The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-07-04
From the International MGgGzine.
American Book. and Authors.

Vala published by Putnam) has been translated
into the Swedish language
THEODORE S. FAY-of whom the literary world
has heard nothing for long time-has in the press
/ OF the ApPetons poem, entitled Uric, or the
| Voicss.
MIR. HART, Of Philadelphia, has lately published in
avery handsome style several hand boo1s in the me-
| chanic arts, which much commended. Among
them are The Manufacture Of Steel, by Frederick
Overmann; The Practical Dyer's Guide, The Aias
| rieGn Cotton Spinnsr's Guide and tho London Year
| Book of Facts.
The most noticeable event connected with liter
| aturs in this country is arrangement entered
into between a New York publisher and THOMAS
II. BENTON, for the publication of the Historical
Memoirs Of the Life and Times of that eminent per-
| son. MIR. Benton is now about sixty eight years
OF age, and for half a century he has been
tive participant in affairs He was thirty years
Senator from Missouri, to which State he removed
some time before its admission to the Union. His
name has been connected with many great mea-
sures, and very few have exercised a more power
full influence upon institutions or policy. The
increase of his strength, as well the increase OF
his fame, has been gradual but regular. He has
been from his youth student. To every question
which has arrested his attention he has brought all
| the forces of his understanding, and what he has
acquired by incessant and painful labor he has to
astonishing degree retained after the occasions
which made it necessary have passed. Ats period
much beyond the noon of other men, he still
rising. He was of the age at which Cicero achieved
his highest triumphs before he displayed the full
ness and the perfection of his powers, in several
the remarkable debates which have had relation
TO our empire on the Pacific. With his extraor-
binary experience, his faithful and particular
| and wis dn uyhi ia INNS If
per, he is perhaps before every of his time in
the requisites for such an undertaking as that
which has occupied his leisure for many years,
and the chief portion of his time since he ceased to
be Senator. His work will probably make some
five large octave volumes, and il may be believed
that in fame, authority, and length of life, it will
equal the immortal production of Clarendon.
A new Life Of Mr.. Jefferson is soon to be pub
| lished by Mr. RANDALL, who has been honorably
distinguished in his connexion with the govern
ment of this State. The work will embrace very
interesting sketch ofthe private life of Mr.. Jeffer
son; by Mr.. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the states
mans grandson and executor.
The four volumes of his letters printed by Mr..
Randolph embrace but about eight hundred, but
there were sold TO the Government by his executor
the enormous number of foriy-too thousand letters
and other documents of which nearly sixteen
thousand were written or signed by Mr.. Jefferson
himself. A large proportion of these papers are
doubtless most important for the illustration of
contemporary French and American biography,
but the whole of them should be read by whoever
attempts to write the history of the apostle of the
radical democracy in the United States.
An interesting article in the last Southern Guar
terly Reuie,o the life and writings of Edward
Everett embraces some learned and elegant phifo-
logical discussions, in which Mr.. Everett (of
whom DR.. GILMAN, the writer, is very warm
admirer) is convicted of the of several vulgari
ties, &. "in midst" Gin this connexion,"
"reiable'' &c. 1t is not often that such nice crit
icism is advcntured in American review.
MIR. GILMORE SIsi0Is has in the press of a Charles
ton publisher complete collection of his poems
or rather collection embracing all his poetical
compositions which nearly meet the approval
of his judgment that he is willing to preserve them
under his name.
All our readers who were accustomed to read the
journals twenty years ago will remember SHocco
JONES, the immortal defender of the fame of North
Carolina. We had thought the mortal part of him
was sent to the bourne he fond of describing
in fine rhetoric when he wrote duel challenges, I'M
til a few days ago, when a friend advised us that
be had lately listened to him saying mass in Ro-
man Catholic chapel in Mississippi. Who would
have thought it,
Mr.. CHARLES ScRIBNER (successor OF Baker and
Scribner) has in press large number of interest
ing new works, among which Incidents in the
Life of Pastor, by the Rev. DR.. Wisner, of lthca;
The Captains Of the Old World, by Henry William
Herbert; Naval Life: the Midshipman, by Lieuten-
ant Lynch, Commander of the late Dead Sea Expe-
dition; The Fail of Poland, by l.. c. Saxton; The
Eoening BOOB, by Mrs. Kirkland; Rural Homes, by
G. Wheeler; The Epoch of Creation, in which the
Cd ,riib fbac
cal theory, by Eleazer Lord, &c.
We perceive by the religious journals that Mr..
JOHN NEAL, who for twenty or thirty years has
been the chief literary gladiator of the country, has
recently given his attention to religion, and
laboring with characteristic activity for its adj
vanccment in the city and vicinity ofPortland.
MIR. MITCHELL has published Charles scribner)
a new edition of his Fresh Glsanings, Of the
most delightful books of travel VIC read; new
edition with preface, in which he, for the first
time avows himself the author of The Lorgnette,
(Stringer & Townsend0 and he has new work
in the press of Mr.. Scribner, besides new and il
Illustrated edition of The RevTies Of a Bachelor.
Dr. HoLBRo OK, of Charleston, whose splendid
work reptiles entities him to be ranked with the
great naturalsts of the time, has taken up his res
dcnce for the summer, understand, at Cam
BRIDGE Massach usetts, where he will be occupied
with his forthcoming book on American fishes,
which, in the beauty of its illustrations at least,
will equal his previous performance.
Mr.. MELVILLE will soon be again before the
public in q romance. The title of his work is
not announced, but we believe it is in press.
The works OF the late Rev. WALTER Col
TON, u. S. N, will soon be completed in the edi-
ton of A. s. Barnes & Co. They have already
published ashore and Afoat, and Three Years in
California, which appeared before the authors
death, and, since then, Land and Lee, embracing
the volume published many years ago under the
title of 'Constantinope and Athens" The postum
nous volumes carefully and judiciously edited
by the Rev. Henry T. CHEEvER, whose works
of a somewhat similar character have always
to notice with praise.
The Appletons have in press To- novel, by q
member of the Canadian Parliament which gives
large promise in the proof-sbcets; The Philosophy
Of Mechanics. by Mr. Allen, of Providence; Cam
paigns in MsEico and by he-i'io Grdnde, by Brevet
Major Isaac J. STEvENs, in which Major Ripley