... LIT ERA T UR E. A MANUAL OF TUE DOMESTIC PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By W. B. Kestevon, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, &e. London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans. 1856. Tans seems to us to be a valuable addition to a class of .works which has extended year by year since the days of Buchan. Its principal merits are that it is easily understood by non-pro fessional people; the ...

... North Brtish &Reri-e. Edinburgh : W. P. Kennedy. Irish Quarterly Iteriew. Deblin: W. B. Kelly. Blaeklwosd's MAagazine. Edinburgh: Blackwood & Sons. Frases MAlgazine.i London: J. W. Parker & Son. Tait's Miagazinc. Edinburgh: Sutlherland& lKnox. The Idler. A Magazine of Fiction, Belles Lettres, News, and Comedy. Edited by EDWARD WILuBERORCE. London: R. Hardwicke. 'TIe North British has lain too ...

... FASHIONS FOR JANNUARY. From Le Follet. 's SThe -wintry winds, which have f ow set in with rigour, have is- caused an increased display of warm out-door toilettes- Wadded n- nanteanx and fAus are indispensable. Cloth dresses are more at than ever in demand; they are comeposed of a skirt fastened g- round the waist by a buckle behind;, the casque has turned 'ie asques, in which are two pockets ...

... Sit tr IN t. TAr'TS EDINBUIRGII MAGAZINL for January. Edin. burgh: Sutherland & Knox. WaE are happy to observe that Tait still keeps up its old standard of excellence. The present number contains a large amount of readable matter on a di- versity of subjects, and written generally with much ability. It opens with a chapter on Social Legisla- tion and the Forbes M'Kenzie's Act. The writer , ...

... iwitratuxrt. Tom HousEHoLD WORiDS. Part LXIX. London: Bradbnry & Evans. CONTAINING, as the present part of our old favourite does, The Holly Tree Inn, or the story designed by Dickens for Christmas reading, it may be not un- reasonably considered as somewhat late to call the attention of our readers to its contents. We take, however, the first opportunity after receiving it of performing ...

... A. LAY OF ANCIENT nO.ME, FOR THE CONS1DERATION OF SIODERR F RUSSIA. (Freon Punch.) g Count Valentine Estorhazy, From his audienco out biath bow'd, Anid tie CMzr of all tile ?? llath left the courtier crowd. s Tight uniform for dressing-gown t liath changed, with thankful air, t Jack-boots for roomy slippers, t And throne Ibr easy chair. 8 ls't o'er the Austrian offer That be is brooding now, ...

... . Is, ittralulf. BLACKWOOD. January 1856. WE have seen better numbers of Old Maga than this month's issue. There is a want of hody, and form, and aim in most of the contributions, which leaves a very dissatisfactory feeling in the mind of the reader. As a set off to this, however, it is but right to add that they are all written in a spirit of honourable impartiality; and contain, in the ...

... (Froe the Mornking Post.) As the prospects of peace grow fainter, and the spectre of war looms out dark and gigantic more vividly from the future, it becomes the business of England to examine what hope she has of being able to strike hard and home at Rus- cia-of being able to make her blows tell with quick and vital effect on the vast body of her foe. There is no use in hesitating-there is ...

... A ^ STRANGE STORY Cea -. ,n Israel Wooding, Almeron Sanford and wife, Abigail Sables, IiThankful; S. Hersey, the widow Wakeman -(the prophetess), ce0 Samuel Sly, and a coloured -nan named Josiah Jackson, have i all beeni arrested, and lodged in jail at New Haven for the mur- d! derof, Jostus Matthews. Jackson confesses that they were all ce present on Sunday night in Ithoda Wakeman's house. ...

... THE OPERfA. The management keeps faith with the public, in the production of works newv to Edinburgh ; and we think we arc warranted in adding, produces them in a style which more than realises the expectations ex-I cited by the announcements for the current season. Ernani is not by anymcans a light opera: it abounds with beauties and 5with difficulties ; and last night the beauties wele ...

... Lilliesteaf: Being a eossc/sdiisg Series of Passages froes fhe Iec -Life of Airs .ilfes-aret Afaitleand of Sssniyside. ThreeI Vols. London : Hurst & taket Time' peculiarity of Mrs Olipliant's power in delineating y' female character gave its most perfect frusit in the character; of Mrs Margaret Mlaitland of Semisysidie, wheels is so corn- liletely real, that the public at first were snore than ...

... I The Pantomime at the Queen's. though somewhat tardily produced, bids fair to whieve as successful a ran as that which has attended the Christmas enter- tainment at the Royal. Nlghtly, since its first Vre- sentation on Monday evening, it has attracted teem- ing houses, and particularly, we Pre glad to note, such a numerous attendance of the fair sex as but too rarely graces the boxes sf an ...