... LITERA TUBE. Homes of American Autheors. G. Putnam and Co., New York. We are glad to see that American authors me lodged so well. There is not one of the Homes represented to us in the beautiful sketches which are scattered through this volume in which an English author would not think himself well housed. Mr. Everett's library, as it appears in the frontispiece of the book, is a room where ...

... LITERA TUBE. The New Quarterly Review and Digest of Cerrent Litera- teere. No. V. January, 1853. Hookta-la and Sons. With the present number, the new Quarterly Review begins its second volume. The periodical has been long enough before the reading public to enable a tolerably accurate judgment to be formed of its merits. The abuses and short-comings -ad,, awi pucn suadmoa atp Jo ,A&vl ...

... PRINCESS'S. - On Saturday the stage lost one of its veterans, in the person of Mr. Bartley, who for the lest half century has been one of the clever respectabilities of g.p. TheatrPe Mr. Birtley selected Fahktaf as the last part he would play, and at the close of the performance addressed a very crowded and enthusiastic audience as follows: Ladies and Gentlemne,-This night, 1fityyears ago- ...

... SOCIPSTY OFARts. The last of tile series of interestingu dueu lectures, asiigested by Prince Albeit, on Subject in iONu- tration. of the Great Eihibitiontiof 18ijSw is delivered, ~On Weduesday, st the -Society of Arts, .&4delpbi, by Mr. H1. Cole. The lecture was on The Ilniernational Resul's of the Great Exhibition ;, and it 'Will Se acicuow-I )edged that there was a peculiar fitness in Mr. ...

... . Saturday being the least day of the Smithfield Cattle Club for the reception of the specimens from the va- rious districts of England, to be exhibited on Tuesday next and three succeeding days, the vicinity of the bazaar in Baker-street, Portman-square, was thronged throughout the day by hundreds of persons. Amongst the earlier arri- vals were ;the specimens contributed by his Royal High- ?? ...

... LITEBRATUBE. ltalian Irrigation. A Repor* on the Agriodlural(Ytsas of Piedmont and Lomberdy. Addressed to the East India Company's Directosr by R. BAuID SMITH, ?? Cap- tain in the Army, and First Lieutenant of Engineers, Bengal Presidency. 2 vole. W. H. Allels and Co. This work is the result of a mission to examine the classic land of irrigation, Northern Italy, under- taken by Captain Smith, ...

... MUSICAL INSTITUTE OF LONDON. On Saturday evening, at the wcekly meeting of this association, a paper was read byMr. Thomas Oliphant on the English dramatic music of the eevcn eenth centurV, and particularly the celebrated music in 'IMacbeth, generally ascribed to Matthew lock, whose claim to its authorship, till of lately held to be undoubted, has recently been called in question, and ...

... HOW HIS HIGHINESS OF GUZERAT CAME TO THINK OF BRIBING THIE GOVERNMENT, Those who have had the industry and patience to make their waythrough the two voluminous Blue Books,ron- taining 1,515 pages, entitled ' Colonel Outram, and lately laid before parliament, will have found that the subject to which they refer naturally ranges itself under two distinct heads:-1. The acts of the Bombay ...

... We have never grown the thousandth part of an inch out of Robinson Crusoe. He fits us just as well, and in exactly the same way, as when we were among the small- est of the small. We havo never grown out of his parrot, or his dog, or his fowling-piece, or the horrible old staring goat lie came upon in the cave, or his rusty money, or his cap, or umbrella. There has been no change in the manu- ...

... The second report of the commissioners of 1851 was issued yesterday, by which it appears the commis- sioners have purchased the Gore House estate, at Kensing- ton, facing Hyde-park, containing 21A acres, for which they have given 60,0001. They have also passed a resoln- tion authorizing the outlay of a sum not exceeding 150,0001. Iof the surplus in the purchase of land, on the condition that I ...

... LITERA TURE. Memoir, Journal and Correspondence of homas Moore. Edited by the Right Honourable Lord JouN RussELL, M.P. Vols. 1 and 2. Longmans. Lord John Russell has, with equal judgment, good feeling, and good taste, left his illustrious friend to tell his own story. A brief explanatory preface introduces Moore's Memoirs, Journal, and Corres- pondence, which (at least in these first voblur ...

... mimu - every HARMONIC UNION. him This new association is formed upon an extension thers t time of the plan of the Sacred Harmonic Society. Its per- ght in formances are in Exeter Hall;' it has a choral band and time. instrumental orchestra approaching those of the Sacred r that Harmonic Society in magnitude; and, like the Sacred r for Harmonic Society, it is to performl the oratorios and other ...