Messrs. Marcus Ward & Co., of London and Belfast, have just published a Catalogue of the engraved portraits exhibited by Mr. J. A. Rose at the opening of the Library and Museum of the Corporation of London in 1872. Biographical notices of some of the most eminent characters that are included in the collection are given. The volume is a medium quarto. One hundred copies only, we understand, have been printed. The frontispiece is a portrait of Mrs. Susanna Rose, engraved from a painting by Mr. Frederick Sandys.

The following early use of the expression, "Go to Jericho," has, we believe, never been hitherto noticed:

"If the Upper House, and the Lower House
Were in a ship together,

And all the base Committees, they were in another;
And both the ships were bottomlesse,
And sayling on the Mayne;
Let them all goe to Jericho,
And n'ere be seen againe."

These verses occur in the Mercurius Aulicus for March 23-30, 1648, the well-known Royalist paper of the time.

The Athenæum says that the Hunterian Club will follow the reprints of Samuel Rowland with the works of Thomas Lodge, the Elizabethan writer, of whom Phillips, the nephew of Milton, speaks as "one of the writers of those pretty old pastoral songs which were very much the strain of those times."

M. C. Felu, the armless painter of Antwerp, is now copying some pictures in the South Kensington Museum, London. The facility with which he manages his brush with the right foot, while holding his palette with the left, is marvellous.

Count Ladislas Plater, the celebrated Polish patriot, who recently founded the Polish Historical Museum at Rapperswyl, Switzerland, has purchased the library of the poet and writer, Leonard Chodsko, author of many works on Polish literature, and formerly chief librarian of the Sorbonne, Paris. This collection is said to contain many important books and man uscripts tending to throw light on Polish history. It has already been placed in the museum at Rapperswyl, which is rapidly-thanks to Count Plater's zealbecoming famous throughout Europe.

Mr. E. A. Sothern, (Lord Dundreary,) presented funds for the repair of George Frederick Cooke's tomb in St. Paul's churchyard. Cooke died in 1812. The repairs have been completed, and the inscriptions on three of the sides read: South Side"Erected to the memory of Geo. Fredk. Cooke by Edmund Kean, of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 1821. Three kingdoms claim his birth, both hemispheres pronounce his worth." North Side"Repaired by Charles Kean, 1846." East Side"Repaired by E. A. Sothern, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 1874."

Messrs. Chatto & Windus, of London, have in preparation a fac-simile edition of William Blake's Works, from the extremely rare, and in some cases

unique originals, drawn, printed, and colored by Blake's own hand. The fac-similes comprise "Songs of Innocence and Experience," 1789-94; "Book of Thel," 1789; "America: a Prophecy," 1793; "Vision of the Daughters of Albion," 1793;

Europe: a Prophecy," 1794; "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell," 1800; "Jerusalem, the Emanation of the Giant Albion;""Milton: a Poem," 1804; "First Book of Urizen," 1794 ; "The Song

of Los," 1795.

The Bulletin du Bibliophile announces that M. Charles Nisard has discovered in the public library of Parma about 200 letters addressed to Father Paciandi, a learned monk of Parma, 152 of which are from the Comte de Caylus, and 48 from the Abbé Barthélemy. Most of the letters are of considerable length, and relate to antiquities, the news of Paris, the expulsion of the Jesuits from France and Portugal, literary news, especially bearing on the writings of the Encyclopædists, the Jesuits, etc. M. Nisard has obtained leave to copy this correspondence, and proposes to publish it with notes and explanations. No letter of the Comte de Caylus was previously known.

Like other innocent passions of the same kind, bibliomania is fickle in its loves. For instance, books printed in the fifteenth century, so eagerly sought and fought for in the golden times of the Roxburghe Club, are now fetching extremely moderate prices in public sales. A collection of such books is to be sold in Paris by auction on December 14th next. The Catalogue, published by M. A. Chossonnery, includes many fine copies of rare early editions by Conrad Dinckmut, Mentelin, J. Zeiner, Sorg, N. Kepler, Gruninger, Ottmar, Schussler, Fyner, Bocard, Wenzler, Vingle, Frommolt, N. de Lyra, Vend. de Spira, C. Zainer, &c.

England sends out in books, states the Publishers' Circular, six times the value she receives; and it is rather surprising to find that the United States absorbs nearly thirty-five per cent. of the four-and-ahalf million dollars' worth exported. In the Continental exchange, England, as the land of dear books, gives less than she receives from France and Germany. From Holland she imports but a half of what she imports from Germany, yet a third more than from the United States (£13,560); from France, most of all (£46,958.) Such, at least, were the Custom House returns for 1872.

by," are still in the enjoyment of peaceful honors and perpetual succession. This is the more remarkable as hereditary aristocracy is utterly unknown in the vast equality of China. But the honors which Europe bestows on the descendants of robbers and conquerors, the Chinese bestow upon the posterity of a philosopher who lived 2,200 years ago. To use the words of a distinguished writer, "the family of Confucius is the most honorable in the world."

The Academy says it may interest Orientalists to learn that Mr. Reginald Stuart Poole, has identified, among unclassed Oriental coins in the British Museum, a silver coin of Shah Shujáa', second son of Shah Jehán, and one of the competitors for the throne in the war of the succession that ended with the accession of Aurangzeeb. The reverse area of the coin bears the inscription "Mohammed Shah Shujáa', Badshah Ghazee;" the obverse area bears the date 1068, and in the margin the names and qualities of the four orthodox Khaleefehs, a circumstance in direct contradiction of Aurangzeeb's charge of Shiya'ism. The coin in all respects bears a close resemblance to Murád Baksh's silver money (Princep, ed. Thomas, ii. p. 49, Useful Tables.)

Baring-Gould is at work upon a book, to be entitled "Lost and Hostile Gospels," and to contain an account of the Toledoth Jescher, two Hebrew Gospels circulating among the Jews in the Middle Ages, with a critical investigation of the notices of Christ in the Talmud, as well as in Josephus and Justus of Tiberius. To this is added an investigation into the extant fragments of Gospels circulating in the first three centuries, which the author believes to have been drawn up either under Petrine or Pauline influ ence, while the canonical Gospels sprung from a Johannite party of conciliation.

Apparently the new Opera House in Paris is to furnish a political scandal as well as a pleasure to the public. In the original plan there was an imperial box, as the plan was made under the empire, and this box still exists. There has consequently been some curiosity to know what disposition would be made of it. It is now reported that this box has been permanently hired to a club, and that the club will keep it "systematically empty," and so it will constantly stare the public in the face as the place where the Emperor ought to be.

and friend, written apparently just at the time of his condemnation by the House of Lords, will (the Academy says) be added to Mr. Morfall's forthcoming volume of "Elizabethan Political Ballads" for the Ballad Society.

They multiply libraries in America much more than we do in England. Since the war, for instance, a handsome library has sprung up at Washington, at the office of the Surgeon-General of the United States Army. It consists of no less than 25,000 volumes and 15,000 single pamphlets. The subjects of these works are, of course, for the most part, medicine and surgery, with the sciences akin to the same. A complete catalogue of the collection, in three large octavo volumes, has been published. The first two volumes contain the books arranged according to authors' names; the third gives a list of the anonymous works and periodicals. A fourth volume is in progress, intended to contain an index of subjects.— Athenæum.

On the 13th of October last, with befitting ceremonial, the mortal remains of Spain's greatest dramatic poet, Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca, were removed from one of the chapels of San Francisco el Grande, Madrid, to the cemetery of San Nicolás. In the year 1869 the Government of that day issued a decree establishing as a National Pantheon the said church of San Francisco. The decree having become a dead letter, the Junta of the Sacramental of San Nicolás solicited and obtained permission from the present Government to deposit the ashes of the author of "La Vida es Sueño in the modest grave from which they had ben removed in 1869.

A commission has been appointed in Paris to decide whether the statue of Jeanne d'Arc, not long since put up in the Rue de Rivoli (Place des Pyramides), shall be taken down again as unworthy to continue to stand.

Another posthumous work by Mr. Mill is said to "Sobe in the press-an unfinished essay entitled cialism." It is also reported that ex-Marshal Bazaine is preparing a work which will, it is said, contain some startling revelations of the Second Empire, which he threatened on the eve of his trial to publish.

It appears that glass placed before pictures may, under certain circumstances, effectually preserve them against fire; of this a remarkable instance occurred at the burning of Woodfield House, Streatham, England. In this building Mr. Wallis's picture, "The Stonebreaker," was deposited with others, and, being glazed, escaped without the slightest injury; while other works, unglazed, surrounding it, were scorched, blistered, or utterly destroyed.

The monument to Théophile Gautier, which is being prepared by M. Drevet, spoken of as being a very fine work. The design, however, can scarcely be said to have the merit of originality. The pedestal is formed of a block of marble, sent by Belgium. On the top of this rests the usual monumental sar

cophagus, ornamented with crowns of immortelles, a lyre, and other emblems of poetry and fame. On the sarcophagus is seated the Muse of Poetry leaning on a bronze medallion likeness of the poet. The monument will be inaugurated, it is said, at the beginning of next year.

Greeley Memorial.-We have received the following, referring to a proposed:

"Memorial Monument to Horace Greeley in Greenwood Cemetery. -The Trustees of the Printers' Greeley Memorial respectfully announce to the printers of the nation and all friends favoring the movement, that they are now prepared to receive contributions to the fund, and can definitely say that the erection of an appropriate Monument to the Memory of Horace Greeley is assured. The Trustees feel it will be a pleasure for many, both in and out of the Craft, to contribute in aid of this commendable object. For many years Horace Greeley has been regarded as one of the leaders in the art, and many of the improvements now familiar to us are owing to his suggestions. Those who knew him personally will need no reminder. Checks should be made payable to the order of Peter S. Hoe. Esq., Treasurer. Communications may be addressed to W. W. Pasko, Esq., Secretary, 66 Cortlandt street, New York."

We have information from Brussels that the King of the Belgians, out of his own private purse, has founded an annual prize of 25,000 francs to be awarded for the best historical, commercial, or artistic book published in Belgium. The prize is, as a rule, restricted to native authors; but every four years foreigners will be admitted to compete, and foreign jurors will be allowed to act as judges.

Professor Curtius, the historian of Greece, has contributed to the Academy of Science in Berlin a long paper on the armorial devices of the ancient Greeks, showing how they came originally from Assyria, and were modified by the artistic sense of the Greeks. One has only to look at the now very rich collection of early engraved gems from the Greek Islands in the British Museum, to see how strongly with their constant choice of animal forms-mostly quadrupeds-they suggest Oriental influence.

Under the auspices of the Ateneo Veneto a fine quarto volume, with a portrait of Laura, has been published in Venice, of which only 250 copies have been printed. Among other papers are a learned report by Signor Valentinelli, Librarian of the Biblioteca Marciana, on the Petrarchian Codices contained therein; an Essay, by Signor Crespan, on the style and school of Petrarch, and on the principal Venetian Petrarchists; and an account by Signor Fulin, of "Petrarch before the Signoria."

We hear that Mr. Robert Clark, printer, of Edinburgh, has been for some time engaged in collecting information from antiquarian and other sources on the ancient game of golf. The matter thus collected will form a small quarto volume, which is now being privately printed by Mr. Clark himself. Some quaint and artistic illustrations will be contained in the volume, which is nearly ready.

The performance of the "Grande Duchesse" was once an important cabinet question. It was first forbidden as reflecting on Catherine II. of Russia, but

at the instigation of the authors was referred to the Russian Minister, and finally to Prince Gortschakoff, who returned the manuscript with the witty reply that, having never been to Gérolstein, he saw no reason for being sensitive about the morals of that state. We have heard it stated that Offenbach had in his mind's eye, the infamous Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain, and also Queen Victoria, whose patronage of her highland gilly "John Brown," has made her the topic of scandal in the British Isles and elsewhere.

The library of the British Museum purchased no less than 3,415 manuscripts last year. Among them was a curious treatise in French on the Holy Sacrament, composed by King Edward VI., of England, in 1549, and written in his own hand.

It is announced from Berlin that Prince George of Prussia is engaged in writing a drama, the subject of which is taken from the Old Testament, and that, with a view of the better preparing himself for the careful working out of the plan, he has called in the aid of a distinguished Sematic scholar to direct him in regard to the correct exposition of the accessories of the piece.

A statue of Mirabeau has been offered by the French Government to the town of Aix, the work of the sculptor of the place, M. Trophème. It is placed in the Salle des Pas-Perdus, in the Cour d'Appel.

The Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia offers three prizes, respectively of $4,0co, $2,400, and $1,600, for the best works "concerning the history of military operations on horseback, the functions, attributes, growth, development, and mutations of the cavalry in all ages and countries, and the general and particular theories and practices of cavalry operations." Foreigners are invited to compete, and January 1, 1877, is the last day for receiving the manuscripts.

Mr. Buckstone has written his autobiography. Mr. Walter Thornbury, a well-known London journalist, is editing the manuscript, which will soon be ready for the press. Mr. Buckstone has had a long and eventful stage career, and he ought to have his head stored with facts and gossip entertaining to persons interested in theatrical affairs. He was a prominent actor more than fifty years ago, and had written thirty or forty farces and other short pieces before that time. He is now playing "Asa Trenchard to Mr. Sothern's "Dundreary" at the London Haymarket Theatre.

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"The End Justifies the Means."-This, like many other points of belief and practice, may be clearly traced to pagan sources. Speaking on this point, Lactantius says (De Falsa Sapientia, lib. iii., 15): "Faciet sapiens (inquit idem Seneca) etiam quæ non probabit, ut etiam ad majora transitum inveniat." The wise man, says the same Seneca, will do things which he disapproves of, in order to compass higher ends.

Such however, was not the case with Napoleon, who, on the paternal side, was descended from a very ancient and illustrious Florentine family, while that state continued a republic. At the period alluded to, the dissensions which prevailed occasioned many emigrations from Florence, among which was that branch of the Bonapartean family whence Napoleon descended.

On the subject of family pedigree, Bonaparte thus ludicrously expressed himself: "The Emperor Francis, whose head is crammed with ideas of elevated birth, was extremely anxious to demonstrate that I was a descendant from some of the old tyrants of Treviso; and, after my marriage with Maria Louisa, employed several persons to make researches among the old musty records of genealogy, in which he thought something might appear to prove what he desired. Conceiving, at length, that his efforts were crowned with success, he wrote to me and required my consent that the account should be published with all official formalities. This I refused; but so intent was he upon the favorite topic, that he again applied, stating, Leave me to act, as I had no need to interfere.

I replied that such a step was impossible, for, if published, I could not do other than notice the same; that I preferred being the offspring of an honest man to a descent from any little dirty tyrant of Italy; that I was the Rodolph of my own family. There was formerly," added Napoleon, "one Buonaventura Bonaparte, who lived and died a monk. That poor man lay quietly in his grave; nothing being thought concerning him until I had ascended the throne of France. It was then discovered that he had possessed many virtues, never before attributed to him; and the Pope gravely proposed to me his canonization : Holy father, said I, for the love of God, spare me the ridicule of that step; you being in my power, all the world will say that I forced you to create a saint out of my family."

When the marriage of Napoleon with Maria Louisa was on the eve of solemnization, the French Emperor, in reply to some remonstrances made upon the subject, observed, "I should not enter into this alliance, if I was not aware of her origin being equally as noble as my own."

The collection of documents, extracted from the archives of various towns of Italy, being presented to the Emperor, from which it appeared the family of the Bonapartes had, at a very remote period, been Lords of Treviso, he having merely glanced his eye over the contents, threw the paper into the fire, exclaiming, with energy, "I wish my nobility to commence only with myself, and to derive all my titles from the French people."

NAREHTOS SELRAHC.

Two Monuments to the Memory of Gustavus Adolphus.-The level plains of Saxony are thickly dotted with monuments

commemorative of the terrible battles of which they have been the theatre. Two of the most important are those of Breitenfeld (1631) and Lutzen (1631). That on the field of Breitenfeld, to the memory of Gustavus Adolphus, is at some distance from the high road, on a narrow and prettily shaded lane running through cultivated fields. The monument consists of a square block of granite, set on a little mound of earth, well trodden by the footsteps of the pilgrims to this historic shrine. On the north side is the inscription, "Glaubens, Freiheits für die Welt" on the west, overlooking the low meadow the scene of the fiercest struggle, are the words, "Rettete bei Breitenfeld;" on the south, "Gustav Adolph Christ und Held ;" and on the east, "Am 17 September 1631-1831." Nine trees, planted closely around the monument, act as sentinels to guard the stone from any act of vandalism. In such presence, I can imagine no one capable of any attack on the inanimate stone.

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The monument at Lutzen is far more elaborate, and, it must be said, does no credit to German taste. The first indication we have of its location is a clump of evergreens rising alongside of the dusty highway, as we approach from Lutzen. Surrounded by this little grove stands the monument, if such it may be called. the centre is a large block of granite, of irregular shape, though somewhat triangular in form. Against the stone the heart's blood of the great Protestant hero ebbed away, and with little effort we can imagine the rough block to be stained with his blood. On the stone itself is roughly hewn the letters