We at least find no frost, no benumbing influence manifested anywhere. We love the old favorites because they were favorites of old. The younger reader, who has only of late months learned the 'Chambered Nautilus,' 'The Deacon's Masterpiece,' or 'Parson Turrel's Legacy,' will, thirty years hence, recall the sweet flavor of their first taste, even as we recall the latter years of the blessed rosy decade of the eighteen hundred and thirties, and, with them, how they were made leafy and odorant and golden by 'The Katydid Song'--by 'The Dilemma'--by 'L'Imanuel;' or how they were be-merried by the 'Dorchester Giant'--'The Oysterman'--the--but the book hath its table of contents! We believe, honestly and earnestly, that the blue and gold, 'dorézure,' volume before us is the most agreeable, readable, and spirited book of poetry ever written by an American--it is not worth while to sail into the cloudy regions of antique or Old World comparison--and that it would be impossible to select anything in print of the same market value which would be so acceptable as a gift to so great a number of persons. We trust, by the way, that this hint will not be lost on all gentlemen or ladies who play at philop[oe]na, or who are desirous of displaying refined taste at no great expense on birthday and Christmas occasions. And we would beg our reader, for his own sake, not to rely on the fact that he has read many of these lyrics in bygone years, as an excuse for not providing himself with the new edition. We assure him that he can have no idea how much better and fresher and fairer they all seem in company. Something, too, should be said of the excellent full-length, admirably engraved portrait of Dr. HOLMES, pre-facing the title--the best likeness of our poet extant, and one which, to use a familiar though somewhat famished phrase, 'is alone well worth the price of the volume.' EDITOR'S TABLE. THE DUCHESS OF SUTHERLAND. LONDON, _Nov. 1, 1862_, MY DEAR FRIEND: I have read Mr. Kirke's celebrated anti-slavery book called _Among the Pines_, and, so far as published in the CONTINENTAL MONTHLY, his _Merchant's Story_ on the same subject; but I have changed my views on this question, and so has England. _Antislavery_ was our policy for more than a quarter of a century to produce a civil war between the North and the South, and now we adopt _pro slavery_ views to make sure the dissolution of the Union. That Union was growing too strong, and with its success the Republican principle too powerful. We are acting in _self defence_, to save the monarchy and aristocracy of England. The American States were once our colonies, and they have no right to destroy us by restoring the Union.