editor’s table. 
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®bitor 0 ^Table. 
The National Press. —A new family paper is to 
be started by Geo, P. Morris, Esq., well known as one 
of our most beautiful song writers, and the editor of 
the Mirror. It is to be a Journal for home; a reposi¬ 
tory for letters; a record of art; and a mirror of pass¬ 
ing events. To be published every Saturday, at $2 a 
year in advance. We presume the brilliant Willis, the 
fidus Achates of the gallant Brigadier, will be associated 
in some way with the above journal. Of course it is 
bound to be fashionable, racy, witty, and all that sort 
of thing. 
The Commercial Times. —This* is a daily and 
ifiemi-weekly paper recently published in New Orleans. 
It is neutral in politics, and aims to make itself useful 
to the commercial and agricultural class. It has a 
strong corps of editors, and is conducted with ability. 
Thomas Affleck, Esq., of Washington, Miss., so favor¬ 
ably known as a contributor to this periodical, has the 
control of the Agricultural Department. The Times 
is of large sized paper and neatly printed. It has every 
promise of a good circulation, and our best wishes for 
its success. 
British Magazines and Reviews,—( Office, 112 
.Fulton Street , 'New York.) —Leonard Scott & Co. have 
been recently issuing their elegant reprints of the 
January numbers of the best periodicals published 
in Great Britain, and we would recommend all our 
readers who may be inclined to subscribe, to lose no 
time in doing so. The forthcoming numbers will, 
we have little doubt, be peculiarly valuable to the 
farmer, as they will in all probability contain the most 
authentic expositions of the opinions of the leading 
parties in England on the most absorbing topic of 
the day—the Corn-Law Question ; and this is a mat¬ 
ter in which not England alone, but the whole world 
is interested. Price for the four Reviews and Black¬ 
wood’s Magazine, when taken together, $10 per an¬ 
num. Single Reviews $3 per annum—Blackwood, 
$3. The four Reviews comprising the series are— 
the London Quarterly, the Edinburgh, the Foreign 
Quarterly, and the Westminster. 
Library of Choice Reading.— Foreign Series. 
Under this title, Wiley & Putnam, 101 Broadway, are 
issuing a series of classic foreign works, at the low 
price of 50 cents per volume, whieh do honor to them 
as publishers. They have just sent us Two Parts of 
Tasso’s Jerusalem Delivered, translated by Fairfax, 
with a Memoir of the author and translator, and a preli¬ 
minary critique by Leigh Hunt. Of the unhappy Tasso 
and his immortal poem, the literary world has been 
enamored for more than two centuries and a half, and 
as time advances, they gain rather than lose in interest 
and reputation. 
Stories from the Italian Poets, in Three Parts, 
by Leigh Hunt, is a summary in prose, of the poems of 
Dante, Pulci, Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso ; with com¬ 
ments throughout, occasional passages versified, and 
critical notices of the lives and geniuses of the authors. 
This is a most delightful book, and highly useful to the 
student of Italian literature. Mr. Hunt seems to have 
written it con amore , and in his most agreeable style. 
Letters from Italy, by J. T. Headley, is a charm¬ 
ing work, and fresh almost as if nothing had been writ¬ 
ten for the past ten years from the land of clear skies 
and fine arts. He gives several interesting letters on its 
agriculture, extracts from which we intend to make 
hereafter. 
The Illustrated Botany. —Edited by John B. 
Newman, M.D. Published by J. K. Wellman,'118 
Nassau Street. Price $3 a year. This is a monthly 
publication, the first No. of which contains four beau¬ 
tiful colored engravings, after nature, of various choice 
flowers, and a lithograph of the lilium candium, with all 
its parts. It is got up in beautiful style, and it is in¬ 
tended that it shall comprise engravings of the most 
valuable native and exotic plants, with their history, 
medicinal properties, &c. This is a highly valuable 
publication, and we wish it success—the ladies will 
particularly admire it. 
Life in California, during a Residence of several 
years in that Territory, comprising a description of 
the country and the Missionary Establishments 5 with 
observations, &c. Illustrated w'ith numerous Engrav¬ 
ings. By an American. To this is annexed a His¬ 
torical Account of the Origin, Customs, and Tradi¬ 
tions of the Indians of California, translated from the 
original Spanish manuscripts. Wiley & Putnam, 161 
Broadway. California has now become a place of 
emigration for our countrymen, large numbers of 
whom are rapidly wending their way thither, with a 
view of permanent settlement. The publication of 
this book, therefore, is highly opportune. We have no 
doubt that California will be one of the Territories of 
the United States within ten years, and have a Repre¬ 
sentative in Congress at Washington. We do not care 
how rapidly the Anglo-American race people this 
continent, for they are the most worthy. Their supe¬ 
rior intelligence, morality, and enterprise, will soon 
ensure them the whole of America, from the Isthmus 
of Darien to the North Pole. 
Phrenology Examined, by P. Flourens: trans¬ 
lated by Charles D. Meigs. Published by Hogan & 
Thompson, Philadelphia, is a valuable little work of 
144 pages, in which the general principles of Gall’s 
doctrine of phrenology are combated with vigor and 
ability. 
European Agriculture. By Henry Colman. 
Part V. of Vol. 1 has been issued the past month by A. 
D. Phelps, of Boston. Saxton & Miles, agents, New 
York. The portion of the present number of Mr. 
Colman’s work which has most interested us, com¬ 
mences at the “ Plowing Match at Saffron Walden,” 
and so continues to the end. His observations on 
English plowing deserve the attention of our farmers, 
and we are confident that they cannot but peruse them 
with interest and instruction. He goes pretty thor¬ 
oughly into the subjects of surface soil, subsoil, sub¬ 
turf, and trench plowing. He also takes up harrowing, 
scarifying, and grubbing, subjects nearly as important 
as plowing, giving the beneficial results of these ope¬ 
rations in English farming. Upon the whole, we like 
the latter part of this number better than anything 
which has yet appeared in Mr. Colman’s work. 
Mr. Valic’s Country Seat. —We call attention to 
the advertisement of Jacob R. Yalk, Esq., in this No. 
of our paper. We have often visited his beautiful 
country-seat, and can say that it is all it is represented 
to be. The conservatory is the most magnificent 
thing of the kind in the United States, and few in 
Europe equal it. 
Agricultural School. —By reference to our ad 
vertising columns, it will be seen that Mr. Wilkinson 
has opened an Agricultural School, near Poughkeepsie. 
His location is healthy and pleasant, and we under¬ 
stand he is well prepared for the reception of scholars. 
Important Discovery. —The St. Louis Missourian 
says that wild hemp has been found in the State of 
Missouri. A farmer from St. Louis county, being in 
a hemp warehouse, accidentally saw some Manilla 
hemp, made inquiry what it was, and upon being in¬ 
formed, said he had produced something exactly like 
it from a weed upon his farm, and that he would send 
in a sample, which he did, and it proves to be a vari¬ 
ety of the Manilla hemp, resembling almost the New 
Zealand hemp; but it is said to belong to the same 
genus as the New Zealand, Sisal, and St. Domingo 
hemp, from which all our heavy cordage is made. 
