... ??,Ottqj. I THIE FADED VIOLET. ?? gave it me long years ago In the shadowy evening time, while the clouds stole round the mountain side And tbe bells rang out the chime. The blossoms listened at our feet, The trees stoop'd from above; YOU said, 'This flower will say for me All that my heart says-Love.' 'Tis long ago: but I have yet That little faded violet, And life was at its blithest then: ...

... THE, APRIL MAGAZINES. THE most interesting article in Macmillan is Professor Masgon's Memoir of Mazzini, which is written with his usual grace of style and kindliness of feeling. Mr Masson had the happiness of Mazzini's friendship, which he calls -one of the friendsbips of my life for which I thank Fate, and which I shall ponder till I die. M. I. Liebreieh, Ophthalmic Surgeon at St ...

... pLjTRRATUBB- o; ?? TIBULuS, Translated Sffglih Verse, with Life of the Poet and t-, Fire te5. By James Ctanstoun, >Ohtveb - of a translation of Catullus. n plaekwr ood & Sons, Edinburgh and t4sdov'i esly expressed our opinion that s tenO C'iatulus, with the success rI (,I53°e are glad to learn his modest ambi- ctf b er.more than satisfied, is, taking ac- g grace together into account, on the ...

... MR MAURICE'S PHILOSOPHY. .Mor.. and Metaphysical Philosophy. By Frederick Deniton Maurice, Professor of Casuistry and Modern Philosophy in the University of Cambridge. In Two Volumes. New Edition, with Preface. Macmillan. The Conscience. Lectures on Casuistry, delivered in the University of Cambridge. By Frederick Denison Maurice. Second Edition. Macmillan. The republication, only a day or two ...

... The nineteenth annual exhibition of foreign pictures, now on view at the French Gallery, probably surpasses all its predecessors in general excellence, and is not inferior to any of the series in variety and interest. Remarkably few of the one hundred and eighty works in this collection could be justly characterised as common- place; and, although it comprises no painting belonging to the very ...

... HDGBASTON AMATEUR MUSICAL UNION. I _ f The eighteenth concert of this exeallent society, which for nine years past has contributed so much to the promotion of musical culture among its -mena- hers, and of musical enjoyment on the part of the publlo, took pleae in the Masontc Hall last night. As usual on these ocoasions, there was a large and fashionable attendance, composed mainly of the ...

... Religious Progress: Its Criterion, Instrumentts, and Laws. Being the Substance of Sermons Preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, Dublin, By JAMES XacIvoR, D.D., I.R.I.A., &c. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green, & Co. Dublin: M'Glashan & Gill. Tais is an earnest, an honest, and a bold book. Esteeming, as we do, moral higher than intellectual qualities, we should have deemed this no slight ...

... PUBLIC ANUSENTS PRINCESS'S. Mr. Byron's new and original drama of Hauinted Houses; or, Labyrinth of Life, is a thorough reuse- tinnal drams quite away from the author's previous style of proctions. Guy Xawidjyke, the hero of the piece, i9 a wild but true-hearted young arne, and nephew to the banker in whose establishment he holds a place. A villinous clerk named Blake obtains the young ...

... I CHAPTER X.{ It was late before Mr. FreshfieliT and Edward sepa_ rated for the night, and it was later still before that old gentleman went to sleep; the up night coach had changed horses, and gone off again on its dreary journey to the great Metropolis before sleep came to his aid ; he wanted repose, but it would not come to him, so he waited patiently for it, and was at last rewarded. But ...

... i' OLRIG GRANGE'. A BROTHIER and sister, twins, the last descendants of a family settled from i time immemorial as the chief gentry of a small trading port in Scotland-- the fortunes of the house impaired by unlucky ventures-the father lost when the twins were children-the mother, to whom they owed their bringing-up, later. The orphans are devoted to one another, and both of them of fine ...

... qPh% Thd. I. ll.n+ v fnrainv nf +.hir -i f . fr+. - + The last ordinary meeting of this society for the present session was held at the School of Science and Art, on Tues- day last. The President, the Rev. Professor Main, occupied the chair, and the following gentlemen, amongst 'others, were present:- The Rev. J. Riualpp, Rev. A. Russwurm, Rev. J. C. Lament, Rev. J. H. Cooke, Rev. H. Hitching, ...

... Literatnres -I - - ?? - - . - 1 - . I ?? .. - The Wlorks of Sihakspere. Edited by CHARLEs EnIGHT. Part I. London: VIsRUE and Co., 294, City-road. Messrs. Virtue and Co. have issued Part I. of what pro- mises to bo a gorgeous edition of Shakspere's works; indeed we may say an edition without a rival as a work of art and as a tribute to the memory of our great dramatist. The size is imperial ...