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... REVIEWS. Cheap Mcsical Publications bt A. Novello.—The increa* which has attended the publication, a cheap form, of Handel's Messiah and Haydn's Creation, has induced the publisher t( produce other works of those great masters. The celebra ted Dettingen ...

... REVIEWS. The Beventh volume of 44 The Select. Writings of Robert Chambers has just appeared, and to the lovers of antiquity and original rhyme thii will prove a never failing bouice of amusement. Many in glancing over the verses of the nursery will have ...

... REVIEWS. Mr. Jesse'a entertaining historical works justly place him amongst the most popular of modern writers. His *' Memoirs of the Court of England under the Stuarts/* as well under the house* of Nassau and HanoTer. of the Chevalier, Prince Charles ...

... REVIEWS. Blackwood, for June, has some good article.'?: measured , standard, however, that being tolerably high one, they j an not of the first class, though some of them would be j ■dered so, found anywhere else. Constantinople and the j joining state ...

... REVIEWS. The Picturesque and Popular History of England. Thomas Miller. London : David Bogue. Vye have received the first two numbers of this work. It written in a pleasing style, and the best authors have been consulted on disputed points. Many interesting ...

... REVIEWS. Blackwood, for October, its an unusually lively number, ■ We have, on some occasions, cotnplaincd of the absence e entertaining matter this magazine ; but the present bei will be found redolent of interest, particularly its lad* waders, who ought ...

... REVIEWS. Select Writings of Robert Chambers : Essays, familiar and humourous. Vol. I. Chambers, Edinburgh; Orr, London; M 4 Glashan, Dublin. give hearty welcome to this publication, bringing, as it docs, before some highly valued old treasures which ought ...

... REVIEWS. History Mart Asnb Wklusgtoj. R. Cobbold.—A new and cheaper edition of this interesting work has just appeared, complete in one volume, with illustrations, in which form it will probably become as popular The History Margaret Catchpole, by ...

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... REVIEWS. MRS. OLIPHANT.* No one reading this Autobiography of Mrs. Oliphant, even though he knew nothing of her life and her work before, could fail to get from it two strong and abiding impressions: one, that few lives known to him have contained more ...

... REVIEWS. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY RUSSIA.* THE history of Russia from the death of Peter the Great to. the accession of Catherine 11. is not generally khown. The period was one off Court intrigue and Palace revolutions, and is not considered to have been one ...