... Mr. Evelyn Ashley has to the world in two volumes what is practically a new Life of Lord Palmerston (Bentley), and better one ! cortainly than that which was before the public in five volumes. It has what the former work lacked —unity of composition aud sentiment. Lord Dalling and Bulwer, who was the biographer of the earlier portion of Lord Palmerston's.life, was a of great literary ...

... LONDON BANKRUPTCY COURT, LINCOLN'S-INN-nELDS. Baroas Ma. Hazliit, sitting as Jidgb.— Applications, motions, to., 11. Adjourned petition, at 18. Private sitting : and Co.. at 12. Mr. Registrar is the registrar tho day. The Court closes at two o'clock. ...

... Quids. Not enly has the title been alteiod, but the arrangement of the contents greatly improved and the size enlarged. The paper and style are also better, and the size of the volume is increased by sixteen pages useful matter. Another novel feature is the introduction of coloured leaves assist finding the divisions relating to foreign and colonial mails, money orders, savings banks, ...

... MEMOIRS OF PRINCE ?? 72~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ?? r have,, if wemsaent TonvlTON4S Of these most interesting memorshviwemtaen, * appeared from time to time in various foreign newspapers--among others, in ?? Beige. One most interesting letter in particular we can call to mind, in which the late Chancellor speaks of the events of 1848, at which momentous epoch he, to use his own words, retired from the ...

... . The Succession to the English Crown: A Historical Sketch. By Alfred Bailey, of Lincoln's-inn, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, M.A., &c. (Macmillan and Co.) This volume looks to us very much like a collection of notes taken by the author for his personal use in the course of his own reading, and then, as seeming too good to him to be thrown away or left in perpetual obscurity, cast into shape as ...

... THE STOR I' OF A FEMALE NIHIILIST. * M. ERNEST LAVIGNE, the author of the work before us, must have lived,- long and observed much in Russia; or, what seems at least as probable he has produced his Story of a Female Nihilist in collaboration with a genuine Russian who possesses more than an ordinary acquaintance with the tenets and practices of the Nihilist conspirators. The latter ...

... FAR on the mountain peaks, aflame with light, Shines Fame's white temple; open stand its portals One in the valley sees the wondrous sight, Where the high Gods crown men, 'mid the immortals. Envious, he munrmurs, ' Why not I also Rise to the star-crowned heights, as they have risen ? Seen in that light, my hearth-fire, waxes low, The valley of my home is as a prison, Unto the Temple shrine I ...

... WE are not a musical nation, is a parrot cry which every Britisher used to repeat with melancholy unction, as though, being possessed of every other talent and virtue under the sun, there was something self-denying and Christian-like in leaving that one to the foreigner, as though he felt a kind of relief in not being wholly exempt from the shortcomings and imperfections of common humanity. ...

... ANOTHER SHAH'S DIAREY. LET no one take up the second diary of Nasru-din Shah with the idea that he is about to consider an ordinary record of travel. For nine out of ten readers so disposed the result would be disappointment. The book i a narrative of every-day detail, in which indifferent and commonplace things abound, while the examination of important matters is as rare as exciting ...

... M U S I C. THE DECLINE OF ITALIAN OPERA. F IFTEEN years ago an ex-impresario, whose long r experience invested his words with peculiar authority, proclaimed that Opera in England was on the -decline. He did not live to learn how incorrect his pre- diction turned out. Opera was never so popular in this country as it is at this moment; never so independent of the capricious aid of Fashion. On ...

... L Totoars Mr. Gladstone ! the wearied and impatient reader may be tempted to exclaim on opening the Fortnightly Reviewi, and coming upon a biographical sketch of the Member for Mid-Lothian in posse, by his ardent admirer Mr. H. Dunckley, based, though only based, on Mr. G. B. Smith's recent volumes. Let us frankly say, however, that Mr. Dunckley's monograph has agreeably surprised us. It ...

... MOROCCO: ITS PEOPLE AND PLA CES * WE have seldom met with a more delightful hook of ?? III_ this of Edmondo de Amicis, which describes his advenitures '11i, - the journey with the Italian Embassy from Tangiers to 1 , A work dealing with the strange mystic land of '4 could scarcely fail to be interesting in a certain delgtec, apart from the manifold attractions of his subject, ther - special ...