... stirring of his life. He Was ktowvn for his ele- ?? ad his high~ scientific attainments; but as yet lie bad advacead only a short way towards that position whiab ho after- words so justly occupied in pmublic estimation. It is, however, deeply interesting ...

... his imtagination had been filled, enables himv to give a faithful trauscriptof the floatingsuporstitions, and auld world stories, of his native place. Many oftheinarrative that we meet--with here are, like the fossil euriosities of the ?? e Sandstene ...

... pieturo in a rough oaken frame-a gleam of gentle sunshine amid these bar- barous times. It was, however, but a dream, and of short dura- tion. Magdalene, whose health had never been robust, died of consmnption 40 days after her landing iin her new kingdom ...

... euglneman is now a distin- oinshsed hmathema~tician, and the authoirof many of the very, works alluded to. . He la ad, a. short time previous to the interview, n1iseis from a, bank-trapilper to a breakamani in a Newcas tle : coal pit, as stated sn evidence ...

... LITER AT U RF, Mer-earl: A Story of Scottish Life. By tho Author of Passages in tho Life of Magrotgletaitlald of Sunnysidoe' Three vols. London: Hlenry Colburu. IT is seldom indeed that tho first work of an author meots with the amoumt of popularity ...

... We have but little space to devote to the notice of publications il at this season, and wvill have to disnises them with a short and very general expression of our opinion on their merits. The Dtet'ti pssesses all its accustomed claims on public fat- yu ...

... Arne, Harrington, Aldrich, Hilton, and the oditor himself; tile other, of adaptations from foreign sources, and which include short pieces from the works of A Haydn, Mozart, Wbehor, Relehart, Himmel, and others. Most i of the words adapted for them have been ...

... t spirits il thc icucrolierilqtuarter oftite emupite have left the stamp of tlteil midll upion their uotutlty still. -The story Is, upon thc whole, orto that can scarcely bh read vitholut benoeit; ltid that while inculcatitg the inost ilnpor- tlUt truths ...

... of Mlervyn C'litheree. By W. HARRISON ganl ANSsw0RTsn. Illustrated by Putz. No. IV. London: our Chapman andHall. Oxpl TISs story increases in interest. Readers will, however, be obst somewhat puzzled at an announcement, vaguely worded, at the that end ...

... clong ever rivers, or ridingr on hsrsebReohr betwveon the litters in whirh his seoretarits asere carried' Suelonius. itt a short chapter (the flftyrsevonth)T has furnisherl the idea so beautifally brought out here. h .Ts in ariloo, ad i hi latoet' years ...

... fruits, and herbs, Hr which give the Dublin at all times a pleasant reflex of the hue ral a9. and aspect of the saeseons. The story of Mairwaa-a is one an which is of special interest at the present moment, when the on Legislaturc is busily engaged with ...

... comprises aI short life of Mr Herbert, and at short, very short, criticism on his works,- but, with all our favour far lMr Gilfillen, a's wvould liars preferred the original biography from the pen of old flask. We find here narrated the romantic story of Herbert's ...