nuary. The translator is M.
LANGLOIS of the Institute.

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In the year 1851 there were published in France 7,350 works in different
languages; the average yearly product of the previous ten years was only
6,456; of musical works in 1851, there were 485.

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There is now appearing serially at Paris a _History of the Bastille_,
from its foundation in 1374, to its destruction in 1789. It is to
contain a full narrative of its mysteries, its prisoners, its governors,
its archives, the tortures and punishments inflicted upon prisoners,
with revelations of the whole internal management of this great prison,
and also a great variety of adventures, dramatic, tragical and
scandalous. The dish is to be completed and spiced with some rich
glimpses of the mysteries of the French police during the period
referred to. The authors of this publication are Messrs. ARNOULD,
ALBIOZE, and MAGNET. The last named has sometimes been employed to help
Alexander Dumas as a playwright. These writers also announce that when
they have got through with the Bastille, they shall attack the Castle of
Vincennes, and give the history of the same from its foundation to the
present day. They propose first to consider it as a royal palace, under
which head they will narrate a variety of orgies and debauchery; next as
a fortress, when they will narrate sieges and battles; and finally as a
state prison, when they will give the history of the leading prisoners
there confined, with an account of the dungeons, the torture chambers,
&c., and kindred particulars. This work will be illustrated with steel
engravings.

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COUNT MONTALEMBERT is engaged upon a work whose materials has been
fifteen years in collecting. It is to be entitled _Historie de la
Renaissance du Paganism, depuis Philip-le-Bel jusq'a Robespierre_
(History of the Revival of Paganism, from Philip the Handsome to
Robespierre.) Mr. Montalembert, who is universally known as an ultra
Catholic, holds that the noblest era in history was that part of the
middle ages, when the Catholic faith was at the climax of its influence
and splendor. What distinguishes modern times is paganism, and the
essence of paganism is modern education and science. Classical education
is especially a bad thing. One great hope of this age lies in the
reestablishment of the jesuits and the religious education