and the translator of Faust, that she is said to be a great favorite with the author of ‘Albert Lunel,’ and that she has the two novels ‘Mildred Vernon’ and ‘Leonie Vermont’ placed to her account:  how many other shapes she may have assumed we know not; are these not enough?  Whether, after all, a flesh-and-blood Madame de Bury exists is more than We can decide. Une supposition! what if, after all, she should turn out to be Lord Brougham himself?  The restless energy of that Scottish Phenomenon renders everything possible. He does not agree with Pliny’s witty friend, that it is better to be idle than to do nothing—­satius est otiosum esse quam nihil agere.”

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REV.  CHARLES ELLIOT, D.D. of Cincinnati, has published, through the Methodist printing house of that city, an important work on Slavery, in two duodecimo volumes.  Dr. Ellliot has declined the acceptance of the Biblical Professorship in McKendree College, on the ground that he is busily engaged in preparing works for the press, including a thorough investigation of the Biblical argument in defense of slavery.

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A NEW edition of a Lexicon of the Dakota language (of an Indian tribe near Lake Superior,) has just been completed by the missionaries.  It contains upward of fifteen thousand words.  Near thirteen years or more of labor have been expended upon it.

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JUDGE SYDNEY BREESE, late U.S.  Senator, at the commencement of Knox College, delivered a discourse before the Literary Societies on the Early History of Illinois.  It is said to be part of a volume he is preparing, and had reference to the first ninety years of Illinois history.

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MR. LAYARD, in excavating beneath the great pyramid at Nimroud, had penetrated a mass of masonry, within which he had discovered the tomb and statue of Sardanapalus, with full annals of that monarch’s reign engraved on the walls.

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MR. H. H. WILSON, F.R.S., has published in London, a collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns, constituting the First Ashtaka, or Book, of the Rig-Veda, the oldest Authority for the religious and social institutions of the Hindus.  The translation of the Rig-Veda-Sonhita is valuable for the scholar who wishes to study the most ancient belief, opinions, and modes of the Hindus, so far as they can be gathered from hymns addressed to the deities.  At the same time, their mystery or obscurity, increased by remoteness of years, is perhaps so considerable, that it will require peculiar learning to profit by the materials this most ancient and important of the Vedas contains.

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DR. SHELTON MACKENZIE, author of “Mornings at Matlock,” has been appointed, through the influence of Lord Brougham, to the office of official assignee to the Court of Bankruptcy, in Manchester.