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 Rh Mr. Henry Lee sends from Paris an extract from the second volume of his "Life of Napoleon," about the battle of Lodi. There are more Letters of John Randolph and various other good things. Perhaps Mr. James E. Heath wrote one, on "The Influence of Names."

The "Editorial" embraces the extracts from Burke to which Judge Hopkinson referred in discussing "The Right of Instruction," and "Pinakidia, or Tablets," which manifest Mr. Poe's extensive reading.

There are notices of fifteen publications, from Rev. Orville Dewey's "The Old World and the New," to N. P. Willis' "Inklings of Adventure." As a Mr. Slingsby he describes Willis, "with a pretty face and figure,—fair, funny, fanciful, fashionable and frisky."

One of the productions reviewed is "Elkswatawa; or the Prophet of the West," by Jas. S. French, a Virginian and author of "Eccentricities of David Crockett." The heroine was a Miss Mattie Rochelle, who became a daughter-in-law of President Tyler. Last, we have the other installment of Autography, referred to in February.