... distance of more than 200 wLiles, which he had never traversed before, through a hilly country cut up by water-courses. 'Ihe short trure in which he performed that journey proved that he must have taken the direct road, keeping to it, without ever going ...

... had been couched in the style of the above passages, their tediousness and their slang phraseology would have led us to make short work with them. Then, in addition to his vices of style, we have to charge Dr Doran with carelessness and repetition. On page ...

... aldl OiPaitoilhitie, writers were equally scrupulous aiid coit- setoatldois. Ahi Bubo o, 'The Forty DThierms, is the ?? okl story ' let t 'ilie' io iies l tile origiutal plot is very sliogitly alterod. The letosecilc resis a glorious liarrest scite, whith ...

... point in t)he story under hand. So much for defects. There are, however,' quali- ties in the author's workmanship, which promise much excellence in the future, and ie shall turn with considerable curiosity and 'intercst to his' next story. Hoe takes a ...

... decaying and new custowsare constantlyarising,and awaiting their recognition from the Courts or the Legislature. Law is, in short, and has always been, the product of op- posing social forces. It represents the least one side will take, and the most the ...

... remarkably short in stature, the male sex averaging not more than five feet three inches in height, or four inches less than that of Europeans. The face is somewhat lozenge-shaped, the cheek-bones high and prominent, the mouth wide, and the nose short-not flat ...

... existing in the Aunhor'd Cabinet. By James Wingate, Member of the Numismatic Society of London, &u. To which is attached a short Biographical Notice of the various Kings, with a description of the Coins they issued. 44lasgow: James MoeLehose and Hugh Hopkins ...

... papers whioh lie about in N publisher's offices, in editors' rooms, in theatrical managers' chests, would reveal strange stories of the voracious dragons il which beset the highway ol literature, neverthetess. An author in of a very aphoristic turn of ...

... class of novels, though we do not see in it proofs of the genius which would be required to raise it into the first class. The story is pretty and ingenious. Kathleen, an accomplished, well-bred, and wealthy heiress, falls into a river which probably was not ...

... literary fare pro. vidtdisconsiderably abovethe ordinary run of monthly serials. There are a number of stories, of course; but they are generally short and well told. Then the general articles are as varied in their character as they are inforning in their ...

... cleared it up; for if, and we presume they all do, they tell such, pleasant stories as this, children would be hard indeed to please if they were not enchanted alike with the story and the narrator. St George and the Dragon. Illustrated by John Frank- lin ...

... and tiolVo:toes. Besites tlhese, wee have articles on home sub- c jecta, thie openiig chapters of a serial story, untdl Count Peter' 'kin, a story of thie opera. Andl not the least itnportttnt featuireE is the considerable space aevotell to colonial topics ...