... ttterature. 1ne History of Pendennis. By W. AIl. Thackeray. No. VIII. Bradbury and Evans, 11, Bouverie-street, London. There is much good writingin this numsber. A great portion of it is devoted to an account of Miss Blanche Amory, lithe muse whose exquisitely fine feelings ooze away in her poetical effusions, leaving her a tyrant to her lady's maid, and hard and selfish in the concerns of ...

... GREEww1cn FALR.-The persistency of our niational character is in nothing more strikingly manifest than in our attachment to long-established customs and f&es, no matter how dismal, if they be but ancient. There is something almost romantic in the desperate Adelity of a large mass of our lellow-citizens to Greenwich fair. Though Whit-Monday has behaved so badly for some time back as to deserve ...

... .- a- - --.t -1 - a -- -. - ?? . ?? .. Taffetas, plain and glacds, are used for dresses, with pardeasus. to match; the colours most in demand are pale green glaue with black or white, sky blue glacd with orange, pearl gray glare, withcerise, apricot, paille, and particularly lilac these robes are with triple plain skirts for petites soiredes, or with flounces Or the promenade; then we have ...

... f1je ?? ArtfI EXHIBITION OF THE BRIISTOL ACADEMY. ICONsrsNsEnI ?? Ova LAST.] 64. View iii Ashdovn Forest, Bussex: COPLEY FaHLING.- This is in all respects-in composition, chiaro Fsuroi colour, and execution -the finest landscape in the collection, and presents new points of excellence to the eye upon every examination of its ricndant details. Tue view fromnrich and picturesque leregrdund is ...

... DcItIN AND SPEECHMAycgNG. - While at Wakanahbi we called at the arr(d of a Aieori, who, with an eye to business that does infinite credit to his judgment, has recently setip a sort of public-house for entertaining the Maories belonging to working parties in the neighbourhood. A weekly ordinary is held on the Saturdays, aster the week's work is done and paid for, and whioch is esually very well ...

... poetrs. FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS.-BY PsioFEssoUt LoNaFLLOW. WnEN the hours of day are number'd, And the voices of the night Wake the better soul that slumber'd, To a holy, ealm idelght; Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And (like phantoms grim and tall) Shadows from the fitful ftre-light Daoue upon the parlorr wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved the true ...

... - oetrtp. SHS IS NOT HERHE-BY D. B. DUGGANi. 'I ts not a moment's grief that throws :F Asaduoss o'er my mind; ha ros The stream that run5S-1a6 lower that grows, e Wborc WO have oft reclined- Wbeno'er my footsteps wander there, 5 Sigh to my soul, She is not hare. fa To chase the darkening thoughts away a That shadow every hour, a I rtsh beneats the mootnlight ray a To that renmosuor'd bower; ...

... CucioINEE DELICAO;r!,-It has often been assorted that earth- ver wornme are to be founid at the tables of the luxurious. This gas statemeilt we believe to be incorrect; but we saw on this occasion hasl wvhat might easily be mistaken for the creeping thlings, namelyi the grubs which are found at the root of the sugar-cane, andl- which are considered a delicious morsel by the Chinese epicure. :I ...

... votttfl. THE TRIUMPHS OF OUR LANGUAGE. [BY TlLE nTM. JAOtrU OtLsONEnr LYONS, LU.D.J Two have received tlds 1itte-spirited poemi from Philadelpbl0, and beg to return O0tr acknflowedgmetnts to the gifted attltbor.j Now gather all our Saxon bards, Let harps and hearts be strung, To celebrate the triumph of Our own good Saxon tongue; For stroisger far than hosts that march With battle-flags ...

... Utferature. Xibliomania in the Mliddle Ages; or Sketches of BSookwsvns, Cal- lectors, JBihe Studmsits, Scries, and Itumeinators,fron the Asngto- Saxo&r and Normuna? Periods to the Introduction of Printing into Ragtfand, 4c. By F. Somner Merryweuther.-3lerryweather, 14, King-street, Holborn, London. This is an interesting volume, bringing together in a moat- rate compass, and in a popular form, ...

... oetry. TO ELLEN. * Thou sbalt have fame: oh mockery give thereed From storms a ahelttl--ilvo the drooping vine ,ninotbing roumi whichi ~tsth dilsinmayventwvine- f}ive the psareh'd flower a railn-drop, and the meod Of vgeolte w2ods to woman. Sine asks not for riches-8he siebs not for fame;r Far higher, and purer, and no ier her aim: Else how colid she pass through tle ordeal of scern Of earrow ...

... pe edjn alrto. EXIIIBITION OF TiHE BRISTOL ACADEMY. [ECOrNTNUED FROM oUR LAB.T) No. 27. Comnpstion: )D. S. WiLmoT.-T'his, like its companion, 47, is a pleasing bit of landscape composition, the scenery being selected from the nelghbourhood of Bristol. Both are cleverly painted, as also is No. 42, a View at Knowle; and it ia as credi- table tothe public as encouraging to the artist, that all ...