The Press.
London, England, 1855-12-08 00:00:00

Memories. A Poem. By George Thomas Thoma.

son. London : Bell and Daldy.
Tins is a pretty little volume of pastorals, which do
credit to the taste and sentiment of the author.
Though not to be called thoroughly original, they
are still a very skilful and pleasing reproduction of
such poets as Gray, Thomson, and Crabbe ; and be
speak a thorough appreciation of country life, and
nice acquaintance with the peculiarities of the
seasons. The illustrations are exceedingly well
done; and, on the whole, we can assure Mr. Thoma-
son that we have derived far more pleasure from
his natural and graceful verse than from that of
many authors of much greater pretension.

An Elementary Atlas of History and Geography
By the Rev. S. S. Brewer, M.A. London
Longmans.

A WORK, the principles of which we cannot too
highly commend. That principle is the one of
showing the condition of the world at successive
eras ; and to every map is added a page or two o'
narrative explanatory of its divisions. The want of
some such atlas as this has been long felt. The
history of the pas; could never be properly appre-
hended by learners supplied only with maps of the
present day. As, for instance, the tenaci y with
which France and Spain contended for the dominion
of Italy in the eleventh century, is a subject of
wonder, until we see clearly the position and extent
of the Spanish Netherlands, and observe the im-
portance to Spain of the overland route. Dr. Arnold
has told us that no external history can ever be
fully learned without the aid of excellent maps. We
believe Mr. Brewer's work is a step, and a pretty
long step, in the right direction.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
BOOKS.

- - - -
The Wanderer in Arabia. George 'l'.H South, Esq. Two
Vols. Hurst and Blacken.
Jeanne de Vaudreuil ; or, Recone;liation. J. Niabett and Co.
The White Chief. By Captain Mayne Reid. Three Vols.
1). Bogue.
Alfred Leslie. A St3ry of Glasgow Life. J. Murray.
The Wonders tf Science; or, Young fiewsphvy Davy. Henry
Mayhew. D. Bogue.
The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles. Two
VoLs. G. Routledge.

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The Duke. Railway Library. Mrs. Grey. Do.
Du Style et de la Composition Littiraire. M. Antonin Roebst.
Lungnians.
A Manual of the Domestic Practice of Medicine. W. B.
Kesteven. Do.

The Emigrant's Home. William H. G. Kingston, Esq.
Groom bridge.
The Past Campaign. A Sketch of the War in the East.
Two Vols. Longman.
A Lady's Second Journey Round the World. Ida Pfeiffer.
Two Vols. Do.
Christian Melville. By the. Author of " Matthew Paxton."
D. Bogue.
Poems. Sheldon Chadwick. Do.
The Travellers. A Poem. By Oliver Goldsmith. Illus-
trated on Steel. Do.
A Statistical View of the Population, the Religions, and Lan-
guages of Europe. E. Stanford.

PAMPHLETS.

The Ode of Peace. _
Longman..
A New Method of Printing Peaitire Photograph.
T. Sutton, B.A.
Bell and Daldy.
Effingham Wilson.

Education for Working Men.
Free Trade in Life Assurance.

PERIODICALS.

The Royal Gallery of Art. Edited by S. C. Hall, F.S.A.
P. and D. Colnaghi.
The West of Scotland Magazine. Hall and Virtue.
Journal of the Statistical S•nciely. J. W. Parker and Son.
Morton's New Farmer's Almanack for 186.
Mackie and Son.
Mitchell's Neu'spaper•Presa Directory. Al itchell.
The Amateur; or. Our Magazine. Hope and Co.
Hurry Cucerdale's Courtship. Virtue and Hall.
Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. beeton.
Boy's Own Magazine. Do.
The Literary and Scientific Register and Almaitack for 18.58.
1). Vogue.

muhic.
England's Welcome to Sardinia's King. A son•.
Eustas and Schermsnn.

if 4e drama.

DRURY LANE.-Mr. Smith took his benefiton Thurs-
day evening at this theatre, on which occasion the
house was literally crammed, from the pit to the
gallery. At the conclusion of Patter versus Clatter,
Mr. Smith was called before the curtain, and on
making his appearance met with an enthusiastic
reception. In his speech on the occasion, Mr. Smith
promised a good pantomime at Christmas, and an-
nounced the benefit of Charles Mathews for Wed-
nesday week. On Wednesday next is the Bal
Masque.
OLYMPIC THEATRE.-A new farce, founded on the
Montre Perdu, entitled Fite Pounds Reward, was
brought out here on Monday night, fir the purpose
or exhibiting ale. Robson in the character of Mr.
Benjamin Bostlethwaite, a gentleman, who, having
left his watch (a very remarkable old family watch,
with his own singular name engraved on the dial-
plate) in the house of a quondam flame, during the
absence of Mrs. Bostlethwaite from town, is driven
into a perfect insanity of fright by the constant an-
ticipation of detection. The piece, as might be sup-
posed, is almost completely identified with Mr.
Robson's part, which was payed with a degree of
comic truth rarely to be met with in the regions of
farce. The intensity of the actor's terror was at
times almost tragic, though the broad absurdity of
the situations and the dialogue reminded us more
of those wildly ridiculous pieces in which Mr. Buck-
stone, in past years, was wont to excite such agonies
of laughter in his audiences. Mr. Bostlethwaite seems
actually saturated with terror: limp, and dismembered
by an overflowing fear of the awful catastrophe
which he can hardly bring himself to describe,
every limb looks as if it had acquired an intelligence
of its situation,and were attemptink, in vain to escape
on its own private account, and bent, on setting up a
separate self protecting interest from the remainder
of his body; his very legs try to run away in different
directions. The other characters are slight enough ;
but Mr. Danvers makes a good hit out of the " nice "
platonic surgeon, with his charming conciliatory
kiggle and smooth, oily ways. The farce was com-
pletely successful.