English market, so to speak, without any expectation of their
being generally read or republished here. This will account for
their containing many things which must seem very flat and
common-place to an American reader--such as descriptions of
sulkies and trotting-wagons, how people dress, and what they
eat for dinner, etc.; which are nevertheless not necessarily
uninteresting to an Englishman who has not seen this country.
Excuse me for trespassing thus far on your patience, and
believe me, dear sir, yours very truly

C. A. BRISTED."

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BENJAMIN SILLIMAN, LL.D. and his son Benjamin Silliman, junior, of Yale
College, sailed a few days ago for Europe, for the purpose chiefly of
making a geological exploration of the central and southern portion of
that continent. After visiting the volcanic regions of central France,
they will make the tour of Italy, visiting Vesuvius and Etna, and will
return to England in time to attend the meeting of the British Academy
of Sciences, at Ipswich, in July. They will next visit Switzerland and
the Alps, and return home in the autumn.

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The second volume of _The Works of John Adams_, we understand, has been
very well received by the book-buyers. It is frequently observed of it,
that it vindicates the title of its eminent author and subject to a
higher distinction than has commonly been awarded to him in our day. It
certainly is one of the most interesting biographies of the
revolutionary period that we have read. The third and fourth volumes
will be published by Little & Brown about the beginning of May.

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"THE CAESARS," by De Quincy, is the last of the works by that great
author issued by Ticknor, Reed, & Fields, who promise us in their
beautiful typography all that the "Opium Eater" has written. "The
Caesars" is a very remarkable book.

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OF THE EDITION OF THE WRITINGS OF WASHINGTON by JARED SPARKS, we
published some years ago in the Philadelphia _North American_ an opinion
which was amply vindicated by citations and comparisons, and more
recently, in the _International_ for last December, we substantially
repeated our judgment in the following words, in reply to some
observations on the subject in the Paris _Journal des Debats_:

"But t