Of the other papers in the volume, those on Humboldt, Landor and Sydney Smith, though readable, contain little to supplement the biographies and correspondence that have long been before the world; while the one on “Suleiman Pasha” (Colonel Selves) suggests a doubt whether Lord Houghton has always taken pains to sift the information he has so eagerly accumulated.  When we find him stating that the siege of Lyons occurred under the Directory—­which it preceded by a year or two; that his hero, then seven years old, “grew up,” entered the navy, was present at the battle of Trafalgar (1805), and, subsequently enlisted “in the Army of Italy, then flushed with triumph, but glad to receive young and vigorous recruits”—­language indicating the campaign of 1796-97; that “soon after his enrollment in the regiment it became necessary to instruct the cavalry soldiers in infantry practice, and young Selves’ knowledge of the exercise [acquired apparently on shipboard] was of the greatest use and brought him into general notice”—­making him, we may infer, a special favorite of Bonaparte;—­we can easily believe that these things were related, as he tells us they were, “with epic simplicity,” and may even conclude that some other qualities of the epic would to more cautious ears have been equally perceptible in the narration.  Of a like character, we suspect, is the statement that Selves, being on the staff of Grouchy on the day of Waterloo, “urgently represented to that general the propriety of joining the main body of the army as soon as the Prussians, whom he had been sent to intercept, were out of sight.”  Lord Houghton has evidently not read the best and most recent criticisms on the Waterloo campaign, but he should at least have known that Grouchy was sent, not to intercept, but to follow the Prussians in their retreat from Ligny, and that, if he lost sight of them, it was because, instead of falling back on their own line of communication, as Napoleon had expected them to do, they turned off to effect a junction with the English army.

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Key to North American Birds:  containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary.  Illustrated by six steel plates and upward of two hundred and fifty wood-cuts.  By Elliott Coues, Assistant Surgeon United States Army.  Salem:  Naturalists’ Agency.

Modern Diabolism, commonly called Modern Spiritualism, with New Theories of Light, Heat, Electricity and Sound.  By M.J.  Williamson.  New York:  James Miller.

The True Method of Representation in Large Constituencies.  By C.C.P.  Clarke of Oswego, N.Y.  New York:  Baker & Godwin.

On the Eve:  A Tale.  By Ivan S. Turgenieff.  Translated from the Russian by C.E.  Turner.  New York:  Holt & Williams.

The Prophecies of Isaiah:  A New and Critical Translation.  By Franz Delitzsch, D.D.  Philadelphia:  The Lutheran Bookstore.