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Anonymous Articles As Much As Possible, Throws A Great...

on him. Whether the system of attracting readers rather by the names of the contributors than by the merit of the articles is likely to improve periodical literature is another......

Bradshaw's Itinerary Of Great Britain For 1864. (w. J....

marvel of compactness. Every town containing 500 inhabitants and upwards is enumerated, and you are told the London station from which to start in order to reach it, the county......

The Gospel Of St. Matthew. A New Translation. By John

H. Godwin. (Samuel Bagater and Sons.)--New translations of the Now Testament are becoming a nuisance. This particular one constantly varies the language of the authorized......

Chambers's Journal. Fourth Series. (w. And R....

of the public has commenced a new series with the com- mencement of the current year, and maintains its character. In one feature-namely, light humorous papers, in which a......

Books Received.

A Journey due East, by Charles Cooke (Hall, Smart, end Allen.)-Hidden Springs, by Joseph Parker, D.D. (Pitman.)-Rathlynn, by the Author of the Saxcn in Ire- land, in three vole.......

Dublin University Magazine. March, 1864. (hurst And...

of light gossiping matter, yet the articles on Wilke the actor, Alphonse Karr, and Sterne, are hardly as amusing as they might be. There is, however, a curious paper on the......

Wildfire. By Walter Thornbury. Three Vols. (hurst And...

would be absurd to call this a good novel, but it is infinitely better than half the trash which is published. Mr. Thornbury's story has plenty of incident---rather too much,......

Birth.

Cantricrusb-On the 15th January, at Neemuch, in Central India, the wife of Lieut-Colonel Carmichael, CB., 24th Regiment, of a sou, prematurely born. DEATH. Comic/last-0n the......

Charles Auchester. Second Edition. (chapman And Hall.)-we...

of a novel the merits of which were always too much. obscured by its extravagance. The world, which knows only musical pro- fessors under the name of artists, and finds them......

Edinburgh And Its Neighbourhood By Hugh Miller. (adam And...

Black.) — This concluding volume of the series of works fit for publication left by the lamented author is in no way unworthy of its predecessor;. The geological essays on the......

The Rosary; A Legend Of Wilton Abbey. By William Gilbert.

(William Freeman.)-Alicia Longspde, abbess of Wilton, on her death-bed asks permission of the Bishop of Salisbury to make a written confession that her death may conduce to the......