... 'Efterature. igeland Sports and Highland Quarters. BIy Herbert B. Halt, Esq. 2 Vols.-Hurst, King William-street, London. These volumes, descriptive of exciting days and jovial nights spent in the country of the grouse, black-cook, ptarmigan, and wild roe and red-deer of the Highlands, will be found to fur- nish very agreeable reading. The style is indeed lax at times, and the matter ...

... Uttraturt, Ihe Britiszh Qi-rterly Rerieiv vo. Xr) _Jacioknn and Walford, ti lt, St. Paul's Clhirctyard. ?? The articles in the current number of the British Quarterly ti are of their unmit degree of excellence, and intro:luce the reader l to a large store of varied literature. The opening paper, a 1, reviewr of S r R lerick 31urchiso, 's magnificenit work on the e geology of RIissia. furnishe4 ...

... A MANe.-The man whom I call deserving the name, is one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than him- self, wvhose high purpose is adopted on just principles, and never abandoned while heaven and earth afford means of accomplish- ing it. HIe is one who will neither seek an indirect advantage by a specious road, nor take an evil path to secure a real good ?? 11Wdters Scott. ...

... ?? Deairigs wvith tie Fires of' Domailol and Soni. By Cus'srles Dickeni. No. XIV.-Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, London. Carker ' the manager shows Ihis teeth more than ever in the present number, whiio lie winds his artful meshes round the ill-fated Dombey, the haughty Edith, and the gentle Florence. Amongst the subordinates there ire some ehauges. The traitor IBob the Grinder is in ...

... Genius will alvays work its way through, as the poet said When lie saw a hole in the elbow of his coat. SLEEP has often been mentioned as tile image of death -so like it, says Sir Thomas Browu, that I dare not truet it without :, vprayers. Their resemblance is Indeed apparent and strikiig; they both, when they seize the body, leave the soul at liberty, and wise is he that remembers of both, ...

... 411o ct r _. LABOUR. Htol ye who at the anvil toil, Alt S strike ?? sounding blow, Where-frurn the buroittg iron's brobst- Trie sparks fly to nttd Irol While atnswering- to ?? It tntcr's ring, And fire's intenser glow- Ho! wvhile ye feel 'tIs hiard to toil Anit sweiit the long day throagh, etminctmlter, It is tratder still To htave ono work to (to. ?? y 3 e who till the stubhorn soll- ?? htard ...

... Misunderstanding and inattention create more uneasiness in the world than deception and artifice; or, at least, their conse- quences are more universal.-Goethe. GOOD ANxD T'niUL-A man, says Dr. Franklin, as often gets two dollars for the one he spends in informing his mind, as he does for a dollar he lays out in any other way. A man eats up a pound of sugar, and it is gone, and the pleasure ...

... lJortrpi. JENNY LIND. Nec vox htomneni sonat. 0 Dca ccrtee SWEET Jennyy Llild, I never thought That molic Ikev to thin:e Could ttow II om any mortal lips, Or lips not all divic; Anld low, while listeelotn to tbe tonC3 TtI otl sitilec ear amise, I secm soollo lheavenly vo(es to hear- Some inulie ?? the Skies. Sweet Jeniiy Lind. though passing sweet Avid pure that voice o thilme, There's ...

... There is perhaps no surer mark of folly than an attempt to correct the natural inflrmitieF of those we love. The fnest com- position, as well as tile finest china, mayl have a flaw in it, and this I am afraid in either ease is equally incurable, though no- vertheless the pattern may remain of the highest value.- Fieldint. A PAiTy or BAD WMesT PrAYEns,-Such a whist as it was I Aliss Sinyly and ...

... MUSICAL ENTERTALYMENT. Mr. IT. Phillips, the eminent bass singer, and Mr. Land, who has been long and favourably knowni in the musical world as the accompanyist of Ar. Wilson in his illastrations of Scottish Song, gave two entertainments on l'aesday last in the Assembly- room of the Royal Hotel, Mall, Clifton. That in the morning consisted or a selection from the sacred music of Handel, Haydn, ...

... 9cntra. THlCl TREASURES OF THE TOMB. THE treasures of the tomb, Hlow vast-how thick they lie ! flow many that wvo call'd our own There moot Ilse wistful eye! There lies the tuncrl tongue That once our tte.arts could cheer: Its music ?? couoisel siege We IeoV again shall hear. There slocps ?? beaming smile, Its love-its lustre on ;~le There lies the h11iid wihose prcessuro arm So otl returnl'd ...

... 9octrn1. THE ATMOSPHERIC TRAIN, MW AT cometh here 9s silently- So silently and fast ? A wotder anid a inystc7 As spirit on tie blelst I see no floating wreathi of steam- I hear no engine sotlid; I.ke nareal i paitom of a dream It passoth o'er tire ground. Oht! hath it vcry life indeed, That it advaluleth onl With that luvarying steady speed And urcatis of notion itote ? As felt the Idians ...