starry heaven hath spread itself open. O God! what a joyous life on this little earth." * * * * * Emma is from the German, and signifies a nurse; Caroline, from the Latin--noble minded; George, from the Greek-a farmer; Martha, from Hebrew--bitterness; the beautiful and common Mary is Hebrew, and means a drop of salt water--a tear; Sophia, from Greek--wisdom; Susan, from Hebrew--a lily; Thomas, from Hebrew--a twin; and Robert, from German--famous in council. * * * * * AUTHORS AND BOOKS. * * * * * Mr. James and Copyright.--It appears that the visit of Mr. G.P.R. James, with which we are presently to be honored, is not, after all, solely for the "gratification of the natural curiosity" of the author of the book with so many titles, as some time ago he advised one of his correspondents here. The London _News_ observes incidentally: "The long-vexed question of an international copyright with our transatlantic cousins shows symptoms of rising to a speedy crisis. Up to a recent period the Yankees had all the advantage of the defective state of the law. They could steal freely from our literary richness; whereas, not only had they little of their own to be robbed of, but their handful of authors took very good care to secure English publishers, and, therefore, English copyrights, for their works. This defense, however, a recent law decision has wrested from the Coopers and Irvings of the States; so that English booksellers have now a perfect right to treat American authors as American booksellers have long been in the habit of serving English authors. And there is something just in this _lex talionis_. If Dickens, may be reprinted and sold for a shilling in New York, why may not Cooper be reprinted and sold for a shilling in London? At all events, the reprisal system will possibly incline our Yankee neighbors to listen to reason, and to favor _the embassy which Mr. James, the novelist, is to undertake to the States, with a view of making preliminary arrangements for a full and satisfactory code directed against all future international literary free-booting_." * * * * * Albert Smith and "Protection."--The _Spectator_, misled by a statement in the Morning Post, to the effect that a Mr. Albert Smith was present, by invitation, at a Protectionist meeting at Wallingford, made some caustic remarks on the supposed adhesion of the witty novelist to the cause of dear bread. The latter, astounded thereby, sends the _Spectator_ a note, in which he says: