to Paris with the
remains of her fortune; robbed by her domestics, she was
reduced to beggary, and continued to lead a wretched
existence to the extraordinary age of one hundred and
thirty-four!"

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M. CUVILLIER-FLEURY has published _Portraits Politiques et
Revolutionnaires_, containing Louis Philippe and the Duchess d'Orleans,
Causes of the Revolution, Lamartine, Louis Blanc, Eugene Sue, Victor
Hugo, Proudhon, &c., &c. M. Cuvillier-Fleury was one of the Secretaries
of Louis Philippe.

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MR. PARKE GODWIN'S beautiful romance of Vala (published by Putnam) has
been translated into the Swedish language. One of the journals of
Stockholm announces the translation in terms of just appreciation. "Our
excellent Lind," it is observed, "is showered over with the California
gold, but no tribute given her can equal in worth the exquisite gem
which is here cast at her feet by this most imaginative author."

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The author of "How to make Home Unhealthy" has published in London _A
Defence of Ignorance_. It is addressed to the largest of the markets,
but to one that buys few books.

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A new novel by CHARLES DICKENS is to be commenced early in the autumn.
Neither the title nor the subject has been announced.

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A noble author, Viscount MAIDSTONE, has just published a poem in six
cantos, under the title of Abd-el-Kader.

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MR. THACKERAY, who promises to come and see us, and who, of course, will
talk about us with the world afterwards, is delivering a course of six
lectures in London upon the English humorists. The first was good, and
as good as was expected, which is great praise--for few things are so
difficult as for a famous man to satisfy public expectation. The London
_Leader_ thus speaks of it:

"On Thursday the great satiric painter of social life--the
Fielding of our times--commenced at Willis's rooms the first
of those 'Lectures on the English Humorists of the
Eighteenth Century,' which many months ago we announced as
in preparation. We have never heard a lecture that delighted
us more. It was thoughtful and picturesque, with some
wonderful traces of pathos and far-reaching sentences.
Dwelling upon the moral aspects o