MICHELET, driven from his chair in the University, is publishing in the _Evénement_ his new work, _Légendes de la Démocratie_. The preface is remarkable for its naïveté. "This book," he says, "is the true _Légendes d'Or_ (golden legend)--free from all alloy, and in it will be found nothing but the truth.--Nay more, every one who reads it will become a wiser and a better man." A happy author, to have such faith in his book! * * * * * M. GUIZOT'S _History of the Representative Form of Government_, is prepared from a course of lectures delivered by the author in the reign of Louis the Eighteenth. The preface contains frequent allusions to the politics of the day, and the eminent author refers in it to his attempts to reconcile authority with liberty. M. Guizot's style is clear, but destitute of warmth or ornament, and his works have reputation chiefly for their judicial carefulness and honesty--qualities not so common in France as to be reasonably neglected there. * * * * * M. PROUDHON, the socialist "philosopher," has written, in the prison, in which it has been deemed necessary to shut him up, a new work, entitled _General Idea of Revolution in the Nineteenth Century_. Among the topics of which it treats are the Reaction of Revolutions, the Sufficient Reason of Revolution in the Nineteenth Century, the Principle of Association, the Principle of Authority, Organization of Economical Forces, and Dissolution of Government under an Economical Organization. The elements of every revolutionary history, according to Proudhon, are the previous régime which the revolution seeks to abolish, and which, by the instinct of self-preservation, may become a counter-revolution; the parties which, according to their different prejudices and interests, endeavor to turn it to their own advantage; and the revolution itself. * * * * * DR. BUSHNAN, of Edinburgh, under the title of _Miss Martineau and her Master_, has published a temperate but conclusive refutation of the _Letters on the Laws of Man's Nature and Development_, by Miss MARTINEAU and Mr. GEORGE ATKINSON. The shallow performance in which these persons displayed their atheism was treated by the learned with contempt. Douglass Jerrold said the sum of their doctrine was contained in the formula, "There is no God, and Miss Martineau is his prophet," and those who considered the _Letters_ more seriously, for the most part expressed surprise and pity--never any one an apprehension that such wretched stuff could unsettle a conviction of the feeblest, or confirm a doubt of the most skeptical. * * * * * ISAAC TAYLOR, whose "Natural History of Enthusiasm," has been much read in this country, has in press _Wesley and Methodism_. * * * * *