FINGTON; ALDRICH's Poems; 'CHRISTIE JOHNSTONE;''Country Margins and Rambles of a Journalist;' 'SOUVESTRE'S Leaves from a Family Journal; ' 'Female Life among the Mormons;' Poems, by F. W. FISH; 'Familiar Quotations;' 'JULIA, a Poem;' and 'The Englishwoman in Russia.' Among pamphlets, journals, etc., concerning which we shall presently 'have our say,' are many and some which are 'some,' and not among the 'many' — of which our readers will hear more in our next number. Of these are the 'New-York Weekly Critic,' by Messrs. Cleveland AND MCELRATH; SPARKS' 'Analysis of the French Verbs;' 'Report of the New-York State Library;' LEWIS G. MORRIS's 'Sixth Catalogue of Domestic Animals;' 'Mount-Vernon Boarding-School;' 'State Cabinet of Natural History;' Professor BARNARD'S Address before the Alabama University, etc., etc. The favors of numerous correspondents await replication. A FRIEND commends in the highest terms, and we believe with entire justice, the Grammercy Park House,' as one among the best kept, most comfortable, and most charmingly situated hotels in the metropolis. Mr. CHARLES WRIGHT, of WRIGHT, LANIER AND COMPANY, of the LAFARGE Hotel, is the experienced and popular proprietor. There can be no doubt of the success of his house.

'THE best

thing I have heard,' writes 'J. H. L.' 'in exemplification of the saying, 'PROVI DENCE smiled on me,'I heard a Dutchman give. (I'll give it to you in English; you, being a KNICKERBOCKER, must put the polish on.) 'Have you got through harvest, HANS?' 'Yes; me and my boys worked like the devil all the time, very hard: had so much to do, did not know as we would get through before winter: but we did. 'PROVIDENCE smiled on me,' and we have just finished.' 'How did PROVIDENCE Smile on you?' 'Why, you see HE just blasted about forty or fifty acres of my wheat, so that it was not worth reaping, and so, you see, we have just finished!''’ The following is from a rare old work, ‘The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine' for March, 1791:

'WHEN Mrs. F · (of Pennsylvania) was in England, she attended York races, where she met the celebrated LAWRENCE STERNE. He rode up to the side of the coach, and accosted her:

''Well, Madam, which horse do you bet upon ?'

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'Sir,' said she, if you can tell me which is the worst horse I will bet upon that.'

"But why, Madam,' said STERNE, 'do you make so strange a choice?' ''Because,' replied the lady, ‘you know 'The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong!'

'STERNE was so much pleased with the reply that he went home and wrote from that text, his much-admired sermon, entitled 'Time and Chance.''

This anecdote is unquestionably authentic. WE have heretofore spoken of the 'Anti-Choking Arch-Valve Pump,' as a great and important invention, by a distinguished and popular dentist of this city, Mr. NEHEMIAH DODGE, of Number Forty-two University Place. The pumps of this patent, we are not surprised to learn, are destined to supersede all others. The Board of

Underwriters unanimously and strongly recommend them, over those in common use, for general adoption, with a special approbation, recommending them to ship-owners and sea-captains. California ship-captains pronounce them, after long voyages, the 'best pumps ever used,' and attest that they never choke. Mr. RUSSELL STURGIS, at Number Sixty-eight South-street, receives orders for this valuable invention. - - WE wish the reader could see the pen-and-ink drawing which accompanied the following: a forlorn-looking individual, in a unique chair, sitting under trees like inverted brush-brooms, gazing into the empty fountain in the Park; his whole expression that of a poor devil far gone in misanthropy:

"Fountain! Have Maine-iacs, with their liquor law,
Stopped off your drinking; nipped you in the bud;
Sucked up your life-blood in a dreadful thirst,
Leaving you standing like an empty tub?'

VIL

''Bim-boom!' The band at BARNUM's here struck up,
Scaring the stranger with its fearful bray:
Thinking it thunder under ground, he said:

The fountain's 'wet up,' now it's gwine to play!'

H. P. L.'

'OBSERVING,' writes a town friend, the great legal acumen in late numbers of the KNICKERBOCKER, I am induced to present the following knotty case for your elucidation:

855

Oakhill Mar the 19 1855.

Ninty dayes after date we or either of us promise to pay HENRY F. JUDY or order at the Chester Co Bank Eighty five Dollars for One Gray Mule that is now lame in the right hind foot the Said JUDY Guerintees the foot to Get well if not no Charge but JUDY is to have the mule.

J. S. B.

J. K.

'POINTS: First: If the above note be not paid, can the notary protest without examination of the mule's right hind-foot, to see if it be well, and if not well, can he protest at all? Second: Who is to have the mule, JUDY or the makers of the note, provided the foot is well? This is a bona-fide note, due in June, 1855. An! now comes the weather that makes us think of the calm waters and cool sequestered shades of beautiful LAKE GEORGE! And by-and-by, life and health permitting, we must go up and pay our old friends, SHERRILL and DAN. GALE a visit. Every reader of the KNICKERBOCKER knows what a pleasant house and sumptuous table SHERRILL keeps, but few of them are aware that GALE has opened a magnificent and immense hotel at the south end of the Lake, finished and furnished in the most regal style. That it will be well kept, no one who knows GALE will for a moment doubt. Success to both the Lake-Houses! will be support enough for each.

There

ART, LITERARY, AND TOWN ITEMS. COSMOPOLITAN ART AND LITERARY ASSOCIATION at Sandusky, Ohio, are making extensive purchases for their next distribution. They are making arrangements for noble statuary and paintings from all our best artists: indeed, their collection this year will be much better and much larger than the last. This Association we deem worthy of every encouragement, its object being to circulate Works of Art and Good Literature throughout the land. They ought to have one hundred thousand subscribers this year. The books are now open at the KNICKERBOCKER publication office, and at Sandusky, Ohio.

ONE of the agreeable things that we miss on the few days that we do not 'stop down to town,' is the pleasure of seating ourselves in the chair of our old favorite tonseur, Mr. AUGUSTUS BLESSING, at Number Twelve Ann-street, and, reclining luxuriously back, feel the easy subsidence of a 'short crop of beard, so deftly performed that you might sleep under the operation. And a like pleasure it is to have the accomplished operator's hands in your hair, whether to shampoodle,' manipulate with sharp scissors, or 'roll with curls voluminous.' How much such offices, slight in themselves, add to the comfort of the outer, and hence to the inner man!'

WE perceive that some body has been making a complaint on the 'Mayor's Book' against ARCHIE GRIEVE for keeping a 'Roaring Lion' in a cellar at his store in Chambers-street, near the Hudson River Rail-road dépôt, where he sells all kinds of fowls, foreign and domestic big dogs and little dogs, of high and low degree,' and every thing in the line of an experienced bird fancier and rare quadruped-purveyor. We somewhat suspect that this report is an advertisement: at any rate, ARCHIE has all he can do, and what he does he does from knowledge and experience: and, although no duellist, he is always ready and anxious to give satisfaction.'

MR. DERBY, the enterprising and very popular metropolitan publisher, has in press a volume entitled, My Confessions,' of which we hear, from the best critical sources, the highest encomiums. It will appear, as we understand, in the course of the ensuing month.

OF THE

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A COMPLIMENTARY TRIBUTE TO LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK, ESQ., FOR TWENTY YEARS EDITOR OF THE KNICKERBOCKER MAGAZINE.

A SECOND EDITION of this splendid and popular volume is in press, and will soon be published. To show how it has been welcomed by the public, and the numerous friends of the veteran editor of the KNICKERBOCKER, extracts from a few of the many notices which the work has received are herewith annexed:

"THE KNICKERBOCKER GALLERY has made its appearance in a splendid octavo volume. Its contributors comprise some of the oldest and most illustrious writers in America, with a noble array besides of men of genius and culture, who, if perhaps less known to fame, have yet gathered worthy literary honors in both hemispheres. A few examples will show the choice materials which have been employed in the composition of the volume. WASHINGTON IRVING-the beloved and glorious patriarch of our native literature-contributes a delightful paper, entitled Conversations with Talma,' presenting some interesting reminiscences of the great French tragedian, and a series of original suggestions on French dramatic poetry. This was written in 1821, and will furnish a welcome specimen of the author's palmiest days to the host of his admirers who so fondly treasure every production of his fascinating pen, A poem, called The Snow-Shower,' by BRYANT, is the characteristic offering of our greatest American bard. The Emperor's Bird's Nest,' by LONGFELLOW MASCACCIO.' by LOWELL; 'A Poetical Epistle to Louis Gaylord Clark,' by HALLECK: A Vision of the Housatonic, by HOLMES; I'm Growing Old,' by SAXE; To a Beautiful Girl,' by PRENTICE: On Lake Pepin,' by EPES SARGENT; 'Piseco, by Dr. BETHUNE, are in the happiest style of their respective writers. N. P. WILLIS, instead of rhymes, gives a kind-hearted and cheery letter from his invalid's retreat at Idlewild; and TUCKERMAN has a fine critical essay on Edmund Kean. Among other celebrated writers, whose fame is of more recent date, we opserve the names of MITCHELL, BOKER, KIMBALL, STREET, SHELTON, BAYARD TAYLOR, COZZENS. FIELDS, G. W. CURTIS, and STODDARD. But space would fail us to enumerate all the celebrities on this red-lettered catalogue. which presents a curious illustration of the signal ability which the Editor of the KNICKERBOCKER has embodied in the long series of his annual volumes. The attractiveness of the work is greatly enhanced by the number and variety of portraits with which it is embellished, forming an extensive gallery of American authors. These are engraved on steel, in the best style of execution, and, in many cases. from original paintings by ELLIOT and other eminent artists. Such a varied and admirable collection of portraits, in which a large portion of the community is interested, we presume has never before been presented to the public. The editorial preparation of the work was intrusted to the charge of Dr. JOHN W. FRANCIS, GEORGE P. MORRIS, RUFUS W. GRISWOLD, RICHARD B. KIMBALL, and Rev. FREDERICK W. SHELTON, who, it is needless to add, have acquitted themselves of their generous duties in a manner which leaves no room for comment, except that of a congratulatory character.-Harper's Magazine.

**It is unsurpassed by any thing that has ever been issued from the American press. We hope it will find an extended sale, proportionate both to its varied merits, and to the commendable object in which the work had its origin."-Boston Atlas.

"TRULY a splendid volume; admirably printed, richly bound, nobly illustrated, and containing original contributions from some of the most eminent writers who have reflected luster upon the American name. WASHINGTON IRVING, who now seldom writes, commencing the volume, and FITZ-GREENE HALLECK, whose muse has long been reproached for silence, concluding it by a 'Poetical Epistle to Louis Gaylord Clark, Esq.' which shows that his lyre, though long mute, has not lost its power. The forty-eight portraits are finely engraved, and are excellent likenesses. This Gallery of American authors should find a conspicuous place in the library of every American who has enough patriotism and refinement of taste to take pride in the nation's literature."-N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.

Ir realizes, in beauty of getting up and in the excellence of its contents, all the high wrought anticipations that have been formed of it. The name of WASHINGTON IRVING heads the list of the contributors, and a fine likeness of him, the collection of nearly fifty superbly executed portraits of the Knickerbocker contributors, The frontispiece is an admirable head of our friend, Louis GAYLORD CLARK, the editor of Old 'KNICK,' and the title page shows us what the proposed Knickerbocker Cottage,' the intended result of this publication, is to be. All the articles are from the pens of the first writers in the land, from the North and South, the East and West, and most of them face their contributions in the most speaking manner. The value of this book to the American reader is beyond estimate. The price demanded for it is infinitely below its worth."-New-Orleans Picayune. "THE most brilliant American book of the season. It abundantly justifies the high expectations of the public, as well in its mechanical appearance, its admirable portraits, and its high literary merits. Every admirer of the Knickerbocker, its Editor, or its contributors, should have a copy of the Knickerbocker Gallery! No volume of 500 pages octavo was ever published in this country containing an equal variety of sterling original literature." Burlington (Vt.) Sentinel.

"We make no hesitation in pronounciag it not only one of the handsomest and most delicately conceived of literary testimonials, but one of the most attractive and valuable volumes ever issued from the American press. Sach another portrait gallery of our literary notabilities, or so peculiar and fine a collection of their extended mental autography, does not exist, and probably will not, apart from this volume, in our day and generation." New-York Evening Mirror.

This beautiful volume is creditable alike to the warm-hearted contributors to its pages, and to the publisher, who has presented it in such an elegant form to the public. The design was to furnish a book, the profits of which should be applied to the purchase of a cottage on the Hudson for Mr. LOUIS GAYLORD CLARK, the accomplished editor of the Knickerbocker Magazine, a periodical which has been distinguished for the excellence of its papers, and has lived through nearly a quarter of a century. There are over sixty contributions in poetry and prose, from the elite of the writers of the United States, and forty-eight engravings of the authors, including those of WASHINGTON IRVING, BRYANT, HALLECK, WILLIS, W. H. SEWARD, G. D, PRENTICE, LONGFELLOW, HOLMES FUCKERMAN, BAYARD, TAYLOR, EPES SARGENT, IK MARVEL,' etc."-Boston Courier.

"THIS beautiful and substantial 'Testimonial,' profusely and nobly illustrated, embodies a collection of writers, with their portraits, which exhausts almost the entire constellation of living American authors."-Dutchess County Democrat.

THESE are but few of the numerous notices of "THE KNICKERBOCKER GALLERY," which have appeared in every quarter of the Union. The verdict of the press every where, and of the public at large, has been

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