... I NOTd1I ON NE7 -;S I!,~NOTE8 ON NBWV BOOKS. JOUR1(AL OF A POLITICAL MISSION TO AFGHANIsTAN IN 1857, UNDER MAJOR (NOW, COLONEL) LubmlDeN; an Account of the Country and Peoplo.-By !E W. BELLEW, Medical ...

... :: ARtaUR HENRY HIALA* It was Arthl&iallam who inspired Tennysos c I :Iemoriam: series of grief-poems, that hare made many a reader long to know that kind of man he was who inspired a friendship so tender and ele- vated. We have now whiat remains a gifted and affectionate father could collect, through his tears, as an conriest that his dead boy deservcd the laureate's love. ?? are happy to ...

... BOORS OF THE WEEK. IISTORY.-'A Literal Extension of the Latin Text, and an Euglislh Translation of Domesday Book in relation to the County of Surrey.' To Accompany the Fee Simile Copy Photo-Zincographed under the Direction of CGo]. Sir H. James, R.E., ?? at the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton. (Imperial 4to, pp. 60.) Vacber and Sons; Longnarcs. LITERATURE.-' The Art of Conversation and ...

... CHRISTM kS FESTIVITIES, BOUNTIES, &c. Asllomas Rochester, Esq., Whalton, has sent 10 to be distributed among the poor people of Morpeth and 5 to the Vicar of Stamfordlham, to be distributed among the poor of that parish. The usual offertory in St. Thomas's Church, on Christmas Day, on behalf of the necessitous poor in the district attached to that church, amounted to the sum of 12 14s. Id. A ...

... BRITxsit F.IR PLAiy.-The British boast of fair play was exemplified after a somewhat curious fashion I ` ?? A lT.Tll nn f Thursdav night at the Beneficial Society's Hall on Thursday nigul all week. A foreigner, if one happened to be present, of would come away with a rather mystified and hazy l) notion of the real character of English liberty, and di might be inclined to fancy that what he saw ...

... T'BE, - EAGAZINFA FOR JANUARY. The paperi'which will- attrapt most' poticefrom the rea4ers of 'Bleckiiodd isb6ntitled A Month's Visit to the confederat6'HQat-qua1 rs by an Ehigish :Officer.' We' ven ...

... ?? The season for grand and full-dress toilets, ladies, baa nowa arrived; for the moment is cone to think of halls, dinner parties, and visits, and whatever the elegant world es ...

... . I I ? Rtt . - T ?? VI.; ? ON TMEDEPARTTOi O~ Setsmedelaylkuylearre Oh, why dos't thou leave us so soon Iis C( Deprive us uept yet o1f the beauties, hv l'&ieh thou hatso lavishly strewn.ha We thank thee for ?? thou host brought us, goqj The fruits in our orchards so gay: The bright golden corn In our meadows, The flowers, and the sweet smelling hay'. ?? ,We ,waited and.wateb~ed fo; thy coming ...

... ?? ONGLISM OVER&, COVEBNT GARDEN. Una[r~a TUB~ B16OeAuaeEMc0 E .P & .W HIOSO, Sole Lesoero. Oi Fida, Howrd Glover's popular operai T B U `Y ~~~B I, A S. Tua2sday and Thurtda', '00 alhaeo'S new and brilliantly succeessful opera. LOVES TRIUMPH. Welerfasad saturdet. Italice's grand opera, THE] PU~lTAN'S DOAUGHITERI. Every Evening, the grand original, zoolagical, comical Christasil Pasntomuss ...

... uec. THIS number of the EDINBURGH contains a variety win of substantial and interesting articles on well- asho selected topics. The first-.Iudia under Lord sysi' Dalhousie-is a clear and orderly account of the the rule of that able administrator. It defends him ear] against the charge of puirsuing systematically a rmd policy of annexation-a charge to which the and events of his ...

... A VALENTINE BY LORD MACAULAYI I ., _- A volume just issued, entitled 4' Miscellanies, collected and edited by Earl Stanhope, contains the following VALENTINE To the Hon. Mary C. Stanhope, daughter of Lord and Lady Mahon-1851 Hail, day of music, day of love, On earth below, in air above, In air the turtle fondly moans, The linnet pipes in joyous tones; On earth the postman tolls along, Bent ...

... I i , I PVBILIC AMtJSMJ iN ?? THI IA. - ?? I: prince Of IWales theatre.- The Oldtcory Over Again, andl the Grand Bufle8~lie Fxtkavagilaa !Ivanhoje;` Thejt,.I1e6~al.'-A Lover by Pkoxy,` and the Chis ...