ionary movements
in Italy, with biographical sketches of Mazzini, Garibaldi, Avezzana,
Filopanti, Foresti, and other leading Italian Republicans.

Ticknor, Reed, and Fields have issued the fourth volume of their
beautiful edition of the _Collective Writings_ of THOMAS DE QUINCY,
containing _The Caesars_, a work characterized by the subtilty of
reflection, curious learning, and original felicities of expression, for
which the author is pre-eminent.

_Life on the Plains of the Pacific_, by Rev. GUSTAVUS HINE (published by
Geo. H. Derby and Co., Buffalo), is the title of a work devoted to the
history, condition, and prospects of Oregon, with a description of its
geography, climate, and productions, and of personal adventures among
the Indians. It contains a detailed history of the Oregon Mission, drawn
from the most authentic sources, including the notes and journals of the
first missionaries on that station. The journal of the author,
commencing with the departure of the missionaries from New York in 1839,
presents an interesting narrative of the largest expedition of this kind
that ever sailed from an American port, and is enriched with a great
variety of facts and incidents that occurred in the wide field of
observation that forms the subject of the volume. Without pretending to
the graces of literary composition, the writer has produced a work of
sterling value. His authority will no doubt be appealed to with
confidence on all matters pertaining to the important scene of his
labors.

_Hints to Sportsmen_, by E. J. LEWIS (published by Blanchard and Lea,
Philadelphia), is a regular-built treatise on all the mysteries of the
sporting craft. The author writes like an experienced shot. His book is
not only a valuable manual for the sportsman, but a tempting volume for
the lovers of spirited description.

_Curran and his Contemporaries_, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (published by
Harper and Brothers), is a reproduction of the celebrated work of
Counselor Phillips, having been subjected by the author to a thorough
revision and amendment. It describes the interesting period of Irish
history during which Curran was the leading member of the Bar, with
great vivacity and force. Touching lightly on the politics of the times,
it presents a series of personal delineations, which are drawn to the
life by the enthusiastic and genial author. The freshness of his
recollections affords an abundance of piquant anecdote, which, with his
warm s