after this
wise:

"Why, sir, she is somewhat of a myth, making her avatars in literature
with all the caprice and variety of Vishnou or Brougham; her maiden name
of Rose Stewart has not, that we can discover, been stained with
printer's ink, but we trace her as 'Arthur Dudley' in the _Revue des
Deux Mondes_ writing upon Bulwer and Dickens, we next find her as
'Maurice Flassan' in _Les Francais Aeints par eux-memes_. Rumor further
whispereth that she had a finger in 'Albert Lunel,' one of the
eccentricities of an eccentric law-lord, which was hurriedly suppressed,
one knows not why; in the _Edinburgh Review_ she wrote a paper on
Moliere, and for Charles Knight's _Weekly Volume_ a pleasant little book
about Racine, on the title-page of which she is styled 'Madame Blaize
Bury;' since that time you observe she has blossomed into a Baroness _de_
Bury! Let us add that she is the wife of Henri Blaze, known as agreeable
critic and the translator of Faust, that she is said to be a great
favorite with the author of 'Albert Lunel,' and that she has the two
novels 'Mildred Vernon' and 'Leonie Vermont' placed to her account: how
many other shapes she may have assumed we know not; are these not enough?
Whether, after all, a flesh-and-blood Madame de Bury exists is more than
We can decide. _Une supposition!_ what if, after all, she should turn out
to be Lord Brougham himself? The restless energy of that Scottish
Phenomenon renders everything possible. _He_ does not agree with Pliny's
witty friend, that it is better to be idle than to do nothing--_satius
est otiosum esse quam nihil agere_."

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REV. CHARLES ELLIOT, D.D. of Cincinnati, has published, through the
Methodist printing house of that city, an important work on Slavery, in
two duodecimo volumes. Dr. Ellliot has declined the acceptance of the
Biblical Professorship in McKendree College, on the ground that he is
busily engaged in preparing works for the press, including a thorough
investigation of the Biblical argument in defense of slavery.

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A NEW edition of a Lexicon of the Dakota language (of an Indian tribe
near Lake Superior,) has just been completed by the missionaries. It
contains upward of fifteen thousand words. Near thirteen years or more of
labor have been expended upon it.

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JUDGE SYDNEY BREESE, late U.S. Senator, at the commencement of Kn