The Press.
London, England, 1857-11-14 00:00:00

Medecin-Inspecteur was able to congratulate the Minister
for War that "le pail vint enfin mettre un terme a nos
misi:res."

The fidelity of these statements is
attested by the mortality experienced
in the French camp. Typhus, reported M.
Baudens, " overflowed the hospitals, and
" was found in the regimental tents."
All this verifies the fact of an appalling
amount of sickness in the French camp after
the capture of Sebastopol. Dr. Bryce esti-
mates the strength of their Crimean army at
the close of the war at below 50,000 men of
all arms, including General D'Allonville's
corps at Eupatoria, and that, from the rapid
and contagious spread of the disease, the
break down and utter inefficiency of the
hospital sanitary resources of the army, the
further prosecution of the war was impractica-
ble, and that peace had become a necessity
for the Emperor Napoleon. Without at all
entering into all his conclusions; we must
observe that we think Dr. Bryce has made out
a powerful case against the assumed of oiency
of the French hospital system, and we com-
mend his book, not only to those whom it will
interest and instruct in England, but to those
also on the other side of the channel who
may desire to know the opinion expressed of
their camp and hospital sanitary system by a
British medical officer of rank. We have only
to add, in conclusion, that a valuab).e chapter
1 is given upon the treatment of typhus adopted
in the French military hospitals.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED—NovEmutn 12.
BOORS.

--
The Lady of Glynne. By the Author of " Margaret and
her Bridesmaids." Three Vols. Hurst and Blacken.
A Short Course of History. Havilland he M. Cmell,
P.D. Two Vols. Whittaker ant Co.
Gymnastic Polymachinon. Captain Chiosse.
Walton and Maberly.
Poems of Oisin, Bard of Erin. Hawkins Simp son.
Bosworth.

Poems and Lyrics. Robert W. Buchanan.
Hall and Virtue.
Gazetler and Gazetteer Map of the Seat of Rebellion in India.
J. Maden.
Lives of the Lord Chancellers. Lord Campbell.
J. Vol
M. X. '
urray

PERIODICALS.
French Reading for Self Instruction. E. Wilson—The
Shipwrecked Mariner's Magazine—The Chemistry of the
World

PAMPHLETS.
A Sermon by the Rev. Francis Garden M.A. Rivingston
—.4 !'indication against the Manifesto of Centralism. E.
Stanford.

HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS.
ONE of the best of winter-evening entertainments
has commenced at these roams, and whoever has a
penchant for dexterous tricks of legerdemain will
not fail to study those performed by Professor
Frikell. At first one is apt to conclude that all such
tricks are more or less similar, and that having seen
Robert Houdin or Anderson, nothing more re-
mains to be witnessed. That is only true m
part. There are novelties in tricks, as in every
other art, and, besides, if we only see
.the
old tricks done more cleverly than by any previous
magician, there is something satisfactory in that.
M. Frikell differs from all previous masters of the
art in this, that he relies upon no extraneous aid for
effects. He stands upon a bare and unptetending
platform,with a couple of chairs as his " properties,"
and, dressed in simple evening costume, car-
ries on his operations close under the eyes of
his audience. To say that he executes his va-
rious tricks cleverly is poor praise ; he really sur-
passes every other master in the art, for
the point in all such perfomanoes is the execution
amid
in this M. Frikell is must completely successful. lt
is impossible to notice his tricks in detail; but
among the best are the pigeon trick and the Cali-
fornian researches. The pigeon trick is admirably
well done. A pigeon is cut up, its members distri-
buted, wrapped in paper, among the audience. A
bottle of wine is then produced ; the bottle 14
clearly full of liquid, some is even poured out. The
professor strikes it with his wand, smashes it. to
piece", and lo ! out comes the pigeon, whole, alive,
and dry, and flies through the room. The Cali-
fornian researches are also equally good. A hat is
borrowed, shaken, tapped, and proved to be empty,
when suddenly the professor pulls out, one after
the other, no less than 120 large metal cups ; and
there is no doubt at all about their number or sub-
stantial quality. A cargo of loose cards are then
jerked out of the hat on the stage. The hat then is