Mr. Crump, the author of this little work, is sufficiently well known to the reading public; and we need scarcely say that the “World in a Pocket-Book” is all that it professes to be. Several years have been occupied in its compilation. It will be found an exceedingly convenient manual—embracing a wonderful variety of useful and entertaining matter—the _utile_, nevertheless, prevailing very much, as is right, over the _dulce_. The title well explains the character of the book. We have never seen so much really useful information compressed into the same limits. The public is indebted to Mr. Crump for this little volume, and we hope he may be repaid for the patient research and labor bestowed upon it. * * * * * _Lives of Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy._ By Mrs. Shelley, Sir D. Brewster, James Montgomery, _and others. Two volumes: Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard._ The lives embraced in these volumes are those of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Lorenzo de Medici, Bojardo, Berni, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Galileo, Guicciardini, Vittoria Colonna, Guarini, Tasso, Chiabrera, Tassoni, Marini, Filicaja, Metastasio, Goldoni, Alfieri, Monti, and Ugo Foscolo. We have no clue to the names of the respective writers—but the biographies are, without exception, well written—although at times their brevity is annoying. As a whole, the work is not only interesting, but of value. * * * * * [Illustration: LATEST FASHIONS, SEPTEMBER, 1841. FOR GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE] * * * * * Transcriber’s Notes: Table of Contents has been added for reader convenience. Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained. Obvious punctuation and typesetting errors have been corrected without note. [End of _Graham’s Magazine, Vol. XIX, No. 3, September 1841_, George R. Graham, Editor]