rst published in England, that Parliament had always
favored the importation of foreign literature, and that the law would
still protect the property of the foreign author, recognize his rights,
and give him redress for all wrongs inflicted upon him in England.

This decision is one of very great importance, though not final, as the
pirating booksellers have determined to carry the matter before the
House of Lords, where Brougham, Lyndhurst, and several others of great
authority, are known to be against them. Meantime, Bentley and the other
purchasers of American copyrights, have issued advertisements warning
the public against the purchase of unauthorized editions.

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The Rev. DR. BAIRD has added to the number of his works _The Christian
Retrospect and Register, a Summary of Scientific Moral and Religious
Progress in the First Half of the XIXth Century_. (_12mo. M. W. Dodd._)
It is an interesting compend of events, of which even a condensed
history might fill a dozen volumes. In all respects it is superior to a
work of the same design published by Dr. Davis, and formerly reviewed in
this magazine.

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The _Parthenon_, is the title of a new work, remarkable for the beauty
of its typography and of its wood cuts, to be published by Loomis &
Griswold. It will be in about a dozen parts, the price of each of which
will be one dollar. The first number contains, with a new story by Mr.
Cooper, the best poem ever published by Mr. Duganne, and two really
excellent poems by William Ross Wallace.

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LOUISA PAYSON HOPKINS has just published (Gould & Lincoln of Boston) an
excellent little volume in practical religion, entitled _Life's Guiding
Star_, and designed to illustrate the second and third questions of the
Westminster Catechism.

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The works of the late Rev. WALTER COLTON, U. S. N., will soon be
completed in the edition of A. S. Barnes & Co. They have already
published _Ashore and Afloat_, and _Three Years in California_, which
appeared before the author's death, and since then, _Land and Lee_,
embracing the volume published many years ago under the title of
"Constantinople and Athens." The posthumous volumes are carefully and
judiciously edited by the Rev. HENRY T. CHEEVER, whose own works of a
somewhat similar character we have always to notice with praise.