The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-02 00:00:00

The Great Highway. By S. Fullom. London

Routledge and Co.
A THIRD Enmos of Mr. Fullom's novel, if the " third"
be genuine, shows that the author, in his own
person, has no cause to complain of literature being
neglected, unless, indeed, he considers that his works
have been of a nature to claim "the rewards of the
" Crown, and the patronage and consideration of the
" Government." It is true, we believe, that, as a pro-
fession, literature presents greater obstacles than any
other to real success, and we are afraid that the pub-
lishing system now in vogue is adverse to the
interests of original authorship. But these are con-
siderations foreign to the feeble caricature of Mr.
Fullom's sketches. The story is a fair specimen of
book manufacture, and to some extent illustrates the
truth ofthe writer's remark, that the secret of literary
success is—connection.

SATURDAY,

The Principles of Elocution. Dublin: Curry.
A WELL-AHRANGED compilation from Archbishop
Whately's " Elements of Rhetoric," giving the
ideas of this shrewd writer on the true principles of
elocution, and on the best method of acquiring the
art of expressing thought in a clear, forcible, and
natural manner. Students in training for any pro-
fession requiring some oratorial skill will find this
tract full of sound and express rules for their profit.

The Young Poet's Assistant. By an Old Reviewer.
London: Saunders and Otley.
THE young poet who requires an assistant to tell him
what to write, and when to write, will be likely to re-
quire another still more important person—a reader.
This trifle calls for notice only as indicating how
much paper must be sroiled by versifiers when a
guide is published expressly for their use. The
remarks are sensible and well meant, but genius is
not likely to heed them, and to any lower order of
talent what can be said but "poets nascitur non fit"?

Ma. WYLIA Map of the Crimea is a valuable
addition to our geographical knowledge of that por-
tion of the Russian possessions. Upon a large and
comprehensive scale, the present map notonly marks
the great military roads throughout the country, but
every cross-road and track from one village to another
is drawn so clearly that, if extensive inland operations
take place, the positions of the contending armies
can be fixed or followed with accuracy and interest.
The plan of the town and harbour of Sebastopol ap-
pears to be carefully drawn; but certainly the ranges
of the guns in the batteries, if correctly marked, do
not say much for the Russian engineers, who, though
designing such powerful sea defences, arm them
with guns that scarcely range a thousand yards.
Mr. Wyld deserves every praise for thus keep-
ing pace with the events of the day, and the demand
of the public fur authentic maps of the seat of war.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
BOOKS.

The Last Days of Diserth. A Poem. W. G. Starbue k.
Saunders and Utley.
Annotated Edition of the English Poets, " Wyatt."
Parker and Son.

Books for the Country, "Shoot hag." R. Blakey.
Routledge.
Fish and Fishing in the Lone Fens of Scotland. H. Knox.
Ditto.

Dogs and their Management. E. Mayhew. Ditto.
The Pride qf Life. Lady Scott. Ditto.
The Happy Colony. 11. Pemberton. Saunders and l)tle)•.
Sabina. J. B. l'hilpot. Ditto.
Gibbon's Roman Empire. Vol. V. W. Smith, LL.D.
Murray.

PAMPHLETS.
Prurledings of the Decimal Association. Rickerby.
Uccasional Sermons. No. 42. C. Wordsworth. Rivingtons.

fortign girt, Xittraturt, t.

THE CHINESE DWARF, CHIN-GAN, forming part of
the Chinese jugglers lately exhibiting at Berlin, died
some days ago in the Charitk Hospital, and was in-
terred in the neighbouring cemetery. He was a
native, it is said, of Pekin. The remainder of the
party are exhibiting at Krolls, and it appears that a
sort of Wagner process is being carried on between
them and another theatre director, to whom their
former conductor, a Mr. Watts, engaged them fur
exclusive perfo: mances, under a penalty of 5001.
M. SOYER, the celebrated founder, who cast the
column of July on the Place de la Bastile, and other
great works, has just died.
THE HAURSTEIN TUNNEL, near Bale, in Switzerland,
is pierced to a length of 335 feet on the southern
and 400 feet on the northern side of the mountain.
The three shafts are 174, 120, and 220 feet deep.
The whole tunnel, 8,300 feet long, must be ready in
August, 1856. Trial trips are to take place in Octo-
ber on the Bile-Sittach portion of the central line,
which is expected to be ready for traffic in November
THE DIRECTOR OF THE SWISS TE:LEORAPHS has
issued a tariff for despatches to the chief places
abroad. The minimum for twenty-five words from
Bellinzona to Bergamo, for instance, is sf. The
maximum from several chief stations to Dublin is H.
14s. 3d. From twenty-six to fifty words the cm;
munication costs double; to one hundred, treble. A
provisional tariff has been fixed for the Swedish tele-
graph. It is excessively low. A despatch of thirty
words, the whole way from Stockholm to Helsing-
borg, will only cost one dollar sixteen skillings bang o
(about two shillings sterling). The telegraph dis-
tance is 120 German miles. The patent has been
signed allowing M. T. P. Shaffner, the American
agent, to construct an electric telegraph from North
America, over Greenland, Iceland, and the Feroes,
to Norway and Copenhagen. A plan is in agitation
for a continuation of the Danish electric telegraph
direct to England, over the sea from Toning.