... : THE Duke of Wellington has made a handsome contribution to our military literature in this volume. For although, like the prizeman Mr. Maurice, the writers have almost of necessity given their chief attention to the pressing want of the hour in our service-an improved system of tactics suited to our improved weapons-yet the changes they advocate are so great,. and the arguments for them so ...

... $ THESE volumes contain sketches of a highly interesting family, and of a number of men whose names are as honoured as they are familiar. Francis, Julius, Augustus, and Marcus Hare- the most brotherly of brothers, as Landor called them-are vividly represented here, and so also is their ancestor Bishop Hare, a man of great learning, but wanting, one would imagine, in common-sense, since he ...

... THE Adventures of Fritz, a melodrama new to this country, has been produced at the Adelphi Theatre for the introduction to a London audience of Mr. J. K. Emmet, an American actor of reputation who is said to have represented Fritz, the hero of the play, for upwards of rsooo nights in the prncipal cities of the United States. The events of the story are supposed to occur in New York in ...

... 6 THE story of Hannibal has exercised the pens of few poets beyond Silius Italicus, who has covered it with a mythologic and gladiatorial garnish which could only have suited a prehistoric period. He has proved, however, that the theme is impressive in many features, but, at the same time, inordinately complex for even the epic form of poetry. A still greater difficulty must, we deem, have ...

... $ THE Life of Charles Dickens continues, both by its substance and by, its execution, to be a most interesting work. Its proper title, nevertheless,, would be, History of the Relations between Charles Dickens and John, Forster. From beginning to end John Forster is, in dramatic parlance,. never off the stage. Sometimes he addresses the hero, sometimes the hero addresses him. When the ...

... MARGARET. A NOVEL fit for Sunday reading is pretty sure to find readers. There was a time, and not very many years ago either, when fiction was regarded by what has been called the religious world as a branch of literature fit only for the thoughtless and profane, and a Dissenting minister of deservedly high fame as a pulpit orator actually deemed it neces- sary to make a sort of ...