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Memoir of William Penn--See Penn.
Mammoth Cave, Visit to--Fraser's Magazine, 474
Melville, Mr., and the South Sea Islands--Ec-

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lectic Review,
MISCELLANEOUS.Nathaniel Hawthorne, 78; Ara-
go's Works, 97; A Glimpse of Pitt and Fox, 115;
Literature in Paris, 117; The Descendants of Robert
Burns, 134; Scandinavian Superstition, 142; Book
Trade of the East, 153; Bernard Barton's Opinions
of Wordsworth, 162; Curious Statement, 209; The
Mormon's in England, 218; The Peerage, 221; Sir
Robert Peel as an Orator, 246; Nineveh Illustrated,
279; Emigration of Pauper Children, 285; John
Knox's House in Edinburgh, 286; Recent British
Publications, 287; Copyright of American Books,
259; Nineveh or Not, 301; Homer, Dante, and
Shakspeare, 304; Richardson, the African Traveller,
312; A New Pipe of Peace, 847; Cost of the late
Troubles in Europe, 347; The late Dr. Black, 851;
The Times Printing Machine, 386; Discovery of a
Merovingian Cemetery at Envermeu, 399; The Au-
thor of the Amber Witch, 419; Catalani, 424; Monu-
ment to Wordsworth, 457; Departure of Louis Phi-
lippe and Family, 471; Peel's Patronage of Literary
Men, 484; Search for Sir John Franklin, 489; Sale
of Guizot's Library, 521; Italics, 565; A Romance
of the Harem, 571.

Paul I., of Russia, Death of--See Mysteries.
Picture-writing, Discoveries in--British Quar-
terly Review,

Profession, The Literary-North British Re
view,

Penn, William, Memoirs of Westminster Re-
view,

POETRY.-Wallace and Fawdon-New Mont
Magazine, 34; Corpse Candles, The-New Mont
Magazine, 139; The Wall Flower, 514; Eye Me
ry, 56; Flowers, 68; Lover Over the Way, 95;
Feelings, 185; Stanzas for Music, 202; The Pa
tion of the Earth, 231; The Dying Child, 273; Li
on a Favorite Tree, 319.

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Scott, A Pilgrimage in the Path of-See Pil-
Steam-bridge of the Atlantic-Chambers's Ed-
grimage.
inburgh Journal,

Science, Gifts of to Art-See Gifts.
Snakes and Serpent Charmers-Bentley's Mis-
cellany,

Salutation, Forms of-See Forms.
Socialism in Britain-See Robert Owen.
South Sea Islands and Mr. Melville-See Mel-
ville.

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Wonders of Modern Locomotion-Dublin Uni-

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Piozzi, Mrs. See Inedited Letters.

Post Office, Mechanism of-Qarterly Review,
Pilgrimage in the Path of Scott-People's
Journal,

Peel, Sir Robert-Tait's Magazine,

Pursuit, The-Chambers's Edingburgh Journal, 253

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res de Condorcet completées sur les MSS. originaux: enrichies d'un grand bre de Lettres inedites de Voltaire, de Turgot, &c.: précedées de l'Eloge Condorcet, par M. F. ARAGO: publiees par A. Condorcet O'Connor, Lieuant-Général, et M. F. Arago, Secretaire perpetuel de l'Academie des ences. 12 tomes 8vo. Paris, 1847-1849.

these twelve volumes the slenderest | plied the inedited materials of the collection, O pages-the most corpulent reaches and it is, no doubt, published at their exOf that first and monster tome 180 pense. are given to a biographical preface by ; 65 pages to letters between Conand Voltaire; 170 to correspondence rgot and others; the rest to academcourses and other minor pieces conas illustrating important steps in Con= personal career. The second and -olumes consist of his Eloges on nicians. There succeed three of "Mele Littérature et de Philosophie;" one a wholly occupied with the Life of - and Notes on his works-another e historical Essays composed after cet's proscription. The remaining six are Economie-Politique et Poli

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Bulky as it is-more bulky, in fact, than the one of 1804, in twenty-one ordinary volumes-we miss here again several tracts which made noise enough in their day, and of which we possess the original editions, with the author's name to them. Several others, which M. Arago labels as now for the first time printed, are also on our shelves as yellow tea-paper pamphlets of the revolutionary period-and it is probable that their text, as given from Condorcet's MS., may be distinguished only by wanting his final correction-but that is a point which we lack zeal to investigate. What is certainly new comprises almost all Condorcet's

Journal des Savans-but those quartos have, we suppose, very little circulation beyond the learned brotherhood; and M. Arago has now added an entertaining Epilogue, of which more anon. On the whole, it seems very improbable that the cost of these huge octavos will ever be repaid; but the really novel and popular materials entombed in the ponderous cenotaph will soon be reproduced in a couple of handy duodecimos-at Brussels, if Paris be not on the alert. At all events, there can be no doubt as to what concerns Voltaire.

For M. de Condorcet we cannot affect the enthusiasm which M. Arago proclaims. He seems to have been amiable-for his time and country exemplary-in his domestic relations; he was a man of vigorous talents and very extensive accomplishments; but why M. Arago should speak of the nom glorieux de Condorcet we are at a loss to comprehend. He was in no walk truly original-not in any sense of the word a genius-nor, as to mere acquisition, had he studied any one subject or science so profoundly as to merit a place among its first-rate masters. He was (to parody Johnson's phrase) a man of letters among the savants, a savant among the men of letters the best possible Secretary and Eloge-maker for the Academy-vix amplius. The cleverest of the lighter pieces, viz., the "Lettres d'un Théologien," are such close copies of Voltaire's controversial tracts-of his peculiar style of sarcasm and insolence that, to the Patriarch's annoyance, they passed at the moment for his own. Condorcet's Political Economy is, first and last, an elaborate expansion of Turgot-of his political writings prior to 1788, we may say the same thing. His conduct from the commencement of the revolution to the fall of the Girondists seems to us very unworthy of Arago's lofty eulogies. The history of his closing months brings out some striking features of resolution and self-command; but on the whole, his public career was that of an uninteresting variety of the mischief-maker, -a sort of frigid fanatic, who calmly inculcated on the multitude lessons that they were sure to carry out into atrocity, and who, though he might not have foreseen the extreme application of his own doctrines, was at least ready enough to exert all the resources of his literary skill in apologizing for the practical results. When an Arago could extol such a man in the face of the Academicians of 1845, as a model of philosophic and

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yet to witness more fruits of the 1789.

Though M. Arago spends severa explaining why he gives not an E Biographie, his bookseller's title-pa the truth, and his preliminary essay much more of a Panegyric than a I has, in truth, very little feeling for connected with his hero except th matics and the politics; but of hi contempt of mere practical informa need give no other instance than read the Biographie on till withi pages of its close, without once fin man designated as a Marquis-and cumstance is then alluded to only b was necessary to exalt the merit of C in moving a resolution of the Legisl sembly that all patents of nobility, pedigrees, and other similar records a ments, should be collected and b the public executioner.

If we may put any trust in earlier worshipful biographers, Condorcet, the dawn of the revolution, was rath for the importance he attached to the tages of his birth. The family na Caritat. They were said to have Italian origin, but had been classed f generations with the gentry of Da and took their title from the little to chateau of Condorcet. His father, h was a younger brother and captain and from him the philosopher app have inherited little or no fortune. born at Ribemont, in Picardy, A. I The Captain died early, and he wa the guardianship of his mother, who describes as a devotee of the weakes lity, and his father's elder broth Bishop of Lisieux, a prelate of cons distinction, and notable not least

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The utter laxity, under the later least of the old régime, as to the assumpti titles below that of Duke, is so notorious

may be contented with barely alluding to formally into a Marquisat, we cannot say

ther the Terre of Condorcet had ever bee

know that no such Marquisate is to be found dex to Anselme, or any other old Nobiliair how, if there was a real Marquisate, the been able to examine. We are equally un younger brother came to be the titula probable that the head of the family, bei clesiastic, may have obtained leave to secular honor to his cadet. mentions that gentleman, he calls him me tain Caritat-but this may be a bit of r affectation. With our own radical naman.

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