LITERATURE

... LI ERA rURB. TuE PioTOntAL BIDLEI, PARTS 1, @, 8.-By Dr. XiUO.t; (W. and R. Chambers, E.dinburgls; J. Af Gelashan, luhtia.)-L This is a reissue of Kitto's celebrated bible, one of the mosta instructive and interesting works that ever issued from the British pres. The present reissue is published in weetlj numbers at aixpence, and in monthly parts two shilling price which will bring it within ...

PAIRS

... NAVAN.-The second fair for 18lo, held on Monday, would, no doubt, have been a great one, but for the inclemency of the weather. The supply of cattle, however, was large, as rasa also that of pigs; but horses and sheep were particularly scarce, and the quality, especially of the former, inferior. Prime beef sold at fally 60s per cwt; springers, of which there were but a few, brought as much as ...

LITERATURE

... THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE MECHANICAL INVENTIONS OF JAMES 'WATT. Tho Origin andz Progrcss of tks Mckaanicarl In- rentions of James Wflatt. By JAMES PATRICK. MUIRHEAD, Esq., M.A. In 3 vols. London John Murray. Notwithstanding all the boasted ad+ ...

LITERATURE

... HITERATURE. I ANTI-SLAVERY RECOLLECTIONS. f Anti-Slveroy Recollections. By Sir Gxonau STE- PHEN. London: Hatchard. e This volume contains a series of letters addressed o by the author to Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe, in com- e pliance with a request made by that lady when she n ivisited England, with a vievr to their publica- etion in America. They are not offered to the public as a history of negro ...

Our Library Table

... Our librarp Table. HELIG'S WAININo; a Cymrnic Legend of the 7th tl Century. By Lady Marshall. London: Joseph Iz Masters, Aldlersgate Street. TuE interest %%hich Lady Marshall takes in the litera- c ture and music of Wales, and the considerate pa- s tronage she extends to deserving mnerit. must pro- dispose the public of the Principality to her own li- terary efforts, When directed, as in the ...

ORIGINAL POETRY

... ;F AlG-A-B ALL A G H. Tir doors were all bolted, the shutters were fast, For the factions had mastered in battle array, And through the streets swept, like a hurricane blast, That fearful, intolerant cry, Clear the way !| Then closed thO wild cohorts; their cudlgel strokes crash'd; Long, doubtful, the end Of that horrible fray; At last, like an avalanche, the colnqueriors dashed On the ...

LITERATURE AND FINE ARTS

... | CHARADES. Charades. By ANNE BOWMAN. London: G. Rout- ledge and Co. While we arc indebted to the Germans for our Christmas trees as a means of affording amusement at our most festive season of the year, we are equally under obligation to our more versatile neighbours, the French, for the introduction of that very popular class of juvenile entertainments known as charades. The object of the ...

THE SCOTTISH EXHIBITION

... ZECEPTIOX OF TIIE CIVIC DEPUTATIONS. On Thursday, by the invitation of the Committee of the Scottish Exhibition, Bath Street, Glasgow, the Lord Provost and Maigistrates of Edinburgh, and the Provost and Magis- crates of other towns in Scotland, visited the Exhibition, and examined the works of art which it contains, accompanied by members of committee who described the chief objects of in- ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... Sketches, Legal and Political, by the late Eight Hon. ERichard Lalor Sheil. Edited, with Notes, by M. W. Savage, Esq. Two vols. Hurst and Blackett, for Colburn. We ought to be grateful to the rascally pirates who have compelled this authentic publicaionds ad ?? the knaves for our 1 very good frieds. no witheira edition was brought together quiteas bured and blotted by vwritten by Sheil, and ...

AMUSEMENTS AT MANCHESTER

... )KV -,,1.WP*ESBTEA. , ONOUR OWN CO~xORRzs~qp*)T id *Tamuz~a ROYAL~,7,- .auldn te pawaa .prodoe~eef~h firs tie o Sau~d~K~~J' d~t, ad. ?? te Cava ry Randlflr *intended, Mle militiar Serginll .-Rd ?? zperoomsraries. It is ;8n'mOByfe1d0s&Ptnaltinek atshref yl s~ canedit'ab.loima pieicea'but. therely jb-'ueyo,~ei esitonj~wih h picp eggW-ffthe'.einbarkatiQn' or the~ troopsreirone0fihngwh ithe. ps, ...

Published: Sunday 11 February 1855
Newspaper: The Era
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 1124 | Page: Page 11 | Tags: Arts & Popular Culture 

LITERATURE

... LITERATUR THE PERIODICALS. JBLJ'CUIWOOD opens with a powerful Political I th-eon0e question of thle day, headeod Whence by referring to thle Mischievous and inexplicable acts of Oconomy during tile forty years of peace, whicb have led to the destruct~io11 of certain aiuportaut branches of our military service, and tue impairing of alt. The in- calsacity of our war minister, as manifested in ...

THE LEVIATHAN

... talefolloio 1 linee, by- the father of the lt havaboon orwabea to us by a friodn with aope At a the parsent istat of a.n publi men i e m ?? digest ?? est them.] T~aL LEVIATHAX~ fi As when te linge l ...