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No special theology is taught in this volume. It addresses itself to no particular sect or denomination. It has no aim but to assist men to grow better, and thence happier. The author comes to the reader, and seeks to inspire him with an unselfish, even a divine and holy purpose: to aid him in the conquest of evil affections, and to furnish him with incentives to right living.

Religion is life—that is, a life of good deeds in the world-and, unless such a life be led, no matter what a man's faith may be, his religion is vain. Piety, which means the formal worship of God, and Charity, which consists in acting justly among men, make, when united in any one, the true Christian. Charity is the great essential; for, if a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? Worship, therefore, in the absence of Charity, is vain, and the prayers of one who does not deal justly and humanely with his fellow-men, can never ascend into heaven.

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Literary Intelligence.

A very beautiful chromo-lithograph, after a water-color drawing by Prof. Hildebrandt, representing Alexander von Humboldt in his library, surrounded by many objects of intrinsic and associated interest, has just been published at Berlin. A few copies have been received by Mr. C. B. Norton, to whose descriptive advertisement we would direct attention.

In Paris, Proudhon's book and his trial continue to excite general attention. In literary circles, the manner in which he speaks of George Sand's style, pretending that there is more poetry in any verse of Boileau, or even in any sentence of Roman law, is greatly wondered at. But Proudhon was always averse to literary ladies, and every one remembers the awful dilemma which he put to the tender sex: Ménagere ou courtisane. But, as an antidote, there appear just now several beautiful volumes on women. First, Alphonso Karr is publishing" Women Again," (Encoreles Femmes). Then, Madame Romieu writes on " Woman in the Nineteenth Century." And last, but not least, M. Larcher sends forth "Woman Judged by Man." M. Larcher repeats all the stale jokes and rude sarcasms written by mysogynists of all times and nations. Unhappily for his cause, he accumulates only the proofs of the injustice and silence of man.

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Jules Sandeau, who gave George Sand half of his name, and received in return one hundredth part of her genius, has written a very interesting romance, "The House of Penarvan." It is founded on the aristocratic pride of Vendean lady, who is only cured of her favorite sin by a little grandchild. The Abbé Bautain, Vicar-General of the Archbishop of Paris, has published a Manual of Good Behavior," the principal recommendation of which is not to read newspapers. Alas! French newspapers are tame enough under the second Empire. M. Bautain was formerly a rationalistic Professor of Philosophy ot Strasburg; afterwards he became a stout Catholic and a priest, and as such made it his business to convert rich Jews, among whom was Bonnechose, now a bishop, and Abbé Ratisbonne, who asserts in a book that the Holy Virgin spoke to him in person in an Italian church. The great reproach which M. Bautain addresses to newspapers is that the journalists write for money. Well, we have seldom heard of a clergyman who did not preach for money. Shall people not go to church on that account?

Louis Blanc, whom the paradoxical Henry Heine once called the most guillotinable man in France, has made a great hit in England with his "Historical Recollections." Even The Times admits that Lord Normanby was altogether wrong in his insinuations against the days and men of the Revolution of 1848.-Cor. N. Y. Tribune.

The death of Ladislaus Bärflay, member of the Hungarian Academy o Sciences, will be severely felt by all educated men in Hungary. He was born in 1797, and having studied in Kaschau, settled as littérateur in Pesth. He was a pupil of Kazinczy's, and one of the best sonnet-writers which his country has produced. His house in Pesth was the great resort of all the Hungarian men of letters.

CHARLES DICKENS.-An unhappy incident in the domestic life of Mr. Dickens has give no pportunity for those detractors who have hung upon the heels of this great writer and estimable man since first the public listened to his teachings, not more in admiration than with sincere and loving affection, to attempt lowering him to their own level, and to attack that public faith which still remains in practical human goodness. Family troubles which in nowise concerned the public, have been attributed to various causes, all more or less disparaging to the character of the esteemed author, but wholly inconsistent with each other, and therein containing their own disproval, until Mr. Dickens has deemed it just to himself and due to the public to check these injurious statements so exultingly circulated. We append the letter of Mr. Dickens, preceded by one extracted from the New York Times, and which that journal says is entitled to confidence. The marly, earnest, and touching letter of Mr. Dickens will relieve many who have, despite their strong confidence, felt a doubt concerning the falsity of those slanders which malice had so industriously propagated.

LONDON, Wednesday, June 8. *"You will find Dickens' card in the Times of yesterday. The whole affair is a very sad one; told me a week ago, that he had just seen Dickens that morning in regard to the circulation of stories to the discredit of D.'s domestic character. All London, you must know, had for some time been rife with legends concerning Dickens and an actress, with whom it was at last affirmed that the author of David Copperfield had eloped to Boulogne. Of these stories it was that - had spoken as everybody was speaking, neither affirming nor denying, but simply repeating, and it was to silence these stories that Dickens sent for his friend last week, and that he yesterday published his card in the Times. He has indeed separated himself from his wife, but simply on the ground of an ancient and unconquerable incompatibility in their respective characters. For the future the young Mr. Dickens will act as the head of his mother's household, the daughters remaining with their father. Of the actress there is no question, save as the ever-open mouth of lying rumor, "for slander's mark was even yet" the conspicuous, and above all, the honorably conspicuous preachers of virtue, peace and domestic order. Surely, however, in this case, nothing is needed to quicken the pain which every lover of literature and every person of common feeling must experience on learning that, after so many years of unobtrusive private life, an illustrious author, who has bestowed infinite pleasure upon his cotemporaries, and done the world much true, good service, has been forced into making a public exposure of his most secret sorrows and of his most sacred misfortunes. Wherever the lying scandal goes, however, I am sure that all who value truth and justice will send the most unhappy realities of the case in its company: for if the case is not thereby much mended, something at least will be saved to the many whose faith in the wholesome lessons of Pickwick, Master Humphrey's Clock, and the Christmas Stories might else be shaken by the author's failure to achieve in his own life the ideas of peace and harmony which he has painted.

There is a story that Mr. Dickens means to go on the stage, but this I see no reason to believe. In a case like his, it seems but natural that he should seek a retirement and seclusion among his particular friends even more complete than that in which he has for some years lived.”

CARD OF MR. DICKENS.

From Household Words of Wednesday, June 9.

Three-and-twenty years have passed since I entered on my present relations with the public. They began when I was so young that I find them to have existed for nearly a quarter of a century.

Through all that time I have tried to be as faithful to the public as they have been to me. It was my duty never to trifle with them or to deceive them, or presume upon their favor, or do anything with it but work hard to justify it. I have always endeavored to discharge that duty.

My conspicuous position has often made me the subject of fabulous stories and unaccountable statements, Occasionally such things have chafed me, or even wounded me, but I have always accepted them as the shadows inseparable from the light of my notoriety and success. I have never obtruded any such personal uneasiness of mine upon the generous aggregate of my audience.

For the first time in my life, and I believe for the last, I now deviate from the principle I have so long observed, by presenting myself, in my own journal, in my own private character, and entreating all my brethren (as they deem that they have reason to think well of me, and to know that I am a man who has ever been unaffectedly true to our common calling) to lend their aid to the dissemination of my present words.

Some domestic trouble of mine of long standing, on which I will make no urther remark than that it claims to be respected as being of a sacredly private nature, has lately been brought to an arrangement which involves no anger or ill-will of any kind, and the whole origin, progress, and surrounding circumstances of which have been, throughout, within the knowledge of my children. It is amicably composed, and its details have now but to be forgotten by those concerned in it.

By some means, arising out of wickedness, or out of folly, or out of inconceivable wild chance, or out of all three, this trouble has been made the occasion of misrepresentations, most grossly false, most monstrous, and most cruel-involving not only me, but innocent persons dear to my heart, and innocent persons of whom I have no knowledge, if, indeed, they have any existence and so widely spread that I doubt if one reader in a thousand will peruse these lines by whom some touch of the breath of these slanders will not have passed like an unwholesome air.

Those who know me and my nature, need no assurance under my hand

that such calumnies are irreconcileable with me as they are, in their frantic incoherence, with one another. But there is a great multitude who know me through my writings, and who do not know me otherwise; and I cannot bear that one of them should be left in doubt, or hazard of doubt, through my poorly shrinking from taking the unusual means to which I now resort of circulating the truth.

I most solemnly declare, then-and this I do, both in my own name and in my wife's that all the lately whispered rumors touching the trouble at which I have glanced, are abominably false, and that whosoever repeats one of them after this denial, will lie as wilfully and as foully as it is possible for any false witness to lie before Heaven and earth. CHARLES DICKENS.

Hendrik Conscience, the well-known Flemish novelist, has been elected professor of Flemish literature in the university of Ghent. He is about to publish a new work, a sort of historical novel, entitled "Batavia," in which he means to show to the Dutch the importance of their settlement of that name in the Island of Java. Karl Arenz, the director of the School of Commerce in Prague, an intimate friend of Conscience, will, at the same time, publish a translation of "Batavia" in German, which he has made from the proof-sheets as the work was going through the press.

The MSS. of the Albani library in Rome, the public sale of which was forbidden by the government, were inherited by the Marquis di Basto of Milan, who, however, was permitted to dispose of them by private sale, after the government had taken for itself a great number of despatches of nuncios and diplomatic agents. Twenty thousand francs was the highest offer for the remainder, made, we believe, by some Englishman, but was, of course, deemed insufficient, as the papers are very valuable, notwithstanding that some of considerable importance are supposed to have been abstracted by a former custode, employed by Don Vincenzo Colonna, who betrayed the trust reposed in him.

An author who buys Mr. Bohn's books, Mr. Murray's books or Messrs. Longman's books whenever they suit his taste and his means, wishes to say, in answer to a discontented Correspondent of last week, that in his opinion, neither author nor publisher is bound in any penalty of character or feeling to" complete" any work. An author or publisher announces-say a History of England, say an edition of Defoe-and if there be any contract here, it clearly is that if the public pleases to buy, the author will write or the publisher issue-not otherwise. The understanding which allows the reader to stop at the second volume, also allows the publisher to stop at the second volume. A contract involves obligations on both sides; if one side is free to consult his interest, so is the other. Is Lord Byron liable in damages of character or money for the fifth canto of "Childe Harold?" Is Lord Ma-4 caulay responsible for not having yet brought down his history to the memory of men still living? If the Diffusion Society carried their Biographical Dictionary" no lower than letter A, was not the unpurchasing public in fault? If Kippis left his fragmentary folios on our shelves, was he, poor gentleman, to blame Certainly not. And if a London publisher in our own day leaves a work incomplete,-it is certainly his misfortune,-it is as certainly not his fault. The public, which does not buy the work, is alone to blame for its non-completion.-Athenæum.

It seems, after all, and in spite of his many former refusals, that Prof. Agassiz, of Boston will be won over for the directorship of the Museum of Natural History of the Jardin des Plantes, at Paris. It appears to be a favorite wish of the Emperor Napoleon to draw this celebrated scholar, whose personal acquaintance he made in Switzerland, to Paris. Agassiz has been offered a salary of 25,000 francs, and the immediate senatorship, which brings another 30,000 francs; and at last he has consented to come over to Paris for a verbal and personal negotiation.—Idem.

From the Literary Gazette.

It is unfortunately but too well known that M. de Lamartine has been for some time in embarrassed circumstances, and both his political conduct and his literary works have naturally enlisted the sympathies of statesmen and authors in this country in his behalf. A committee has been formed in London for the purposes of receiving subscriptions for his benefit, and amongst the names of noble Lords and M. P.'s we are happy to observe those of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Mr. Monckton Milnes, Mr. Charles Dickens, and Mr. Thackeray. The Marquis de Ribeyre acts as Honorary Secretary, and subscriptions are received at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s Bank.

Uhland, the venerable poet of the Schwarzwald, celebrated his seventyfirst birthday on the 26th April, in Tübingen. He was feted with serenades brought by the student liedertafel, one of the best in Germany, which has been directed for the last twenty-seven years by Dr. Silcher.

Two translations of interesting old Italian works have just been published in Berlin, under the title of "Vittoria Colonna and Faustina Maratti, their Lives and Works," by D. R. L. Kannegiesser. They are dedicated to the present King of Saxony, the well-known learned commentator and translator of Dante, and one of the best Italian scholars of the present day in Germany. Vittoria Colonna, as is well known, was the daughter of the celebrated General Fabricio Colonna and Agnese di Montefeltro. Her fame is, however, preserved to posterity as a patron of art and letters, the friend of Michael Angelo, and the author of about three hundred and fifty very graceful and pretty sonnets. Faustina Maratti was also a composer of sonnets, and the daughter of Carlo Maratti, who is generally considered the last painter of the

Roman school.

At a meeting in Leipsic, held by the " Booksellers and Publishers' Union," it was unanimously determined to erect, at their own cost, a paper-mill, since the price of that article had been so considerably raised, and the extortion, as they considered it, kept up by the paper-makers, in a resolution they had come to in their late meeting at Frankfort-on-the-Maine.

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It is not generally known that the late king Louis Philippe was an author; but for some years before his accession to the throne, he occupied his leisure in collecting materials for and in writing a continuation of a Genealogical History of the Royal House and the Principal Dignitaries of the Crown of France," by Father Anselm,-which history was published in two volumes, folio, in 1674. The king, however, never completed his task, and he had his papers and materials bound up into three volumes, which he kept with great care in the library of his palace at Neuilly. In the pillage of that palace in 1848, the volumes in question were abstracted. An attempt was, two years ago, made to sell them to the Duc d'Aumale, one of the king's sons; but the latter declining to purchase, took proceedings before the law courts of Paris to obtain them from the holder. These proceedings terminated a few days ago by a decision to the effect that the volumes must be considered the property of the late king's family, and be given up to it.

The Russian newspaper Sovremnienik (Contemporary,) is about to give to its subscribers a series of translations from valuable foreign works. It has commenced its series with "Schlosser's History of the Eighteenth Century."

The antiquarian book sale, which took place at Ghent last week, produced 90,000 francs; there were 2,655 lots, and purchasers from all parts of civilized Europe, except Germany. The prices ran very high; a small insignificant work from the Plantin press, with the date of 1465, brought 450

francs.

New Publications

Received at the Office of the AMERICAN PUBLISHERS' CIRCULAR. [In the following List will be found the names of such books only as have been sent to this Journal. The titles of all books as they are issued will be regularly inserted in the proper column.]

STANFORD & DELISSER publish "Aquarelles; or, Summer Sketches," by Samuel Sombre" These 'sketches are in verse, and illustrated by several spirited engravings.

EDSON C. EASTMAN has got out a volume by Augustus Woodbury, entitled "Plain Words to Young Men." The author says: "In introducing a course of Practical Lectures to Young Men, I wish to bear in mind, and to have it borne in mind, that I speak as a friend and counsellor, more than as a preacher. I would address myself as a young man to young men; one who knows their temptations, who has felt the pressure of their needs, and who understands their position. The main purpose which I have in view is, to turn the faculties of youth in the right direction-that they may engage themselves on the side of justice, of right, of liberty, and of religion, and that they may be occupied in the furtherance of all the best and noblest objects of life. The lectures are designed to be thoroughly practical in their nature, dealing with the subjects proposed in the simplest and plainest way." The same publisher also favors us with a copy of "The White Mountain Guide Book.

RUDD & CARLETON publish "The Lectures of Lola Montez, (Countess of Landsfeld,) including her Autobiography." Of this book the publishers present the following resumé: "This unique and interesting book consists of a series of lectures delivered by Madmae Lola Montez during the last winter, before the largest and most select audiences which any lecturer in the country has been able to command. The romantic life which the beautiful and adventurous Countess has led from her childhood, the various countries she has visited (including a long residence in India), the familiar intercourse she has had with some of the most distinguished personages (princes and potentates even) of the Old World, the part she took, at a critical period, in the political affairs of Europe, all qualify her in an eminent degree to interest and even to fascinate the public. The lectures on Beautiful Women, on Gallantry, and on the Comic History of Love, abound in the most spicy anecdotes and piquant reminiscences, while they show an acuteness of perception and an amount of careful reflection and research which are truly surprising. Those who had the pleasure of hearing them delivered represent the effect they produced as being indescribable, an effect all the more striking from the highly moral tone which runs all through them, and adds to their beauty without detracting from their brilliance and art. But the most interesting of her lectures are the two devoted to her autobiography, which, we are assured on good authority, is in every essential respect perfectly reliable. A more varied and thrilling personal history was never written, and we feel certain that those who read it, will agree with the thousands who have heard it that whatever may be Lola Montez' faults, no woman has ever been the subject of such gross and unwarrantable misrepresentations. With such attraction the Autobiography and Lectures of Lola Montez may justly be called one of the most original and remarkable productions ever issued from the American press."

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CHILDS & PETERSON favor us with "Lord Montagu's Page," an historical romance of the seventeenth century, by G. P. R. James, Esq.; accompanied by a superb steel portrait of the author, and a finely engraved vignette, together with a carefully prepared biographical and critical sketch of Mr. James and his Works, from Allibone's forthcoming Dictionary of Authors.

H. BALLIERE issues "Life Beneath the Waters; or, the Aquarium in America; illustrated by plates and woodcuts drawn from life," by Arthur M. Edwards, member of the New York Lyceum of Natural History. The author observes: "I have given the principles of the Aquarium in as plain language as I could, and without a knowledge of which it is worse than folly to attempt to keep one in order. The management of these pretty parlor ornaments is simple enough when we once get into the way of keeping it properly; and it is this ease with which it is kept that has made the Aquarium so popular in England, where a parlor is hardly considered furnished without one. They are even introduced into nurseries, to amuse and instruct the children; but though it may be amusement to the children, I can hardly think it can be so to the fish, as our youngsters are rather too fond of finding out what's inside the drum that makes the noise,' to conduce to the wellbeing of an Aquarium, unless it be well watched."

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