est European armies. A Frenchman
named Person was a pioneer in the business. He was succeeded by the
Savoyard, De Boigne, whose statue now adorns the principal square of
Chamberry. James Skinner, whose _Memoirs_ have just been published in
London by the novelist and traveler Mr. Bailie Fraser, began a similar
career under De Boigne. Some idea may be formed of the Mahratta army,
when the Peishwa at times brought 100,000 horse into the field. A
trusted officer, as Skinner afterwards became, might thus command a
division of twenty, thirty, or forty thousand men, equal in fact to the
largest European armies in the last century. When men played with such
tools as these, it may be easily imagined how they themselves rose and
fell; how empires crumbled, or were reared anew. When Wellesley and Loke
overthrew the Mahrattas, Skinner entered the British service, and it
appears from the book before us that he died in 1836 a knight of the
Bath.

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"Hitherto," says M. de Sainte Beuve, "the real learning of women has
been found to be pretty much the property of their lovers;" and he
ridicules the notion that even Mrs. Somerville has any scholarship that
would win the least distinction for a man. It may be so. We see,
however, that a Miss FANNY CORBAUX has lately communicated to the
Syro-Egyptian Society in London a very long and ambitious paper _On the
Raphaim and their connexion with Egyptian History_, in which she quotes
Hebrew, Arabic, Greek, &c., with astonishing liberality.

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Carlyle's translation of the _Apprenticeship and Travels of Wilhelm
Meister_, has been issued in a very handsome edition, by Ticknor, Reed &
Fields, of Boston.

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Mr. Macaulay has been passing the Winter and Spring in Italy.

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The Late Mr. John Glanville Taylor, an Englishman, left in MS. a work
upon _The United States and Cuba_, which has just been published by
Bentley, and is announced for republication by Mr. Hart of Philadelphia.
Mr. Taylor was born in 1810, and when about twenty-one years of age he
left Liverpool for the United States, on a mining speculation. After
travelling a few months in this country, he was induced to go to Cuba to
examine a gold vein of which he thought something might be made. The
place in Cuba which was to be the scene of his operations, was the
neighborhood