s resolved that a
souvenir volume should be made up from their voluntary
contributions, and that the profits arising from the sale
should be devoted to erecting a monument over her grave, in
the Cemetery of Mount Auburn, near Boston. Many writers of
distinguished merit have engraved their names upon this
preparatory tablet, not all being numbered amongst her
friends and acquaintances, but all appreciating the many
virtues of the deceased lady, and the kindly motives of her
sorrowing friends. The table of contents shows indeed such a
list of names as should insure the speedy attainment of the
object in view. We can but mention half-a-dozen--Hawthorne,
Willis, G. P. R. James, the Bishop of Jamaica, John Neal,
Stoddard, Boker, G. P. Morris and Bayard Taylor, amongst the
men, and Miss Lynch, Mrs. Whitman, Mrs. Oaksmith, Mrs.
Sigourney, and the Editress to represent the sisterhood of
authorship. An admirable likeness of Mrs. Osgood, from a
portrait by her husband, serves as a frontispiece, and, with
some charming vignettes on steel and other illustrations,
enhances the value of this choice and creditable book."
(Putnam, publisher.)

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FORTUNE-TELLING is as much in vogue as ever in Paris. A book, which is
said to have caused much observation, appeared there lately, which is
thus described in the correspondence of the London _Literary Gazette_:--

"It consists of extracts from the voluminous writings of a
poor _gentilhomme_ of Brittany, during a period of upwards
of sixty years, and each extract is a prediction of some one
of the great political convulsions which have occurred in
this country during that time. Never was there a more
correct _Vates_; but Cassandra herself was not more
disregarded than he. The downfall and execution of Louis
XVI., the horrors of the Terror, the power and overthrow of
Napoleon, the revolution of 1830, and the republic of 1848,
were all predicted years before they came to pass; but the
poor prophet was set down as a madman by all his literary
contemporaries, and during his lifetime not a single
newspaper would consent to say any thing about his
predictions. What is the most singular thing of all is, that
he foretold (years ago, remember--when Louis Philippe was at
the height