... Charles Dickens. January. London: B.raldbury ard Evintis. 31r. Dickens is rapidly imprioving, botli in the structure of his stories aand tile refinement of his style. The characters in Copperfield are slictchd withlia most masterlyirand, and there is a freshness ...

... a great deal of isiformation suitable to thc scientific manl, ''tl to the mechanic, and the artisais. , x re feel Thc I1i-story and Ike Jfysteiry qt (ood 1'riditf. By belt 'al Robert Robinson, of Cambridge. London H.oulston 5ul5a n- and Stoneman. cal( ...

... and iM. Londlon and Newr Yorl : .1. oad 1' T'11is. Tlhis beautifil serial sustains, in the parts before us, the higih chasacter we gave of it when the first number appeared. The fine story of Self-deception is continued through a number of chapters. A ...

... Hiberno-Parisian cousin-a Macsquireen-constitutes the fourth contribution of a series which gives to this number the aspectof a serial de- voted to continental literature. We have perused with extreme pleasure the paper in this numbet on American literature ...

... before ua, with its leavesalreadvyut-a plan, by the bye, which it is moet desirm- blo would be adopted in the issue of all serials and periodicals, for whose perusal one must be armed with an ivory paper knife or soene such implement for carving a progress ...

... is the classic bird; and instead of she horses of Achilles, we have the wild buffaloes of the wilderness, Evangeline isa story of unswerving constancy, heroic virtue, and patient endurance. We have thus in it an exposition of Longfellow's poetic faith ...

... that, 1sinless the hero soon emerges frorii its traininels, wve shall lese all interest iii his fortriues. T'lie excellent story of the Two Ravens is coiicluded. It is evidently is trarisla- tion from tire French, bat fronis the Frencb of the best arid ...

... this excellent series of cheep volumes. Morley Ernstein is the fifth of James' novels published in tbe Library, and itis'a story of much interest and romantic sentiment. The inimitable Sketch-Book of Washington Irving commences a series of the best works ...

... has a series of very interesting papers. The Tale bi of the Ladder of Gold is continued ; Mr. Maxwell, theil anther of Stories of Waterloo, contributes the Ad- ventures of a Freshman Fifty Years ago ; we have an e .WI additioccal chapter onl The ...

... : C/nupnn nm end ira/. The new- serial, by Osir old frieind Herry Lorrequier, pro- (eTedS W iti) Munci spirit, aul thouganid , is somber before us, there is not niahio progress made in the developinmeiit of time story, there is ahbtundanice of huimour ...

... ;lat-odau. The authors have followed the ballet by this nate toner than the celebrated] tioel itself, tto doubt to sihl;iiy the story. Theirs is a burlesque, or rather an -trravaganua-which means, we believe, sotnetiting less buril-but it is not entirely divested ...

... metsories as winessesne of itso poorer.'' SIt PENDENNIS.-W.~e malce thle following extracta from It' No. 14 of thite tltlirabsle story :- lie 1You are a professed mntirg3 nint, aneil lite Sie sex ecaheosi, I olo suspect, you hciow very little abnout them, ...