1 value is much enhanced by the addition to the
description of the name of the locality where the object was found. It is intended as the precursor to a great work on the subject, and is published in French, in order to put into the hands of the savants who will assemble at the coming Congress of Archmologists in Buda-Pesth, a small manual of the types found in this country, anent a discussion on the subject of the Monza Age in Europe. Theophilus, and others. By Mary Mapes Dodge. (Sampson Low and Co.)--One of those clover books of essays which we now got so frequently from the other side of the Atlantic,-essays about husbands, about" helps," and about things in general, we may almost say. They are always sensible, and almost always bright and amusing, sometimes, when the writer chooses to work that vein, not a little pathetic. Such, for instance, is the story of the brave old seamstress, who is cheered under the load of many sorrows by Adelaide Proctor's beautiful little poem, "One by One." But the humorous is the more common kind. Such is the first essay in the volume, an adventure in horse-buying, " Dobbs's Horse ;" and such, too, the last, "United Ages." Who has not been provoked by those idiotic paragraphs with which the Times occa- sionally fills up a corner about the "united ages" of old ladies and gentlemen whose names have appeared in the obituary of the day before ?
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