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in the Athenæum, in which it is alleged that
there was not a particle of legal evidence against him. M. Libri is, and

was at the time of the appearance of the accusation against him, a
political exile in England.
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MAJOR RAWLINSON, F.R.S., has published a "Commentary on the
Cuneiform Inscriptions of Babylon and Assyria," including readings of
the inscriptions on the Nimroud Obelisk, discovered by Mr. Layard,
and a brief notice of the ancient kings of Nineveh and Babylon. It was
read before the Royal Asiatic Society.
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REV. DR. WISEMAN, author of the admirable work on the
Connection between Science and Religion, is to proceed to Rome
toward the close of the present month to receive the hat of a cardinal. It
is many years since any English Roman Catholic, resident in England,
attained this honor.
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THE OHIO HISTORICAL SOCIETY has published several interesting
volumes, of which the most important are those of Judge Burnett. An
address, by William D. Gallagher, its President, on the History and
Resources of the West and Northwest, has just been issued: and it has
nearly ready for publication a volume of Mr. Hildreth.
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THE IMPERIAL LIBRARY AT VIENNA has been enriched by a very
old Greek manuscript on the Advent of Christ, composed by a bishop
of the second century, named Clement. This manuscript was discovered
a short time since by M. Waldeck, the philologist, at Constantinople.
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MR. KEIGHTLEY's "History of Greece" has been translated into
modern Greek and published at Athens.
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GUIZOT's book on Democracy, has been prohibited in Austria,
through General Haynau's influence.
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WORDSWORTH'S POSTHUMOUS POEM, "The Prelude," is in the
press of the Appletons, by whose courtesy we are enabled to present the
readers of The International with the fourth canto of it, before its
publication in England. The poem is a sort of autobiography in blank
verse, marked by all the characteristics of the poet--his original vein of

thought; his majestic, but sometimes diffuse, style of speculation; his
large sympathies with humanity, from its proudest to its humblest
forms. It will be read with great avidity by his admirers--and there are
few at this day who do not belong to that class--as affording them a
deeper insight into the mind of Wordsworth than any of his other works.
It is divided into several books, named from the different situations or
stages of the author's life, or the subjects which at any period
particularly engaged his attention. We believe it will be more generally
read than any poem of equal length that has issued from the press in
this age.
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Miss COOPER's "RURAL HOURS"[1] is everywhere commended as
one of the most charming pictures that have ever appeared of country
life. The books of the Howitts, delineating the same class of subjects in
England and Germany, are not to be compared to Miss Cooper's for
delicate painting or grace and correctness of diction. The Evening Post
observes:
"This is one of the most delightful books we have lately taken up. It is a
journal of daily observations made by an intelligent and highly
educated lady, residing in a most beautiful part of the country,
commencing with the spring of 1848, and closing with the end of the
winter of 1849. They almost wholly concern the occupations and
objects of country life, and it is almost enough to make one in love with
such a life to read its history so charmingly narrated. Every day has its
little record in this volume,--the record of some rural employment,
some note on the climate, some observation in natural history, or
occasionally some trait of rural manners. The arrival and departure of
the birds of passage is chronicled, the different stages of vegetation are
noted, atmospheric changes and phenomena are described, and the
various living inhabitants of the field and forest are made to furnish
matter of entertainment for the reader. All this is done with great
variety and exactness of knowledge, and without any parade of science.
Descriptions of rural holidays and rural amusements are thrown in
occasionally, to give a living interest to a picture which would
otherwise become monotonous from its uniform quiet. The work is
written in easy and flexible English, with occasional felicities of
expression. It is ascribed, as we believe we have informed our readers,

to a daughter of J. Fenimore Cooper. Our country is full of most
interesting materials for a work of this sort; but we confess we hardly
expected, at the present time, to see them collected and arranged by so
skillful a hand."
[Footnote 1: RURAL HOURS: