... t4on-'dity They would like, in short, to soeell very 0good, but are, in reality, vcry bad-living types of the Dead Sen apple. If any novel-readers have been wading through the llundreds of pages of some sensation stories, lately published, they' will ...

... other composers of national poems, both before and after Homer, the remains of Grechan antiquity show, others who took like stories with his, though none after him appears to have trenched upon his peculiar ground. But the author hits upon the very probable ...

... inhabits. The felicity of the mar- ried pair was unfortunately of short duration. One story says that the husband was unkind, and given to habits which Ill became the married state, and another story says that the death of her former lover recalled her love for ...

... tinsel, are generally, sound and manly; and his illustrations of those opinions are full of interest. We quote one of his stories, having a Dutch boor at the Cape of Good Hope for its hero. It is overspiced with penny-a-liner's eloquence, but has the ...

... intheir character, and beginning with e new serial story, e~ntitlsd Playing for High Stakes, by the author of Denis Donne. Then we have amongst the miscellaneous articles Mrs. Brown's Christmas Story, by Arthur Sketchley, A Summer Trip across the ...

... cliosen. Instead of a dry disquisition upbn psychological subjects, which it leads one to expect, we found in it a series of short stories of a very entertaining description. Mr. Shaw writes with more than usual elegance and refinement, and he presents us in ...

... closes eseirtil'. AS1HITON-UNDER.-LY NE. TinEAr in ROYAL, DRILL Roont.-(ilaeager, Mr. C. T1. Dulvel.)-This place opened for a short winter season onl Thursday (27th tilt.) with ai excellent compaiiy. The opening piece was T/te Flowers of the Forest, followed ...

... provoked rhentv of nmirth. Ilie represented thle whole of the characters in a dog pieo I il, or, 1 anldman, and amaiden, and his short sword combat, and uhimato strugle withl a couple of' rag dogs was a particularly funny affair. 'riho cevenling's entertainment ...

... 31vICESw OF BOOKS THEC DRAYToNs A.VD Tnz DAvwEAee'rs; A STORY a7 Tim Crvm WAmt. Nelson aesn' Sons, Paternoster- ?? Draytons and the Devenant fatuily were in terms of the closest intimacy in those troubious times when Charles the First attempted to eatablish ...

... is ancient in its fashion. Strange acnd weird ass are the stories cir- culated among the old womuen of the neighlborhood to account for the unnatural life of the recluse, the true historic story is still more strange, and has a spice of romance about it ...

... another batch of his charming old fire-side stories. He tells them with- inimitable grace, and with a touch o' the native mode of nar- ration which adds greatly to the interest, Wexford must have been a great story-telling county ?? thirty or forty years ...

... Blackwood is never wanting in a first-class story; and accordingly this month, whilst Nina Balatka, the Story of a Maiden of Pragno' is brought to a conclusion,' we have the first part of The Brownlows, a new story wvhich haste ring o~f the are true metal ...