nstitute.

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The entertaining book, _Ship and Shore_, by the late Rev. WALTER COLTON,
has just been published by A. S. Barnes & Co., who will as soon as
practicable complete the republication of all Mr. Colton's works, under
the editorship of the Rev. Henry T. Cheever.

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The _Domestic Bible_, by the Rev. Ingram Cobbin, just published in a
very handsome quarto volume in this city by S. Hueston, we think
decidedly the best edition of the Scriptures for common use that has
ever been printed in the English language. Its chief merit consists in
this, that without embracing a syllable of debatable matter in the form
of notes, it contains every needful explanation and illustration of the
text that can be gathered from ancient art, literature and history,
expressed with great distinctness and compactness, together with such
well-executed wood engravings as unquestionable knowledge in this age
could suggest--omitting altogether the absurd fancy embellishments which
in most of the illustrated Bibles are so offensive to the taste, and so
worthless as guides to the understanding. The editor we believe is a
clergyman of the Episcopal Church in England, but he has had the good
sense to avoid, so far as we can see, everything that would vex the
sectarian feelings of any one who admits that the Bible itself is true.

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The _Life, Speeches, Orations, and Diplomatic Papers of Lewis Cass_, are
in press at Baltimore, under the editorship of Mr. George H. Hickman.
_The Speeches, Forensic Arguments, and Diplomatic Papers_ of Daniel
Webster (to be comprised in six large octavo volumes), are in the press
of Little & Brown of Boston, under the care of Mr. Edward Everett. _The
Memoirs and Works of the late John C. Calhoun_ are soon to be published
in Charleston, by Mr. R. K. Craller, and we hear of collections of the
Speeches and Public Papers of Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Benton. All these are
important works in literature, affairs or history.

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Professor GILLESPIE, of Union College, has just published (Harper &
Brothers) a translation of The Philosophy of Mathematics, from the
_Cours de Philosophie Positive_ of AUGUSTE COMTE. The intellect of
Europe in this century has evolved no greater work than the Philosophie
Positive, and Professor Gillespie has done a wise thing in rendering