... IOX t 1 ?? , T i . S T OFI . A S. RoyKAL ~SQOTT SH: SOCIETY O.F ARTS. The usual fortnightly meeting of this Society.. vwa held last ?? Stevenson Macadam, 'the presidenti in the chisir. -A communication on a ;Method of Entangling an Eney's'Screw, by lthe lat~e Mr JoinDI~. Duglas, Albany Street, was repd by the Secretary.. The paper had been, formerly laid before the Lords of the Admiralty ...

... (IL, 1.1 - Mttraqll Roticts, ETHSNOLOGY AND PHRENOLOGY, AS AS AID TO THE HiSTovooA. By J. MW. JACKSON. London: TrUbner and Co. Edinburgh: M'Lauchlan and Stewart. Tna questions which it is the province of Ethnology to answer relate to some of the most interesting speculations with which the mind can occupy itself. Ethnology is, Iar ercellence, the study of mian-his origin, aut'quity, racial ...

... LIT E RAT U R E. TEE lIwsvAioN OF TlE CPo.ImEA: its Origin, and an Account of its Progress down to the Death of Lord Raglan. By Alexander William Kinglake. Vole. 1 and 2. William Blackwood & Sons. T-R author of The Invasion of the Crimea is a bold mare. I-le wrimro with a pen. dipped in gall, and his bitterness is directed, not . a dead or helpless enemy, but to the mighty Powers that !, d. ...

... The following, by Mr Alexander Smith, is from the forthcoming number of GOOD WOaDS Upon a ruin by the desert shore, I sat one Autumn day of utter peace, Watching a lustrous stream of vapour pour O'er Blaavin, fleece on fleece. The blue firth stretched in front without a sail, Huge boulders on the shore were wrecked and strewn Behind arose, storm-bleached and lichen-pale, Buttress, sheer wall ...

... HEN1t', MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE, BORN JULY 2, 1780 ; DIED JANUARY 31, 1863. (FaLOM PUNre.) Low lies the gray head that had borne so well Its weight of years and hoisour, from far days That seem as alien to our blame or praise As days whereof books only live to tell. How one by one Time's tooth eats through the chain Whose links unite our lives to that gray past ! A golden link was this, that ...

... THE roYAL SCOTTISH SONIETY'S EXHIB LT1ON. [FRkLISUNARY NOTICZ.] b The Royal Scottish Society's Exhibition cornes r with the crocus and the first song of the thrush. t When February winds sweep our streets it e opens its hospitable doors, and holds them open t till the General Assemblies darken our pavements q with clerical broad cloth. From the middle of o February till the beginning of May ...

... PRINCE'S TEATRE. MR I. AND MRS. CHARLES KEAN, These unrivalled artistes continue to reproduce their greatganud varied pictures of umanntnitue, tothe admirationi of rowded and intellienta audiences. The play of Othello was performed last night, and was more than usually attrac. five and successful. The part of Emirea was sustained by Mrs. Eean, and the manrner in which it was pouitrayed ...

... [SECOND NOTICE.] There is a capital description in the CORNIZILL of the Inner Life of a Man-of-war. It could only be a man intimately acquainted with his subject-who could write like this:-- The reader has probably no idea how many spare hours people have on their hands at sea, in ordinary times; or to what shifts a brainless . man is put about filling them up. Why not try and make reading ...

... P.~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~ t 2Wes and Sketehes. By HUGsr MILLER. Edited, with a ml Prof ace, by Mrs MILLERe. Edinburgh : A. & C. Ttleck. ral Ws Pie Inclined to agree with Mrs Miller that the facul- Pa th, sand the novel were among the weakest instead of the pe' strongest of her hueband's powers. Besides, the greater number of these tales, we are informed, were composed literally over the miduight-lamp ...

... PRINC'E'S THEATIIE. THE WhIFES SECIUT A.-D LOUIS xr. On Thursday night Mr. and IMrs. Kean appeared as Sir ?? and Lcady Aiayollt in the Vife's Secret, and were received with enthusiasm by a large and brilliant assembly of the beauty and fashion of the city. The drama, taken by itself as a literary production, is anythiing Lut a natural or a talented work of art, but it has becomu famous ...

... EY HEn LATE mUsG ACDOnAL. When spring frae the blue lift in beauty comes smiling, And stern icy winter gangs frowning away; While blythe sings the mavis the bright hours beguil- ing, And woods a' are busking in leafy array; ColtsfooL and celandine Wee gowden starnies shine, Aid sweetly the primrose and violet blow Po th over bill and glen, Far frae the haunts of men, Joyously wandering we ...

... [THIRD NOTICE] l The visitors of our Exhibitions are often in- clined to inveigh against the portrait painters, and to begrudge the amount of space devoted to 1 fill lengths of ugliness and imbecility. Snooks may get himself piainted, if he likes it, and if he can afford it; but why should the innocent public I -who have done Snooks no harm-be, invited to I contemplate hes meandering watch ...