of the _Journal des
Debats_, has published, at Paris, a book called _Etudes sur la Litterateur
et les Maeurs des Anglo-Americanis_, which abounds in those curious
blunders that some French authors seem to be destined to when they write
upon topics connected with foreign countries. For instance, he makes the
pilgrims of Plymouth to have been the founders of Philadelphia, New-York,
and Boston. Buffalo he sets down opposite to Montreal, speaks of the
puritans of Pennsylvania as near neighbors of Nova Scotia, and extends
Arkansas to the Rocky Mountains. At New-York his regret is that a railroad
has destroyed the beauty of Hoboken, and at New Orleans he laments that
marriages between whites and Creoles are interdicted. Of Cooper, Irving,
Bryant, Audubon, and Longfellow, he speaks in terms of just praise, but
Willis is not mentioned. Bancroft and Hildreth are mentioned as
historians, Prescott is spoken of briefly in connection with his Ferdinand
and Isabella, while his other works are not alluded to. To Herman
Melville, M. Chasles devotes fifty pages, while Mr. Ticknor has not even
the honor of a mention. The author of this work is very far from doing
justice either to American literature or to himself.

Five of the nine intended volumes of LAFUENTE'S _General History of Spain_
from the remotest times to the present day, have appeared in Paris.

In Paris a new edition is announced of the best French versions of
FENIMORE COOPER'S works--six or eight illustrated volumes.

M. GUIZOT is about to publish a new volume at Paris, with the title of
_Shakspeare et son Temps_ (Shakspeare and his Times). It is to be composed
of his Life of Shakspeare, and the articles that he has written at various
times upon different plays. The only novelty in it is a notice on Hamlet
which was prepared expressly for this publication. He regards both Macbeth
and Othello as better dramas than Hamlet, but thinks the last contains
more brilliant examples of Shakspeare's sublimest beauties and grossest
faults. "Nowhere," says Guizot, "has he unveiled with more originality,
depth and dramatic effect, the inmost state of a great soul: but nowhere
has he more abandoned himself to the caprices, terrible or burlesque, of
his imagination, and to that abundant intemperance of a mind pressed to
get out its ideas without choosing among them, and bent on rendering them
striking by a strong, ingenious, and unexpected mode of expression,
witho