* * * * * A new _Life of Mr. Jefferson_ is soon to be published by Mr. RANDALL, who has been honorably distinguished in his connection with the government of this state. The work will embrace a very interesting sketch of the private life of Mr. Jefferson, by Mr. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, the statesman's grandson and executor. Whatever we may think of the abilities or the special services of Mr. Jefferson, we are of that large number who regard his principles as altogether erroneous and injurious, and his character with little respect. The time is coming in which his history must be written, not by a maker of books, but by a philosophical statesman. Every year the materials are becoming more accessible. The writings of Adams and Hamilton, now in course of publication, are important contributions to them. The looked-for correspondence of Madison will serve largely for the same end; but Mr. Jefferson's life cannot be thoroughly understood until the collection of his papers in the possession of the government is carefully and intelligibly studied. The four volumes of his letters printed by Mr. Randolph, embrace but about eight hundred, but there were sold to the government by his executor the enormous number at _forty-two thousand letters_ and other documents, of which nearly sixteen thousand were written or signed by Mr. Jefferson himself. A large proportion of these papers are doubtless most important for the illustration of contemporary French and American biography, but the whole of them should be read by whoever attempts to write the history of the apostle of the radical democracy in the United States. * * * * * A Memoir _with a selection of the unpublished writings of the late Margaret Fuller, Countess d'Ossoli_, is announced as in preparation by her friends RALPH WALDO EMERSON and WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING. The letters of Margaret Fuller to the _Tribune_, would fill a large volume, and we hope they will be reprinted with the collection of her private correspondence and inedited essays. And some of her later critical writings for the _Tribune_, in which the fame of more than one favorite of certain coteries was assailed--will her editors have courage to reproduce them? Pray you, gentlemen, consider that you propose bringing Margaret Fuller herself from the sea, to speak again to us in her own language; if the figure you present speak not as she spoke--all that she would speak, regardless of your regards--it will not be believed that you have commission for what you undertake. * * * * * The Rev. FREDERICK OGILBY, of Philadelphia, has in preparation a _Memoir with selections from the Writings of the late Rev. John D. Ogilby, D.D._, whose death at Paris was recently mentioned in these pages, and of whose life and character we have received an eloquent portraiture in the address delivered at his funeral by Bishop Doane.