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sustains in his removal, but congratulate Charleston upon the
recovery of one of the best known and most loved attractions of her
society.
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Mr. John R. Bartlett's boundary commission will soon be upon the field
of its activity. We were pleased to see that Mr. Davis, of Massachusetts,
a few days ago presented in the Senate petitions from Edward Everett,
Jared Sparks, and others, and from the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, at Boston, to the effect that it would be of great public utility

to attach to the boundary commission to run the line between the
United States and Mexico, a small corps of persons well qualified to
make researches in the various departments of science.
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William C. Richards, the very clever and accomplished editor of the
Southern Literary Gazette was the author of "Two Country Sonnets,"
contributed to a recent number of _The International_, which we
inadvertently credited to his brother, T. Addison Richards the
well-known and much esteemed landscape painter.
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MAJOR POUSSIN, so well-known for his long residence in this
country as an officer of engineers, and, more recently, as Minister of
the French republic,--which, intelligent men have no need to be assured,
he represented with uniform wisdom and manliness,--is now engaged at
Paris upon a new edition of his important book, The Power and
Prospects of the United States. We perceive that he has lately published
in the Republican journal _Le Credit_, a translation of the American
instructions to Mr. Mann, respecting Hungary. In his preface to this
document, Major Poussin pays the warmest compliments to the feelings,
measures and policy of our administration, with which he contrasts, at
the same time, those of the French Government. He hopes a great deal
for the Democratic cause in Europe from the moral influences of the
United States.
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DR. JOHN W. FRANCIS, one of the most excellent men, as well as
one of the best physicians of New York, has received from Trinity
College, Hartford, the degree of Doctor of Laws. We praise the
authorities of Trinity for this judicious bestowal of its honors. Francis's
career of professional usefulness and variously successful intellectual
activity, are deserving such academical recognition. His genial love of
learning, large intelligence, ready appreciation of individual merit, and
that genuine love of country which has led him to the carefullest and
most comprehensive study of our general and particular annals, and to
the frequentest displays of the sources of its enduring grandeur,
constitute in him a character eminently entitled to our affectionate
admiration.
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THE POEMS OF GRAY, in an edition of singular typographical and
pictorial beauty, are to be issued as one of the autumn gift-books by
Henry C. Baird, of Philadelphia. They are to be edited by the tasteful
and judicious critic, Professor Henry Reed, of the University of
Pennsylvania, to whom we were indebted for the best edition of
Wordsworth that appeared during the life of that poet. We have looked
over Professor Reed's life of Gray, and have seen proofs of the
admirable engravings with which the work will be embellished. It will
be dedicated to our American Moxon, JAMES T. FIELDS, as a
souvenir. we presume, of a visit to the grave of the bard, which the two
young booksellers made together during a recent tour in Europe. Mr.
Baird and Mr. Fields are of the small company of publishers, who, if it
please them, can write their own books. They have both given pleasant
evidence of abilities in this way.
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BURNS.--It appears from the Scotch papers that the house in
Burns-street, Dumfries, in which the bard of "Tam o'Shanter" and his
wife "bonnie Jean," lived and died, is about to come into the market by
way of public auction.
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"EUROPE, PAST AND PRESENT:" A comprehensive manual of
European Geography and History, derived from official and authentic
sources, and comprising not only an accurate geographical and
statistical description, but also a faithful and interesting history of all
European States; to which is appended a copious and carefully arranged
index, by Francis H. Ungewitter, LL.D.,--is a volume of some six
hundred pages, just published by Mr. Putnam. It has been prepared with
much well-directed labor, and will be found a valuable and
comprehensive manual of reference upon all questions relating to the
history, geographical position, and general statistics of the several
States of Europe.
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M. LIBRI, of whose conviction at Paris (_par contumace_, that is, in
default of appearance), of stealing books from public libraries, we have
given some account in _The International_, is warmly and it appears to
us successfully defended