... -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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...