We have placed the Rosetta stone of Art, with its threefold inscriptions in Sculpture, Painting and Music, with their union or _resume_ in Poetry, before him; we have given him the key to some of its wondrous hieroglyphics; let him study the remaining letters of this mystical alphabet for himself! These inscriptions are indeed trilingual, phonetic, and sacred, yet the simple and loving soul may decipher them without the genius of Champollion; their meaning is written within it. It will readily learn to connect the sign with the thing signified, and under the fleeting forms of rhythmed time and measured space, learn to detect the immutable principles which are to be its glory and joy for eternity! CURRENCY AND THE NATIONAL FINANCES. 1. _History of the Bank of England, its Times and Traditions, from 1694 to 1844._ By JOHN FRANCIS. First American Edition. _With Notes, Additions, and an Appendix, including Statistics of the Bank to the close of the year 1861._ By J. SMITH HOMANS, Author of the 'Cyclopaedia of Commerce and Commercial Navigation.' New York. 8vo, pp.476. 2. _Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, in relation to the Issue of an Additional Amount of United States Treasury Notes._ 3. _Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of the Finances of the United States for the Year ending June 30, 1862._ 4. _The Tariff Question considered in regard to the Policy of England and the Interests of the United States. With Statistical and Comparative Tables._ By ERASTES B. BIGELOW. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. 4to, pp. 103 and 242. 5. _The Bankers' Magazine and Statistical Register._ New York, monthly, 1861-2. Edited by J. SMITH HOMANS, jr. The Bank of England was created during the urgent necessities of national finance. It was a concession of a valuable privilege to a few rich men, in consideration of their loaning the capital to the treasury. 'The estimates of Government expenditure in the year 1694 were enormous,' says Macaulay, in his fourth volume. King William asked to have the army increased to ninety-four thousand, at an annual expense of about two and a half millions sterling--a small sum compared with what it costs in the year 1862 to maintain an army of equal numbers.