ppears that only the Harpers' edition of Lord HOLLAND'S
_Reminiscences_ is complete. The London copies are full of asterisks,
marking the places of cancelled passages. The cancellings, it was
suggested, were occasioned by the interposition of Lord John Russel. A
correspondent of _The Times_, however, (understood to be Mr. Panizzi of
the British Museum,) came out with a denial, saying "his lordship never
saw a word of the _Reminiscences_ till after they were published, and
that no responsibility whatever could attach to him. I speak thus," he
adds, "of my own knowledge, and beg to inclose my name as a voucher for
the truth of this statement." The _Athenaeum_ thinks that if Mr. Panizzi
had said "printed" instead of "published," his voucher would have been
less rashly ventured, as "Lord John _did_ see the work before it was
actually published, but not before it had been actually printed; and
here, if we be not misinformed, arises a somewhat amusing _contretemps_,
which is likely to render the cancels ineffectual. Lord John, in fact,
had not the opportunity of interfering until the work had been so far
published to the world that an 'uncancelled' copy, with all the passages
since sought to be suppressed, had been dispatched to America beyond
recall. The next American mail will, doubtless, supply us with the whole
of the suppressed passages."

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The meeting of the _British Association_, at Ipswich, is to commence on
Wednesday, July the 2d, and extend over seven or eight days. The
secretaries have received the names of several hundred intending
visitors, among whom are Lucien Buonaparte, Sir R. Murchison, Sir H. de
la Beche, Sir W. Jardine, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir David Brewster;
Professors Daubeny, Silliman (of America), Owen, Ansted, and the
celebrated naturalist, M. Lorrillier, a relative of the late Baron
Cuvier.

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Of the new book on _Man's Nature and Development_, by Miss Martineau and
Mr. Atkinson, the _Westminster Review_ for April says:

"Strange and wonderful is the power of self-delusion! Here we have two
clever well-informed people, persuading themselves that they experience
extraordinary raptures mingled with the most exquisite philosophic calm,
from believing that unconscious matter is the cause of conscious
thought, that the truest human affection is nothing worthier than the
love of a spoonful of nitric acid for a copper half-p