... LI TER AT UR E. BOOKS RECEIVED. COUNT RRASINSEL'S LECTURES ON SLA6- 'VONIA. LAMARTINE'S FRENCH REVOLUTION, 1848. -This forms one of the latest additions to Blion's cele- brated, and in many respects, unequalled Standard Library. As may he readily imagined, M. de Lamartine is enabled by theistinguished part which hie himself took in the Iearly stages of the recent French Revolution, and by his ...

... St'e Z1rama* On Monday last Mr. Macready, the great tragedian. as he is emphatically and justly designated, commenced a final en- gagement at our Theatre, and drew together a crowded audience. T'he occasion was indeed one of more than usual interest. There are salways melancholy associations connected with the word f farewell, and the withdrawal from amongst us of one who has administered ...

... 18 50. A FABLE FOR TO-DAY. My brother bath gone, said the gay young Yeii, 'Dine's favoured, youngest born, As lie upward trined a, loving glance-the look of o01! opening morn, Oh ! let me go and see the world that he is leaving ngm.! I')1 soon be back with Dlowors of earth to twine arol,' your biow. The grey old Timh 1,ant on his scylhe to rest hi; boiry icand, And looked upon his ...

... PO E TRY. [Thefolowing lines wre from tbO U of that popular author, i&Alt4[ 1toN, and appear iithe rst numberof Mrs. LouDoWNH nfow periodical The Ladies' Companion, a work which wvo .coidlially recommend to our femalo fricnds.] CHIRISTMAS DAY IN THE BUVS, I wonder, Edward, wvio will meet To-day arosuid my father's fire? Dear sister May, with voice so sweet- The very sweetest of the ...

... SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. Mendelssohn's St. Paul was performed at Exeter HSall lst evening, for the first time mince the musical direction haa been confledto Mr. Costa. We bad not heard Woratorio since the production of Elijah, .nd were more than- ever struck with the expansion of the author' mind duing the interva1 between the bompoeition of the two wo*rk. In St. Paul we And the votary ...

... - , -ipl- ?? .- ? ? L I POLAND bD- lG:lARY.' Conrsno the year 179i, ?? eln ihth C!TA11lMnb~yomgvan d ; lad pTo;6ot55to. Sgrco bal] f P esntryyet htth rolled away, eincnenrthet tigersr fea~ted on their prey'! roland ?? then b d foreo e Teld! To briganld arzms, lund sink heneath thi hed! yea his'try's asee still in anger heaves, At crimes thatdirkls tain the folded leaves; They tell of deeds ...

... OPENING OF THE SALFORD BO ROUGH 1 TMUSEUMI AND LIBRLARY.: . : ; TEA NSFEII TO, THE SALIOJID TO6,\ N COUNCIL o' of tb ..The Salford Borough AMusetini And Library has Inow beenaud I opened to the publie, And ott Wednesday last, the cmite e~ wbch liles so 'Zeidonsly worked touit this ilaudable objectlie fomly handledloverto the towncouuril of halfordlthe. publib9 firbe ibraury inl'trust for eVer, ...

... Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and some Miscellaneous Pieces. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edited from the Author's MSS., by H. N. Coleridge, Esq., M.A. Pickering. Notes and Lectures ubpon Shakespeare and some of the Old Poets and Dramatists, %with other Literary Remains of S. T. Coleridge. Edited by Mrs H. N. Coleridge. Pickering. It speaks well for the dispositions of the existing ...

... F BU LDINGS FO, THfE E'.IBI- 7 'IEON OF ALL NATIONS, IN 1S51. - - - -IN Olo Saturday, Md:.TtrnTe, the constructlor ot theele- so- ,l ,camv hou irooof of tile Limle-streel rcrilvay slation, tic lin ti s tessoo n, ilc iI ted at lt s'adon to n umber rot aff o I ietnte~tt in ited by note trout1l l. Gritutit ai, s -ere sv cx av of ttle laiverpeol ccmulittee of ihelabove illcortautt tic ex'hii toa, ...

... i £11E VOiCE OF THUE SABBAT3. ROM 'TIM LoormitE ?? A. Lir au ARy OisCiLLA t, t come In the might of a herald of light, As the sun oer creatiot Is beaamng; J come to dispel the night shadow& that dwelt In the soul, of deep wretchedness dreatning: I crome to awake to ?? that partake Of tho glories that Paradise knew, Ere its charms were defac'd, anl its bowers laid waste, And a blight oer its ...

... ORlGAN PLAYING. Where thro' the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem ?? the note of praise. To the Editor of the Preston Chronicle. l i,-rI it has often appeared to the writer a thing to be regretted, that professional organists should have so few opportunities of hearing other gentlemen engaged in si- milar duties. Most persons, though having a style and manner of their ...

... do ttO,. THLE WtECK S)F IIArINESS. I SAW at tilny. little boat I lititctt'l oin Iife's sparlding stream; fair Weas the marnl anI brighit the sky- t BIrighit aa at inaint's dreall, U A tiny oey was there, I woeen, lft uidle that boat along; s Atl nierrily-right merrily V 1lia voice burst forth ill song. s And ?? ?? Joy beami'd on his brow, Titat lne'er 0tdl knowvittltl rcss, Wiile oil thie boat ...