... LIT E R AT U RE. Classic and Hfistoric Portraits. BY JAMES BRUCE, Int 2 vols. i London: Hurst anti lac'kstt. , BroInArnIY is in Many respects More instructive than history; Ci and indecd, we bolieve, it is seldom that history affords so corn- Ott pitto at picture of the r~mannrs and customs of a time as is to PS he found in the lives of the men of various ranks who hav '. Iaoor. taken part in ...

... deep interest in the social condition of our countrymen in the Highlands and Isles of Scotland, may I beg a place in your journal for the follow- ing observations. These may not be altogether consonant with your economical views, but I trust to your well known liberality for a fair hearing. Famine and destitution were at one period, and that no late one, as unknown in the Highlands and Isles ...

... LI T ER I A T U R E. LECTURES ON GOLD. London David Boguc, Fleet Street. AT tile piesen t tiele, when almost cvcry one has his thoughts and his longings ii rected towards the wonderfully ris h oblden lands of Australia and California, and when so manly thousands are leaving their homes to go in search Of those fields where gohl is gathered by the toll eight, we tliik this volu nie of moire ...

... NE\V MUSIC. A GOO0) OLD ENG.ISHI CHEIIR. Words by S. P. Goddard. Alusic by J. Emery. London: D'AInaine & Co. Af 1DENnBEAUTY. Words by Clarles Swain. Mlusie by George Simpson. D'Alinaine & Co. Tim LOeNDON QUADnILLE.S. By T. E. Spinney. D'Almaino & Co. Bu~tuTIFur. ERi. Words by Mis Wellington Boate. Music by Stephen Glover. London : Robert Cocks & Co. PATRIICK. Written and Composed by George ...

... LEAV1S FROM TIM NOTE-BOOKC OF A NATURALIST. I TURTLES. i (Froim Fraser's Magazine.) ap After a Short account of the hawksbill, Catesby says of the leggorhli~Lds, that tliey are the boldest, the moat voracious, anti] to the fouilest feeders of all the turtles. C ?? Try range (says lie) the ocean ovor;- an instance of whichi, th amongst Many that I havo known, happen'ld the 20th of April, ne 1 ...

... FPE, BY. it' MAN'S 1011TALITY. BY S IcON WAS vTIAL, 2 623. , Liit:s tics ci:lcccccsk cose yci see, Or like the blo-socc Oil tile ties, t Or like tlhe ilailcty flo.erl ill Mccv, ci Ot like thc cocciig of tlics i:tr, ( Or lii' Lihe ucll, 01 lilke tice siciade cc Or licke tlic cciil dvicceic Jcollis lliid, e: E'ec each ci iccic-iclio-c ti c vo(i is cpclcl, 2 D iiin ocit cccii cut, ccl, so is ...

... LIT E R AT U R. Ilaeny pillzi: rs Story of Scottish Life,. By the Author of 1 Passages in the Life of 'Mrs Mlargaret Maitland, Merk- ad Atlat Groom`, &e. in, three volumee. London: T Hurst and Blaekett, sueceesors to Honry Colburit. WetsE pI ae lii public favoeir occupied. by the aulthoress of this Spe novel seas 'von by a Single effort. The reputation obotained by T heor first work, her ...

... PH TORAPEIC EXHIBMON. 'W ii seldom that an. opportunity OCCUrs of directing the att. tion of our readers to a-source- of such high intellectual enjo Wesment as the exhibition of Plootpigrapbha now in the .ela0f, i ;364 -lcs-*thi i the re'csh of almost every inhabitait t Ur . .'Thomebinber'of the Photogphcoieye re.dob; at that instigation of -the Society of Art~s havew newand I th th. .*hicli ...

... LOP LITERATUR “ A SUPPLEMENT To THE Time or Edinburgh: Thomas Grant and John Maclaren. Tux idea elaborated in the elegant fictions of the ex- Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the intention of Providence in dispersing the Jews, was to provide the nations with leaders and exemplars, has recently been suggested in the course of our cogilations in connexion with the appearance of a class of by ...

... C.EREMONIUM IN ENCLENIIS OXONTENSIBUS HABITUM. (From Punch.) j The Vice-Chancellor, Heads of Houses, Proctors, ' and other Dignitaries being in their places, the Regius Pro- fessor of Civil Law advances to the Members of Convoca- | tion, and, first having bowed, readeth the list of those that are to be called to the degree of Doctor of ye Civil Law, in the best Latin that he can compass, as ...

... “The coming struggle among the nations.” “The downfall of despotism,” &. &e —_—— Aw obscure physician in the land of some cightcen centuries ago, in reeording the conversations, and narrating the events connected with the lif fe of his master, informs us that, in answer to the question of a disciple as to when the kingdom of Israel was to be restored, the following reply was tendered :—* It is ...

... THlE ART UNION. Wo understand that the stubseriptimit lists for tile next year are now open, anrid wo need not say that it is the dity, as it should he the pleasure, of all to do all that ill thoetm lies to smsist ill its support. Every admirer of art should beco(ic a seller of tickets of miemobership. Every one who would vish that a taste for the noblest productions of the pencil asd the ...