... DRU U Y-LANE THEA TRE. After a forced exile of some few years Miss VANDEvNIcFF has returned to the London stage. She has not been, hoes ever, during the interval, stholly estranged firom the metre. politan public, having been engaged, together Nsith he father, to aid in the dramatic reading of A etiyi-ew li, given last season, with AMENDBLsSOnN'S music, at Exeter Hall. The impression made by ...

... Ti HE TRAGEDYI OF GALILEO GALILar. By Samuel Brown. Ediuburgh: James Hogg. Irn the graceful dedication prefixed to this poem, the author states that he began it for amusement, prosecuted it for the purposes of exercise and self-culture, and finished it just for the sake of finishing what bad been begun. Hle also says- Not a day has been expended on the writing of this drama which could by ...

... LITEA TUBE. .yew 'Edition of the Enscyndited MetropoWitana-The PhilosophJy of Language. BY Sir JOHN STODDABT, Rat., LL,D. Part 1., Universal Grammar. Grilffin and Co. There aie ,kw li~rary #robleas more difficult, or we -:gb± eayjimpossible, to Iealie thau th9 construotion of a work of $ener91 and e ernefreucefwhioftbe_ component pt shall' po-aea that unity, conseetive- ness, and completbness ...

... , POET RY. ON A DEAD INFANT, Yes, this is Death, but in its fairest form, And stripp'd of all its terrors, That clos'd eye Tellsuothiung of the cold anid 1iungry worm- That holds his revel feast on frail mortality. Yes,- this is Death-but like a cherrb's sleep, So beantiful, 80 placid. Who of earth (And tasting earthly cares) would wish to weep O'er one wsho has escap'd the woes of mortal ...

... I ,~l .- Biachwood.-4' notice of this magazine will be found in our Agricultuiritl columns. : lodge's Poskirdits of lluisiriou' Personaaes, Vol. 1. H. G. Bohn, York-street, Covent-Garden, London. A truly pbpular editton of a 'very wvell known work. We quote the .follo'ipg 'frm an Oceount of one who is very celebrated irs'the annals of English ?? Arne Bullen. Anne's short-lived grandeur ...

... gatijin antb Yarictiem. THE COURT. IIen Majesty and the Prince, with the junior branclhs of the Royal family, continue to take their acciustomcd exercise in the slopes and park at Windior. Prince George of Cam- bridge aud the Duchess of Kcnt are at the Castle. The Duchess of Saxe Weimar, %swith the Princesses Anne and Arnelie, and Prince Gustavus of Saxe Weitnar, left Marl- bornugh House on ...

... -ScArctrb J?,Ortrp. r I S D f3Sl. WTIERE dwells true Wisdom ?-wihere upon the carth Is her abode? Offspring of heavenly birth I lives she on Grecian or on Roman soil? Lands of the pocts' dreams and sculptors' toil! Is she a tenant of the ocean tide ? Are the wild winds her chariot? Does she rido ,id Winter's storms-or in the desert lide ? Deep in the brenst of him wh1o fears the Lord, Yields ...

... THE LIFE OF MRS. ,SHERMIAN.* We have before us a contribution to religious biography, which there cannot be a doubt will prove highly acceptable to that section of the Evan- gelical community of which Mrs. Sherman was so earnest and worthy a member. Surrey Chapel, in St. George's-fields, owed its foundation, in 1782, to the zeal and exertions of the Rev. Rowland Hill; and it continued under ...

... Tho BURGER and BRIGHTON LEOSORA.* It is not very easy to determine the category in literature to which this thin oblong quarto should be referred ; and even the professed catalogue- maker or librarian would be perplexed in allotting to it a proper position in a collection of books. The Burger and Brighton Leonora consits of three dis- tinct parts-an original German poem, a metrical translation ...

... LITERA TURE. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY MAGAZINE. (M'Glashan, Dublin.) The University Alygazine commences the new year with l undiminished vigour and ability. The January number pre- r sents us with an agreeable and instructive melange of fact and r fiction-history, poetry, criticism, and romance-and we do a not hesitate to affirm, that whether as regards the variety or L excellence of its contents, ...

... ITIONR RRORIVRm-The Rnatoh of PfUDLICATIONR RECEIVED.-The English Woman's a! ft- Magezme; the Ragged School Union Magazine; is a Fraser's Magazine; Bentley's Miecellany; Church oft he England ...

... LITERA TURE. The Cradle of thoe Twin. Giansts, Science and History. By i' HsUiNR CHRISTASc~, M.A., Librarian of Sion College SI 2 vol. Bentley. t, la noticing this book, 'we must perforce begin with J the very beginning. Its title is needlessly quaintsand aflcctel, and forms a striking exception to the tact a' and plausibility which generally characterise the no- mienclature of Mr. Bentley's ...