... Itterzature. l Louhl Crrib its Shor~es and slahnds, with NlotC6S WI of Coug Vash By Sir WILLIA -%ValDE . LoD. ViePresidenlt of the Royal Irish inc Academy, &ec. Illustrated with inumerouls wood ta engravingls. Dtiblin :MeGlashanl and Gill. rit Lodn Longmans land Co. bei Few portions of the BritishIse ar corntes atic beautiful or interesting than the westerncute r of Ireland. The beauty is ...

... 4RiUotc. ill~itlI I - COVENT.GARDEN CONCERTS. These concerts, whiob have *wll suetained4 their character and interest for the past twb months, are still attracting good audiences, and will doubtless continue to do Bo until their close, as announced for the 26th inst. Classical nights have been given on the Thursdays, with the first portion of the programme devoted exclu- sively to the works ...

... ILittraturt. ?? of vephy.3ieal, Sta- dl Dictionaryof Geography, DescriptiPica tistieal, and Historical By A. KEITH JOIHNSTON;,T LL.D, ?? ?? F.G.S. ,Geographer h at Edinblirg in Ordinary to her Majesty. New z edition. London: Longmans. t The name of Dr. Keith Johnston is a certificate of the excellence of every geographical work which p bears it. This volume is beyond comparison the 51 most ...

... T'w ; - ?? me Tt, , '0114-11 ?i ? , ?? IIIN V?? I Thisd4060,! h lan ig ti!the first of a series of c eulof ItOW , with which Mr. Mapleson intendj i,1 up the few weeks previous to Christmas. The company comprises most of the principal artists of the regular seasonand new appearances are an- nounced, of Mdlle. Clara Doria (a daughter of Mr. John Barnett, the composer), and Mdlle. Kellogg, a ...

... xiter'Iturt. NEW BOOKS. Mlr. Murray has added to the admi'able series of Choice Travels, which he is publishing in volumes of convenient size, Mr. Layard's abridg- ments of his Nineveh and its Remains and Ni~nev.eh and? Babylon. The first of these volumes contains the narrative of the author's expedition to Assyria, during the years 1845, 1846, and 1847; the second records the results of his ...

... ?? So many readers are prepared to find pleasure in books like Captain J. T. Newall's Hog-hunting in the East, and other Sports (Tinsley Brothers), t that the author of that work can afford to be told o there are some others to whom the perusal of his 3 volume will afford none but painful emotions. It is the easy and self-satisfied commonplace of the ad- a mirers of what is called sport to ...

... We have before us Part I., Vol. II., of Bishop Percy's Folio Manscit : Ballads and Romances (published by Trubner and Co., for the Early English Text Society). We noticed the first in- stalment of this work a few months ago, and must now repeat the commendations we then expressed on the care and ability shown by the editors, Messrs. John W. Hales, Fellow and late Assistant Tutor of Christ's ...

... El ittrature. - ?? NEW NOVELS. t Polly: a village Portrait. 2 vols. London: i Tinsley Brothers. 1867. The Confessions of Gerald Esteourt. By Florence e Marryat [Mrs. Ross Church]. 1 vols. London:f Richard Bentley. 1867. e Until the End: a Story of Real Life. By John p Pomeroy. London: Charles W. Wood. 1867.. d Bidden Fire. A Novel. 3 vols. London: Tinsley f, Brothers. 1867.b The White Cockade; ...

... (mROM OUR S&PECL CORsFSPONDENT.) Our official reporters continue to point out departments in which either the entire Exhibition is a failure, or in which we have failed. Unfor- tunately these unpleasant statements seldom admit of refutation, and most certainly when, after pointing out the splendid and complete exhibits in civil engineering and public works, which the French have on the Champ ...

... lrama. THE NEW EFFINGHAM THEATRE. NOw theatres are now the order of the day, and however stagvalit all other branches of trading enterprise May be, the providers of public amusements show no ,yptoms of fatigne and faintheartedness. Whitechapel has long boasted of one large and elegant theatre-the pavilion-and it nose has another, the Effinghain. known for soeme years as a saloon, and for ...

... tteratute. Lan guaje and the Study of Lalujuage. Tqivelve Lee- thres on the Principles of Lingluistic Science. By WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY, Professor of San- skrit and Instructor in Modern Languages in Yale College. London: Trubner and Cto. Professor Whitney tells us that he first developed the main argument of the present work in the form i of six lectures Oin the Principles of Linguistic I ...

... (noM OUR SPECIAL CORRSPODwsNT.) The new lease of life which the Emperor has given to the Exhibition will be, it is to be hoped, turned to account by British excursionists: not, however, on the plan of the Lancashire man given last week in the Athennurn. This provident gatherer of useful knowledge has misapplied his energy. I'm looking out, he said, all the strategic points of the place. You ...