MR. G.P.R.  JAMES has taken a cottage at Jamaica, Long Island, and is domiciliated as an American—­we hope for a long time.  He has made troops of friends since his arrival here, and is likely to be as popular in society as he has long been in literature.  We are sure we communicate a very pleasing fact when we state that it is his intention to give in two or three of our principal cities, during the autumn and fall, a series of lectures—­probably upon the chivalric ages, with which no one is more profoundly familiar, and of which no one can discourse more wisely or agreeably.  His abilities, his reputation, and the almost universal acquaintance with his works, insure for him the largest success.  We are indebted to no other living author for so much enjoyment, and by his proposed lectures he will not only add to our obligations, but furnish an opportunity to repair in some degree the wrong he has suffered from the imperfection and injustice of our copyright system.

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“THE LIFE, CHARACTER, AND GENIUS OF EBENEZER ELLIOTT,” is a volume by January Searle, author of Leaves from Sherwood Forest, &c., who knew the corn-law rhymer well, and has been enabled to give very characteristic sketches, original descriptions, correspondence, &c.  There are in it many judiciously selected specimens of Elliott’s poems, prose productions, and lectures.  Mr. Searle observes of him, that “he was cradled into poetry by human wrong and misery; and was emphatically the bard of poverty—­singing of the poor man’s loves and sorrows, and denouncing his oppressors.”  Again:  “He has one central idea—­terrible and awful in its aspect, although beautiful and beneficent in spirit—­before which he tries all causes, and men, and things.  It is the Eternal Idea of Right; his synonyme of God.  And this idea is perpetually present in his mind, pervades all his thoughts, will not be shuffled nor cheated, but demands a full satisfaction from all violators of it.”

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THE LATE MRS. OSGOOD was in a very remarkable degree respected and beloved by those who were admitted to her acquaintance.  Without envy or jealousy, or any of the immoralities of the intellect which most commonly beset writers of her sex, she occasioned no enmities and was a party to none, but was regarded, especially by the literary women of this country, with a feeling of tenderness and devotion probably unparalleled in the annals of literature or of society.  Immediately after her death, therefore, a desire was manifested to illustrate the common regard for her by some suitable testimonial, and upon consultation, it was decided to publish a splendid souvenir, to consist of the gratuitous contributions of her friends, and with the profits accruing from its sale to erect a monument to her memory in the cemetery of Mount Auburn.  This gift book, edited by Mrs. Osgood’s most intimate friend, Mary E. Hewitt, will be published