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The article provides information on literary materials recently published in the U.S. P. Rowell & Co.'s "American Newspaper Directory" for 1873 merits all the praise for industry of compilation, clearness of arrangement, and typographical elegance. Louis A. Garnett, manager of the United States Assaying and Refining Works at San Francisco, sends to the "Alta California" an interesting account of the new trade dollar shortly to be coined. In striking contrast with the clear, well-reasoned, and weighty article by Colonel Chester, is the incoherent jumble of names presented in the ambitious essay on the same subject in the "Chronotype," a monthly publication of the self-styled "American College of Heraldry and Genealogical Registry" in New York City. Leone Levi writes to "The Athenæum" that the number of readers at the British Museum has diminished during the past ten years in spite of the enormous increase of population.