The New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society celebrated its sixty-first anniversary recently in the chapel of the Holy Saviour, in Twenty-fifth street, near Madison avenue,

Professor Hows, the well-known teacher of elocution, and dramatic reader, is preparing a volume for the press, entitled "My Personal Recollections of Actors and Acting." The writer's experience extends over more than half a century-commencing with Mrs Siddons, John and Charles Kemble, and Edmund Kean, and containing the principal celebrities until the present time Mr. Hows has been intimately acquainted with the American department of his subject since 1824, and he is thus peculiarly qualified to give the public a work of rare value.

A French translation of the complete works of Longfellow will shortly be published in Paris.

Two metrical translations of Goethe's Faust will appear within the ensuing year; one by Bayard Taylor, the other by Dr. Stowe.

Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody has published a pamphlet entitled The Identification of the Artisan and Artist the Proper Object of American Education.

Mr. Donald G. Mitchell ("Ike Marvel "), who has largely gone into agriculture and its kindred pursuits since his return from his Consulate of Venice, will immediately publish, through Charles Scribner & Co., an account of his farm in New England, illustrated with photographs. Only 300 copies will

be on sale.

The sum of $250.000 has been secured for the building and perpetual support of a free Universalist church in Chicago, with Sunday-school and all the appointments of a self sustaining parish.

WHAT MRS. M'FARLAND HAS WRITTEN.-She was the author of those excellent papers, "Westward to the Indies" and "Eastward to the Indies," which appeared in the Tribune of the time at the completion of the Pacific Railroad. She wrote .. The Hamlets of the Stage," which at once established her reputation as a writer. Her efforts had hitherto been confined to "Fairy Stories for Children" and "Tales from Shakespeare and the Old English Poets," but they were marked by an exuberance of fancy, delicacy and method, fully developed in "The Hamlet of the Stage."

"Among my Books" is a volume of prose essays by Professor Lowell, upon literary characters, to be published next month.

The author of "Mary Powell," now generally known to be Miss Anne Manning, has written a new work, "The Spanish Barber, a Tale of the Bible in Spain," founded on recent events, which will be published shortly."

Prof. Paul C. Sinding has reissued in this country the great Copenhagen work, illustrating the life and labors of Thorwaldsen, having translated the text of J. M. Thiele into English. It is in four folio volumes, and contains 365 copper outline engravings of Thorwaldsen's chief works in statuary and bas-relief. This is truly an excellent production, and the ready sale with which it has already met evinces a diffused and high degree of American taste for fine art.

Fields, Osgood & Co. will soon publish complete editions of the prose writings of R. W. Emerson, and the poems of James Russell Lowell, and a " Household" series of the writings of Miss Thackeray.

Carter Bros. have just issued a volume of poems, by E. H. Bickersteth, entitled "Yesterday, To-Day, and Forever."

Two literary ladies of Columbus, Ga., are about to publish novels.

At the last meeting of the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Mr. Robert Clarke read an interesting paper on the first library formed in the Northwestern Territory. Mr. Clarke produced evidence to show that a library was begun in Cincinnati

in 1802.

The Backus Historical Society propose to reprint Isaac Backus's History of the Baptists, in two volumes, at $5, to be edited by Rev. David Western.

THE POST OFFICE --It appears that in the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, 760,000,000 letters passed through the mails of the United States, being an increase of 40.000,000 over any previous year. This is about twenty letters per head for every man, woman and child in the United States.

San Francisco papers report the death, at Napa Cty, Cal., on the 27th ult., of the well-known Mexican poet, Aurelio Luis Gallardo.

Professor Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist of Missouri, is in Rock Island, Ill, for the purpose of securing the entomological cabinet of the late Professor Walsh. The collection numbers 30,000 specimens. Riley proposes to pay a fair sum for the specimens, and will agree to furnish the State of Illinois with a full collection of all the hurtful and beneficial insects.

An agent has just visited Middletown, Ct., to engage teachers to go to South America. One thousand dollars a year is offered for three years. Every teacher must speak the Spanish language, and have until next October to learn it. Several Wesleyan students, mostly of the senior class, have signified their intention of accepting the offer.

Newspapers in Pennsylvania are beginning to advocate the exclusion of the Bible from the common schools.

HUMBOLDT FESTIVAL.-A poem was composed for the Humboldt Festival in America. by Emil Rittershaus, and has been translated from the German into English by Mrs. Kate Kroeker-Freiligrath, and published by Mr. L. W. Schmidt, of New York.

The legacy of the late Dr. James Rush to the Philadelphia Library was hampered by various conditions. No newspapers were to be admitted into the Library, but, what was worse, it was to be removed to a point so distant from the centre of the town that it would be of little practical value to the citi-.. zens. The executors insisted upon a rigid compliance with the terms of Dr. Rush's testament; but after a good deal of severe thinking, the embarrassed gentleman have hit upon the expedient of keeping their old library where it is, and of building a new library upon the site designated by the eccentric tes

tator.

A striking portrait of Daniel Boone at 86, painted by Chester Harding, is owned by John 1. King, in in Springfield, Mass. It hung for a long time in the State House at Frankfort, Ky, but the artist was never paid for it,

The Chicago Post says it is in favor of capital punishment, or the whipping-post in the fewest possible cases, and they include wife-beaters folks who make butter without salt and booksellers who sell books with the leaves uncut.

An interesting collection might be made by some curious bibliographer of books on the respective rights, duties, and nature of the sexes, which have been written and published only during the last two or three years-some of them being entertaining for their folly, and some of them valuable for their ability. But the very title of a book (Man and Woman Unlike, yet Equal) just published in Boston, and written by Mr. Reed, a Swedenborgian minister, atrikes us as quite a compendious little argument in itself a final argument, we suspect, when it comes to be philosophically stated in terms comprehensible by the general mind. We offer our contribution to such statement by observing that Mr. George Francis Train and Mrs. Major Walker are "unlike;" and yet they seem to be pretty nearly "equal," the difference being hardly worth computing.

Mr. Thurlow Weed, it is stated, begins the work of constructing his autobiography by disentombing from their dusty cases about 4,000 old letters. These his daughter will arrange for him. This reminds us of the shrewd and ancient saying, "Never write a letter, and never burn one," which, like all other shrewd and ancient sayings, has been attributed to Talleyrand. The most dreadful and damaging col. lections of old letters ever found in this country were those which made up the Butler, Hoyt, Swartwout, and Van Buren correspondence, discovered by Mackenzie in the New York Custom-House These, though printed have fallen into an oblivion which, as historical illustrations, they did not deserve. hope that there is nothing nearly so wicked in Mr. T. Weed's repertory.-N. Y. Tribune.

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Seemanleni Matanosin, a Japanese Prince, together with three chosen noblemen, Malune Onkak Talikayro, Fuahyama Tahro, and Haschegootachee Sehgee, are coming all the way from Japan, to be educated at a college in New Brunswick, N. J.

During his visit to Boston, Père Hyacinthe left his autograph in the visitors' Register in the Massachusetts Historical Society's rooms in the following form: Fr. HYACINTHE LOYSON, Paris, France, corde petit placidam sub libertate quietem." Thus he adopted the motto of the State of Massachusetts, with the substitution of the word corde (heart) for ense (sword): “With the heart (instead of the sword) he seeks tranquil repose under the protection of liberty."

that our Yankee friends are laying claim to a share in Hugo Pierson, of "Jerusalem" and "Hezekiah fame; an American paper having asserted that the admirable composer of B:harrlich," "Ye Mariners of England," or the "American Banner" is connected on the mother's side with General Sherman.

Longfellow's poem, 66 The Spanish Student," has been translated into Italian, and has just been published by Signor Raffaele Cardamone, of Naples.

A Ballad has been composed and printed on the Richardson tragedy.

Henry Whipple, the oldest bookseller and publisher in Salem, Mass., and one of the oldest in the State, died in Salem on Wednesday, at the age of eighty years. For more than half a century he kept the principal bookstore in Salem.

AN HEROIC DUELLIST.-It is evident that the editor of the Chicago Tribune must take the first place among duelling editors. M. Paul de Cassagnac pales his ineffectual fire by the side of such a hero. The American editor finds it necessary to place the following intimation at the head of his news: "The editor of this paper, in consequence of the number of analagous engagements previously contracted, will find himself compelled till Easter, or Trinity, to refuse challenges from his honorable adversaries, political or otherwise."

Morrison Heady, a deaf and blind Kentuckian, has written a volume of poems, in which he is said to have displayed some poetic genius, under the rather anomalous title of Seen and Heard, Poems or the Like."

The author of "Tin Trumpet; or, Heads and Tails for the Wise and Waggish"-a book of rare and brilliant wit and wisdom, the authorship of which has always been a disputed point-is now authoritatively announced to be Horace Smith, author, or rather one of the authors, of "The Rejected Addresses." A cheap edition of this notable work was issued last spring by D. Appleton & Co.

The name of Mr. Tennyson's new volume is "Idyls of the King: Second series."

A young mother has written a poem on "Baby," the third stanza of which has been much admired. It runs :

"Doxery doodle-um dinkle-um dum;
Tum to its muzzery mozzery mum;
Tizzery izzery boozery boo,

No baby so sweet and so pitty as oo."

A letter was received in Iowa City addressed:
For Mr. Brainard, wise and witty,
An editor in Iowa City."

The State Entomologist of Illinois is known in that section as the "Bugmaster General."

Minnesota has a paper called the Wabashaw Red-headed Herald. And Durand, Wisconsin, has one just started, called the Lean Wolf.

SERMONS FROM STONES-Marble's editorials.-Citizen and Round Table.

One of the most beautifully printed books we have lately seen is the History of American Socialisms. By John Humphrey Noyes. (Philada., J. B. Lippincott & Co.. 1870.) The printing is done by the Wallingford Community, at the Mount Tom Printing Press, Wallingford, Conn. This volume will possess an unusual interest, as the only comprehensive work on American Socialisms. Mr. Noyes, the author, is the founder of the Oneida Community.

The Massachusetts Historical Society has recently issued two important works: Lectures by Members of the Soc. on Subjects relating to the early History of Massachusetts, delivered before the Lowell Institute, in Besten. 8vo. pp. 498. Cloth, $4.00; Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 1867-1869. 8vo, pp. 519. Portraits. $3.50 Contains several papers of historical interest. These volumes may be had through Messrs. Sabin & Sons.

Mr Kohl's work on the Coast of Maine, and Mr. DeCosta's Strictures on the same, have appeared, and now we are to have a third, treating largely on the same subject. The title will be The History of Augusta, from its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time: with Notices of the Plymouth Company, and Settlements on the Kennebec, etc., etc. By James W. North. The Prospectus promises some matters of historic interest relating to the Kennebec River which have never before been published. The work (of 600 or 700 pages) will be put to press as soon as sufficient encouragement is given by subscription. Copies may be obtained through J. Sabin & Sons, at the subscription price ($5.00).

The firm of Macmillan & Co., London, from whose press have issued some of the best contributions to standard and scientific literature, have established an agency at 63 Bleecker Street, New York, where they issue a monthly bulletin of their publications. The new Illustrated Scientific Journal, "Nature," highly commended by the press, is published by Macmillan & Co. 4 numbers have been issued.

A bookbinder received the following from a patron on Christmas: "May your turkey be extra."

The death is announced of Guglielmo Libri, an Italian scholar, whose reputation as a mathematician is high among mathematicians, but whom the unlearned world may remember only for the misfortunes or faults which, now some twenty years ago, brought him to conspicuous ruin. While in the prime of young manhood, Libri passed through the experience which has formed a part of the Ives of so many of the generation of Italians which is just about to pass away; being exiled, in 1831, as a political offender, he betook himself to France, where he was already well known. When he was but twenty years old he had been made a professor of mathematics at Pisa; but not feeling fit for the place he went to Paris to pursue his studies further, and there he made the acquaintance of many of the leading men of science in Paris. On his second advent, then, he found an easy way open to him, and being a man of social capabilities he was soon a great favorite. He had a way of making enemies however, as well as warm friends, his rashness and courage being in excess of his discretion, and his pride in his race having more than once come into collision with French vanity or French pride. For example, in his "History of the Mathematical Sciences in Italy," he patriotically claimed for his own countrymen several scientific achievements to which the French lay claim. Moreover, Guizot, who was a great patron of his, rather imprudently created two offices-the Inspector-Generalship of Public instruction and that of the State Libraries-and gave them both to Libri His new appointments provoked envy, and his conduct in office was not of the wisest so far as worldly wisdom, and worldly wisdom in France, is wisdom. In his zeal he enraged

many careless functionaries, and thus added to the number of his secret enemies. These were all obscure men, except Arago, whose enmity, says the London Times, had something professional and personal, as well as political, in it." By-and-by, somebody sent in against him charges that he had been stealing books from the national libraries. Guizot paid no attention to this accusation; either he did not believe it, which is altogether likely, or he may have thought that if it were true, it was an exhibition of that mania for collecting books which has brought more than one eminently respectable man to thefts which none of them who was never found out, ever repented. Is there a case recorded where stolen books have been restored to their rightful owners, as "conscience money so often is? Besides, Guizot knew that Libri had just made an offer to give his private library to the country, on the one condition that it should be known as "The Libri Collection." At all events, he did nothing with the charges. But soon Louis Philippe fled; Guizot went into private life; and Guizot's and the King's enemies and successors in power were all Libri's political enemies, and some of them hated him bitterly for private reasons. Arago and certain others pushed the old charges, and after-as Libri's friends say-having driven him out of the country by threats of personal violence, they had him tried and condemned, by default, to ten years' imprisonment Libri may, perhaps, have done ill not to stand his trial; or it may have been better that he went away, for it is probable that he might have been found guilty at all hazards; but there is no doubt that his condemnation shortened his life, and made these latter years of it bitter. There were two parties about evenly divided

as regards him, the one asserting his guilt, and the other, containing some of the best, and ablest men in France, firmly believing him perfectly innocent. Certain it is that his prosecutors said hosts of things against him that he disproved completely. They made oath that he had stolen books which, on examination, were found in their places on the shelves; that he had stolen others which, as it turned out, had for years been in foreign collections; that he had taken still others which it was proved had been stolen by other people. Then, too, the residence of the accused man was entered by persons without warrant or authority, who took in and took out what they pleased. Evidence like this and witnesses like these are no foundation for the judgment that was rendered; and the trial, whatever may have been Libri's faults, was a disgraceful one. However, Libri was ruined; and though he convinted many that he was a man most cruelly and unjustly treated, he never quite held up his head again, and, in any case, his fate is one of the saddest and most impressive in recent literary history.

Libri died at Fiesolo, near Florence, September 28, aged about sixty-six. There have been several important and interesting sales of his books, both in England and on the continent.

LONDON AND THE GREAT POETS.-It is the fashion, every now and then, for writers to throw out hints about Cockney poets; but it may be worth while to remember that Milton, Chaucer, Spenser, Gray, Pope and Byron were all born "within the sound of Bow Bells; in fact, of all our greatest poets before the present century, Shakspeare and Dryden alone were not Londoners by birth.

THOMAS CARLYLE ON BOOKS.-The secretary to the Wedgewood Institute, Burslem, has received the following letter from Mr. Thomas Carlyle: Messrs. Chapman & Hall are directed to send you five volumes, viz., Sartor and Heroes, one volume; Schiller and Sterling, one volume; Cromwell, three volumes. The utility of your enterprise will depend mainly on your judgment in selecting books-on your earnestly and sedulously choosing books that are nourishment to the mind of a man, and rigorously rejecting what are poison (by far the most numerous class at present.-T. CARLYLE, Chelsea, November 5."

LITERARY FORGERIES.-A fabricator of spurious autographs has just fallen into the hands of the police of Paris. A woman who gives her name as Mme. Michel, was arrested at her residence at LevalloisPerret. There the Commissary of Police found an apartment elegantly furnished, containing a library, in part composed of old books, and, after a minute search. discovered numerous autographs, some real and some false, with specimens of old writing, imitations of the signatures of the most remarkable personages of the present century, a quantity of parchments, and numerous leaves torn from ancient books. The woman acknowledged that the autographs had been forged by her son, a clerk in the Soleil Insurance Office. The young man was subsequently arrested in that establishment while in the act of transcribing an autograph of Silvio Pellico, of which four other copies were found at his home. He is aged 28, of remarkable intelligence, learned, and of extraordinary skill in calligraphy. He and his mother have been lodged in prison,

Mr. Moy Thomas, the diamatic editor of the London Daily News, has called attention to certain extraordinary mispronunciations of the great John Kemble. He was wont to pronounce aches. aitches; beard, bird; cheerful, churful; earth. airth; fierce, furse; leap lep; rode, rod; virgin, vargin; odious, ojus; they, the; virtue, vartue; and so on.

The Museum of the Louvre in Paris has just bought a group in ivory representing Venus bound by Cupid, for the sum of $7.000. It was originally presented by Louis XIV. to the Chinese Ambassador, and was taken by a soldier at the sack of the Summer Palace, who sold it for $20.

We hear that a museum of books, portraits, and relics, commemorating he great siege, has just been opened at Sebastopol by General Von Todleben.

It is stated in Notes and Queries," that the first book machine-printed in England was "Wanderings," in 4to, the printer being Augustus Applegath.

At a recent auction sale of a library in Dublin, much surprise was expressed that an old book sold for thirteen pounds and odd shillings. A well-known dealer who was present exclaimed, in a perfectly audible voice: "There is an example of a purchase for the B. M. (British Museum); if I had offered that volume to them last week for fifty shillings, they would not have taken it; but, as the sale is a public one, their agent buys it for five times the money."

A copy of the first edition of the Bible in Welsh, a very rare book, was sold in a sale at Puttick & Simspson's, although imperfect, for 37%.

The library of Lord Foley, recently deceased, contained one of three copies of the folio " Vinegar" Bible, on vellum.

Mr. Wm. Smith has undertaken to arrange the large collection of prints illustrative of popular manners, customs, witchcraft, fools, &c., which the learned illustrator of Shakespeare, Francis Douce, bequeathed to the Bodleian Library.

Two works of King James the Sixth, viz.: "The Essayes of a Prentise in the Divine Art of Poesie," Edinburgh, 1585, and "A Counterblast to Tobacco," London, 1604, are being prepared for republication.

Mrs. Beecher Stowe has "dedicated to the Freedman's School" her receipts for an article on Lord and Lady Byron. Nearly 100 pages of her volume, A Vindication of Lady Byron," are in type, but they are still subject to the author's revision, and nothing is yet really in the shape which it is likely to have when published. It is said that there are only two persons in the United States who have not communicated their views on the Byron question to the newspapers, and they are citizens of Cape Cod, who went off mackerel-fishing six weeks ago and have not returned.

Mrs. Stowe's Vindicator has just issued from the press.

Hans Christian Andersen received the compliment of a banquet from his admirers in Copenhagen, recently. Fifty years ago, on the sixth of September, 1819, Andersen entered Copenhagen, a boy of fourteen years old, from his home in Odense.

Mr. Dion Boucicault has produced in his time over one hundred and fifty dramatic pieces. He is an Irishman, and was educated by Dr. Lardner. He is said latterly to have earned £10,000 a year.

Mr. Robert Buchanan, the poet. is so unwell with cerebral symptoms, that literary labor has had to be, entirely suspended, and is not likely to be soon resumed. He has been more or less unfit for active work for some years past-a grievous misfortune to a professional man of letters.

Two French literary men have recently died, under somewhat similar circumstances. M. Forcade, a political and financial writer of great distinction, and M. Antony Deschamps, one of the chief literary supporters of Victor Hugo and the "romantic" school. Both writers had suffered from disorder of the brain.

MODELLING FROM MEMORY.-Danton, the celebrated French caricaturist, has just died at BadenBaden. His power of modelling from memory was phenomenal, After one long look at his subject, he could go to his studio and make a bust perfect in its resemblance. Numbers of anecdotes are told of his feats in this way. One day a young man came into his studio and told him he had a sister mortally ill, and that his family wished to have her portrait. They dared not ask her to sit; to do so would have been to awaken her suspicion. In a word, Danton undertook to reproduce her features from memory. The next day the brother informed his sister that he intended to make her a present of a jewel for her next ball. Danton was introduced as the young man from the jeweler's, and while the young lady was looking at the specimens sent, the artist made his observations. On going home he produced a bust of striking resemblance Next year an old man, the father of the brother and sister, came to ask Danton to do the bust of his son, also from mem-1 ory, for the young man was dead. Danton succeeded

as well for the brother as he had done for the sister. He was not, however, always so successful. On one occasion a gentleman who could not get his wife to sit, asked Dinton to take his place on a given day, at a given hour, in one of the omnibusses running from the Madeleine to the Bastille, and he would see his wife there and might observe her attentively. Danton did as directed, executed a splendid bust, sent it to the husband, and received for answer that it was not in the least like his wife, but was the very image of her maid. Danton had made a mistake in this case. He left a splendid fortune as the result of his art labors.

We understand that Mr. Twistleton's book on the "Handwriting of Junius," mentioned in our last, will mainly differ from other attempts of the same kind: (1) in the larger number of the fac-similes published; and (2) in the "objective proo's i. e. in an exhaustive statement of the reasons which have led Mr. Chabot to his opinion

pistol at a servant girl who found him in her master's garden, whither he had gone to obtain water for the others. A day or two afterwards others of the gang, who had escaped on the first foray of the police, were captured and brought before the magistrate. One of them, who, in thieves' slang. "rounded" on his companions, gave a comical description of the cooking of a "peasant" stolen from a poulterer's. After some discussion in the cave, it was arranged that the "peasant" should be cooked before being. drawn, 66 cos we was all on us in such a 'urry.' They were evidently smitten with the desire of realizing those exciting scenes of robber life of which they had red so many pictures.

England is to adopt the half-penny system of newspaper postage.

The elder Dumas is said to have written onethousand novels.

The original autograph score of Mozart's "Don Giovanni is preserved in the possession of Madame Viardot Garcia at her villa at Baden-Baden. It is handsomely bound in parts, kept in a carved oak case, securely locked, and fastened to the wall of the building.

The correspondent of the London Times (Mr. Russell) has been prohibited from entering the Papal States, to report the Ecumenical Council.

Sir Isaac Newton's house and observatory in London are for sale, the church which owns them having. fallen into pecuniary straits.

The new Lord Mayor of London is a printer.

Photographs are now printed with the ordinary printers' ink in London, twelve thousand impressions. being struck from one plate per day.

The literary remains of Sainte-Beuve contain letters of the Princess Mathilde, with disparaging. reflections upon Louis Napoleon and Eugénie. It is believed that these letters will be made to disappear in the mysterious manner so well known to Bonaparte spies.

A capital story of Sainte- Beuve is told: "He was dining in company with the Père Lacordaire, and the conversation turning on religion, Sainte Beuvesaid I don't understand your revelation, and I make a point of believing nothing I do not fully understand 'Pardon me, sir,' said Lacordaire, you do not understand why fire hardens eggs and melts butter, but I perceive that you believe in omelettes! Sainte-Beuve treated the Père Lacordaire with the greatest deference ever after, and always spoke of him with the utmost respect."

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Sainte Beuve received for his contributions to the Constitutionnel, from 1852 to 1860, one hundred and seventy-five thousand francs. He never accumulated any means, but his library is one of the best in Paris..

THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY.-Professor Stubbs has. been elected to the curatorship of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, vacant by the death of Professor Conington, by seventy eight votes. His opponent, Professor Rolleston, obtained thirty-six votes.

George Sand has been offered the position of editress-in-chief of the Paris daily Temps.