The present edition of the Harpers consists of two volumes in one. Volume one commences with a _Prelude of Mottoes_ occupying two pages. Then follows a _Postscript_—then a _Table of Contents to the first volume_, occupying eighteen pages. Volume two has a similar _Prelude of Mottoes_ and _Table of Contents_. The whole is subdivided into Chapters Ante-Initial, Initial and {507} Post-Initial, with Inter-Chapters. The pages have now and then a typographical _queerity_—a monogram, a scrap of grotesque music, old English, &c. Some characters of this latter kind are printed with colored ink in the British edition, which is gotten up with great care. All these oddities are in the manner of Sterne, and some of them are exceedingly well conceived. The work professes to be a Life of one Doctor Daniel Dove and his horse Nobs—but we should put no very great faith in this biography. On the back of the book is a monogram—which appears again once or twice in the text, and whose solution is a fertile source of trouble with all readers. This monogram is a triangular pyramid; and as, in geometry, the solidity of every polyedral body may be computed by dividing the body into pyramids, the pyramid is thus considered as the base or essence of every polyedron. The author then, after his own fashion, may mean to imply that his book is the basis of all solidity or wisdom—or perhaps, since the polyedron is not only a solid, but a solid terminated by _plane faces_, that the _Doctor_ is the very essence of all that spurious wisdom which will terminate in just nothing at all—in a hoax, and a consequent multiplicity of _blank visages_. The wit and humor of the _Doctor_ have seldom been equalled. We cannot think Southey wrote it, but have no idea who did. RAUMER'S ENGLAND. _England in 1835. Being a Series of Letters written to Friends in Germany, during a Residence in London and Excursions into the Provinces. By Frederick Von Raumer, Professor of History at the University of Berlin, Author of the “History of the Hohenstaufen,” of the “History of Europe from the end of the Fifteenth Century,” of “Illustrations of the History of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries,” &c. &c. Translated from the German, by Sarah Austin and H. E. Lloyd. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard._