... ` MRs. NORTON has been for too many years known to the public as a grace- ful and accomplished writer to require any introduction from the critics. Her pen, whether as that of an advocate or a novelist, has almost uniformly been employed in defence or in behalf of her own sex. In the first character the wrongs she so effectively portrayed carried to the minds of those who read her letters and ...

... 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 ...

... (From Puinch.) BRADFORD BEREAVED.-liall has- lost the Bradford election. Bradford may indeed exclaim, I have lost My-all is-, Tssro IS}.YPE ATING ITSELF.- Take away that Bauble I said Sir Thomas Henry, giving his order to the police, and pointing to the Mace. COaING CHAmIps.-One result ofthe Reform bil some old women seem to fancy, will be that the East-end will be the fashionable quarter, ...

... THE ADELPHI THEA TRE. M. CHTARLES DE BEttNARD'S stories of Le Gendre and La Peine dn. Talion having furnished materials for the popular comedy of it Still MWaters Run Deep and the exciting melodrama of Retribution, it was. naturally to be expected that recourse would be had to other works, of the admirable novelist the next time an English dramratist expe ijenced any difficulty in ...

... AXERICAN THEATRICALS. NEW YORK, OCToatest 7. Mr. Bateman's French Opera Company attracted large and enthusiastic audiences to the Fn.axcul ''lTEATIIE oel the three evenings they performed last week. Thte Duchess of Geroloteie continues the attraction, having been favourably received each evening, which justifies the Manager in not taking it from the bills. 'fite troupe is probably one of the ...

... LS. I (FRgOM OUR OWN Ctsjy RES'ON.rDSENTS.) ABERDEEN. TalATtli ItOYAL.-(Mr. M Leiis, Manager.)-Mr. Henry Leslie's new drama, F/ae Hariner's Compass, was producel on Monday evening, and has since kept the ulace of honour in the bills. Nautical pieces have naturally a special interest for a large nunsber of the dwellers in a sea- port town like Aberdeen, and, doubtless, T/he Mariner's Cosmpass, ...

... (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 ...

... MRS. SIDDOS F N HERn FrIST Ac4'NG Or, LADY MACBETH. -To Miss Edgeworth Mrs. Siddons relates an incident of her career which it was worth goingsa long way to hear from her own lips:- She gave un the history of her first acting of Lady Macbeth, and of her resolving, in the sleep scene, to lay down the candlestick, contrary to the precedent of Mrs. Prit: chard and all the traditions, before she ...

... THE LONDON THEATRES, I 'TlC NEl QUErENS.-Thoe magnificent new Theatre, erected e tile , o l ti a ar s hull_ Long-acre, was opened, under the naelzgemleirt of 'M1. Allied Wigin, on Tlhursday evening, well tire p ece of a highly distinguished audience atforded the strongest Preidce of tie great interest that had been token in this important eddlirt ?? tie sh places of ?? amusement. lor weelts ...

... MR. H I. ROSSETTT'S ESSAYS ON A RET. Wl have so little good, or even tolerable, writing on fine art in England in the slhape of books, that it is not much of a compliment to rank this volume among the best that our art literature has produced since Mr. Ruskin went off into political economy. Let him come back, and cut a smoother reed, And blow a strain the world again shall heed AMeanwhile to ...

... ENGLISH MONA STICISM.* WCoNDERFUL is that turn of mind which in these days of diffused intelli- gence and critical inquiry sets some writers forward with pretentious octavos on subjects of which they have no real knowledge whatever, w~hether derived from independent thought or even from methodical digestion of original thought in others, and for the elaboration of which they deem it enough to ...