Zak, SAFFORD. The Blennerhasset Papers, em bodying the private journal of Harman Blennerhasset ; developing the purposes and aims of those engaged in the Wilkin son and Burr Revolution ; embracing also a Memoir of Blennerhas4et. By William H. Safford. Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach & Baldwin. Bvo. pp. 665. This ponderous volume is an interest ing and valuable addition to our know ledge of one of the most remarkable episodes in our early national history. ..The movements of the conspirators who, in.oonjunetion with Aaron Burr, sought to overthrow our government, or .em `Amon us in a war with Spain, are de tailed with groat minuteness in these papers, now first. brought to light. Blennerhasset was the willing accom plice of Burr, and risked and actually lost everything be was worth, which was not a little, in promoting his schemes of guilty ambition. The latter part of the volume, which reveals the abject condition into which Blennerhasset and his family were brought by the failure .of the expedition, is touching indeed. Three vignette portraits—of Blenner basset, Burr and his sister Theodoshi— adorn the volume, which is a very great credit to the Cincinnati publishers in paper, typography and binding. For sale in this city by B. Lippin cott et Co. 'TEEN 11001 C ox COMMON PRAYER and Adminis tratiOn of the Sacraments, &c., as amended by the Westminster divines and .in agree ment with the Directory - for Public WM.- " ship of the Presbyterian Church in the United States. Philadelphia: William S. &A. Martien. 16mo. pp. 637. LITURGIA EXPURGATA, or the Prayer Book amended according to the Presbyterian Revision of 1661, and historically and critically reviewed by Charles W. Shields, D. D. Published as above. pp. 188. In these two volumes in one, all who .are curious may learn how far the Presbyterians and Independents in Eng land were ready, two centuries past, to go, in conforming to the liturgical tastes of the Episcopal Church, with which they. hoped to be able to unite. Dr. Shields' critical review of the character, appropriateness, and historical forma tion of the Prayer-book, must be re garded as especially valuable. The appendix contains'in brief the kesnits of groat labour upon this field of inquiry; a chronological list of Liturgical a❑d Historical Documents connected with the prayer-book; Presbyterian excep tions against the use of the Book of Common Prayer, and other important inquiries. The work is issued in admirable style by the publishers-31articns, of this city. BLTHIINE. Expository Lectures on the Hei delberg Catechism, by Geo. W. Bethune, D. D. In two volumes, Vol. 11. New York: Sheldon Sc Co. 12mo. pp. 535. Philadelphia: forsale by J. B, Lippincott & Co. " This is the concluding volume of Dr. Bethune's masterly exposition of the standards of his own and the German Reformed Church—the Heidelberg Cate chism, the first volume of which we noticed last week. Such an able de fence of sound doctrine, commended too by the very brilliant and popular quali ties of the distinguished writer, is a desideratum in these times of agitation and doubt in the theological arena. We commend them to al Ethilents of the ology and intelligent inquirers for the truth. The course is interrupted at the lec ture on the Fourth Commandment, there being no material in the post burnous papers of Dr. Bethune to com plete it—a fact much to be regretted. Ruch value is added to the volume by the index, table of scripture passages referred to, and full bibliographical list of . . writers on the Catechism. The paper and typography of the volatile aro ex tellent. TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE, by Charles and Mary Lamb. New York: F. 11. Dodd. 32m0. pp. 365. For sale nt the Presbyte terian House. Price $1 25. This is the second of a pocket series of standard authors, which, for the pe culiar combination of miniature elegance, compactness and durability, is quite unique among the issues of the American press. The type is beautifully clear, so that the smallness of the volume is scarcely any drawback to its legibleness. The effort of the well-known writers, in the volume before us, was to adapt the best parts of Shakespeare's works to Cr intellect of the very young, thus Creating and cultivating at an early age a taste for the sublimest creations of human genius. The stories are sim ply and graceinlly told, and all the blemishes of the plays are of course omitted. Mr. Dodd announces an 4 i Elzevir Series of Favorite Standard Authors," the first of whieb will be Shakspearo's Plays in six volumes. ARTHUR. Out in the Wow. A navel. By T. S. Arthur. New Ynrk (.13rleton. 12mo. pp. 412. Price Si 50. Phut:del phia: W. S. .L i..Martien. Domestic life is the favourite sphere .of this well-known and very successful writer. The interest of the story in this volume centres in the inisunder standings of a young married e; , uple, the wife being warped from correct notions of duty by modern theories, while the lack of good judgment on the part of the husband in exacting obedi ence, aggravates the difficulty. Much practical wisdom is inculcated in a kindly and familiar manner in .the course of the story, which would not come amiss to many married couples, whose .difficulties are of the less serious, though really annoying, character. Mr. Carleton announces as parts of a series by the same author: LIGHT ON SHADOWED PATHS NOTHING BUT MONEY. D'HERICOIIRT. A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or, Woman Affranchised. An answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouve, Comte, and other modern in novators. By Madame D'Hericourt. Translated from the last Paris edition. New York : Carleton. Philadelphia: for sale by W. S. .5.7 A. Martian. Price $1 25. This' is a work which meets a great want in France; it gives a just and wholesome view of the position of woman in a country where the grossest and most pernicious error prevails, and where philosophy has lent itself to the work of degradation. The writer is a member of the medical profession of long standing, and is thprefore well qualified to meet some of her ablest and boldest antagonists. Happily, there is no such urgency in the social condition of any large part of our people, or in the prevalent views of ihe relative• position of woman in our country, as to make the work peculiarly valuable to us. It is important as helping to show the real state of society on the continent of Europe, and the wide contrast as yet obtaining between it and our own domestic life. ER EST. A true story. New York : Sheldon & Co. 18ino. pp. 177. Philadelphia: for sale by J. B. Lippincott & Co. A beautiful story of a child Christian, differing from the oft-told and outworn narratives of sickly and pining children, whose * piety is overcast with senti mentalism. The boy Ernest is a manly, athletic character, rejoicing in school romps and pastimes, who gives himself to Jesus in the height of health and vigour. It is well calculated to make excellent impressions on the young. The name of A. D. F. Randolph, in the copy-right, helps to account for its worth. A. L, 0. E. Cortley Hall, or the Straight Road is Shortest and Surest. By A. L. 0. E. New York: R. Carter & Bros. 18tuo. pp. 105. For sale at the Presbyterian House. Another story, from this inexhaustible fountain of good things for the young. Thrilling and powerful, going direct to the conscience, and leaving, as all these stories do, a deep and salutary im pression. SAYINGS or ISCIES ; or, Selections from dis tinguished Preachers, Poets, Philosophers, and other Authors, ancient and modern. Compiled by E. C. Revons, with an Intro duction by - Edward Thomson, D. D. New York : Carlton & Porter. Phils,delz pl2ia : for sale by Higgins & Perkenpine. LITERIRY ITEMS PUFFING NEW Books:—The London correspondent of Cattde Literary Ga zette says: "Henry Dnnhar, the sto3f of an Onteast," is the title of Miss Braddon's new novel.. Messrs. Max well, who, publish it, sent me a copy of the second edition, by mistake, I pre-. sume, before the publication, of the first. This . kind of puffing has brought Miss. Braddon's name and navels into some disrepute. I fear more houses in the trade, calling themselves respectable, sometimes resort to' this disreputable trick. I could name an instance where the trade absolutely refused. to subscribe to a new novel of Whioh the second edition was advertised in all the literary papers in the next week. Out of mi.- osity,, inquiry at Mudie's revealed the fact that of twenty-five .copics, of the first (title-page). edition subscribed for, twelve, with uncut leaves, were then to be bought at half price. A REMARKABE LITERARY CURIOSITY is described in the book notices of the same publication. It is a translation recently published in London, unar the title,," Reynard the Fox in . South Africa; or Hottentot Fables and Tales, chiefly translated from original manu scripts in the Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey. By W. H. L. Bleek, Ph. D. pp. 94." The critic says : " The existence orfables among the Hotten tots seem to have been first made known through Sir James Alexander's Expe dition of Discovery into the interior of Africa,' published in London in 1838.. Qaite recently the Rev. G-. Kronlein, Rhenish missionary at Beerseba, Great Namaqualand, brought to light and transmitted to England the original manuscripts of a number of tales, fables, legends, songs, proverbs, and riddles, all in Hottentot, and taken down by hiM froth the mouths of the natives. The fact of such a literary capacity existing among a nation whose mental qualifica tions it has been usual to estimate at the lowest standard, is of great import ance; and that their literary activity (in contradistinction to the general cha racter of native literature among Negro nations) has been employed almost in the same direction as that which has been taken by our earliest literature, is in itself of great significance. As to the fables comprised in this volume we may state that they .are classified into Jackal Fables, Tortoise Fables, Baboon Fables, Lien Fables, and Sun and Moon Fables, to which are added a few house hold tales and other legends. FRANCE.—The Paris correspondent of the G.rzetie and Cireulat says : The. Academy of Moral and Political Scien- PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1834. ces has elected Dr. A. P. Stanley (the Dean of Westminster) a corresponding member in lieu of Mr. Grote, who was recently made a foreign associate.— The French government forbade the celebration of the Tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth.—The "Sanveagot Collection" in the Louvre,—a museum worth s2oo,ooo—was collected by a cus tom house clerk on a salary of $3OO. An illustrated catalogue of the articles is about to be issued under government patronage. M. Morgan is about to bring out a work in seventeen volumes (nine of text and eight of plates), "The Vegetable Kingdom," price 800 francs: —"Poor Richard's Maxims" have made their appearance as "A Sciencia ,do bon hornem Ricardo, on Meios de fa zar fortuna, per B. Francklin." publish, ed here for the Brazil market.- 7 --The French government is bringing out a Collection of the ancient monuments of Mexico, Palenqua, oco cingo, etc., drawn on the spot by M. de Waldeck, the text by M. Brassour de Bourbourg; it will con tain fifty-six plates folic) size, and cost 130 f.—M. Ed. Labonlaye's "Paris in America" has 'reached an eleventh edi tion.7---The custom prevails among French authors, even of the highest' character, of reading their works in MS. to select parlor audiences. Scarcely a book or a. play of pretensions is brought out which has not been submitted to the suffraues of some hospitable parlor.. Our authors, as a . general thing, read' admirably, and they would do justice to their own conceptions: Every literary visitor to Paris has head (for public op portunities are not wanting) M. Ville main, and M. Victor ()eosin, and M. Saint Marc Girardin, and M. Legouve -read, 'and may judge for himself their excellence in this art. Some astonishment has been raised in Paris by the arrest of the author of an article in the "La Revue dd Progres." . The contribution was a bold philosophi- ; cal speculation of great thought and profound original views. Tho authori ties regarded it as dangerous from its irreligious teachings, and hunted up the author. He was found in one of the public schools here—a smooth-faced boy of sixteen. He was one of the best boys in the schOol, an industrious student, a lad of pure morals, in one word, the head of his class in every way. At home he was tenderly loved for a most dutiful and affectionate son. " Le Petit Journal," is a small sheet printed on four sides without advertise ments (at least with very few advertise ments )it does - not touch on politics ;it is sold for one son; 120,000 copies are sold daily, and the newsmen or newswomen tell me that ; let them lay in, ever so great a number, their stock is exhaust ed before noon. lam amused when I remain on the Boulevard, to see the in cessant calls for this, diminutive sheet. Haekmen, marketwomen, policemen, soldiers,.even the scwersmen, lay down their sou as they call' for the paper which gives them full particulars of the last calf heard of as having three heads, and the last drunkard whofell from a sixth story window without sa much as an abrasion of skin, and the last exploit of the lightning, together with the om nipresent feuilleton, which seems to be the salt necessary to give savor to the periodical porridge. This sheet belongs to M. Millaud, the once famous partner of M. Mires, and it is raising him to af fluence again. He entployS the best pens to. contribute to his feuitleton and. varie ties. -A bout writes the criticism on the Art Exhibition, M—Leo Lespes (tin der the pseudonym. Timothee Trim.) writes the review of the day • M. Louis Jourdain, of Le Sieele, and - . Alexan dre Dumas are among his contributors: His rate of compensation is one centime and a quarter each letter. A centime is two of your mills ; there- are five cen times in a son, which is equivalent to your cent. MISCELLANEOUS.—The advance orders for Mr. Greeley's " History of the American Conflict," of which Derby & Miller, : New York city, are the agents, were thirty thousand copies, and orders have come in at the rate of ten thonsand copies a month.—Austria consumes, according to official .calculatiens, annu ally 500,000 cwt. of paper, the Gerinan Zollverein 1,000,000, France 5,000,000, and England 15,000,000 ; while the rest of the civilized and uncivilized world consumes 10,000,000 ; there is thus alto, get her thirty-one or thirty-two millions of cwt. of paper wanted per annum. [We cannot receive the latter part of this statement as correct. The con sumption of paper in the United'States must be far greater than in any other country of the world.]— The Reader . says : " On the let (13th) of March last the 300th anniversary of the printing of the first book at Moscow was celebrated at that place. There appeared, in 1564, under the reign of Czar Ivan Vassilie vitsch, this first work in question, called 4 The Apostles' in (ecclesiastiCal) Sla vonic. A further celebration of this typographical event took place at the University on the 15th (27th) March • last." NOTES OF A. VISIT TO THE ARMY 01' THE POTOMAC. Rev. T. H. Robinson, of Harrisburg, furnishes the Telegraph of that city, some of the most interesting and valua blo " notes" upon the movements and charaiAer of the Army of the Pototua that we have anywhere met with. We copy a considerable portion of them and would especially ,call attention to his testimony in regard to the degree of drunkenness and profanity which he witnessed: The -March of the Grand Limy Leaving Fredericksourg-, iu etompany with a few delegates of the Christian CoMmission, and running the gauntlet of guerrillas, after a hard day's walk I reached Spottsylvania Court "louse, only to find that our eorthention with Washington by way of Fredericksburg was severed, the grand army was in mo- tion southward, and we must, willing or no, accompany it. A night of broken sleep upon the boxes and bales of our supply wagon was followed by an early order to pack up. There is something in the movement of a great army that partakes of the sublime, especially un der circumstances like those under which the army of Grant and Meade has moved, a mighty and wily foe close in front and watching every movement. No more hazardous movements have ever been attempted in warfare than those by which day after day, the vast Army of the Potomac has ever been swung around as on a pivot in the very face of its enemy. Silently, to corps, divisions, brigades, regiments, to hospit als and supply trains came the orders for a movement—no one knew whither. With a sublime, unquestioning faith, the tents were quietly struck, ambulances filled. with the remaining sick and wounded, knapsacks buckled on and muskets shouldered, horses mounted, and , soon cavalry, infantry, artillery, hospitals and supply trains and rear guard would all be on their way to some unknown point. Accompanying the sth corps, commanded by Maj-Gen. Warren, my' observations during the subsequent ten days wore limited al most wholly to this corps. Putting my self in light marching order, i. e. leaving my coat behind, and carrying only a canteen and a stout walking stick, cut neari the terrible field of the " Wilder ness}" I took my place along with the rank and file of the army and learned by experience, a little of their life. Un der the shade of some noble trees in fron of Massaponax Church, I was per mitted to look upon. a number of our generals in council, consulting some maps of the region through which we wore moving. A crowd of curious eyes gathered around to look upon the noted faces for af moment, while from the gal lerrwindows of the church, I observed a photographic instrument seizing the rare chance. I quietly studied the faces of these men, whom the generations will delight to honor, and having photograph ed them for private use, passed on, leav ing the chiefs in council. Missing the brilliant dash at the Po, in which our cavalry scattered in wild retreat the cavalry of the enemy and seized, uninjured, the bridge at the crossing, I contented myself with a bi vouac under an army wagon for the night, hoping that when next " John. Gilpin chanced to ride, I might be there to see." Steadily all day, Sunday, 22d, we moved forward, and steadily all day to our right we heard the cannonadi❑g of ono of our corps clearing its way. The Battle of the North Anna. On Monday evening, about 5 o'clock, the Ist Division of the sth corps, with a friend and myself had bean marching from early dawn, reached the bank of the North Anna. The 2d and 3d di vi4ons came up, and while the pontoons were being laid the divisions of Griffin and Crawford, the Pennsylvania• Re serves forded the stream. The North , pa-is *paddy river, from two tolour feet in depth and about one hundred yards in width at Jericho Mills, the pace where the sth 'corps crossed. Both banks of the stream rise some fifty or onehtindred feet to high rolling ground, skirted by woods. In conse quence of the three days' rapid march ing, our troops gained the ground, ford ed the river and took position on the south bank without any resistance by the enemy at this point. They soon, however, found, a foe in front. Stand ing near the General's headquarters on the north bank, my companion and my self watched our troops as they. crossed, filed up the hills and formed in line of battle, in some open fields on .the south bank. A single battery was taken across the river, while the remaining ones were posted on the crown of the hills along