The "_Turn Out_" is excellent--a second edition of Miss Edgeworth's "Barring Out," and full of fine touches of the truest humor. The scene is laid in Georgia, and in the good old days of _fescues_, _abbiselfas_, and _anpersants_--terms in very common use, but whose derivation we have always been at a loss to understand. Our author thus learnedly explains the riddle. "The _fescue_ was a sharpened wire, or other instrument, used by the preceptor, to point out the letters to the children. _Abbiselfa_ is a contraction of the words 'a, by itself, a.' It was usual, when either of the vowels constituted a syllable of a word, to pronounce it, and denote its independent character, by the words just mentioned, thus: 'a by itself _a_, c-o-r-n corn, _acorn_'--e by itself _e_, v-i-l vil, evil. The character which stands for the word '_and_' (&) was probably pronounced with the same accompaniment, but in terms borrowed from the Latin language, thus: '& _per se_ (by itself) &.' 'Hence anpersant.'" This whole story forms an admirable picture of school-boy democracy in the woods. The _master_ refuses his pupils an Easter holiday; and upon repairing, at the usual hour of the fatal day, to his school house, "a log pen about twenty feet square," finds every avenue to his ingress fortified and barricadoed. He advances, and is assailed by a whole wilderness of sticks from the cracks. Growing desperate, he seizes a fence rail, and finally succeeds in effecting an entrance by demolishing the door. He is soundly flogged however for his pains, and the triumphant urchins suffer him to escape with his life, solely upon condition of their being allowed to do what they please as long as they shall think proper. "_The Charming Creature as a Wife_," is a very striking narrative of the evils attendant upon an ill-arranged marriage--but as it has nothing about it peculiarly Georgian, we pass it over without further comment.