... The second of the series took place last ever. ing in the Music Hall, which was crowded with a brilliant, fashionable, and enthusiastic asEera. blage. A considerable portion of the prograrout, consisted of a repetition of soune of those pieces per. formed at the first concert, on which we PTeviousls remarked, and among them the Valse Fern Leaves', which was rapturously and most deservedly ...

... -LIT E AT UR E. Tnie LoGIc OP AMTISETSIr. Three Lectures1 bV the Rev. Henry Batchelor, Sheffeldl. Londlon: Judd & Glass. Glasgow: George Gallie aud James MacLehose. Turs volume hias a peculiar interest at present, as being the production of the pastor-elect of the Elgin Place (formerly West George Street) Congregational Church, recently vacated by the I'ev. Alexander Raleigh, renmoved to ...

... M. JULLIENYS CONCERTS. The first of a series of three concerts was gi7en in the Music Hall, on Saturday evening, to a large audience. Tile orchestra consisted of about thirty- two instrumenltalists, of whi'h number half were per- formers on wind instruments. From this cause there was a great deficiency in the body of the tole pro- diaced by the strings, and fil the best orches- tral ...

... THE STAR IN THlE EAST. (From the Illustrated London News.) Far guliding towards the promised land, All other stars before it paling, It gleams, where o'er yon sea of sand The lonely desert-ships are sailing: The Star of hope to mortals given, The Beacon-light of. love and heaven. 0, well he named thee, prophet vise, Thou Bethlehem, best beloved of God Who saw in dreams that seed arise Which ...

... (From Punch.) 'Twas on the closing of the year, About the time of Yule, Caine four-and-twenty loose M.P.'s Tale-telling out of school; There were some that raved, and some behaved Like old Lords of Misrule. They talked about with reckless minds; Reformers thick and thin AlR old-world caution laughed to scorn, Called moderation sin: Bade folks kick British notions out, And Yankee ones take in. ...

... CATHERINE OF RUSSIkA. (From the Times.) A single glanc_ at the autobiography of Catherinle now published by Alexander Herzen is quite sufficient to explain why the manuscript has not before seen the light of day. The facts which. it reveali are so little to the honour of the house of Romanoff that it was a State necessity to keep them a dead secret. The secret divulged would be meat and drink ...

... THE LAPSE OF TIME. (From a Newspaper of 1745.) Harp I awake with psalmody; Soleomniso tho lapse of time; Onward to eternity, And its awful scones sublimeo. Riot and wild reveliv y Ill boscom a raco that go Captive to a dostilny Of unbending wvenl or wo. Solemn inconceivably! Died Messiahl for our sake! Unonconer is idiooy- Immortality at stake I f Echoes from Gothsmnano e AMight restrain the ...

... ONWARDs. BytheAuthor of AnneDysart. 3 vols.- This pleasing and wholesome fiction contrasts the life of a virtuous, intelligent, and right-minded girl, with that of a clever, ambitious, unscrupulous youth, In the development of the story, the author has evinced a keen knowledgc of human character and m6tives, and considerable practical skill as a novelist. Hcr style is always fluent and ...

... LIT ERA T.U RE. TUE SCOTTrISH SECESSION OF 1843: being an Examination of the Principles and Narrative of the Contest, which led to that remarkable event. By the Rev. Alexander Turner, Minister of Port of Mienteith. Edinburgh: Paton & Ritchie. 1lS59. 7THu writer of this book, who will be remembered among us as formerly minister of the parish of Gorbals, has renewed al old controversy, which has ...

... If at it . t BLaCKwooD this month opens with What will be do with it; ; the last time the well-kuown title will adorn the pages of the Magazine. SirBulwerLytton has reached 'he close of his elaborate fiction. With his usual felicity of language he has depicted the crisis of his story and given to the question he has iopertinaciously propounded, a final reply bhich itls to be hoped will ...

... g, ittraturt. ONWARDS. By the Author of Anne Dyear,4 Roea Grey,' &. Three Vols. Londen: Hurst and Blackett. Tais is a novel of the John Halifax type and, like it, will not fail to command a wide circle of delighted admirers. The chief charact2rs are picked up if' a retired English villoge, and, under circumstances Pe- Culiarly touching, are brought out at onre promi- nently into view. ...

... A meeting of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts was held last evening in George Street Hall, Profes- sor Piazzi Smyth, F.1R.SS., L. and E., in the chair. There was presented to the Society a model of a di Wave Screen, proposed to be employed in the construction of Earhbours of Refuge, by Mr Ei. K. Calver R.N. Mr DAVID STlENVSO'N, C.E., ?? on the part of MIr Calver, gave a luminous explanation ...