... 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+ ...

... 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 ...

... | 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 ...

... 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 ...

... )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, ...

... SHAXSPEARE'S MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. TO TIE EDITOR OP THr DAILY SNEWS [In comnmonl fairness we feel ourselves bound to X give a place to this letter. It appears to us, however, 'we must confess, to strengthen our ease. Mr. Phelps's Bottom Dwas the main attraction.] t Sit,-In a notice contained in your impression of Tue6- -day last, of a reading of the above play by Mrs. Fanny Koemble ...

... I THE PARIS UNTrSAL EXHIBItION, (FPON OUR SrPcTAL coaazsromni,.) PARIS, Fnb. 16. The commercial spirit of the French CrystalPalace Company appears to develop itself space, in ipite of the serious opposition of Parisian art-manufacturers. This week it has been publicly announced that the directors have appointed then, photographers. I presume that this appointment is in the apirit 6f that which ...

... I (71oX Cos OWN o0ver P0IMZBS.) 3BRQBnToN.-Thealre Reyal.-(Lessee, Mr. H Nye.)-Capt. Disney Roebuck, who has achieved no little fame in the provinces as an amateur, performed on Monday in his favourite character of Don Caesar de Dazan, and vwa warmly applauded. On the same evening the new burlesque of The hrese Graees was produced with considerable splendour and effect. The Three Graces were ...

... A BUNDLE OVI LITTLE BOOR0S. We have before us a number of small volumes, which, although they would hardly justify a sepa- rate notice for each, may yet not improperly be lumped together in a brief article. The subjects dealt with by the authors are as varied as their style and modes of treatment. Poetry and fiction, doctrinal and practical theology, philology and agriculture, present au array ...

... SONNE'FS FOR-THE TIMES. TO THE NATION. Beware of mere delusive eloquence,- Your back'.ey'd clever talkers, who can male Evil seem good for place and party sake, Well skill'd in dialectic thrust and fence; Let common honesty and common sense Come to thy council board; no longer take For statesmen some few scornful consulars The scions of great families,-for such Less love the People's ...

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... BRITISE SECTION OF THE PARIS UNIVERSAL iSRI I 'I SB XHIBITION OF 15o. L The following circular, stating the arrangements r for shipping goods for the French Exhibition, has been I issued from the Science and Art Department of the Board U of Trade, at Marlborough -house. t Meesrs. Lightly and Simon, of 123, Fenchurch.street, are appointed 1 agents to receive goode for shipment to Paris, at the ...