THE SKIN.* Editorial Review. THE reader will please not be alarmed at the topic chosen for this month's discussion, as we have no idea of turning physiologist and lecturing in detail on the structure or anatomy of the human frame. Our purpose is simply a brief talk on the skin-the wrapper with which every human body is invested-and concerning which the unmedical public know none too much. The skin is a membrane of inconsiderable thickness, enveloping the whole of the external surface of the body, following its prominences, its depressions, and its curves. It is described as consisting of three layers; namely, the scarf skin, the sensitive layer, and the corium. The scarf skin, also called the cuticle and epidermis, is horny and insensible in its character, and is a sheath of protection to the sensitive skin, or derma, which lies immediately beneath it. Our nails, the ends of our fingers, and the palms of our hands furnish illustrations of true and genuine scarf skin. The corium is the defensive portion of the skin, and consists of excessively minute fibers, which are collected into small bundles or strands, and these latter are so interwoven with each other as to form a firm, strong, and flexible net. The fibers of these strands are of four kinds, the greater part being white and inelastic: some are yellow and highly elastic but brittle; a third set are reddish; while a fourth are without strength or elasticity, but possess a faculty of independent motion, producing those states manifested by the skin, denominated goose skin, and causing under mental emotion or physical sensation the instant erection of hairs, etc. connected with the cutaneous organs; namely, the perspiratory glands, the oil glands, and the hairs. Wash your hand thoroughly clean with soap and wipe dry, and take an ordinary magnifying-glass, and you will, on bringing it over the palm of your hand, discover innumerable little ridges of equal size and distance, and every-where running parallel with each other. On these ridges, without a glass, you can see the pores in even rows. Take your glass and look at the ridge, and each pore will look like a little fountain, with the sweat starting therein as clear as mountain spring water. Wipe it away and the instant you do it additional liquid springs up. Dr. Wilson tells us that he counted the perspiratory pores on the palm of the hand, and found 3,528 in a square inch. Each of these pores being the opening of a little tube nearly a quarter of an inch in length, it follows that in a square inch of skin on the palm of the hand there exists a length of tube equal to eight hundred and eighty-two inches, or nearly seventy-four feet. Admit seventy-four feet as the average drainage to every square inch of the human skin, and you can form some idea of the folly of those persons, who, in the neglect of proper bathing and otherwise, clog up their system and thus invite disease to come in and hold a revel with their organs. Physiologists state that on the pulps of the fingers, where the ridges of the sensitive layer of the true skin are somewhat finer than in the palm of the hand, the number of pores on a square inch a little exceed that of the palm; while on the heel, where the ridges are coarser, the number of pores on the square inch is 2,268, and the length The cells of the scarf skin contain more or less of a of tube only forty-seven feet. Taking 2,800 feet, howpeculiar pigment, which makes the difference in hue of ever, as the average length of tube of the perspiratory the different varieties of the human race-such as the system of the whole surface of the body, and 2,500 inches blonde and the brunette, the European and the African, as the number of square inches of surface in a man of etc. Excepting the tinge which this pigment gives to our ordinary hight and bulk, we shall find the number of skin, all phenomena of color of the skin are referable to pores to be 7,000,000, and the number of inches of perthe quantity, velocity, or composition of the blood flow-spiratory tube to be 1,750,000; that is to say, 145,833 ing through its capillaries or small tubes. When the mind, acting on the nervous system, causes a sudden distension or swelling of the capillaries, the usual red hue of the skin is suddenly hightened, and the state is called blushing. The reason why ladies blush easier than gentlemen, is the greater delicacy of their skin and the more susceptible condition of the nervous system. An opposite effect to blushing, namely, a sudden or intense paleness, may be produced by the same cause-the blood in the capillaries being forced from the skin upon some internal organ, the brain or the heart, and causing, in some cases, instant death. Blueness of the skin depends upon some retardation of the circulatory system; such a condition usually occurring in cold weather, when the vigor of the nervous system is reduced, and the little of blood remaining in the capillaries, after the inward propulsion, is compelled to move with great slowness and languidness. The pores of the skin are numberless minute tubes, which traverse the three layers of the skin more or less deeply, and on on the outer or scarf skin in as many minute apertu.:0. These tubes belong to three systems The Skin and Hair, their Preservation and Management, by Erasmus Wilson, F. R. S. feet, or 48,600 yards, or nearly 28 miles. This, to say the least, is a very considerable length of drainage for the perspiration of our systems. We are always sweating, or, rather, perspiring, summer and winter, through the day and during the night, in sickness and in health, and every-where and at all times, from the time we breathe the first breath of life till we die. When the moisture from our bodies passes off in the form of an imperceptible vapor, it is called insensible perspiration, and when on excitation of the muscular and nervous systems, and when chemical combination is active, perspiration becomes perceptible, and is more or less abundant, and then we denominate it sensible perspiration. Naturalists state as a fact of some novelty, that in the greater number of mammiferous animals perspiration never proceeds so far as to moisten the skin. Horses, cows, etc., sweat in common with man; but dogs, foxes, and wolves never do. The surface of the skin, as is generally known, is oily in its character. It is so kept by an apparatus in its general particulars similar to the perspiratory apparatus. The tubes of the oil glands, however, differ from the tubes of perspiration in this, that they are more straight and are of greater diameter, being absent in certain situations, such as the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet, while they are more abundant on the face and nose, the head, the ears, etc., They produce the ambercolored bitter substance known as the wax of the ears, and on the head they resemble small clusters of grapes, and supply the skin with a pomatum of genuine home manufacture. Sometimes the oil glands, in consequence of certain habits of the person, become unable to expel the unctuous matter contained within, and the tubes of the glands distend beyond their natural limits, and the matter becomes impacted, and is only expelled by art— usually by squeezing the skin between the finger nails. In the year 1841 Dr. Simon, a German physician, discovered in the solid matter of the oil tubes certain minute and active little animals, an account of which he published the following year. Subsequently to this Dr. Wilson set himself to work for six months in succession to an examination of these little skin occupiers. He gave the animalcule the name of steatozoon folliculorum, which, translated, means the "animal of the oily product of the skin." The largest of those discovered was a little more than a quarter of a line in extent; that is, forty-five of them placed end to end would measure only one inch. In form and shape, when full grown, they resemble caterpillars, and have a distinct head with feelers, a chest, with four pair of legs and a long tail. Were we to produce as an engraving one of these little skin livers, as magnified by the microscope, our readers might start with a small thrill of horror at the peculiar kind of tenants they hourly and constantly carry by millions in the surface of their bodies. The purpose of the oil glands is twofold, to lubricate and protect the skin, and to separate from the blood matters prejudicial to life and health. Every part of our skin, the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet excepted, is organized for the production of hairs. So analogous are the hairs to the scarf skin, that they come off when the latter is separated from the sensitive skin by the action of a blister, or by scalding, or decomposition. Over the greater part of the body they are short and fine, scarce rising above the level of the skin; while in other parts, as the scalp, the eyebrows, and the face in man, they grow to a very considerable length. If the hairs are not cut off, they will, at the termination of certain fixed periods, fall off, or be thrown off, as in the case of a change of coat in animals or moulting in birds. Measurements of the length of the hair in women show it to range between twenty inches and three feet, and its average weight about seven ounces or half a pound. In some extraordinary cases it reaches the length of five and six feet. A distinguished Scottish physician mentions a case of a lady of his acquaintance, the hair of whose head was two yards long, trailing on the ground when she stands erect. Another medical gentleman, a German, mentions that in the prince's court at Eidam is the portrait of a carpenter whose beard, in its greatest length, reached nine feet, or three yards, and that he had to carry it, when at work, in a light basket, fastened dexterously to his side. The Encyclopædia Metropolitana, in its article on zoology, speaks of one Hans Steiningen, burgomaster, who possessed a beard of wonderful length, and who, on one occasion, having forgotten to fold it up in descending a pair of stairs, trod upon it, and was thereby thrown down, and had his spine dislocated and himself instantly killed. Investigations as to the number of hairs on one's head state the average number at 120,000. Persons living far north generally have light hair, while those who reside in the temperate zones and toward the tropics have darker hair. Of the strength of the hair marvelous statements are made. Robinson, in his Essays on Natural Economy, says that the hair of a boy or girl eight years old will support a weight of 7,812 grains, or about four pounds; the hair of a man twenty-one years of age will hold a weight of 14,285 grains, or about eight pounds, while one from the head of a man aged fifty-six will bear 22,222 grains, or nearly twelve pounds weight. Strange as it may seem, physiologists generally agree that the hair of man is finer than that of women. Dr. Wilson, in an examination of the hair of eighteen men and eighteen women, found, in every instance, that the men's hair surpassed the women's hair in smallness of diameter and fineness of texture. Well-authenticated though rare cases can be cited of persons whose bodies have been covered all over with hair of a long growth. People love to talk about good health and the means of securing it; but as a general thing its ghost is oftener seen than its reality. Any person who, by a neglect in the choice of his food or his clothing, or who by a lack of exercise or ablution, fails to obtain and preserve an agreeable warmth of his skin, will be certain to fail of another thing, the enjoyment of good health. Food, to be wholesome and properly nutritious, must combine all that variety of animal and vegetable which a divine Providence has bestowed on man. Dr. Prout has grouped all nutritive substances into four classes, termed the aqueous, or watery, the saccharine, the albuminous, and the oleaginous. The first of these needs no remark, the saccharine is derived from the vegetable kingdom, the albuminous chiefly from the animal kingdom, and the oleaginous from both the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Every variety of milk contains something of these four elements, and milk, it is well known, is one of the earliest and best articles of diet of which we can boast. A strictly vegetable or a strictly animal diet can not, on sound philosophical principles, be set down as the best for the development and health of the organs of man. There should be a variety; in fact a great variety in regard to our eating. To be eating the same thing day in and day out, summer and winter, will be almost certain to disorganize our system, and to induce disease of the skin. Children, especially, will suffer from such a course of feeding. "I once went to make a call," says a physician, "on a friend, two of whose children were sick, when something like the following colloquy took place: "How are the children? "Not well, doctor, not well at all.' ***Indeed, and what have you been feeding them on?" "Nothing but food the most nutritious and harmless.' "What have they for breakfast? 666 Bread and butter, and milk and water.' "All the year round?' "Yes, doctor, invariably the year round.' "What do they have for dinner?' "Pudding-light, you know, not heavy things-no pastry, no fruit.' "I fear you did not understand my question; have they no meat?' "Yes, O yes; mutton, say, at least three times a week; no beef-at leas very seldom-chiefly mutton.' "Well, and what do they have for surr? "Bread and butter, and milk and wa....' "This," says the Doctor, "was the end of our talk for that time. I left without any prescription for his children, who were suffering from eruptions on the head, except this one, that they should have a change of diet at once." The prescription was followed by the somewhat startled father, and his children got well in short meter. As to the time persons should eat, the quantity, etc, and as to what sort of clothes they should wear, we will not occupy space unnecessarily. It is a little mortifying to see how well and warmly grown-up persons will dress on cold days, while their little boys and girls of two, and three, and four years of age are made to wander about with bare arms and ankles, or with clothing so thin that they wear blue lips and noses the whole day, and are put to bed sick at night. Dr. Edwards ascertained that the temperature of young puppies and kittens when lying near their mother was two degrees lower than that of their parent, but when these same puppies and kittens were removed a little distance off they rapidly cooled down till their temperature was on a level with the atmosphere. Seeing that such is the case, it is not any matter of wonder that about onefifth of the deaths among children is traceable directly to colds, or to inflammations of the lungs or bowels supervening on cold. Of exercise and bathing and their influence in keeping the skin in a healthy condition scarcely too much could be said, and yet we must dispatch both topics in brief terms. English ladies have the reputation of rosy faces and healthy bodies, and American ladies a reputation for handsome faces and delicate health. How far climate goes to make the difference we will not stop to inquire. The women of Britain are in the habit daily of taking regular out door exercise. Especially do they walk much; while our female friends of this side the water do not take regular outdoor exercise, either daily, semi-weekly, or weekly. They occasionally take walks and get tired out in consequence; and they occasionally also take a ride of a few miles and have a headache in consequence when they get home. To render exercise profitable to you, it must be taken as regularly as you take your meals, and it must also be taken with a will. Going out on a walk alone, or poke an hour along to a tune as solemn as The Dead March in Saul, will not profit, but injure you. Dr. Franklin, in saying a few words to a friend on the subject in question, used these words: "I am ready to say and prepared to prove that there is more exercise in one mile's riding on horseback than in five in a carriage, and more in one mile's walking on foot than in five on horseback." Do not fret, then, if you can not sport a span of horses and a carriage, but get the company of a friend whose society is agreeable and dash out for a walk-out over the hills, and down the valleys, and through the woods; or if nothing else is practicable and you live in the city, take a couple of miles of parading along the pavement and make the best of your circum stances. But mark, while exercise is indispensable, directly after exercise the physical system is in a condition susceptible of its most serious damage; in other words, then is the time for taking cold and obstructing the functions generally of one's body. So long as you perspire you are safe; but the instant you begin to reduce the external temperature of the skin the danger begins. A preacher preaches till he becomes excited and the perspiration starts. His lungs are warmed up and he goes out into an atmosphere colder than that in the church. He rides on horseback, may be in company with a friend, a quarter of a mile, or a half, or a full mile, and keeps talking all the while, or if it is in the evening he hurries along to his stoppingplace, eats heartily and goes to bed in a room which seldom gets ventilated, and wakes up in the morning with hoarseness or a cold, or something else of the kind, and wonders how he "got a cough." No person, after public speaking in doors, ought to talk in the open air till his lungs and his system have become reduced in temperature at least to what they were before he commenced speaking. And as to the practice of eating immediately after violent brain and lung exercise, and just before one retires to rest, it is simply absurd. Of the influence of bathing on the health of the skin we have not space to speak as its importance demands. A man or woman who does not regularly bathe is deprived, not only of a means of genuine health, but of a real luxury. Every moment of one's life a multitude of useless, corrupted, and worn-out particles evaporate through the numberless small vessels of the skin in an insensible manner, and if these are not promptly and properly removed you will have to pay for your indiscretion with compound interest. Every plague of an epidemic, whether in the shape of a fever, a complaint of the stomach and bowels, or by whatever name called, will strike at you as a victim, and damage, either of a temporary or permanent character, will ensue. The most ignorant person knows a horse, in order to look sleek and be healthy, must be curried, washed, and sponged; and that same most ignorant person knows that he himself is of more value than a horse, and yet he never lets a wet sponge or towel get to any part of his body except his face or hands. The way most people act would indicate that water was poisonous as a general wash, and that soap was a powerful irritant. Away with such nonsense. There does not exist in the art of living a greater device for securing a vigorous and buoyant existence than bathing. To quote the language of Mr. Bain before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution: "It is one of the most powerful di versions to the current of business occupation; it can suspend for a time the pressure of our pursuits and anxieties, and return us fresh for the enjoyment of our other delights. To the three varieties of state which our bodies pass daily through, eating, working, sleeping, it would add a fourth, luxurious in itself, and increasing the relish for all the rest. It would contribute to realize the perfect definition of a good animal existence, which is, to have the appetite always fresh for whatever is before us. The health of the mind must be based in the first place on the health of the body; mental occupation and refined enjoyments turn into gall and bitterness if they are not supported by the freshness and vigor of the physical frame." Do not be frightened by the moonshine talk of any body to forego the use of soap in your ablutions; for soap, by the admission of the best of physicians, never irritates the delicate skin even of infants. Depend upon it, when soap does develop irritation it is not the fault of the soap, but rather of the condition of the complainant. Let it irritate at first if it will, and blame yourself therefor. In the continued use of the article the irritation will cease, your skin will become healthy-will have the right complexion and tone, and will be kept comparatively free from wrinkles and eruptions. Follow a different course, bathe when you feel like it, say once a year, that is, in the middle of July or August, and if different results follow you will know readily how to account for them and to whose charge they belong. The blame will be yours only. Items, Literarg, Scientific, and Religious. LONDON RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY.-The London Tract Society held its fifty-sixth anniversary in Exeter Hall last May. From the report read we learn that tracts of this Society, in one hundred and twelve different languages, have been circulated to the amazing number of 673,000,000, exclusive of various other publications. The total receipts of the year 1854 were £69,236, or about $350,000, being an increase over those of the past year of more than £1,000. The circulation for the past year was about twenty-eight and a quarter millions, being an increase, over that of last year, of nearly a million. Large grants were made for the use of soldiers and sailors in the Crimea and to the hospitals at Scutari. DYSPEPSIA AMONG PREACHERS.-Dr. Hall, of New York city, in his medical journal, asserts that one great cause of dyspepsia in ministers is eating too soon after preaching. For two or three hours the tide of nervous energy has been setting in strongly toward the brain, and it can not be suddenly turned toward the stomach; but the mental effort has occasioned a feeling of faintness or debility about the stomach, and a morbid appetite; and if food is taken at all largely, there is not the nervous energy there requisite to effect its digestion, for the brain will be running over the discourse. NIAGARA FALLS-The gross power of the Falls of Niagara, is, according to Blackwell's observation, equal to that of nearly seven millions of horses; others, from different data, make it as high as ten or twelve millions, and even more. In fact, taking into account the constancy of its operations, the effect of this great cataract will bear a comparison with that of the entire adult laboring population on the face of the globe. ROMISH MISSIONS.-According to an account just published, the receipts of the Societe de la Propagation de la Foi, in 1854, were 3,722,756f. This amount is the highest they have yet attained, with the exception of the last two years, when the jubilee caused an exceptional augmentation. Of the total amount, 2,205,501 francs have been contributed in France. GOLD FOR MANUFACTURING PURPOSES.—It is computed that the amount of the precious metals consumed in various ways in the arts, is from forty to fifty millions of dollars' value per annum. The quantity used in the manufacture of watch cases, pencil cases, plate, household materials, and in the arts, is enormous. It is stated that for gilding metals by the electrotype and the watergilding processes, and in the Staffordshire potteries, England, no less than 18,000 to 20,000 ounces are annually required. In Paris 18,000,000 francs are used for manufacturing purposes yearly; and in the United States $10,000,000 is the estimated amount converted into ornamental jewelry. ECHOES.-The best echoes-says a writer on architecture are produced by parallel walls. At a villa near Milan, there extend two parallel wings about fifty-eight paces from each other, the surfaces of which are unbroken either by doors or windows. The sound of the human voice, or, rather, a word quickly pronounced, is repeated about forty times, and a report of a pistol from fifty to sixty times. Dr. Plot mentions an echo in Woodstock Park, which repeats seventeen syllables by day, and twenty by night. An echo on the north side of Shipley HARVARD UNIVERSITY.-This institution was founded AN EDITORIAL POSITION.-Mr. James Pummill, for many years connected with the printing office of the Western Christian Advocate and Ladies' Repository, became, June 11th, editor of the Indianapolis Daily Republican. Mr. Pummill is known to many of the readers of this periodical as an elegant and graceful writer, and in his new position we doubt not he will sustain his reputation well. OHIO COMMON SCHOOLS.-There were in Ohio, in 1854, the following number of youth between the ages of five and twenty-one : White..... Totals...... Females. Males. .414,519 392,931 4,919 4,737 .419,438 397,668 Total number of white and colored youth.........817,106 White....... Males. Females. Total. .244,089 209,663 453,752 1,265 1,174 2,439 The number in average daily attendance in common total number of scholars 239,168 could read and write. The number and grade of schools is as follows: Com- Common......... Males. Females 189,542 104,204 2,414 2,197 Number of school-houses built during the year 770; value $346,943. Number in the state 7,235; value $2,197,384, including lots and furniture. The amount of common school fund collected and apportioned during the year ending November 15, 1854, was $1,118,089; special taxes collected to keep up common schools seven months in the year, $404,378; collected for support of high schools, 25,232. Total funds derived from all sources, $1,684,694. The average rate per scholar, paid for tuition out of school fund, was $2.07.5. 1 OUR LAWYERS AND LAW SCHOOLS.-The census of 1850 returned the total number of lawyers in the United States in that year at 23,939, which gives one lawyer to every 817 inhabitants, the white population of 19,553,068 only considered. Great Britain in 1841 had 17,334 members of the legal profession, and a population of 18,717,870, or one lawyer to every 1,079 inhabitants. More than two-fifths of the entire number in 1850 were established in four states; namely, in New York, 4,263; in Pennsylvania, 2,503; in Ohio, 2,208; and in Massachusetts, 1,111: aggregate, 9,905. The first law school in the New England states was the Litchfield Law School established in 1782 by Tapping Reeve, afterward Chief Justice of Connecticut. At the present time the principal American Law School is that of Harvard University, founded in 1817. For the last two years the number of students has averaged 140, and the whole number since 1817 is about 2,000, of whom not quite half have taken the degree of Bachelor of Laws. The Law Department of Yale College was established in 1824. The number of students this year is 25; last year it was 38; and the whole number of those graduating and receiving the degree of LL. B. since 1843 is about 100. At Columbia College in New York city a professorship of law was established in 1793. The State and National Law School at Poughkeepsie was established in 1845 at Ballston Spa, N. Y., and was removed to its present location three years since. It has constantly had a large body of students, averaging 100 a year, the larger part of whom have graduated. The Law School of the University of Albany was organized in June, 1851, and the first session was commenced December 16th following. The number of students at the last term was 46, the usual average. The graduates in three years have been 19. The Law Department of Hamilton College was organized a year since, and now has 10 students. Virginia has two noted and long-established Law Schools. That of the College of William and Mary-the oldest in the Union except Harvard-was commenced in 1779. The total number of graduates is 167, which is but a small proportion of all the students. The Law School of the University of Virginia began in 1826, and now has 216 alumni. The aggregate of students since 1826 amounts to 1,448. In 1847 the Law Department of the University of Louisiana, in New Orleans, was opened. The number of graduates each year has averaged about 30. Of other southern schools there are but few. That of Wm. Tracy Gould at Augusta, Ga., has been successfully conducted for several years. That of the University of North Carolina was commenced in 1845, and now has two professors but not many students. The principal Law School in the western states has been that at Transylvania University, in which two professors of law were appointed in 1799. At its last semi-annual session it had 86 students, of whom 26 graduated. The Western Military Institute since 1853 has had a Law Department, with three professors. The Law School at Cincinnati was opened in 1833 with four professors, and for several years immediately following it had an average of 25 students, and is still in effective operation. At Bloomington, Ia., ten years ago, Judge M'Donald had charge of a Law School connected with the State University. The full course of study in all these schools is completed in two years. Graduates receive the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and in some schools this is conferred after eighteen months' study. The degree of LL. D. is seldom conferred except as an honorary title. BRECKENRIDGE COAL-The Breckenridge coal, from Kentucky, as a fuel, burns with a clear flame, great heat, and no dust, only some eight per cent. remaining as ashes; but chemical analysis shows it to possess other qualities still more valuable. By distillation there is obtained from a tun of this coal 15 gallons of purified illuminating oil, 35 gallons of lubricating oil, and above 184 pounds of solid paraffine, worth together, it is supposed, some $40 or $50. The cost of manufacturing these substances from a tun of coal is about $6. The lubricating oil is of great value for machinery, being superior to all animal or vegetable oils for that purpose. It also yields benzole in quantities; and a patent has been taken for making printing-ink from it also. From the paraffine excellent candles can be made, equal in all qualities to the best sperm. At the same time such is the compactness and toughness of the coal that it may be turned into knife-handles, inkstands, buttons, or other articles of that sort. It would be difficult to imagine a mineral which could be put through such a Protean list of transformations as this coal. THE AUSTRIAN PUBLIC LIBRARY.-The Imperial Library of Vienna contains upward of 16,000 manuscripts on parchment in the Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Indian, and Arab, and nearly 12,000 in the European languages on paper; there are also 12,000 in the Cunic character, upward of 280,000 modern works, 6,000 volumes of music, and 8,300 autographs of celebrated individuals. There are also in Vienna 17 libraries, among which the Imperial Library and that of the University are the most considerable. SWEDENBORGIAN PUBLICATIONS.-The Swedenborg Publication Society have stereotyped 11 royal octavo volumes, amounting to nearly 6,000 pages, at an aggregate cost of $4,235.23; while about $1,500 has been expended in plates during the past year, being nearly three times the amount expended the year previous. It has published in all 13,000 volumes, or more than 5,000,000 pages. Nearly 10,000 of these volumes have been ordered, and have gone forth from its depository, and more than 7,000 have been sold and paid for. BANCROFT'S HISTORY.-It is stated that more than 120,000 volumes of Bancroft's History of the United States have been sold by Messrs. Little, Brown & Co., and that the demand still continues. The Post says: "The historian has lately visited the southern states, where he has viewed the places the most remarkable by their historic associations, and is now at his elegant residence in New York, engaged upon a continuance of his truly national history. Another volume, however, may not be looked for under several years, as probably the volumes containing the whole of the next period of the history-the first part closing with the declaration of independence, and the second part completing the history of the war and closing with the peace of Pariswill be printed together. POEMS OF WILLIAM C. BRYANT.--The poems of William C. Bryant have just been published at Dessau, in Prussia, by the house of Katz Brothers. This edition forms the first of their series of standard American works, which they are publishing under the editorial superintendence of Dr. Karl Elze. DR. PAULI'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND-Geschichte von England-lately published, in three volumes, at Hamburg, is spoken of by the London Times as the most complete and impartial history of the island which has yet been written. |