and its wit is of the spiciest and most genuine kind. To most readers it will be entirely new, and will not fail to be appreciated by all who have a taste for this species of literature.-The Solitary of Juan Fernandez; or the Real Robinson Crusoe. By the author of "Picciola." Translated from the French by ANNE T. WIlbur. 12mo., pp. 141. A story by no means equal in its universal interest and world-wide power to the real Robinson Crusoe, yet one of deep and touching pathos, which none will read without being subdued by the spell which it weaves over the mind. -English Songs and other Small Poems. By BARRY CORNWALL. A new and enlarged edition. 12mo., pp. 387. The assumed name of Barry Cornwall has become so identified with some of the best songs and other sentimental poems in our literature, that the author's real name is now never mentioned or inquired for. The beautiful volume before us is the most complete collection of these delightful poems which has ever been made on either side of the Atlantic. In addition to the songs, many of which are so familiar at the firesides and in the social circles both of England and America, we have several dramatic pieces never before published, the whole spread out on a page so beautiful as almost to give new significance to the poetic images and pictures which they enshrine. A volume more highly finished has seldom proceeded even from the accurate and elegant press of these tasteful publishers.

We have received from the press of Messrs. TICKNOR, REED AND FIELDS, just as the present number is about to be issued, the following, printed and prepared with the elegance and care, which always characterize the publications of this enterprising house.-Literary Reminiscences, from the Autobiography of an English Opium Eater. By Thomas De Quincey. In two volumes. Boston, 1851. The first of these volumes contains the following topics: Literary Novitiate, Sir H. Davy, Mr. Godwin, Mrs. Grant, Recollections of Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth. The second volume has papers on Wordsworth and Southey, Southey, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Recollections of Grasmere, The Saracen's Head, The Lakes, Charles Loyd, Walking Student and Edward Irving, Talfourd, The London Magazine, and some other minor topics. They are among the most attractive and interesting of the series of De Quincey's writings.

THE AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY issues in rapid succession its well-chosen and useful volumes. Bunyan's Directing Works, "especially designed to guide the Christian believer in the path of Christian holiness," embrace his Christian Behaviour; A Holy Life the Beauty of Christianity; The Fear of God; An Exhortation to Unity and Peace; and a Caution to Watch against Sin. With one exception, these treatises are supposed to be generally unknown in this country. Together they form a handsome 12mo. volume. Several small volumes have been issued, one a Manual for Sunday-School Celebrations, by Rev. EDGAR M. LEVY; another entitled The Way to Christ, and the Walk in Christ, by Rev. G. W. ANDERSON, of Lewisburg University, Pa.; and a third containing Dr. Gill's famous tract, Infant Baptism a part and pillar of Popery, re-written and expanded under the strong and glowing pen of the Rev. G. B. IDE, D. D. We have received likewise, Bereaved Mothers, Henry Curran, and the American Baptist Almanac for 1852.

THE AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY has issued an abridged edition of the Memoirs of Mary Lundie Duncan.

An Exposition of the Apocalypse, in a series of discourses. By THOMAS WICKES. New-York: M. W. Dodd. 1851. 12mo. pp. 437.

English Literature in the Nineteenth Century: on the plan of the author's "Compendium of English Literature," and supplementary to it. Designed for colleges and advanced classes in schools, as well as for private reading. By CHARLES D. CLEVELAND. Philadelphia: E. C. & J. Biddle. 1851. pp. 746.

12mo.

A Scripture Manual, alphabetically and systematically arranged, designed to facilitate the finding of Proof Texts. By CHARLES SIMMONS. New-York: M. W. Dodd. 1851. 12mo. pp. 750.

A work strongly recommended by the best names, and specially by Dr. Spring, who has written an introduction to it. The present is the sixth edition.

ART. IX.-INTELLIGENCE.

LIFE OF DR. JUDSON.-We observe, with regret, that a work purporting to be a Memoir of Adoniram Judson, has recently made its appearance in the book market, from a publishing-house in the interior of this state. It is hardly necessary to say, that no memoir of Dr. Judson, worthy of the name, or entitled to confidence, can by any possibility be written without the papers preserved in his family, and those which are lodged in the Mission-rooms in Boston. The compiler of this volume had no access to such papers. His only means of information were such as are open to the public in the Missionary Magazine, and in the lives of other Missionaries. To the stock of common information, he can add nothing. Without the pleasure of his acquaintance, we have been accustomed to hold in high respect the author of this "Memoir," (who, from his apologetic preface, seems to have engaged in this work reluctantly, and from a sort of business compulsion ;) but he must allow us to say, that no merits of compilation can make up for the deficiency of materials under which he labored, and that in every just sense his book is a failure. Nor is this the only, or the chief reason of our regret at its publication. The injury which it may inflict on the widow and the fatherless, is the occasion of this allusion. Dr. Judson, after giving his life, his patrimony and his incidental earnings, to the amount of thousands of dollars, to the cause of Missions, died, leaving to his widow and several fatherless children, his good name and deeds, as their chief inheritance. They must depend largely for their support on the sale of an adequate memoir, the preparation of which has for a long time engaged the attention of the Missionary Committee, and of Mrs. Judson. Whatever interferes with the sale of such a memoir takes so much from their prospective resources. Of all these facts the public were early apprized, that there might be no invasion of rights so sacred, by the getting up of unauthorized and necessarily imperfect works like the one here alluded to. These facts, we are told, were specially laid before the publishers of this volume as soon as their purpose was announced, but without effect. Their offer to give a portion of the profits to the bereaved family, which is found in the preface to the book, relieves not at all the injury, but rather makes it the more apparent. It wears amazingly the look of an attempt to buy the public peace by a seeming generosity, when really it is but restoring to that family a part of that which was all their own. We think it impossible that Mrs. Judson will allow herself to receive a farthing from such a

source.

Mrs. Judson will soon land upon our shores, and no time will be lost in completing and issuing a memoir which will be authentic, which will embody all available information, and meet the reasonable demands of the Christian world. The present issue will then be found to be but the play of Hamlet, with the part of Hamlet left out.

AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSIONARY UNION.-Hon. George N. Briggs, LL. D., of Mass., President; Hon. Ira Harris, LL. D., of N. Y., Chairman of the Board of Managers; Rev. Solomon Peck, D. D., Corresponding Secretary for the Foreign Department; Rev. Edward Bright, Jr., Corresponding Secretary for the Home Department; Richard E. Eddy, Esq., Treasurer.

The receipts from all sources for the year ending March 31, 1851, were $120,826 35. Of this amount $14,750 were from the American and Foreign Bible Society; $1,000 from the American Bible Union; $3,000 from the American Tract Society; and $4,000 from the United States Government, for the civilization of the Indians.

There are connected with the Union 18 Missions, embracing 77 stations and 164 out-stations; 119 missionaries and assistants, of whom 54 are preachers; 192 native preachers and other assistants; 154 churches, with more than 12,700 members; 1,563 baptized during the past year; 93 schools, with 2,100 pupils; 5 printing establishments, at which 6,131,300 pages have been printed during the past year.

AMERICAN BAPTIST HOME MISSION SOCIETY.-Hon. Isaac Davis, LL. D., of Mass., President; Rev. Benjamin M. Hill, Corresponding Secretary; Charles J. Martin, Esq., Treasurer.

The receipts for the year ending April 1, 1851, including a balance of $4,965 16 from the previous year, were $37,085 50. The past year 140 Missionaries and Agents were employed in 11 states, besides those in Oregon, NewMexico, Minnesota, Canada West and Grand Ligne. The Missionaries have supplied 386 stations.

AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.-Rev. B. T. Welch, D. D., President; Rev. S. S. Cutting, Corresponding Secretary; N. C. Platt, Esq., Treasurer.

The receipts for the past year were $45,373 41; more than $4,000 over any preceding year. Foreign appropriations over $23,000; of which $14,750 were to aid the American Baptist Missionary Union in its Scripture operations in Burmah, Assam, Siam, Teloogoo, China, Germany and France; to Dr. Sutton, for Orissa, $1,000; to the Rev. J. G. Oncken, for Germany, $6,511 76; to Rev. T. T. Devan, for France, $521 51; to Grand Ligne Mission, for Canada, $217 50.

AMERICAN BAPTIST PUBLICATION SOCIETY.-Rev. Joseph H. Kennard, President; Rev. Thomas S. Malcom, Corresponding Secretary; Rev. J Newton Brown, Editorial Secretary; Rev. B. R. Loxley, Depository Agent and Assistant Treasurer. W. W. Keen, Treasurer.

The receipts for the year ending March 15, 1851, were $40,597 71, of which $18,098 were book-sales, $5,803 Building Fund, &c. During the year, 16 new publications were stereotyped or printed; 27 colporteur missionaries were employed in seven states, Canada and Oregon. The number of publications on the Society's list is 292, of which 89 are bound volumes.

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.-Rev. R. B. C. Howell, D. D., President. Foreign Mission Board.-Rev. R. B. C. Howell, D. D., President; Rev. James B. Taylor, Corresponding Secretary; Archibald Thomas, Treasurer.

The receipts, (including a balance of $4,181 39 from the previous year) for the year ending April 30, 1851, were $25,970 40. The Missions of the Board are in China and Africa. In China the stations are at Canton and Shanghai, with 7 preachers and 9 assistant Missionaries and native assistants; total, 16. In Africa there are 7 Missionaries, with 13 assistants, teachers and interpreters, all but one of whom are colored men. Total, 20.

Domestic Mission Board.-Rev. James H. De Votie, President; Rev. Russell Holman, Corresponding Secretary; W. Hornbuckle, Esq., Treasurer. The receipts for the year ending April 1, 1851, were $13,922 85; nearly 4,000 more than the preceding year. The disbursements were $10,916 85. Fifty Ministers have labored as Missionaries and Agents.

Bible Board.-Rev. Samuel Baker, President; Rev. Wm. Buck, Corresponding Secretary; J. H. Shepherd, Treasurer. This Board was organized at Ñashville last May.

Mr. Edward H. Fletcher proposes to issue, if sufficient encouragement is

given by early subscription, the works of Andrew Fuller, in form and style similar to Bohn's English edition. The works will be issued in numbers, and will form, when complete, one large volume, royal 8vo. The prices proposed are reasonable, and should secure the wide circulation of the writings of the great theologian. Mr. Fletcher will issue likewise in a 12mo. volume, a memoir of that excellent Minister of Christ, the late Alfred Bennett, by the Rev. A. Harvey.

MR. G. P. PUTNAM is about to issue: The Home Book of the Picturesque, or American Scenery, Art and Literature; a very costly and elegant work.-The Home Book of Beauty, by Mrs. Kirkland.-The Memorial, a Souvenir of Genius and Virtue, by Mary E. Howitt.-Hand Book of Literature and the Fine Arts, by George Ripley and Bayard Taylor.-Hand Book of Biography, by Parke Godwin. -Hand Book of the Useful Arts, by Dr. Antisell.-Hand Book of Science, by Prof. St. John.-Elements of Geology, by Prof. St. John.-Sketches of Travel in Nicaragua, by E. G. Squier.-The Men of Manhattan, by Fenimore Cooper.The Shield. A Narrative, by Miss Cooper, Author of Rural Hours.-Four Years in an English University, by C. A. Bristed.—George Washington. A Biography. By Washington Irving.

HARPER AND BROTHERS have in press: Mrs. Hale's Female Biography. Royal 8vo. Illustrations.-Forest Life and Forest Trees, by J. S. Springer. 12mo. Illustrations.-Abbott's Young Christian Series. 3 vols., 12 mo. Illustrated. Lectures on Civilization, by G. P. R. James, Esq.-Chambers's Life and Works of Burns. 4 vols., 12mo.-Hildreth's United States. The sixth and concluding volume.-Tusculana Disputationes. Edited by Dr. Anthon.-The Comedies of Terence. Edited by Dr. Anthon.-Yonge's English-Greek Lexicon. Edited by Prof. Drisler.-A New Work on California.-A New French Dictionary.-Ele ments of Geology, by Prof. Gray.

Mr. L. Colby has just issued "The Epistle of Paul to the Philippians, Praetically Explained, by Dr. Augustus Neander." Translated from the German, by Mrs. H. T. Conant. This small volume, which we have before announced, will be received with pleasure by the Christian public. It was the first of a series of popular commentaries, which the learned author designed to present to the. world, a series soon brought to a close by his lamented death. The accomplished translator, Mrs. Conant, is the wife of the Rev. Dr. Conant, of the Rochester Theological Seminary. That her work is well done, will hardly admit of question. The volume embraces 140 pages, 12mo, and is elegantly printed. Ticknor, Reed & Fields have in press, and will soon publish, a new Poem by Mr. Longfellow, entitled The Golden Legend. It is the longest of his poetical works, and makes a volume of about three hundred and fifty pages.

Messrs. Gould & Lincoln have the following works in press:- Young American Abroad, or Vacation in Europe: embodying the results of a tour through Great Britain, France, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland; with plates.-The Excellent Woman, as described in the Book of Proverbs ; illustrated, with an Introduction by Rev. WILLIAM B. SPRAGUE, D. D. 12mo. cloth.-The Natural History of the Human Species; its Typical Form and Primeval Distribution; with illus trations. By CHARLES HAMILTON SMYTH, President of the Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society, &c.; with an introduction, containing an abstract of the views of Blumenbach, Prichard, Bachman, Agassiz, and other writers of repute on the subject, by Samuel Kneeland, jr. M. D.—The Christan Daily Treasury; a Religious Exercise for every day in the year; by E. Temple. 12mo. -The Novelties of the New World; an account of the Adventures and Discoveries of the First Explorers of North America, by Joseph Banvard, being the second volume of the author's series of American History.

DR. JOHN LINGARD, the Roman Catholic historian of England, died on the 18th July, at Hornby, near Lancaster, in the eighty-second year of his age. He was born at Hornby in 1769, and sent at an early age to the Roman Catholic seminary at Douay, where he imbibed those principles of religion, which he adhered to throughout his long life, and which color every page of his writings. He was distinguished while at Douay for his parts and application, but made no public endeavor for reputation as an author, before the year 1806. In

that year he printed at Newcastle-on-Tyne-where he was living as a priesthis " Antiquities of the Anglo-Saxon Church;" a work which Southey pronoun ced to be not more full of erudition than of Catholic sophistry and misrepresentation. This was followed by his great work, "The History of England from the First Invasion of the Romans to the year 1673," printed in 1819--25, in 6 volumes quarto; the 5th and last edition of this work, with the author's corrections, was published in 1849--50, in 10 octavo volumes.-[ Lond. Athenæum. The late Dr. Lingard has left his valuable library to St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw.

The first part of a curious work has just been published in Paris, a catalogue of the manuscripts and autographs stolen from the public libraries of France. Abstractions have doubtless been made to feed the productive public sales of autographs, which, during the last fourteen years, have been not fewer than ninety-five, comprising 58,000 pieces. As an illustration of the want of surveillance in these libraries, it is stated in a letter addressed by Monsieur W. Libri, the distinguished Italian bibliographer, to the Chairman of the Select Committee on Public Libraries, that 50,000 volumes have been estimated to have been taken from the " Bibliotheque Nationale" of Paris.

An article in the Quarterly Review, enumerates the letters of Horace Walpole which have already seen the light, at 2,600. Recollecting, says the reviewer, how comparatively few of the already published letters are addressed to the persons with whom we know he much delighted to correspond, we are led to hope that we are not even yet au fond du sac.

A meeting of authors and publishers was held July 1, to consider the present aspect of the copyright question. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton presided, and made the opening speech. He said that the recent decision of Lord Campbell ruined all prospect of international copyright with France and America, for foreigners would not buy what they could get for nothing. The effect on literature would be disastrous. In America, where they get the works of Macaulay for nothing, they are ceasing, he said, to produce any solid works of their own. Cooper and Irving belong to a past generation, and with the exception of Mr. Prescott, none are rising to take their place. A resolution was passed, on the motion of Mr. Bohn, the publisher, to the effect that the decision of Lord Campbell must prove prejudicial to the interests of British literature, because it removes the main inducement for foreign states to consent to an international copyright.

THE FIRST PRINTED BIBLE.-The first edition of the Bible in print, was published at Mayence (or Mentz) in 1455, by John Guttenberg, the inventor of printing, and John Faust, an opulent citizen in partnership with Guttenberg. It is a volume of very great interest as a rare typographical curiosity, from the fact that it was not only the first Bible, but the first book ever printed. A copy of this edition of the Bible was discovered and brought to light by De Bure, the bibliographer in the library of Cardinal Mazarin; hence it is called the Mazarin Bible. It consists of two huge folio volumes, printed in double columns, with a very large clear Gothic or German character, and contains 1282 pages. Only twenty copies are known to be extant, one of which is in this country. It was purchased at the sale of the library of Mr. Wilkes, in London, in March, 1847, by Mr. George P. Putnam, for Mr. James Lenox, of New-York, in whose valuable library it now reposes. The price was £500, which, including freight and charges, makes about $2,600.

The University of Berlin was founded in 1810. Upwards of two thousand persons of various literary pursuits are now collected within its walls; and its library, or rather the Royal Library, of 420,000 volumes, is one of the finest in the world. Among its professors are Hengstenberg, Nitsch, and Swezten, professors of Theology; Rose and Mitscherlich, Chemists; Encke, Astronomer; Raumer and Ranke, Historians; Ritter, the celebrated Geographer; and Boeckh, who is considered the first Philologian now living. Dr. Lehnert, the successor of Dr. Neander, is very popular.

HENRY G. BOHN, of Covent Garden, London, has just issued in one volume, royal octavo, a Classical Catalogue, comprising all the principal editions of