... LITERATUBE, IM RUSSELL'S INDIAN DIARY.0 TWhe famous Pen of the War-that pon which was the safeguard (f the British soldier in the Crimea- now offers to Englishmen a diary, made while folb lowing the British army in its victorious marches against the rebellious sepoys. Let our readers under. stand that this diary is not a reprint of Mr. Russell's letters to the Times. We have a nearer, and more ...

... LIT.E14TUBE. is- On the Origin of Species by 2/sans of Natural ter Selection; or, the Preservation of Favoured Races y- i the Struggle for Life. By CHIARLES DARWIN, 8- M.A., Fellow of the Royal, Geological, Linnean, he Lc., Societies. Author of A Journal of Re- ,as searches during Her Majesty's ship Beagle's ,ly Voyage Round the World. London John he Murray, Alblemarle-dtreet. a11e scientu; ...

... ?? T0HE LYRIO DRAMA. 1 st numler of the X1e9 QUuarerly 'Ifevieut Tale an adnil'able article ullner the above c wrltitten, we believe, by 'Mr. Grueiseen, the ?? critic and anateur, from which we ex tzet the following passages hr s ilt The first at the Thribtre de I'Opdri hcni~ ir, Il'ri, on the 4th of April, 1859; the second ia ji lgl, Italia1n Ot-rat Ccsvent-garden, on the 26th of J.nly a Ie ...

... | L[SkCoND NxOTICE.] . th Narrative of the Earl of El gib's Miission to China, ti( and JTapan, Ic. By LAunzNCE OLIPHIANT. Two vols. London: Blackwood. se ,or, Apart fronm their political objecta and commercial P° :results, the successive embassies'to China have pos- ea sessed a collateral interest, its opening to oar viewr a glimpses of a strange land into which it was other- c wise, and at ...

... LI TERJ TURS, the kni 7'L1ek of College Life. By FPts- I ?? NV. ni, M. A., Fellow of Trinity local C.Imbridge. mithor oi 1 Eri': ; ur, Little j,)ised Edinburgh Adam and Charles sti'uck t5 ?? to evad, ?? ?? TVorL.5 or fitin Upon school autar college life have rushed of late so Well received by the public, that few A nd ye r 0 t ,Nr. Farrar a second time testing are, ac gicg His last tale, ...

... (PFromWD ),e CP{d of Vermont.J Goi!goin going! Who bids fgr the mother's care? Who bids for the blue-eyed g*ri7 Her A in is fair, and her eoft brown hair Is guiltless Of a courl' The nmothey claesped her babe With an ann tbat love made strong; [She ohie4ived norih, your hel,; Told' of tberpirit'ro .g eyeed Sh garzed fom the hitlet crowd, But no pitying glance she saw, For the crushing foe ...

... The Late Bounslow Amateuir Vifeatieal Entertainment. I PIOLOGUE WRITTEN FO1 THE oCCA'4IN Ut LORD WILLIAOI LENNOX. SrotZlr BY J. MITCHELr, EsQ., ANVD ineF. JOHN 1t S1 l- Jan. 4, 1860. Gent. Like a young lover, in whose anxious face His modest yet ambitious hopes you tra:e, To plead the cause of our untutored band, And claim indulgence from their friends-I btetl:lC Yet let us hope no critics ...

... I d The Mineral Statistics compiled by the Keeper E of the Records at the Museum of Practical Geologv have I .8 been published for 1858, as far as regards the metalliferous I minerals. A second part, which is in the hands of the e printer, will embrace returns of building stones, clays, and a earthy minerals. If The following abstracts show the total annual value of I e our metalliferous ...

... PRovIsIoNs FoR ACTIto SAILORS.-A few days ago a at large cask of buiscuit was opened, and a living mouse dis- RI covered therein ! it was small, but mature in years. The or cask, a strong watertight one, was packed on shore at th Aberdeen in June, 1857, and remained ever afterwards in unopened;* there witas no hole by which the mouse could in have got in or out, besides it is the only one ever ...

... LITERARY 'NaSCELLAN& A STRETr PAINTING BY HOGARTTH.-In Oxford nearly opposite Rathbone-place, there is one of thlbeet signs which once formed an important feature i ?? streets of London, but which are now rarely to I the with. It excites some curinsity, not only from th e8 rre liar nature of the subject, but from it being suppasaPet, good authority, to have been the work of Hogarth ?? street ...

... LORD BAECON.* The Athesneum has undertaken to rescue the great Darse of Lord Bacon from the odium which men as careless as Lord Campbell is proved to have been, have cast upon it. We shall direct the attention of our readers to this able vindication. It will be of ad. vantage to the world to show that the great philoso- pher was not a bad man, Let no take him, first, as a youth. Here is his ...

... THE FINE A1TS. There Are at present being exhibited in. Mr' Hill's gdlleries. Princes.Streetjthree interesting works by 'Sir Edwin Landseer.' The' ctie' of I these is the .. Maid and the Magpie, gifted ti 't the nation' b Mr Bell, aid now..bping.engrav~et. A damsel is busy with the udder of hercow*- her back turned ont asmanly and 'odesteonn-,] trymans buther thoughts and ehr ea it 'rnius g_ ...