... LITEBATURE. The Gordians Knot d. .48tor' of Good n f ri By SHIRLEY BROOKS. 'With illustrStions5 by John Tenniel. Riohard Bentley. Mr. Shirley Brooks is one ot the most realistio of our writers of fiction. In his writings we have no ideal, distant, or abstract world, no gentle re-touching of old traditions, or minute and careful elaboration of a few deep and simple elements of character; the ...

... LITERA TUBE. I Croeckford's Clerical Dtirectoryfor 1860. This is a biographical dictionary of the episcopal clergy of our day. It contains the names ot 17,500 deacons, priests, and biahopo, arranged in alpha- betical order, with a considerable body of information respecting each. For example, people were asking the other day for information about the position and antecedents of the Rev. James ...

... TENNYSON'S NEW POE11. Macmillan's Magazine for this month contains the pro- misedpoem by the Poet Laureate, called Sea Dreams- an Idyll. The scene and the subject of the dreams are suggested in the opening passage:- A city clerk, but gently born and bred; Big wife an unknown artist's orphan child- One babe was theirs, a Margaret, three years old': They, thinking that her clear germander ...

... At the ADELPHI and the PRINCESS'S Theatres dramatic versions of Mr Dickens's Christmas Carol and of his Cricket on the Hearth have been revived with great success as Christmas entertainments. At the LYCEUM the Tale of Two Cities is in preparation. Mr Tom Taylor is the author of the adaptation, which will be produced with the author's sanction, ada not wholly without aid from his counsel. The ...

... .. .- . .. . .. . . . It is alarming, peculiarly at this time, when the female go ink-bottles are perpetually impressing upon us v woman's Y1 particular worth and general missionariness, to see that the dress of women is daily more and more unfitting them for tc any m mission, or usefulness at all. It is equally unfitted for o1 all poetic and all domestic purposes. A man is now a far b ...

... llatir.,I FElALE INFLUENCE, By C. rATMORE. WIUENEVER I come where women are, How sad sce'er I was before, Thawed like a ship frost-bound and far Withheld in cee from ocean's roar, Third-winterld in that dreadful dook, With stiffened cordage, sails decayed, And crew that care for cairn and shock Alike, too dull to be dismayed; Yet if I come where women are, How sad soeeer I was before, Then is ...

... THE ILIVERPOOL POULTRY EXHIBITION. The sgventh annual Liverpool exhibition of poultry .was opened yesterday, at Messrs. Lucas and Co.'s carriage repository, Great Chairlotte-street, which, as usual, wae audmirably fitted up for the reception of the feathered tribe. In consequence of the high entrance fees, the stock perhaps is not so large am may have b-en witnessed- in other parts of the ...

... 7 I, 4Ah',I go;l . L | MR;f. 31IN VUC$tARDiSi CONCBI T; j This keg, place at St. J=a )~ ?? nigh, wa i t wI drc-metasees A chtiq pi fail to create a etiton In the musical world. The de - Rtounutdia the siae of Mr. Richards, was- preratory for an extenilve tour in the provinces arranged by Mr. Willert Beale, and embracing a groat arbount of vowa and fnsten- mental talent. For this tour, to ...

... HUBIO. 11~ ~ -_ == I I -. TBS. G-LAGOW KUBIOAL PBBETIvA1 T. e anapa Istw tigbi; W# wileB4 a rucom achIeved, though in a different vsryu o the z - ?? evening. There was ouly one drswbak to tbe un- mibdl gaia oftbse ultos. Mr. Latabeth having at .IiYjaA metwitha alight Sooildat to his hand;, Sir MXinhW Shaw Stewart, the pildent of the metng, s that Mr. C. E. Horaley would supply h plan W man ha ...

... [From Punch.] SHORT AND (NOT) SwEnaT.-John Arthur Dogtear'em Roebuck, Esq., once a Bath Chap, and now a Sheffield Blade not always of the best temper. CHRISTMAS WAITS. Europe this Christmas waits to see What's to be done with Italy: Whether the despots mean to free her, Or sornewhat farther first to see her. The Pope, too, wailts, with visage grim, To learn what's to become of him ; Whether ...

... A RO3ANTIC MARRIAGE. I - _. . lee he The following bit of roinanco in the life of 1- Lieutenant Mauary is related by Mr. Willis, in the he IT~n Joitriia:- ,. Ina the earlier days of hisl profes~sional career, the 4present cofimandiderwas a wrid.Irip iian on board one to of thre sloops of war sent to cruise in the Pacific. 'Che duty being niarely to give authoritative couri- tenianco, to the ...

... LITNBATURE. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. A Bliography. t By JAMES CsR IGIE ROBiEIRTSON, M.A., Canon of 1 Canterbury. Murray. I The arrogant pretensions of a sacerdotal caste to I be exempt from civil jurisdiction and allegiance, were represented in the twelfth century of English history by Thomas a; Becket. Unfortunately, in the nit-eteenth century we have seen them still raunpant, in ...