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with his hat on, a grave man and of magisterial demeanor, is "the wisest, greatest, meanest of mankind," the famous Lord Bacon; near by Fletcher, the dramatist, sits leaning on his hand, and Beaumont, his partner, whispers to the young and handsome John Selden, distinguished from the others by his flowing locks. Beside these, there are Daniel, the poet-laureate, and Donne, Dean of Saint Paul's, Camden, the historian, and Sackville, Earl of Dorset. The distribution of the figures is impartial, and the composition of the entire picture most happy. A massive curtain, the texture of which is exquisitely reproduced in the engraving, lends its rich comfort to the room, and the architecture, adornments, and furniture have a certain keeping with that Elizabethan company.

We are promised a sight, ere long, of the work which has achieved a more sudden and complete popularity than any other British picture for many years--a picture so full of human interest, one that so seizes and holds fast the hearts of the British people, made keenly sympathetic by the horrors and sorrows of a recent war, that the crowd weeps before it, even the Queen bestowed her tears, and critics turn from it with nothing to say. We allude to Mr. Noel Paton's "Home," The Return from the Crimea. Messrs. Williams & Stevens have admitted us to a sight of a photograph, which, imperfect as it is, still affords a touching idea of the intense pathos of its simplicity and truth. A tall guardsman, torn, dusty, jaded, emaciated, has just returned to his cottage home. Evidently he entered unawares, for it is the speechless, tearless shock of the picture which holds us silent and bowed before it. The soldier has sunk into a chair before the fire; his wife lies at his feet, her arms about him, her head on his breast; behind him his old mother buries her face in his neck; the baby sleeps in the cradle; with long swinging pendulum the old clock ticks--you can see it tick-on the wall; through the cottage casement soft twilight settles down upon a peaceful landscape and begins to veil the village spire; the fire-light flickers, and grotesque shadows dance on the wall; the grandmother's spectacles lie where they have just fallen, on the open page of the Bible; on a chair by the fire lies the work which the happy wife flung there when she threw herself with a sup

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pressed scream into the arms (alas! he has but one!) of her brave husband; inside the box-bed hangs the old fiddle, dumb now. once for all; on the floor are the stick and bundle, and a Russian helmet, a trophy plainly, and cumbersome present to the wife. There is the medal with a double clasp that tells of gallant exploits; and there are the bandaged temples that tell of close quarters and sharp slashing; and there is the empty sleeve that tells of bombs and the trenches; and there are the sunken cheeks that tell of the hospital. The soldier gazes vacantly into the firenot a word, not a tear; he has not gathered his wits together yet; as yet the old pain is too much for the new joy. The wife rests, at last, upon his sturdy breast-a swooning pallor overspreads her face, and her eyes are closed-not a word, not a tear, not a movement, unless, perhaps, some habitual feeling for that absent hand. The old mother has a story in her weeds, her cap trembles, her hands are clasped convulsively, we do not need to see her face to know the look it wears. We know that no sound escapes her. Nothing breaks the silence but the ticking of the clock; it is the picture's hush which makes you also silent. Of it a London paper says: "Out of war, the dreadfulest of all the miseries of Time, comes this appeal to the deepest, gentlest, purest affections of our common nature. Thus it is that such art, of imagination all compact, instinct with the beauty of truth, and the truth of beauty,

serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation,' and by so doing, doth raise and erect the mind.'"

In our election-phobia we have music to get away to. Since Maretzek, disgusted, broke his operatic wand and retired into the seclusion of dollar concerts, we have been regaled with some most delectable feasts in that kind-Lagrange and Adelaide Phillips, assisted by Amodio, Brignoli, Coletti, and Ceresa, serving us with the choicest lyric fruits, gathered principally from the gardens of Verdi and Meyerbeer. The Trovatore and L'Etoile du Nord in what may be called civil dress-that is, without their bravery of scenery and costume-have filled the Assembly Rooms with delighted guests, to whom the fatigue-dress freedom of those reunions afforded an agreeable relaxation from the formal lorgnetted lines of the Academy.

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THE FOX IN A BARN-YARD.

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OUR IRON CONSTITUTION.

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Nothing extenuate nor aught set down in malice."

A JOURNEY IN THE

SEABOARD SLAVE STATES,

BY

WITH REMARKS ON THEIR ECONOMY,

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED,

AUTHOR OF "WALKS AND TALKS OF AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND."

Illustrated with Wood Engravings. 1 thick vol. $1.25.

This book is exciting much attention in England. Most of the leading journals have made copious extracts from it. The Daily News has had two articles, each several columns in length, based upon the information it conveys and the suggestions it affords, the tenor of which may be inferred from the following extract: It appears from the title page that Mr. Olmsted is the author of a work which was published some years ago, under the title of Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England." We have not seen that book. Those who have may probably be prepared for the extraordinary merit of the work before us. In temper, in manners, in conscientiousness, and a vigorous and cheerful anxiety for justice all round, it is a model for travellers and indeed for everybody.

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321 BROADWAY, November 1, 1856.

DIX, EDWARDS & CO.,

Have Just Published, 12mo., cloth, pp. 525, Price $1.12.

CALIFORNIA IN-DOORS AND OUT;

OR,

How we Farm, Mine, and Live generally in the Golden State.

BY ELIZA W. FARNHAM.

It is a goodly land, my lord, of richest stores
And most delightsome ways. The pleasant sky
Doth never weep upon't thro' all the sunny

Summer months.

Aye, but knowest thou not, good Jacques,
That e'en with precious stores, and smiling skies,
And beauteous earth, there lacketh much.

PERU.-An Old Play.

TWO NEW BOOKS OF TRAVEL.

I.

THE GOLDEN DAGON;

OR, UP AND DOWN THE IRRAWADDI.

Being Passages of Adventure in the Burman Empire.
BY AN AMERICAN.

12mo., cloth, illustrated Title Page, price $1.
The author served as Surgeon on board an English
armed steamer during the late Burmese war, and in |
this book gives a most vivid and picturesque account
of his remarkable adventures.

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ORIENTAL ACQUAINTANCE.

IN A SERIES OF

LETTERS FROM ASIA MINOR.

BY

J. W. DE FORREST.

12mo., cloth, price 87 cents.

These are fresh and most agreeable views, taken from advantageous points of observation, of those The fact that so little is known of the singular peo-storied fields of Palestine, which have employed ple of Burmah-the "land of the White Elephant," the "Throne of the Golden Foot," and that the present work is the first of its kind in a new and most curious field, renders the "Golden Dagon" a peculiarly interesting book.

already so many masterly pencils, full as they are of "the splendor and the havoc of the East." The clever sketches of our Oriental Acquaintance serve well to show how far this most fruitful of travel-subjects 18 from being exhausted.

BOOKS IN PREPARATION.

GEORGE W. CURTIS. A Complete and Uniform Edition of his Works. 12mo. Cloth, 5 vols. VOL. 1. PRUE AND I. (A new book.)

2. NILE NOTES.

VOL. 5. POTIPHAR PAPERS.

VOL. 3. HOWADJI IN SYRIA. VOL. 4. LOTUS EATING. (In a Few Days.)

TRAVELS THROUGH TEXAS. BY FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED. A Continuation of his Seaboard Slave States." (In November.)

JUNIUS—LORD CHATHAM, a Biographical Statement.

Showing that the elder William Pitt was the writer of those anonymous letters. By WILLIAM DowE. (Early in November.) LAKE NGAMI; OR, EXPLORATIONS AND DISCOVERIES during Four Years' Wandering in South Western Africa. By CHARLES JOHN ANDERSSON. With many Illustrations of Sporting Adventures, Subjects of Natural History, &c. (In December.) BRITTANY AND LA VENDEE, Tales and Sketches, with a Notice of the Life and Literary Character of EMILE SOUVESTRE. (Shortly.)

GREECE AND THE GREEKS OF THE PRESENT DAY. By EDMUND ABOUT. Author of "Tolla." Translated by Authority.' (Shortly.)

TALES OF FLEMISH LIFE. By HENDRIK CONSCIENCE. (In a Few Days.)

THE HISTORY OF SIR THOMAS THUMB, by the Author of "Heir of Redcliffe." "Little Duke," &c. Beautifully Illustrated by J. B. (In November.)

ILLUSTRATIONS OF SCRIPTURE. By an ANIMAL PAINTER. Beautifully Photographed, with Notes by a Naturalist.

The first book on which this art has been attempted. (In November.)

CHILDREN'S NEW AND PRETTY BOOKS.

SCHOOLFELLOW. VOL. 1. Illustrated.
ABOUT NEW YORK. By PHILLIP WALLYS.
GOLD AND SILVER. By A. W. H.

TOWN AND COUNTRY. By R. W.
STODDARD. (All to be published in
December.)

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CONTENTS OF No. XLVIII.

PAGE

4. GOTTINGEN IN 1824,

1. THE FLORIDA KEYS,

2. BLUEBEARD'S CHAMBER,

3. WITCHING TIMES-A NOVEL IN THIRTY CHAPTERS,

5. LAKE NGAMI; OR, THE WATERS BEYOND KALAHARI,

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Our Quadrennial Election and its influence on Books-Hudson's Skakespeare-Peterson's Edition of Dickens' Works-Bayard Taylor's Cyclopædia of Modern Travel-Dr. Jenk's Rural Poetry of the English Language-Cranch's Sequel to the last of the Huggermuggers, Kobboltoza-The History of Sir Tom Thumb-The Modern Story Teller-The Old Corner Cupboard, or the Everyday Life of Every-day People-Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz's Volume of Stories-Arnold's Poetry -Alger's Poetry of the East-Mrs. Farnham's California-De La Hodde's History of Secret Societies, and of the Republican Party in France.

Comments on Current Matters,

660 Our next president-In France-Louis Napoleon's financial make-shifts-The king of Naples threatened by the English and French-The Irish Census-The Emperor of Russia designs to have a grand commercial marine-General Walker and Central America-Prof. Morse in England-The Irish soldiers of the Crimea-Russia a commercial nation--Our war frigate Merrimac-Dickens' notice of old pictures-The British on the point of going to war with Persia-Dr. Dixon on Lager Beer-Lamartine's complaint of the English-The copyright law in Denmark-The L+ don Spectator on forgeries and embezzlements.

The World of New York,

364 The True Indian Summer-Welcome to the worn-out with the Passionate Excitement of the long Presidential Struggle-The Play is over-The Serious work has just begun-What De Focqueville said twenty-five years age of Parties in America-Our Elections a Safety Valve The Peopl of the North-Americans have no Physiognomy?-A Torch-light Jubilee-London would not Allow a Torch-light Procession-How shall we be Entertained in the coming Winter Days Thalberg at Niblo's Saloon-Mr. Burton's new Play, Self-Mr Wallack.

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