s the people to tears and indignation. The Peasant's Song
prophecies the time when independent industry shall render the earth
blooming with fertility, and the corn and wine shall "be free as warmth
in summer weather." While the majority of his poems are political and
social, some of them are full of love and appreciation of outward
nature. In one, the Romance of the Poplar, this sentiment is finely
combined with the spirit of liberty.

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ARAGO'S great work, which was some time since announced in the
_International_, is now nearly complete and will soon be given to the
public. The scientific and literary world of Europe expect it with
impatience. It is said even that Alexander von Humboldt intends to be
its translator into German, but this is not probable. It is also rumored
that the author gives an appendix in which he for the moment abandons
science for politics, in order to pay off some of the attacks he has
suffered from Proudhon. Our own opinion is that he had better stick to
his trade and leave Proudhon alone.

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CHARLES SUMNER has published (through Ticknor, Reed & Fields of Boston,)
two volumes of his "Orations and Addresses." Mr. Sumner is a scholar of
the finest and rarest capacities and accomplishments. He is of the
school of Everett, but has more earnestness, and consequently more
compactness of expression, and more force. He enters heartily into all
the 'progressive' movements of the day, and is of many the intellectual
leader. His bravery is equal to every emergency into which he may be led
by a search after truth, and to all combats he brings arms of the truest
metal and most exquisite polish. There are in New-England many more
fervid and powerful orators, but we know of none whose orations are
delivered with a more pleasing eloquence. We have not leisure now to
review Mr. Sumner's volumes; but if among our readers there are any who
desire to see displayed the "very form and spirit" of the new age, we
commend them to "The True Grandeur of Nations," and the other
discourses, speeches, and essays, here published.

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"THE MANHATTANER IN NEW-ORLEANS" is the title of a small volume, from
the press of J. S. Redfield, which was written by an accomplished
New-York lawyer who had resided some time in the Crescent City. It is a
very graphic and delightful picture of the social life of the me