in a fortress, for having had prohibited works in his
possession; and John Baptist del Menego, a clergyman,
to the same penalty, for having preached revolutionary
sermons.

Another step towards amalgamating the refractory
Poles with the Russian Empire has been taken by the
Czar, who has issued an Imperial ukase, expressing his
regret that the young Polish nobility prefer remaining
idle to enlisting in the public service; and declaring
that these feelings, so contrary to the duties of a gentleman,
can be no longer tolerated. Certain compulsory
regulations are therefore decreed.

The advices from New York are to the 12th inst.
The intelligence, which chiefly concerns the presidential
election, is not interesting. Kossuth was living
privately at the Irving House, and in a few days was to
leave for England. There had been a great slaughter
of Indians on the south fork of the Trinity river; 150
were killed at one time: the Indians had murdered a
Mr. Anderson.

    NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

THERE has been no month in our recollection in which
so small a number of original books, and those also of
such small importance, have issued from the press.

Let us first name the exceptions. Even these come
rather within the category of republications, or new
editions, than of books now for the first time published.
Doctor Leonard Schmitz, the learned rector of the
Edinburgh High School, has translated the great Niebuhr's
Lectures On Ancient History (a series delivered not long
before his death, and which may be characterised as a
necessary supplement to his memorable researches in
Roman History, in so far that, taken in connection with
the latter, they complete a course of critical investigation
embracing the whole of ancient history, by the most
acute and original mind that has ever been applied to
such subjects), from the original German edition of
Doctor Marcus Niebuhr, the historian's son. The
translation has at the same time the advantage of additions and
corrections from notes of the translator, who was himself
present at the delivery of a portion of the lectures, and
who has been thus enabled to make the book in its
English form (Thirlwall and Hare had done the
same with the History of Rome) more valuable and
correct than in the original German. Guizot's Corneille
and his Times is another reproduction of literary research
and criticism, of which the original dates many years
ago, but to which the distinguished writer has prefixed
an introduction to which events of recent occurrence
give considerable interest, for it refers to the period of
the Empire of Napoleon as one with which true civilisation
had no sympathy, and which, having itself no hold
upon literature, left no enduring influence or memorial
when it had passed away; leaving the reader in no
kind of doubt as to M. Guizot's opinion of the chance
of anything great or permanent arising out of the
bastard empire now prevailing. Mr. Bentley has also
produced in the same form a similar volume of
M. Guizot's early criticism on Shakspeare and liis
Times. A fourth republication is that of Brande's
Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, with
many additions. Mr. Arthur Helps has continued
his interesting and original researches into early
Spanish colonisation in a second volume of his Conquerors
of the New World and their Bondsmen. Mrs. Green
has given us a fourth volume of her carefully written,
but not perhaps greatly wanted, Lives of the Princesses
of England. The once eagerly-expected and
hard-hitting Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin has made its
reappearance in a neat little volume. And Dr. Lardner has
collected, in a volume on the Great Exhibition, not only
a number of papers of his own originally published in
the Times, but several, other descriptions and illustrations
of the world's fair contributed to the Parisian
journals by celebrated French statists.

In a small volume entitled The Celt, the Roman, and
the Saxon, Mr. Thomas Wright has described those
archaeological discoveries at Richborough, Lymne, and
other places, by which so clear and satisfactory evidence
has been afforded of the prevalence of an extensive
Latin civilisation in Britain before the Saxons settled
on our shores. The author of Visiting my Relations
has published another small volume of Reminiscences
of Thought and Feeling, quite as cleverly written, and
containing matter of more personal interest, for it
describes with great apparent candour and truthfulness
the writer's religious experience as one of the ladies
who imbibed tea and evangelism at the excellent Mr.
Simeon's Cambridge evening entertainments between
twenty and thirty years ago. Symbols and Emblems
of Early Christian Art, by Louisa Twining, is a
not unsuccessful attempt, by means of a series of
outlines explained by intelligent criticism, to
collect and arrange in chronological order the principal
forms which have been used symbolically throughout
the period of early mediæval art. Archdeacon
Hare's Contest with Rome is one of that able and
distinguished churchman's charges delivered to the
clergy of his Archdeaconry, and enriched by a series of
subtle and well-directed notes on Father Newman's
recent comparisons of Protestant and Roman Catholic
doctrine. Doctor Roget's Thesaurus of English Words
and Phrases is a volume which will be best described by
saying that its object or aim is the exact reverse of that
of an ordinary thesaurus or dictionary, seeing that the
latter is meant to give you the ideas which answer most
correctly to words, and Dr. Roget's meaning is to give
you the words which answer most readily and variously
to ideas. His hope is, by so facilitating expression in
men whose words are more sluggish than their thoughts,
to assist in promoting literary composition generally.

The rest of the noticeable books of the month have
relation to foreign countries. An American traveller,
Mr. Loring Brace, has published his painful experiences
of the Austrian police, and his pleasant impressions of
the Hungarian character, in a volume on Hungary in
1851. From another American gentleman, Mr. William
Stiles, who held the important post of Minister for the
United States at the Court of Vienna, we have a more
elaborate work on Austria in 1848-49. This book
includes a history of the revolutionary movements of
the States in connection with the Empire which
agitated those eventful years, preceded by historical
notices of the several races subjected to Austria,
making more intelligible to the general reader the
character of their various discontents; and it derives
considerable value from the tone as well as the opportunities
of the writer. Both are in a certain sense official;
the duties of office, and the means of information open
to it, being observable as well in the amount of knowledge
not common to previous writers, as in the moderation
of tone adopted throughout notwithstanding Mr.
Stiles's strong leanings to the liberal side. Mr. James
Kennedy, one of our judges at the Havanah, has translated
several specimens of the Modern Poets and Poetry
of Spain. Mr. Rushton has translated a volume of
military and political criticism by Col. Sigismund Thaly
on the Fortress of Komorn during the War of
Independence in Hungary in '48-9, of which the object is
mainly to expose the errors involved in its surrender.
Capt. Francis Egerton has published two very agreeable
volumes descriptive of A Winter's Tour in India. Mr.
Horace St. John has written in the modest compass of
two small volumes what he calls a History of the
British Conquests in India. Capt. Mackinnon has
filled about as much paper and print with a collection
of Atlantic and Transatlantic Sketches, Afloat and
Ashore. And the Italian correspondent of the Times, Mr.
Michael Burke Honan, has narrated the personal history
of what befell him when in attendance on the rival
armies of Sardinia and Austria in the eventful campaign
which ended in Charles Albert's overthrow, under the
title of Personal Adventures of our own Correspondent.