ican lines by an unquestionable authority. When I passed from thence it was by the same authority. I used no deception. I had heard that a Provincial Officer had repented of the course he had taken, and that he avowed that he never meant to go so far as he had gone, in resisting the authority of his King. "The British Commander was willing to extend to him the King's clemency-yea, his bounty, in hopes to allure others to do the same. I made no plans. I examined no works. I only received his

communications, and was on my way to return to the army, and to make known all that I had learned from a General Officer in your Camp. Is this the office of a spy? I never should have acted in that light, and what I have done is not in the nature of a spy. I have noted neither your strength, nor your weakness. If there be wrong in the transaction is it mine? The office of a spy a soldier has a right to refuse; but to carry and fetch communications with another army, I never heard was criminal.

"The circumstances which followed, after my interview with General Arnold, were not in my He alone had the management of power to control. them. "It is said that I rode in disguise. I rode for security incog. as far as I was able, but other than criminal deeds induce one to do this. I was not bound to wear my uniform any longer than it was expedient or polite. I scorn the name of a spy; brand my offence with some other title, if it change not my punishment, I beseech you. It is not death I fear. I am buoyed above it by a consciousness of having intended to discharge my duty in an honourable manner.

"Plans, it is said, were found with me. This is true; but they were not mine. Yet I must tell you honestly that they would have been communicated if I had not been taken. They were sent by General Arnold to the British Commander, and I should have delivered them. From the bottom of my heart I spurn the thought of attempting to screen myself by criminating another; by so far as I am concernced the truth shall be told, whoever suffers. It was the allegiance of General Arnold I came to It was fair to presume that many a brave officer would be glad at this time to be able to retrace his steps; at least we have been so informed. Shall I, who came out to negociate this allegiance only, be treated as one who came to spy out the weakness of a camp? If these actions are alike, I have to learn my moral code anew.

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"Gentlemen, officers, be it understood that I am no suppliant for mercy that I ask only from Omnipotence-not from human beings. Justice is all I claim that Justice which is neither swayed by prejudice, nor disturbed by passion, but that which flows from honorable minds, directed by virtuous determinations. I hear, gentlemen, that my case is likened to that of Captain Hale, in 1775. I have heard of him and his misfortunes. I wish that in all that dignifies man, that adorns and elevates human nature, I could be named with that accomplished but unfortunate officer. His fate was wayward, and untimely was he cut off, yet younger than I now am. He went out knowing that he was assuming the character of a spy. He took all its liabilities into his hand, at the request of his great Commander. He was ready to meet what he had assumed, and all its

consequences. His death, the law of nations sanctioned. It may be complimentary to compare me with him. Still it would be unjust. He took his life in his hand when he assumed the character and the disguise. I assumed no disguise, nor took upon myself any other character than that of a British Officer, who had business to transact with an American Officer. In fine, I ask not even for Justice; if you want a victim to the manes of those fallen untimely, I may as well be that victim as another. I have in the most undisguised manner given you every fact in the case. I only rely on the proper construction of those facts. Let me be called anything but a spy. I am not a spy. I have examined nothing, learned nothing, communicated nothing, but my detention to Arnold, that he might escape, if he thought proper to do so. This was, as I conceived, my duty. I hope the gallant officer who was then unsuspicious of his General will not be condemned for the military error he committed.

"I farther state that Smith, who was the medium of communication, did not know any part of our conference, except that there was some necessity for secrecy. He was counsel in various matters for General Arnold, and from all the interviews I had with him, I do not believe that he had even a suspicion of my errand-and it was Smith who lent me this dress coat of crimson, on being told that I did not wish to be known by English or Americans.

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"On me your wrath should fall, if on any one. know your affairs look gloomy; but that is no reason why I should be sacrificed. My death can do your cause no good. Millions of friends to your struggle in England, you will lose if you condemn me.

"I do say not this by way of threat; for I know brave men are not awed by them-nor will brave men be vindictive because they are desponding. I should not have said a word had it not been for the opinion of others, which I am bound to respect.

"The sentence you this day pronounce will go down to posterity with exceeding great distinctness, on the page of history, and if humanity and honor mark this day's decision, your names, each and all of you, will be remembered by both nations when they have grown greater and more powerful than they now are. But, if misfortune befals me, I shall in time have all due honors paid to my memory. The martyr is kept in remembrance, when the tribunal that condemned him is forgotten. I trust this honorable Court will believe me when I say that what I have spoken was from no idle fears of a coward. I have done."

Major André.-On Wednesday the Phaton frigate, Capt. Wм. A. MONTAGU, C. B., arrived at Portsmouth from Halifax, after an extraordinary quick passage of only 18 days. She was relieved by the Athol, 28, Capt. H. BOURCHIER, from England: which ship she left at Halifax, with the Newcastle, 48, Rear-Admiral COLPOYS and JASSEUR. She has brought to England the remains of Major André, who was executed by the Americans, as a spy, in the year 1780. The remains were disinferred at Tappan, on the 14th August, placed in a

sarcophagus, and conveyed on board an English packet, which brought them to Halifax just previous to the departure of the Phaton. They have not yet been landed. We understand that they are consigned to his Royal Highness the Duke of York. Their being sent to England is in compliance with the request of the family of Major André.

From a Portsmouth (Eng.) paper, 6 Oct., 1821, Saturday.

F. S. H.

American (Whig) Review.-If it is in order, I should like to enquire, through your paper, as to the fate which overtook the American (Whig) Review. In the number of December, 1852, it speaks of its future prospects, the articles it has in preparation, etc., and, if my memory serves, has one or two pieces which were "to be continued."

All this would seem to indicate that it had no thoughts of dying, and I have a strong impression that certain articles were published in the Review subsequent to the date in question, yet all the files in the library catalogues end then, and I have never been able elsewhere to find a later issue. What is the explanation of this fact? and who was the final publisher of the Review? West Springfield, Mass., Jan. 8, 1870.

L. H. B.

Native Bards-a Satirical Effusion; with other occasional pieces.

By J. L. M. Philadelphia, 1831. The above is the title of a thin volume of poems which I picked up a short time ago in Nassau street. The principal poem, which gives the title to the volume, seems to be a servile imitation of the Dunciad. The remaining poems are devoted to various subjects. There are two translations; one from the French poet Gilbert, the other a sonnet of Petrarch.

It will be noticed that the initials on the title page are those of the historian of the Netherlands; and the year of publication is that in which he graduated from Harvard University. At this time he was but seventeen years of age, and the reflections contained in some of these pieces are too mature to be the productions of any youth of that age, the examples of Pope and Keats to the contrary notwithstanding.

Can any of the readers of the Bibliopolist enlighten me as to whom the mythical J. L. M. can be?

DON!

Pretenders.-Under this heading there is a paper, in All the Year Round (Nov. 27), in which the writer relates the partic-. ulars of a conversation he had in America with an old man who claimed to be "the son of Charles Edward Stuart ... unjustly called the Pretender.”

This worthy stated that historians are in error as to the date of his alleged father's death, which was only reported in order that he might emigrate to America, where, according to this new version, he married and had issue.

Whether the old man was an impostor, or whether he believed his own story, the writer of the article leaves in doubt; which is much to be regretted, as the following unique passage shows how eminently he was fitted for investigating this genealogy. After examining the vouchers produced in support of the claim, he tells us that he made this extraordinary remark :

"There is one link wanting in your golden chair, and that a very important one; the link which proves your father to be the son of James the Second, so called -the man who fought and lost the battle of Culloden."

One is not surprised to read, after that, the old man "folded up his papers suddenly" and took his departure.

CHARLES WYLIE.

Major Andre's Letter to Washington. -I beg to refer K. T. V. to the following work, of which one hundred copies only have been printed for private distribution, but which may be seen in the Library of the British Museum ::

"History of West Point and its Military Importance during the American Revolution: and the Origin and Progress of the United States' Military Academy By Captain Edward C. Boynton, A.M., Adjutant of the Military Academy. New York, 1864. [Large 8vo., pp. 408.]

Pp. 131-147 inclusive contain all the correspondence relating to the trial, or rather "examination" of Major André, including the last communication which he addressed to Washington.

From the gallant author's preface I gather that his compilation is based partly upon the published writings of others, and partly upon original papers and documents in the keeping of "The Custodian of the Records of the [U. S. Military] Academy at West Point." The MS. in question is therefore preserved in that institution.

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MR. BRIGHT AND THE FARMERS.--A Warwickshire farmer, with truly rustic felicity, has sent to Somerset House the following amusing answer to the Board of Trade's request for the statistics of ground crops, acreage, &c.: "John Bright's instructions to farmers in one of his speeches was not to meddle with figures, but to watch the sunshine and showers at home, and not bother the Government with their affairs.' I will take his advice in this matter.-T. MANN, Radway. 1869."

LORD MACAULAY AS A BOY.-The following anecdote of Lord Macaulay is taken from a letter written by a Scotch schoolboy during his vacation, to his father in Edinburgh, dated " Clapham, September 20, 1810." After describing his journey from the house of his tutor in Norfolk, and his arrival in Clapham, he goes on: "Mrs. Macaulay has got the finest family of children I ever saw. The eldest of them, a boy of about ten, came in at tea time and shook hands with me. A little after, George (my companion from London) told him I was a Scotchman. He immediately got up, seized my hand, and shook it most heartily. Then a keen dispute arose between him and his sisters about Scotland and England. He insisted that he was a Scotchman, and should henceforth be called Tam instead of Tom. He called one of his sisters Jean instead of Jane, and a young brother Jock, which put them both quite furious. It was good fun to see how fiercely they fought." The writer of this used often to speak of Macaulay as the very cleverest boy he ever met, with one exception, the late John Gibson Lockhart. Both these boys were incessant readers.

SIR W. SCOTT AND SIR B. LYTTON.--Sir Walter Scott is said to have made nothing of throwing off a three-volume novel in three months, and often drew bills on his publisher at nine, twelve, and fifteen months for a series of works without at the time possessing the slightest notion of what the works themselves were to be; and Sir Bulwer Lytton, writing only three or four hours a day, has thrown off most of his novels at the rate of two or three a year.

The Duc d'Aumale, one of the sons of Louis Phillipe. it is reported. has the largest and finest private library in Europe, his purchases of rare books amounting in value to $200,000 per annum.

The followin strange occurrence is vouched for by a South London magazine. It would appear that at a concert given a short time since in Walworth a gentleman startled the audience by reciting Paul's defence in Greek. In order to keep up the idea of the apostle as a prisoner, the reciter was led on to the platform by a long heavy chain, which was bound round his waist. He did not, however, consider it necessary to dispense with his white kid gloves. The Greek, the chain, and the gloves together had a curious effect.

Leipsic has two hundred and fifty-eight bookdealing firms, which represent about three thousand five hundred elsewhere. To do the work in these establishments are needed, besides the principals, two hundred and seventy assistants, one hundred apprentices, and some hundreds of packers, porters, &c., constantly engaged; so that the personnel of the Leipsic book trade can be given at nearly a thousand hands.

The death is announced of Professor Schleicher, of Germany. His, last important work, Darwinism tested by the Science of Language, is in the course of

translation.

The Athenæum, in referring to the death of Lord Derby, says: "Only a few brief years have passed since a review of Lord Derby's translation of the Iliad appeared in our columns. It came from a competent and well known hand. It was everwhere recognized as the work of Prof. Conington. Translator and critic are now beyond all mortal judgment. In the same day's papers were to be read the mournful records that scholar and statesman had passed to their rest. The one was in the prime of life, if reckoned only by years. The Professor died at the age of forty-four years; the Earl had exceeded the allotted threescore-and-ten."

The annual increase of books in the library of the British Museum is very great. In the year 1869 there were added to this collection 42,331 volumes and pamphlets (volumes of newspapers and books of music included), of which 992 were presented, 6099 were received in pursuance of the English copyright laws, 346 came in under international copyright treaties and 34,394 were purchased. There also were 33,403 parts of volumes-a separate number of periodical publications and of works in progress. Of newspapers published in the British Islands, 1145 sets were received. There were received 2121 pieces of music, and 779 portions of musical works in progress.

The Imperial library received in a year by law 10,000 books from Paris, 20,000 from France, and buy 20,000 from foreigners.

A genius from Paris has distinguished himself by making a large historical collection of warming-pans. M. Nestor Roque,lin, the collector in question, already has warming-pans which once belonged to Mary Stuart, the Pompadour, poor Antoinette, that amiable princess, Catherine de Medicis, and that We are virtuous personage, Diana of Poictiers. reminded by this statement that Horace Walpole had a warming-pan once the property of Charles the Second. It was inscribed "Glory to God;" and "I have no doubt." said Horace, sarcastically, "that it was used for the beus of his mistresses."

M. Crémieux, now in his seventy-fifth year, continues to be one of the most remarkable personages of Paris, and his house, which faces the Louvre, is still the centre of the noblest and brightest minds of France. He is all heart and all genius, and his eloquence is as impressive as it was in his younger days. He is of the same small stature as M. Thiers, but of an infinitely more sympathetic presence.

Poor Amy Robsart, who figures so sadly in "Kenilworth," is not to be let alone. A London publisher advertises an 8vo, volume, illustrated: "Amye Robsart and the Earl of Leicester: a Critical Enquiry into the Authenticity of the various Statements in relation to her Death, and on the Libels on the Earl of Leicester, with a Vindication of the Earl by his Nephew, Sir Philip Sidney. Also, a History of Kenilworth Castle; together with Memoirs and Correspondence of Sir Robert Dudley, Son of the Earl of Leicester. By George Adlard.

"Carl Benson," writing in the Turf, Field, and Farm, tells about one of Tennyson's poems a story which we suppose based on good information, and accurate as well as true. The poet dreamed once that he was riding in company with two friends of his, members of the Sterling Club, across a bare, bleak, and desolate heath. By-and-by they came upon an inn which was in ruins. There a ragged hostler took the horses, and a shaky, seedy waiter led them into a parlor drearier and dismaller than even the worst of English country taverns. "Now that we are here," said one of the party, "we must call for something to drink, for the good of the house. Waiter, bring us some ale." To this order the shabby waiter responded solemnly in the negative:

As much smoking as you please, but no drinking;" and he added the reason: "This is hell.' At this unexpected and startling announcement Mr. Tennyson awoke, and keeping in mind his "vision when the night was late, he produced "The Vision of Sin," which is perhaps fully as good as all but a dozen or so of his pages, and we do not know that the vigorous stanzas embodying the tavern part of it are not as good as any of the rest. The philosophizing and moralizing part is good too, however, being in the ornate style disused latterly by Mr. Tennyson in favor of the elaborately simple style, and disused rather too much, perhaps.

Soon after the death of the poet Wordsworth, a man met a farmer of the neighborhood, and said to him. "You have had a great loss! Why you have lost the great poet!" "O, ay,' said the farmer, "he is dead; but ah hav no doubt t' wife will carry on t' business, and make it as profitable as ivver it was."

The Athenæum says that Mr. E. Wortley-Montague, whose autobiography is about to be published, was in the brief space of forty-two years, .6 a Westminster boy, a sweep, a Spanish muleteer, a student, an author, a Protestant, a Papist, and finally a Mahometan."

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Here is an amusing and characteristic anecdote of the M. J M. Querard, the bibliographer, who died a few years since: "While talking with Querard, I had the misfortune to say I knew the true name of a newspaper writer who was almost celebrated, who was known, not only to the public but even to his friends, solely by his pseudonym. I felt instantly I was talking stupidly. I could not consent to say more It was in vain I told Querard I absolutely could not betray a secret which I had heard through a common kinsman. He would not give up. was not a man to accept such reasons. My life was poisoned after this day. I saw Querard sometimes two or three times a day. He woke me up in the morning, he waited at my door at night. He wanted to know the name of the newspaper writer. I was the game, he was the hunter. He made sure of taming me by fatigue. When I lost patience I was insolent to him; he bowed his back, made no reply, and returned the next day. His death alone delivered me from this little persecution."

THE SUEZ CANAL --M. Dupont, Paris, is publishing a work on the Suez Canal, to be illustrated by 25 colored lithographs, after paintings from nature. The size is to be imperial folio.

Auerbach's new novel will be published simultaneously in eight different languages.

The widowed Marchioness of Hastings is illustrating a book of fairy tales.

No less a person than the Emperor of China supervises the Pekin Gazette.

Sir Roderick Murchison intimated in his recent opening address at the Royal Geographical Society that it is proposed to confer a pension, and possibly a title, upon Dr. Livingstone, on his return from Africa,

A London paper announces that for a fee of one guinea manuscript plays will be examined by critics and dramatists of established reputation.

The Countess Guiccioli is said to be engaged in writing a memoir of her husband, the late Marquis de Boissy.

The re-issue of "The English Cyclopædia" is now complete, and the supplementary volume of Geogra. phy ready Other supplementary volumes of Natural History, Arts and Sciences and Biography will shortly follow.

Sir John Lubbock's celebrated work "Prehistoric Times, as illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Minners and Customs of Modern Sivages," has attained the well-deserved honor of a second edition. It exceeds the first edition in bulk by about a hundred pages. It also contains many new facts, and many of the old chapters have been almost re-written.

Two new volumes by Louis Figuier will soon appear--" Birds and Reptiles," and "Mammalia."

DANTE IN HEBREW.-After having been translated into all languages of the civilized world, Dante now appears for the first time in holy tongue of Sinai." The first part of the Divina Commedia, "Hathaphthe" (Hell) has just been published, at Trieste. Dr. S. Formiggini, a learned Jewish Doctor at Trieste, where the Jewish community is quite Italian in character, is the translator.

PERSIAN HISTORY -A History of Persia, in the Guzerati language, has lately appeared. The author is a learned Parsee gentleman of Bombay; of the name of Jamshedjee Pallonjee.

JOHN STUART MILL-Nearly all the works of this author have been translated into German. A collected edition is now in course of publication under the editorship of Dr. Th. Gomperz Leipzig. The edition will be completed in twelve volumes, of which the first, containing "Liberty" and "Utilitarianism,' has already appeared.

Mr Disraeli disclaims ever having been a journalist.

A poem of Mr. Swinburne's entitled Intercession was inspired by the sickness of Napoleon. He hopes that the illness of the Emperor may be aggravated and prolonged.

Sir Henry Bulwer's “Characters" is being prepared in a popular edition. There is even better news than this: Sir Henry is preparing a new series of these characters. They will consist of Lord Brougham, Sir Robert Peel, and M. Lafayette.

Victor Hugo is about writing a new novel, to be called "The Crime of the Second of December."

A special catalogue of the collection of books on Pageants, bequeathed to the Society of Antiquaries by Mr. Fairholt, has been prepared

The complete works of George Wither are to be published in the series of the Fuller Worthies' Library. Mr. Grosart, the publisher, calculates that the works will occupy from twelve to fifteen volumes.

Murray announces A Medieval Latin-English Dictionary, founded on the great work of Ducange.

At Mr. Murray's Annual Trade Sale to the Booksellers of London. over 80,000 volumes were sold. 2,000 copies of Smiles' popular edition of the Huguenots; 400 of Parkman's Discovery of the Great West (English reprint); 1.300 of Lord Byron's Life and Werks; 400 Darwin's Origin of Species; Ms. Markham's Histories, 10,000; Dr. Smith's Latin Course. 15 000; Maine on Ancient Law, 400, were a few of the books sold.

Mr. Wm. Chappell, F. S. A. is engaged on a History of Greek Music and the Origin of the Music of the Christian Church. He is the author of Popular Music, in the Olden Time.

Mr. William Michael Rossetti's new edition of Shelley's works will appear in London in December. Among other unpublished pieces, it will contain large portions of a Tragedy of Charles the First. The Adonais will be corrected from the original edition published at Pisa. The life will contain new particulars collected from private sources.

M. Villort, military correspondent of the Siécle during the Prussian-Austrian war, is the author of a work entitled "The Work of M de Bismark," said to be written under the inspiration of that

stat:sman.

Sir Charles Trevelyan, ex-Governor of Madras, and an eminent Orientalist, proposes the substitution ef Roman for Arabic letters in Turkish and Egyptian countries.

Mr. Lawrence Oliphant wrote a book about the late Earl of Elgin's First Embassy to China. Mr. H. B. Lock, who was the Earl's private secretary, announces a "Personal Narrative or Occurrences in Pekin," during Lord Elgin's Second Embassy.

Two peculiar and valuable books have just appeared-one a New Syntax of the Chinese Language, by M. Stanislaus Julien, published in Paris; the other an Icelandic-English Dictionary, chiefly founded on the collections made from prose works of the 12-14th centuries, by the late Richard Cleasby, enlarged and completed by Gudbrand Vigfusson.

Jerusalem at the present day is one of the last places for literary production. An unedited tale from "The Thousand and One Nights" has, howevet been printed there this year, with a French translation by M. Charles L. Ganneau, It is the History of the Fisherman Caliph and of Caliph Haroun al Rashid.

Swinburne's new volume will consist of "Songs of the Republic," and "Bothwell, a Tragedy." It is nearly ready.

The London Gazette has passed its 200th year; the first number of its regular issue dates from November, 1665, and it was published at Oxford. It appears to have superseded an earlier publication,

Earl Stanhope (formerly Lord Mahon) has in the press "The Reign of Queen Anne until the Peace of Utrecht," designed as a connecting link between the conclusion of Lord Macaulay's history and the commencement of Lord Mahon's, which ends in 1784, the period to which Macaulay originally intended to bring down his narrative

From the original MS. in the British Museum, edited by Mrs. Webb, is to be published "The Diary of Nehemiah Wallington," kept during the troublous times of Charles I. by Berthy.

M. Jules Loyson, brother of Père Hyacinthe, and a Professor at Sorbonne, is about to publish a historical work entitled "L'Assemblee du Clergé de France en 1862.

Mr. C J. Palmer announces for publication, by subscription, The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk; with Southtown and Gorleston, in Suffolk, which will contain some account of old houses and other places, with biographical notices of all the most eminent inhabitants from the earliest times.

The Christmas number of Good Words is called "Good Cheer," and will consist of a series of ten stories, including an introductory tale about the Rickburners contributed by the editor, Dr. Norman Macleod.

Richard Doyle, designer of the clever illustrations in Fairyland," was at one time engaged on Punch, but, when that journal began to ridicule the Roman Catholics, Mr. Doyle, who is of that persuasion, withdrew from it. The designs in "Fairyland" are very characteristic of this artist's style, and bear a great amount of study. His fancy, humor, and invention, are almost infinite.

The literature of politics is to be enriched by the publication of two volumes of the speeches of Earl Russell and selections from his official despatches; a collection of the speeches of Mr Disraeli; and a volume of "Chapters and Speeches on the Irish Land Question" by John Stuart Mill. Both works are in the press of Longman & Co.