Mr. W.E. Foster has published in London a new edition of Clarkson's
Life of Penn, in the preface to which he has entered very fully into
the points raised by Macaulay in his History in regard to the Quakers,
vindicating them, and very ably sustaining the fame of their hero.

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Rev. Dr. Judson, the missionary, is again reported in very feeble
health, and in a decline. He is nearly sixty years of age.

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The Poems of Frances A. and Metta V. Fuller, of Ohio, are in press,
and to be published in a beautiful volume in the autumn.

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Mr. Prescott, the historian, is passing the summer in England.

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LITERATURE IN PARIS.--A correspondent of the London _Literary
Gazette_, under date of June 12, says:

"I notice reprints, by Didot, of several of the standard works
of Chateaubriand; a condensation, by General O'Connor, of his
"Monopoly;" a Treatise, by the Bishop of Langres, on the grave
question of Church and State; a very interesting and curious
work on the forests of Gaul, ancient France, England, Italy,