... LITER AT RE, I The Modern, HousetWif, or Menagere: comprising nearly One Thousanad Receipts for the ?? aind Judicious Prepara- tion of every oeoal of the Day, and thase for the Nursery and the Sick Room; with Huintte Directionsfor Pamily Manage- meaC fin att itd Branichteg Illutrhatedl wyith Engravings, includ- fty the Modern Houseie'Jos Unique Kitchen, and Maygic Stove. By ALEXIS SOYER, ...

... LI TERATU RE. Rr'eGoNALD HASTINGS; or, a Tale of the Troubles in 154-. ...

... .I SEE S 0. - W S . : . S E ED S H O W -S, So. MARt AGRICULTURAL. .ASS0CATJ0N.-~Tlii' Association~s Show of~ Bulls, Seeds, and Roots, was ?? a t Monymusk, ?? the 28th, F ebruary, wheii a 'very good display of Bulls, Seeds, afid Roots were esefere~l for competition. .After a careful InSTpc~tion by the ?? Lumsden,, Aquhorties; Stoddart,' (Jlter Cullen; Smith,'Middletoii, Fintray;, and. lAilken, ...

... LI TE RAT U RE. Tee pozVC-ALX~~ Wi~raS or HaarY W. LoxnvzrSnow. Liver- po, ol:Slbn~ e 59 TH SaI olo visa FiRmsio's. Br H. W. Longfellow. second Editiun. Liverpool: John Walker, 1I50. Doubts have sometimes been felt and expressed as to the ropriety of diffasing German literature among us. Visions of mysticism. pantheism, and cloudland. floated in dusky per- gpective berore the eyes of many ...

... TIE TIEATINE-IR Ml CREADY' S FARE WELL. The benefl of xlrMacreadly, ard ?? last public apeearance ir ritg tGo!4 place on Saturday, in presence of a very nu- oerodS sa~lienfc. The pieces selected-a scene from the Se- toadartof Henry, I a and the comcdv of the Provo'ked les- band, with maost of the comnic scencs cut ?? not suet a one could have wisi ed so eminent a trasedian to anpear in on 6ock ...

... LITERAItY NOTICES. . 1, 11 .1 i A IC I L C T I U L S . .Yinereh.-We hear that additional information respecting the 3 interesting country to which the researches of Mr. Layard have of late directed so much attention, wviTI shortly be laid before the - public in tile shape of two volumes of travels, by the Rev. J. P. t Fletcher, who resided some year; at Mosul, during his inquiries into the ...

... THE INDUSIRIAL ENtIBITION OF 1S51. 1j3R7ING OP THE WOrKiNG CLASSrS. | Qn 1% aepuet., p ve rse mechan icsand artizans of tbe citv, callerl by the Lord 1 roro~t, a 46d: th in ?? Bell s Scinol, Niddry Street, to afford hisa odsbip an opportunity of comaiunicaitrg lrith the workingcif;ses regardinrr thearrange- ments which were being tnice for tire grear Ex'hibition of 1351, and of cgro uporin ...

... SCHOOL OF 'ARTS. The winter session of this excellent and flourishing institution we was brought to a close on Tuesday night, when the proceedings ,,twere of a highly interesting character, prizes being distributed - to a number of the students who had most distinguished theta- selves in the various classes. Tlie lecture-room was well filled g tbh students; and there were present on the ...

... ' NEW VMUSIC. We have received from Messrs. D'Almaine & Co., Soho Square, London, several pieces of new music, which want of space has prd- veuied u.s from noticing before to-day \;e will now, however, endeavour to make up our lee-way. The first of these pieces which we take up is a new set of Quadrilles composed by Andre Norman, and dedicated to Edwin Landseer, Esq., T.A. Al. Norman thought ...

... The performances on Saturday evening were for the bernefit of Mrs Charles Kean, when the presence of a numerous and brilliant audience testified the lively appreciation of the merits of that distinguished actress. The first piece was King Rene's Daughter, the translation used being that of the Hon. Mr t Phipps, which was originally written, we believe, for Mr and I Mrs Kean. This beautiful ...

... THI' THEATRE -MR AND MRS CHARLES KEAN. These emiinent perf? raters cotlmeaced a short engagement here on Monday evening. whin, nntwitbstandin, the inoc - mency of the weather, a numrerous and fashionable aulieuice aisermhled, who greeted Air and Mrs Keen with long and en- thusiastic plaudits as they severally entered on the stage. The tragedy was Strathmore, from the peat of Mr Westland Mar- ...

... 4 M AT. .AL9 . 0 ItL , . The surest road to health, say what they wi Is never to suppose we shall be ill. Moest of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and inmednation ?? Reading is a method of conferring -with men, who, An have been most distin lied by-their genius and lern e coming aequaiftedl With the resuflts of theirniature rfelis°f? of contemplating at: leisure thie flinisbed ...