... LITERATIURE. ScOTLAND IN THE MinDui AGE. Srnns OF EARLY b: ScoTrc HISxoRY srNDSOCcA PROGnSS. By CosToo Imnes, Professor of History in the University of Edinburgh. o: Edinburgh: Edmonston &Douglas. 1869. a Si Tus delight and deep interest with which Mr. Chambers's v Domestic Annalsof Scotland werereceivedby the public, t might have been taken as a hint that any further explore. t tions in a ...

... -4-- Buachan; a Descriptive, Historical, and Antiquarian Ac- cl couint of the District. By the Rev. J. B. PRATT, M.A. C In Monthly Parts. Aberdeen: L. &. 5 Smith. WE noticed at some length this admirable account of Buchan, on its first appearance, and again the publica- tiosl of a second edition. We gave a high opinion of the sl work for its history its descriptions, and its facts, which a ...

... I11 ? . I .1- ; --.t y:n - -In ? 'It i i 4 i , ittra ?? ' .0 its. j -4 Tig RELIQUES OP FA THEP PROtUT, late P.P. of Watergrass Hill, -in the county of Cork, Iret land. Collected a-nd Arranged by OSxYERa YORKE, Esq. (Rev. Prancis Mahony). Illaus- trated by ALFRED CROQUIS, Esq. (D. Mae- lise, ?? New Edition, Revised atd largely Augmented. London: H. G. Bohn. It would be difficult to conceive ...

... E B L I J3AL S. ?? .- ,i ED IjNBURPWPM.G p ?? .-t °: tlbee Mudetpf'ertr Co>o .voledij .} hint ?? .en~;d3 of'wsalbke itxiiteiet§ ...

... 7 . I . Last night Mr and Mirs Chatles Kean ap- pearel foirtbe; third time at' The Queen's in Lovell's fhfilirng play,, TheWife's Seciet:', The house was again a bumper, boxes, pit an.:1tgal- leriesg being w Iell filled. YProbably, et' rone of their, former appearances here did -the distin- guished artistes appear. to so great advantage; certfiti1y' the ?? evoked bjy each could not be ...

... CO N C E R T S. LV d GRAND SUBSCRIPTIOtN. O On Sattrday at two o'clock the fourth of Weod and Co.'s series of subscription coucerts was given. in Queen Street Hall, the area of s. hich was quite filled. The aray. of ?? st provided for the oceasion was most impmising, and afforded the higli-st gratification. The chief e, attrac ion was Sivori's violin, which was never. d, heard to greater ...

... ROYAL SCOTTFSrI SOCIETY OF ARTS. - A meeting of this Society was behd-last- night in George StreetHall-Thomas Stevenson, Esq., C.E., President of the Society, in the chair. CON8STRUCTION OF LARGOn IRON SHIPS. Mr Thomas SurDDEN, AM., read a paper on the present construction of large iron ships. He said there were two kinds of construction employed in wooden vessels: first, boat-build- ing, ...

... Lpbt night, 'r Charled .Kean appeaiied ia the qlaracter of Lois'XI. in the anel]drast'a of the sanme'tar. The. audiesce. was. nuieras i all parti of the 'theatre, the boxes especially being completelg filied by a brilliant assem- 1blage. The play itself is one which hls long been, and in good. liavtdsintust always e, af ov urite with the pubfic ofthis city. Thecharacter of wouis, ...

... TRE-A.TRE-ROYAL. XfT) AVT% 1rTV frrwART.TigRRA IP I MM AND MRS. CHARLES KUEAN. I -, ,4tocse twin constellations of our diramatic hemisphere an- lost 'night after an absenice of several ye'ars. -* They r'atbt oncluded an engagemfentt in Edinburgh, which has been Mnk e sense, both Irom the~ e xcitement it haicaaist among ?? s seiallythe ftshionable and literary, aid fotral brp.W-ray that ...

... ;. LITER2URE. OUR t1k4.HEDOEnoS .tkksIyroscousArvY OF A SgsAw. * By ThmernasTentth Eaof bondonald. ?? Admiral of tbe.Red,.Rear.Ad raltof the Fleet, e.,o&c. Richard Bentley, LomcE'n. Pob. . WE hail the publication of the first volume of these memoirs, if it were only because it reminds us so amply that our country is defended by invincible warriors on sea as well as on land-a happy conviction, ...

... AlR. jMULII WOOD'S CONCER.l. . I - I .1 I - 1. Inu- w ;l~w Tleis concert, which took place last night in the City Hall, came off with great oc10t. There was a numerouls and fashionable audience pIesent, to w9 hom the whole proceed- incs evidently gave perfect satisfaction. The 1 ole of artists v as a more than usually good one, forming perhaps the best comapany whlicahI Mr. W\ood heas as yet ...

... P O E TRY. STANZAS, ON TIlE DEATH O0 A YOUNG FRIEND, M. D. ti ti 0. 0 When last I saw thee, then I did not know d Tw'ws for the last time that I gazed on thec; ol And whon we parteu, I 'mong friends to go, p Did we not hope cach other soon to see i Oh! Hope and Disappointmnlent seem to me To wamler hand ill hand this world bolow, a And tears laid smile together blond and flw, ( Anud joy and. ...