... The Pyrenees; A Description of Su11mmer Life at French Watering Places. By Henry Blackburn, Author of ' Travelling in Spain in the Present Day,' etc. With upwards of One Hundred Illustrations by Gustave Dorg, and a New Map of the Central Pyrenees. Low, Son, and Marston. A Guide to the Pyrenees. Especially intended for the use of Mountaineers. By Charles Packe. With Maps, Diagrams, and Tables. ...

... ]ROYAL ITALIAN OPEiRA. Don Carlos, which occupied the best and brightest of its author's hours last year, was given to us for the first tire on Tuesday evening. Written especially in honour of tic great Exhibition, it was produced in Paris more than two months ago. The French capital was not then crowdaed by visitors from the rest of the civilized world; the cold and cynical habitues of the ...

... The thirteenth exhibition of fruits and flowers took place on .V cdnesday, ina field ?? Park. Although It was in many respects not equal to the showv of former years, there was a very creditable display. Tho great exhibition at Old Trafford, at the end of the present week, had the offeat of caufing mesy odatributors to hold baok, and thlek loss was capental'3y felt In tho *las of stovo and ...

... In Why do honest ducks dip their heads under water F- 3 To liquidate their little bills. )r Why are wives who mend their children's clothes after it the rest of the family are a-bed, like the enemy mentioned sin the parable F-Because they sewv tears while their hus- y band men sleep. tt A tipsy fellow, who mistook a globe lamp with letters t oit t for the queen of night, exclaimed, IF will be ...

... putrg. THEl MRiSSSAGlit. BY ADELAIDE PItOCItTEH.30 I had a message to send her, To her woom my ?? loves best; But I had my task to ilsei, And she had gone to rest: To rest in the far bright Heaven- Oht! so far away from here I It was vain to epeak to my darling, For I knew she could not hear. I had a message to send her, to tender, and true, and sweet,, I longed for an angel to bear it, And ...

... 91lottryt THE HEART HATH A WORLD OF ITS OWN. Though the sapphire shies be studded; Though the night be crowned with the moon; If the soul be chained to December, What boots it to speak of June? Doth the month command the summer 7 Can a word bring warmth at will?- Add beat to the flickering firelightV For my lady's heart is chill. Can tie songs that reposing Nature Softly repeats in her dreams ...

... - -~KATBES. g AEB ?? i 5AThJ'0BMownday. the oeebratod come. IToole, eommenced an enggement for , th pfl ace Tlemtre, Mr. Toole Is so wel 51hs Ab ,Ml~r jplygoersl, that It b IlUficien to my f oppeeeP wrbch he has ?? . o the ,O go leHoomr, dThe Weavers, See ee,,g an~n 4IeionpaleFi~&R4^5lhG~ tt l if* d tolent and that faunasseo humouz po im th ,,omledlim o tihe day. V ?? agr6Iltsthoexcal. i ...

... I I - . . In antiolpatolotio of teoroc l of Whitauntide holiday makers who Mnay Viasi the open-air remorts of the city next week the annexed accounts of the condition of each of the Principal parks, &c, have been obtained, and may be found to contain somre Interesting information for ?? THdE QUEiN'S PARK AND MUtSEUM, This park never prosented a better appearance thsaI t does this season, and, ...

... I ACifL'S MYGAZINE for the current month opens with an ably-vritten review of Barton's History of Scotland. by Mr. George Burnett, the Lyon King-of- Arms. The stories of Sileote of Silcotes, by Hlnry Kingsley, and Old Sir Douglas, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, are continued- Mr. J.: W. Hales, a fellow Of Christ College, Cambridge, contributes an essay on Early English ; and Mr. Reginald ...

... l The Lord Mayor and common Council of L14don us ansabint Urlangementa for A grand baaqtuet at the Qildhea, to be gtven to the sovereigns and prinoei Wh*o art 61pestd to visit London efter their ?? at ParisL T'A following are Monget the latest ar- STyeil at the Hibernian noatl -Urssnd Mrs (1b Irs Paton, Aorn W*qtbonrna.terrae London; Major lolmoes Bev Kr Maneell, Mr A ghmlty, Mr Bonid, Mr Z ...

... MIIDSUMIMER. Past many a shady nook, The babbling meadow brook, 'Twixt glass-grown banks with feathery fern abounding, Glides on its devious wav Through all the livelong day, hile fields and wood with summer songs are sounding. Far off across the vale, Where the light vapours sail, veiled with thin mist the purple hills are sleeping And in the ripened field, Amid the summer's yield, The ...

... ILITERI..A'TUIREE LnF OF 'rem1E ?? Winn-Ai MJAve, D.D. By his Daughter. London: Nisbet & Co. 1867. (rp. 580.) AyoTHan memoir by the authoress of the 'Memo- vials of Captain Hedley Vicars needs no formalI introduction to our readers. We have here a life very different in outward circumstance from that of Hedley Vicars, but one luminous witl the same earnest and touching devotion to the cause ...