he author of Junius was no other than Sir Philip Francis." We
think not. The London _Athenaeum_, last year, we thought, settled this
point. It is understood that the editor of the _Grenville Papers_, now on
the eve of publication, in London, is in favor of Lord Temple as a
claimant for the authorship of Junius. The January number of the
_Quarterly Review_ contains an article on the subject.

The _Natural History of the Human Species_, by Lieutenant-Colonel CHARLES
HAMILTON SMITH, is the title of a duodecimo volume from the press of Gould
& Lincoln of Boston. An American editor (Dr. Kneeland) has added an
introductory survey of recent literature on the subject. The whole
performance is feeble. The author and his editor endeavor to make out
something like the infidel theory of Professor AGASSIZ, which, a year or
two ago, attracted sufficient attention to induce an investigation and an
intelligent judgment, in several quarters, as to the real claims of that
person to the distinctions in science which his advertising managers claim
for him. We have not space now for any critical investigation of the work,
and therefore merely warn that portion of our readers who feel any
interest in ethnological studies, of its utter worthlessness.

An Englishman, Mr. FRANCIS BONYNGE, recently from the East Indies, has
come to this country at the instance of our minister in London, for the
purpose of bringing before us the subject of introducing some twenty of
the most valuable agricultural staples of the East, among which are the
tea, coffee, and indigo plants, into the United States. He gives his
reasons for believing that tea and indigo would become articles of export
from this country to an amount greater than the whole of our present
exports. He says that tea, for which we now pay from sixty-five to one
hundred cents per lb. may be produced for from two to five cents, free
from the noxious adulterations of the tea we import. He has published a
small volume under the title of _The Future Wealth of America_, in which
his opinions are fully explained and illustrated.

The first volume of a work on _Christian Iconography_, by M. DIDRON, of
Paris, opens to the curious reader a new source of intellectual enjoyment,
both in the department of ancient religious art, and in the archaeology of
the early paintings of the Catholic Church. The rich, profuse, and quaint
plates of the original work are used in a translation abl