T HE American Congress assembled on the 6th inst., and re- ceived the President's Message, 'which we have analyzed in another place. His message is the formal annual one, and...

I F Mr. Cobden had ever taken office he would have go' lied, we imagine, greatly in all the characteristics of a j katcS- ,i man. Responsibility would have given him the...

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. A DRY, shrewd tenacity has always been the characteristic of Mr. Lincoln's Messages, and the one transmitted to Congress on 6th December, is drier,...

M R. HORA.TIO LAY, the gentleman who recently made a clutch at the Imperial throne of China, and missed it by a hairsbreadth, has published a pamphlet to explain the failure of...

I N the greater number of human quarrels, if one can once I really get to thehottom of the facts of the case, if one can only be certain what the disputants have said and done,...

judge from some representations which have reached us, still misunderstands the great project which we have designated "Mr. Gladstone's Railway Scheme." Some appear still...

T HE English people are beginning apparently to perceive that among the needs of civilization is a little leisure. The notion that" all work and no ploy makes Jack a dull boy,"...

the real countenance of which it was the image. voluntary act, —the physical result to a dream, — the fore Nor is it merely the spiritual character such visions assume boding...

B Y his first wife, a daughter of the Earl of Moray, the unfor- tunate Earl of Argyll had three sons, the eldest of whom, Archibald, succeeded him as head of the Campbells. On...

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) New York, December 10, 1864. ON the day after the election of Horatio Seymour as Governor of New York in 1862, one of the most influential, as...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, December 3, 1864. GENERAL HOOD has again come to grief, this time at the hands of General Thomas, whom Sherman, you may remember,...

MR. PLUMPTRE'S RELIGIOUS POEMS.* RELIGIOUS poetry generally tends to the purely lyrical form. It iq not often that genuine poetry of this class will endure the bonds of either...

Is the brief preface to this powerful and exciting but certainly (if that is of any account) very improbable tale, Mr. Le Fenn points out justly enough that even the quietest of...

is of respectable antiquity. The popular notion, repeated in grave treatises as well as in the ridiculous collections of disjointed information with which little children are...

WE take shame to ourselves for having left this amusing and exhaustive book on the history, pi actice, and legislation of sal- mon-fishing so long unnoticed. Its author, well...

THE rapid growth of infantile literature involuntarily suggests the multiplication of the species. Children and children's books seem to be much in the same ratio as grown-up...

French girl, the daughter of a Parisian banker, and of the life of the family to which she belongs—and the plot of her novel is neither new nor probable. Jeanne's father has...

(Edmonston and Douglas.)--A clever little essay on the "Nationalities of the United Kingdom," by a Scotch advocate. It is not very deep but quite free from narrowness, and most...

on ,the time- honoured principle of selecting passages from the classical French authors, with a view to giving specimens of good French. This object he has effected admirably,...

(Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—These extracts are given in the original Greek with a translation, generally well executed ; but there is always a strangeness and incongruity about...

dren. The language is studiously simple, and yet easy. The subjects are well selected. We have seldom seen works which attain better the very desirable object of introducing...

as readable as that kind of thing usually is. The heroine is of course a model of dignified good sense, of course falls in love with a roue colonel, of course does not marry...

(William Fullar).—A handsomer volume than the public often rceeives at the hands of the publishers of almanacks. Paper, type, and bind- ing are all excellent. Besides the...

A clevar, readable novel, full of incident and of characters which, if not very interesting, are at least natural. Mr. Clarke writes very much as Mrs. Gore would have done had...

of the Church of gngland. By the Rev. Charles Kemble. The Music selected, arranged, and partly composed by Samuel Sebastian Wesley. (John F. Shaw and Co.)—Mr. Kemble's selection...

striking historical novel, containing by far the most vivid picture of the Indian mutiny yet presented to the public. It is deformed by that excessive dislike, almost hatred, of...

John Russell Smith.—Thom's Notelets on Shakespeare. Hooper and Cull.—Royal Insurance Company's Almanack. Saunders, Otley, and Co.—The Lay of the Alabama. Routledge, Warne, and...