26 NOVEMBER 1859, page 18

Literary News.

Fiction, Fielding proves, is truer than history, and the reason is ob- vious—the writer of fiction, while he can be perfectly true to the nature of the facts which he relates;......

Sot Sytatrts.

Generally speaking the play-houses, with the single exception of the Adelphi, which rests firmly on Mr. Watts Phillips's new drama, The _Dead Heart, are in somewhat unsettled......

Publication's Received.

Six ESSAYS, Murmur Awn POLITICAL, written in India by the late Sir Henry Lawrence, have been extracted from the Calcutta Review, in which they originally appeared, and......