25 FEBRUARY 1865, page 20

The Forgotten Fact Of Canada."

A PLEASANT and timely book by a pleasant, keen-eyed traveller. Mr. Russell has, perhaps beyond any writer alive, the power of wing his knowledge like gold-leaf, spreading it out......

Sir Kingston James's Tasso.*

MILTON was in temper a schoolmaster, in practice a Puritan poli- tician, in learning a divine, in imagination a poet. Tasso, in imagi- nation a poet, was in temper a courtier......