... U RIGHT OR WRONG. FiJAjt or ion0g. By GERLD=N E. JEWaBulT. London: Hurst and Blackett. It is not ofton'that writers of fiction in the present day can hit upon any class of society'which has not already been worn threadbare. Miss Jewsbury, however, has hit upon such a class. She has taken her hero from one of the unenclosed orders of monks who were bound by certain vows, but were nevertheless ...

... LI TRA TURE. ''9VPJ-4 0 e rt Houdiftl) mbasas$lor, Author, anci' Croflju'Ot' Written by Himself. TWO vols, I Lonirou C Ghapman and Hall. A priori, we should expect a clever beries of uernoirs from a presdigateur. He ins3t be, from the very nature of his business, 'atot merely cunning at his fingers, but glib and ratttling at his tongute. A conjuror without what is vulgarly called the gift of ...

... 7wackeray's Soldier'es Manua of RiP Firing. London: Longman and Co. i Rift le, and How to Use It. By HaNs BusK. London: Routledge and Co. If any doubt existed as to the hold which the rifle volunteer movement had taken of British sus- ceptibilities, that doubt would be set at rest by contemplating the number of rifle manuals lately issued for one or other reason to the public. In naking use of ...

... THE? PORTLAND .GALLERY. The private view of this exhibition took place on Saturday. These who remember what the Institution of the Fine Arts was five years ago, or even two years ago, will have reason to be satisfied with the present result of the labours of no inconsiderable portion of British artists, who have at last raised it to be one of the most interesting among the many pictorial ...

... VICE IN SCHOOLS AND COLLasES.* 1 * - I The ccenobitical habits and the routine of public schools and colleges are fearful corrapters of inex- perieneed youth. Domestic restraints, wholesome I even in manhood, are there trampled down in boy- e hood. Herds of untutored striplings are allowed e blindly to follow that leading which they fancy e gives them a stamp of maturity. Vices opposed to the ...

... SPIRIT LICENSES TO THEA TR ES. Yesterday afternoon a public meeting vas held at Mr. Colea's, Unicorn Railway Hotel, Shoreditceh, to take into consideration this subject. and to decide upon the steps' best adapted to obtain a repeal of the section of tho act undor which such licenses have been granted. Mr. Harris, of the Equestrian Tavern, Blaclcfriars-road, having taken the; chair, explained ...

... LITERATUBE. Ihe New Glories of the Catltolic Church. Trans- hated from the Italian, by the Fathers of the London Oratory, at the request of the Cardinal- Archbishop of Westminster. With a Preface by his Eminence. London: Richardson and Son. The little volume which bears the above title is, perhaps, intended for others besides Roman Catho- lics; but we have no desire to accept it in this ...

... Schaleher's Life of Handea.-2he Nanclez Fesiva of 1859. London: Robert Cocks and Co. The genius of Handel throws its lustre priaci. pally over the music of this country, although he was by birth a German. It- was the patronage of the Court and high circles here that so fully deve- loped his consummate talent, and it Was exactly for the masses of English society that (his genius then soaring to ...

... 4ITERA 7TURE. JMemories of Rome. By DENIS O' ONO, ANL dsq., author of . Hors .uveniles, 0kc. ondon: DoimLTn. There is nothing like a man with a fixed idea for writiny an energetic book. Mrs O'Donovan goes to Rome with Roman Catholic hopes, wishes, feeling* and aspirations. He finds it necessary, as he is agt Rome, to see the profane sights of the Eternal City, and as he writes a book upon ...

... I L1TERA TUURE. I . At I Sir Laneelot; a Legenal of the Middle Agqe. By FREDERIoK WILLIAM FABER, D. D. Second Edi- tion. London: Thomas Richardson and Son. Dr. Faber possesses an enthusiasm of that pecu- liar quality which may be called effervescent.. It has effervesced at different times into sentamentalism, into High Ohurchism,.into Roman Catholicism, into poetry. In all of these things ...

... D1RURYLANB. THEA TE. W'hen there are four encores in one opera, the ecene- a painter is summoned before the audience, the composer is e called for at the end of each act, and appears at the close astounded, apparently, at the audience's appetite, and a national hornpipe is rapturously redemanded after the fall of the act drop, it may be concluded a success has been t achieved. Certainly ...

... The graceful pencil of Mr. Desanges, that knows so well to how to reproduce the l'aeamnents of English beauty, has m all of a sudden turned to paint the sterner features of grim visaged war. The deeds of gallant daring of our soldiers tb andjolly tars, as recorded in'the bald, official language oft the Gccztc, thil flat on the public ear, and the true fire and pluck of Eingland would never ...