WASHINGTON IRVING. From the Athenæum. Wherever the English language is spoken, the announcement that Washington Irving is no more will create a sensation of deep and sineere regret. We ourselves have lost in him a good friend, and a distinguished contributor to our columns. Born in William Street, New York, on April 3d, 1783, he had reached the age of seventy-six years. Honored by the world, as such a man ought to be, and beloved by his friends, as such a one is sure to be, for some time past he had lived in comparative retirement, at his beautiful seat in Irvington, about twentyfive miles from New York, and there he expired on the night of Noveinber the 28th last. When a distinguished writer dies the entire civilized world is bereft of a friend; but in most cases the loss especially belongs to the country which gave him birth, the literature of which he enriched. But Washington Irving's achievements have, in a certain sense, made him one of our own countrymen, and England, scarcely less than America, has reason to mourn for him. More than any other of the many distinguished scholars who have raised American literature to its present high position-more than Cooper, Bancroft, Prescott, Longfellow, or any of the hundred other familiar Transaslantic writers, Washington Irving has become a household friend among us. His works are to be found in every English home where literature of any kind is esteemed; and so completely have we adopted him as a compatriot, that we believe many studious inhabitants of our country houses, where living authors are known by their works, and not by meagre sketches in biographical dictionaries, will feel something like a surprise at remembering that the Author of "Bracebridge Hall," the "Sketch Book," and the "Life of Oliver Goldsmith," was born a citizen of the United States. The son of a New York inerchant, Washington Irving was educated for the legal profession, and was admitted to the Bar in 1806; but his delicate health and literary tastes alike impelled him to relinquish that vocation, and in 1810 he entered as a partner into the extensive commercial establishment which his brothers carried on at New York and Liverpool. In taking this step, he hoped to secure, without much expenditure of time, an income that would permit him to direct his energies to the field of literary exertion, in which he had already won his first honors by the "Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle," published in 1802, in the New York Morning Chronicle, and the famous "History of New York, by Diedrich Knickerbocker," which appeared in 1809. Unfortunately, the house of the Brothers Irving failed in 1817, in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments, brought about by the treaty of peace between England and the United States. At the time of this catastrophe Washington Irviug was paying his second visit to England; and encouraged by the reception his writings had met with, he resolved to make literature the business of his life. Acting on this determination, he commenced the "Sketch Book," the enlarged edition of which was published by Murray, in the July of 1820. The success of these peerless sketches was so great that the author for his next work, "Bracebridge Hall," received from the same publisher 1000 guineas. From this time, Irving's pen was for many years actively engaged, and every thing he wrote was read with avidity, and admired by all who were capable of appreciating literary excellence. "The Tales of a Traveller," sold to Murray for 1,500 guineas, appeared in 1824; “The Life and Voyages of Christopher, Columbus," for which the author obtained 3,000 guineas, was published in 1828; and these works were followed by the "Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada," 1829,-" The Voyages of the Companions of Columbus," 1831,-"The Alhambra," 1832,-" The Legends of the Conquest of Spain," 1835,-"Astoria; or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains," 1836,-"The Adventures of Capt. Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains, and the Far West," 1837, "The Biography and Poetical Remains of Margaret Miller Davidson," 1841, Oliver Goldsmith: a Biography," 1849,-Mahomet and his Successors," 1849-50, and the "Life of George Washington," 1855-6. From the time of his second visit to England to the year 1832, a period of no less than seventeen years, Irving resided in Europe, visiting the various Continental capitals in which he was interested, and spending two years in Spain,-on his return from which country to London, in 1829, he discharged the duties of Secretary to the American Embassy. It is gratifying to us to reflect that in this country honor was paid him ungrudgingly, though not lavishly. Besides being received into the best society, he received one of the two fifty guinea gold medals which, under the direction of George the Fourth, were adjudged to the two most distinguished of living historical writers. the oil er medal being awarded to Henry Hallam. And the University of Oxford conferred upon the Author of "The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus" the honorary degree of D. C. L. On his return to New York in 1832, the celebrated man of letters was greeted by his countrymen with enthusiastic acclamations. Grateful to him for the honor he had brought to the entire body of his fellow-citizens, they rightly judged that his services merited no ordinary demonstration of goodwill. In 1842 he was advanced to the high post of United States' Ambassador to Spain, and in the efficient discharge of that office he resided at Madrid until the year 1846, when he returned to his native country, and sought the pleasant retreat in which he breathed his last. Washington Irving was never married. In early life he was engaged to a lovely girl, who died just as she arrived at the full perfection of her beauty. Sorrowing, but unembittered, he paid her the highest tribute that a man can pay to the memory of a first love. From the time she was taken from him, the only pleasures of his life were those of friendship and literature. We cannot take leave of this gentle and highly-cultured man without adverting to one of the most agreeable characteristics of his works,-the generous, conciliating, and courageous tone with which on all fit occasions he drew attention to the political animosities which too frequently disturb the intercourse of England and the United States. He did not hesitate to inform us that we cherished most absurd prejudices with regard to his fellow countrymen, lamented that we should have such imperfect knowledge of their good qualities, and earnestly exhorted both nations, by an exercise of mutual forbearance and charity, to arrive at a better understanding. The recollection of this sound and delicately proffered advice will make all thinking Englishmen regret that it can never again be repeated by "the man of long-enduring fame," who so often gave it. Literary Intelligence. FIRM ALTERATION.-As may be seen in our advertising columns the firm of DERBY & JACKSON has been altered by the retirement of Josiah N. Starin, and the acquisition of N. Beardsley and O. M. Fitch, the former a special, and the latter a general partner. Mr. Fitch has had many years experience, and is well and favorably known to the Trade. NEW DICTIONARY BY THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.-We noticed this important enterprise in our issue of December 25, 1858, on receipt of a prospectus from N. Trubner, Esq., of London; and we would now call attention to the fact that the distinguished philologist, Hon. George P. Marsh, of Burlington, Vt., has issued a circular to the literary men and scholars of America, explaining in what manner and direction they may contribute toward the work. We copy a portion of Mr. Marsh's Circular, from whom, or from J. S. Redfield, New York, complete copies, containing full directions, may be obtained on application: "It is generally known to literary men in United States, that the Philological Society, of London, has been for some time engaged in the preparation of a complete lexicon or thesaurus of the English language. The Society having determined to ask the aid of American scholars in this enterprise, the subscriber has been requested to act as Secretary in America, and adopts this method of bringing the subject to the notice of persons in this country who may be disposed to contribute to the accomplishment of the object, by reading English books and noting words, according to the rules hereto subjoined. Referring to the Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary,' issued by the Society, for fuller details, it may suffice here to observe, that it is the desire of the editing committee to include in their vocabulary every word occurring in the literature of the language,' and, as a general rule, to illustrate the meaning and use of each word by appropriate citations. To this end it is necessary that a very large number of books should be read, and passages containing words indicated in the rules excerpted. As works belonging to early English literature are more easily accessible in England than here, it has been deemed best to recommend to American contributors the study of a later period, and for that pur pose the entire body of English literature belonging to the eighteenth century has been reserved for their perusal. The selection is left to the taste of the collaborators; and in the Proposal above referred to the committee say: 'We admit as authorities all English books, except such as are devoted to purely scientific subjects, as treatises on electricity, mathematics, etc., and works written subsequent to the Reformation, for the purpose of illustrating provincial dialects. It is proposed hereafter to issue a list of the words used by Burke, and to ask that all words not employed by him, or employed by other authors in different senses, be noted; but as the list is not yet ready, the committee say: Contributors who may prefer to work for the 18th or 19th century literature, will render us an invaluable service by a careful analysis of the works of any of the principal writers, extracting all remarkable words, and all passages which contain definitions or explanations, or which, by reason of their intrinsic merit, are specially eligible as illustrative quotations." Although, with the exception of Burke's works, the literature of the whole 18th century is reserved for American readers, their aid will be very willingly received for earlier or later periods; and gentlemen who may be disposed to undertake authors before the beginning or since the end of that century, not already provided for, will confer a favor by communicating their purpose to the subscriber. A list of American works to be read and excerpted, will soon be prepared and distributed. A list of works of an earlier date than 1700, which, at the latest intelligence from London, had not been undertaken, and the rules to be observed in making extracts, are given below. Communications on any matters pertaining to the subject of this circular, may be addressed to the subscriber, who will be happy at all times to give any further information in his power. It should be added, that as the labors of the English contributors are wholly gratuitous, and no profits are experted to accrue to the Society from the work, no provision is made for compensating American contributors." Recent English Issues, from the London Publishers' Circular. In Literature, Art, and Science.-Kemp's Shooting and Fishing in Lower Brittany; Potter's Physical Optics, Part 2; Slade's Maritime States and Military Navies; Wedgwood's Dictionary of English Etymology, Vol. 1; Prout's Reliques (Bohn's Illustrated Library); Maxwell's Impending Dangers of England; Art Journal, Vol. 1859; Paley's Euripides, edited by Long, Vol. 3; Walker's Critical Examination of Text of Shakspeare; Smith's Recollections of the British Institution; Ballantyne's World of Ice; Ladies' Treasury, Vol. 3.; Grindon's Manchester Flora; Poulton's New History of England; Waring's Arts connected with Architecture; Bossoli's The War in Italy. In History and Biography.-Robertson's Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury; Rose's Diaries and Correspondence, edited by Harcourt; Clayton's Notable Women, Stories of their Lives; Chronicles of an Old English Oak, edited by Taylor; Wellington's Civil Correspondence and Memoranda. In Geography, Travel, and Research.-Thompson's Story of New Zealand, Past and Present; Richardson's Travels in Morocco, edited by his Widow; Sir John Bowring's Visit to the Philippine Isles. ness, In Divinity-Mansel's Limits of Religious Thought; Lee's Beauty of HoliTen Lectures; Elden's Book of Prayers for Working Men; Kurtz's History of the Old Covenant, translated by Martin; Fletcher's Scripture Teachings for the Young; Hardwicke's History of the Articles of Religion, new edition; Reid's The Sheaf; Stewart's Outlines of Discourses. In Fiction.-Volpe's Home and the Priest; A Life Struggle, by Miss Pardoe; Narragansett, or the Plantations; Miss Kavanagh's Seven Years, and other Tales; Miss Gatty's Human Face Divine: Sterne's My Village Neighbors; Day of Small Things, by the Author of Mary Powell; Brough's Ulf the Minstrel; Tales from Bentley; Cousens' Durndale, or Woman's Duties and Woman's Worth; Mrs. Ellis's Widow Green and her Three Nieces; Memoirs of a Lady-in-Waiting. Educational-Lund's Geometrical Exercises; Wooler's Physiology of Education; Winter's Elementary Geometrical Drawing, Part 1; Schöpwenkel's Elementary Grammar of French Language; Lunn's Of Motion; Butler's New Introduction to Geography. Medical.-Handy Book of Medical Information; Hawker's My Life, or Advice to the Consumptive; Epps's Consumption, its Nature and Treatment. Illustrated Books-Mackay's Whisky Demon; Gems from Shelley. Commerce. Mr. Morier Evans's History of the Commercial Crisis 1857-8. Miscellaneous.-The Post-Office London Directory for 1860; Post-Office Directory of Hants, Wilts, and Dorset; Crawley's Handy Book of Games for Gentlemen; Raverty's English and Hindustani Technical Terms; Herring's Guide to the Varieties of Paper; Boulger's Master Key to the Public Offices; Crowe's Spiritualism, and the Age we Live in; Captain Crawley's Handy Book of Games; Ten Thousand Wonderful Things, 2d Series; Waite's Graceful Riding. New Editions. Bosworth's Anglo Saxon Dictionary; Mrs. Jameson's Early Italian Painters; Hellenics, by Walter S. Landor; Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, illustrated; Lytton's My Novel, Vol. 1.; Reid's Oceola; Wonderful Things, 2 vols. 2d of Rogers's Sacred Minstrel; of Williams's Through Norway with a Knapsack; of Pycroft's Twenty Years in the Church; of Renée of France; of Scott's Costs in Common Law. 3d of Galton's Art of Travel; of Kingsley's Two Years Ago. 4th of Potter's Elementary Treatise on Mechanics; of Miss Adelaide Procter's Legends and Lyrics. 5th of Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character. 9th of Trench On the Study of Words. 10th of Archbold's Poor Law. New Publications Received at the Office of the AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR. CROSBY, NICHOLS & Co. have got out "The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1860." The editor says: "The thirty-first volume of the American Almanac, being the First volume of the Fourth Series, is now offered to the public. Unwearied pains has been taken to collect full, authentic, and varied information concerning the compex affairs of the general and State governments; and a mass of official documents and private correspondence has been digested relating to the government, finances, legislation, public institutions, internal improvements, and resources of the United States, and of the several States. It is hoped that the present volume will be found equal to its predecessors in fulness and accuracy, and that it will sustain the high character of the American Almanac as a trustworthy manual for reference and a full repository of useful knowledge." CHARLES B. RICHARDSON publishes "Irvingiana: a Memorial of Washington Irving." It is a neat 4to., and contains Memoranda of the Literary Career of Washington Irving, by Evert A. Duyckinck; a description of the Funeral, by W. Francis Williams; Proceedings of the New York Board of Aldermen and Councilinen; Resolutions of the Athenæum Club; Proceedings of the New York Historical Society; Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society; Sunnyside, a Poem, by H. T. Tuckerman; Editorials from the Evening Post and Richmond Gazette; Mr. Irving's Religious Character, by the Rev. Dr. Creighton; Passage from a Discourse by the Rev. John A. Todd; the Rev. Dr. Chapin's Remarks, and a variety of other interesting papers by Greene, Lowell, Willis, Tilton, Tiffany, Curtis, Saunders, and others. It is embellished with an original Portrait Sketch of Washington Irving at Sunnyside, in July 1848, drawn from Life by F. O. C. Darley, and engraved by Smilie, and a Fac Simile Page of the manuscript of the "Sketch Book," a leaf of "Rip Van Winkle," from the original in the possession of J. Carson Brevoort, Esq. JAMES MUNROE & Co. favor us with a copy of a new series of "Friends WALKER, WISE & Co, have lately published “Woman's Right to Labor; or, Low Wages and Hard Work: in Three Lectures, delivered in Boston November, 1859," by Caroline H. Dall, who says: "More than two years ago, I conceived the thought of twelve lectures, to be written concerning Woman; to embrace, in four series of three each, all that I felt moved to say in relation to her interests. No one knew better than myself, that they would be only twelve baskets of fragments gathered up;' but I could not distrust the Divine Love which still feeds the multitudes, who wander in the desert, with five loaves and two small fishes.' Nine of these lectures have now been offered to my audiences. In the first three, I stated Woman's claim to a civil position, and asked that power should be given her, under a professedly republican government, to protect herself. In them I thus stated the argument on which I should proceed: The right to education-that is, the right to the education or drawing-out of all the faculties God has given -involves the right to a choice of vocation; that is. the right to a choice of the end to which those faculties shall be trained. The choice of vocation necessarily involves the protection of that vocation, the right to decide how far legislative action shall control it; in one word, the right to the elective franchise.' Proceeding upon the logical formula, I delivered, in 1858, a course of lectures stating Woman's Claim to Education;' and this season I have condensed my thoughts upon the freedom of vocations into the three following lectures. There are still to be completed three lectures on Woman's Civil Disabilities.' I should prefer to unite the twelve lectures in a single publication; but reasons of imperative force have induced me to hurry the printing of these Essays on Labor.' Neither Education nor Civil Disability can dispute the public interest with this subject. No one can know better than myself upon what wide information, what thorough mental discipline, all considerations in regard to it should be based. I have tried to keep my work within the compass of my ability; and, without seeking rigid exactness of detail, to apply common sense and right reason to problems which beset every woman's path. At the very threshold of my work, I confronted a painful task. Before I could press the necessity of exertion, before I could plead that labor might be honored in the public eye, I felt that I must show some cause for the terrible earnestness with which I was moved: and I could only do it by facing boldly the ques tion of Death or Dishonor?'" Also, "Alice's Dream: a Tale of Christmas Time," by Mary Ann Whitaker; and a pamphlet, "The Historic Purchase of Freedom: an Oration delivered before the Fraternity, in the Music Hall, Boston, December 22, 1859, the Two Hundred and Thirty-Ninth Anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth," by William Rounseville Alger. 4 JAMES Ross, Madison, Wis., prints the "Eleventh Annual Report on the D. APPLETON & Co. have got out "Edith Vaughan's Victory; or, How to " J. B. LIPPINCOTT & Co. publish "Footfalls on the boundary of Another World; with Narrative Illustrations," by Hon. Robert Dale Owen. The scope and purpose of this work will be best explained in the following extract from the author's preface: "It may interest the reader, before perusing this volume, to know some of the circumstances which preceded and produced it. The subjects of which it treats came originally under my notice in a land where, except to the privileged foreigner, such subjects are interdicted,—at Naples, in the autumn of 1855. Up to that period I had regarded the whole as a delusion which no prejudice, indeed, would have prevented my examin ing with care, but in which, lacking such examination, I had no faith whatever. To an excellent friend and former colleague, the Viscount de St. Amaro, Brazilian Minister at Naples, I shall ever remain debtor, for having first won my serious attention to phenomena of a magneto-psychological character and to the study of analogous subjects. It was in his apartments, on the 4th of March, 1856, and in presence of himself and lady, together with a member of the royal family of Naples, that I witnessed for the first time, with mingled feelings of surprise and incredulity, certain physical movements apparently without material agency. Three weeks later, during an evening at the Russian Minister's, an incident occurred, as we say, fortuitously, which, after the strictest scrutiny, I found mself unable to explain without referring it to some intelligent agency foreign to the spectators present,-not one of whom, it may be added, knew or had practiced any thing connected with what is called Spiritualism or mediumship. From that day I resolved to test the matter thoroughly. My public duties left me, in winter, few leisure hours, but many during the summer and autumn months; and that leisure, throughout more than two years, I devoted to an investigation (conducted partly by personal observations made in domestic privacy, partly by means of books) of the great question whether agencies from another phase of existence ever intervene here, and operate, for good or evil, on mankind. For a time the observations I made were similar to those which during the last ten years so many thousands have instituted in our country and in Europe, and my reading was restricted to works for and against Animal Magnetism and for and against the modern Spiritual theory. But, as the field opened before me, I found it expedient to enlarge my sphere of research,-to consult the best professional works on Physiology, especially in its connection with mental phenomena, on Peychology in general, on Sleep, on Hallucination, on Insanity, on the great Mental Epidemics of Europe and America, together with treatises on the Imponderables, including Reichenbach's curious observations, and the records of interesting researches recently made in Prussia, in Italy, in England, and elsewhere, on the subject of Human Electricity in connection with its influeuce on the nervous system and the muscular tissues. I collected, too, the most noted old works containing narrative collections of apparitions, hauntings, presentiments, and the like, accompanied by dissertations on the Invisible World, and toiled through formidable piles of chaff to reach a few gleanings of sound grain. Gradually I became convinced that what by many have been regarded as new and unexampled phenomena are but modern phases of what has ever existed. And I ultimately reached the conclusion that, in order to a proper understanding of much that has excited and perplexed the public mind under the name of Spiritual Manifestations, historical research should precede every other inquiry,—that we ought to look throughout the past for classes of phenomena, and seek to arrange each in its proper niche. I was finally satisfied, also, that it behooved the student in this field (in the first instance, at least) to devote his attention to spontaneous phenomena, rather than to those that are evoked,-to appearances and disturbances that present themselves occasionally only, it is true, but neither sought nor looked for; like the rainbow, or the Aurora Borealis, or the wind that bloweth where it listeth, uncontrolled by the wishes or the agency of man. By restricting the inquiry to these, all suspicion of being misled by epidemic excitement or expectant attention is completely set aside. A record of such phenomena, carefully selected and authenticated, constitutes the staple of the present volume. In putting it forth, I am not to be held, any more than is the naturalist or the astronomer, to the imputation of tampering with holy things. As regards the special purpose of this work, no charge of necromantic efforts or unlawful seeking need be met, since it cannot possibly apply. The accusation, if any be brought, will be of a different character. If suspicion I incur, it will be not of sorcery, but of superstition,-of an endeavor, perhaps, to revive popular delusions which the lights of modern sience have long since dispelled, or of stooping to put forth as grave relations of fact what are no better than idle nursery-tales. Accepting this issue, I am content to put myself on the country. I demand a fair trial before a jury who have not prejudged the cause. I ask for my witnesses a patient hearing, well assured that the final verdict, be it as it may, will be in accordance with reason and justice." They also publish a new novel, by E. L. Llewellyn, called "Title Hunting." ROBERT CARTER & BROTHERS have got out two more volumes of their Fire side Library. Idols in the Heart," a tale, is by A. L. O. E., the popular authoress. "Cosmo's Visit to his Grandfather," is by M. A. H., author of 'Goodly Cedars," The Gleaners," etc. Both volumes are illustrated. 64 66 Stier's Words of the Risen Saviour, and Commentary on James. The Great Tribulation, by Rev. Dr. Cumming. Second Series. Edgar A. Poe and his Critics, by Mrs. Sarah II. Whitman. Women of the South, Distinguished in Literature. Edited by a Southern Personal Adventures and Observations on the West Coast of Africa, by Rev. Wild Sports in the Southern States, by Chas. E. Whitehead, translator of The Man in Black. An Historical Novel, by G. P. R. James, Esq. The Planter's Daughter, by Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz. The Home; or, Family Joys and Family Cares, by Fredrika Bremer. The Heiress. An Autobiography, by Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. The Rise, Progress, and Corruptions of Christianity, by Archbishop Whately. Paley's Evidences of Christianity, with Annotations, by Archbishop Whately. Little, Brown & Co. Contributions to the Natural History of the United States. By Louis Agassiz Vol. III., 4to. 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