part of him was sent to the
bourne he was so fond of describing in fine rhetoric when he wrote
duel-challenges until a few days ago, when a friend advised us that he
had lately listened to him saying mass in a Roman Catholic chapel in
Mississippi. Who would have thought it?

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MR. CHARLES SCRIBNER, (successor of Baker & Scribner,) has in press a
large number of interesting new works, among which are _Incidents in the
Life of a Pastor_, by the Rev. Dr. Wisner of Ithica; _The Captains of
the Old World_, by Henry William Herbert; _Naval Life: the Midshipman_,
by Lieutenant Lynch, Commander of the late Dead Sea Expedition; _The
Fall of Poland_, by L. C. Saxton; _The Evening Book_, by Mrs. Kirkland;
_Rural Homes_, by G. Wheeler; _The Epoch of Creation_, in which the
scripture doctrine is contrasted with the geological theory, by Eleazer
Lord; &c.

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We perceive by the religious journals that Mr. JOHN NEAL, who for twenty
or thirty years has been the chief literary gladiator of the country,
has recently given his attention to religion, and is now laboring with
characteristic activity for its advancement in the city and vicinity of
Portland. Of course this is very pleasing intelligence, but we cannot
help a regret that the conversion of the author of "Randolph" had not
taken place before he printed his reviewal of the _Life of Poe_.

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MRS. FRANCES H. GREEN has in press a collection of her Poems, which will
soon be published in a stout duodecimo, by Mr. Strong, in Nassau-street.
The merits of Mrs. Green may be partially inferred from the notice of
her in the article on our Female Poets which we translate from the last
number of the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, in another part of this magazine.
She has remarkable powers of description, a rich fancy, and much
poetical feeling.

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MR. MITCHELL has published (Charles Scribner) a new edition of his
_Fresh Gleanings_, one of the most delightful books of travel we ever
read; a new edition, with a preface, in which he for the first time
avows himself the author of _The Lorgnette_, (Stringer & Townsend); and
he has a new work in the press of Mr. Scribner, besides a new and
illustrated edition of _The Reveries of a Bachelor_.

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MR. MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, F.R.S., has returned to E