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were there revelled to intoxication in the " nods and becks and wreathed smiles" showered upon them, as " pay in advance" for their gallantry. We much fear that some, like certain newspaper publishers, took the pay in advance, but neglected to render the service paid for. Is it not horrible though, when beaux are so scarce, that belles, real belles, are thrown into a cold perspiration of dread, when asked for an introduction to a pretty companion, and in their extremity of apprehension have been known to deny the acquaintance of their most intimate friend? What a paradise for ci devant jeunes hommes! But Saratoga, even while we are writing, has ebbed somewhat from its full flood of gaiety, and the bubbles that float on the top of its tide have been borne off to Newport, where their existence will be the same as at Saratoga. Breakfast, dinner, tea, dress, a walk in the hall, a hop or a ball every other night, and a fancy ball; the only difference being that at Saratoga they put salt water into themselves, and at Newport put themselves into salt water; at Newport, too, owing to the salt air, life is rather sticky, one leads a sort of adhesive existence, the walls weep salt tears, the balustrades are unpleasantly damp, and we seem to be gradually passing into the shell-fish state of being. Society is rather more condensed here than at Saratoga, and, as a consequence, more powerful and more definitely marked sets are formed. The extent of despotism to which the patronesses of these sets go is almost incredible. Attention to any lady out of the set is punished, on the first offence, by cool inattention in the penetralia of the circle; on the second, the offender is publicly snubbed; and on the third, deliberately and remorselessly put in coventry. We see it proposed that there shall be schools established at Newport, and similar places, in which ladies may learn to swim. We protest stoutly against the measure. If ladies are to drive, fence, shoot and swim, how are heroes to save their lives? Where will be the romance of life? What will the novel writers do? We have it-the heroines shall save the lives of the heroes. It must needs be so, we suppose, but we object; we prefer the old way. Beside, how would a lady look who had fallen overboard, swimming, puffing, and blowing, and "strik. ing out" lustily in a stiff silk dress and a French hat and feathers, with other matters which go to make up full street costume? We put it to any lady whether, if the service of a hero," a rescue or two," could not be had, she would not rather drown than cut such a figure.

When we next chat with our readers they will have left Saratoga, Newport, Niagara, Catskill, or wherever they may be, and have returned home with, we hope, enlivened spirits and invigorated frames. Home! how delightful a word to the gayest, nay, we will hope, even to the most frivolous of them. Home, dear to those who have it, how much dearer yet to those who have it not; and even they are not utterly homeless, for "their home is where their heart is." And this reminds us of what we think a touching embodiment of that longing after the last home, which is felt by some weary hearts. We doubt if our Gossips have seen it. It is from the German of JUSTINIUS KERNER, and is called Heim Wae," Home Wo, or, as we call it," Home Sickness," but is it not better to call it:

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THE ENGLISHMAN'S GREEK CONCORDANCE of the New Testament; being an attempt at a verbal connection between the Greek and the English texts; including a Concordance to the proper names, with indexes Greek-English and English-Greek. Harper Brothers.

The large sale in this country of the English edition of this work, notwithstanding its high price, sufficiently attests its value to the student of the Bible. The work consists, in the first place, of a list of all the words in the Greek Testament, with every passage where each occurs cited from our English version. To this are added two indexes;-the first containing all the words in the English version, with all the Greek words of which they are translations. The second index contains the words of the Greek Testament, with the English words of which they are the representatives. The advantage of this arrangement to the clergyman or scholar is very great. He has before him, at a glance, a full exhibition of the New Testament usage of every word, in a form much more available than if he sought it in a Greek Concordance, and a perfect comparison of every passage of the original text with the English version. The use of the work, however, is not confined to the scholar. It can be used for the same purpose, with almost equal facility, by one who knows the Greek alphabet, or even without that knowledge. Although the price of this edition is but about one-third that of the English, it is in no wise inferior to it, either in respect of accuracy or beauty of execution.

Gowrie; or the KING'S PLOT. By G. P. R. James. New-York: Harper Brothers.

Mr. James, in addition to many other good qualities, is possessed of great industry, and doubtless finds a profitable market for his literary wares, or he would possibly limit the production. The interest excited by the present work is great and well maintained. GRECIAN AND ROMAN ANTIQUITIES. By Dr. E. F. Bojesen, Professor of the Greek language and literature, in the University of Soro. Translated from the German; Edited by Rev. Thomas K. Arnold, A.M. D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway.

This is a most admirable edition of the works of Dr. Bojesen, with well adapted explanatory notes, and references to English standard works, for the use of schools and colleges. It is beautifully bound, uniform with Appleton's series of Educational Works, than which none embrace more instruction in a concise and available form.

MODERN FRENCH LITERATURE. By L. Raymond de Vericour, author of "Milton et la poesie epique," &c., &c. Revised, with notes relating to recent events, by W. S. Chase, A. M. Gould, Kendall & Lincoln, Boston.

Mr. Chase is somewhat known to the reading public as the author of a very able Parisian Correspondence to several prints and periodicals in this country. Long a resident of Paris, and of very considerable literary attainments, he has, in producing the work before us, brought to the task abilities and acquirements every way equal to the undertak ing. The treatise is itself a comprehensive and thorough survey of the whole field of modern French literature. The most eminent in Philosophy, History, Romance, Poetry, and the Drama are with biographic sketches brought familiarly before the reader, and Mr. Chase has introduced the work to the American reader in a most admirable manner, connecting the subject of which it treats with passing events, and tracing the influence of French literature upon the political progress of the country.

THE WEST: A Metrical Epistle. By Dr. Francis Lieber. G. P. Putnam, Broadway. This is a neatly "got up" little volume, and of considerable merit in the matter. Dr. Lieber, the distinguished Professor of Political Economy in South Carolina College, Author of "Political Etchics," &c., has just sailed for his native country-Germany-with the view of aiding in the great cause of Constitutional and Rational Freedom. This little volume proves that he has well studied that subject during his long residence in this his adopted country-and his able and valuable opinions on American Society and Progress, carry with them a peculiar interest at this time.

STUDY OF MODERN LANGUAGES, Part 1st.-French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German and English. Edited by Louis F. Klipstein, A.A. LL.M. Geo. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway. This work, which is intended equally for the simultaneous and separate study of the languages that it sets forth, and which is adapted as well for the native of Germany, France, Italy, Spain or Portugal, as for him to whom English is vernacular, in the acquirement of any one of the other tongues besides his own, will be found an acceptable manual not only to the tyro, but to the more advanced scholar. The reading portion of the matter is interesting, and the text in every case remarkably correct, while the Elementary Phrases forms of Cards, Letters, Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, Receipts, &c., in the six

languages, constitute what has long been a desideratum from the American press. For the comparative study of the Romanic tongues the work affords unusual facilities.

GRANTLY MANOR: A Tale. By Lady S. Fullerton, author of Ellen Middleton. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway.

This excellent tale has already been widely circulated and is become familiar ere this to many of our readers. Its interest is well sustained and it is of a highly popular cast, although somewhat different in general construction from the more flashy works of the day. It has been considered as equal in power to "Jane Eyre."

IRVING'S WORKS: A HISTORY OF NEW-YORK from the beginning of the world to the end of the Dutch Dynasty, containing among many surprising and curious matters, the unutterable ponderings of Walter the Doubter, the disastrous projects of William the Testy, and the chivalric achievements of Peter the Headstrong, the three Dutch Governors of New-Amsterdam. Being the only authentic History of the Time that hath ever been or ever will be published. By DIEDRICH KNICKERBOCKER. The author's revised edition complete in one volume. George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway, New-York.

This is a most elegantly got up edition of the immortal works of this most distinguished author. The whole is to be comprised in 12 duodecimo volumes of which the Knickerbocker history forms the first. Forty years have elapsed since the first publication of this work, and it has become identified with the history of the city. It may be said to have conferred ancestry upon the metropolis; to have thrown around it those social endearments for byegone ages, very rarely t be encountered in our progressive country. To have descended in a genuine Knickerbocker race is a distinction not connected with aristocratic privileges, but a mark of social worth and republican respectability.

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Seldom if ever has it been the fortune of an individual, known to the public only by his writings, to ingratiate himself so fully in the popular affections. What magician shall unfold to us the secret of his mysterious power, and define that wonderful charm which pervades his writings, and holds the spirit spell-bound beneath its influence? The ancient governors of New-Amsterdam are about us. Like Banquo's shadowy train they come-linger awhile before our admiring eyes, and depart, leaving behind them a mingled remembrance of rubicund visages, pendulous chins, vast peripherys, half-acre waistcoats, multitudinous breeches, duck legs, flamingo hose, and broad buckled shoes. Peter the Headstrong, Walter the Doubtful, and William the Testy, come back to do homage to the faithful chronicler of their chivalrous deeds, and to threaten with abjurgations, happily unknown to the present age, and scarcely less effacacious than their paper proclamations of old, the luckless wight who should impeach their own valor, or their historian's truth.

The present edition will be sought after as the standard, and well has Mr. Putnam executed the task of publication. The style and neatness of the typography cannot be excelled.

STORIES OF THE PENINSULAR WAR. By General Charles Vane, Marquess of Londonderry, G.C.B., G.C.H., Colonel of the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards. Harper Brothers. The Peninsular War has furnished matter for very many able works; many of them purely historical or simple narratives of the events that transpired within the reach of their authors; others have been of a scientific character, like Col. Napier's celebrated work, which is necessary to military students for its strategetic skill. The work of Lord Londonderry is highly authentic; the position of the author being such as to place within his reach not only the events in which he was a principal actor, but the motives and views of the government, and it is, therefore, exceedingly valuable; besides, being in small compass, and in every way desirable to the general reader, who will doubtless appreciate its aristocratic source, and therefore be on his guard against false reasoning from authentic fact.

LITERARY SKETCHES AND LETTERS, being the final memorials of Charles Lamb, never before published. By Thomas Noon Talfourd, one of his executors. D. Appleton & Co., 200 Broadway.

So long a time, nearly twelve years, has elapsed since the publication of Charles Lamb's Letters, &c., that the public had almost forgotten the promise made in the preface to that work, of a future series that should be forthcoming, when, in the lapse of time, there might be none left to feel a moments pain at some sportive mention of themselves in his kind effusions. But that time has been completed through the death of his sister, and the promise is fulfilled. The volume, tastefully edited by Mr. Talfourd, one of Lamb's execu tors, coutaius upwards of 300 pages, a very large portion of which is devoted to letters addressed to Coleridge and Wordsworth. Of course it will be eagerly sought for, and read with avidity.

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II. PRINCE NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE IN PRISON. (Continued.)
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III. SONNET-TO LONGFELLOW.

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IV. TAYLOR'S CAMPAIGN.

Messages of the President of the United States, with the Correspondence between the Secretary of War and other officers of government, on the Mexican War.

BY THE EDITOR....

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V. TOUCHING THE TEUTONS........

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VI. AUNT BECK; OR, THE TEXAN VIRAGO, AND THE TAILOR OF GOTHAM.
By the Author of "the Shot in the Eye.".

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VII. POPULAR PORTRAITS WITH PEN AND PENCIL.-GEN. W. O. BUTLER..329 VIII. OLIVER CROMWELL.

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The Life of Oliver Cromwell, by J. P. Headly, author of "Napoleon and his Marshals," &c. Baker & Scribner, 36 Park-Row...

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IX. A MADRIGAL.

From the French of Clement Marot.......

X. THE ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.
BY ADA. (Concluded from the May number.)..

XI. EMILIA GALOTTI.

From the German of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Act III......

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XII. SELECT LIBRARY OF THE GERMAN CLASSICS.-THE HERMAN AND DOROTHEA OF GOETHE. (Continued)........

XIII. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL REVIEW.

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XIV, GOSSIP OF THE MONTH.

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Joseph R Ingersoll-City Affairs-New Hotels-The Drama-Park Theatre
Monplaisirs-Mr. Forrest-American Art Union..............

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XV. NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS.

Geo. P. Putnam, 155 Broadway-Harper Brothers-Baker & Scribner-A. S.
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