• *iJiemo/r d/' Jo/m the Iiappy Mute, Compiled from the Writings, Letters, and Conversation of CharlotteElizabeth. Seeleys; London. -* ^[“It was always the intention of Charlotte Elizabeth tohave written a complete memoir of her beloved dumb boy, but this intention was never accomplished. ^ The object of the compiler of these pages lias been to collect together into one consecutive narrative all that is said about Jack ill Clmrlottc Eliyaibcth’s various publication3,interspersed with aneklotes and iacts which he reepivcd' from her lipft and has gnthereci front 1 e t1era wfi11 en at tlie thne tb friends; The narrative isr generally speaking, in Charlotte Klizabeth’H oivn words, merely altered' from the first to the third person, some -remarks and comments bciug occasionally added.” Thus the estimable compiler describes his labours, and tlm-execution is precisely such as might have been expected to proceed from such a hand, for, although not named, it is, no doubt, the work of M r.Touua. The entire history of that extraordinary young