WE had recently the Cooks of Paris, in a GUIZOT AND THIERS--the most eminent liv. handsome_volume, with portraits; The Jour-ing statesmen of France, as well as her great

nals and Editors of Paris, in another volume, and now one Paul Lacroix, sometimes called bibliophile Jacob, has announced a History, Political, Civil, Religious, Military, Legislative, Judicial, Moral, Literary, and Anecdotic, of the Shoe and the Bootmakers of France. He treats of the ancient corporations, their discipline, regulations, and of the fraternities, with their obligations and devices, sketching the whole history of La Chaussure. Shoemakers have been well represented among the famous men of all nations, and the craft may be proud of Hans Sachs, Jacob Boehme, Gifford, Bloomfield, Drew, Holcraft, Lackington, Sherman, William Carey, George Fox, and a hundred others, besides the heroes of Monsieur Lacroix.

est living historians-were for a long time connected with the Paris journals, and each made his first appearance as a writer in criticisms on the Fine Arts. For several years the former published series of articles on the exhibitions of the Louvre, which were remarkable both for artistic knowledge and literary verve. The latter also published in 1810 a pamphlet on the exhibition in the Louvre, which excited great sensation-more, however, from its having a polit ical tendency than for its critical importance.

MR. MIGNET, whose condensed History of the French Revolution is best known to American readers in the cheap reprint of Bohn's Library, and which in Paris has passed through numberless editions-will soon have completed his Bibliophile Jacob LACROIX, we see by the History of Mary Stuart, which is destined, probParis papers, has also discovered a comedie-ably, to supersede every other in the French ballet by Molière, written in 1654, and never language. Mignet is perpetual Secretary of the included in any edition of his works. It is Academy of Moral Sciences, and was for many entitled Le Ballet des incompatibles, and ap-years head of the department of Archives in pears to have been written by order of the the Foreign Office. As a man of letters and Prince de Conti, and acted before him by Mo- a sedulous inquirer, no French author enjoys lière himself and other persons of the Prince's higher reputation. circle. That it remained so long unknown is explained by the circumstance of a few copies LAMARTINE has just published in Paris The only having been printed for the favored spec- History of the Restoration, from 1814 to 1830, tators. The plot is described as ingenious, in eight volumes. The work has been composed and the verses not unworthy of the author. hastily, and probably by several hands, for moIt is known that when the Prince de Conti ney. The poet has also published The Stone presided over the states of Languedoc in Cutter of Saint-Pont, to which we have before 1654, he invited thither Molière and his com-referred-a new book of sentimental memoirs: pany. He professed so much admiration for they pall after two administrations. the actor that he offered him the confidential situation of secretary, which was declined; but it seems natural enough that he should have shown his gratitude by composing one of those entertainments which cost him so little trouble. This Prince de Conti was at one time so passionately fond of theatricals that he made it his occupation to seek out subjects for new plays, but at a later period he wrote a treatise in which theatres were severely condemned on religious grounds, and Molière himself was personally and violently attacked.

AMONG the new biographical works announced in Paris, is one on the Life, Virtues and Labors of the late Right Rev. Dr. FLAGET, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bardstown and Louisville, Kentucky. The author is a clergyman, who accompanied the late Bishop in one of his last missions to Europe. Bishop Flaget died at the age of eighty-seven.

M. XAVIER MARMIER, whose visit to the United States we noticed some months ago, has published his Letters on Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Rio La Plata, in two volumes-constituting one of the most agreeable works ever published in Paris upon this country. We shall soon, we believe, have occasion to review a translation of the Letters, by a New-Yorker.

THE Histoire des Races Maudites et les Classes Réprouvés, by Francisque Michel and Edouard Fournier, publishing at Paris, with illustrations, has advanced to the twentieth number. The whole is to contain a hundred numbers, forming three volumes.

M. MICHELET, the well-known professor of history in the College de France, has incurred a vote of censure from his associates on account of his lectures to the students, which, we infer from notices of them, are quite too republican and socialistic to be approved by the directors of affairs.

A NEW work, by M. Theophile Lavallée, entitled L'Histoire de Paris et ses Monumens from ancient times to 1850, has just been published at Paris, with illustrations by M. Champin. It is warmly commended by the Débats.

MULLIE, of the University of France, has published in two large octavos, a Biographical Dictionary of the Military Celebrities of France, from 1789 to 1850.

A SECOND edition of the new Life of the great Chancellor D'Auguesseau, by M. BOUILLE, has been published in Paris. The book continues to be praised.

A ROMANCE AND TALES, said to have been | time, a production written for a temporary and written by NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, when he local excitement, he ordered its suppression. was a youth, are announced for publication in the Paris Siècle. Though the Siècle is a very THE LIFE OF CALVIN, by Paul Henry, has respectable journal, and it engages that these been translated from the German by the Rev. compositions are perfectly authentic, and shall Dr. Henry Stebbing, of London, and we have be accompanied by proofs of their genuine- the first of the two octavos of which it consists, ness, we do not believe a word of the pretence from the press of Robert Carter & Brothers. of their authorship. It is a fact, however, not So much inexcusable ignorance, so much perunworthy of note, in a psychological point of verse misrepresentation, so much insolent lyview, that the earliest development of Napo- ing, may be found scattered through modern leon's ambition and powers, before a fit field literature, respecting the great Genevan, that of action had been opened to them, was in a Dr. Henry deserves well the thanks of the literary form. At the age of fifteen, when at christian world for exhibiting the chief facts the royal school at Paris, he voluntarily pre- of his history, so plainly that every partisan pared a memoir upon the luxury and expense knave who would repeat the old slanders, shall attending education at that place, in which he be silent hereafter for very shame. John Calurged the propriety of the students adopting vin was unquestionably subject to the infirmihardy habits and a simple fare, and enuring ties of our human nature; so was John Milthemselves to such toils and exposure as they ton; but the inherent and indefectable greatwould encounter in war. In 1787, at the age ness of these two men was such, that they of eighteen, at Valence, he gained, anony- dwell apart like stars, in glory scarcely apmously, a prize proposed to the Academy of proachable by mortal virtue or intelligence. Lyons by the Abbé Raynal, on the question, John Calvin and John Milton were in an ex"What are the principles and institutions traordinary degree the authors of modern inbest adapted to advance mankind in happi- stitutions of liberty, and it would be difficult ness?" In this essay he defined happiness as to decide which has most merit of this praise. consisting in the "perfect enjoyment of life The late Albert Gallatin was wont to say that according to the laws of our physical and when we celebrated our condition on the fourth moral organization:" and the forcible views, of July, we should first drink to the memory well adapted to the temper of the times, and of John Calvin, and then to the immediate authe vivid style of writing, attracted much at-thors of the Declaration of Independence. Mr. tention. When he was emperor, he was one Gallatin did not hold to all the dogmas of day conversing with Talleyrand about this es- Calvin, but he could not speak of the creatures say, and the latter, a few days after, took oc-like Dyer, for example-who employ their casion to present it to him, having procured pennyworth of wit to prejudice the vulgar it from the archives of the academy at Lyons. against him, without some signs of scorn. We The emperor took it, and after reading a few can never forget his merciless characterization pages, threw it into the fire, saying, "One can of a malicious feeble-mind, who in a book entinever observe every thing." Talleyrand had tled A Monograph of Moral Sense, declared not taken the precaution to transcribe it; but that Calvin never had enough humanity in his it has been said that Louis Bonaparte had had nature to select even one verse by the Evange it copied, and that it is now in print. About lists for pulpit illustration,-though the Rethe same time he began a history of Corsica, former really preached some folio volumes of which he dedicated to the Abbé Raynal, by commentaries upon the Gospels, preached from whom he had been noticed and caressed. He them as much as he did from any other porcorresponded with Paoli in relation to it, and tion of the Bible. This person-his name was was in treaty with M. Joly, a bookseller of Smith--was not more reckless of truth than it Dole, for its publication. Raynal, who read has been the fashion for anti-Calvinists to be, the manuscript, advised its completion; but when writing of that great man and his docsome change of purpose prevented its being trines, which they seem to have thought could finished, and it is now lost. During his resi- be put down by petty libels. dence at Auxonne, in 1790, Napoleon wrote Calvin is now being born into a new life, as and printed a letter to Buttafoco, the Corsi- it were; the critics and printers of each particcan deputy for the nobles in the National As-ular language are as busy with him as the Engsembly. It is a brilliant and powerful piece lish have been with Shakspeare. His amazing of argument and invective, strongly on the wit, and genius, and learning, are found as atrevolutionary side. It produced a marked im- tractive and powerful now as they were three pression, and was adopted and reprinted by hundred years ago. And this life of him by the patriotic society at Ajaccio. While at Henry, embodying whatever of contemporary Marseilles, in 1793, Napoleon wrote and pub-records is most needful for the illustration of lished a political dialogue, called "The Supper his writings, will be likely to have a large sale of Beaucaire"-a judicious, sensible, and able with every class of historical students, as they essay, intended to allay the agitation then ex-discover that the popular and partisan notions isting in that city. A copy of it was brought of him are untrue. Certainly no one should to him in later days, but seeing no advantage in attempt to form an opinion of Calvin without reviving, under the circumstances of a different thoroughly acquainting himself with Henry.

IN Paris, M. MILLER, librarian to the Assembly, has made an important discovery among some old Greek MSS. of a lost work by Origen. The Journal des Débats describes the original work as being in ten books; the first of which is already known to the world under the tile of Philosophumena. The last seven books have just been printed at the university press in Oxford, under the editorial direction of M. Miller, who went to England for that purpose. They make an octavo volume of about three hundred and fifty pages. The Débats says the work is "a refutation of heresies, in which the author endeavors to prove that the heresiarchs have all taken their doctrines from the ancient philosophers :”—a very curious task for Origen to perform, since he was himself chiefly remarkable for the mixture of Zeno, Plato, and Aristotle, which he compounded with his Christianity. But apart from its controversial interest, the recovered manuscript will throw new light on the opinions and practices of the Neo-Platonists, and on the manners and customs of ancient times. Discoveries like this point out the necessity for a larger and more combined action of learned societies in the search for ancient manuscripts. Origen's Stromata might even yet be completed: and it is not to be supposed that all the existing fragments of his Hexapla were collected by Montfaucon.

R. P. GILLIES, a contemporary of the great authors of the last age, has published in three volumes Memoirs of a Literary Veteran. More than half a century spent in the society of the lions of literature, could hardly fail to furnish a store of amusing anecdotes, and a sprinkling of interesting information. Mr. Gillies has also this advantage over many collectors of similar reminiscences, that he was not only an author among authors, but that his social position in early life gave him access to the best circles. Scott, Wordsworth, Campbell, the Ettrick Shepherd, Rogers, Galt, Maginn, Haydon, and many more names of interest, figure frequently in his pages. Upon the whole, however, his work is tedious, and quite too much occupied with matters that can be entertaining only to his most intimate associates. Gillies was one of the early contributors to "Blackwood," and figured as "Kemperhausen" in the Noctes Ambrosianæ. He was also the originator and first editor of the Foreign Quarterly Review, and was one of the first to make German literature familiar in England.

It appears that only the Harpers' edition of Lord HOLLAND'S Reminiscences is complete. The London copies are full of asterisks, marking the places of cancelled passages. The cancellings, it was suggested, were occasioned by the interposition of Lord John Russel. A correspondent of The Times, however, (underFROM Constantinople we learn that very im- stood to be Mr. Panizzi of the British Museum,) portant discoveries of ancient Greek MSS. came out with a denial, saying “his lordship have been made, in a cave, near the foot of never saw a word of the Reminiscences till Mount Athos, bringing to light a vast quantity | after they were published, and that no responof celebrated works quoted by various ancient sibility whatever could attach to him. I speak writers, and hitherto deemed entirely lost. thus," he adds, " of my own knowledge, and They furnish, according to the accounts in the beg to inclose my name as a voucher for the journals, an extensive list of proper names cal- truth of this statement." The Athenæum thinks culated to throw great light upon many ob- that if Mr. Panizzi had said " printed" instead of scure periods of history. Among these vo-"published," his voucher would have been less lumes, it is said, some are calculated to give a complete interpretation of hieroglyphic writing -the di-coverer having already successfully applied them to the interpretation of the inscriptions engraved on the obelisk of the Hippodrome at Constantinople. This may be quite true, but such statements are to be received with some suspicion.

rashly ventured, as "Lord John did see the work before it was actually published, but not before it had been actually printed; and here, if we be not misinformed, arises a somewhat amusing contretemps, which is likely to render the cancels ineffectual. Lord John, in fact, had not the opportunity of interfering until the work had been so far published to the world that an uncancelled' copy, with all the pas sages since sought to be suppressed, had been

next American mail will, doubtless, supply us with the whole of the suppressed passages."

A LITERAL prose translation of Homer, by Mr. T. A. Buckley, has just appeared in Lon-dispatched to America beyond recall. The don. No prose version will cause any just notion of the spirit of Homer. Of the half dozen metrical translations published recently, we think that of our countryman Munford the THE meeting of the British Association, at best. Henry W. Herbert has given us parts Ipswich, is to commence on Wednesday, July of the Iliad in admirable style. No one, the 2d, and extend over seven or eight days. however, has yet equalled old Chapman-cer- The secretaries have received the names of tainly not Pope nor Cowper. The most suc- several hundred intending visitors, among cessful translation into a modern language whom are Lucien Buonaparte, Sir R. Murchiis unquestionably the German one by Voss. son, Sir H. de la Beche, Sir W. Jardine, Sir Mure and Grote have written the ablest dis-Charles Lyell, Sir David Brewster; Professors sertations in English upon the Homeric controversy, but they are not poets, and could not if they would translate the great bard.

Daubeny, Silliman (of America), Owen, Ansted, and the celebrated naturalist, M. Lorrillier, a relative of the late Baron Cuvier.

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Or the new book on Man's Nature and Development, by Miss Martineau and Mr. Atkinson, the Westminster Review for April says: Strange and wonderful is the power of selfdelusion! Here we have two clever well-informed people, persuading themselves that they experience extraordinary raptures mingled with the most exquisite philosophic calm, from believing that unconscious matter is the cause of conscious thought, that the truest human affection is nothing worthier than the love of a spoonful of nitric acid for a copper halfpenny, and that annihilation is the most satisfactory end of human life. From such views both the intellect and the heart of man will recoil with well-founded disgust-his logical powers will perceive the absurdity of the arguinent, and his taste and affections will lead him to exclaim with Wordsworth:

Great God! I'd rather be

A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn: So might I standing on this pleasant lea Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus, rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.' "The new lights promised by our authors turn out to be chiefly composed of very old-fashioned rays of darkness, and, after a careful perusal, many will come to the conclusion that the way to be a modern philosopher, is to quote the ancients, praise Bacon, and talk 'bosh.'"

NEW EDITIONS of the works of Fielding and Smollett, profusely illustrated by Cruikshank and Kenny Meadows, will soon be published by Stringer & Townsend. These great classics will never cease to be read with the keen

est relish by all the English race. The London publishers of the present edition of Fielding observe in their advertisement:

his exquisite wit, his abounding humor, his natural and manly pathos-in these no writer of narrative fiction has ever approached him.

While, therefore, nothing can be less likely than that the fame of Fielding should ever be suffered to die, or that, as long as literature exists it can ever diminish, nothing can be more proper than to attempt to extend his popularity-a consummation inevitably to be effected by producing his works at a price accessible, and in a form attractive, to all classes. The late Rowland Hill once observed, that it was not fitting that the arch-enemy of mankind should have all the best tunes to himself. In a like spirit it may be remarked, that it ought not to be permitted to inferior writers to monopolize all the appliances and means of popu larity that art can bestow. Accordingly, the proprietors have secured the hearty and zealous cooperation of Kenny Meadows. It would be invidious, and from the purpose, to institute a comparison between this gentleman and his contemporaries; but it may be asserted that no living artist has shown an equal versatility of genius, which points him out as the man best fitted to trace the many-colored life of Fielding. From the illustration, almost page by page, of Shakspeare, where is the man but would have shrunk! but that work of our artist has secured not merely an English, not only a European reputation, but a world-wide celebrity. The proprietors are assured, that from the hand of Kenny Meadows such an edition of Fielding will proceed as we have not yet seen, and shall not hereafter see.

OF Mr. JOHN BIGELOW's work on Jamaica, (published a few weeks ago by Putnam,) the London Examiner of April 5th, remarks:

"It contains the most searching analysis of the "It is altogether unnecessary to enlarge upon present state of Jamaica, and, moreover, the most the genius of Henry Fielding. There is no man sagacious prognostications of the future prospects in the brilliant history of English literature, with of the island that have ever been published. Mr. the single exception of Shakspeare, to whose ge- Bigelow is an accomplished, acute, and liberal nius has been paid the homage of a more general American. As such, an eye-witness and a partiattestation. Calumny and misrepresentation- cipator of the greatest and most successful colothe offspring of envy and malice-these, in his nial experiment which the world has ever seen, day, he had to endure or to deride, and these, he is, necessarily, a better and more impartial with their authors, have long sunk into oblivion. judge of the subject he treats of than any EnglishThe greatest of his contemporaries knew and acman of equal capacity and acquirement. Mr. Bigknowledged his transcendent merit, and since his elow makes short and easy work of planters, atdeath, there has not been one man of genius whose tornies, book-keepers, sophistries, and Stanleys. opinion of Fielding is recorded, that has not spok- In doing so, his language is invariably that of a en of him with veneration and delight. Dr. John-man of education and a gentleman. He might son, spite of a personal enmity, could not but conhave crushed them with a sledge-hammer, but he cede his extraordinary powers. Lady Mary Wort-effects his purpose as effectually with a pass or ley Montague reluctantly confessed that cousin two of a sharp and polished broad-sword." Fielding' was the greatest original genius of the age; the fastidious Gray was charmed with him; and the more fastidious Gibbon has left his opin-hemian language of Lamartine's History of the ion on record, that the illustrious house of Haps- Girondins, has been recently prohibited at burg, from which Fielding was descended-its Prague by the Austrian authorities. name erased, its towers crumbled,-will be forgotten, when the romance of Tom Jones shall flourish in eternal youth. If Coleridge classed him, as one of the true immortals, with Shakspeare, Goethe could not, nor was willing to contest, that he was so; if Byron could cheer his heart and refresh his mind with his pages, so can, and so does, Wordsworth. In a word, the matchless drawing of his characters, which are not likenesses from life, but copies from Nature-the one being a shallow art, the other a profoundly creative power-ship.

THE publication of a translation in the Bo

MACREADY, in retiring from the stage, had more honors showered upon him than ever before sweetened the leave-taking of any hero of the buskin: among them, this dedication of George Sand's latest publication, Le Château des Désertes, which is now appearing in La Revue des Deux Mondes:

"To W. C. MACREADY:-This little work, attempting

to set forth certain ideas on Dramatic Art, I place under the protection of a great name, and of an honorable friendGEORGE SAND."

"Those who live in cities are peculiarly dependent for enjoyment upon the beauty of its architectural features. Shut out from mountain, river, lake, forest, cliff, and hedgerow, they must either THE new play written by Sir Edward Bulfind in streets and squares food for pleasant conwer Lytton, as his contribution towards the templation, or be drawn into indifference by meaningless, ill-proportioned, or unsightly forms. We fund raising for the new Literary Institute, is are forced, says Mr. Ruskin, for the sake of ac-in the hands of the literary and artistic amacumulating our power and knowledge, to live in teurs by whom it is to be enacted, and rehearcities; but such advantage as we have in associa-sals are in progress. The first performance tion with each other, is in great part counterbal- will take place probably in June.