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THE Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, by commander of the troops had stationed a nightly RALPH WALDO EMERSON, WILLIAM ELLERY guard of honor around his tent. In company with CHANNING, and JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE, pub- Dr. Knoblecher, the venerable Catholic missionary lished a few weeks ago by Phillips, Sampson bound for the equatorial regions whom he had & Co., of Boston, are generally praised in overtaken at Khartoum, and of Dr. Deitz, the the critical journals, but in this country, Austrian Counsel, Mr. Taylor had also attended a where the subject was generally known in banquet at the palace of the daughter of the late literary circles, there is a common feeling of king of Sennaar, a very stately and ebon princess, who entertained her guests chiefly upon sheep surprise at the artistic and successful exagge-roasted whole. Others of the first families among ration of her capacities and virtues. The book, the Ethiopian aristocracy had also welcomed the however, is in parts delightfully written, and strangers with distinguished civilities. Mr. Taythe inelancholy fate of the heroine gives it a lor expected to reach Cairo on his return about character of romance apart from its merits as the 1st of April, though we should not be surprisa biographical and critical composition. The ed to learn that he had changed his mind, and, in Athenæum thus refers to some additional ma- company with the Jesuit mission, plunged still terial for her memoirs, which, it strikes us, farther into the mysterious country about the should have been communicated to the custo- equator and the sources of the Nile." dians of her reputation at an earlier day:

"We have received permission to state that poor Margaret Fuller, on the eve of that visit to the Continent which was to prove so eventful and disastrous, left in the hands of a friend in London a sealed packet, containing, it is understood, the journals which she kept during her stay in England. Margaret Fuller-as they who saw her here all know-contemplated at that time a return to England at no very distant date;—and the deposit of these papers was accompanied by an injunction that the packet should then be restored with unbroken seal into her hands. No provision was of course made for death:—and here we believe the lady in possession feels herself in a difficulty, out of which she does not clearly see her way. The papers are likely to be of great interest, and were doubtless intended for publication; but the writer had peremptorily reserved the right of revision to herself, and forbidden the breaking of the seals, on a supposition which fate has now made impossible. It seems to us, that the equity of the case under such circumstances demands only a reference to Margaret Fuller's heir, whoever that may be; and with his or her concurrence, the lady to whom these MSS. were intrusted-and who probably knows something of the author's feeling as to their contents may very properly constitute herself literary executor to her unfortunate friend.

OF BAYARD TAYLOR The Tribune said a few days ago:

"By the Niagara's mail we have had the pleasure of receiving letters from our friend and associate Bayard Taylor, or as he is known among the Arabs, Taylor Bey,-dated at Khartoum, the chief city of Sennaar, situated at the confluence of the White and the Blue Nile, about half way between Cairo and the Equator. He arrived there on the 12th of January in excellent health and spirits, after a journey on camels across the Nubian Desert, during which he had sundry fortunate adventures, and received every friendly attention from the native chieftains. He was the first American ever seen so far toward Central Africa, and like a good patriot never slept without the stars and stripes floating above his tent. Every where good luck had attended him,-in truth he seems to have been born to it,-but at Khartoum especially he was received with unexpected hon

ors.

The governor of the city had presented him with a horse, and had entertained him in a banquet of genuine Ethiopic magnificence, while the

SEVERAL new works by our literary women are on the eve of publication. Redfield has nearly ready Lyra and other Poems, by ALICE CAREY-a book containing more illustrations of unquestionable genius than any other written by a woman in America; and he will also publish soon, Isa, a Pilgrimage, a ro is likely to attract a great deal of attention. mance by Miss Caroline CHEESEBRO', which Putnam has in press, The Shield, a Story of the New World, by Miss FENIMORE COOPER, whose Rural Hours, last year, commanded every where so much well-merited praise, and a new story by Miss WARNER, of whose Wide, Wide World (edited in London by a

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Clergyman of the Church of England"), a recent number of the Literary Gazette says:

"This American tale has met with extraordinary success across the Atlantic. Within a very short time several large impressions were disposed of, and the sale still continues to be rapid. Of the causes of this popularity, there is one which will rather operate against a similar run of favor on this side of the water. A large part of the book refers to the old country, and American readers eagerly seek what pertains to English life or history. But the book has many merits, apart from the incidents of its scenery and character. The authoress writes with liveliness and elegance; her power of discriminating and presenting character is great; in describing the feelings and ways of young people, she is especially happy, and an air of cheerful piety pervades the whole work. We shall not attempt to give any idea of the story, or of its principal personages, but content ourselves with commending it as a book which will please and instruct others than the young, for whom it is chiefly intended. The authoress seems herself young, and if so, we may expect other works from a spirit so lively and communicative. Who the editor is we have no knowledge, but he has taken liberties with the original not always warranted, and to an extent greater than can be approved without previous consultation. On the whole, however, he has done his part well, and in his prefatory note justly characterizes the merits of the writer, of whom we shall gladly hear more."

Miss Warner's new book is entitled Queechy the name of its scene, we suppose—and it is said to be very different in character from her first production.

THE work of Mr. STILES, which we have noticed elsewhere in this number of the International, we understand, will be published by the Harpers, in two large octavo volumes, about the first of May. It contains a complete history of the revolutionary proceedings in the Austrian empire in 1848. Mr. Stiles witnessed much that he describes. Each section is introduced by an historical survey of the country where the events described oc

DR. DUNGLISON's Medical Dictionary, of which a new and much enlarged edition has been published by Blanchard & Lea, is one of those professional works which are almost indispensable in a gentleman's library. Every person has sometimes occasion to consult a work of this kind, and there is no other in English so masterly in treatment, or so perspicuous in style. Dr. Dunglison keeps up with all the departments of the literature of his science, and, through his quick, compre-curred. Thus Venice, Prague, and Vienna hensive, and practical understanding, we have in this volume the best results of the world's experiment and study in medicine down to the beginning of the present half century.

A NEW and complete edition of the Poetical Works of GEORGE P. MORRIS will be published in October, amply and most elaborately illustrated with engravings after original designs by Robert W. Weir. The distinction of Gen. Morris is, that he is a great song writer. The naturalness, simplicity, unity, and pervading grace of his pieces, do not so much constitute their characteristic, as the exquisite music of their cadences, justifying the praise of Braham, that they sing themselves. The new edition will surpass any other in completeness, and in artistic execution will not be inferior to any volume ever published in the United States.

are brought before the reader in all their past glory and recent political vicissitudes. The Hungarian war is amply chronicled. The work is moderate in tone, authentic, fresh, and abounding in interesting facts. It will be illustrated by engravings, executed in Germany, of the Emperor, Archduke John, Kossuth, and other chief characters.

DR. A. K. GARDINER, whose clever book about Paris, under the title of Old Wine in New Bottles, is well known, has just published a noticeable lecture, delivered before the College of Physicians and Surgeons, on the History of the Art of Midwifery. It is most conclusive upon the point of the unfitness of women for any of the more delicate and important duties in obstetrics, and is a sufficient argument for the immediate abolition of the so-called "Female Colleges." We recommend it to the attention of readers who feel any in

MR. C. L. BRACE, who has tasted in person the sweets of Austrian rule, by his imprison-terest in the subject.-(Stringer & Townsend.) ment in Hungary, has in press a book of Hungarian travels, and observations upon the political situation and prospects of that country. The personal history of an American in Hungary, who enjoyed rare opportunities of intimate intercourse with the inhabitants, will be a very valuable addition to our literature, and will make a most readable and seasonable book. Of the quality of Mr. BRACE's ability, and of the faithfulness of his observation and record, his letters to the New-York Tribune are satisfactory evidence. (Scribner.)

MRS. H. C. CONANT, wife of the learned Professor of Hebrew in the Rochester University, has published (through Lewis Colby, Nassau-street) another of NEANDER'S Commentaries, done into terse and vigorous English-The Epistle of James Practically Explained. It is needless to praise the great German, and it will readily be believed, by those who are acquainted with the fine abilities and thorough scholarship of Mrs. Conant, that this translation is in all respects admirable.

MR.TICKNOR'S admirable History of Spanish WE are soon to have a new dramatic poem Literature by no means fails of the high con- from Mr. GEORGE H. BOKER, whose Calaynos, sideration to which it is entitled from the best Anne Bullen, and Ivory Carver and other critics of Europe. One of the best transla- | Poems, have secured to him very high and tions of it is in Spanish, by Don PASCUAL DE well-deserved reputation as a literary artist. GAYANGOS Y DON ENRIQUE DE VEDIA (con We do not think any sonnets written in this. adiciones y notas criticas), Mr. Ticknor hav- country are to be preferred to Mr. Boker's, ing communicated some notes and corrections and his Ballad of Sir John Franklin, pubto the two translators, who have added from lished a few months ago in this magazine, is their own store. A second translation is com- full of imagination, and is marked through-ing out in Germany, also containing important out with the nicest skill in execution. additions, in part from material and suggestions furnished by the accomplished author.

ARVINE'S Anecdotes of Literature and the Arts is an agreeable miscellany; but the neglect of the editor to give credits in cases where he adopts entire pages from wellknown books, deserves rebuke. The eighth number has been published by Gould & Lincoln of Boston, and it completes the work.

THE last work of the late Professor STUART, a Commentary on the Book of Proverbs, has been published by M. W. DODD, in a large duodecimo volume. It contains a full account of the principal commentaries written on this book, and the translations and paraphrases made into different languages, with a new version, and exegetical remarks. A memoir of Professor Stuart is in preparation.

MR. RICHARD B. KIMBALL, the accom- AN elaborate attack on the Society of plished author of St. Leger, leaves New-York Friends appeared lately in Dublin, and has in a few days for a tour through Europe. No been republished in Philadelphia, under the one among our younger authors has risen title of Quakerism, or the Story of My Life. more rapidly in the public regard, or esta- It was written by a Mrs. GREER, the daughblished a good reputation in literature upon ter of an eminently respectable Irish Quaker, a surer basis. Imagination, scholarship, and who was herself connected with the society profound reflection, characterize nearly all his for forty years, and so had abundant opporperformances. The admirable story written tunities of becoming familiar with the pecuby him for the present number of the Inter- liarities of the system. But the book is vulnational, we believe, is true in every essen- gar, malignant, and evidently altogether untial but the name of the heroine. It is a re- deserving of credit in regard to facts. The miniscence of Mr. Kimball's student life in points obnoxious to ridicule are broadly cariParis, where, for a time, he walked the hos-catured, and the most distinguished and pitals with his friend, the well-known Dr. O. H. Partridge, now one of the most distinguished physicians of Philadelphia, who is one of the dramatis persona of Emilie de Coigny.

MR. JOHN P. KENNEDY pronounced, in Baltimore, on the anniversary of the birth of Washington, a very eloquent and wise discourse, in which the state of the nation with respect to possible entanglements in foreign affairs, and implications by needless artificial ties in the vicissitudes of European politics, were treated in a manner worthy of a statesman of the school of the Great Chief. The occasion was also improved in Philadelphia by the Rev. Dr. BOARDMAN, who, in a discourse entitled Washington or Kossuth (published by Lippincott, Grambo, & Co.), discusses the same great subjects in a masterly argument for the observance of the principles of the Farewell Address.

blameless characters are introduced in the most offensive manner, as if to gratify personal spleen or a disposition to slander.

THE Neander Library, recently purchased by the University of Rochester, consists of 4,500 volumes, and the price paid was only $2,300. About 350 of the volumes are large folios, and many of the works in the collection are of the choicest and rarest editions. We observe that an attempt to show that there was even the slightest possible degree of unfairness on the part of the Rochester faculty in obtaining this library, which was much desired by a western college, has most signally failed.

WE Commend to our readers as the best literary journal in this country, the To Day, recently established in Boston by CHARLES HALE, a thoroughly educated and judicious editor.

Recent Deaths.

WILLIAM WARE was born at Hingham, in Massachusetts, on the third of August, 1797. He was a descendant in the fifth generation from Robert Ware, one of the earliest settlers of the colony, who came from England about the year 1644. His father was Henry Ware, D. D., many years honorably distinguished by his connection with the Divinity School at Cambridge, and the late Henry Ware, jr., D. D., was his elder brother. His only living brother is Dr. John Ware, who also shares of the literary tastes and talents of his family, and has written its history.

William Ware was graduated at Harvard University in 1816. After reading theology the usual term he was on the 18th of December, 1821, settled over the Unitarian society of Chambers street, New-York, where he remained about sixteen years. He gave little to the press except a few sermons, and four numbers of a religious miscellany called The Unitarian, until near the close of this period, when he commenced the publication in the Knickerbocker Magazine of those brilliant papers which in the autumn of 1836 were given to the world under the title of Zenobia, or the Fall of Palmyra, an Historical Romance. Before the completion of this work he had resigned his pastoral office and removed to Brookline, near Boston. The romance

of Zenobia is in the form of letters to Marcus Curtius, at Rome, from Lucius Manlius Piso, a senator, who is supposed to have been led by circumstances of a private nature to visit Palmyra to ward the close of the third century, to have be come acquainted with the queen and her court, to have seen the City of the Desert in its greatest magnificence, and to have witnessed its destruction by the Emperor Aurelian. For the purposes of romantic fiction the subject is perhaps the finest that had not been appropriated in all ancient history; and the treatment of it, which is highly picturesque and dramatic throughout, shows that the author had been a successful student of the institutions, manners and social life of the age be attempted to illustrate.

Mr. Ware's second romance, Probus, or Rome in the Third Century, was published in the summer of 1888. It is a sort of sequel to the Zeno bia, and is composed of letters purporting to be written by Piso from Rome to Fausta, the daughter of Gracchus, one of the old Palmyrene ministers. In the first work Piso meets with Probus, a Christisn teacher, and is partially convinced of the truth of his doctrine; he is now a disciple, and a sharer of the persecutions which marked the last days of the reign of Aurelian. The charac

ters in Probus are skilfully drawn and contrasted, and with a deeper moral interest, from the frequent discussions of doctrine which it contains, the romance has the classical style and spirit which characterized its predecessor.

Mr. Ware's third work is entitled Julian, or Scenes in Judea, and was published in 1841. The hero is a Roman, of Hebrew descent, who visits the land of his ancestors, to gratify a liberal curiosity, during the last days of the Saviour. Every thing connected with Palestine at this period is so familiar that the ground might seem to be sacred to History and Religion; but it has often been invaded by the romancer, and perhaps never with more success than in the present instance. Although Julian has less freshness than Zenobia, it has an air of truth and sincerity that renders it scarcely less interesting.

About the time of the publication of Julian, Mr. Ware was attacked with Epilepsy, while in his pulpit, at Lexington, near Boston, and he suffered all the residue of his life from disease and apprehension; but his illness did not affect his intelligence or its activity, and he continued to devote himself to congenial studies, for several years, chiefly as editor of The Christian Examiner. For a short period he was pastor of the Unitarian society at West Cambridge, but the condition of his health did not permit a regular discharge of his functions, for which, indeed, he was scarcely fitted in any thing but a spirit of humility and piety. His tastes and capacities would have secured for him greater triumphs in any department of pictorial or plastic art, to which he was always insensibly drawn by instinct and congenial studies.

In 1848 Mr. Ware passed several months abroad, and after his return he delivered in Lectures on European Capitals the best fruits of his travel. These Lectures have recently been published in a very attractive volume, which has been favorably received in this country and in England. Among his unprinted writings is a series of Lectures on the Life, Works, and Genius of Washington ston. He died on the 19th of February.

fills a conspicuous place in St. Paul's Church. This production, with others subsequently executed, attracted the attention of the Trustees of the Boston Athenæum, and at their request, in 1834, he proceeded to Boston, and modelled a series of busts of eminent men in that city-Webster, Bowditch, Prescott, Story, J. Lowell, and T. H. Perkins. Afterwards he went to Richmond, where he produced the likeness of John Marshall, copies of which adorn the Court rooms of NewYork, New-Orleans, and the Capitol of Virginia. On his return he visited President Jackson, at whose house he executed an inimitable head of that extraordinary man. Among his other productions were heads of General Lafayette, in 1824, De Witt Clinton, John Jay, Bishop Hobart, Dr. Milnor, Dr. Stearns, Nathaniel Prime, George Griswold, Eli Hart, &c. The monument, however, which is destined to perpetuate his fame, is the New-York Custom-House. This edifice was commenced in 1834 by another gentleman, who, when he had finished the base, abandoned the work and withdrew his plans. Mr. Frazee was obliged to commence de novo, and in 1843 had completed the work. During the erection of the CustomHouse, from the dampness of its material and concomitant causes, he contracted a disorder which caused paralysis, from which he never recovered. For several years he held a subordinate post under the Collector. His last effort with the chisel was in giving the finishing touch to the bust of General Jackson, which had remained in his studio seventeen years, without an order for completion. This was in November last, and while assiduously at work, his mallet fell from his hand, and his worn-out body followed it to the floor."

JOHN PARK, M. D., died in Worcester, Massachusetts, on the 2d of March, aged seventy-eight. He was an active member of the old Federal party in Massachusetts, during the administration of Jefferson and Madison, and exerted a wide and All-important influence by his well-known journal, The Boston Repertory. At a subsequent period, he established a private school for young women, which acquired a celebrity second to that of no similar educational institution in the old Commonwealth. He was distingished for his cultivated literary tastes, his uncommon purity of character, his fine social qualities, and his cordial and attractive manners. Dr. Park was the father of Mrs. L. G. Hall, wife of the Rev. Dr. Hall, of Providence, the authoress of Miriam, and other successful productions, and of Mr. John C. Park, an eminent lawyer in Boston. Mrs. Osgood and several other distinguished literary women were among his pupils.

The romances of Mr. Ware betray a familiarity with the civilization of the ancients, and are written in a graceful, pure and brilliant style. In our literature they are peculiar, and they will bear a favorable comparison with the most celebrated historical romances relating to the same scenes and periods which have been written abroad. They have passed through many editions in Great Britain, and have been translated into German and other languages of the continent.

JOHN FRAZEE, the sculptor, died at the age of sixty, on the th of March, at the house of his daughter, in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Evening Post remarks that "he was a man of decided talent for sculpture, but the necessity of employing himself in other occupations, prevented his attaining that skill which, under more auspicious circumstances, would have been within his reach." Mr. Frazee was born in Brunswick, N. J., and in early life was a farmer and stone-cutter. One of his first attempts at sculpture which attracted notice, was a clever female bust, a likeness of one of his own family, exhibited in the gallery of the Academy of Design. He afterwards, at the request of the bar of New-York, was employed in the mural tablet and bust of John Welles, which

WILLIAM THOMPSON, of Belfast, the naturalist of Ireland, died in London on the 17th February. Mr. Thompson was born in 1805, and from earliest youth was attached to scientific and literary studies. For the last fifteen years his name has been before the world of science in connection with arduous researches on the natural history of Ireland. The numerous memoirs published by him, chiefly in scientific periodicals, and latterly in the Annals of Natural History, of which he was a warm sup porter, extend in their subjects over all departments of zoology, and several are devoted to botanical investigations. He was constantly on the watch for new facts bearing on the natural history

of his native island, which could boast of no more | truly patriotic son. At the meeting of the British Association, at Cork, he read an elaborate report on the Fauna of Ireland, since published in extenso in the Association Transactions; and it was his intention to communicate a continuation of that report at the Belfast meeting. He did not confine his inquiries to Irish subjects, but added consider- | ably to the natural history of several parts of England and Scotland; and when Professor Forbes proceeded to the Egean at the invitation of Captain Graves, Mr. Thompson, himself an intimate friend of that distinguished officer, accompanied him, and devoted the short time he was in the Archipelago to zoological observations, since published, chiefly on the migration of birds. His love of ornithology was intense, and the results of his labors in that department are narrated with charming details in the volumes that have been published of his great work on The Natural History of Ireland. His name is associated with many discoveries, and numerous species of new creatures have been named after him. His reputation stood equally high on the Continent and in America, and he had been elected an honorary member of several foreign societies. He numbered among his intimate friends and correspondents all the eminent naturalists of the day. His love of the fine arts was second only to his love of science, and for many years he was one of the most active promoters of tasteful pursuits, especially of painting, in Ireland. He was a gentleman of independent means, and of no profession.

WILLIAM HENRY OXBERRY, comedian, was the son of the once eminent actor Oxberry, and was born in Brownlow-street, Bloomsbury, on the 21st of April, 1808. He was educated at Merchant Tailors' school; and subsequently studied with an artist and in a lawyer's office. At length he was apprenticed to a surgeon: and was asked by Sir Astley Cooper, during an examination, whether, "when he saw his father convulse the audience with laughter, he felt no ambition to tread in his shoes?" No doubt he did, for he soon after made his essay at the Rawstone-street private theatre, in the character of Abel Day, which he performed to the Captain Careless of Mr. F. Matthews. His public commencement was deferred till the 17th March, 1825, for the Olympic, in the part of Sam Swipes, in "The High Road to Marriage." He remained not long there, but took a situation under Mr. Leigh Hunt, on the Examiner. Shortly afterwards he returned to the stage, and went on a provincial tour, and finally appeared in 1832 at the Strand Theatre, as Fathom, in "The Hunchback." Since that period he was seen with credit in turn at every theatre in the metropolis. On the 11th December, 1831, he married Ellen Malcombe Lancaster. He also became manager of the English Opera-House, but was not successful The loss of his wife was a misfortune, and his subsequent career was not prosperous. He died on the 28th of February.

THE REV. CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON, died at Edinburgh, on the 7th of February, aged seventy. He was best known as the author of Annals of ROBERT REINICK, deservedly the most popular the English Bible and The History of Irish Literof recent song writers in Germany, died at Dres-ature. He was educated at Bristol, at the college den early in February. He was born at Dantzic, of which Dr. Ryland was president. He intended in 1805, and was educated an artist, but he never in early life to accompany Drs. Carey, Marshman, painted more than one picture which attained any and Ward, to India, when the Baptist Societies' considerable reputation. His sketches were, how- Mission was established in the east; but being ever, remarkable for great delicacy of feeling, and prevented by the state of his health he settled in of touch, a genial humor and an endless variety of Edinburgh, where he has for nearly half a century fancy. But it was his songs that first and most been the respected pastor of a Baptist church. In widely made him known to the public. Without missionary work, both at home aud abroad, he alany surprising features of genius, they were so ways took deep and active interest. He travelled natural, so replete with true and happy sentiment, much through Ireland, and knew well the state and flowed so sweetly and melodiously in a spon- of the people. His historical narration of the taneous beauty of language, that they were every various attempts to educate the Irish in their where taken up, and still remain the intimate fa- own tongue is referred to by all who are engaged vorites of the people, but especially of artists, to in Irish education and missions. He visited Cowhose peculiar life and customs many of them penhagen many years ago in order to obtain the are devoted. One of the most pleasing books ever protection of the Danish Government for the Serpublished in Germany, was his Songs of a Painter, ampore mission. The king granted him an interwhich was illustrated with designs from all the view, received him cordially, and granted a charprominent artists of Düsseldorf. Its appearance ter of incorporation. It is from the Serampore made an epoch in the book trade, and introduced press that the Scriptures first began to be issued the many splendid illustrated works that have suc- in the languages of the east, and the names of ceeded it. It is some years since we read these Carey and the other superintendents of the Ser songs, but their naiveté, tenderness, and frolic hu- ampore mission are memorable in the records of mor are still fresh in our memory. Reinick also literature as well as of the church. He published had a great skill in the writing of story books for in 1845 the Annals of the English Bible, an histo children, and illustrating them with his own draw-rical account of the different English translations ings. One of these, the Black Aunt, has been translated into English, and was published in this city some three or four years since. The poet died quite suddenly, and was snatched from a life full of happiness, amid constant artistic activity, and the love of his family, and a boundless circle of friends. All Dresden sorrowed at his death, and his funeral procession seemed to embrace the entire city.

and editions of the Bible, a work of learning and research, lately reprinted in New-York by the Carters.

THE mother of M. Thiers has expired at Batignolles, where she has long resided on a pension allowed her by her son. M. Thiers was the only child of this woman, although his father had other children by a former marriage, one of whom keeps a restaurant in Paris.

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