intended rather for text-books in schools; and while they are invaluable for this purpose, they are quite unsuitable for general reading. The "Outline," by the lamented K. O. Muller, has been for a long time almost the only work of any value on this subject in the English language; but aside from the fact that it was left unfinished, it has never been sufficiently comprehensive and full to satisfy the wants of scholars. It should also be borne in mind, that the progress which has been made in Grecian archæology within the last twenty years, has essentially modified the views of the learned on many points.

The recent work of R. W. Browne, Professor in King's College, London, re-published in this country by Blanchard & Lea, Philadelphia, is written in a pleasing style, so that it might be interesting even to the general reader. We miss, however, the signs of a familiar acquaintance with the recent researches of German scholars. The work of Col. Mure presents an incomparably more thorough discussion of the subject, and at the same time in such a form that any person of historic tastes may read the narrative with interest. The author is also familiar with the languages of the continent of Europe, and knows how to avail himself of everything which throws light on his subject. He has formerly traveled extensively in Greece, making himself familiar with the topography of the country, and is now a second time in Athens, where he can, to greater advantage, prosecute his researches and collect new materials for the continuation of his work. We shall look for the succeeding volumes with much interest.

History of Greece. By GEORGE GROTE, Esq. London: John Murray.Vols. IX. & X.

These long-expected volumes have at length appeared, and will be heartily welcomed by every person who is at all interested in the affairs of ancient Greece. We have had time to do little more than glance at their tables of contents. They carry the narrative forward from the death of Socrates (399, B. C.,) to the battle of Mantinea, (362, B. C.) They include, consequently, that brilliant period in the history of Thebes, when Pelopidas and Epaminondas ruled her councils and conducted her armies. The last two chapters are devoted to the history of the Sicilian and Italian Greeks; and, as we learn from the preface to the tenth volume, three additional chapters on the same subject are now in readiness, and will appear in the next volume, which may be expected ere long. Appended to each of these volumes are several maps and plans, drawn expressly for this work, and of great value to the reader. We are the more particular to mention this circumstance, as the maps and plans belonging to the preceding volumes do not appear in the American edition. We hope that the Messrs. Jewett & Co., who have in all other respects furnished an excellent reprint of this valuable work, may yet be induced to add so important a part, without which no true scholar can ever be, or ought ever to be, satisfied.

Horse-shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency. By JOHN P. KENNEDY, author of "Swallow Barn." Revised edition. New-York: G. P. Putnam. 1852. 12mo. Pp. 598.

A new edition of an able and deservedly popular work. It takes high rank among American tales, and is hardly inferior in some elements of interest to some of Cooper's best fictions. Its scenes and characters are drawn from the Revolutionary struggle as it went on in Virginia, and especially in South Carolina; but apart from its historical bearing and uses, it has value and interest from its pictures of southern life and manWe are glad to see the work in a revised edition.

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ART. IX.-LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

UNITED STATES.

MESSRS. Ticknor, Reed & Fields will soon issue a new romance, from the pen of Mr. Hawthorne, entitled the Blithe Dale Romance. It is understood to be chiefly founded on the fortunes of the socialist community at Brook-Farm, Roxbury, which ran its brief career some years ago. The author disclaims, however, any purpose of illustrating a theory, or any views at all of socialism, but only lights upon Brook-Farm as a kind of semi-romantic region, remote from the ordinary thoroughfares of life, where the creatures of his fancy can play their antics without let or hindrance. We are glad to find that Hawthorne's merits are more and more appreciated abroad. We observe several recent and very favorable reviews of his writings in English and in French journals.

Messrs. Little, Brown & Co. will soon add to their series of American works, The Miscellaneous Writings, Addresses and Judicial Opinions of the Hon. Levi Woodbary. They will also shortly publish the third volume of Greenleaf on Evidence; Reports of Cases in the Supreme Court of New-Hampshire, by WILLIAM L. FOSTER. State Reporter; and the Annual Digest (1851) of Decisions of the Courts of Common Law, Equity and Admiralty, in all the Courts of the United States, and of the several states, by JOHN PHELPS PUTNAM.

Messrs. Gould & Lincoln have commenced the republication, from advance sheets forwarded them, of Chambers' Pocket Miscellany. They have published two numbers, which will immediately be followed by a third. They rank among the best and the very cheapest of serial popular works. They also announce as in press, The Footsteps of our Forefathers; what they suffered and what they sought. By Rev. JAMES G. MIALL. With engravings.

Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. announce a book on Europe, by Dr. H. P. TAPPAN, entitled A Step from the New World to the Old and Back again, with Thoughts on the Good and Evil of Both. Also, Corneille and his Times, from the French of M. Guizot; and several writings of Thackeray, for their popular library. From the same press, has recently appeared a posthumous work of GRACE AGUILAR, entitled The Days of Bruce-a Story from Scottish History; and The Diplomacy of the Revolution, by WILLIAM HENRY TRESCOTT.

Messrs. Harper & Brothers have in press a new and complete edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Works. Edited by Prof. SHEDD, of the University of Vermont.

Charles B. Norton will soon issue a new and enlarged edition of Stuart's Naval Dry Docks of the United States. The same publisher announces, as in press, a work which promises to be a very useful one; its title is The Librarian's Manual, or a Complete Guide for the Formation, Arrangement, Preservation and Administration of Public and Private Libraries, by R. A. GUILD, A. M., Librarian of Brown University. Mr. Guild is an experienced librarian, and well fitted for a work of this kind, from his knowledge of what is needed, and of the best means by which the want can be supplied.

G. P. Putnam has in press, The Journal of an African Cruiser, by HORATIO BRIDGE, U. S. N.; edited by Nathaniel Hawthorne; also, a revised edition of H. T. Tuckerman's Sicily; Historical Sketch of the Electric Telegraph, by ALEX. JONES; a new work on Japan, by CHARLES MCFARLANE; an edition of the Pictorial History of England, with numerous illustrations.

Messrs. Blanchard & Lea have just republished, from the English edition, a very valuable work of Niebuhr. It is, Lectures on Ancient History, from the earliest times to the taking of Alexandria by Octavianus; comprising the his

tory of the Asiatic nations, the Egyptians, Greeks, Carthagenians and Macedonians. By B. G. NIEBUHR. Translated from the German of Dr. Marcus Niebuhr, by Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, with additions and corrections from his own manuscript notes; in three crown 8vo. vols, extra cloth. The same publishers have just issued a new number of the Schmitz and Zumpt Classical Series, viz: The Classical Manual, an Epitome of Ancient Geography, Greek and Roman Mythology, Antiquities, and Chronology, for the Use of Schools, by JAMES S. S. BAIRD.

GREAT BRITAIN.

The election to the Greek Professorship in the University of Edinburgh, of which we spoke in anticipation in our last number, has since occurred, and resulted in favour of Professor Blackie. It was warmly contested, and the choice lay finally between Dr. William Smith, Dr. Schmitz, Professor McDowall, and Mr. Price. It was finally decided for Professor Blackie by the casting vote of the Lord Provost.

The Professorship of Humanity in Marischal College, Aberdeen, vacated by the election of Professor Blackie to the Greek Professorship at Edinburgh, has been given by the Crown to Dr. Maclure, one of the Masters of the Edinburgh Academy:

Professor Wilson has resigned, on account of ill health, the chair of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh. There are numerous candidates for the place; among whom are Mr. J. D. Morell, Mr. George Ramsay, of Rugby, Professor M'Cosh, of Belfast, Dr. W. L. Alexander, of Edinburgh, and Professor Macdougal, of New College, Edinburgh.

The recent effort in Scotland to do away with the tests in regard to the nontheological chairs in the universities, has been unsuccessful. The bill for abolishing the tests has been thrown out in the House of Commons on the second reading, by a vote of 172 to 157.

From the London Athenæum, we learn that the Report of the Oxford University Commission has just been published. It covers 800 pages folio; 250 devoted to the Report proper, and the rest to documents and evidence. The Commissioners propose bold and extensive reforms, all in the direction sought by those in England, who have large and liberal views of education. Their propositions for reform, ranged under forty-seven heads, affect the government and educational system of the University. Those which are most important in the view of the Commissioners are referred to in the following extract from the Report: Of the proposals which affect the University, the most important are those which we have made for remodeling the constitution, and for abolishing the existing monopoly of the colleges and halls, by allowing students to reside in Oxford without the expense of connection with those bodies. In regard to the Colleges, we would especially urge the immediate necessity of opening the fellowships and scholarships, of attaching Professorships to certain colleges, of increasing the number and value of scholarships, of granting to the colleges the power of altering their statutes, and, above all, of prohibiting as unlawful the oaths to observe the statutes."

Questions of reform are also still in agitation at Cambridge. Dr. Whewell, Master of Trinity, has published another volume, entitled-Of Liberal Education in General; and with special reference to the University of Cambridge. Part III. It is understood that Dr. Whewell issues this book in anticipation of the action soon to be taken by the Senate of the University on various matters pertaining to reform. He argues (we learn from an English journal) against existing abuses, and puts the case as it stands between the conservatives, and those who wish to bring the universities into closer relation with the age.

We find in a late number of the London Athenæum some statistics relative to the last academic year of the University of London. There were admitted

to matriculation 214; ten were distinguished for attainments in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, ten in Classics, nine in Chemistry, three in Zoology, three in Botany. Twenty-seven passed the first examination for the degree of Bachelor of Medicine, five for that of Bachelor of Laws, forty-nine for Bachelor of Arts, of whom seven were distinguished in Classics, six in the Mathematics, six in Physiology, two in Chemistry, and two in Botany.

ers.

The contest which has been going on for some time between the English Publishers and Booksellers has been at length settled by arbitration; and on such terms as give promise of mutual benefit to the book trade and the public, by lowering the price of books, and consequently increasing their circulation. The contest seems to have grown out of the restrictive regulations of the Booksellers' Association, and particularly to their action in dictating the terms on which the retail dealers were to trade with their customers. According to the regulations, all booksellers within twelve miles of the London General Post-Office received a ticket entitling them to buy new books from the publishers; the publishers specified a retail price for each copy; they sold to the retailers at about thirty per cent. under that price, and then required an engagement from the retailer not to allow his customer a larger discount than ten per cent. from the retail price; for a breach of this engagement the retail dealer forfeited his ticket, and was cut off from all further dealings with the publishA vigorous opposition to these regulations was commenced by certain booksellers; parties were formed, represented by Messrs. Longman, Murray, Pickering, Rivington and others for the association, and by Messrs. Bush, Bickers, John Chapman, and others for reform; and finally, after much discussion, it was agreed that the matter be decided by a conference between Lord Campbell, in conjunction with some principal authors, and certain members of the trade, with the understanding that the decision of the referees should be binding on the association. Accordingly, meetings were held, at which Lord Campbell, aided by Mr. Grote and Dr. Milman, listened to the arguments of deputations from the two contending parties, and after duly considering them, drew up and pronounced a written decision fatal to the cause of the associa tion. The regulations, the umpires declare to be contrary to the freedom which ought to prevail in commercial transactions; the publisher, of course, may put his price on the book that he sells, but the condition, that the purchaser, that is, the retail dealer, shall not resell it under a certain price, derogates from his rights of ownership. The regulations were also adjudged to be such as must inevitably lead to numerous fraudulent evasions, which of course work badly on those who adhere to their engagement, while those who are detected in such evasions, by being expelled and cut off from the trade, are utterly ruined in their business, the arguments of the defenders of the association are carefully examined, and the attempts set up by them to make the book trade an exception to the general laws of commerce are declared failures. On such grounds, the regulations are condemned, and, of course, by the terms of the arbitration, they are henceforth to be abandoned.

We have received a specimen of a proposed Edition of the Greek New Testament, edited from ancient authorities, with various readings, and the Latin Version of Jerome; by S. P. TREGELLES, LL. D. The text is formed on the oldest Greek MSS.; the various readings are those of all the more ancient Greek MSS., most of which the editor has himself collated, of all the ancient versions, and of the citations in early ecclesiastical writers. The Latin version of Jerome rests on the authority of the Codex Amiatinus of the sixth century. The editor's collations have been compared with those of Tischendorf, who communicated to him the results of his labors. The work is to be published by subscription, and is intended to appear in one volume, quarto. The speci men now before us is in the most finished style of typography. The various kinds of type, of the Greek text, of the Latin version in the margin, the various readings, side references, &c., are all in admirable taste, and form together a most elegant page. Dr. Tregelles has been engaged in these critical labors for more than twelve years, and has a high reputation as a scholar. He pub

lished, in Dr. Kitto's Journal of Sacred Literature, in 1849, an extended and able review of Tischendorf's second edition of the Greek Testament.

The Messrs. Longman announce, in a note in the April number of the Edinburgh Review, that the MS. journals and papers of the late Thomas Moore are in preparation for publication, and that they will be edited by Lord John Russell. The same publishers announce as in preparation, a copious LatinEnglish Dictionary, founded on Andrews' translation of Freund's larger LatinGerman Dictionary; with improvements and additions, by the Rev. J E. Riddle, M. A., and Dr. W. Freund. Dr. Freund is himself in London, and is occupied in making a thorough revision of his work, with reference to the wants of English students; and the work above announced is intended to incorporate the additional materials he has collected, and the improvements he has made upon his earlier labors, while preparing the second edition of his LatinGerman Dictionary, which is shortly to be published in Germany.

Dr. William Smith is adding to his series of dictionaries. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Parts I. and II. have appeared, to be followed by one part quarterly, until the whole is finished. It will form one volume 8vo., and will be illustrated by coins, plans of cities, &c.

With Notes.

Among the English works recently published are the following: Memoirs of the Whig Party, during my Time. By Henry Richard Lord Holland. Edited by his son, Henry Edward Lord Holland. Regal Rome; an Introduction to Roman History. By Francis W. Newman. The seventh edition of Sharon Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons; Theophrasti Caracteres. By Rev. John G. Sheppard, Head Master of Kidderminster School. Farini's History of the Roman State, (Vol. III.,) translated by the Hon. W. E. Gladstone. The Theory of Reasoning, (second edition,) by Samuel Bailey, author of "Essays on the Pursuit of Truth."

Volumes IX. and X. of Grote's History of Greece, which have been lately published, will be followed ere long by Vol. XI., which will carry on the history to the period of the overthrow of the Grecian states by Philip and Alexander. Other works announced are the following: Shakspeare and his Times, by M. Guizot; Lives of the Prime Ministers of England; Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury; Life of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, by William P. Urquhart; Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the past half century, by D. M. Moir; A Dissertation on the Origin and Connection of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, with a Synopsis of parallel passages in Greek and English, and Critical Notes, by James Smith, Esq.

GERMANY.

The German press has been even more prolific than usual during the last half year. The latest catalogue of the Leipsig Easter Messe contains the names of 4,527 published books, and 1,163 in preparation; 700 more than the number announced in the preceding catalogue. One Vienna house contributes 113 publications.

The first part of the long expected German Dictionary of the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm has just been published. The number of subscribers at the time of publication was 7,000-a result well described by the London Athenæum, as almost unparalleled in the German book trade, and not often surpassed in England.

The last number of the Neue Jahsbücher contains a list of German scholars deceased during the year 1852. The number in the list is 92; among the most eminent names are these: the celebrated philologist Karl Lachmann, Professor at Berlin; Dr. Ferdinand G. Hand, Professor of Greek at Jeua; Dr. F. A. Ukert. of Gotha; Dr. J. G. Grube, of Halle; Dr. H. E. G. Paulus; Dr. H. A. Niemeyer, Professor in Halle University, and Director of the Franke Institutions; Dr. F. G. Fritsche, Professor in the Grimma School; Dr. Jacobi, Professor of Mathe