... After the very satisfactory replies given by Mr. Fox to the interrogations put to him at the Society I of Arts on Wednesday last, with respect to some of the principal objections which have been from time to time urged against the strength of the building for the Exhibition in Hyde Park, we apprehend there are very few who now entertain a doubt upon s that point; To such persons it may he ...

... - ?? - , ~ ?? The works coninected with the building in Hyde. Idin park continue to be carried on with unabated rapi- Bm' dity. The main part of the labour is now directe yr to the laying down of the permanent flooring on the Mr ground floor and in the galleries, and to the glazing i Sol and completion of the trausept roof. About ciie- Sp fourth of the glazing of the transept is now done, S a ...

... GENNERAL VON R1ADO TITZ ON DE- I VISFS AND II OTTOS. The art of Devise is one of the great lost, or at least forgotten, arts of elder time. Perhaps not a few of our readers will be glad to be told that its province lay in translating thought into symbols, or in illustrating symbols by tersely expressed thoughts. Two hundred years ago it was some- times the serious occupation, ofteu the ...

... * The writer of this work misappreciates, if he at does not misunderstand, the age. He confessedly n-undervalues its greatness and importance. While :d, conceding that Sir Robert Peel was its leading man, ho he would deprive him of the glory of being a great tz, man in a great age. Mr. Johnston has read the li history of the past and the present to little purpose; be and hispower of contrast ...

... A MJEMOIR OF JOHIN CAR 7ERI.* -4 It is not less painful to record than to rend tales of physical suffering ; and, indeed, such recitals are inexcusable, except when undertaken with the view to suggest a palliative, or point out a cure. The terrible bodily affliction, however, under which John Carter, the silk weaver, laboured for the last four- teen years of his existence, is so intimately con ...

... TABLB TALK.* Mr. Leigh Hunt's book of table-talk will per- plex all critical readers. The author has not only provided nothing for them to diud fault with, but has positively left nothing to say on any one of the multiplicity of topics which he introduces. He has not even allowed room for a disquisition on table-talk itself; having disposed of the whole matter in half-a-dozen happily turned ...

... FINE AR TY. TIHE FOUR PRINCESSES, BY WINTERHALTER. is Wiitorhalter is chiefly known to the English public as the pakinter of royal personages. The meeting betweeu his late id Majesty louis 'Philippe and our gracious Sovereign Queen Victoria and her royal consort ; the portrait of that high- r ntinded lady, whose noble spirit rose with her misfortunes, Ls iand wlho, h.;d it pleased Providence ...

... THE RE VIEWS. The Quarterly Review.-The Quarterly Review e opens with an article on Mr. Gordon Cumming~s , work on Southern Africa. Many have no doubt 1 e felt with ourselves a thrill of incredulity on reading some of the marvellous stories of this remarkable e book ; but we are assured by the reviewer, who dis- h plays a masterly knowledge of the subject, that not e only are all the ...

... THIE B VIE' fS. -4- ta The Wlestmeinster aed Boreign Quarterly Rev'iew Co commences to run its course for the second half of the Eve century with great spirit and vigour. It opens with th an article on the literature of Spain, founded on the valuable history of Mr. Ticknor and Mr. Lewes' an book on the Spanish drama. The reviewer, scarcely th touching on the other branches of his subject, II ...

... puIE D UCHESS.* d, fistidiosis I.) the correctness of costume Ni Walter 6vott. accustomned us, by the JaV >1 ad mutiplied adventures of the 3t:r rapid peni, by the accuracy of ?? c(1J dr ieKimt~~ power of G-rattan-iu- their Iol ~Iisalry and burgher life, of court plots --ntigcit is rare to meet with a Qf l ollosvvs in thle track of those great mas- 'i vet is uadninable. Such a waork lies o it ...

... IGEOGRA PIHY and IfSITOR Y of EUROPE.* There is no branch of education more valuable, yet in England more neglected, than that which treats of the present and past history and geography of Europe. In many of our public schools these studies, as far at least as regards modern times, have, up to a very recent period, been utterly ignored, and, even now, though adopted, they are | but negligently ...

... The subject of the rates of admission to be o charged to visitors to the Exhibition is one which t since the publication of the letter of Mr. Pax- :I ton, proposing gratuitous access, has occupied a considerable share of public attention ; and wce believe that a plan will be decided by the I Commissioners in the course of a few days. We are not at present in a position to state the | details ...