... 7 LI TAT k.'i.1 LI TER ATUR E. TnaTHE Asi OF TnX WOIUD; an Aecount of all Religions an, ill, elijibits Sects, their Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, niud Cus V -.K tonas Compiled from the latest and best audiroriitie by ti'e ia. Rev. James Gardner, M.D. and A.m., autihorof the Clrrltiart cll Cyclopaidia, &c., and illustrated from authentic gnd trust. 3es wortyi authorities. Edinburgh : A. ...

... ?? songs of Branger, says a writer in the Illustrated Lo7doan ,eirs, are difficult to translate; all songs are, and lmore especially his-so terse, so elegant, so waaf so national, Bo idiomatic. The follow ing-which is an imita- tion rather than a translation-may give the English reader some idea of tse subject, the style, the treatment, and the philosophy of Beranger; but to know B3ranger ...

... THE post which by the smithy stands, All cramp'd and bound with iron bands, Has stood there many a day. The loit'rers who those nails have driven Into the post, all split and riven, Have long since pass'd away. Those notches, cracks, and broken nails, Are relicts of the village tales; And every rift and sprain Shows how the bumpkin's horny hands Ta-'d hard the post with iron bands Each time he ...

... UP, my lads, up ! twith tile larlj' get up ! Health loves to drink firom an early cup; Do, my lads, do!g with a purpose too. Success seldom comes where the will moves slow. Up with the merry bird, up and away, And honour with effoi't the dawn of your day; Do ere the shadows come over your eve, A nd the web of'your fortunes, lads, thriftily weave. Up, my lads, up ! though your talents be small, ...

... mUSIC. ROYAL ACADEMY OF The first concert of this season, for the exhibition of the students, was given yesterday morning at the Institu- tion in Tenterden-street. These concerts, which took place for many years at the Hanover-sauare Rooms, have latterly assumed a less public character; the audi- ence consisting chiefly of amateurs who take a special interest in the progress of music in this ...

... LITBRA TUBE. - ?? * _ C4 The Life of Alexander Pope. By ROBERT CAR- M RUlt1'RuaS. Second edition. Henry G. Bohn. Mr. Carruthers' Life of Pope has already attracted a, more attention from the critics than is generally accorded to a work originally issued as a portion of a B popular series. The care and pains, however, with 1 which this republication has been prepared, the pi abundance of new ...

... ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. IFOt'URT1 NOTICE. A Welcom! Arrival, by J. D. Luard, repre- sents the three military occupants of EL Crimean hut engaged in the pleasing task of unpacking a box from hoiMc. It is a picture of great merit, finely painted, excellent in tone and colour, and also good in drawing. The young officer who is seated to the left of the picture is ?? conceived; he holds in his ...

... m USIC. MADAME CLARA SCIldMAN' Coxtcinr.-Madame Schumann, who is about to leave London in a few days, gave a matinie at the Hanover-square Rooms on Saturday. During her three months' visit this season she has fully masintained her European reputation ss one of the greatest pianists of the age, rivalled by very few, and surpassed by none. Indeed we do not know that there is any one who unites, ...

... LIT ERA T UR E. up. Tue TENT-AND..TE KHAN: A JOUR1NEY TO SINAI AND PAhsE- _ TINE. By Robert Walter Stewart, D.D., Leghorn. With Map and.11luatrations. . Edinburgh: William Oliphant. & Bono.' 1857. Lily'IN~the 4'Travels in the Holy Land, by our townsman, Dr. Rae 0th Wilson, the Lands of the Messiah, by Dr. Aiton, and, The ' nt and the Khan by Dr. Stewart, we may claim for lD, ?? ...

... LESMAHAGOW. OIL The above show took place in a field near the village of GE Abbeygreen. The weather was delightful. The stock shown Ja was on the whole of a very superior description, and the num- 5t ber of entries and of competitors was much greater than on any all former year. The horses of all classes, -but particularly the Il saddle horses and brood mares, wvere considered remarkably W ...

... BY FRANCES BROWN. Children, it is the Christmas chimes:- I have seen many Christmas times.- And the aged worker laid Beside her on the dusty shelf, The old worn tools that, like herielf, Had grown blunt in toil and trade,- As she turned to the children of her speech. They were two-and gray-haired women each, Vho worked by the ltmpiplight, staid end slow,- But she kept the name from long ago ...

... I - --FASHIONABLR NTRELLIGENCE. 1 WINDSOR, MAIRCH 6.-The Queen and Prince, attended by Lady Churchill and the Hon. EleanOr Stanley, drove out in an open corriage yesterday afternoon, The Equerries in Waiting were also in attendan e. Their Serene HighnesOSs the PrIncess Feodore ?? Langeniburgir, and Princess Amele of Hohenliohe Schllingfuret, dined with the Queen in the evening. The Dean of ...