but (particularly some of his most elaborate performances previous to 1817) exist in carefully prepared manuscript reports. All these speeches will be revised and illustrated by Mr. Cralle: and the series will be completed with the memoirs of the great senator, for which that gentleman has the most ample and interesting materials. * * * * * ARCHBISHOP WHATELEY'S very ingenious _Historical Doubts Respecting Napoleon Bonaparte_, is the cleverest book of the kind yet written, not excepting the high church pamphlet treating of the Archbishop's own existence in the same way. But the idea was not original with Whateley: Mr. William Biglow of Boston wrote half a century ago, _The Age of Freedom, being an Investigation of Good and Bad Government, in Imitation of Mr. Paine's Age of Reason_, and intended, by a similar style of argument respecting the Discovery of America, &c., to expose that infidel's sophistries. We perceive that the _Life of Jesus_, by Dr. Strauss, has been met by another such performance in England, under the title of _Historical Certainties respecting the Early History of America, developed in a Critical Examination of the Book of the Chronicles of the Land of Ecnarf; By the Rev. Aristarchus Newlight, Doctor of Philosophy of the University of Giessen, Corresponding Member of the Theophilanthropic and Pantisocratical Societies of Leipsig, late Professor of all Religions in several distinguished Academies at Home and Abroad, &c_. The author very satisfactorily disposes of the events between the first French Revolution and the Battle of Waterloo, by putting them through the "mythic" circle invented by Dr. Strauss. The joke is carried out with remarkable ingenuity, and with the most whimsical resources of learning. The good doctor finds, _a la Strauss, a nucleus_, for here and there a great tradition, but remorselessly wipes out as altogether incredible many of the most striking and familiar facts in modern history. * * * * * Of Mr. SCHOOLCRAFT'S great work, which we have heretofore announced, the first part has just appeared from the press of Lippencott, Grambo & Co., in the most splendid quarto volume that has yet been printed in America. We shall take an early opportunity to do justice to this truly national performance and to its author. * * * * * DR. ROBERT KNOX--whose book of infidel rigmarole, _The Races of Men_, was lately reprinted by an American house which was never before and we trust will never again be guilty of such an indiscretion,--we understand is coming to New-York to lecture upon Ethnology. He has the "gift" of talking, and is said to have been popular as a demonstrator in anatomy; but we think it will be best for him to remain a while longer in England; the sham science of which his last book is a specimen is no longer, we believe, _profitable_ in this country. The last _Princeton Review_ says of _The Races of Men_: