22 JANUARY 1859, page 27

Literary News.

Everybody knows how some commentators have tried to make out that Shakspere was in youth an attorney's clerk; the inferential proof being the use of certain words in a legal......

Publications Received.

The principal unnoticed book of the week is Mr. Colley Grattan's "Civilized America," the result of a long residence in the United States in an official capacity, and much......