his head as if with the intent of waking, and raising him up, and subsequently by her own confession, her guilt was thus incontrovertibly established. She suffered those extreme penalties of the law which the heinous nature of her crime demanded, and fully justified. This historiette, in the leading incidents of which, every Frenchman at all acquainted with the _Causes Cèlèbres_ of his country, will detect matters of fact, we have "made a prief of in our notebook," as one of those interesting cases, (not less remarkable because of rather frequent occurrence) which incontestably prove, that under the just government of the Omniscient, who hath willed that "Whosoever sheddeth the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed."--Murder will out! M.L.B. * * * * * THE SELECTOR AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_. * * * * * POLAND. Dr. Lardner has commenced a "_Library_," as a kind of succedaneum to his valuable "Cyclopaedia." Both are styled _Cabinet_, and the first may be considered an amplification of the second. Two of the Cabinet Library volumes contain a Retrospect of Public Affairs for 1831--not a chronology of shreds and patches, but a well-digested review of the great events of the year--and important indeed they are. The work is the quintessence of an "Annual Register:" it is not so porous and pursy as the last mentioned book, but is a pleasant volume to put in one's pocket and read inside a coach, if the passengers will allow you to do so; and it seems to be a good book for newspaper readers, to arrange their head-pieces, for they are usually crammed with all kinds of recollections, and have but few right-set views. We do not content ourselves with saying the _Retrospect_ is well written, but quote a proof of equal length and interest--for it relates to a country whose fate is anxiously watched by all Europe, nay, by all the world. It is from the author's Chapter on the State of Poland. After some pages on the oppressed Poles, the writer proceeds:--