... HALF. HOURS WITH THE BEST AUTHORS. Parts vin. and ix, (C. Knight, Loodon.)-This series miau- tains its high character, and may be warmly recoina mended for general perusal. CYCLOPADIA OF THE I:NDUSTRY OF ALL NA- TIONs, No. 1, (C, Knight, Loadon.)-A new serial from this prolific source. The present is an intro- ductory number, consisting of a glance at the various exhibitions hitherto held. ...

... MAGAZINES, &c. FOR ;ECEMtBFR,-BfC1tvood opera with The Story of the Campaign, written in the camp before Sebastopol. The account of the operations is brought ttawn to the occupation of Balaklava ; and a valuable contribution to the history of the war will be furnished if the accomplished writer should be spared to continue his narrative to the conclusion of thisj impor- tant streggle. Tbere ...

... MmsulEsTALLIS'S PUBLICATIONS.-The Erystal Palce Desor-bed and Illustrated: This work has at length arrived at completion, havring extended to 47 parts. It forms a history and description of the Great Exhibi- tion of 1851 , il lustrate d by steel en graving, from oil- ginal drawings and daguerrotypes, by Beard, Mayall, &ko. Trhe work will form three volumes; being edited by J (0. Strutt, Esq. ...

... CHINA ILLUSTRATED: a series of views. By Thlomas Allom, Esq.; with notices by the Rev. G. N. Wright, M.A. 4to, parts I to 4.-London: Fisher. The happy issue of the struggle between this country and China has naturally aalwened curiosity respecting all that concorns that vast but ill-kirewn empire, and its dense and extraordinary population. It is to grati- fy this taste that Messrs Fisher have ...

... BY A LADY. In one of his delightful essays, the charming writer, A; K. R, B., tells as that when he goes to a house, and finds the step of it spotlessly clean, and the knocker shining, the stair carpet laid straight, and the brass stair roids bright as elbow-grease can make them; when he sees the ]ittle maid servant who ushers him in look trim and happy, he says he feels at once a respect ...

... I FEMINJINE FASHIONS, FANCIES, I AAND FOIBLES. By A LADY. Charles Kingsley, late rector of Eversley, poet, essaylsfs lecturer, and novelist-than whom from his intense sym- pathy with it, no man had a keener Insight into the frallitles and follies of poor human nature, once said of dress as an aid to beauty, That surely nothing which helps beauty ought to be despised, and that without the ...

... FEMININE FASHIONS, FANCIES AND FOIBLES& BY A LADr. Wfat shall we eat? Wherewithal shall we be clothed? These are the two Important questions which gastronromists and modiates are constantly endeavouring to solve. The stomach may be satisfied with food, but the appetite for new clothes is rapacious, and constantly demands fresh allment Wherewithal shall we be clothed? is an in- quiry. as ...

... ALL UaGL ?? IJONATHAN HARTiOP, ESQO: TO, ME YORKSHIE NESTB. I~ -- Written for the Newca&tZe CoawanI By MRS FIIBBERT WARE. CHAPTER ?? MIDSUMmNE HOLIDAYS. While the dewdrops of early morning yet glistened like pearls cn the tapering blades of grass, band the dark leaves of the thorns on the hedge-rows, two persons, mounted on horseback, and riding leisurely along, approached the quaint old town ...

... TALL RIGHTS RESPRVED.] JONATHAN HARTOP, ESQ., OR, TEE YOREKHrRE NESTOR. Written for the VNeucaste CGuerat By MRS HIBBERT WARE. CHAPTER XmXV. Tns NOCTURNAL VISITORS. The echoes of the chorus of the Jacobite song had not yet died away, and the refrain of Killamy, keeton, keeton, 0, yet disturbed the ears of the Alderman in the Tapestry Room above, when the door of the dining parlour opened ...

... vxt Ani 9Wratum A magniflcentcallogue of the library of tbatsworth, is now finisheds, and it occupies four volumes, Yr John Morley½s Life of Cobden, already announced by us, will be in two volumes, octavo, and will be published imincdia- tely after Christmas. The magazine which is asout to start at Christmas as a rival of the old Genatkimaas Magazine, is to be called The Antiquary. lir ...

... OPENINCG OF THE BEDLINGTON .ART EXHIBITION.i SPEECH BY Lad PERCY, M.P. 'Yesterday, the fine art exhibition, which has been 3 | organised with great care and industry at Bedlington, waas fesinally opened to the inspection of the public, the in- augural ceremony being performed by the Right Hon. the Earl Percy, M.P. The exhibition is located in Hollymount Hall, in the town of Bedlingtops ...

... W, ittrary CE-.4ract.51#. i SIB YWALTER SCOT.Sr In novel writing there are many ?? ?? well which other men have done bettar. but no one m 'ker of fiction has combined so many rare qualities as he. Tarse iare alway plenty of men cleverer than ha, but he bas i_ rival in a sort of majestic ?? of power. In facti' - prose is epic. For that sort of coinpositioa there is nro ?? of precise and ...