... TALES FRiO' BLACKWOOD. Vol. VIII. Blackwood I' and Sons. at We can add nothing to what baa already been said in ihi commendation of this popular reprint. Of convenient sise, of and printed in clear bold type, these volumes, reproducing be tit the choicest of Afaga's light literature, are always welcome, especially as reliefs to the tedium of a monotonous railway c journey. at PICTURES ...

... THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES. Blaekwood* discourses on Spiritualism with its accus- tomed lucidity and analytical power. The article is entitled Seeing is Believing, and the writer argues thatman is credulous from his very impatience to get the truth, and his inexperience of the ways in which truth oau be sought. Supremedisregard, says the writer, to the accuracy of the facts on which its ...

... THE LAST WISH. IThe celebrated Wilson, the ornithologist, requested that he might be buried near some sunny spot. This ish is expressed in the followinig linesr. In some wild forest shade, TUnder some sprenadig oak, or waving pine, 01 old l in, festooned with the gadding vine, Let me be laid. In this dim lonely grot, No foot intrusive will disturb my dust; But o'er me songs of the wild birds ...

... TRUTH. Away! I dare not think of joy! On sorrow's breast I'll sleep to-night. The infant weeps its broken toy: The imaiden mourns her broken plight; Blnt I who own a broken eait, I should not play so wild a part. For what is faith t and what is truthlI A dream, a breath, a flattering narne And what are hope and joy and youth, And all the friends the poets elaim? Not much I fear! A girl Say ...

... MAGAZINES, &c. Tiacekvood, notwithstanding the absence of the famed Chronicles of Carlingford this month, is charmingly entertaining and instructive. Upon such topics as The Past and Present Troubles of Herat and Affghanistan, ALefter from Schleswig Holstein, and OuiNeutrality it must be expected that there will be considerable diversity of opinion, more particularly perhaps as ...

... LITTIJATURE. A D.t,'s RIDE.-A new, novel.-London: Chapman and Hall, 119S, ?? name of Lever as the author of this new romance is enough to lift it into good society. The first sentence in the work contains this novelistic text, that however insignificant the post a man may have filled in life a record of the events in which he has borne a, share with the result of his experience if not ...

... LIFE AFTER DEATH. With dancing plumes they brought ino up here dead: Dead, and to lie until tho eld (if tilmo. They cursed tile crc the priest hacd shut his book, And cat a stono down for the clod of earth; And here they left to on this hill-side blcak, Faco unto face with mlly offended God. Day after dltv, umtil tho end of time, Herlo liust I lie within imy narrow bed, And ever gazing upwards ...

... THE MAGAZINES. (SECOND NOTICE.] The Art Journal, with exquisitely-finished line engravings, is entitled to the post of honour in any notice of the month's magazines which does not comprise our old friend Biack-sood. It ie unique as an art journal,; and the high level of artistic and literary merit at which it is kept from year to year speaks well for the tact and judgment of the gentleman by ...

... DISSENT AND DE\ioCtACy-Their Mutual Relations and Common Object: an HistoricalI eview, by Richard Masheder, B.A., Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, and of the Inner Temple. London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 66, Brook-street, W.-Churclhncn and Constitutionalists vill do well to read this book as it contains a clear, concise, land complete history of the principles and objects of dissent ...

... ?? 11- IV I. L O 11'. t Tongues ill trecs, ?? in the raining brooks.-Sha/iypeie, The w' illowr i-tows leside the river, Ai l d tl 1-elis hang, o'er its flsxv, Tiil tb? gt cii leave., as' they quiver Ki-' the wax es that r im be'ow. The i ev wr swhiperts to thoe villelv IHilt 't .it ,dt'ysteriouis tono, A., the flibl !. s t each billow Giii hiti tb'etik Ol b:ank and stoie. \\'hct -ittl I1i' ...

... The blessing with the eunshine given Makeajoy in field and grove; Heaven epeaks to earth, and earth to heaven. Makes answer God is love! Thus borrowing from created things A token and a tone Will toeah of Love, whose secret springs, God Eees-'and God alone. When there are but a few remaining sands in the glass of time, and death shakes the glass before worldly men, how powerX fully do they ...

... Bardrick, the JIing of ?? T12ien. A Lay of South Devon. By E. Potts, London; Provost and Co., 5, Bishopsgate-street, Without. The authoress of this poem is a Devonshire lady, the widow of the late Mr. G. Potts, M.P. for Barnstaple * and in a lay of ten cantos Mrs. Potts presents us with one of the most romantic of the traditions of South Devon. A few veers ago Lord Clifford cut a canal between ...