remembrance of all his Sufferings, which the sight of her would have called forth. She knelt at his Bed, concealing her Head. He, however, lifted his Hand, laid it on her Head, and said with a faltering Voice: Follow thou me! thou wert good-I have entertained an Angel.

"No! I have! sobbed Agnes, and I knew it not, I believed it not! "There thou wilt see into my Heart! said he; how I always told thee; I was not gentle, not good enough-for I suffered, for I was full of Love.

"He expired with the word 'Love' upon his Lips. The Flutes sounded on, and it seemed as if their Tones accompanied his Soul to Heaven. In the Churchyard of St. John rests all that was mortal of him.

Strew Flowers over him, oh Wanderer!"

NEW TRANSLATION OF DANTE.

Dr. John Carlyle is publishing, in London and in New York, a translation of Dante's Inferno into English prose. Dr. Carlyle brings rare qualifications to the task, and having, in a residence of six or seven years in Italy, devoted himself to the study of Dante, is probably better acquainted with the Divine Comedy than any man living. He has collated with great care his text from all the best editions. The Italian text stands above, the version below, with a few indispensable notes at the bottom of the page. We are not ungrateful to Cary, who has been our English helper so long, and whom we esteem for spirit, conciseness, and accuracy, the best of metrical translators; but it is very certain that all the tribe of English metrical versions of the great poets, the miserable Potters and Franklins and Wests, who have lulled their dulness by the august names of Eschylus, and Sophocles, and Pindar, must give place to exact versions word for word, without rhyme or metre. So only can the real curiosity of the student be satisfied. Dr. Carlyle is no careless workman, but has executed his task with a biblical fidelity, selecting his phrase with scrupulous judgment, and italicizing every word added in English to complete the abstemious sentence of the author.

We assure the book a warm welcome in this country, where we have long observed, as a good sign of the times, the increasing study of Dante.

THE EDITORS' NOTE TO THE READERS.

In completing our first volume we wish to say to the Public at large and our Readers in special, that our work has found more readers and more favor than we anticipated; but, at the same time, we confess that we have labored under some difficulties not likely to continue, or even recur. Only a small number of persons were certainly pledged to contribute to the journal, and some of them failed us,—for we trusted that readable and noteworthy matter would flow in to us in sufficient quantity. In this case we have been a little disappointed, and so the labor of writing has fallen upon few hands, and

accordingly our pages have presented less variety than we wished, and even promised. Besides this, which is the fortune of most journals at their commencement, the Senior Editor has been absent from America ever since the work began. He has now returned, and will of course contribute to its columns. Other and competent persons have also promised us their aid. We think that we have seen our worst times, and shall commence the new volume with better hopes, and, we trust, with more strength.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Lectures on Shakespeare. By H. N. Hudson. In two volumes. New York: 1848. 12mo.

On the Philosophical Tendencies of the Age; being four Lectures delivered at Edinburgh and Glasgow in January, 1848. By J. D. Morell, A. M. 1 vol. 8vo. London: 1848. pp. vIII and 193.

Modern French Literature, by L. Raymond de Vericour, &c, &c. Revised, with notes. By William Staughton Chase, A. M. Boston: 1848. 12mo. pp. XVI and 448.

Proceedings of the Anti-Sabbath Convention held in the Melodeon, March 23rd and 24th. [Reported by Henry M. Parkhurst.] Boston: 1848. 12mo. pp. 168.

Guide through Mount Auburn. Second Edition, enlarged and improved for the benefit of strangers desirous of seeing the clusters of monuments with the least trouble. With an engraved plan of the cemetery. By Nathaniel Dearborn. Boston: 1848. 12mo. pp. 28.

The Ministerial Office, its Permanency and Ends: a Sermon preached at the Installation of Rev. George E. Day as Pastor of the Edwards Church in Northampton, Jan. 12, 1848. By Theodore D. Wooley, President of Yale College. Northampton: 1848.

A Discourse delivered in the First Congregational Church in Harvard, Worcester Co., Mass., by Henry B. Pearson, on the day of the Annual Fast, April 6, 1848. Boston: 1848.

Thoughts on some important Points relating to the System of the World. By J. P. Nichol, LL. D., &c. First American Edition, revised and enlarged. Boston and Cambridge. 1848. 1 vol. 12mo. pp. XVIII and 261.

The Writings of Cassius Marcellus Clay, including Speeches and Addresses. Edited, with a Preface and Memoir, by Horace Greeley. New York: 1848. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. XVI and 536.

Christian Songs. By the Rev. James Gisborne Lyons, LL. D. "The Service of Song." Third edition with additions. Philadelphia: 1848. 8vo. pp. 72.

The Principles of the Chrono-thermal System of Medicine, with the Fallacies of the Faculty, &c. By Samuel Dickinson, M. D., &c., &c. Containing also an Introduction and Notes by William Turner, M. D., &c., &c. London. pp. XV and 194.

Triumph of "Young Physic," or Chronothermal Facts. By William Turner, M. D., &c., &c. New York. 8vo. pp. 29.

Endymion. A Tale of Greece. By Henry B. Hirst, &c. Boston. 12mo.

1848.

A Book of Hymns for public and private devotion. 3d edition. Boston. 1848. 12mo.

An Abridgment of the Law of Nisi Prius, in two volumes, by Wm. Selwyn, Esq, of Lincoln's Inn. With notes and references to the decisions of the courts of this country, by Henry Wheaton, Thomas I. Wharton, and Edward E. Law. Sixth American Edition, with a supplement containing notes of recent English and American authorities. By T. G. Marvin. 2 vols. pp. 775, 902. Philadelphia. 1848.

PROSPECTUS.

THE DAGUERREOTYPE:

A MAGAZINE OF FOREIGN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE, SELECTED CHIEFLY FROM THE PERIODICAL PUBLICATIONS OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND GERMANY.

As intercourse with the inhabitants of foreign countries becomes more easy and rapid, and therefore more frequent, we naturally become more interested in whatever represents, or exercises an influence upon their social, moral, and political condition. Hence it arises that reprints and translations are multiplied among us; and even works which, had they proceeded from the pen of an American author, would have been rejected with contempt or indignation, meet with a favorable reception from an American public simply because they are supposed to convey information respecting the state of society, the manners, and the mind of the countries in which they originally appeared.

It is an undoubted fact that the periodical literature of Europe, and especially that of England, Germany, and France, exercises a very powerful influence, not only in directing the taste, but also in forming the opinions of the educated classes in those countries; and it is a legitimate and a wholesome influence, since, as is well known, the ablest scholars, the greatest statesmen, the most learned divines, the most eminent men in every department of science and art, are engaged in furnishing the stores of intellectual wealth, from which that influence is derived. There is scarcely a distinguished man in either of the countries which have been mentioned, whose name is not enrolled in the list of contributors to one or more of its periodical publications.

A selection from the contents of these works, supplying the great reading community of the United States with a valuable and interesting fund of information, extending over the various departments of literature, and embracing topics of both permanent and temporary importance, is thought to be a desideratum. For although reprints of a few of the leading English reviews and magazines are published, and a selection from the same works has for some years been issued, they but imperfectly supply the want which is believed to exist; since it forms no part of their design to throw open to the American public the treasures contained in the periodical literature of France and Germany, scarcely, if at all, inferior to that of England. This work has therefore been projected, of which the following are to be the leading features: it will contain:

1. A carefully-made selection of articles from the best English periodicals;

2. Faithful and well-executed translations from those of Germany and France;

3. Original articles, occasionally, on subjects of national importance;

4. Short notices of new works; lists of the more important books published or announced for publication, and intelligence on subjects connected with the literature of Europe and America.

It is intended to supply, in its successive numbers, a series of striking pictures of the constantly-varying aspect of public affairs, of the state of the public taste, and the bent of public opinion, in the most refined and intellectual countries of Europe; and is, therefore, not inaptly, called the DAGUERREOTYPE.

It will be issued semi-monthly, in numbers containing generally 48 pages, imperial octavo, neatly printed, on good paper, and in fair type. Twelve numbers will form a volume, to which a title-page and index will be furnished; subscribers thus receiving annually two large and handsome volumes, each consisting of at least five hundred pages, and containing the most interesting productions of the best foreign authors of the present day.

TERMS.-The price to subscribers will be THREE DOLLARS a-year, payable in advance. Subscribers desirous of discontinuing must give notice at the office of publication at least thirty days previous to the expiration of the volume, or their subscriptions will be considered as continued.

Subscriptions and communications relative to the work, to be addressed, post-paid, to the propric tors, care of Tappan, Whittemore & Mason, 114 Washington street, Boston.

Believing that a work like that proposed in the foregoing Prospectus, conducted ably, and on right principles, would exert an important influence, I wish the present effort great success. Boston, March 16, 1847. MANTON EASTBURN.

I concur with Bishop Eastburn in the foregoing opinion; and from what I understand of the gentlemen interested in the proposed work, I should confidently anticipate that it will be well conducted. Cambridge, 17th March, 1847.

EDWARD EVERETT.

Such a work as is contemplated in the foregoing Prospectus will be useful in diffusing a knowledge of the various efforts of the European mind in our age; particularly those which are now little known in our country, and are inaccessible to many persons, because they are focked in foreign languages.

Boston, March 17, 1847.

CHARLES SUMNER.

The plan of the work is such as meets a want in our community of literature, that is in no way at present supplied. It differs from that of the Foreign Quarterly, which gives but a very imperfect view of what is going on upon the Continent of Europe in the Republic of Letters. If fully carried out, the Daguerreotype will succeed that in this country, and be more useful and satisfactory. I would hope that such a work may speedily commence, under the most encouraging prospects of public favor. Theol. Sem., Andover, March 19, 1847.

MOSES STUART.

The plan strikes me favorably; and I have no doubt that a journal of the kind, ably conducted, will com. mend itself to the approbation of the public. Cambridge, 20 March.

C. C. FELTON.

From a careful perusal of the articles in the first volume of the Daguerreotype, it appears to me an admirably conducted and most useful journal. I know of none in this country which combines so many advantages in its plan, and so faithfully executes what it undertakes to do.

New York, January 26, 1848.

Other gentlemen also have commended the proposed work

JOSEPH G. COGSWELL