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wonderful? Is Wilson's 'Criticks of the North', valuable? Another book I have just glanced at by an author of whom I know nothing, - entitled 'Living American Writers' by Horner. It seems to me that a large proportion of the readable books published in this country are from the pens - powerful ones too - of sceptics and freethinkers not to say infidels. Have you seen the lecture of Henry James in the Tribune, highly eulogized by the editor in which he says 'he hates the current Christianism as he does the obscene jaws of hell, that rather it were better that the name of God were blotted from off the face of the earth, and the sacred heart of humanity were alone held in reverence!! What kind of a paper to be taken by Christians into a Christian family! March 16th I wrote Eliab some items, upon the railroads which excite so much interest, hereabouts, perhaps it will be marking him do penance to read it, it would better interest you: the task of the engineer must be somewhat different here from that among the hills of New Hampshire:- the route it is said is so level almost the whole distance that