Among the new works announced by Mr. Hart of Philadelphia is the Principles of Organic Chemistry, by Dr. Carl Lœwig, professor of Chemistry in the University of Zurich, translated by David Breed, M.D., of New-York.
In a brief and hastily written paragraph in the last International, we referred to a novel by Dr. Huntington, as Alice, or the Mysteries, instead of Alice, or the New Una,—a mistake which any reader of ordinary intelligence, who had ever seen the work in question, might easily have corrected. The character of the literary performances of Dr. Huntington is such as to justify some curiosity respecting his personal history, and in too carelessly attempting to give it, we fell into some errors, which he "corrects" in a letter to the Courier and Enquirer, saying—
"The novel of Alice, or the Mysteries, I did not write, although I am forced to admit that it 'displayed a great deal of talent as well as a very peculiar morality;' (indeed its morality I never did quite approve)—I never was a village doctor—I never was a Congregational minister—and I am not now a Catholic priest."
We may amend our statement thus: Dr. Huntington is the author of a work entitled, Alice, or the New Una, which was very commonly regarded as the most licentious publication of its season; we understand that in his youth he was somewhat remarkable for the grimness of his Calvinism; that while a Congregationalist he became a doctor in medicine; that he afterwards took orders in the Episcopal church; that he left that church to enter a society of Roman Catholics; and that it was rumored soon after that he had become a priest, but, it is now understood, was prevented by disqualifying domestic relations. We admit that our paragraph had some little inaccuracies, but certainly they are more easy of explanation than Dr. Huntington's intimation in his letter of July to the London Morning Chronicle that the author of Alban and Alice is a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church!
Harper & Brothers have just published Forest Life and Forest Trees, by G. S. Springer, of Boston; Judge Haliburton's recent work on America which we noticed last month; and Lamartine's Restoration of the Monarchy in France, the most brilliant, superficial and false production of a writer never remarkable for depth or conscience. They have in press a new volume of Mr. Hildreth's capital History of the United States; Mr. G. P. R. James's Lectures on Civilization, delivered in various parts of the country last winter; Sixteen Months in the Gold Diggings, by Daniel B. Woods; Wesley and Methodism, by Isaac Taylor; The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, by Professor Creasy; new volumes of Memoirs of Dr. Chalmers and Miss Strickland's Lives of the Queens of Scotland; and several new English and American novels.
A very interesting handbook of London, somewhat different from any work of the kind yet published, is soon to appear in this city under the title of Memories of the Great Metropolis, profusely illustrated with wood engravings, and with a higher literary finish than is common in such performances.