... PUB~LCAfOUM-B-N~L- I Igl ?? THE WHIM AT THE LYCEUM.f. Tce Urania of Tie Bachelor of Arts, is a series of romantic whims. The here, having ?? all the pleasues of life, is anaxious to invact a ?? oe. As a whim, he will go as a ft~les in. a private farmily. H~e does go, and throws cat for a father's inspection the most caorisus vattern-book of accomplishfments that a young man 3bout' to enter ...

... LITERATUBE LIAIMATINE'S CCNSTITUEN11 ASSEMBLY.* It has been fisely said of a certaia writer, his sen. tences are living things: wouSlA them, and they would bleed. Thia seeming hyperbole may be applied to tlh style of Da Lamartine. His page is vital throughout; pulsating and eloqmnent: with a noble scorn of all that is mean and petty in the small miserable doings of small humaaiy,-with a ...

... TEE THEATRE OF WAR iN ASI ?? . I. The mission of the two Turkish arnies in Asia is to break the circle of iron in which General Woroxzoff has for years been. endeavouring to confine the Caucasian in- surrection. Abdi Pacha, leaving-rcertm, is to pene- trate into the valley af the Rioni, and to march straight before him on Coutais, and from thence to Tidis. Selim Pacha is charged to operate on ...

... I TA cETTER WRITER. IAlM.LAIIOURB BS' WAGEB p To Tom Enrop.-Sir,-ln carefully reading y~mr PaP0r fthc 27th ult., I descried a note from one MR. T3o5 CLIFF, de- siring me to prove that the poor farel abourer, ,hoee weekly wages otnine shillings I anatomized for the iaeetiwna ?? sideraiion of those moetere who pay their ?? so bounati fully, has nothini else but his bare nine shillings per week ...

... TER. ADDE'T5S BOOKS. Mr. Addey has prodrced this year an excellent series of childrens' books, illostrated with greaf taste; and we hold that it is of great imaportanoe to present gracefol books to children. Untl lately, children's books have been crammed with the rudest drawings, with vermilion cows and chrome yellow sheep. These barbarisms have done harm: they have distorted the child's ...

... ?? --LTIATUE L XAL KNIGHT'S i ONCE UPON A TIME. M Air. MKight kam collected, in these two volumes, some of his most popular contributions to the journals of the day; and has added to this collection some essays never before printed. Already are Mr. Knight's endeavours to . ake sound knowledge popular by making it attractive lkown far and wide; so that many people will be glad to ?? this ...

... LIr2ER&TVB. iJESAYS ON AGRICULTURE.* Mr. Gisborlie's contributions to agricultural literature are already well known to the better class of farmers, ard to all reading men. These centributions appeared origi- IMly in the Quarterly Review, and are now reprinted in a compact form for the general reader. To the Quarterly Review papers hbss been added an interesting essay, never before published, ...

... T2IM SCRAF-BOOK COLUMN. AxB]ICAxN ItrQUIsXTcveaMEE-On a give nocceaiot going from 3assachusetts to Ma`ne, we found our. selves touching elbews on the same sea' iu a railway car with a thoroaghhfesd Yankee, who instantly began the attach, by saying, Think I seed yon ae the dept just now (depfS being a synonymous expression witti our one of station). Probably so; we were there to procure a ...

... I 2 BLREwLMGHAM, WSDjqBsDA.Y.-The exhibition of fat cat, tie, pigs, and poultry, under the patronage of Prince Albert, and the nobility ot that and the adjoining counties, was opened at Bingley-hall, Birmingham., and was certainly one of the most splendid shows of the kind that has ever taken place in the kingdom. The immense bnilding, erected especially for these exhibitions, was admirable ...

... rzr_ BONN'S 'Bom. Among the men who have dotio egreat public goodin| their geaeration, it i jiast to rank the prqoector aud yh-. lisher of the serie3 of sound Engllish books, known throughout t he coun~try as the Stoardl Lsbrary. Many publishere have courted the patronage of large mseses-of readers by ?? Ce.raap bonks; bat fier have had the courage to rely upon the popular 1ave oe si that is ...