as in every way a most serious and heinous wrong. Difference of opinion there may and must be upon the topics which in this letter I have grouped around it, but upon the act itself there can be none. As I drag it up here into the sight of the world, I call upon every scholar, every man of letters, every editor, every good fellow everywhere who wields the pen, to make common cause with me in rousing upon it the full tempest of reprobation it deserves. I remember Tennyson, a spirit of vengeance over the desecrated grave of Moore; I think of Scott rolling back the tide of obloquy from Byron; I see Addison gilding the blackening fame of Swift; I mark Southampton befriending Shakespeare; I recall Du Bellay enshielding Rabelais; I behold Hutten fortressing Luther; here is Boccaccio lifting the darkness from Dante, and scattering flame on his foes in Florence; this is Bembo protecting Pomponatius; that is Grostête enfolding Roger Bacon from the monkish fury; there, covered with light, is Aristophanes defending Æschylus: and if there lives aught of that old chivalry of letters, which in all ages has sprung to the succor and defence of genius, I summon it to act the part of honor and duty upon a wrong which, done to a single member of the great confraternity of literature, is done to all, and which flings insult and menace upon every immortal page that dares transcend the wicked heart or the constricted brain. I send this letter to Victor Hugo, for its passport through Europe; I send it to John Stuart Mill, to Newman, and Matthew Arnold, for England; I send it to Emerson and Wendell Phillips; to Charles Sumner; to every Senator and Representative in Congress; to all our journalists; to the whole American people; to every one who guards the freedom of letters and the liberty of thought throughout the civilized world. God grant that not in vain upon this outrage do I invoke the judgment of the mighty spirit of literature, and the fires of every honest heart! WILLIAM DOUGLAS O’CONNOR, Of Massachusetts. LIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY BUNCE AND HUNTINGTON, No. 459, BROOME ST., (WEST OF BROADWAY,) NEW YORK. GOLDEN LEAVES FROM THE AMERICAN POETS. Collected by JOHN W. S. HOWS. 16mo, 550 pp., tinted paper, vellum cloth, gilt tops, bevelled boards $2 50 Extra cloth, full gilt sides and edges 3 00 Half morocco, or half calf 3 50 Morocco antique, or extra gilt 5 00 GOLDEN LEAVES FROM THE BRITISH POETS. Collected by JOHN W. S. HOWS. Uniform with “Golden Leaves from the American Poets.”