_English and American Booksellers._--It is rather curious to note, that
whilst English booksellers are emulously vying with one another to
publish editions of _Uncle Toms_, _Queechys_, _Wide Wide Worlds_, &c.,
they neglect to issue English works which the superior shrewdness of
{405} Uncle Sam deems worthy of reprinting. Southey's _Chronicle of the
Cid_, which was published by Longman in 1808, and not since printed in
England, was brought out in a very handsome octavo form at Lowell, U.
S., in 1846. And this, the "first American edition," as it is called on
the title-page, can be readily procured from the booksellers in London;
whereas the English original is not to be met with. In like manner,
Macaulay's _Essays_ were collected and published first in America; and
so with Praed's _Poems_, and many others. Uncle Sam has lately
announced collections of Dr. Maginn's and De Quincey's scattered Essays,
for which we owe him our most grateful acknowledgments.