... Another new piece at the LYCEUM, being a clever and well- constructed adaptation from the French, promises to have a long and most successful run. It suits the company exactly, is excellently played by every one engaged in it, and not only gives scope for the best acting of Mr Charles Mathews in his ordinary manner, but carries him into ground where he may establish fresh claims to the liking ...

... Thou died'st not on the battle-field Amidst a heap of gory slain, To snatch the wreath that battles yield, Embued with many a crimson stain: Thou didst not fall a feverish prey To lust of stores that mines enfold, Sinking beneath the tropic ray To disinter the flaming gold: Nor did'st thou youth and health consume Beneath Ambition's fervent power, Which, calling forth delusive bloom, Developes ...

... At the theatres during the past week there have been several novelties, not of any great importance, but amusing and not unsuccessful. At the LYcEum Mr Tom Taylor has provided the clever manager with a piece that may with advantage to the general mirth retain its place upon the stage, as long as there can be found two actors so perfectly able to support it as those upon whom its weight now ...

... Memoirs of Johtu Aberniethy, F.R.S. With a View of his Lectures, Writings, and Character. By George Macil- wain, F.R.C.S. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. Very wide-spread would seem to be that feeling of respect for Mr Abernethy which maintains for him still, upwards of twenty years after his death, the position of a friend in the minds of thousands who have been his patients or his pupils. Mr ...

... | The Last Fruit oqf an Old Trec. By Walter Savage Landor. Moxon. There is but one consideration that suggests unfitness in the grave and touching title to this volume. Fruits from the tree are subject to decay, but of the produce here garnered the chief part is imperishable. The book contains the thoughts and feelings of a noble spirit, uttered in words that stir us by their earnestness, and ...

... The Ottoman Empire and its Resources; wvith Statistical Tables of the Army, Navy, Trade, Naviqation, Institu- tions, de. dC. Drawn, from the Consular Reports, as given in the elaborate Returns of the Board of Trade, and various Foreign Documents of Official character. Preceded by an Historical Sketch of the Events in con- nection with the Foreign, and Domestic Relations of the Country, during ...

... The Russian Shores of the Black Sea in the Autumun of 18552, vitlt a VOyatge dlown the Volga aud a Tour through the Country of the Don Cossacks. By Law- rence Oliphant, Author of 'A Journey to Nepaal.' Blackwood and Sons. Mr Oliphant went to St Petersburg intending to fish' the White Sea for salmon, but circumstances changed this deter- minatiou and took him along the shores of the Yolga and ...

... (Suggested by a poetical criticism in the Times of November 4.) 1. The Poet is the Prophet. His the task To herald Truth yet far from common sight, The germs of the world's work to bring to light, To lift the resurrection-hope from hell. Song is a Gospel. Whoso doth but bask In poet-glory, who thrusts not the might Of Wisdom's spear before the ages' fight, Is not the Poet-sing he ne'er so well ...