... $ 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 ...

... I - The dark colourS worn this winter (says Le Folle) are, generally speaking much more becoming tb the complexion than the effacda shades in vogue earlier in the season. The olive greens, though not in themselves pretty, are very ele- gaut when employed in the toilette; the other shades of green-such as bottle, beetle, lizard, and duck-are very much more beautiful and richer in effect. ...

... THI BIRMINGHAM CATTLE POULTRY EXIBON THE I1MPLEM~Nl7, &C. Vlctrhthsotanlo that the Zxhibition Socloy~offerstr no rizas for cusplesnents and other' m ha ica pp~lance~s for ?? operations cormocled with thelifarm asp dals, thits department elf the Show not ?? but excelsithat, of last year, Whereas the numsber of stands ?? year. was 88, filat tsipesn showit is lot, and the display made la replete ...

... vottrg. I THE Y-EAR. First camo the rsmall green leaves Down in the ditch, Threi with their buds of brown MleliNer grow rich. Celall I itempeopell out.soon, Ono hero aid therar T'ffin caliro mooet violets, Scouting tho air. Iiirdl with tbilr chosen mates Built tb*ir nests zlnxt, Labnis at thu first spring rain l,ookql much perpl rxed: Then canio a hurst of green, Sunshine and shower, Fi'letl ...

... ?OflKSllIRE OThRISTMAS CATTLE SHOW, n.vfllrnl ? ,? *3?? t I - - The sixteenth annual meeting of the Yorkshire Society ( ? ±i?e Christmas Exhibition of Stock, &o,, took place yeeterday, in the wool sheds at York; and, notwitlistand. ing tte previous reports of oatt?.c plague, which has now y?app?ly to a11 appearance been stamped out, there was a larger show of cattle than Inst year. The ...

... 7 li itcraturt, The lDife ati of JIf 4tt/ItifisR3 ad(qed to Christian 7'eachbdi. Lomn11d: lt. 1). IJCtKINsOx, 7S, Ferringdon-street. Tho art of using ill ustratiotts is ono of the most valuablo gifts of a public speaker or toacher, and it is one the effective use of which is most difficult of attainteinlt. We all ro- moniber of whom it was satid without a parable spake he not unto thorn, and ...

... DR. LIVINGSTONE. A continent to open, Its land explore alone, And cross a hidden centre To science vaguely known, Teeming with life or barren Where the sun smites by day, Surmounting all of peril, Though death might bar the way- A traveller went onward, Onward, onward still. 'Mid the glare of torrid light, Orwilds obscure and dim, In all its myriad shapes Was danger met by him; He had the ...

... )I| ; ?? Since the princely speculation a Alderman I, Joydell, at the end of the least and beginning oftthe present ee~atury, there) has be~len' no sueb suspe~rb I 'attemnptto illustrate'dur ohief of poets as that which ?? Virtue and Co. are now making i. their i | 'Imperial Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight. ti, Thb Alderman set the first English painters of his ri time to work to ...

... THE LIOERSED'VIOTUALLERS 7AND TEM OAT!LWAHOW. At the 81rm50gham ?? Offic yesterday, before.DLx.; T. . W KyMnneriily an 1the MAyor {:(Adertan1Bgg),' blr;'laher made an 'apple'atlon 'on behalf of the hohel- keeperi for 'an o04adcail Ieais H, ?? he wax :aware heo should have to' applyfodr the Holenses sriadm;' and the firat onehe proposid to apply fo'was on behalf- of the -ptoprietor.. ol thes ...

... THE DECEMBER MAGAZINES, &c. [FIRST NOTICE.] Thie Gentlemian's A1agazine (London: Grant and Co., 102, Fleet-street). The second instalment of Mr. Stephen J. Mackenna's novelette completes a very pleasing narrative entitled Love or Money P There is an interesting history of the Order of the Garter; an entertaining account of Theatricals in Ireland; five chapters added to Mr. Hatton's ...