ngland, and will
soon give to the world his views of society and manners in America. He
said indeed on one or two occasions that he should write no book about
us, yet we have it from excellent authority that he has matured his plan
for the purpose, and will lose no time in bringing out the results of
his summer's observation.

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DR. HOLBROOK, of Charleston, whose splendid work on reptiles entitles
him to be ranked with the great naturalists of the time, has taken up
his residence for the summer, we understand, at Cambridge,
Massachusetts, where he will be occupied with his forthcoming book on
American fishes, which in the beauty of its illustrations at least will
equal his previous performance.

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MR. JUDD has in the press of Phillips & Sampson, a new edition of his
first and best novel, _Margaret, a Tale of the Real and the Ideal_. We
hope it will be illustrated with the admirable sketches of Darley.

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MR. SCHOOLCRAFT, we are pleased to learn, has in the press of
Lippincott, Grambo & Co., his personal memoirs. They will constitute a
work of much and varied interest.

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MR. MELVILLE will soon be again before the public in a romance. The
title of his new work is not announced, but we believe it is in press.

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We have before us the first volume--printed at Charleston, with an
elegance that would do credit to our best northern printers--of the
_History of Alabama, and Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, from
the Earliest period_, by ALBERT JAMES PICKETT. In _The International_
for May we gave some account of the design. The work is executed
throughout with great care, and Colonel Pickett may be congratulated
upon having done a very important service to his State, by his arduous
and intelligently prosecuted labors, of which he gives an interesting
account in the following extract from his preface:

"About four years since, feeling impressed with the fact
that it is the duty of every man to make himself, in some
way, useful to his race, I looked around in search of some
object, in the pursuit of which I could benefit my
fellow-citizens; for, although much interested in
agriculture, that did not occupy one-fourth of my time.
Having no taste for politics, and never having stu