rendering our grateful tribute to the memory of one of the most
intelligent and kindest-hearted men that ever breathed; from whom we, in
common with so many others, when entering on our literary career,
received the most friendly assistance, and the most encouraging
sympathy.

Every fifty years commences a discussion of the great question when the
current century, or half century, properly begins. We have just seen
this in the numerous Queries, Answers, Replies, and Rejoinders upon the
subject which have appeared in the columns of the daily and weekly
press; the only regular treatise being the essay upon _Ancient and
Modern Usage in Reckoning_, by professor De Morgan, in the _Companion to
the Almanack_ for the present year. This Essay is opposed to the idea of
a "zero year," and one of the advocates of that system of computation
has, therefore, undertaken a defence of the zero principle, which he
pronounces, "when properly understood, is undoubtedly the most correct
basis of reckoning," in a small volume entitled, _An Examination of the
Century Question_, and in which he maintains the point for which he is
contending with considerable learning and ingenuity. All who are
interested in the question at issue, will be at once amused and
instructed by it.

Mr. Charles Knight announces a new edition of his _Pictorial
Shakespeare_ under the title of the National Edition; to contain the
whole of the Notes, Illustrations, &c., thoroughly revised; and which,
while it will be printed in a clear and beautiful type across the page,
and not in double columns, will have the advantage of being much cheaper
than the edition which he originally put forth.

_The Declaration of the Fathers of the Councell of Trent concerning the