any other moment would have excited the attention of all Europe-now it appears to have passed by almost unheeded amid the stirring events hourly occurring on that continent. The disappearance from the worldly stage of such a man as Ibrahim Pasha, whose position was so exalted and his career so remarkable, receives but the obituary notice bestowed upon all whose names have been public property. His father Mehemet Ali has long been in a state of utter dotage, and on the 1st of September last Ibrahim was formally nominated by the Sultan to the Pachalic of Egypt. His actual governorship has been but of short duration, although for a long period he has had the administration of affairs.

Ibrahim Pasha has left three sons, neither of whom will succeed him as Viceroy of Egypt. His successor is Abbas Pasha, son of Tussoon Pasha, Mehemet's second son, who died of the plague in 1816. The right of succession differs from that of European potentates, devolving upon the eldest surviving male of Mehemet Ali's family. But little is known of the character of the new Viceroy, he having kept himself completely aloof from communication with Europeans: it is however to be hoped for the interests of Euope and of Egypt that he will follow up that course of policy towards Christendom by which Mehemet Ali and Ibrahim rendered their names so illustrious, and conferred so many benefits on Egypt.

The Sacred Poets of England and America for Three Centuries. Edited by RUFUS W. GRISWOLD. Illustrated with steel engravings. New-York: D. Appleton & Co.

This is an elegant octavo volume most beautifully printed, which should prove one of the most acceptable gift-books of the season.

The editor has done little more, he says, than re-arrange and combine the materials furnished in "The Gems from the British Sacred Poets," recently published by a member of the University of Oxford. But he has added some thirty authors, including many of our own. It is therefore a very rich collection, although we miss some favorite strains-Coleridge's magnificent "Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni," for instance. The authors are arranged in chronological order, with a short biographical notice of each.

The editor says in his "Advertisement""There is no poetry so rare as the poetry of devotion. It would be as diflicult, however, for a true poet, as for a true philosopher, not to be imbued with a spirit of piety, and we find that sacred songs are among the finest

productions of nearly all the great poets, whether they were technically religious or not.

Poems of John G. Whittier. Illustrated by H. BILLINGS. Boston: Benjamin B. Massey & Co.

This splendid edition of the poems of the Quaker bard will be highly acceptable to his numerous admirers. Although there are few of the pieces not familiar to the readers of poetry north of "Mason and Dixon's line," yet we presume there is scarcely a modern poet whose admirers would more gladly wel come the scattered lays of their favorite in so fine a form for constant reference. Indeed, for fiery eloquence of expression, no writer, since the German Koerner" he of the Lyre and Sword"-exceeds, if equals, this peacepoet. And there is also in his meditative mood a fine depth of thought and beauty of expression; as witness his poem on reading Follen's Essay on the Future State.