THE "London Spectator" having intimated that in Miss Braddon's novel, "The Doctor's Wife," the best parts were at least derived from Flaubert's "Madame Bovary," the lady replies thus:

"Your criticism of The Doctor's Wife' gave me so much gratification that I should be wanting in gratitude were I to allow you to remain under any misapprehension with regard to that book. Permit me then to say, that between it and Madame Bovary' no reasonable comparison can be sustained; most assuredly the latter in no way gave rise to the former. Gustave Flaubert's novel is a morbid analysis of a vicious and sensual woman, who abandons herself unhesitatingly to a career of unmitigated infamy. In The Doctor's Wife' Isabel Sleaford is a sentimental girl, whose mind is steeped in girlish poetry, and whose romantic temperament preserves her from degradation, after leading her into danger. The very points you praised in The Doctor's Wife' are those in which that story differs most from 'Madame Bovary.' Indeed, the only resemblance it is possible for the most severe critieism to discover between the two books is in the solitary fact that the heroine of each is the wife of a provincial surgeon and leads a dull life. All the characters, all the situations, incidents, scenery, dialogue, reflections, are entirely my own; and I defy the most searching scrutiny to detect a parallel passage or a borrowed thought.

"For the Lady's Mile,' I can also affirm that it is all my own thunder, very mild thunder, perhaps, but warranted genuine, nevertheless.

"I am, sir, &c.,

"M. E. BRADDON.

"23 Mecklenburgh Square, May 2, 1866."

BRITISH ASSOCIATION.-Sir David Brewster, now Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and in his 85th year, is generally credited with having founded the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the first meeting of which was held at York, in the year 1831. The subsequent annual meetings have been held in the principal cities and towns of the United Kingdom. The different sections of the Society, each of which has its own president and committee, are: A., Mathematical and Physical Science; B., Chemistry; C., Geology'; D., Zoology and Botany, including Physiology; E., Geography and Ethnology; F., Economic Science and Statistics; G., Mechanical Science. Many scientific Americans are members of this association, the next meeting of which will be held at Nottingham (not far from Sherwood Forest, the scene of many of Robin Hood's adventures), on Wednesday, Aug. 22, under the presidency of Mr. Grove, with the Dukes of Devonshire and Rutland, Lord Belper and Messrs. J. E. Denison, J. C. Webb, Thomas Graham, Joseph Hooker, J. R. Hind and T. Close as VicePresidents: Dr. Robertson, Mr. E. J. Lowe, and the Rev. J. F. M'Callan acting as Local Secretaries. Mr. William Robert Grove, who is a Queen's Counsel since 1853, is the "leader" of the South Wales and Chester law circuits, ranks high in the profession, but is more eminent as a man of science. Called to the bar in 1835, he was prevented by ill | health from practising as a lawyer, and employed his enforced leisure in the study of electricity. The result was his discovery of that great power, Grove's battery. In 1842 he first advanced the doctrine of the mutual convertibility of the various natural forces heat, electricity, &c., and of their being all modes of motion. He also discovered the gas voltaic battery and the striæ in the electrical discharge.

OLD COINS.-Our American numismatical collectors sometimes pay fancy prices for old and rare coins, but none of them have approached the prices

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lately paid in London, at the sale of a remarkable series of early British and Anglo-Saxon coins collected by Captain Murchison. An unpublished penny of Jaenberht, Archbishop of Canterbury under Offa, brought $190; penny of Ethered, Archbishop of Canterbury under Alfred, $230; penny of Cynethryth, Queen of Offa, an unpublished coin, $175; a penny of Baldred, one of the Kings of Kent, $240; a silver coin of Queen Boadicea, $105. These are prices to try, not men's souls, but their purses. Charles Lamb," by B. W. Procter, will be publishCHARLES LAMB.-In a few months the "Life of Lamb died in December, 1834, and Procter is now ed: "Elia," illustrated by " Barry Cornwall." 76 years old. Talfourd's "Life" and "Memorials" of Lamb are not quite satisfactory, for they hint as much as they reveal. They err, also, in representhe retired from his office in the India House, in 1827, ing Lamb as a badly paid man of letters. When after twenty-seven years' almost nominal labor there, he was receiving, and had long received, £700 a year, and was superannuated on £450 a year, with a pension to his sister in the event of her surviving him, which she did. In fact, Lamb was better off, all his life, than most of his literary contemporaries.

ANATRIPTIC ART.-The practice of inventing new words, without any imperative necessity for doing so, seems to increase. Here is the latest example, an advertisement in a London newspaper : "Just published, price 1s. 6d., The Anatriptic Art, a History of the Art termed Anatripsis by Hippocrates, Tripsis by Galen, Frictio by Celsus, Manipulation by Beveridge, and Medical Rubbing in Ordinary Language, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, followed by an Account of its Virtues in the Cure of Disease and Maintenance of Health, with Illustrative Cases. By Walter Johnson, M. B." The words anatriptic and anatripsis are not to be found in Worcester's or Webster's Dictionary.

DORE'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF TENNYSON. Messrs. Moxon, of London, who are Tennyson's publishers, announce to appear in December a volume (imperial 4to., price one guinea) containing "Elaine," by Alfred Tennyson, illustrated by Gustave Doré. There will be nine full-page drawings, engraved on steel, in the first style of art, by J. H. Baker. They say, "The designs of this artist have never yet been engraved on steel, and consequently have never been interpreted in their fullest sense. M. Doré has made these drawings with special reference to this mode of engraving, and it was at his special request that the publishers determined to incur the great outlay necessary to produce this book. It is also the first time that M. Doré has illustrated the works of a contemporary author, and, to use his own words, he desires the work To be a monument to Mr. Tennyson and to his own powers.'-'Mon frère a fait cette fois-ci le grand succès qui fera descendre son nom à la postérité.'-Ernest Doré.” As Doré is ignorant of English, "Elaine" was translated for him into French prose, and he has made his designs on this.

THE recent criticisms of Mr. Herman Merivale

upon the famous "Paston Letters," and the subsequent discussion upon their genuineness, says the

London Review," have suggested that a strict search should be instituted for all the originals. The Queen commanded an inquiry to be made for the three volumes of manuscript letters presented by Sir John Fenn to George III., but, notwithstanding the strictest search, they have not yet been discovered. In other depositories for the archives of the crown, search is also making, and it is now hoped that the inquiry taking place under direction of the Lord Chamberlain may be successful.

AN AGED POET.-Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, now seventy-eight years old, has just published a volume entitled "Shadows of the Past, in Verse." The wonder is, not that he has written poetry, but that he has kept it back so long. His lordship, first cousin to the celebrated George Canning (Prime Minister of England in 1827), was long known in the political and diplomatic world as Sir Stratford Canning, and spent nearly half his life in Constantinople as British ambassador to Turkey. He is spoken of, in Mr. Kinglake's "Invasion of the Crimea," in terms of great eulogy as the Great Effendi, and directed British policy, as regards Turkey, during the Russian war, not returning to England until 1858.

ANNE OF AUSTRIA.-Miss Freer, author of "The Married Life of Anne of Austria,' has announced the History of her Regency, during the youth of Louis the Fourteenth, from published and unpublished sources.

ANTIQUITY OF STEAM NAVIGATION.-Professor De Morgan, of London University, mentions a sixpenny tract, by Jonathan Hulls, printed in 1737, entitled: "A description and draught of a new-invented machine for carrying vessels or ships out of, or into any harbour, port, or river, against wind and tide, or in a calm. For which, His Majesty has granted letters patent, for the sole benefit of the author, for the space of fourteen years." He says this tract is so rare that its existence was once doubted. It is the earliest description of steam-power applied to navigation. The plate shows a barge, with smoking funnel, and paddles at the stem, towing a ship of war. The engine, as described, is Newcomen's. It is not known whether Hulls actually constructed a boat. In all probability his tract suggested to Symington, as Symington did to Fulton. MONTALEMBERT has just completed the third and

fourth volumes of the " Monks of the West."

These

volumes are entirely occupied with British ecclesiastical history. The third volume-after a brilliant sketch of the British character-is chiefly devoted to the conversion of Ireland by St. Patrick and the series of missionary enterprises which ensued. The fourth deals with the pure Anglo-Saxon period of English history.

AUTHORS' COPYRIGHT.-During the present session of the British Parliament, a bill was introduced by Lord Lyttelton to secure to authors of works of fiction the property in their dramatization. The bill was rejected, and the anomaly remains that, though a novel cannot be reprinted, its dialogue can be used on the stage. That is, it may not be reproduced in print, but it may in speech. The copyright law gives the author ownership of his own production for a certain number of years, but, it would appear, not that absolute ownership which would enable him to prevent vulgar or debasing dramatic adaptations of his works, and would give him an interest in their being put on the stage.

CESAR IN ENGLAND. While the Emperor Napoleon enters into a full description of the invasion of Britain by Julius Cæsar, the Rev. Scott F. Surtees, an English clergyman, so much doubts the leading point of the subject that he has just published a pamphlet called "Julius Cæsar: Did he ever Cross the Channel?"

"MONK" LEWIS.-Little has been heard of the late M. G. Lewis, whose "Tales of Wonder" excited Walter Scott into versification, in the last decade of the last century; but he is not torgotten, we see, for a London publisher announces an illustrated octavo edition of his once famous (we had well nigh said infamous) prose romance, "The Monk."

LOCAL HISTORY.-Maurice Lenigan, an Irish writer, has just given to the world, in one volume royal 8vo., "Limerick : its History and Antiquities, Ecclesiastical, Civil and Military, from the Earliest Ages; with copious Historical, Archæological, Topographical, Genealogical Notes and Illustrations; Maps, Plates, &c." It is creditable to the good sense of the Irish that, of late years, they have largely devoted themselves to the study of local history.

THE GAME OF CRICKET.-A reviewer in the "London Athenæum" derives the name of cricket from the Anglo-Saxon creag, a crooked club, and its origin from the Saxon sport of club-ball.

M. F. TUPPER.-A "blue and gold" edition of "Proverbial Philosophy" has appeared in London: of this work 200,000 copies have already been sold! In the whole seventeenth century there were only four editions of Shakspeare.

MENDELSSOHN, THE COMPOSER.-A complete edition of Mendelssohn's piano-forte works is now being published in London.

IMPERIAL BIOGRAPHY.-There has just been pubMaximilian I., Emperor of Mexico." It contains a lished, at Leipzig, the first volume of "Memoirs of brief notice of his early life, and a particular account of a tour through Italy which he made in the year 1851.

SIR WALTER SCOTT.-It is announced that Mr. Francis Turner Palgrave is writing the life of Sir Walter Scott, which will be published this year. It is time that a new biography of the great novelist and poet, by a competent person, should appear. Mr. Lockhart's book, though charming in many respects, particularly in introducing a great deal of Scott's correspondence, still is rather an apology for Scott's life than a fair biography. Mr. Palgrave is an excellent art-critic, has moved in high circles (he was private secretary to Mr. Gladstone for some time), and has contributed largely to periodi

cal literature.

IRISH PERIODICAL LITERATURE.-Dr. Madden, biographer of Lady Blessington, and author of "The United Irishmen, their Lives and Times," announces a History of Irish Periodical Literature.

THE POEM OF "MY MOTHER."-It appears that Annie Gilbert, née Taylor, who wrote "My Mother" over sixty years ago, is still alive. In reply to the objection to the last stanza, she has sent the following new reading to the "Athenæum:"_

"For could our Father in the skies

Look down with pleased or loving eyes,
If ever I could dare despise
My mother?"

MR. EDMUND YATES.-It is stated that, by Mr. C. Dickens' selection, the next serial story in " All the Year Round" will be written by Mr. Edmund Hodgson Yates, author of "Broken to Harness," and other novels, and "The Flaneur" in the "London Morning Star." Mr. Yates, who holds a high office in the General Post Office, London, is now thirty-five years old, and is son of Mr. Frederick Yates, the comedian, who was joint lessee of the Adelphi Theatre, London, with C. Mathews the elder, over twenty-seven years ago.

BRITISH MUSEUM.-Mr. J. Winter Jones has been appointed principal librarian of the British Museum, in the room of Mr. Panizzi, retired on a pension.

BEETHOVEN.-Lady Wallace, who translated Mendelssohn's "Letters from the German," has done the same good service to Beethoven's Correspondence, from the Collections of Dr. Ludwig Nohl and Dr. von Köchel.

PERIODICALS.

American Quarterly Church Review. July.

MISS THACKERAY.-"The Story of Elizabeth," which appeared in the "Cornhill Magazine" some time ago, was generally attributed to the eldest daughter of the late W. M. Thackeray. She has begun a new tale, illustrated, in the same periodical, and calls it "The Village on the Cliff."

SHAKSPEARE IN HINDOSTANEE.-It appears that the first volume of a Hindostanee translation of Shakspeare has been published at Bombay.

"PESCH."-On Saturday, June 30th, was completed the Fiftieth half-yearly volume of "Punch, or the London Charivari."

COPYING. In one of the London papers a person recently advertised "To authors and publishers. MSS. carefully and neatly copied and prepared for the press, at a charge of one penny per hundred words."

WILLIAM HONE.-Mr. Hotten, the London publisher, announces "Hone's Scrap-Book," a supplementary volume to the works of the late William Hone; and a republication of "The Table-Talker: a Series of Essays on Inns, Authors, Pictures, Doctors, Holidays, Actors," &c., by Mr. H. T. Tuckerman, with introduction by Dr. Doran.

OBITUARY.

There is an announcement of the death of Dr. GEORGE LILLIE CRAIK, who has been Professor of History and English Literature in Queen's College, Belfast, Ireland, since 1849. He was a native of Scotland, born in 1799. His first work of note, written at Lord Brougham's suggestion and published anonymously, was the "Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties." This was followed by the Pictorial History of England," and many other works, of which "A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language," republished by C. Scribner & Co., is the latest and most important. In his early manhood, when he first settled in London, he wrote a great deal for the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, and was much engaged on the "Penny Cyclopædia." M. JOSEPH MÉRY, a distinguished poet, dramatist, and politician, died in Paris on the 18th of June, in his sixty-ninth year. A native of Marseilles, where he was educated, he threw himself into politics while yet in his eighteenth year, strongly opposing the Bourbons after the Second Restoration. His satirical writings made him acquainted with the interior of a prison, after which, in 1824, he removed to Paris, where he joined the literary and political circle to which Armand Carrel, Victor Hugo, and Barthélémy belonged. He wrote in prose and verse, indulging largely in satire. He joined in the battles of the "Three Days of July," 1830, from which time he devoted himself to the Bonaparte cause. He wrote satires, plays, novels, travels-all with equal facility, and his conversation was as brilliant as his composition.

Church Monthly. July.

Some Thoughts on Ritualism for American Churchmen (Rev. C. W. Hayes).-Our Schools and Colleges Seeker (Rev. W. Mitchell).-Address at the Funeral (Rev. J. T. Huntington).-Bryan Maurice; or, The of Major-Gen. Seth Williams. - Memoir of Rev. John Keble (W. Harvey).-The Professor of Poetry at Oxford (Rev. N. H. Chamberlain). Boston: E. P. Dutton & Co.

Galaxy. July.

The Claverings: Chaps. XI. and XII. (A. Trollope). Pharaoh's Horses (Maria L. Poole).-Elements of -An American Colony in France (G. A. Townsend). the Art of Poetry (E. C. Stedman).-English Parties (G. M. Towle).-Frederic Edwin Church (H. T. Tuckerman).-The Harvest of the Sea (F. B. Perkins).-Evening Boat Song (Edwin R. Johnson). -Tormenting the Alphabet (George Wakeman).— Archie Lovell: Chaps. X. and XI. (Mrs. Edwards).— To a Poet on his Fortieth Birthday (R. H. Stoddard). The Art of Dining: No. IV. (Pierre Blot).Nebulæ. New York: W. C. & F. P. Church. Evangelical Quarterly Review. July.

Baptism (Prof. C. P. Krauth, D. D.).—The Lord's Supper (Prof. C. W. Schaeffer, D. D.).—The Atonement (Rev. C. A. Stork).-The Scriptural Idea of the Ministry: from the German of Dr. Plitt (Rev. J. D. Sevringhaus).-Reminiscences of Deceased Lutheran Ministers.-Confirmation (Rev. H. Harbaugh).-The Lost Books of the Old Testament (J. Macfarlane). The Everlasting Covenant of Promise to David (Rev. H. D. Ward).-Is the Doxology in Matthew vi. 13 an Interpolation?-Notices of New Publications. Gettysburg: M. L. Stoever, Editor. North American Review. July.

Indian Superstitions. The Mahabharata.Sumptuary Laws.-Moral Criteria and the Moral Sentiments.-The Mexican Question.-John Randolph.-The Mechanics of Modern Warfare.-English Poetry of the Period.-The Right of Suffrage. Critical Notices. Boston: Ticknor & Fields.

Christian Examiner. July.

God in our History.-Fichte (C. D. B. Mills).— The Character of Dante (W. R. Alger).-Rückert (H. J. Warner). The Method of Christian Charity (C. F. Barnard).-Miss Martineau's History of England (Rev. E. E. Hale).—The National Academy of Design (Clarence Cook).-Ecce Homo.-Review of Current Literature.-New Publications Received. New York: James Miller.

Methodist Quarterly Review. July.

The Second General Conference (Abel Stevens, LL.D.).—Bushnell's Vicarious Sacrifice (Rev. C. H. Fowler).-Hermeneutics and Homiletics: Second Article (S. M. Vail, D. D.).—Reminiscences of Rev. Henry Boehm (Rev. L. W. Peck).—John Bright (Rev. W. F. Mallalieu).—Relations of the Colored People to the Methodist Episcopal Church South (Rev. J. H. Caldwell).-The New York East Conference and the Southern General Conference (Rev. D. D. Whedon, D. D.).-Foreign Religious Intelligence.-Foreign Literary Intelligence.-Synopsis of the Quarterlies.-Quarterly Book Table. New York: Carlton & Porter.

HISTORICAL.

History of Julius Cæsar. Vol. II. The Wars in Gaul. pp. xvi., 659. New York: Harper & Bros.

It is impossible to deny that this book has marked ability. It exhibits a research and logical ability, a mingling of the mathematical and practical, highly characteristic of the Napoleonic intellectual makeup. It is thorough and brilliant. As for the political end of which it is but the means, it is not necessary to speak here. The larger part of this volume is occupied with a reproductive treatment of the Commentaries of Cæsar. It ends with the crossing of the Rubicon, and the putting of certain political points in a very strong way, touching the great Cæsar and "the heir of his name;" "which things" (we quote Paul now, not "Napoleon")" are an allegory," for this Cæsar is Napoleon Bonaparte, and the heir to his name is Louis Napoleon.

Four Years in the Saddle. By Col. Harry Gilmor. pp. 291. New York: Harper & Bros. This book has something of the dash of the rebel centaur who records his own doings. His revelation of himself shows him to have had a good deal of fondness for adventure, an unreflecting courage, and no little addictedness to swearing, boasting, and brandy.

A Narrative of Andersonville, drawn from the Evidence elicited on the Trial of Henry Wirz, the Jailor. With the Argument of Col. N. P. Chipman, JudgeAdvocate. By Ambrose Spencer. pp. 272. New York: Harper & Bros.

A well-arranged résumé of the facts in the Andersonville horror, as established by legal evidence.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Prevention of Panics; or, Suggestions for an Economical System of National Finance in Connection with the Construction of Public Works in any Country in the World, without either Subscriptions, Loans, Mortgages, Bonds, or Interest. By a Civil Engineer. Second edition, revised and corrected. pp. 58. London: H. Baily & Co.

The Albert Nyanza.

TRAVELS.

Great Basin of the Nile, and Explorations of the Nile Sources. By Samuel White Baker. With Maps, Illustrations, and Portraits. pp. xxvi., 516. London: Macmillan & Co. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. This handsome and well-illustrated volume tells the story of the discovery of the great lake from which the Nile flows, to which Mr. Baker has given the name of "Albert," the late Prince Consort. The parrative is one of great interest, and free from all air of exaggeration.

RELIGIOUS.

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that which is to Come. Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream. Wherein is Described the Manner of his Setting Out, his Dangerous Journey, and his Arrival at the Desired Country. By John Bunyan. pp. 612. Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union.

This edition is in large print, with Scripture parallels and side-notes, pictorial illustrations, and an index, all making it a very desirable form of the Christian classic.

Household Prayers for Four Weeks, with Additional Prayers for Special Occasions. To which is appended a Course of Scripture Readings in the Family for Every Day in the Year. By Rev. J. E. Riddle, M. A. Revised, with additions and slight alterations, by a Presbyter of the Protestant Episcopal Church. pp. 179. New York: James Pott. book is entitled to a very honorable place in the Both as regards arrangement and matter this almost infinite variety of works of its general class. Studies upon the Harmony of the Three Dispensations of Grace. By a Layman of the Diocese of Maryland. pp. 740. New York: James Pott. This little book is the "brief of an aged lawyer, upon an issue in the High Chancery of Heaven." It is a very clear and sensible presentation of religious truth from a churchly point of view. The Young Lady of Pleasure. pp. 316. New York: American Tract Society.

This book is singularly unfortunate in its title, sufficiently so to be injured in its circulation by it. It is a very sensible book on amusements suitable and unsuitable for young ladies, and argues from a very decided, yet not extravagant, "evangelical" position.