16 MARCH 1861, page 19

The Bentley Ballads * It Is Now-a-days A Matter Of

rather rare occurrence for any writer of magazine—or review—articles to attain to any material degree of popn.- laritv or success, without becoming impressed with the conviction......

Tile Tragedy Of Life.*

THERE were many reasons, according to Fuseli, why: the English should be bad judges of Italian poetry, but the weightiest of all was "de d—d ignorance of de language.' Writers......

Books.

1HE CELT, thth ROMAN, AND THE SAXON.* ANTIQUITIES are the fossils of history, as fossils are the antiquities of nature, and the sciences which depend on either must necessarily......