but the book will contain numerous letters by his more
eminent contemporaries which have not appeared elsewhere.

* * * * *

Somebody has made the "discovery" that General Charles Lee, of the
revolutionary army, was not unwilling to be considered the author of
"Junius;" and two or three of our contemporaries have been busy with the
subject of the internal and other evidence in the case. These critics
are about as wise as the editor of an evening paper who published one of
the old Washington forgeries, lately, as an important historical
document. It was "characteristic," that the chief wrote so familiarly to
his wife of affairs! In the same way, the history of the _Book of
Mormon_ (originally composed as a religious novel by the Rev. Solomon
Spaulding), appears as a curious and altogether new exposure! We shall
not be surprised if the same journals advise us that Walter Scott wrote
the Waverley Novels.

* * * * *

EMILIE GIRARDIN has a new book _L'Abolition de la Misere_, in which he
proposes the entire abolition of suffering. He has "found the
philosopher's stone."

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Somebody is writing for the _United Service_, "Reminiscences of a Voyage
to Canada," and we have looked into a couple of his chapters to see what
sort of stuff, respecting America, is thus submitted to the officers of
her Majesty's Army and Navy. The style of a fellow who talks of his
"fellow countrymen" (not meaning, as the words do, persons who live with
him in rural neighborhoods), is scarcely deserving of criticism; but the
silliness of the falsehoods of this latest English traveller among us,
may be referred to as illustrating the causes of the common prejudices
in England against the United States. After describing his arrival at
the Tremont House, in Boston, he says:

"A clerk [meaning our old friend Parker], dressed in the height
of fashion, presided at the bar [meaning the office] at which
we applied for rooms, wherein to perform our duties of the
toilet. The one to which I was directed contained several beds
without curtains, from which the occupants had evidently but a
short time previously taken their departure. This was however a
matter of indifference, as I imagined the apartment would have
been entirely at my own disposal. In the course of a few
minutes however, the door was opened, and in