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A CNIIISTNAI PASTY IN Alt ICI DUPS.—Our
Christmas was • very cheerful, merry one. The men were
supplied with mural additional articles, such as ham,
placipuddinge, preserved gooseberries and apples, tuts,
sweetmeats, and Beres ale. Ali
divine service they
degeraled the lower desk with nags, and made en iMIZINSIS
display el food. The diem crime down with rue tome
their preparatioes. We were really astonished. Their
mess-tables were laid out like the mantas In • confec-
tioner's shop, with apple and gooseberry tarts, plum and
sponge adowila pyneride, besides mime other tuditnown
puffs, sakes, end lams of all Mem and shapes. We
belie all ear own Weed, and excellent it is. la the
teckgreend were nicely browned hem, meat pies, cheeses,
end other enbstantial articles. Rain and water he whits
gleams and plum-mks was banded to Da : we sighed them •
happy Chriehnse, and complimented them on their tate and
spirit in getting up such a display. Oar silken sledge bea-
ms had been borrowed for the ciocedos, and me regarded
with deference arA peculiar pride. la the evenlag the
diem were enticed down ansorme the ma again, nod at •
late hour I ma requested, se • great favour, to come down
end we how much they were sejoying themselves. I found
them in the highest good humour with themeless
and all the world. They wen perfectly sober, and sing-
ing song., each is his turn. I expressed great tatbao-
tion at having wen them enjoying ntermiven so much and
so rationally ; I as
therefore the better describe it to Lady
Franklin, who was so deeply interested in everything
relating to them. I drank their beelike, and hoped ow
next y would more suitable for our purpose.
Voita year be
iribied in drinking the heaths of Lady Franklin and
Mies Cratreit, end amid the acclamations which followed I
returned to my cabin, immensely gretided by each en ex-
hibitios of genuine good feeling, ouch venendlon for Lady
Frank)* and such loyalty to the muse of 'he expedition.
It was very plasma Moo that they had taken the moot
chewing view of our future proepeete. I verily believe I was
the happiest individual on board that hippy evening.—Cap-
Nast llVOlintack's Narrative of the Discovery of the Phis of
Sir lota Franklin.

AN ICY BAPTIBM.—On Sunday manning las the
ordiheace of bsptiam by immersioa, wadianed to a
real lady of Beropton. The spot glees for the whets-
tios of this rite wee the mill stream, at the villep of Alves•
tett, shout thaws miles hence • the offleistiug minister was
a Mr. Dos, of South Moreton, near Walliogford. A large
suserw of pampa aere attraoted is the era= to "imams
the pardamsnos at the ceremosy, es any ususual at this
inclasest .pariod of the year. A repot that such ea
west was to tam place at the locality In question waa
assonny ohnidalei is the seighbotubood, but It wee
bat by few paean, as the weather bad become so
awns, and nothing leis than ocular demonstratioa
3L7l:at mold remove their credulity. In the previous
night the thaw:moor had fallen so low ea 8 deg. On the
morning of Sunday the ice bad to be broken and removed so
as to permit the immersion to mire place, and the candidate
underwent the ordeal with an amount of determination, two-
lotion, and seal but randy found centered is one
We hope the fair lady may be spiritually !melted, and
escape physical injury.—Or ford Chronicle.
NON•C01111108T1BILITY oP Ceitectmea.—At the
meeting of the Pharmaceutical Society. • few days shwa I.
=trait Hall, Dr. &same= Keeedain exhibited •
dress, oos.balf of which had boas trammed in •
Watt= of sulphate of ammonia, in order to teat its non.com-
bustibility. On light having bees wiled to the semolina
the part Olt which had not been steeW in the solution was
IS 000 s eimiloped in flame ; but the cal, effea which the
light had on the other part was to cher it. This was wad.
dated • settehotory expeitnent ; sad it was stated that se
smarm& was Only 2d. per pound, it wee seceedbie to the
hasabist claws. it Well mated that the mantis, wad la
the »gel estehtiehmeat was steeped in a totslly Moot
solatialt ; ant that ma east prevented its gowwW um. 811
dna *adman'. adiadaa was equally alleasiona—llialtayA
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LITERATURE.

Senn Years : and Other Tales.. By JULIA

KAvaimon. Hunt sad Bleekatt.

In the three volumes just published Mir Ka-
vanagh give. token of ineremied dramatic ability.
We have heretofore accounted this lady se foremost
in a class of meritorious writers who fall off in the
presentation of character. Such or such a person,
they tall se, is a schemer, and we have no evidence
of his scheming ; and another is witty, though we see
nought of his wit; and a third is 'profligate, but
we miss the scenes of hie profligacy and get not a
single peep at the naughtiness which, we are
required to .appose, ie hurrying him to perdition.
The lover sigh. most gratuitooaly, and the humorous
man ends his pert in peaces, not to say in dulness, for
his humour has been all along accredited to him on
the principle we have indicated. The story of
" Seven Years," we think, is greatly above all the
preceding stories of Miss Kavanagh in its qualities
of delineation. It is, in • word, more graphic.
In that venerable part of Paris called the Mara*
lives • lady of high family named Madame la Roche.
Her household is a small one, consisting chiefly of a
curious pair of old women-servants and a oung girl,
god-daughter of one of them. This girl, la
Roche and her two domestics conspire to pet and
in the most natural and pleasing meaner.
Fanny is, by a show of wise severity, made to este
her hying; and she attracts the notice of • young
Flemish upholsterer, Jean Baptiste Watt, who
occupies a shop directly opposite the mansion in
which Madame la Roche has lived for many years,
and in which she hopes to die. Circumstances are
=the probability of this consummation, for
Madame la Roche loses all her money by the fraud
of • eon-in-law, who kills himself after embittering
the lives of other people. Madame is obliged to quit
her apartments in the Marais, and to exist on a little
income saved from the wreck of her fortunes. It is
• very little income indeed, and is barely enough
to keep life together. Fanny's lover makes humble
saerifloes to help the old woman in her adversity ;
but there is a certain Monsieur Noiret who sin
afford more material aid without, making any seed-
floe at all, for he is rich, and it is au object with him
to make Madame la Roche his debtor beyond hope of
release. In short, be is desire= of marrying Fanny,
whore
straggles to avoid the match are very prettily
depicted. Of course all comes right in the end, and
the mrader, having never been very terribly alarmed
foe Fanny, is but moderately grateful to the
authoress for giving her, after all, to Jean Baptiste.
The real claims of Mir Kavanagh to the thanks of
all who read this tale may be fairly founded on its
quiet truthfulness and quaint pictures of ontnf-the-
way life. The language of all the personages is
distinct, and the two old servants are especially well
treated in this respect. They quarrel perpetually
on every point but the indulgence of the girl, and
their quarrelling is kept up with admirable spirit
and reality.
Of the three volumes not half thespaoe is oc-
copied by the story of " Seven Years." The
rest is made tip of an odd gathering of minor
tales and sketches, put together without any
attempt at arrangement. " Seven Years " ie
the title which runs throughout all three
volumes, on every page, and there in DO table of
contents or guide to the reader in making his seise-
tion. To open the third volume is to find oneself in the
middle of some anecdote bearing, quite unjustifiably,
the title of the opening story. This plan of making
a three-volume novel is not one that we can praise.
It entails great inconvenience, on the reader, and
even carries the suspicions look of an endeavour to
impose on him. If a preference, however unreason-
able, does exist for novels in three volumes, it is
entitled to full consideration as a commercial demand.
A good collection of little stories may be far more
entertaining than one long story ; but the act of
designating one thing by the name of another is an
' act of deceit in any case. On the title-page of the
work we are now emitting appears, to be sue, the
• wads" and other tales." Bat that is the only place
where the words do appear ; whereas the primary
title is paraded on the covers of each volume, and,
, as we have said, at the top of every page. We are
bound to suppose that this is an oversight ; but it is
unpleasant.

Tales from " Bentley." Vol. 11. R. Bentley.
Magazine stories and sketches, if they are worth
reading at all, deserve to be reprinted in the day of
the resurrection of forgotten literature; if they are
not worth reading, they ought never to have obtained
insertion in the magazine. There are three different
method', or principles of collection, observed in the
republication of articles from a weekly or monthly
miscellaneous journal. In the first case, the sections
or chapters of an extensive work, usually a novel,
which has been doled out piecemeal to the. earliest
readers, are joined together, in order that it may ap-
pear as a whole. This process is not only legitimate,
but necessary for the real enjoyment and comprehen-
sion of the work. In the second case, various con-
tributions of one author, with a diversity of subject
and treatment, are reprinted at his own imtance, or
with his express sanction, under the title of xis
occasional productions; and this may be justified
by a certain weight of authority, or an ap-
proved popularity already attached to his name,
but it is scarcely a commendable prooeeding
for an insignificant writer. The third case, of which
" Tales from Blackwood" recently set the example,
is where a magazine or any other periodical having
attained a definite reputation for a peculiar kind of
papers, some of the most characteristic of these are
selected for reproduction as a permanent repository
of samples of the quality of its usual contents.
With regard to these "Tales from Bentley," now
before us, we need only refer to the habitual readers
of that familiar old vehicle of entertainment to tes-
tify how much pleasure they derived from "The
Herdsman" by Mr. P. M'Teague—from the amount
of " What Tom Biota did when he didn't know what
to do with himself "—from Captain Medwin's " Mee-
calbruoi," one of those melodramatic tales of Italian
brigandiam and desperate gambling rascaldom which
were in vogue thirty years ago—from the Irish
brogue of " Watty Flaherty," and the sailor senti-
ment of " Greenwich Men." These relics of a lite-
rary costume long ago decayed and out of fashion
nod our earliest reading days, if not the days when
George was king. There are also two or three
comical stories in Ingoldsby verse; there is a
Spanish tale by Sir William Napier, one scene of
which is in the battle of Bunco, and there are one
or two short poems, including Longfellow's "Reaper
Death," and a favourite song, "The Monks of Old,"
which were in no danger of oblivion, though Bent-
ky'e Magasine claims the merit of their first intro-
duction to the world.

Sloskspoores Musa*ld Words. A Selection from
the Wise Sayre of the Immortal Bard. Illuminated

by S: 6TA; ES Y Griffith and Co.
The wisdom of William Shakspeare can illuminate
itself; and if there be an nee and a gram, which we
do not diapote, in the picking out and distinct array-
ing of his jewels of thought, Mrs. Cowden Clarke
his performed the task in her excellent collection of
Sbakspeare proverbs, with a reverent but discriminat-
ing hand. The quotations included in this superb
little volume are fewer than in that lady's collection,
and the printing is not executed satisfactorily. But
the glory of the book is that of rich colouring and
gilding, and profusion of artistic design. " A word
fitly spoken," says an ancient oracle, " is like apples
of gold in pictures of silver." The words of him, to
whom the whole English people goes to school, were
ever fitly spoken; the precious embellishment may
be superfluous, but here it is offered. His portrait,
from the Stratford bust, in silvery serenity looks
out of the brilliant page.

The Prisesta. d Medky. By ALFRED TENNYSON,'
D.C.L., Post Laureate. With Illustrations from
ira by Daniel MmHg*, Mozoo.
This biotin lislog tbo most perfect