ngland, and she is now daily expected home, by her
old and warmly attached friends here. We see suggested a volume of her
poems--some of which have much tenderness and beauty; and hope that
measures will be taken to insure such a publication, for her exclusive
benefit, immediately.

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Our contemporary, the Philadelphia _Lady's Book_, is a little out of
season in its fashions. The April number of that excellent periodical
contains the Parisian Fashions which appeared in _The International_ for
February; and for this present month of May, we see in _The Lady's Book_
the altogether too warm and heavily made dresses given in _The
International_ for last January--mid-winter. Certainly Philadelphia
ought not to be so far behind New-York in these matters. In its literary
character the _Lady's Book_ is still sustained by the contributions of
its favorite critic Mr. Henry T. Tuckerman, with those of Mr. T. S.
Arthur, Miss Adaliza Cutter, and Mrs. Sarah J. Hale.

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We regret that the terms in which we lately announced Mr. J. R. TYSON'S
forthcoming _History of the American Colonies_ were capable of any
misapprehension. We know Mr. Tyson quite too well to entertain a doubt
of his perfect integrity as a historian; but it has been a subject of
frequent observation in the middle and southern states that the
New-England writers, who have furnished most of our histories, have
exaggerated the influence of the Puritans and depreciated that of the
Quakers and Cavaliers: Mr. Tyson himself, we believe, has been of this
opinion; and we merely look for an able, fair, and liberal history, from
his point of view.

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Mr. VALENTINE is preparing a new volume of his _Manual of the Common
Council of New-York_. The volumes hitherto published have been edited
with great care and judgment; they embody an extraordinary amount and
variety of interesting and important facts connected with the
advancement and condition of the city; and the series is indispensable
to any one who would write a history of New-York, or the lives of its
leading citizens. The last volume was unusually rich in maps and
statistics, and we understand that the next one will be even more
interesting and valuable.

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Mr. WILLIS has just published (through Charles Scribner) a new volume
under the characteristic title of