... THE LIFE OF A SALMON. TI-n life of the salmon is a subject which has undergone a good deal of enlightenment within the last few years, but there are still many points in it upon which we are but very ill informed, and there are some upon which the best authorities are at issue. Fully one-third of a salmon's life is spent in the sea and beyond our ken, and all that we know of what passes ...

... SIR IENR Y HA VEL OCX ON MO UNTED RIFLEIEN.* [FIRST ARTICLE.] STRICTLY speaking, Sir Henry Havelock's title to his book is not a. misnomer, for he does really discuss three most important military questions, namely, the formation of a home reserve army, a more economic military tenure of India, and, the effect of breech- loading firearms on the value of cavalry in the field. Buts practically, ...

... THE ANTIPODES. IN these times of absolute managers and long-suffering audiences it is perehaps hardly safe to venture upon a prediction as to the probable run *of an) particular play, but in the case of The Antipodes - Mr. Tom Taylor's new play, brought out at the Holborn Theatre on Saturday-- there can be little risk in asserting that the chances are decidedly againist its enjo)njent of ...

... VITTORIA.* MR. MIERT'DTsn is a writer of such unquestionable power and originality as to malke it a matter of regret that he should so often choose to be careless and obscure. What lie means himself he probably knowvs very well, and the plot, and the people who move therein, may be clear and distinct to his mind but only a painstaking and intelligent reader, with a good 1mem1oTy and a habit ...

... b No lover of dogs cana fail to find plenty of entertainment in this hand- some volume, though it is rather a book for professionals' So to, speak, than for amateurs. It may seem a strange complaint to britg against a book on dogs that it is doggy but we believe our rea-ders will quite understand what we mean by it. We mean that it is to technical, and too exclusively devoted to matters ...

... * THE Marquis d'Azeglio, whose reminiscences are now before us, was known to many in this country in the familiarity of social intercourse a few years since. They will call to mind the courteous and polished gentleman of rare conversational powers, whose opinions in art and literature were those of an adept, himself of no mean reputation in both departments; and whose experience of public men ...

... REM4INISCENCES OF A SEPTUAGENARIAIV.A* I WIIATEvERv alue may be attached to these reminiscences, the venerable author claims for them no more importance or interest than the title of the work indicates. To please a few friends who might be presumed to know that such a book would be at all events harmless, and probably gratifying to a younger generation, and to afford interesting occupation ...

... * I OUR readers will, perhaps, remember the news we communicated to then sorre time ago of a certain stone with a bilingual inscription, in hieroglyphics and Greek, which had been discovered at San, the ancient Tanis, in Egypt. While then alluding to the importance of this new discovery, we did not know that it would prove superior even to the world-famerd Rosetta stone itself, the principal ...

... , SKETCIES OF 7APANESE AL NIVNERS AUIVE CUSTOMlIS. ll Ti-iE speciality of this work is in the native drawings with which it is copiously embellished. The text is explanatory of the illustrations rather than the illustrations of the text. At the same time, it is modestly and carefully written, and presents within a small space a great deal of informa- tion about the people of Japan. The ...

... IN the ninth annual report of the Scotch Registrar-General, published early this year, Dr. Stark announced the result of an investigation he had been making as to the relative death-rates of the married and unmarried in Scotland at different periods of life. He had discovered that between 20 and 25 years of age the death-rate of Scotch bachelors in i863 was double that of married men; that ...

... I THE first four volumes of these interesting Remains, which, it is said, are being prepared for the press at the express desire of the Emperor of' Austria, have now been published. They contain a description, in the form of a diary, of the travels of the then young Archduke (he was eighteen years old when he made his first journey) in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Algiers, between ...

... 4 PARLIAMENT was last session so obviously glad to be rid of the question of Reform on any terms that it would be too much to expect it to show much alacrity in reverting to the subject. Not only, however, do the Scotch and Irish bills remain to be disposed of, but the English measure, although passed into an Act, will still require careful reconsideration before it can be allowed to come into ...