... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... (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 ...

... N ittricture. il? Ecclesiasdtical History of En1glanl. From the open- De ing of the Long Parliament to the death of th Oliver Cromwell. By JOHN STOUGHTON. Jack- all Son, Walford, and Hodder. an The long parliament met November 3rd, 1640, fat and Cromwell died on the 3rd of September, 1658. wI In the space of these eighteen years almost every ge kind of question, religious as well as civil, ...

... THE VISITORS'-BOOK AT OUR SwISs INN.| (From the London Reviiev.) Most excellent is that practice of keeping a am visitor-'-book in the salon of our inn. How welcome, on hi a wet day, when everything in the shape of literature is d exhausted! There is nothing to look at. The English girl tl sitting in the window has got the second volume of the D Tauchnitz edition of the Daisy Chain, dropped ...

... ?? l f ,4; : z t ?? X oui2-act !pliiy o strong crtnei allterest, by Mr.'WattJ' Phillips, founded, so the playbills say, on 4 n incident in a story by ?? Charles Q Bernard, was produced at this house last night, under the title of aud's8 Peri. The story alluded to, we believe, is called F L'Inioceflce tdun Forqaf,} a 'Iittle novelette, which has mo~st of the charae'teristics of modern ...

... . ( rnoop OUB SpiAl oowssorEM )EiN The return of the court and the visit of the Emperor of Austria have brought gay days once more to the Exhibition; albeit it can never wear again the beauties of its summer time. The park is saddened under the yellow leaf; the reserved garden has seen its best days. It has lived the life the roses live, and has little left to show to N~apoleon's last imperial ...

... I (FROM OUR SPSCIAL Co0BESPONDT.) l The Exhibition is to be closed, and not to be closed. On the 31st inst. the Emperor shuts it, and b Mr. Commissioner Leplay opens it again. The fnmc-F tions of the arimy of officials close with the month, and this is the meaning of the government note. This punctuality in the cessation of the Exhibition's pa official life has been brought about by the urgent ...

... pralra. THE NEW QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE. th The new and elegant theatre in ILong-acre, sh built on the site of St. MIartin's-hall, and called the el, Queen's, of which we gave a detailed official description a ucr few days ago, was opened last night, under the losseeship in of Mr. Alfied Wigan, in the presence of a large and in brilliant audience. Mr. Wigan has been so long and so en ...

... i7ramula. I A new broad ?? a burlesque Of a burlesque-from the practised and successful pen of Mr. b' F. C. Burnaud, and founded upon the opera of ?? was ?? at this house on Satuda ngtaanfter, al piece; Mr. T. Robertson's drama, For' Love, slightly al altered, still retaining its first place in the bills. The new a! burlesque is called Macp 2'urner, or tf'ie 'Vieiosss Willin i and wictolrious ...