The Express.
London, England, 1858-01-05 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1858.

211. bleeped* : 1 This if tae Wee, by G. J. Warts
Magmas (Landes, John W. Peaks),
Nes hen reprinted Leo .saw's ll'af air, sad is perhaps
the sod iheished thing Mr. Melville has yet does. In this,
ea in s l his tehi, we have spite pictures of English life,
lively diskette, dashing description, and reflood sentiment.
Bat in the " Interpreter" the scene is @abused. We ore
net congaed to Ragiand—kaeign life end manners are
diewilled, events are related that acme home to oar English
!sate ; for eves the fell of Delhi end the relief of Loolmow
has not blotted Los our memories the attack on the Emden,
here dreenatioally desribed. In the "Interpreter" a deeper
vein of feeling Isereoesd. We es how, in the discharge of
stern duty, and in the hour of danger and death, the cha-
racter even of the most selfish is elevated and refined. We
need toy no more, ea most of our resters, we imagine, are
&Way funnier with this lest effort of our author.

Noinhligiar is happy till he has brevet t ant a new edition
of Shakespeare. Mr. Routledge sends us the first Volll=6 of
Tho Asir of Shmkaimars ; edited by How•ga Sv•oirrom
with Migrations by JOHN GUJI/ULT.
The volume is a, handsome one, we confess, and Mr. OR.
kort's Migrations are u beautiful as they an appropriate.
A. lenges and comments on Skiskespeare, the tower of thus
the hair. No editor can avoid being tediums. Mr. Strum-
lim ie bat he might have bees more so ; for instance
gemegagni, alarm Miaow. In the Moon
Won .f Flaw, says Ila ago a Ster-ehember
=Moe alit." Of meows Kr. Statintan adds an account of
the Sur-chamber. This is pallietly fair ; but what we do
complain of Is inch • comment as the following :—" The
ridkide in the play is the making the vain and imbecile old
justice suppose his patsy squabble with Falstaff to be at anti-
dent importance to be adjudicated by such • court." Why
Is it that ogonamtators always assume that their radon In
the weakest end meet ignorant of men f
In the summer we spoke favourably of a little volume on
the Channel lamb, by Mr. Oetagua Rooke. He bee spin
made his appanage as an author, and truly a imp elegant
&gums la his lest work,
TA* Lilo of Ow Noma., from its *moron in as Vlsgoo Moom-1

Mk; to ;Is fealties wilA the Mika. London : L. Booth.
Much is to be said ibr the Moselle. Ansonia* preferred it
to the Rhine. Mere old eastles and rains are to be found on
Ile mimes then alseerhme fa Europe; and its wine, we all
know, is enough to make • teetotaller break his pledge.
Ihrenge is it that tourist and allot have neglected it so long.
Mr. Rooks make to make as bmfliar with the Moselle, and
with • lover's earawinesse pears up its legends and describes
its beauties. flame seventy engravings from the author's
sistieles attest his powers as an artist. The charms of the
Bohr as s gift book are increased by its cream-coloured
paper and its gorgeous binding, all gross and gold.

IXHIBITION.

Thin exhibition, which wee opened to the public
to-day, was last night husugurated by a eurerusione, which
wee numerously attended by the members of the profession
aid their friends. The drawings, though not so numerous u
lest year, constitute a very splendid collection, and Indicate a
trials progress in the skill and dexterity of the designee.
This was to be expected, because all program depends on the
tomparioon of capacity with capacity, and as the exhibition
grows older still further advances may be anticipated. As •
general rule, no drawings before exhibited in London ere
admissible, but an exception was made on the present oeca-
ion in ,our of the designs for the government Mess, and
Or the Memoriel Church at Constantinople. The prise draw-
lap in the k collection are not, however, in the exhibi-
tea, being, we understand, at present in Scotland.
Mr. C. R. COCKS/ILL, A.A., delivered • ghost address.
Amongst the deigns exhibited, and not referred to lope-
chkally by Mr. Cockerel!, are thus for the competition, of the
Ulster Beak in Belfast, the Vestry-hall, Islington, the
Brigitte' Pavilion, the Crimean and Brothel= Mensoriele,
Bowden Clunk Cheshire, and Blackburn IMlnnary. A
series et seven studies in Magna Orecia, by Mr. P. P.
Cockerel, were much admired. The selection of sketches by
the clue a/design in the Architectural Association is highly
creditable, and will show to what practical purposes the
studies of rising artiste are directed. The present exhibition
contains 463 subjects, exclusive of the patents and inven-
tions, So., connected with the building, of which then an
several.