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NEANDER'S Practical Expositions of St. James and of St. Paul's Epistle
to the Philippians, are in process of translation by Mrs. H. C. Conant,
the wife of Professor Conant, of Hamilton, and one of the most
accomplished women in this country. A translation of Hagenbach's
_Kirchengeschichte des 18 und 19 Jahrhunderte_, may also be expected
from the same hand, and so will be done admirably.

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SCHLEIERMACHER'S "_Brief Outline of the Study of Theology_" has been
translated by Rev. W. Farrar, and published by Clark, of Edinburgh, in a
single duodecimo.

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DR. KARL ZIMMERMANN has edited and published, at Darmstadt, "The
Reformatory Writings of Martin Luther, in chronological order, with a
Biography of Luther," in four volumes.

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Two new volumes of _L'Encyclopedie du Dixneuvieme Siecle_ have just
appeared at Paris. Geoffroy St. Hilaire, Becquerel, Buchez, Delescluze,
Michel Chevalier, Philarete Chasles, and other literary and scientific
notabilities are among the contributors.

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THE HOUSE OF DIDOT, at Paris, have just issued a most interesting volume
of the great work they have for some time been publishing under the
title of _L'Univers Pittoresque_. This volume is occupied with Japan,
the Burman Empire, Siam, Anam, the Malay peninsula, and Ceylon. The
letter-press is furnished by Col. Jancigny, who was formerly aid-de-camp
to the King of Oude, and has a thorough personal acquaintance with the
countries in question. To show how great is the multitude of elephants
in Ceylon, Col. J. speaks of an English officer who resided there, and
who had with his own hand killed above two thousand of these monsters.
The book, like all the rest of the series, is illustrated by numerous
engravings. The series is to consist of forty-five volumes. Only one or
two are now wanting to complete it. It is intended to afford a complete
description of all the countries, nations, religions, customs, manners,
&c. of the world.

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M. NISARD has been elected a member of the Academie Francaise, in the
room of the late M. Droz. He is known to the public chiefly by his
translations of the Roman writers, poetical and prose, and by sundry
able critical papers in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_. Opposing candidates
were Beranger,