into English that part of it which relates to the field of mathematical
science.

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Professor LINCOLN'S edition of Horace (recently published by the
Appletons) is the subject of much commendatory observation from critical
scholars. For purposes of instruction it is likely to have precedence of
any other that has been printed in this country. Those having marginal
translations may be very convenient for indolent boys, but they are not
altogether the most serviceable.

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A work of very great ability has appeared in Paris, under the title of
_De la Certitude_, (Upon Certainty), by A. JAVARY. It makes an octavo of
more than five hundred pages, and for originality of ideas and
illustrations, and cumulative force of logic, is almost unrivalled. The
sceptical speculation of the time is reduced by it to powder, and thrown
to the winds.

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Mr. MCCONNELL, who gave us last year a brilliant volume under the title
of "Talbot and Vernon," has just published, _The Glenns, a Family
History_, by which his good reputation will be much increased. It
displays much skill in the handling, and is altogether an advance from
his previous performance. (C. Scribner.)

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The wife of a shipmaster trading from Boston in the Pacific, has just
published a volume entitled _Life in Fejee, or Five Years among the
Cannibals_. It is a very entertaining book, and we are obliged to the
cannibals for not eating the author.

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Noticing the appointment of Mr. S. G. GOODRICH to be consul for the
United States at Paris, the London _News_ says: "In these days of
testimonials and compliments, we should not be surprised to hear of an
address of congratulation to the admired Peter, from the 'children of
England.'"

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Of recent American Novels, the best that have fallen under our notice
(except those of Hawthorne and McConnell, before noticed), are, _The
Rangers, or the Tory's Daughter_, a very interesting tale illustrative
of the revolutionary history of Vermont, by D. P. Thompson, author of
"The Green Mountain Boys," (B. B. Mussey & Co., Boston); _Mount Hope, or
Philip, King of the Wampanoags_, by C. H. Hollister, (Harper &
Brothers); _Rebels and Tories, or the Blood of the Mohawk_, by Lawrence
Labree, (Dewitt and