Reid,--a
_thorough Yankee soldier_, combining humor, imagination, and dashing
bravery in the highest degree." The thorough Yankee, like many others
much quoted abroad, is a clever Irish adventurer, who was in the United
States altogether some four or five years, engaged chiefly as a writer
for the journals in New York and Philadelphia.

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Among our frequent foreign correspondents the reader will be pleased to
recognize the accomplished and adventurous traveler Mr. JOHN E. WARREN,
whose work on South America, _Para, or Scenes and Adventures on the
Banks of the Amazon_, has just been published, in two octavo volumes, by
Bentley, of London. We present the first of a series from him in our
initial number.

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The Rev. FRANCIS L. HAWKS, LL.D. will publish in the autumn a collection
of very rare and curious tracts, illustrative of our early Colonial
History, with copious notes, &c. Dr. Hawks may be safely regarded as an
authority of the very highest value, upon whatever relates to the
religious and social history of the country. He adds to persevering and
well-directed research the soundest discrimination, and a judicial
fairness; and we trust an impression which has obtained within a few
years, that he is engaged upon an extensive work that will illustrate
his abilities in this field, is not without foundation.

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The celebrated Princess BELGIOSO, whose achievements in the tented
field, as in the showy salons of fashion, have long been familiar, has,
as is well known in the gay world of Europe, been a successful
cultivator of letters, and has frequently delighted the readers of
French and Italian with brilliant sketches of society and manners. She
is now traveling in Greece, whence she will proceed into the romantic
and picturesque regions of Asia, and the proprietors of the _New York
Tribune_ have engaged her as one of the regular foreign correspondents
of that journal.

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M. EUGENE SCRIBE, the writer of the libretto of _Tempesta_, just brought
out in London, at the age of eighteen years, was placed under the care
of M. Dupin, now the President of the French Legislative Assembly, to
study the Roman law. Shortly after reaching his majority he began his
dramatic career by writing a vaudeville for the Gymnase. His success
here led to an engagement to write for