The Press.
London, England, 1854-03-11 00:00:00

PERIODICAL LITERATURE.

The London Quarterly Review. No. 111. London:
Partridge, Oakey, and Co.
Tam, the March, number contains ten articles. The
fourth, on the Mormons, is interesting and amusing.
The learning displayed by the late Joe Smith at
least equals that with which the venerable white-
haired gentleman overpowered the Vicar of Wakefield
and Moses. The following is contained in one of
the prophet's letters :
" Were I an Egyptian, I would exclaim, Jah.oh-eh, Enish-
go-on•dosh, Flo-ees, Flos-is-is ; ' 0 the earth! the power of
attraction, and the moon passing between her and the sun;'
a Hebrew, Haueloheem yerau ; a Greek, 0 Theos phos esi ;
a Roman. Dominus regit me; a German, Gott gebe uns dos
licht ; a Portugee, (!) Senhor Jesu Christ° e libordade ; a
Frenchman, Dieu defend le droll."
But, absurd as Smith seems, it is for ever memorable
that he founded a community and disciplined an
army which seriously alarmed the American Govern-
ment, and may one day be destined to play a great
part in the history of the Republic. The other
articles of the Review are of average merit.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Room
Dante's Divine Comedy. Paradise. Translated by C.
Cayley. Longman.

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Railway Library. "Eugene Arent." Routledge.
Parlour Library. " Wilejlell Hal." 4 Hodgson.
Vlieland's German 7'heory and Practice.
Simpkin and Marshall.
Whitaker's Educational Register. 18.54. Whitaker.
Forster's Pocket Peerage. 1t4:14. Rogue.
Truths Maintained. By J. Biden. Aylott and Co.
Iratier Hurst. By H. G. Pelham. Routledge.
The Heroines of History. By Mrs. Owen. Ditto.
History of the French Protestant Refugees. By. C.
Weiss. Blackwood and Sons.
The Stratford Shakspere. Vol. I. Edited by C. Knight.
Hodgson.
Addison's Works. Vol. 11. Edited by Bishop Hurd.
Bohn.
Cowper's Works. Vol. 111. Edited by Robert Southey.
Bohn.
3tudie's British Birds. Ditto.
On the Life and Writings of Oliver Goldsmith. A Lecture.
By G. E. Vernon, M.P. l'arker and Son.
On the Law of Settlement and Removal of the Poor.
Taylor and Edwards.
China : her Future and her l'ast. By U. Smith, D.D.
Hatchard.
The New System of Conjugation. French Verbs. By M.
de Beauvoisin. Wilson.
The English Government and the Eastern Question.
Ridgway.
Dramatic Register. Lacy.
Vital Statistics. By R. T. Joplin& Esq. King.
A Butch of War Ballads. By M. T. Tupper. Bosworth.
The National Drawing Muster. By W. A. Nicholls.
Wesley and Co.
Wine, in Relation to Temperance, Trade, and Revenue.
Gilbert Brothers.
Remarks on the Law relating to Combinations. lleasang.
Minutes of the Bombay Association.

NEM MUSIC.

England. A National Sung. By G. Massey. Com•
posed by E. Clare. Huldernesse.

etc puma.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

SHERIDAN KNOWLES'S tragedy of Virginias was per
formed before her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Cambridge and an auditory both numerous and
select on Wednesday last, in aid of the fund for the
benefit of the wives and children of the soldiers of
the Eastern expedition. The principal character
was enacted by Mr. G. V. Brooke, and the perfor-
mance went off very satisfactorily. Mr. Smith de-
serves great credit for having taken the initiative in
furthering the objects of this charity; and the best
thanks of the public are due to him, as well as to his
company, who gave their services gratuitously on the
occasion.
Another English version of the French vaudeville,
Le Misanthrope e l'Auvergnat, entitled My Cook and
Housekeeper, way produced on Thursday last, but
calls for no remark.