of his power), that the proclamation of the
republic would lead to the domination of a member of
Napoleon's family, and so it has; though if any one only six
months before Louis Napoleon's election had predicted the
same thing, he would certainly have been set down as a
lunatic. In consequence of this extraordinary foresight of
our prophet, people have looked with no little concern to
what he says for the future. And alas! they have met with
nothing very consolatory. We are, it seems, on the brink of
a fearful social crisis, the consequence of which will be
the complete destruction of European society as at present
constituted; and this destruction is only to be effected by
the shedding of rivers of blood, and the weeping of oceans
of tears!"

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WE are pleased to perceive that the writings of Hartley Coleridge are
soon to be collected and suitably published. Mr. Moxon advertises as in
press, his _Poems_, with a Memoir of his life, by his brother, the Rev.
Derwent Coleridge; _Essays and Marginalia_, in two volumes; and _Lives
of Distinguished Northerns_, a new edition, in two volumes.

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LAMARTINE receives for his _Histoire du Directoire_--the sequel of _The
Girondists_--at which he works from fourteen to sixteen hours every day,
only 12,000 francs, equal to about $2,400.

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AMONG the "books in press" advertised in London at the beginning of the
year, by Bentley, are _The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, Earl of
Orford, and the Rev. William Mason_, now first published from the
original MSS., and edited, with notes, by the Rev. J. Mitford, author of
"The Life of Gray." This work will contain the last series of Walpole's
unpublished letters. A _History of Greek and Roman Classical
Literature_, with an introduction on each of the languages, biographical
notices, and an account of the periods in which each principal author
lived and wrote, so far as literature was affected by such history, and
observations on the works themselves, by R. W. Browne, one of the
professors in King's College, London. And _The Literary Veteran_,
including sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished literary
characters, from 1794 to 1849, by R. P. Gilles.

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THE REV. HENRY T. CHEEVER has just published a volume