brought out at Paris, in two volumes octavo. The letters show the
celebrated author in a new and pleasing light; a tone of genial unreserve
prevails in many of them, which those who have become familiar with his
brilliant, dogmatic, and paradoxical intellect, in his more elaborate
writings, would hardly suppose him capable of. No writer, of this century
at least, has more powerfully set forth the doctrines of the Roman
Catholic Church than he.

The _Political Situation of Cuba_, a volume published in Paris, by Don
ANTONIO SACO, is commended in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_. Don Antonio was
one of the most distinguished intelligences and liberals of the precious
island: he argues against independence, or annexation to the American
Union: he suggests various arrangements by which Spain could safely
establish political freedom in Cuba, and he thinks administrative and
judicial reforms to counteract the worst ills of her present situation,
might be accomplished.

A New edition of SHARON TURNER's _History of the Anglo-Saxons_ has just
appeared in London, with important additions and revision. The first
edition of Turner's History was published in London more than fifty years
ago. At the time when the first volume appeared, the subject of
Anglo-Saxon antiquities had been nearly forgotten by the British public,
although the most venerated laws, customs, and institutions of the nation
originated before the Norman conquest. The Anglo-Saxon manuscripts lay
unexamined in archives, and the important information they contained had
never been made a part of general history. Mr. Turner undertook a careful
and patient investigation of all the documents belonging to the period
preserved in the kingdom, and the result of his labors was the work in
question, which at once gave rise to an almost universal passion for the
records and remains of the Anglo-Saxon people, and called forth general
applause from the best minds of England. A good edition of his History was
published several years ago by Carey and Hart of Philadelphia, but it is
now, we believe, out of print.

The Rev. JOHN HOWARD HINTON, author of a well-known History of the United
States, has published, in London, a volume under the title of _The Test of
Experience_, in which he has presented a masterly argument for the
voluntary principle in matters of religion. The "test of experience" is in
this, as in all other things, the best of tests, and the religi