ention. Dr. Bush adds to the work a preface
and notes.

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MISS MARTINEAU and a Mr. Atkinson have just published a volume entitled
"Letters on Man's Nature and Development," in which they handle very
boldly the subjects of Mesmerism, Clairvoyance, Phrenology, &c. It is
altogether and avowedly materialistic.

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JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL has written a satire upon "The Rappers,"--a
humorous and witty poem of a thousand lines or so, which will be out, we
believe in _Graham's Magazine_, during the month.

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MR. HENRY C. PHILLIPS, once, we understand, a companion of the traveller
Catlin, proposes to publish from his note-book and portfolio, "Sites for
Cities, and Scenes of Beauty and Grandeur, to be made famous by the
Poets and Painters of Coming Ages: observed in a Pedestrian Journey
across the middle of the North American Continent, in 1850." This is a
good title, and such a book will be interesting a thousand years hence,
for its prophecies. Surveying the vast chain of mountains, which rises
midway between the oceans, a poetical Jesuit said, "They are in labor
with nations." Mr. Phillips might easily have fancied, as he pursued his
summer journey through the wilderness from Oregon and California, among
regions more lovely and magnificent than any that were seen by the
fathers of art, that of such sights should be born nobler works than
have yet been addressed to the senses or to the imagination; and it is
not improbable that many a London, and Moscow, and Berlin, and Paris,
will some time have their busy populations, where now the ground is
hidden by the falling leaves of forests, and trampled by wild horses and
buffaloes.

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ONE of the most eminent of the living English historians, lately
discovered, as he thought, that "Old Sam Adams" was a _defaulter_, and
that he was opposed to Washington; and not choosing to wait until the
exposure could be made in his forthcoming work, he communicated it to a
very distinguished American, by letter. Now this is all sheer nonsense.
It is not necessary to deny the justice of the suspicion that Samuel
Adams was unfriendly to Washington, and all the facts as to his conduct
as collector for his Majesty's port of Boston, are perfectly familiar to
our historical students. He did not indeed pay into the exchequer every
shilling wit