22 FEBRUARY 1873, page 21

Pictures Across The Channel.*

THE Author of Patty has conceived an amusing little mystery, which reminds us of Sambo's astonishment at his master's acute- ness in guessing that a girl had been born to him......

Old Christiania.*

DRIFTING, slowly drifting up the interminable fjord, on our right the terraced gardens of Drobak, on our left the pine-fringed darkness of the slopes against the sunset, we slip......