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Progress Of Publication.

Memoirs and Trials of the Political Martyrs of Scotland, is a revised and extended reprint of the article in a recent number of Tail's Magazine, exposing the Tory tyrannies......

Fine Arts.

:11(IDERN PICTURES AT THE BRITISH INS.TITUTION. IT is agreed on all hands, that the present show of pictures is one of the poorest, if not actually the worst, ever seen at this......

The Hulscan Prize At Cambridge University, Is Granted In...

of the will of the Reverend JOHN HULSE, who directed certain rents and profits (now amounting to about IOW, yearly) to be paid to the author of the best " Dissertation," in......

Boz Keeps Up The Ball In Pickwick, With Unabated Fun

and vivacity. The consultation with Sergeant Snubbin, in No. II, is a capital satire upon those expensive farces, as dull as they are brief. The dirty and littered chambers, and......

The Caraguin, " A Tale Of The Antilles," Is A Narrative

poem, in the easy irregular verse that SCOTT made so popular. The inci- dent on which it is founded is that of a pirate lover who unwittingly kills the father of his mistress in......

The Carthusian Is A Species Of Magazine, Undertaken By Some

young gentlemen of Charterhouse, with a promise, or expec- tation, of assistance from older hands who have been educated in that remote region. The tone of the .work smacks of......

The Imperial Classics. A New Series Of Reprints Of Standard

authors, in monthly numbers; which has commenced with Bishop Burnet's History of his Own Times. The size is a square octavo, or small quarto, with a full page and clear readable......

The Ordinary Cetacea Or Whales, Forms The Subject Of The

current volume of the Naturalist's Library ; in which, besides the usual account of the different species, and a description of the practice and perils of both the Northern and......

In Addition To These Publications, Several Others Are...

which their late arrival or other causes have prevented our ex- amining. The most valuable of these is the Third Volume of the Despatches of the Marquis Wellesley. Of the rest,......

We Have Received The Seventh Volume Of The Penny...

and the Eighty-first and Eighty-second Parts of the Encyclopeo- dia Britannica. The volume of the Penny commences with "Charleston," and ends with "Copyhold ;" and, in the......

The Second Number Of Bentley's Miscellany Is More Mi ,...

than the first, and not less amusing. Boz has com- menced a new set of adventures, the hero of which is Oliver Twist ; and " The Parish Boy's Progress" will give full scope for......

The Russian Ports On The Black Sea, Contains A Geographical,

statistical, and commercial account of the different towns in that inland sea, at all frequented for purposes of trade, from Ismail and Reni, on the Russian branch of the......

Tales In Prose, For The Mine, Is A Pretty Collection

of stories, anecdotes, and detached scenes, told with much of the friendly feeling and Quaker-like simplicity that distinguish MARY HOWITT. At the same time, we have often been......