, they hocked
10 the same place, and perform their journeys at
the same rate. So that sometimes there is twenty
OF them together which dispense up and down, that
they and others are to be had every where, as
watermen to be had by the waterside. Every
body is much pleased with il. For whereas before
coaches could not be had but at great rates, now
man may have one much cheaper "-Sraford's
Letters, vol. ], p. 227.
1884 " Here are two rich women who bid hard
for the Earl Of Huntington he is next TO Sussex,
the eleventh earl The one, the day she is married,
will lay him down upon a table f20, 900, which she
will freely give him. The other offers $500 year
during his life, and $4,000 in money, to go to
church and marry her, and then at the church door
TO take their leaves, and never see each the other
er."-Ibid. vol. !, p. 26l
tn, North .ameriean Repier, No. CXLTV., July,
IS49. Boston: Charles G. Little and James
Brown. Taylor q Maury, agents
This standard Review contains much that is in
teresting and valuable, conspicuous amid which
are the papers on the Normans in Sicily and the
review Of Bartlett's Dictionary Of Americanisms.
The Oldest Of all the American quareries, because
probably il is the BEST there is every to be-
lieve that II will continue To prosner for vet another