... 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 Officer to theMission. With | Jll??i~tions. [London: Smith, Elder, and Co.] Lest tlie Ciia of this work may lead to a misunderstand- iag as to its contents, we may begin by stating that the ...

... Ono of the boldest and most arduous undertakings in which a modern Admirable Crichton can engage, and by no means the best remunerated in these days of esmpe- tition, is a monologue entertainment, in which by the varied aid of dress and languages, song and dance, paint and powder, vivacity, versstility, and ventriloquism, a bingle individual contrives to produce upon tbe spectator an illusory ...

... The simple and oft-advocated expedient of engaging a military band, last night converted the Town Hall from the howling wilderness it usually appears on Monday Inights, into a smiling and fruitfnl garden in which brigltb eyes and smiling countenances did duty for any amount of pansies, daisies, and daffydowndillies. In addition to the excellent band of the Royal Dragoon Guards under Mr. ...

... VALE OF EVESUAM AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The 22nd annual exhibition of stock, corn, roots, and istplootents, for prizes offered under the auspices of the Vale of Evesham Agricultural Society, took place yester- day, in ain orchard near the Northwick Arms. It would be difficult to hiing together in the show yard of a local society a flner collection of agricultural produce than was contained ...

... NEWSPAPER AND PERIODICALi LITERATURE OF THE DAY. In AN ADDRESS DBLIVERED BY THE REV. J. F. MOODY D AT THE PUBLIC SOCIAL MEETING OF THE MENTAL' IMPROVEMENT AND BIBLE CLASS CONNEOTED WITH THE WESLEYAN DENOMINATION, CHESTER. a The subject which I introduce to you this evening P is one of great interest. It deserves the attention Es of every person at all interested in the progress of P his ...

... ~i : , , t The members of the K 6ompany 14t ?? Y were most liberally entertained on Monday even- ing, by their officers, Captain R. F. Steble, Lieu- tenant Anderton, and IEnsign Allender,, to an teleitnt supper, at the Grapes Eotel.: The party l. ?? the niemabers of, the band, numberea upwards 'of 80. Captain R. F. Stebe preiided, and Lieutenant Anderton and Rnsign Allender i officinted as ...

... THE~i MAGAZINES, Ada. FinE December number of 'i'dc Coruleitl Atagathae is a capital daig one. In addition to some fresh chapters of Mr. Trollope's I story of The Small House at Aliingtofl, which will be dived all into with eager interest by all who have followed the progress Bun of that fascinating fiction, there arc continuations of two other my 1 agreeable tales- Cousin Phillis, aod ...

... P-aftm. SUNSHINE: AFTER RAIN. I left my love in Englnd In poverty and pai The tears bung heavy In my eyeS. But hers came down like rain I I gave her halt of all I had, itepressed the rising sigh; For, thinking of the days to come, I kept my courage high. Oh,fsirewell! fsald, if Beasons pass, And sunshine follows rain, And morning dawns on darkest night, You'll see me back agaln. I left my ...

... FASHIONS; rF:OR OCTOBER.. ,. - Aqo* LEO roaLrT.): Now that the autumn has decidedly made ita appearT ance among us, all our toughts and energies must' be directed to the study' of~hemoi becoming and appro- priate styles of dresses and materials for the season.- Te'npw skirts are made from five and a-half to six and a-half yards round the bottom, and are trimmed with ribbon, braid, ornaments ...

... Mr Sydney Hodges, Secretary of the Royal Polytechnic Society, communicates the following heartrending narrative to the Times A circumstance so horrible that, but for the evidence of my own eyesight, I should scarcely have deemed it credible, has just been brought to light in a village near this town. For some years past rumours have been current that the brother of a mason ramed Porter, living ...

... siterarg - ? Reirt, ? ? TIrF PRINCIPLES OF CncssrfI- UnIoN As LAID k DOWN IS THE WORD OF GOD. By the Rev. v WILLIAM WHITFY Knox's Free Church, Had. s dington, author of Providence, Prophecy, ,,,I Popery, as Exhibited in the First Seven Chapters of DanieL. Edinburgh W. p, e Nenuedy. Tue contemoplated Union between the Free and It the Enjitel t'rcsbyterian Churches of Scotland is t, likely to ...

... A Lady's Visit to Manila and Japan. By AXI D'A. London: EHurst and Blackett. We have had several men's books upon Japan and the Philippine Islands. They have embraced the more material aspects of the two countries, and given the broad outlines of their government and municipal institutions. Here is a lady's book that gives colour to the masculine chiar'oscuro, aud.fills up with a thousand ...