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into English that part of it which relates to the field of mathematical science. * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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.) * * * * * 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. * * * * * 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.'" * * * * * 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
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