... * THE second volume of the late Professor Green's works consists of selec-, tions from his unpublished philosophical papers, the manuscripts of lectures delivered by him as college tutor and as professor. It includes lectures upon' logic and metaphysic, ethics and politics. We may begin by saying that all. these lectures are stiff reading. Philosophical literature can become easy only by ...

... TIME MANNERS AND MORALS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE.* 'AT a time when all France is agitated over the corruption and greed of ;some of her officials, and when these same vices are being turned to account by the enemies of the Republic, it is interesting to have a glimpse into the state of affairs during the Second Empire. It is not too much {to say that in the light of the revelations made by Count ...

... THE PARIS SCHIOOL OF FlaE A RTS. Tiz celebrated Paris School of Fine Arts formns the subject of an infetestinrx article by Mr. Henry 0. Avery, in Screbyimr's .1f-alzizne for October. The phenomenal results produced by the school, says PMr. Av'ery, is a const-ant refutation of the criticisms of those vwho insist that to bring a student in con-l tact with the masters of his art is merely to ...

... VER ES TCHA GIN; * PAINTER, SOLuDiEr, TRAVELLER. Teis is an extraordinary book. Seldom do we find in similar works so few pretensions, and at the same time so many topics of such real interest, such vivid mirth, and such agonizing pain. It is not an auto- biooqraphy. The author forgets to give the exact date of his birth, the number of his sisters, brothers, cousins, and aunts. A few pages are ...

... A FORGOTTEN STA TEBSIAN.* 1IR. BALLAN-TYNE wonders that Lord Carteret should have been so corn- pletely forgotten. He was a man of great culture, an orator, a successful diplomatist, a statesman, scarcely successful, perhaps, but of high principle and of great ability, and yet he is but nomininis umbra; while every fine wrho has the smallest smattering of knowledge about the third And fourth ...

... 'lThe following are extracts from a newly-discovered poem by Hood, published in the November number of Mu-ay's Magazine.- WINTER. Summer is gone, on swallow's wings, And Earth has buried all her flow'rs hat lov'd to bask in sunny hours; No more the lark or linnet sings, Out Silence sits in faded bow'rs. T'bere's gloom on Autumn's shadowy face, And 1rtistness on his pale eyes, The Tempest ...

... THYE NA TlIONS NE W PICTURES. ACCESSIONS TO TiHE NATIONAL GALLERY DURING ISS7. 'Thr; admirable rehanging of the pictures in the new rooms is not the only novelty in the National Gallery during the present year. Thirteen new pictures have been acquired, some of thern of great general interest and the rest of considerable importance as filling up gaps in the gallery. RWhen it is remembered how ...

... TIHE FINE ART EXHIBITION AT VENICE. A, .7 I I VENICE, May 27. TimT Fine Art Exhibition here is really very interesting and beautiful. The exhibits of Italian artists are restricted to works produced within the decade. So far as I have seen, all their canvases bearing dates are of the current yEear. All works already exhibited- alle Mostre Nazionali od Inter- nazionali Italiane-are thereby ...

... LORD L YTTON'S 'LA TE S T* - can hardly say of this volume, in' its own words unlearn'd the listener and untaught the lay; But blithe were both in their instinctive way. Lod tyttOn'S lay is the cynical lay, the pessimistic lay, the lay of the nan who has gone young into modern culture with hope and entbui Siasm, and come out middle-aged without them. Nothing less blithe in its instinctive way ...

... THE CAM AND CAMBRIDGE ROwIIG,* WHEN the haughty Oxonian begins to draw comparisons between the Thames and the Cam, the jealous Cantab is obliged to own that his adopted river is the narrower of the two, but he generally goes on to add (and with reason), You have nothing at Oxford to compare with our Backs' river, and as to the 'Freshman's' it is as lovely a stream as anything the Cherwell ...

... 1.1OST people who have been to penny readings have heard a thrilling American poen relating to a backwoodsman on whose leg a tree fell. It is told of this heroic man that to save himself from a lingering death by starvation, he took his hatchet and deliberately hacked off his imprisoned leg, and proceeded on his way. Finding his progress impeded by the unequal length of his limbs, he sat down ...

... NE W BOOKS. A SCOTTISH SINGER, David Kennedy, the Scottish Singer. By Marjory Kennedy and David Kennedy, jun. (Paisley and London: Alex. Gardner.) Mr. David Kennedy went round the world-that is, the English. speaking world, and India, singing Scotch songs. His first journey was made in i866 to the United States and Canada, and he died in Canada twenty years afterwards. One of his daughters ...