... THiE new political movement in Ireland has already gathered about it a literature of defence, apology, and explanation. If pamphlets could help, us to an understanding of the matter, we ought not to remain Unenlightened. Mr. MacCarthy has contributed a book of advocacy which has the merit of being distinct and lucid, though it may not be difficult to show that his mild and apparently cogent ...

... L O UISE LA TEA U. - THE student of the changes which take place in the popular mind feels a certain relief when all the supernatural events which have amused a large section of our continental neighbours during the present century are massed together in two convenient but bulky octavo volumes. Although the sentiment which the Positivist feels respecting the production of such a work is ...

... THE FRENCH PLA YS. M. RAPHAEL FELIX, the manager of the French plays at the St. James's' Theatre, laudably anxious to vary his entertainments as much as possible,. lest perchance his patrons should suffer from a surfeit of comedies andc vaudevilles, has now produced Les Pauvres de Paris, the lengthy and,. elaborate melodrama in seven acts, written by MIM. Edouard Brisebarre: and Eugene Nus, ...

... A DIPLOMA TIC A UTHOR. | THis is rot a new book. But as one portion has not been reprinted in England since I845, and as the other portion is now published for the first time on this side of the Atlantic, the whole may be regarded as new to the existing generation of English readers. The editor admits that there is an object in the reissue of the book at the present moment. We cannot help ...

... THE DRAMA OF KINGS. * IN BUCHANAN, abandoning for the nonce the themes of low life by Which he won his earlier laurels, sets out with the ambitious object of Putting in poetical shape the higher lessons of recent events in Europe. E's new work is a trilogy of tragedies mounted by Lucifer and a corn- Pany of supernatural supernumeraries, and represented for the entertain- Ient of the Lord, ...

... lWVESTERN EUROPE AND HUNGAR Y. THE Magyars are often reproached by the other inhabitants of the Austro- Hungarian Empire for the exaggerated notions they entertain of their own. importance. Such notions certainly tend to make them ridiculous in the eyes of unsympathetic observers, but are attended, at any rate, by one good result. A nation which aspires to be the equal of France or England ...

... * 6 No Fatherland is the most bewildering story it has ever been our lot to read. It is as incoherent as a dream, as discursive as a tale told by Mrs. .Nickleby. It ranges in time from the year 1790 to the year i872, and in scene from Russia through Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, England, and the United States to Mexico. It despatches three generations of characters in the first volume, ...

... MR. LYNCH was one of that modem school of divines who, whatever else they may disbelieve, have a strong faith in metaphors and similitudes Such men are the legitimate historical successors of the old preachers of Christianity to the heathen, who converted their tens of thousands by the simple process of giving a Christian aspect to the pagan objects of worship The real religion of the new ...

... MONTCALM. A NEW drama in five acts, written by Sir Charles L. Young, and entitled Montcalm, has been produced at the Queen's Theatre. The scene is laid in France, and the events of the story are supposed to occur early in the century, during the reign of the first Emperor Napoleon. The hero is a certain Bertrand, Count de Montcalm, apparently unconnected, however, with the famous French ...

... EDWIN WILKINS FIELD.g IT is fitting that some memorial should be preserved of a man so gifted as the late Mr. Field, and Dr. Sadler's brief account of his friend is marked by good taste and just appreciation of his fine qualities. Boundless energy -and fulness of life were striking characteristics of Mr. Field. He did every- thing with his might, and his enthusiasm and intellectual ...

... UEBER WEG'S SYSTEM OF LOGIC- PorE-SoaR UEuERWEG'S System of Logic has gained for its author a Very Considerable reputation as a philosophical teacher in Germany. On all hands it is admitted to be a thoroughly trustworthy text-book, amply atoning by the large amount of information it conveys for the small ?? of originality it discloses. Mr. Lindsay informs us that it 'enjoys a popularity ...

... ,THRO WAT TOGETHER. $ MISS MONTGOMERY may take credit for an original idea in novel writin and may congratulate herself on having succeeded where her imitators a1 likely to fail. It should be easy enough to write a popular child's story fr childien if the writer would only condescend to be invariably simple an o natural. But to write a child's story that shall fascinate gro n pe and requires ...