PARKER LIBRARY.-The sale of a large private library necessarily occasions mingled feelings of regret and satisfaction: regret that what it has perhaps been the aim and occupation of a lifetime to collect together and preserve intact, should be scattered in every direction, and still a feeling of gratification that, thus scattered, the once perfect collection may be the means of doing more real good than when together. A large library sale is in this country an event. Book-collectors date back to the Corwin sale, the Choules sale, and the Ludewig sale as important events, to be treasured in the memory, and the prices certain works have brought at each sale are often referred to. On the announcement of a really good sale, catalogues are ordered by bib. liomaniacs from all parts of the United States, and are carefully scanned for the specialities of each individual. On the day of sale parties may be seen with their catalogues carefully interlined and bound, and in many instances neatly ruled with red ink, for the purpose of preserving not only the prices at which each work is disposed of, but also to retain the names of the buyer. With what an air of satisfaction front seats are secured, and by courtesy often retained through an entire week's sale. How much earnestness is observed when a bibliographical treasure is held up to the admiring gaze, and with what feelings of respect and esteem is the successful production looked upon. The whole scene is one of rare interest, and we would advise our readers who may be only versed in the excitement of the stock market, or the rise in cotton, to spend an hour with Bangs or Leavitt on the next occasion of a large library sale. In London and Paris, those great receptacles of "decayed gen lemen's libraries," these opportunities occur very often, at least two or three times a week; but with us it is as yet rare to have more than two or three large sales in a year; in fact, on careful examination, we find that during the past ten years there have been but ten sales of any real importance. We propose in a future article to give some account of these sales, the character of each collection, and the prices paid for the most prominent objects of biblionian vertu. At present we would invite attention to the approaching sale of the library of the late Geo. P. Parker, by Messrs. Leavitt & Co., to take place March 1st. The catalogue of this sale just received from Messrs. Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., is full of interest. How often it is the case that, misled by the flattering description in an auction catalogue, we are induced to such an extravagant bid, and on the arrival of the long coveted rarity find the binding injured, the work itself soiled or plates discolored. In the library now before us no such misfortune need be feared. The late owner was well known to all the Trade for his remarkable care and judgment in the selection of editions. If he was in possession of a valuable work of which a better copy should be offered him, he immediately disposed of one and purchased the other. The Parker Library may be particularized as of an especially miscellaneous character, most of the libraries whose sales we have chronicled, have been of some special interest, either Theological, Bibliographical, Ethnological, etc. But this collection is quite full in all depart ments. We have not space to give it the attention it deserves, and can only at present invite attention to a few prominent works of the greatest value. In the Fine Arts we notice those specialities as yet unequalled in beauty and artistic merit: The Musée Français and Musée Royale, 6 vols. folio, proofs before letter very rarely to be met with in this state-Becker's Augustine, 3 vols. folio-Brezynki's Modern Art in Germany, 4 vols. 4to. and folio. In Natural History: Gould's Birds of Europe-Bonaparte's OrnithologyDonovan's British Birds-American Discovery is represented by fine editions of Purchase, Hakluyt, and Churchill-Antiquities by Lord Kingsborough's great work upon Mexico, Murphy's Arabian Antiquities, and Grose'a Antiquities of England and Wales. The historian and politician will find food for study and reflection in Thurlow's State Papers, the Harleian Miscel lany, the Annual Register 80 vols., and the Edinburgh Review 85 vols. The lover of literature will do well to secure the Abbottsford Waverley, Pickering's Milton, and the publications of the Shakspere and Camden Societies; and we are sure of a large rivalry for the works of Brunel, Rich, Lowndes, and Watts, names familiar to all of our bibliographical readers. We have here given but a faint idea of this valuable collection. To our College, State, and Public Libraries it offers an opportunity which should not be neglected, of securing and placing where they may be available, these desirable aids to History and Education.

DEATH OF HALLAM, THE HISTORIAN.-Henry Hallam, the eminent English historian and critic, died on the 22d of January-six days before the death of Prescott. He had reached the great age of 81 years, having been born in 1778. Mr. Hallam, at an early period, was a regular contributor to the Edinburgh Review, contemporaneously with his friend Sir Walter Scott, and was one of the most active friends of Mr. Wilberforce in his movement for abolishing the African slave trade. In 1830 he received one of the two fifty guinea gold medals instituted by George IV., for eminence in historical composition, the other being awarded to Washington Irving. It was on the death of Mr. Hallam's son, who was engaged to be married to his sister, that Tennyson wrote his "In Memoriam." Mr. Hallam's works are-"The Constitutional History of England," "The History of Europe during the Middle Ages," "An Introduction to the Literary History of Europe during the 15th, 16th and 17th Centuries."-Boston Transcript.

The executors of the will of Béranger intend to make a complete collection of his letters, with a view to publication. An unreserved collection, free from official supervision, would afford not only delightful reading for this generation, but material for future historians.

Mr. Barnum publishes a correspondence with Messrs. Routledge, by which it appears the latter have offered £1200 for the copyright of his lectures on The Art of Money-making,-if with immediate publication. Mr. Barnum declines, and publishes the fact, as a testimonial to his ability to lecture on the subject.

The Paris Imperial Printing Establishment possesses the type of fifty-six Eastern languages, being all that are known of the characters of Asia, ancient or modern. Also the type of sixteen European tongues, which do not use the ordinary Latin characters. As to the latter, the establishment has the type of forty-six different forms and sizes. The number of presses on the premises is such that 556 reams of paper, equivalent to 9,266 octavo volumes of thirty sheets, could be struck off in a single day. About 500 workmen are employed by the establishment throughout the year.

Lady Chatterton has translated sundry extracts from the works of Jean Paul Frederich Richter, which will soon be published in London.

From the London Publishers' Circular, February 1.

The new books are not very numerous or important, but the number of new editions is remarkable; it is to be hoped it may be taken as an indication of success having attended the works enumerated under that heading. In Literature we have Lord Campbell's promised Essay on Shakspeare's Legal Acquirements, published in the form of a letter to Mr. Collier.

In History and Biography-The Third Volume of Bunsen's Egypt's Place in History, translated by Cottrell; the Ninth Volume of Mr. Cunningham's edition of Walpole's Letters; The Journal of Horace Walpole, edited by Dr. Doran, in 2 vols.: a life of the late Dr. Ebenezer Henderson is in the press of Messrs. Knight and Son.

In Travel and Research-Lord Broughton's new work on Italy and Italian Art; Cornwallis's Two Journeys to Japan, in 1856-7, 2 vols.; Swainson's New Zealand and its Colonization; Roadside Sketches in the South of France and the Pyrenees, most graphically illustrated with 24 lithographs.

In Theology we have Whately's Lecture on Paley's Works; Attwood's Sermons for Clergy and Laity; Professor Plumptre's King's College Sermons; Notes from Plymouth Pulpit, a volume of Selections from the Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher, similar to a previous volume entitled Life Thoughts; Winer's Grammar of New Testament Diction, by Masson, Vol. 1; and an 8th edition of Dr. Hook's Church Dictionary.

In Medical Science-A new and comprehensive Dictionary of Surgery, in 3 or 4 vols. 8vo. edited by Dr. Costello, is just ready for publication; Messrs. Longman and Co. have brought to a completion Dr. Copland's great Medical Dictionary, in 4 vols. 8vo. commenced in 1833; Cooley's Encyclopædia of Practical Receipts (Churchill) has reached a Third Edition; an entirely New Edition of Dr. South's Household Surgery; or Hints on Emergencies (17th thousand of this popular book), is now ready (Murray); this, with a little Treatise by Dr. Hull, on Scarlatina and Diphtheria, is really all that has been published during the last fortnight. A Third Volume of Dr. Todd's Clinical Lectures, and a Manual of Dental Surgery, by Dr. Tomes, are amongst Mr. Churchill's announcements.

In Fiction-Capt. Mayne Reid's Oceola, in 3 vols.; Miss Jewsbury's Right or Wrong, in 2 vols.; Lost and Won, by Miss Craik, in 1 vol.; Blight, or the Novel-Hater, in 3 vols.

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Miss Isa Craig, the successful competitor for the Burns Ode Prize, is a native of Edinburgh, and has long been a poetical contributor to the Scotsman, and recently to the National Magazine. In 1856 Messrs. Blackwood & Sons published a small collection of her poetry under the title of Poems by Isa. Messrs. Bradbury & Evans have purchased the copyright of the present very successful and distinguished Ode, and publish it at the popular price of sixpence.

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CLARK, AUSTIN & SMITH have got out "Lectures on the Moral Government of God," by Nathaniel W. Taylor, D. D., late Dwight Professor of Didactic Theology in Yale College. "The Moral Government of God was the great thought of Dr. Taylor's intellect, and the favorite theme of his instructions in theology. It occupied his mind more than any and every other subject. He was ever ready to enter upon the investigation of any truth that was nearly or remotely connected with this. He was never weary of grappling with such inquiries, whether they were suggested for the first time by his own ingenuity, or had been discussed with greater or less success for centuries by speculative and earnest men. To vindicate the ways of God to man, was the object to which all his energies were consecrated, and upon which were expended the ardor of his glowing soul and the force of his strong and steadfast will. Those secondary objects which the majority of men, even students and theologians, esteem important, are freely sacrificed to the accomplishment of this commanding purpose. To this the whole living man was consecrated with an activity and intensity which have not often been equalled."

DERBY & JACKSON publish "The Methodist; or, Incidents and Characters from Life in the Baltimore Conference," by Miriam Fletcher, with an Introduction, by W. P. Strickland, D.D. The author observes in his preface: "Having, for many years, been conversant with the deeply interesting scenes and characters of Methodist life, the question has often arisen in my mind, Why, when here is so rich and varied a field for writers of fiction, has no one improved it?' Often have I listened with breathless interest to tales from the lips of our fathers, of their early toils and sufferings, when circuits were almost as large as conferences now are, and when even the humblest shelter might not be attained before the traveller was overtaken by the shades of night, and, like the revered McKendree, he has rested his weary head upon the ground, and found, on waking, his hair frozen to his rough pillow; when, like another who still lives to proclaim his message of peace, these self-denying men were so long absent from the comforts of home as to find, on their return they were unknown to their children. Why, I have again and again asked, why cannot these soul-stirring incidents find a more enduring record, before their memory is entombed with the venerable actors? It cannot be denied that the peculiar and graphic features of Methodism are rapidly fading, and will soon disappear from among us. They may still linger, perhaps on the remote frontier of our country; but we who sit at home, surrounded by the enfeebling influences of refined and wealthy Methodism, need to be reminded of the early struggles and privations of our missionary fathers. Who will rescue these thrilling stories from oblivion? Who will explore this yet almost unopened mine of treasure? Of my own incompetency I am not ignorant, and yet, in despair of seeing the pleasing task undertaken by more skilful hands, I venture,-not to follow the hardy pioneer in his wanderings by wood and stream,-not to describe the difficulties and dangers of the generation which has passed away,-but to weave into a simple narrative some of those circumstances that have occurred within my own knowledge. If, among the few who may read these unpretending pages, some should notice an occasional anachronism, let it passthe story is a fiction. Again, if others should think the incidents extravagant and overwrought, in all probability they are the very ones that were drawn from actual life—from personal observation. Hoping this humble attempt may stimulate others of more ability to tread in the path here merely indicated, this True Fiction is commended to the indulgence of the reader."

JAMES CHALLEN & Sox publish "A New History of the Conquest of Mexico, in which Las Casas' Denunciations of the Popular Historians of that War are fully Vindicated," by Robert Anderson Wilson, author of "Mexico and its Religion," etc. The author says, "An inspection of the country itself first shook our belief in those Spanish historic romances upon which Mr. Prescott has founded his magnificent tale of the Conquest of Mexico." The work is a handsome octavo, with many illustrations. Messrs. SHELDON & Co. of New York, and CROSBY, NICHOLS & Co. of Boston, are the publishers of Messrs. JAMES CHALLEN & SON's works in their respective cities.

ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS have got out "Mendip Annals; or, a Narrative of the Charitable Labors of Hannah and Martha More in their Neighborhood, being the Journal of Martha More," edited, with Additional Matter, by Arthur Roberts, M. A., rector of Woodrising, Norfolk; also, "St. Augustine: a Biographical Memoir," by the Rev. John Baillie, Gonv. and Caius Coll., Cambridge; author of the "Life of Adelaide L. Newton," "Memoirs of Hewitson," "Life Studies," etc.

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75 EADIE. A Coinmentary on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul to the Philippians. Ey John Eadie, D.D., LL.D., Prof. of Biblical Literature, Scotland. 8vo. pp. 297. [Robert Carter & Brothers.]

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We have perused these pages with an absorbing interest, and frankly confess that no work of fiction we ever read possesses half the charm which this does; and what is vastly better, it cannot fail to awaken the purest emotions and improve the heart. The characters are all so admirably drawn, the scenes so graphically described, and the grouping so well executed, that the persons and scenes rise before the mind in life-like reality. Nothing is over-wrought, a graceful and beautiful simplicity pervading and blending the whole. Much of the toils, hardships, and successes of these pioneer preachers is unwritten, and what has been made a matter of historic record only exists in fragmentary sketches. This book embraces a part of that history, and like Scott's Old Mortality," which so thrillingly describes the labors, sufferings, and conflicts of the Scotch Covenanters, it will be read with interest by all who love to dwell upon the heroic achievements of the pioneers of the cross.

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