Miller, Orton & Mulligan, Auburn and Buffalo, have issued a second series of Fern Leaves, from Fanny's Portfolio. They are all new pieces, and are illustrated by eight full page engravings. The first series, and the Little Ferns, had a sale, within six months average time of their first publication, of about one hundred and twenty-five thousand copies. Fanny Fern's popularity arises entirely from her intrinsic merits as a writer-her naturalness, wit, good sense, and good sensibility. Her books are everywhere, and deserve to be. Higgins & Perkinpine, Philadelphia, have issued a new edition of Hunter's Select Melodies, a little volume that comprises many of the best hymns and spiritual songs in common use, but which are not found in standard Church hymnbooks. It is a "curiosity of literature:" there are some specimens of outré composition, some of real doggerel, perhaps; but the book, as a whole, abounds in genuine melodies and in the most striking sentiments of religion. The translations from the mystic devotional poetry of Germany are especially good. The Bride of the Iconoclasts, is the title of a poem by a young writer, as we learn from the preface, published in very neat style by Monroe & Co., Boston. There are evidences of a juvenile hand about it, but also of real poetic genius; a skillful use of language, a fine fancy, genuine sentiment, with occasional obscurity and other remediable faults. A fervent devotion to the "divine art" will, we think, secure enviable success to this young author. Lord Byron in his time called Samuel Rogers the master of the living poets, and still the venerable bard lives on in his elegant residence, surrounded by all that art, and taste, and wealth can furnish for the enjoyment of a green old age. The volume of his works lately issued by Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, is edited by Epes Sargent, and issued in a style to which the fastidious elegance of the author could not object, while its price will place it within the reach of all. It contains the complete poetical works of Rogers, and a Prefatory Memoir by the editor gives the critical articles of Mackintosh and Jeffrey. Messrs. Harper have issued Armenia· Year at Erzeroom and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, by Robert Curzon. Whoever has read Curzon's "Monasteries of the Levant," will eagerly seize any volume from his pen. The one now presented to the public relates to a country which is dayly increasing in importance as the theater of events upon which the eyes of the world are fixed. The author was attached to a commission composed of Russians and English, appointed at the request of the Turkish and Persian governments to fix the boundary line of the two countries. It was hoped that this might end the border feuds which have existed between the two countries almost from time immemorial, rendering the whole region unsafe for travelers, and consequently almost unknown in civilized lands. It is a book one will not readily close, till he has reached the final sen tence, and his only regret will then be that there is no more of it. We have received from Messrs. Harper the fourth volume of Agnes Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses. It contains the biography of Mary Stuart, and is one of the most interesting volumes of the series. Dr. Bird's Calavar; or, The Knight of the Conquest, has been republished, in excellent style, by Redfield, New-York. It ranks among our best indigenous works of fiction, having passed through three editions, and survived fourteen years-a considerable longevity, certainly, for a romance now-a-days. It is founded upon the invasion of Mexico by Cortes, and describes with much power, and as much historical accuracy, the first campaign of the conquest. We are indebted to Magee, Boston, for Wilson's Recreations of Christopher North, as published by Phillips, Sampson & Co. The whole of these favorite sketches are included in one volume. The mezzotint portrait is excellent, but the type and paper are execrable— at least for so fine a work. It is like setting jewels in pottery. of Simm's works. The last volume we have Redfield, New-York, continues his fine series received is Katherine Walton, the Rebel of Dorchester. It is a sequel to the "Partisan," which we lately noticed, and illustrates revolutionary life in Charleston, S. C., as his "Partisan" and "Mellichampe" illustrate the interior scenes of the movement. There is a remarkable historical accuracy in the fictions of Simm's, and they have done more than any other writings to bring out the resources of history and romance in the South. Crosby, Nichols & Co., Boston, have published A Defense of the Eclipse of Faith, by its Author, a rejoinder to Professor Newman's "Reply." Also, Newman's "Reply," together with his chapter on the "Moral Perfection of Jesus," &c. thus laid open before the reader. The whole field of this spirited controversy is Rogers is the victor; his rejoinder is overOf course, powering. Phillips, Sampson & Co., Boston, have publishgary, from the beginning of the Reformation to ed The History of the Protestant Church in Hun 1850. sylvania, but presents a comprehensive and It has special reference to Tranvaluable, if not very entertaining outline of Protestantism throughout Hungary. D'Aubigne introduces it; we wish he had written it, for it lacks his graphic and dramatic skill. President Olin's Greece and the Golden Horn is out, with an introduction by Dr. M'Clintock. Written some years ago, it is yet decidedly the best description of the modern Greeks in the market. Though a rascally race, they present some most interesting aspects. Dr. Olin's sketches are abundant in the variety of their details. They are marked by sober good sense, and his usual breadth, accuracy, and elaborateness of thought. We have already referred to this work; it deserves an extensive sale. Literary Record. Boston Letter-Methodist Episcopal Church, SouthGriswold's Poets and Prose Writers of AmericaDiscovery of Galileo's Commentaries on DanteRoyal Society of Literature - Encyclopædia of American Literature-Lamartine-Newspapers in Turkey-Oliver Goldsmith's Works-Quicksands on Foreign Shores-Spiritualism-Macaulay-Cobbett's Articles-The Old Printer and the Modern ProssReid's Scalp Hunter-The Athenæum. OUR Boston correspondent sends us the following literary epistle : BOSTON LETTER. The town has adjourned to the country. Only those poor fellows whose business or poverty forbid their hegira at the height of the dog-star, hover, ghost-like, about the heated brick walls of the city. In all airy places, upon the mountains and by the sea-side, crowds of these refugees from heat and business are thronging. The multitude of books, cool and comfortable duodecimos, which have been gathering upon bookshelves with such unprecedented rapidity during the past six months, a long appalling and appealing rank, pleading clamorously for a hearing, now have a fair chance to receive their proper attention. Under the trees, and in shadowy verandahs, between genial conversations, they may now step forth and present their claims to an undisturbed reading. The call will soon be for readers; books are so cheap who can help buying them? But to read them, a man must have as many heads as Briareus had hands. The question will be asked soon, who reads American books? for a very different reason from that which occasioned its first utterance. The amount of volumes published in Boston for the few months past has been unprecedented: and they are most of them really valuable additions to the library, meriting a permanent place and a careful reading. Our largest booksellers are looking about for more ample quarters, their present shelves refusing to bear up the rapid and large editions pouring from the press. Phillips, Sampson & Co., who have heretofore conducted their business in chambers, in a few months move "up town," as you would say in your city, to occupy a noble granite front store on Winter-street. The large rooms in the new building will afford accommodations for their immense publishing business, while the lower story will form the most elegant retail book-store in the city, and their counters will exhibit the gathered current literature of the English tongue. They have quite a number of new works in the press, every week introducing through their establishment some fresh claimant upon the public attention. The History of England, in thirteen volumes, by Lingard, the Catholic, is now being published at short intervals, it having been delayed for a few months back by the urgent demand for other publications. It forms an excellent and cheap library edition. The volumes of Talfourd & Campbell, which fell under your critical pen, will be re-stereotyped and issued in a more worthy dress. The present editions, however, are very respectable for the marvelous cheapness at which they are offered. The wonderful blacksmith, who has been covering England with his "Olive Leaves," and seeking to secure cheap international communication, in order to attain a permanent peace, has just issued from their press a volume of miscel lanies, entitled, "Thoughts and Things at Home and Abroad"-pleasant and profitable reading. A graceful Memoir of Mr. Burritt, by Mary Howitt, introduces the volume, and it is illustrated by an excellent engraved portrait of the polyglot author. "Blessed are the peace-makers" in these days of "wars and rumors of wars," and this benediction rests eminently upon the head of Elihu Burritt. The volume upon the "Poets and Poetry of Greece," a noble octavo by Mills, consisting of popular lectures upon the poetic literature of classic Grecce, with admirable English translations, deserves, and undoubtedly will enjoy, a generous reception among the reading community. By a mutual arrangement with J. C. Derby, of NewYork, the books of the two establishments bear a common imprint, and the volumes of your spirited bookseller enjoy the circulating medium of P., S. & Co.'s large business. Under this arrangement, the excellent. volume of Dr. Olin, covering the scene of the seat of the present European struggle, "Greece and the Golden Horn," has been issued and has been very cordially received by the press and the public. This has been followed by the "Morning Stars of the New World," graceful biographies of the discoveries of our continent, and by a volume for the season, redolent of the forest and vivacious in its record of personal recreations and adventures, called "Hills, Lakes, and Forest Streams," a lively description of a sporting excursion in the counties of Northern New-York. Our near neighbors, Jewett & Co., who have long beguiled their customers into our Crescent-street, have been crowded by their increasing business out of Cornhill, and have taken one of the finest stores upon Washington-street. With the increased facilities which they will enjoy in their new establishment for the retail trade, we may readily imagine that it will have few superiors in the country under the management of its enterprising proprietors. Gould & Lincoln are taking moment's breath in the publishing department, and yielding up their groaning presses to the reprinted editions of the valuable volumes they have lately published. The "Plurality of Worlds" has made an uncommon impression upon the thoughtful portion of the reading community. It may not succeed in depopulating the stars, but it will serve to chasten speculative philosophy, and suggest a limit to the human fancy. I notice that the English answer to the work is announced by two of your New-York publishers-Carter and Harper -as well as by our respected Boston firm. As Carter has purchased early sheets, he undoubtedly will usher in the new volume to the American field of the controversy. There is one of our book establishments that is not obnoxious to the prevailing spirit of change. There it stands, with the same homely and inviting presence that it has borne for years, right under the shadow of its venerable friend, the "Old South" Meeting House, all windows and doors upon the two streets of which it marks the corner, its shelves and extended tables crowded with all the rarities of the season, and ordinarily surrounded with those that prepare the reading matter from the raw material, or those whose ample income allows the expensive luxury of rare editions and richly illustrated volumes. Here Ticknor & Co. receive their multitudinous friends and patrons, and offer the numerous and excellent editions of the poets of the nineteenth century, which they have been busily collecting for the last few years. This must be the height of the season for these works. So portable, just fitted to the carpet-bag, and so wonderfully adapted to grove and mountain reading and to sea-side recreations, They have lately published one of the most characteristic of New-England tales, which first charmed the readers of Putnam's Magazine, and will be a traveling companion of many others during the summer tours, in its present beautiful form. It is called "Wensley," and is also styled a "Story without a Moral," which, after all, is the most serious objection which rests against this order of literature. They have also issued in their elegant style of publication, “Atherton, and Other Tales," by Mary Russell Mitford, author of "Our Village." It is illustrated by a beautiful steel engraving, from an original painting in the possession of Mr. Fields, of the delightful authoress--one of the pleasantest faces of age that we have looked upon, full of thought and covered with sunshine, although exhibiting a few lines significant of the severe physical pain to which she has been subjected. The principal story is marked with all the graces of Miss Mitford's style, although it was composed and writen under circumstances of almost incredible prostration and pain. It is a rural, moral tale, as are the others published with it-true to the charming scenery of England and to its social life. Upon the opposite side of Washington-street we naturally enough tarry a moment before the inviting windows of Little, Brown & Co's. great law and foreign bookstore. It is a temptation that one with a small capital ought not to allow himself often to fall into. The gravity of many of the works, and the immense rows of portly octavos and quartos fairly subdue one's spirit, and we step more gently, and find ourselves on the point of raising our hat as we walk along by their side. A more goodly collection of the library editions of foreign classics is perhaps not to be found in the country than is presented here. A new American book, "Ames's Life and Works," edited by his son, Seth Ames, Esq., in two octavo volumes, meets you and holds your eye upon its beautiful pages and rich contents, as you enter. Few names have a more fragrant reputation in American annals for patriotism and eloquence than Fisher Ames. In their press they announce a work that will excite attention, both from its subject and its author: "Brownson's Spirit Rapper," designed to show the connexion of spirit manifestations with mesmerism, socialism, revolutionism, magic, &c., by O. A. Brownson. "Plutarch's Lives." Partly from Dryden's translation, and partly from other hands. The whole carefully revised and corrected. With some Original Translations by the editor, A. II. Clough, Esq., late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. 5 vols. 8vo. "Norton's Translation of the Gospels." A translation of the Four Gospels, with Notes, by Andrews Norton, 2 vols., 8vo. "Pierce's Mechanics." A Treatise on Analytic Mechanics, by Benjamin Pierce, LL. D., Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics in Harvard University, 1 vol., 4to. "Lyell's Manual of Geology." New edition. Manual of Elementary Geology; or, the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants, as illustrated by Geological Monuments, by Sir Charles Lyell. Fifth and entirely revised edition. Illustrated with maps, plates, and wood-cuts. 8vo., cloth. The same firm have made arrangements with Murray, the well-known English publisher, for a supply of his fine edition of the "British Classics," now in course of publication, by which they are enabled to furnish them at a great reduction from the English price. The following volumes will be forthcoming at an early day:-"The Works of Oliver Goldsmith," edited by Peter Cunningham, F. S. A., with vignettes. To be completed in 4 vols. "Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," with Notes, by Milman and Guizot. Edited with Additional Notes by William Smith, LL. D. Portrait and maps. To be completed in 8 volumes. "The Works of Alexander Pope," con-. taining nearly one hundred and fifty unpublished Letters. Edited by the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, assisted by Peter Cunningham, F. S. A. 6 vols., 8vo. "The Works of Dryden and Swift." Thoroughly revised and edited. Based upon the editions of Sir Walter Scott. "The Works of Joseph Addison." Edited, with a new Life and Notes, by the Rev. W. Elwin, B. A. 4 vols., 8vo. "Johnson's Lives of the Poets." Edited, with Notes, by Peter Cunningham, F. S. A. In a previous letter, we referred to a movement among the "Franklin Medal. Scholars" and the "Charitable Mechanics' Association," to erect a statue to the philosopher and statesman, in his native city. The committee charged with the preliminary work has secured funds adequate to authorize them to engage an artist and adopt a model of the statue. Mr. Richard S. Greenough has been selected, and the evidence which he has already given of his capacity justifies the expectation that he will execute a work that will be worthy of its subject, and of the city that has thus sought to express its respect for an honored former resident. In the model prepared by the sculptor, the face and head have been copied from the original bust of Franklin, by Houdon, taken for Mr. Jefferson, and now the property of his granddaughter, resident in Boston. He is to be represented in the costume of the times, in the dress he wore at the time he signed the Treaty of Peace in 1783, the identical clothes having been preserved as most valuable relics, and accurately copied by the artist. It is proposed to have the four sides of the pedestal to represent, in bas-reliefs, as many prominent events in Franklin's life: the first, "Franklin working his press;" the second, his "Experiment in electricity;" the third, "Signing the Declaration of Independence;" and fourth, "Concluding the Treaty of Peace" It is also proposed that these bas-reliefs be intrusted to different artists. If the statue is executed in the spirit of its design and model, it will be a most admirable work of art, and an expressive tribute to our Franklin. You will recollect the fearful storm in April, 1851, which swept away the iron foundations, with the superIncumbent lighthouse and its occupants, from Minot's Ledge, outside of Boston harbor. This exposed ledge. the scene of many wrecks, has been unprotected with a light since the time of this dreadful casualty. But now the United States engineers have surveyed the ledge, and reported that the base will permit of the construction of a stone lighthouse of sufficient dimensions to resist the force of the most powerful wave, and immediate measures will be taken to commence the work. Our noted East Boston ship-builder is now at work upon a clipper ship of the first class, and of two thousand five hundred tons' capacity. She is intended for the trade of James Baines and Co., of Liverpool, and is to bear the honored name of its constructor," Donald M'Kay." It is reported that Mr. M'Kay is about to build a beautiful yacht of about ninety tons, which he intends as a present to the Emperor of Japan. She is to be named the "Queen of the Orient." In several of our towns we have had serious discussions upon the "Bible question in Schools," and in every instance the Bible has been retained. In Winchester, by a very large majority, the request of the Catholics to give up the Bible was refused; and in Holliston, the committee have ruled that where a child objected to read the Protestant version, he should be excused. A public meeting was called, and after many spirited addresses, the following resolution was passed, with only a few dissenting voices. The school committee, however, at once resigned: Resolved-That it be the sense of this meeting, that while no blame attaches to the school committee in regard to the reading of the Bible in our schools, yet, in view of the fact that the Bible furnishes the only safe foundation of moral instruction, and in view also of the repeated encroachments of the Catholics in various parts of our country, as well as in our own town, in regard to schools, we deem it the duty of our committee to direct, under all circumstances hereafter, that the Bible be uniformly read in all our schools by all the scholars thereof of sufficient acquirement to read the same intelligibly. Richmond Christian Advocate-Dr. L. M. Lee. Southern Christian Advocate-E. H. Myers. Holston Christian Advocate-S. Patton. St. Louis Christian Advocate-D. R. M'Anally. New-Orleans Chris. Advocate-H. N. M'Tyeire. Memphis Christian Advocate-J. E. Cobb. Texas Christian Advocate-C. C. Gillespie. California Christian Observer-Dr. Jesse Boring. A resolution was adopted, giving liberty to the book agents to publish, if they think it advisable, a monthly magazine of a high literary character. Ages of English Periodicals-The Edinburgh Review is just 50 years old; the Quarterly, 34; the New Monthly Magazine, 33; Blackwood, 38; and Frasier, 24. Dr. Griswold's two works, the Poets and ProseWriters of America, are about to pass to a new edition, with the preparation of which for the press he is now engaged. The addition to his list of poets is considerable, several new competitors for poetic fame having made their appearance within a few years past. On the new edition of the Prose-Writers, Dr. Griswold, it is said, is bestowing a good deal of pains, writing over some parts of it, and making it in every respect more complete. The Tuscan Moniteur announces that Signor Sigli has discovered in Florence Galileo's Commentaries on Dante, which were supposed to have been lost. They are in the autograph of the philosopher, and will doubtless be given to the world in due time. At the last meeting of the Royal Society of Literature in London, the Rev. D. J. Heath read a paper, "On the Select Hieratic Papyri," pub lished by the British Museum, in 1844, in the deciphering of which he has lately been making considerable progress. Mr. Heath believes that he has succeeded in discovering that some of these, as the fifth and sixth of the Anastasi collection, which belong to the reign of Menephthah II., narrate the exodus of a "mixed multitude" from Egypt, and probably that of the Jews themselves. In the commencement of his paper, Mr. Heath gave several reasons why he imagined that the exodus did really take place during the reign of this Menephthah II., though, if his theory be true, the date of that event is brought down as low as B. C. 1312; and he Judge Edmonds, Dr. Dexter, and O. G. Warren, are out with a new monthly, (The Sacred Circle,) devoted to Spiritualism. But this, like nearly all the "Spiritual" organs, (there are eight of them in the United States,) assumes does not undertake to prove it. It is a work the truth of the "spiritual" hypothesis, but for the elect, and not for unconvinced inquirers. Mr. Macaulay has been elected President of the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in the room of the late Professor Wilson. Cobbett's articles, from his once celebrated "Register," on the "Reasons for going to war with Russia in defense of Turkey," have been reprinted in London, and are creating quite a sensation. the title of a work recently published by Murray, of London. The author, Charles Knight, is a "fast" and amusing writer, full of anecdote and mirth. He reviews the history of literature in all its phases; sneers at patronage, and abuses the British Government in no measured terms for creating a people that rush to casinos and sottish beer-shops instead of being purchasers of weekly volumes. As a specimen of the manner in which he handles his subject, we give the following amusing notice of the transformation of rag into paper : "The Old Printer and the Modern Press," is stated that he had been led to this conclusion by perusing some remarkable papers, contributed by Miss Corbaux to the "Journal of Sacred Literature." The contents of these papyri Mr. Heath showed to be very various, each new subject being, generally, distinguished by red-letter headings; some are verses, sung by the tutor to the royal youths in the harem; some are official orders to different officers; some are praises, not only of kings but of individuals. In one instance there is a psalm, by a royal psalmist, and some are plain historical statements. The dates appended to some of the paragraphs are those of the copyist; for the same paragraphs are sometimes repeated in different handwritings. Mr. Heath then proceeded sailor, on board some little trading-vessel of the Medito give various portions of the papyri translated, but necessarily in a very fragmentary form, in illustration of his theory and belief with respect to their contents. M. de Lamartine has a new work in the press, ย History of Turkey," of which a notice has appeared in the Paris Constitutionnel. Newspapers in Turkey.-Constantinople has thirteen papers, Smyrna six, and Alexandria one. Servia is rich in its periodical press, having eight papers, while Wallachia and Moldavia have only four. In all there are thirty-four newspapers in the Ottoman empire. Murray, the celebrated London publisher, has issued a new edition of Oliver Goldsmith's Works, edited by Peter Cunningham, (John Murray,) containing the "Bee," the "Essays," collected from various periodicals by the author, and first published by him in 1765, unacknowledged Essays, and miscellaneous prefaces, introductions, and other papers. A work of fiction, referring to Conventual Institutions, by a member of the family of the Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, (Whately,) will shortly be published, entitled "Quicksands on Foreign Shores." "The material of which this book is formed existed a few months ago, perhaps, in the shape of a tattered frock, whose shreds, exposed for years to the sun and wind, covered the sturdy loins of the shepherd watching his sheep on the plains of Hungary;-or it might have formed part of the coarse blue shirt of the Italian terranean; or it might have pertained to the once tidy camicia of the neat straw-plaiter of Tuscany, who, on the eve of some festival, when her head was intent upon gay things, condemned the garment to the straccivendolo (rag-merchant) of Leghorn;-or it might have constituted the coarse covering of the flock-bed of the farmer of Saxony, or once looked bright in the damask table-cloth of the burgher of Hamburgh;-or, lastly, it might have been swept, new and unworn, out of the vast collection of the shreds and patches, the fustian and buckram, of a London tailor; or might have accompanied every revolution of a fashionable coat in the shape of lining-having traveled from St. James's to St. Giles's, from Bond-street to Monmouth-street, from Rag Fair to the Dublin Liberty, till man disowned the vesture, and the kennel-sweeper claimed its miserable remains. In each or all of these forms, and in hundreds more which it would be useless to describe, this sheet of paper a short time since might have existed. No matter, now, what the color of the rag-how oily the cotton-what filth it has gathered and harbored through all its transmutation-the scientific papermaker can produce out of these filthy materials one of the most beautiful productions of manufacture." There are two translations of Captain Mayne Reid's "Scalp Hunter" on sale in Paris; and of one of them there are two editions. The Mousquetaire, in a review of the work, pronounces the author equal to Cooper, and original in the same field where that romancer was so successful. M. Allyre Baseau, the translator of the edition thus eulogized, certainly understands and seizes upon the singularly vigorous and pic. turesque Western American-English better than any other Frenchman who has applied himself to the task. The Athenæum is at present edited by Mr. Hepworth Dixon, author of the "Lives of Penn, Howard, and Blake;" the first undertaken to counteract the slanders of Macaulay in his "History of England." Fine Arts. The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers--Washington | proach to gray, sparkling with wit and kindly at the Battle of Monmouth-Niagara Falls-Mary Russell Mitford-Francesca da Rimini-Discovery in Greece-Death of an Artist--Ancient Art. Lucy's prize picture, The Departure of the Pilgrim Fathers, is exhibiting at Exeter Hall, London. The little band of Independents, who quitted Holland after twelve years of exile, has here started into life. The sympathetic interest excited by this historical work proves that lofty aim and conscientious pursuit bear their own reward. It will, we understand, shortly be sent to this country for exhibition. Washington at the Battle of Monmouth.-A correspondent of a New-York journal, in writing from Berlin, states that the point of time which Leutz, the artist, has seized, in his historical picture of Washington at the Battle of Monmouth, is that of his rencounter with the retreating troops, and his stern reprimand to Lee. He rides fiercely up, with his sword raised in his right hand, his countenance indicating astonishment and determination, mingled with suppressed passion. Immediately behind Washington are Lafayette and Hamilton. On the left is the figure of a soldier, who has dropped in a state of exhaustion upon the green margin of the pool. His eye is fixed upon the water, his right hand extended toward it as if vainly attempting to reach it; his left hand is clasped The around the arm of a hardy, sun-burnt, "leather. As & feeling-the broad forehead, from which her silver hair is neatly brushed behind her cap, betoken a fullness of years, with an unimpaired youthfulness of feeling. Miss Mitford has already passed the age of sixty-five." The well-known picture of Francesca da Rimini, by M. Ary Scheffer, now at the Gallery of French paintings in London, is to be sent for exhibition to this country. Several remains of antiquity have lately been discovered in Greece. At Megara, two columns and part of the pavement of a small temple; at Athens, a triangular pedestal, bearing a winged spirit on each of its sides. A statue of Jupiter and the torso of a priestess are so mentioned. One of the most distinguished artists of America, Mr. Wright, died at his residence, in this city, last month. The most beautiful medals in gold, silver, or bronze, which have ever been struck in this country to commemorate the deeds of our military and naval heroes, or to illustrate memorable events in our history, and to preserve in durable form the lineaments of American statesmen, have been the work of Mr. Wright. The Congress of the United States, members of our confederacy, have testified to his superiority of taste and skill as an artist, by employing him to execute medals which they have awarded to citizens distinguished for their military and civic services. the states of New-York, Virginia, and other A valuable collection of Works of Ancient Art has recently been sold in London. It includes amphora, statuettes, bronzes, fibulæ, vases, masks, lachrymatories, cameos, Etruscan pottery, terracottas, gems, ancient jewelry, marbles, ivories, armor, marqueterie, mosaics, Venetian and German glass, and Raffaelle and Faenza ware. Among the more curious specimens may be mentioned a pair of Etruscan ear-rings formed of hollow ovals of flat beaten gold; an Etruscan bronze of a group of small figures witnessing an execution; a bronze trough from Xanthus, supposed to have been an incense burner; a bronze lamp from Cumæ, intended for suspension, ornamented with bosses of lions' heads, and an Etruscan vase, the bottom of which was formed by a wild beast's pic-head and jaws. We may add to this list a small gold statuette of Cupid, and some ancient vases of semi-opaque Greek glass, found in a tomb at Ruvo, very pearly and iridescent from long corrosion; and some curious bracelets, bullæ, necklaces, and tirings of Greek workmanship. Of the luxurious fifteenth century work there were some rich instances. Of these, the best was a silver shrine, twenty-five inches high, containing a figure of St. John, and attended by cherubim, angels, children holding festoons, and decorated with fruit and flowers; and a baronial salt-cellar, surmounted by a figure of Fame, surrounded by Cupids riding on dolphins. Mr. Gignoux, of this city, has completed a painting of Niagara Falls for Baron Rothschild. It is a winter view of the Falls, and conveys a most faithful picture of the cataract in the midst of its icy grandeur. A critic in the north alludes, in handsome terms, to the portrait of Mary Russell Mitford, which has lately been on exhibition at the Athenæum Gallery, at Boston. He says, that "a more engaging picture of the features of old age is not often seen. The clear, brownish, florid complexion-the eyes blue, with an ap |