... CHRISTMAS LOOKS VIII. THE Ingoldsby Legends prove an inexhaustible treasury to Mr. Ernest Jessopp, who draws afresh this year from the source which has previously brought him so much success. Perhap ...

... II. The Scottish Review, orthodox and conservative, treats of Scotch Universities, admitting that, in the land of Fettes's College, the weak point is still secondary schools it belittles Charles Dick ...

... PALEFACE AND REDSKIN A COMEDY STORY FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, BY F. ANSTEY, Author of Vice Versa, The Giants' Robe, &c. ACT Till- FIRST W !1 E It K IS T a V. E N E M V IT WAS A VERY HOT AUGUST AFTERNOON ...

... 2jer ton loing By W. E. NORRIS, Author of Millie, de Mersac, No New Thing? Thirlly Hall? &c. WHETHER IT IS A RECOMMENDATION or a drawback to a health resort that all the world is to be met with ther ...

... THE DAILYS OF SODDEN FEN, by the author of Four Crotchets to a Bar (3 vols.: Bentley and Son), is a work of real originality, not only with regard to its leading idea and characters, but even in i ...

... MM. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE died in 1864; and now, eighteen years afterwards, we receive what was to have been the crowning achieve ment of his literary career. That work is Doctor Grimshawe's Secret, ...

... THE object of Blair Athol, by, Blinkhoolie, (3 vols.: Chapman and Hall), is to show that the love of a good horse, so far from being hurtful, may even serve to keep a man straight in life, and c ...

... NOTHING, says John Douglas Delille, in his preface to Canon Lucifer (1 vol. Gilbert and Rivington), but a profound venera tion for religion in its purest form could have prompted me to attack one ...

... BY MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback Ac. Commenced January 292/t. No. 3G8.) CHAPTER VIII. WHICH of my readers has not seen a race-course-- that strange centre of evil and of good-- of virtue and of vice-- of boyhood's follies and of manhood's crimes-- that alluring spot which, with a siren's art, attracts all who come within the reach of its mighty influence? Princes and ...

... UNFAIRLY WON Br MRS. POWER O'DONOGHUE, Author of Ladies on Horseback ...

... . Past IV. WHILST sitting alone, and penning these recollections of Canine friends and acquaintances, it is quite a romantic and pleasant sensation to fancy, through the curling smoke from a Manilla, that each individual dog is actually before us. Sir John Bowring wrote in reference to dogs: I cannot under stand that morality which excludes auimals from human sym pathy, or releases man from ...

... . BY AMPHION. Part II. As might be expected, all the immediate descendants of Melbourne have long since paid the debt of nature, the last representative of the grand old horse having had his death recorded in the Stud Book Obituary, appended to the latest issue of that work. Therein we note that Young Melbourne died four years ago, in his twenty- second year, such sires as West Australian, ...