The March number of Temple Bar is a good average,
rather than a specially notable, one, perhaps because the miscellaneous inform- ing papers, which have long been such a feature of this magazine, would appear to have been almost crushed out by the serial stories. Yet Mrs. Andrew Crosse gives a good article, perhaps unduly encumbered with quotations, upon Thomas Lovell Beddoes, chiefly upon those recently published letters which she very felicitously terms "the dirge of a human soul;" and such widely different subjects as "Oxford and Cambridge" and "2() Port" have ample justice done them. Two of the short tales deserve a word of commendation.—" In an Old Porch," because it is a quietly effective study of a good man and a strong woman ; and " Mahon's Guest," because it reproduces a little of the his- torical misery of Ireland nearly a hundred years ago.
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