12 MAY 1866, page 21

Readers At The British Museum.* Jr Carlyle's Assertion Is...

that "no mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something," then the British Museum Reading-room, or, as it ought to be called,......

The Period Embraced In The Third Volume Of This Very

elaborate work in- cludes the greater part of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. It introduces us to an exhaustive review of Umbrian and Siennese art, the......

Current Literature.

Aunt Judy's Magazine. No. I., May. Edited by Mrs. Alfred Gatty. (Bell and DaMy.)—This magazine promises to be an acquisi- tion to the children. There is in it a good mixture of......

Penny Readings In Prose And Verse. Three Vols. Library...

Selected and edited by J. E. Carpenter. (Warne.)—It is interesting to know that the "penny-reading" owed its origin as a self-sup- porting institution to the voluntary......