... T'HERE AND BACK AGAIV.* What is it that constitutes a good book of travels ? What is it which makes the narrative of one mau seem like the fresh picture of things rendered familiar to us in spite of their novelty, and the want of which makes the pages of another imitate the barren duliess of a handbook or the twaddle of a tea party ? In a few rare instances the subject of the travels is so new ...

... THE WAR IN CHINA.* The authors of this most timely work have been at- tached ior some years to the French embassy in China; and in their relative capacities of interpreter and physi. cian have enjoyed the very best opportunities for the stud' of the Chinese character. The work in every page given evidence of the fullness of the writers, They are possessed swith their subject; and are thus ...

... ISCBNT OF l U ETNA.* ACBNP OF. MINZ COVA.+ | r. Watson, the author of a pleasant volume en titled A Cruise in the .Agean, oonsistingl of a ?? '!froiii Constantinople wvest*ard, took lev6, iu 84S, ,of the', city of the Clesars (Tzarograd), as thc Turkish oapital is canled by: the .usjiabs.. ;.The! Boqphorus, and the, Goiden ?? ptesenjted new beauties, to the- dpart ing travellern' Iv was ...

... (PRO OU OWE COIREPOIEDNTS.) A ?? neat little theatre opens on the 22d of .October, entirely redecorated; arid with several improvements, both before and behind the curtain. With a good company the manager may calcnlate upon a good season. Several old tkvourites have beenuengaged. BiaGHTONw.--heatre BuaL.-On ?? Bomeo and JAliet was enacted in a very creditable manner. M. I. Farren sustained ...

... THE OPIATE GIVEN AT DRTIlYi-LANE. The Adrienne Lecouvreeur, in which Rachel played so forcibly, was a 6rama of poison. The Betrothal, pro. duced last Monday night at Drury-lane, is, also, a drama of the same poisonous kind. It is said that Rachel went into a hospital purposely to study the fearful effects of paison, in order to reproduce them, as effects, in her acting. This is carrying one's ...

... tR1NGE&S' -:TRBA TRB. - . This theatre closed last night, after a season of unusual duration, extending to within a few days of twelve months. The fact alone is aus evidence of great success. Sardana- ?? was performed for the sixty-fir&t time, a run almost unprecedented, when we remember that this magnificent drama was not produced until the middle of June, a period when managers used formerly ...

... STA TE OF 7RADE. DI2111 A 4 a The iron trade of the distr ct continuea to t ie satisfactory state. The furnaces of South Staffordshire East Worcestershire are in full work, and tbe denarrf r descriptions of manufactures continuously incresing cording to our information, the great firms are recr., b execute orders for delivery al; distant dates at exisgisr and that some have refused tenders at ...

... u-t INDIAN ARCHIPDLAGO.* id horace St. John tells us in his preface to e elaborate volumes that upon them have beeu laued tile labour of years. We can well believe. I~e ,tothig but indefatigable and long-continued trY, gleanilg from every variety of source, in every janguage, and of every age, could have accir 111ulased so vast a treasury of detail-ethnologicalj storical, and descriptive ...

... rppM SCRAr-BOOK COLUM. Cagais or COTTOM - oeMisery, says Henry Heine, thysnameis cottond s rely neveriseed swhen itohad reached that perfect state of gay and flowery clothing which attracts the poor and suits their means, which gives them for the first days of wear the resemblance of a gaudy butterfly, but which is scarcely a robe ere it be- comes a rag, and even as a robe affords but a ...

... NARRATIVE OF THE UNITED 5 TATjiS EXPLORING EXPEDITION.* This narrative by the commander of the American exploring expedition embraces a large amount of scenic description and natural history. With most of the places we are already familiar ; but the in- formation is here compressed and categorically arranged, with a clearness of style and precisi6n of detail calculated to make the book serve ...

... DRURIY-LANE THEAITRE, We should dismiss, in a couple of sentences, the mass of undramatic and unpoetic verbiage which, ?? the ilroe of a five-act play, occupied three hours last night, bat far the circumstance that at the fall of the curtain the ?? sof the galleries applauded with much vehemence, the drop rose! and, after that, the two p'incipal actors in yhe Betrothal were called on, the ...

... LITERA TUBE. Socian aite Policial2 Morality. By WILLIAM LOVETT. Simpkin and Marshall. Mir. Lovett has been long known for his conscien- tious advocaev of radical reform, and for his earnest endeavours not only to procure social privileges for the members of the class to which he belongs, but to elevate them higher in the scale of society by education. Few men have laboured. so long and so ...