... ESSAYS AND iRE VIEWS. Air 'd(ward Miall, the -vell-known editor of the NA'o2onoajriit, has phlishled a third and cheaper edition of his *' Bases of Belief, with a prefaci relating almllost exclusively to 'Essays and RC- viewvs, the su)eculations, criticisms, and reasoa- ings of which are similar to those which his vol- tlme was written to combat. Mr Miall occupies a position which favours ...

... THREE ROSES. BY ADELAIDE PROCTER JUST when the red June roses blow, She gave me one-a year ago. A rose whose crimson breath revealed The secret that its heart concealed, And whose hair shly, half tender grace Blushed back upon the giver's face. -A year ego-a year ago- To hope was not to k!now. Just when the red June roses blow I plucked her one-a mon1th ago: Its half-blown crimson to eclipse, ...

... I( itturil lliotM. REGENERATION. By WLLTA31 ANDErSON, LL.D. v Second Edition. Edinburgh: Adam & Charles Black. s WiEn this work first apieared, we remember that several strait-laced theologians hurled severe vI diatribes at the doctrinal purity of the author. tl The sprethe injnrhc foeric of their tinie-honoured n dogmas roused their carping spirits to the height I o'f frenzy, and with a few, ...

... COURT AND EFASHION. TucssDsY.-Tleir Serene Highnesses the Prince of Leioiugen, Price Frederick of Schleswig Holstein Augustenbourg, and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe, left the Castle. .he The Queen's Bounties. The ancient and Royal charities associated with Maundy-Thurs. day were distributed to forty-two aged men and forty-two aged women in Whitehall Chapel, with the customary formality. The ...

... ENYJzIW OF Boozya 0 THE MEDICAL MISSIONARY IN CHINA. By W. LocE- nART. Hurst asnd BTlackett, MarlbDrough-street.-Let those who entertain the belief that the Chinese are a pack of uneduoated barbagians, ead Mr. Lockhart's werk and un- deceive theinselves. They are on the contrary a highly educated people, and men of letters are treated with far ore respect and consideration than in European ...

... I : I . _ I . . , I I :WXTERNA6TOL RESOWrz or 6 as | The arrangements for holding the sepsnd International Exhibition of Works of Industry and Art in 1862 are 'steadily progresig A royal charter, incorporating Earl Granville, X.G., the Marquis,-of Chandos,;Mr.. Thsomas Baring, ?? Wentworth Dilke, and'Mr. Thomas Fairboai4 commissioners to conduct the Exhibition, has passed.the Great Seal, and ...

... ON T'HE CosMINGe-oF-AoE dv W. Ai. WV. GRIFFITH, Esq., oF GAERz, MARCH 14th, 1861. Am- So early in the morning. Cliristy's Minstrela. Friends and neighbours, we celebrate An event, now of no recent date; The birth of an heir to the Griffith name, May be one day celebrate the same So, early in the morning, So, early in the morning, So, early in the morning, We hailed the happy d(ay! Early to ...

... DISTRIBUTION OF I'RIZES. A very interesting conversazione was hold on Wed- nesday evening, in the theatre of the South Kensington Museum-tho occasion being the distribution of prizes to ast students and artist workmen. The theatre was crowded. Mr. Beresford Hope presided, and was sup. ported by Lord Powys, Mr. S. C. Hall, Mr. Fergusson, &c. The Chairman, having stated that he had received let- ...

... Ngitecblrary I.otIt. ntly THE GUILT OF SLAVERY AND THE CRIME OF SLAVE- sout HOLDING, Demoustrated from the Hebrgw and Aith | Greek Scriptures. By GEoRao B. OHEEVER, ract IID. a of Tns work is a most elaborate and successful oDs; attempt to drive from beneath it every.prop by orth which the accursed American institution of slavery is upheld. It were difficult, indeed, to r the overrate the ...

... Education in Oxford ; its Method, its Aids, and its Rewvards. By JAmES E. TuORtOLD 1ROGExS, M.A., &c. London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornhill. This book will be found to be (as it professes) a fairly concise, accurate, and sensible handbook for Oxford as a place of ellucation. There is abundant room for such a work. Oxford has been of late years comparatively popularised, and popular in- ...

... ?? a CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS. ti This very popular troupe of American Ethiopians t have lost noe of their London popularity. They have I returned to town after a short absence, and have located c themselves in a new domicile-the concert-room attached t( to her Majesty's Theatre, one of the handsomest and most i commodious places of its kind that we have in thermetropo. tL lis. We visited their ...

... THEATRE.RO&AL usX'IR, AND MRtS- CHCHtL95t HE~i'f la ichard III., was the drama-~ last ?? h lig Theatre was thronged. . This is ,a character in - which id -Mr. Kean has comparatively, seldom appeared of late Ia el yeari, as it containe no' very fitting part to -draw forth te D )f dramatic powers of his gifted lady. His Richard III wa~s tli still conspicuous among his earl triumphs, au Ve's Se- ...