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harmonise , two structures in direct antagonism of styles . This plan , hoAVCA-er , has for the present moment been postponed . Ihe Luggie and other Poems , by David Gray , with a preface hy Mr . Monckton Milnes , will be published in a feAV days . Gray died in London last autumn , aged tAventy-three . He Avas born of humble parents at Kirkintilloch , near Glasgow , and from the

praise he received for verses AA'hich he contributed to the GlasgOAV neAvspapers , he was induced to come to London in the spring of I 860 , in the hope of making a living hy literature . As a matter of course , he sank into poverty , and by exppsureand neglect fell into had health , and was discovered hy Mr . M . Milnes in his lodgings without a penny , and diseased beyond

remedy . His last days Avere employed in preparing his poems for the press . " The Luggie , " which gives the title to his longest poem , is a brook Avhich flows near his birthplace at Kirkintilloch .

Mr . W . Bridges Adams has a work in the press on Hoads and Mails , and their Practical Influence on Human Progress , Past , Present , and to Come . The Academy of Sciences of Gottingen announce the publication of the collected works of Gauss , the celebrated mathematician , including the manuscripts left at his decease . The

works Avill appear in seven volumes , quarto , under the titles : — I . Disgiiisitiones Arithmeticce ; II . Sohere Arithmetic ; III . Analysis ; IV . Geometric and Method der hleinsten Quadrate ; V . Mathematische Physih ; VI . Astronomie ; VII . Theoria Motus Corporum Ccelestinm . The first six volumes will occupy about five or six years in publication—the seventh volume will appear later . The copyright interest in the Theoria Motus will not expire for some time .

Messrs . Tinsley Brothers' Library Circular has made its ap - pearance , and forms an excellent record of the literature of the month , and gives a long list of books , at reduced prices , AvithdraAvn from library circulation . Denmark and Germany since 1815—being historical notices of the relations of the tivo countries to each other—will be

published in the course of the season . The publisher of the Monde Illustre , an illustrated weekly paper at Paris , Avere desirous of taking advantage of the publication of M . Victor Hugo ' s new work , Les Miserables , to ¦ adorn their pages with a portrait of that celebrated writer . The Home Department has , howeverput its veto on the

specu-, lation , and the publishers have been forbidden to present to ¦ the public , who read and admire his productions , the features of the poet . The party Avho probably suffers most is the publisher of the Monde Illustre , AVIIO has had to change the Avhole impression of about 6 , 000 copies for another Avithout the obnoxious frontispiece .

Lord Stanhope , at the late exhibition of English autographs , exhibited the original and uncorrected MS . of The Maid of Alliens , commencing Girl of Athens , & c . It furnished a fine example of Byron ' s painstaking , and of the proverb that second thoughts are best . A Cheshire authoress has just issued a semi-historical novel ,

relating to her . country : —The Cheshire -pil grims ; or Sketches of the Crusading Life in the Thirteenth Century , by Frances H . Wilbraham . It is reported ( says the Critic ) that it ivas in contemplation that the dinner of the Royal Literary Fund should be held this year in the refreshment-rooms of the Great Exhibition , at South

Kensington , but that the arrangement has been upset b y tne determination of the Commissioners to charge the guests tor admission into the building , and by their regulation that the

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company must quit by daylight . We do not see that any just complaint can be founded on this . The guests of the Literary Fund luiA-e no claim to go into the building without payment , and the regulations to prevent fire are not more stringent than the circumstances of the case and the value of the property entrusted to the care oftlie Commissioners absolutely , require .

A bronze statue , larger than life , has just been placed on a , pedestal temporarily in front of the Palais de l'lndustrie , in the Champs Elysees . It represents Boissy d'Anglas , AA'ho occupied the President ' s chair in the National convention during the first revolution , when the mob forced the doors of tho Assembly and presented to the President the bleeding head of the Deputy

Feraud , whom they had just murdered . Boissy d'Anglas raised his hat as a mark of respect to his unfortunate colleague . He then resumed his seat , and by his firmness induced the intruders to withdraw . This terrible episode is represented in bronze on the pedestal . The statue is intended for the town of St . Jean-Chamre , iu the Ardeche , Avhere Boissy d'Anglas was born of an ancient Protestant family .

Speech Of His Majesty King Kamehameha Iv.

SPEECH OF HIS MAJESTY KING KAMEHAMEHA IV .

Reply of his Majesty to the address presented to him by the Lodge of Freemasons and tho Roj'al Arch Chapter of Honolulu . MOST EXCELLENT HIGH PRIEST , COMPANIONS , AND BRETHREN , — -Bound together as we are by a holy league of brotherhood , I should not be doing justice to the feelings which actuate me in my

relationship with yourselves , and operate amongst us all , did I deuy that I almost expected you would seek a fitting occasion to felicitate me in the character in which we UOAV appear . For all your kind wishes I thank you from the bottom of my , heart , and amongst the many blessings for which I have at this time especial reason to be thankful to our Supreme Grand Master , I do not

reckon this as the least , that I enjoy the sympathy of a Fraternity whose objects are so pure and whose friendships are so true as thoso of our Order . I will not multiply words , but believe me that when I look upon my infant son , whose birth has been the cause of so much joy to me and of so much interest to yourselves , the thought already occupies my mind that perhaps one day

he may wear those dearly prized badges , and that his intercourse with his fellow men , like his father ' s , may be rendered more pleasant and perhaps more profitable , by his espousing those solemn tenets which make the . name of a Freemason honourable throughout the world . May 22 ud , 1858 .

PUZZLED WHICH TO CHOOSE . —A picture , vividly embodying an illustration of this old saying , excited great notice at one of our recent exhibitions ; but Ave doubt whether the saying could be more forcibly made manifest than when visiting the establishments of some of our fashionable London tradespeople , particularly of those ivhere the excellencies of English Avorkmanship unite with the elegancies of Continental taste . At such an

establishment , for example , as that of Messrs . T . A . Simpson and Co ., 154 , Regent-street , Avhere , " ever changing and ever neAA * , " ' the senses are really at first confused at the multiplicity and novelty of articles displayed to the astonished gaze . In ladies ' dressing-cases , of every choice description of fancy wood , and of every variety of ornamental construction ; in French clocks of elegant design and correctness of time ; indeed , in every variety of

jewellery , the intending purchaser will truly for a time be " puzzled ivhich to choose . " The safest plan in such a case would be to indicate the nature of the article required . The probity of the establishment , and the matured judgment of Messrs . Simpson in consulting the wishes and tastes of their customers , have invariably tended to ensure an approval of the articles there selected for those " puzzled which to choose . "