play of the Ammergau in Bavaria. The last
representation took place in the month of July; the spectators were
betwixt eight and nine thousand, collected in an open air theatre; the
corps of actors, three hundred and fifty in number, some of them, says a
French account, men and women as old as eighty years.

The play, which was written in 1633, and which had been recently
retouched, is in twelve acts and eleven _entr'acts_ interspersed with
_tableaux_. The representation lasted from eight o'clock in the morning,
till four in the afternoon, was most elaborately prepared, and perfectly
executed. At its close, the actors fell on their knees and recited
prayers in which they thanked God that their performance had succeeded
so well. They were of the peasant class, and almost all belonged to the
Ammergau. "This same Ammer-valley," says the _Athenaeum_, "lies in a most
picturesque country, betwixt Munich and Innspruck--on the road by the
Lake of Staremberg and Partenkirch."

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AMBASSADORS.--Holland, Germany, France, America, Spain, send forth their
eminent lawyers, historians, merchants, jurists, and publicists, to fill
embassies and conduct negotiations; while we content ourselves with
recruiting our diplomatic corps from the younger branches of the
aristocracy, or from the sons of men of wealth apeing the manners and
travestying the mode of life of the grand seigneurs, who conceive
themselves made of "the porcelain of earth's clay." The
Schimmelpennicks, the De Serres, the Rushes, the Wheatons, the Clays,
the Adamses, the Jeffersons, the Rufus Kings, the Daniel Websters, the
Dr. Bankses, have all been lawyers; the Washington Irvings, the
Bancrofts, the Guizots, the Bunsens, the Niebuhrs, the Humboldts, the
Ancillons, were men of letters before and during the period they
continued ambassadors.--_Fraser._

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M. GUIZOT has been compelled to sell at auction a portion of his
valuable and extensive library, and a London paper describes some of the
more remarkable books, and states the prices for which they were sold.
"Comte Auguste de Bastard, Peintures et Ornemens des Manuscrits Francais
depuis le huitieme siecle jusqu'a la fin du seizieme," 20 parts, all at
present published, in five portfolios, Paris, 1835. This splendid work
was described as the most sumptuous, unique, and costly book that has
ever been produced. Each part contains eight plate