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Boston: Ticknor and Fields. We are not sure that this is not the very first book of other than pictorial beauties which we ever regarded with patience.

Her expectations were correct, for Joe would have refused absolutely to receive Ronald alone. "I know the value of a stern aunt, my dear," she had said to Sybil the day previous. When matters were arranged, therefore, they went to bed, and in the morning Miss Schenectady sat in state in the front drawing-room, reading the life of Mr. Ticknor until Ronald should arrive.

Nobody will know. No bouquets. You won't have to stammer a speech at any dinner given in your honor." "D'you want to do it, Mabel?" asked Ticknor, looking at her keenly across the table. "Of course I do!" "All right, girl. Only, hurry back." He looked hard at Grim again, then into my eyes and then Jeremy's. "She's in your hands.

Ticknor stopped to see on his way to London, and who told his young guest, "I should not think I had done my duty if I went to bed any night without praying for the success of Napoleon Bonaparte." Lord Byron, it should be added, on hearing the news of Waterloo, said, "I am d d sorry for it.... I didn't know but I might live to see Lord Castlereagh's head on a pole. But I suppose I sha'n't now."

By his Son, Theophilus Parsons. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 12mo. pp. 476. $1.50. The Life of James Watt; with Selections from his Correspondence. By James Patrick Muirhead, M.A. Illustrated with Wood-Cuts. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 12mo. pp. 424. $1.25. The Spy. A Tale of the Neutral Ground. By J. Fenimore Cooper. Illustrated from Drawings by F.O.C. Barley. New York.

"Hurried to the Athenaeum for dinner," says Ticknor in 1857, "and there found Kinglake and Sir Henry Rawlinson, to whom were soon added Hayward and Stirling. We pushed our tables together and had a jolly dinner. . . . To the Athenaeum; and having dined pleasantly with Merivale, Kinglake, and Stirling, I hurried off to the House."

I, at least, have done my duty by him, whatever delinquency there may be on the part of other critics. "Smith and Elder persist in calling the book 'Transformation, which gives one the idea of Harlequin in a pantomime; but I have strictly enjoined upon Ticknor to call it 'The Marble Faun; a Romance of Monte Beni."

He has been in Syria and Jerusalem, through the Desert, and at Sebastopol; and says he means to get Ticknor to publish his travels, and the story of his whole adventurous life, on his return home. A free-spoken, confiding, hardy, religious, unpolished, simple, yet world-experienced man; very talkative, and boring me with longer visits than I like.

Revised by himself, and edited, with an Introduction, by S. ADAMS LEE. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 2 vols. 18mo. Leigh Hunt has outlived all the enmities and enemies provoked either by his merits or his demerits, and is especially interesting as the sole survivor of the illustrious company of poets with whom the mind instinctively associates him.

The Poetical Works of William Motherwell; with a Memoir of his Life. Fourth Edition, greatly Enlarged. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 32mo. pp. 308. 75 cts. The Avenger, a Narrative; and other Papers. By Thomas De Quincey. Boston. Ticknor & Fields. 16mo. pp. 327. 75 cts. Life of William Pitt. By Lord Macaulay. Preceded by the Life of the Earl of Chatham. New York.