-Tour in Northern Counties of England and Scotland. Lond., 1838. 2 vols, rl. 8vo, vellum, uncut. $28.00.

3 vols.

L. P.

Edwards' Memoirs of Libraries, and Libraries and Founders. Lond., 1859-65. Rl. 8vo, uncut. $26.25. Griffith's Bibliotheca Anglo Poetica. Lond., 1815. Imp. 8vo, hf. russia, uncut. Colored plate. L. P., 50 copies. $31.00. Harleian Miscellany. Lond., 1808-13. 10 vols, 4to, hf. mor., uncut. L. P. $80.00. Horne's Introd. to Study of Bibliography. Lond., 1814. 2 vols, rl. 8vo, hf. mor. L. P., 50 copies. $34.00.

Lowndes' Bibliog. Manual. Pickering, 1834. 4 vols, rl. 8vo, hf. russia, uncut. L. P., 50 copies. With additions and insertions. $46.00.

Martin's Bibl. Catalogue of Books Privately Printed. Lond., 1834. 2 vols, imp 8vo, bds. L. P., 50 copies. Dupl. $21.00.

plate, in colors, etc.

Lond.,

Painter's Palace of Pleasure. 1813. 2 vols, 4to, hf. mor., uncut. $45.00. Miscellanea Antiqua Anglicana. Lond., 1814-16. 4to, hf. clf, uncut. $15.00. Percy Society's Publications. Lond., 1840-52. 94 Parts in 30 vols, 8vo, hf. mor., uncut. $202.50.

Retrospective Review. Lond., 1820-5418 vols, clf. $117.00.

Rogers' Poems. Stothard's & Turner's. Plates. Proofs. Lond., 1834. Uncut. $15.00.

Singer's History of Playing Cards. Lond., 1816. 4to., hf. mor. Plates. $42.00.

Wilson's Arte of Rhetoricke. Lond., 1567. 4to, old clf. "This is said to form one of the Shakespeare Library." $14.50. Fine sets of the following were also included:

Fielding's Works. Lond., 1821. 10 vols, 8vo, hf. mor. $57.50.

Scott. Complete Works. Edinb., 1842-7. 17 vols, rl. 8vo, bds, uncut. First issue. $161.50.

Swift's Works. Edinb., 1824. 19 vols, $95.00.

uncut.

In addition to the Americana already quoted, the library contained some of the Bradford Club Publications. The nominal price of these is $12.00, but at this sale they brought a much less average the prices going lower as the numbers grew higher. No. 1. Hatfield 100 copies, brought 2. Croakers, 150 copies,

66 3. De Grasse, 150 copies,

$27.00

14.50

15.50

vately printed, is to be questioned. There certainly were 150 copies of number 6 printed-75 for the Club, and 75 for subscribers or speculators.

Easton's Philip's Indian War. Albany, 1858. 4to, small paper. $31.00. This was described as in " 4to, uncut. Only 110 copies printed: 10 of which were on large paper in 4to." The natural inference would be that this was a large paper copy-it was

not

Psalms. The Whole Booke of. A literal reprint of the ed. of 1640. 8vo, uncut. $27.00. The error of calling this the "first book printed in America," seems still to be persisted in.

Young's Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers. Boston, 1841. 8vo, bds. $10.50.

Smith's Description of New England. Boston, 1865. 4to, uncut. A copy of the Largest Paper printed on India Paper, one of 6 copies. $15.00.

-Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of N. E. In the same condition as the former. Both of these are reprints. $10.00.

Hovey's Fruits of America. Boston, 1848. Rl. 4to, 26 parts. L. P. India Proof Plates, colored. 50 copies. $49.40. Stevens' American Nuggets. 1862. 2 vols, 8vo, bds, uncut.

Lond.,

$21.00.

The note reads Nearly half the edition was destroyed by fire in New York." The exact number printed, we do not know, but probably not less than 500-less than 6 copies were burnt at the Richardson fire, the one referred to in the note.

It may here be remarked that the term "boards" is used in two senses, sometimes to designate cloth bindings, and sometimes boards proper. Having copied the catalogue we cannot say whether, in all instances, we have given the proper term.

The entire amount realized by the sale of this library, though counting less than 750 titles, was about 4.000 dollars.

JUDGE GREENE'S LIBRARY.

The following notice appears in Mr. Gowan's Catalogue of American Books (No. 27). Mr. Gowan's Notes, or WESTERN MEMORABILIA will be found to be generally interesting and instructive, certainly original.

"The peculiarities of this collection were three-fold. First, it embraced an unparalleled assemblage of pamphlets chiefly relating to America, touching upon innumerable

ture.

topics. Second, the vast mass of volumes, the production of American poets and rhymsters, was doubtless unique, taking up not less than eighteen hundred and fifteen numbers in the catalogue, in all, about three thousand volumes of poetry. Who could have supposed that America could have produced so much poetry during her short existence ? Third, the prodigious congregation of dirty second-hand hymn books, which seemed rather surprising that such a collector of surroundings should have fancied to fill his shelves with such worthless literaA collection of all and every hymn book is a very proper and appropriate adjunct to every public library, but to put them into a private collection is like choking an elegantly furnished parlor with a quantity of broken and dilapidated furniture, filling up space, and so obscuring the useful and ornamental pieces. The catalogue is elaborately, but not judiciously made out. Many books are announced as scarce, with an expensive note appended, while the contrary is the fact, every dealer and collector knowing it to be so. Many are catalogued in expensive style which did not bring more. than five cents, leaving the owner minus three hundred per cent. (!) In the collection not less than one thousand, or perhaps fifteen hundred, ought to have been sold in lots of from twenty to fifty each. . . . The catalogue will always possess an interest to American collectors, more especially on account of the three features heretofore mentioned. The sum total realized for the library was about $8.000. Had the judge been a more liberal buyer, his books to-day would many of them have realized ten times the cost. He seemed to think a rise in the price of any book was preposterous; and such a conviction prevented him from making many valuable acquisitions. If I remember aright, I once offered him Proud's History of Pennsylvania, 2 vols., 8vo, boards, uncut, for $3. declined to purchase it on account of the price being too high. Such a copy of that book at his sale would have brought $20, or perhaps more. I sold Judge Furman many books which brought at the sale of his library five, six, and seven times the price he paid for them. For example, Smith's History of New Jersey, $2, sold for $30. Denton's New York, $5, sold for $35. Simple Cobler of Aggawam, original edition, $8, sold for $45; and many others sold at equally advanced prices.

He

Respecting the prices realized, they were very erratic. Early American literature and trifles sold at very high prices. Backus' History of New England, 3 vols., 8vo, sold for $75. Dring's Account of the Jersey Prison Ships, a small volume, not bigger than Webster's Spelling Book, $23. Weemes' Life of Washington, a pamphlet, $3, while Gen. McClellan's Report on European Military Affairs, a quarto volume, with expensive diagrams, sold for twelve and a half cents. A Mr. Miller's (a Scottish divine), Works, 6 vols., 12mo, well bound, for seventy-five cents, etc., etc. The standard literature sold at rather moderate figures, perhaps not more than one-half the original cost, while the indif

ferent portion brought the veriest dregs of prices. The attendance during the sale was slim, never rising over twenty-five, and sometimes not half that number. Such a sale thirty years ago would have called the whole of the book hunters in the city, such as was the case during the sale of Dr. John M. Mason's library. The room on that occasion was nightly thronged to excess by the best men of New York. His collection cost him twenty thousand dollars and realized but eight thousand. A pretty round figure to pay for the use of books. It is perhaps not generally known that Judge Green was the author of that famous American ballad, entitled Old Grimes is Dead that Good Old Man."-WESTERN MEMORABILIA.

T. B. PETERSON & BROS., PHILA., PA.

The Bride's Fate: A sequel to "The Changed Brides." By Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth.

Hans Breitmann's Ballads, complete in one vol., tinted paper, cloth, gilt. By Chas. G. Leland. Price $2.

Leonora Casaloni; or, The Marriage Secret. By T. A. Trollope-also new and uniform editions of T. A. Trollope's other books: Gemma, A Tale of Love and Jealousy; Marietta; or, Life in Tuscany; Beppo, The Conscript.

They have in Press all the other novels of this popular author. Also the following: The Woman in Red. A Companion to the "Woman in White," and to the Woman in Black, 8vo, 50 cts.

Love and Liberty. A Narrative of the French Revolution of 1772. By Alexander Dumas, 8vo, 50cts.

Dream Numbers. By T. A. Trollope. In cloth, $1.75-in paper, $1.50.

Giulio Malatesta. By T. A. Trollope. In cloth, $1.75-in paper, $1.50.

The Prince of Darkness. Bv Mrs. E. D. E N. Southworth. In cloth, $1.75in paper $1.50.

Roland Yorke. Sequel to "The Channings." By Mrs. Henry Wood, Svo, 50cts

A Valuable Historical Collection of over 2,000 Original Manuscripts, including ali the Original Papers of the late Maj.-Gen. Arthur St. Clair, of the Revolutionary Army, now belonging to the Estate of Maj. Robert Graham, of Atchison City, Kansas.

The collection consists of Letters and various documents relating to the Revolution, among which are many Autograph letters from Washington, Lafayette, Knox, Wayne, Schuyler, Steuben, Greene, Gates, Pres. Reed, Gov. Morris, Paul Jones, and many others.

Persons wishing to examine or purchase this collection, can do so by calling on the undersigned, at the Burnet House, in Cincinnati, O., where they will be from the 2d until the 9th of August next.

R. ST. CLAIR GRAHAM, Executor.
LIZZIE GRAHAM, Executrix.

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If would convince himself that the Americans are a reading public he has only to begin with The American Literary Gazette and Publishers' Circular, now in its thirteenth year, and go on through the American Publisher and Bookseller, published by G. & R. Cathcart, (he should pause and read over the article by Mr. F. B. Perkins, on Library Catalogues); The Western Bookseller, a Monthly Register of Current Literature; The American Booksellers' Guide, (published by the American News Company), The Monthly Bulletin, of the great publishing houses of Lippincott & Appleton, till he gets to the Literarischer Monatsbericht, where, peradventure, his philology may have an end. He will, at this point, be convinced that there are not only thousands of American readers, but thous ands of German readers. If he be still skeptical we have yet to show him catalogues without number-foreign literary perio dicals in abundance. Trubner's American and Oriential Literary Record; The Bookseller a Hand-book of British and Foreign Literature; The Notes and Queries, and Bossange's Bulletin Bibliographique are especially worthy of notice. These are but a tithe of the evidence, but if one can be doubtful after this, he must be skeptical indeed.

Hans Breitmann's Ballads. By Charles G. Leland, Philada: T. B. Peterson & Bros., [1869.] 8vo, cloth, gilt top.

The immensely funny Breitmann Ballads are here collected in a complete edition, and printed in a manner quite creditable to the publishers. Both the paper and typography are superior to any we have previously seen from Peterson's press. A very appropiate

portrait of the ineffable Hans graces the title and last page. This portrait, by the way, would be a better commentary, if we could reproduce it, than any mere words we could use.

With such a chronicle of his noble deeds the memory of our imaginary hero will not. fade-still will he live,

In the ballad of Breitmann about Town, we have an account of his visit to the Bibliothek, in a moralizing vein:

"Dey vented to de Bibliothek,
Vich Mishder Astor bilt:
Some pooks vere only en broschure,
Und some vere pound und gilt
Dat makes de golt-dat makes de sinn,
Mit pooks, ash men, ve see,
De pest dressed vellers gilt de most,-
Said Breitemann, said he."

But Breitemann is too well known to be quoted, and no doubt his sententious sayings have passed already into household words

amongst a large portion of the community. As evidence of "the Vast Intellectual Superioriey of Germans to Americans," the author proves by logical deduction that Columbus must have been, and was, a Dutch

man.

The two verses which follow, and the three lines previously quoted, are written by a youth who is fearful of their merit. Being his maiden attempt, we have consented to insert them as they were writ

ten, without, however, adding his name. The German is rather questionable.

Hans Breitman! O, Hans Breitmann !
I gifs you here mein hand,

Du bist, der bestest Deutchmann
In all dis vide spret land.

A boet und soldaten,

A brafe man efery vere,
Esbecially in ballaten

Und trinckin lager bier.

Sir Alexander Cumming.-A Nova Scotia baronet, living in 1730, of Coulter, called by some, "King of the Cherokees." He married Elizabeth, one of the last coheiresses of the ancient family of Dennis, of Puccelchurch, Co. Gloucester. Where may be found any account of his connection with the Cherokees; also any thing of his death or descendants? S. S.

Obeism.-Can any of your readers give me some information about obeism? I am anxious to know whether it is in itself a religion, or merely a rite practised in some religion in Africa, and imported thence to the West Indies (where, I am told, it is rapidly gaining ground again); and whether the obeist obtains the immense power he is said to possess over his brother negroes by any acquired art, or simply by working upon the more superstitious minds of his companions. Any information, however, on the subject will be acceptable. T. H.

Mincing Lane, Jan. 10, 1851.

Sangaree. Your periodical having been the means of eliciting some interesting particulars respecting the origin of the word grog, perhaps you will allow me to claim a similar distinction for the word sangaree. You are aware that this word is applied, in in the West Indies, to a beverage composed of Madeira wine, syrup, water, and nutmeg. The French call it sangris, in allusion, it is supposed, to the color of the beverage, which when mixed has the appearance, as it were, of gray blood (sang gris): but as there is reason to believe that the English were the first to introduce the use of the thing, they

QUERIES.

aving been the first to introduce its principal ingredient, Madeira wine, I am disposed to look upon sangaree as the original word, and sangris as nothing more than a corruption of it. Can any of your readers (among whom I trust there are many retired West India planters) give the etymology of this word? HENRY H. BREEN.

St. Lucia, Dec., 1850.

Obeism. As your correspondent T. H. (Vol. iii., p. 59) desires "any information on the subject of Obeism, in the absence of more and better, I offer my mite that in the early part of this century it was very common among the slave population in the West Indies, especially on the remoter estates of course of African origin-not as either a "religion" or a rite," but rather

professors, and assented to by the patients, as a superstition; a power claimed by its of causing good or evil to, or averting it from them; which was of course always for a "consideration" of some sort, to the profit, whether honorary, pecuniary, or other, of the dispenser. It is by the pretended influence of certain spells, charms, ceremonies, amulets worn, or other such incantations, as practised with more or less diversity by the adepts, the magicians and conjurers, the "false prophets " of all ages and coun

tries.

On this matter, a curious phenomenon to investigate would be, the process by which the untonsured neophyte is converted into the bonneted doctor; the progress and stages of his mind in the different phases of the practice; how he begins by deceiving him