... A TREW AND RYGHTE EDYFYINGE BALLADDE: I &EWING O0W A SEEDY YOUNG ELAN NVOULD SELL EIS SOULE | TO SATAN, ANaWD aT FOLLOWED THEREFROM. A youthe there was of changefulle lotte Now bryghte, now seedie broune; flee called hymseife a kiddie swelle, And lived upon ye toune. Hys youthfulle pryme bee waisted aile In synne and godlesse revell; And oft played bee unlawful gaimes, And oft bee played ye ...

... I Miss Cushman made her appearance here on Monday night with her sister, MisE Susan Cushman, who bad not previously acted in this country. They played the characters of Romeo and Juliet, not in the ordinary acting tragedy with vhich David Garrick favoured the world, bat in the tragedy as writ- ten by Shakespeare. It is enough to say that the Ronio of Miss Cushman is far superior to any Romeo ...

... LIT E RAT UR E. Bla,-rrood's M'wa.ziae,for January, opena with a very well written. and friendly notice of the life and character of the late Sir William Follett. Of this remarkable man it is truly stated, that all his great experience. talents, and learning, might hase never existed, for any trace of them remaining in the records of Iiis country's coustitution, while he never did anything ...

... I A CRHLD'S A:-S* R. I met n.fairy child, Whose golden hair Around her sunny face in clusters hung And as she wove her king-cup chain, she sung Her household me10dies,-ttose strains that bear The hearer hacl; to Eden. Surely ne'er A brighter vision blest my dr eams. Whose child Art thou, 'l sa. sweet girl ? ' In aecent mild She ansivered, -lother's.' When I questioned lVhere Her dwvelling ...

... TIm QUAaTEuLr Rf-tzv-zw No. 153. The new number of th.e Qmarter7y is ?? in Its contents. Lord Carpbe11's - Lives of the Chancellors is f.rst noticed, and in a hearty spirit of commendation, w-hich the extracts given n-ell bear our. The paper on the MSS. from the Eypntiiarn Monastcrics. nowv safely deposited in the British Maseumr, should stir the zeal of our Oriental scholars- From thc ...

... T HE D E A T H B E D. By T. HooD. We wa+ch'd her breathing through the niSlt, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wvave ot life kept hearing to and fro. 2-c silently she seen'd to speak, So slowiy mov'd about, As we had lent her half our powers To eke her living out. Oar very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied- We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when ...

... Jane Bourerie. By CArERISE SINCLAIR. Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co. bliss Sinclair is already most favourably known as the author of many highly-esteemed works, among which it has afforded us much pleasure to notice her Scotland and the Seotch , Hill and Valley ;' and Modern Accomplishments. We rejoice to meet her once more in the same field of exertion, although we lament the causes ...

... THEEtTRE ROYALL EDINBURGH. EE-E2NGAGEflEYT FOR SEVEN NIGQETS i op MADAME V ESTRIS & MIR CHARLES MIA THEWS. This present Evening, THURSDAY, January 15, will be produced Planehe's celebrated Classical Extravaganza, in Two Parts, entitled THE GOLDEN FLEECE! On. JASON IS CoLCnos A.N'D M1EDEA INA CORINT11. ARGUMEN- T.-As the facts apon which the First Part of this Classical Extravaganza is founded ...

... |oTEs Ott THE LAW Or SCOTLAND ;I REtGARD TO JOLtT SSOCKo Cox-Asits. By Robert Henderson, Esq. A.M. advocate. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute. This is not. a treatise on this department of the law, for which. as regards Scotland, materials can scarcely be said to: exist at the present time; it is, as indicated by the title, notes on the law, so far as it has been evolved by the comparatively few ...

... MEMOIRS A1ND COaRrSPOsDrNCE OF THE MARQUESS WELLEsLrE, BY ROBERT ROUIBRE PEARCE. ESQ.-The importance of thiawork can hardly be over-rated. The name of Wellesley is a talisman to claim the earnest attention of every British reader-and when it belongs to one oif thegreatest statesmen and most accomplished gentlemen that the last and present generations have seen in Europe and Asia, for such was ...

... Tn eNoaRznBainrsnREVIEW. No. 8. Februty 1846. Edinburgh: W. P. Kennedy. The subject-matter of :his number sustains the reputation of this able periodical. The first paper, founding on the 'vcrks of Eyre and Strzelecki, gives a lucid view of the state of Australia, past, present, and prospectively. Scottish Cri- minal Law is then considered, due homage being paid to the institutional authority ...

... * CoLBaRN'S NEW MOXTELTf % ,AAzIYE.Fcb. 146. John IMenzies, Edinburgh. The literary entertainment of this month is very inviting, Including poetical pieces by Frances Anne Butler and Charles Ilooton. Marryat is quite in his element sketching the ad- ventures of his Privateer's-man, as is Maxwell in his ' Lights and Shades., Mr Jolly Green is the most amusing of tra- vellers, and the plot ...