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58 at the Commencement of the Dickinson College; Wraxall's Memoirs, posthumous; American Almanac; Cooper's "Switzerland, of 1832," and President Dew's Address are all treated in a more friendly manner and old William and Mary is held up very high. Chorley's Memorials of Mrs. Hernans are beautifully presented. Dr. Robert W. Haxall, of Richmond, had been fortunate enough to give a good dissertation on the "Physical Signs of Diseases of the Abdomen and Thorax." In the review of Capt. Basil Hall's "Skimmings at Schloss Hainfleld," a singular thing is quoted: The Countess of Purgstall placed in his hands, in such a way as to intimate that she was the author, R. H. Wilde's "My Life is Like the Summer Rose." This happened in Lower Styria; but she was a Scotch lady and had travelled. Then come very just critiques of G. P. R. James; Bland's "Maryland Chancery Reports;" Lucien Bonaparte's "Memoirs;" and "Madrid in 1836," by a resident officer.

Among the prose writers for this number (November) besides Greenhow, are Roane again; E. W. S. of S. C. College on "Classical Bibliography" and Mrs. E. F. Ellett on "Alfieri and Schiller." There is also a long and ambitious poem, "Moses Pleading before Pharaoh," in the form of a dialogue between them.