... I)Oetatg (origilmla ab 5-.etlede. 1 S]&MPER FIDELIS. To the dark hawthorn dell, where the old wishing-well Is hidden by broad-hanging boughs, et us wander to-night, in the mystic moonlight, As 'we did when we plighted our vows. * y its side, where the woodbine anal primroses grow, And the modest forget-me-not clings, We will sit hand-in hand, as we (lid long ago, And listen while ?hilomel ...

... ALL RE11TS BEERVED.f I A ROMANCE OF THE MEXICAN VALLEY. Written: for the Newcastle Coouraen BY CAPT. MAYNE REID. CHAPTER XXL.* A WOMArN'S SCHEME. Mly poor Ruperto is indeed in danger! Now lam sure of it. Ah! even to his life! And I may be the cause of his losing it. So spoke the Countess Alm onte, half in soliloquy, though beside her sat her friend Luisa Valverde. They were in a carriage on ...

... IT-sOultry. ELYTH POULTRY SHOW. The fourth annual show of the Blyth Poultry, Pigeon, Cage Bird, Cat, and Rahbit Association was held in the Central Hall, Waterloo, Blyth, on Saturday, and was a great success. In the poultry classes there were about 300 pens, Mr G. Sowerhy of Gateshead, carrying off the first prize and a special prize of a splendid silver cup with a valuable pair of cochins; ...

... A KEY to The Magic Flute, as its most devoted admirers understand the work in the present day, would be a boon to playgoers. M. Blaze de Bury attempted something of the kind several years ago in the Revue des .Deux Mondes, but his explanation was quite as unintelligible as the matter he sought to explain. Mozart himself, without being struck by any mystical significance in the libretto, ...

... I1 m At TIIE NOVELETTE.-(R. S. Cartwright, Johnson's Court, Fleet-street.)-The Christmas supplement of this enjoyable publication contains a new complete st'ry by the author of Olive Varcoe, entitled Under False Colours ; On their Wedding Day, by the author of Only an Actress, &c.; A Woman's Glove, Christmas evenings in Ger- many, acting charades, &c. A cheaper twopenny- worth could ...

... LITTEARMUY INOTICES. lianet, ater' 'ohn Ul'y'.ls'ood.i Thocse 'it h;,are tmfit r wit Ih the na me of-. c atltio-r xi I be lrevlr'd to Ind much rest xv'- t ?? vimnusemert in 'uiY IL of roituid3 tilL wi}ittin n tihe enicasiiirt,. 3ali-ct. Too 'Fi h : i niivy taon, ater'Shepc. .sto)i as siue2 i1;; is, U PorS. 114 OnS. and 'o Ivv \fth -i n C'irt, fuinsh mr atoriels foir s go 'd a bill O0 ;lr C ...

... We cannot help thinzing that if corne of the b, ladies who write novels so profusely now-a-days, tc ald who persistently malign their fellow-women w could realise the extremely Intplesaing effeet pro- is daced on their readers by so-doing it would have l the elfeet of ?? noditfyinz their system. tc Iu her last booL-, T12he hoot of all i'vil (3 vols r S. ''in3loy aud Co.) Miss Florence ...

... FROM 7TH UERM w AN. Not in the heat of pain and strife Think God had cast thee off unheard- N or that the man whose prosperous life Thou en iest, is of Himh preferred Time pas--e ...

... OLiVEP & BOYI,' PpROSOUNCISO (lAZETERR Olt TIE WVOcirmo, Descriptive and Statistical , with Etymological N'otes: being a Geographical Dictionary for Popular llses. [Edinburglh: Oliver and Boyd.] now many households are there in England that have a good Gazeteer? Such works are necessarily rather costly, nri'3 the; soon grow out of date-circumstances which pro- uiably affect the demand, and ...

... Lll,Tt and &W, itzraturr. Captain Burton's History of the Sword is nearly ready, for Captain Burton has inspected almost every great col- lection of swords in Europe. Mir Jenkins, M.P., following the example of Dickens, purposes. it is said, appearing on the platform as a reader of his own works-not that Mr Jenkins can be compared with Dickens. Kossuth is about to publish the memoirs of his ...

... - -P--- - --- OF A--- - XN P -lA IS w. ,,SUSPZNIS10i; OF A LETUR~tEl IN PA~rtIS. n il. I.- . - I * - . - )n The Paris corresI)o11deent of tile Times WI ites :- pi d A A Dominican monkr, Pere Didon, has for the last few ri in years succeeded to the poRTularity onoe enjoyed by rl is Pere Hyrrcinthe. Disciple on one hand of Lacurdailo, ar tf and on the other of Ulaurde Bernarrd, the physiologist, ...

... 1-CWRITMAS BDoox$ Tb. present season has been unusually prolific in presentation publications, and we have before ip now a collection of unsurpassed variety, great elegance in typography, and of artistic beauty iz illustration and binding. The art of printing, as 'developed in the volumes which we have received, seems to have attained a finish and a completeness not to be excelled. Routledge ...