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his American career. The article un Dyc''s
Shakespeare will interest every student OF
that immortal poets works The one On
Cookers Edition of Bowell's johnson is cx-
trcncly readable. In short there is not II
dull article in the number.
COPY --G5doy's Lady's Book for April
is out in good season This popular maya
zine is always promptin its appearance, and
the publisher is un1agging in his efforts to
keep up its c aracter. Its numerous plates
Of fashions and patterns, its pleasant, if not
profound storics--its recipes and anecdotes,
in short, its well known character us
whole--insurc it an extensive patronage
Published monthly mt Philadelphia. by L.
\. Cooley.
THE MONTHLY LAW RLroR1IR. for March.
has been received. 1t contains reports of
States and State Courts in the New England
States. Published monthly by Crosby, Nirb-
OILS Is Co., Boston.
Guy MANNERlNG, by Sir Walter Scott This
is one Of the series of Wavcrly Novels pub
lished oncca w eek, at % cents a volume, BY
Peterson y Brothers of Philadelphia. The
complete set Of % volumes can b, got p st
age paid bya remittance Of 50 to the pub
fishers. OF course it is a cheap iorm-elsc it
could not he offered at 25 cents a volume
PALSY, The iIugucnot Potter. \ True
Tale Boston. Henry Hoyt
Whether regarded as an artisan lab,.n ing
with tirelcss perseverance, under cxtraordinu-
ry cmbarrassmcns to make an advanced the
highest order in his particular art, OF as a
man Of uncommon genius, or rs an eminent
and fearless Christian Of the Protestant faith,
when to be 50 was an almost sure passport to
death or to 4 lifelong imprisonment. oras AN
uncommon philosopher, considering the age
in which he lived, Bernard de Palissey was
one of the most remarkable men Of France in
the 10th century. His eminent genius as an
artist made him necessary t. Catherine dc
Medici, the Queen mother OF Charles X,
and under her protection he was shielded from
those who sought his life, though they were
men whose power was scarcely less than their
bigotrv. and he lived unscathcd through the
bloody times Of the St Bartholomew massl
Gre.
In his old age his bigoted enemies secured
his confinement in the Bastile but not even
threats Of speedy death made to him by he
king in person, unless he would renounce
his principles, moved him for a moment, and
he ended his days in that gloomy prison,
The work before US aims to throw into a
simple narrative the facts of his life as gather
ed from his own writings and the notices Of
his contemporaries. 1t is an interesting, en-
tertaining and useful volume,
The MornER's Mission Sketches from
real life. By the author of "Thc Object of
Life" Boston; Henry Hoyt.
The object of this work is to inculcatc on
parents--and especially on mothcrs-tho sa
cred maxim Train up child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he will not
depart from it,''-aud to do it by a series
of illustrative sketches of families conducted
on different principles. There is much that
| is wholesome and instructive in the work,
though the several pictures are drawn in
rather hard colors. each feature almost .hav-
| ing label on it to tell the reader what is in
tended by it,
THE ATLANTIC MoS1nLy for April has. very
good articles in it. " Bulls and Bears,
. The Minister'S Wooing," " The Utah Ex-
redition," " The Professor at the Breakfast
Table" arc continued. "Odds and Ends
from the Old World" and "Roba iii Roma
are very pleasant articles to read and "a
Letter to Dyspeptic " is worth reading, not
only by Dyspeptics but by those who desire
to keep their names of from the roll o! that
army of invalids. There is an appleciativ
notice Of Palfrey's History of New England
and Arnold's History Of Rhode Island. W.
have found as much entertainment in III
article among the Reviews and Literary No
tees, on new History Of the Conquest o
Mexico, by Robert Anderson Wilson, as II
any thing else, in this number The artic
is trifle or SO caustic, and knowing some
thing of the author of the History aforesaid
1t amused us the more. 1t is, evidently writ
ten by one who not only knew the late His
torian, Prescott, very we'll but who ais
knows something of the Antiquities If Ne'
Spain and of Spanish Literature generally
as well as Hon. Lewis Cass and X. Wilson
We are to have more of the same sort in an
other number of the Atlantic. The presen
5 treatment is only "a parboiling prelimnl
ry.' " Tho joint Thoroughly roasted, we al
= to look for in the next.
. HARpER's MAGAZINE for April Is gu
= Among its interesting articles arc "Wrec'
d ing on the Florida Keys" The Christia
Il Martyrs Of Madagascar" 1.-The Red Riy'
d Trail" .sTho Costly Kiss, Head an
Heart" Little Children. Lost ar
&c Found, The Song of the Trinity Bells
"Sally Lewis aud her Lovers" "Iialf Il
d Hour with Mr., Hume, the Spiritualsts'
d and the usual editorial matter, short storie
jokes &C., Fuller has it,
N " HARK FROM THE ToMBs. - Senat
Toombs, in his late speech on the reven
question, spoke Of the wastetulness OF t
national administration in these terms ~ o
no appropriations for navy yards have gone
v tho building Of houses for officers and I