r John Burgoyne was nothing to it, and it
beats even Lord Ellesmere hollow." The baronet thinks every thing
portends a French invasion, and he advocates the largest "war footing."
* * * * *
The REV. DR. BLOOMFIELD, whose edition of the Greek Testament is so well
known in this country, has just published two volumes of additional
Notes, critical, philological, and explanatory, in fulfilment of a
promise made in the third edition of his New Testament, in 1839. This
promise was, that he would make no further change in the notes to the
New Testament, but reserve all additions for a separate supplementary
work. That work, after the direct labor of eleven years, is now
published; forming a companion to all the editions of Bloomfield's Greek
Testament except the first two. The annotations relate to a critical
examination of the readings of the text, with the reasons for that
selected, philological notes on the meaning of words, and exegetical
annotations on the verbal interpretations of passages.
* * * * *
MR. COOPER has a new book in press which, in New-York, will produce a
profounder sensation, than any he has yet written. It is entitled "The
Men of Manhattan," and reveals the social condition of the city, past
and present, as it is known only to the author of "The Littlepage
Manuscripts." Mr. Cooper is a thorough New-Yorker; he is intimately
acquainted with all the sources of her past and present and prospective
greatness; and he has watched, with such emotions as none but a
gentleman of the old school can feel, the infusion and gradual diffusion
of those principles of plebeianism and ruffianism, from discontented
improvidence, immigration, and other causes, which threaten to destroy
whatever has justified the wisest pride; and to sink--not raise--all the
mob of people to a common level. He has his whims, and though they have
won for him little popularity, we regret that they are not shared more
largely by the public, which will never appreciate his merits as a
censor, until the best features of our civilization are quite
obliterated.
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MR. JUDD, the author of "Margaret," an original, indigenous, striking,
and in many respects brilliant New-England story, and of "Philo," a
crude, extravagant, ridiculous mass of versified verbiage, has lately
published (through Phillips & Sampson, of Boston,) a new work entitled
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