* " Miss Susan Warner," says Duyckiuck, in the " Cyclopsedia of American Literature," " made a sudden step into eminence as a writer, by the publication, in 1849, of ' The Wide, Wide World,' a novel in two volumes." Her second novel was " Queechy." She is also the author of a theological work entitled " The Law and the Testimony." Her sister is the author of " Dollars and Cents," a novel ; and several very pleasmg volumes for young people. " The Hillii,of the Shatemuc," a tale of the Higlilands, is the joiut production of these gifted sisters.

THE HUDSON.

■world as if it was in the deep wilderness of the Upper Hudson. It is a charming home for a child of genius.

On a pleasant morning in October, while the trees were yet in full leaf and brilliant with the autumnal tints, we went from our home to Garrison's station on the Hudson River Railway, and crossed to Cozzens's, a summer hotel in the Highlands, about a mile below "West Point. It was situated near the brow of a cliff on the western shore of the river, about 180 feet above tide water, and afforded a most delightful home, during the heat of

summer, to numerous guests, varying in number from two hundred and fifty to five hundred. There, ever since the house was opened for guests in 1849, Lieutenant-Gcneral Scott, the General-in-Chief of the American army, had made his head- quarters during the four or five warmer months of the year. It was a place of fashionable resort from June until October, and at times was overflowing with guests, who filled the mansion and the several cottages attached to it. Among the latter was the studio of Leutze, the historical painter. Only a few days before our visit, it had been the scene of great festivity on the occasion of the reception of the