or which no Roman Catholic would
thank him. The church does maintain the doctrine, and the most
"philosophical" churchman would be dealt with in a very summary manner
if he should publicly deny it. The _Literary Gazette_ adds that Knowles
"displays complete mastery of the principles and familiarity with the
details of the controversy," which we can scarcely believe upon the
_Gazette's_ testimony until it evinces for itself a little more
knowledge of the matter.

The only one of these works that has been reprinted in this country is
Landor's, which we receive from Ticknor, Reed & Fields, of Boston.

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R. H. HORNE, the dramatist, and author of _Orion_,--upon which his best
reputation is likely to rest--has just published in London _The Dreamer
and the Worker_, in two volumes.

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Mr. ROEBUCK, the radical member of Parliament, is continuing his History
of the Whigs.

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It is not be denied that Miss MARTINEAU is one of the cleverest women of
our time; deafness and ugliness have induced her to cultivate to the
utmost degree her intellectual faculties, and several of her books are
illustrations of a mind even masculine in its power and activity; but
the constitutional feebleness, waywardness, and wilfulness of woman is
nevertheless not unfrequently evinced by her, and as she grows older the
infirmities of her nature are more and more conspicuous; vexed with
neglect, without the kindly influences of home or friendship, without
the consolations or hopes of religion, she seems now ambitious of
attention only, and willing to sacrifice every thing womanly or
respectable to attract to herself the eyes of the world--the last thing,
in her case, one would think desirable. In the book she has just
published--_Letters on Man's Nature and Development, by Harriet
Martineau and H. G. Atkinson_--she avows the most positive and shameless
atheism: Christians have had little regard for Pagan deities--she will
have as little for theirs! The sun rose yesterday; the fishes still swim
in the sea; all the world goes on as before; but she cares not a fig for
any deities, Christian or pagan--and don't believe a word of the
immortality of the soul! In this new book, of which she is the chief
author, the interlocutors place implicit credence in all the phenomena
of mesmerism, and they cannot believe there is any thing in man's