“It is but justice to say, that the present volume is a successful realization of the purpose thus announced.  It presents as full a collection of facts on the subject as is probably to be found in any work in the English language, furnishing materials for the formation of theoretic views, and illustrating an obscure but most interesting chapter in the marvelous history of human nature.  It is written with perfect modesty, and freedom from pretense, doing credit to the ability of the author as a narrator, as well as to her fairness and integrity as a reasoner.”

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MR. MILNE EDWARDS presented at a recent meeting of the Academy of Sciences, in the name of the Prince of Canino, (C.  Bonaparte), the first part of the Prince’s large work, Conspectus Generum Avium.

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M. GUIZOT has addressed a long letter to each of the five classes of the Institute of France, to declare that he cannot accept the candidateship offered him for a seat in the Superior Council of Public Instruction.

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SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON is to be a candidate for the House of Commons, with Col.  Sibthorp, for Lincoln.  He has a new play forthcoming for the Princess’s Theatre.

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MISS STRICKLAND has in preparation a series of volumes on the Queens of Scotland, as a companion to her, interesting and successful work on the Queens of England.

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THE MARQUIS DE FOUDRAS has published Un Caprice de Grande Dame—­clever, but as corrupt as her other works.

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MR. HERBERT’S NEW BOOKS.—­The Southern Quarterly Review for July has the following notice of “Frank Forester’s Fish and Fishing in the United States and British Provinces,” recently published by Stringer & Townsend: 

“There are few of our writers so variously endowed and accomplished as Mr. Herbert; of a mind easily warmed and singularly enthusiastic, the natural bent of his talent inclines him to romance.  He has accordingly given us several stories abounding in stately scenes, and most impressive portraiture.  Well skilled in the use of the mother tongue, as in the broad fields of classical literature, he has written essays of marked eloquence, and criticisms of excellent discrimination and a keen and thorough insight.  His contributions to our periodicals have been even more happy than his fictions.  With a fine imagination, he inherits a penchant and a capacity for poetry, which has enabled him to throw off, without an effort, some of the most graceful fugitive effusions which have been written in America.  His accomplishments are as various as his talents.  He can paint a landscape as sweetly as he can describe it in words.  He is a sportsman of eager impulse, and relishes equally