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studied by heads of families the better it will be for the
rising generation. The inellettlable importance of fresh
air and free exercise to the growing youth is not at all
rightly estimated, and it is worth notice that Mr. Maclaren
expressly recommends the simple playground games for
healthy exercise in opposition to any system of gym.
nastics unless carefully presided over by a qua.
lifted instructor. " A Song of the Soil" is as usual
continued at considerable length, so much so as to render it
diffuse and somewhat tedious iu its progress, although well
written. There aro several other pJpers, and Christina
Rossetti contributes a long and not altogether satisfactory
poem, in which the thought is worthy of a less rugged and
absurd expression.

THE ST. JAMES'S.—The author of " Sackville
Chase" continues his new story of " The Man in
Chains," which bids fair to be a prominent picture
in this magazine for some time to come. " Bertie
Bray." another novel in progress, is more interest.
ing, if less smart. " Pythagoras and the Poets" is
the title of an article of a more solid character that is worth
reading ; and the approaching ceremonial of the 10th of
March Fuggests a well-written paper on " Royal Births and
Baptisms," in all their variations, from the christening of
the first Prince of Wales, attended by the reluctant chief-
tains who had first been entrapped into acknowledging their
" native born" Prince, to the ill-fated little Edward the
Fifth, born and baptised during his mother's "sanctuary"—
at Westminster, and the ceremonial when Edward the Sixth.
was carried to the font—a pageant which Shakspere has
chronicled in the closing scenes of his Henry VIII, Other
tales and sketches are supplied for different tastes.

LONDON SOCIETY.—This magazine, which is
among the pleasantest and most readable of our
serials, is full as ever of animated sketches, of
romance and verse, of entertaining essays, and
clever illustrations. We are glad to find the inte-
resting and well-written series of " London Papers
and London Editors" is resumed. We have reminiscences
of Captain Sterling, of the Times, Dr. Black, of the
Citron/de, and Mr. Jerdan, whose literary recol-
lections have made his career familiar to many
readers. A portrait of Dr. Black, which is, however, no
striking resemblance, is prefixed to the article, which is full
of anecdotes concerning the journalistic celebrities of the
time. The recent debate on the management of the private
business in Parliament has, we may suppose, suggested a
paper called "How the Shareholders' Money Goes," which
gives an animated account of a battle in a committee zoom,
which ends in the total discomfiture of all parties. Foot-
ball, as played at the three great public schools of Rugby,
Harrow, and Eton, is pleasantly discoursed of. The second
of the papers on the Merchant Princes of England treats of
the De la Pales of Hull, who came over with the Conqueror.
It is remarked that to give their complete history would fill
a bulky volume. Quite enough of it for the general reader
is, however, condensed into less than a dozen pages. "The
Ordeal for Wives," a story of London life that is as yet
lingering in provincial retirement, proceeds with consider-
able spirit; but that somewhat rash and forward young
damsel who appears to be its heroine is likely to get into
serious difficulties. The illustration of it by Miss Edwards
is, as usual, natural and effective, which is more than can
be said of Mr. Watson's "Duet," where the two faces are
made so extremely sombre as to be scarcely distinguishable
—an unfortunate representation of "sunny faces" alluded
to in the accompanying verse.

TEMPLE BAR.—" The Doctor's Wife" is very
exciting in this portion of its narrative. Isabel
Sleaford is married to George Gilbert. This union
is sure to prove unhappy., as the parties are totally
dissimilar. The account of their engagement is
ingeniously described, and the foolish manner in
which Isabel behaved may serve as a warning to those who
persist in their romantic visions until reality undeceives
them with no very pleasant teachings. Mr. Jeffson, in his
downright way, is a positive relief after the exhibition
which Isabel makes of her dreamy notions, and George dis-
plays his simplicity. To go through life fancying you must
be a hero or heroine is the moat likely way to become a
martyr, though not in a very praiseworthy form. " The
Streets of the World" this time bring before us " Snargate
Street, Dover." This quaint locality will be rememb3rsd
by all who have been much about its precincts, though, as
the smart sketcher observes, few of the many who pass
through Dover see or care to acquaint themselves with the
curious spot here mentioned. " Marechal de Saxe" gives
a resume of the career of that celebrated man, which may
interest many readers, and they may refresh their memories
concerning a man who should not be forgotten, and of whom
it is hero appropriately remarked, " Such was Maurice de
Saxe, and, with all his faults, wo cannot refuse him his
niche in the \Valhalla of glory." "Broken to Harness" is
the second part of a now story by Edmund Yates. It is
smartly done, and presents some worldly and some peculiar
characters to our notice. " Home Contrasts" is rather a
peculiar sketch that sets forth the comparative advantages
and notifies the distinctive allurements at home and
abroad. Much useful knowledge may be gained by the
study of this paper, and the most prejudiced to old fashioned
things should not be too proud to learn how to make them-
selves and their belongings more suited to the taste of the
day, and more fitted to meet the requirements of the age.
There are several other articles on various subjects which
merit notice, and the last of the contents, entitled " Past
Help," is a very pleasing little poem. The verses are de-
scriptive and touching in their mournfulness, and they afford
a striking contrast in the death of despair and the life of
indifference.

GOOD WonDs.—The present number is an ex-
ceedingly good ono, both as regards the letterpress
and illustrations, It opens with the continuation
of the tale of " Oswald Cray," by the authoress of " East
Lynn," and promises well. We have also several interesting
papers, both prose and poetical ; from the latter we make no
excuse for extracting the following pretty little trifle,
entitled—

POLLY.

23rown eyes,
Little. nose;
Dirt pies, 1
Rumpled clothes ;
Torn books,
Spoilt to► ;
Arch looks,
Unlike a boys's;
Little ragez,
Übvioa,i arts;
hr,c her age is),
Cakes, tarts;
Fall nv, down
Off eh ,its ;
Breaking crown
Down stairs;
Catching }Bei
On the pace;

Deep sighs—
Cause not plain ;
Bribing you
With kisses
For a few
Farthingr, Misses ;
Wide awake.
As you hear,
"Atercy•s sake,
Quiet, dear 1"
New shoes,
New fro. k;
Vague views
01 what's o'clock
When it s lime
' To go to bed,
And scorn sublime
k or what is said ;

Folded hlnds.
Saying prayers,
Cnderstand4
Not, n,.r cares;

Thinks it odd,
Smiles away:
Yet may God
Hear her pray
Pedgown white,
hiss Dolly ;
Good night !
, That's Polly,

Fast asleep,
As you see ;
lie<tven keep
lily girl tc,r me !

THE ROSE, THISTLE, AND SHAMROCK.—The
adventures of Jacob Morrison have reached the 40th
chapter, in which Mrs. Smick gives Jacob a proof
of her friendly regard; and the continuation of the
novelette by Feather Penn, Esq., " Harry Vow-
hampton," will be read with interest. " Poland" is a
noble poem, from the pen of Elizabeth Sheridan Carey;
and "Misses and Matrimony," under the editorship of Capt.
W. W. Knollys, is as enteresting ao ever. The style in
which this paper is given is so excessively attractive that
ono invariably arrives at the words "to be continued"
abruptly and with regret. The latter feeling, however, is
somewhat assuaged by the knowledge that more is yet to
come.

TIIE ECLECTIC.—The warm tribute to the great
worth and noble character of Father Mathew which
opens this number will be read with interest and
pleasure by all who concern themselves with the
wants, the sins, and the sufferings of their fellows.
It is remarked of him, in reference to the terrible
years of the famine, that " No wretchedness, no plague nor
pestilence daunted him ; he was almost übiquitous in his
incessant movements amidst scenes of the most fearful misery;
ho exhibited for the poor, which he never exhibited for him-
self, a shrewd and practical, as well as a tender mind." Mr.
Itathbone, of Liverpool, who visited Ireland at that time,
has given a full account of the zeal with which ho devoted
himself to succour and comfort the afil.cted. Mr. Rath-
Lone found Father Mathew's carpetless rooms filled at
night with poor wanderers, who had no home, while his
readiness to visit the sick and dying, in houses where
t) phus raged, was a little alarming to his English visitor.
English Painting, in its social aspect, is discussed with
fine perception and taste. Two other papers, on "Poems
of Rural Life," and "Problems in human Nature," are
the most interesting portions of the remaining contents,
THE AUTOGRAPHIC MIRROR, otherwise L'Auto-
graphe Cosmopolite, continues to prosper, Number
two just issued sustains the repute acquired by its
predecessor ; the second instalment of this new and
very curious venture containing facsimiles of handwritings
and signatures, as interesting and various as N
s thoelsdsoonof,
living
the
Philip Sidney, General ‘Vashington, L
Poet Coleridge, Mrs. Trollope, the novelist ; a
actors as popular as Charles Kean and Charles l
Mathews.
Besides which, No. 2 is enhanced in value by
two
un-
published caricatures roughly sketched, the ono by Leech,
the other by Thackeray,

ANTUONY TROLLOPE's New Serial Story, " Can
You Forgive her ?"—" which," as Mrs. Gaup 'would
say, " we can't," at any rate as yet—brings •us (with
the monthly magazines) to the third number and
the eleventh chapter, each inclusively. In this instalment
the render learns all about the Pic-nic on the sands, and
how, at that pic-nic, Captain Bellfield proposes a toast.
Later en in the development of the plot the story will

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'‘ TETE BOATMAN," by Pisistratus Caxton, of
which we to:,sk occzaion to speak in the highest
terms of admiration immediately upon its first
appearance in the pages of Blackwood's Magazine,
has just now been reprinted, we aro glad to see, in a s,-pa-
rate form, as an elegant drawing-room-table-brochure, gilt-
edged and thielt-papered, and in lovely old-fashioned
typography. It will be welcomed in every boudoir and
library where the genius of the Poet of " King Arthur'
and "St. Stephen's" is already (and where is it not already ?.)
appreciated.

ONCE A WEEK for February—published in due
course with the March magazines—comprises among
its ample and varied contents several more than
usually interesting serial contributions to our popu-
lar light literature. Among these are Louisa Crow's
"Blacksmiths of HomLby," Adolphus Trollope's •• Beppo
the Convict,' and a story in two parts celled "The Gen-
tleman with the Lily," by an anonymous novelist. The
another, or rather part, is, as usual, profusely illustrated.
CISSELL's PUBLICATIONS. —A more beautiful
series of cheap publications than those now issuing
from the establishment of Messrs. Cassell, Petter,
an l Galpin has seldom if ever been seen. The " Illustrated
Shakspere" will, on completion, form Is magnificent volume.
The same may be said of our dear old companion, " Robin-
son Crusoe" while " Bunyan% Pilgrim's Progress," will
be an ornament to any library. " The Popular Educator"
and the "Popular Natural History" are all that could be
wished.

THE RAILWAY, BANKING, AND MINING AL•
MANACK for the present year is a perfect encyclo-
-1:o lia of information on all subjects either interesting or
of use to the rocrc.antile community. It is now published
at 13, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, in place of at the old
offices, in Bridge-street.
THE MUSICAL MONTIILY well sustains its cha-
racter. The paper entitled " Musical Notes" is
well written, and that on the approaching Shak-
sperean Festival is entertaining and well-timed.
It appears to us to be rather an oversight to defer
a notice of Mr. Macfarren's new opera " She Stoops
to Conquer," until April, because by that time it will, to a
great extent, have become a matter of history. One would
have thought the production of a new English opera by so
celebrated a composer, would have been considered of sufll•
cient importance by the conductors of a musical publication
to have secured for it immediate consideration. The con-
tribution for the pianoforte this month is a forcible simple
ballad in E flat, entitled " Spring Time is Coming," but,
in order to achieve a permanent success, we must have
some brilliant and first rate sonatas in addition to mere
polkas, galops, and ballads.

DALZIEL'S ILLUSTRATED GOLDSMITH. " The
Vicar of Wakefield." No. I. Surely Oliver
Goldsmith, could he have foreseen the celebration
of his genius by posterity in 1864, would have
looked upon the honours thus showered upon his
memory by his grateful countrymen as, in some
sort, a literary, musical, artistic, apotheosis! A
memorial statue of him erected in Dublin ! A com-
memorative monument over his grave, not so very long since
raised in the Temple where the site, moreover, of his dwel-
ling place has given a title to the buildings that now
occupy it I An operatic version of his charming comedy,
"She Stoops to Conquer," composed by a native
artist as gifted as Macfarren I Covent Garden
filled nightly to listen to the warblings of young Marlow
and Miss Hardcastlo, at the very time when the original
comedy itself was being enacted on the stage of the Hay-
market : shouts of laughter being excited at both houses by
the whimsicalities spoken or sung of Tony Lumpkin. And
now, to crown all, rival editions, exquisitely printed, pro-
fusely and elegantly illustrated, and yet published at a
fabulously small price, are being issued from the press in a
periodical form—rival editions of Goldsmith's masterpiece,
" The Vicar of Wakefield l" Here is Dalziel's now
before us—tho initial instalment of it. Nobly-sized pages
of delicately-tinted paper—with splendid typography and
abundant illustrations. The latter are charming, First of
all there is the family of Dr, Goldsmith at the head of the
opening chapter. And later on we have Olivia and Sophia.
Altogether a beautiful edition of a lovely story—and there-
fore precisely one of those serials that ought, in justice, to
command a rapid and lasting popular ity, and a very widely-
diffused circulation.

DALZIEL'S ILLUSTR ITED ARABIAN NIGHTS' EN4
TERTAINMENTS, Part lll.—more than sustains the
reputation won for it as a magnificent edition of a
world-famous Marvel of Romance, won for it, we say,
at once by the two preceding instalments. Several
of the embellishments are in truth masterly. In•
stance this—" Agib ascending the Loadstone Rock"—
" Sindbad in the Tub"—and " Sindbad in the Valley of
Diamonds." Among the illustrations of this cheap popular
periodical (ride " Zobeide Discovers the Young Man Re-
citing the Koran") is one by a Royal Academician—i.e.,
by the youngest of them, Mr. Millais.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Trafalgar, 70, 500-horse power, Capt. T. IL
Mason, was paid off at the Nore on Monday, and
will be immediately refitted for the Coastguard ser-
vice at Leith, by a party of officers and seamen who
have arrived from the Edinburgh.
The screw steam gunvessel Torch, 6, Commander
Frederick H. Smith, from Sierra Leone, which ar-
rired in Plymouth on Sunday afternoon, Bailed in
the evening for Sheerness and Chatham. She was
put in commission in June, 1860, and left for the
West Coast of Africa in the following September.
The Torch has been occupied chiefly in the suppres-
sion of the slave trade, and has captured seven ves-
sels ; she was also actively engaged in the operations
in the river Gambia in 1861. During her commis-
sion she has gone, under steam and sail, a distance
of 55,000 miles. Not one death has occurred in the
ship, and, with one exception, all the officers who
went out in her continue on board.

The first examination of naval engineers and as•
eistant-engineers under the new regulations recently
issued by the Admiralty commenced at Sheerness
Dockyard on Monday. In accordance with the rules
laid down by the Admiralty, certificates of Efficiency
will be granted to those engineer students who may
reach a certain standard of efficiency, By direction
of the Lords of the Admiralty the millwrights' shop
i❑ the dockyard recently vacated by the established
millwrights, has been handed over for the use of the
junior engineers of the fleet, who are to be employed
in the factory three days in each week,the remainder
being devoted to theoretical instruction in the
dockyard schools.

The proceedings before the court-martial which
assembled on Friday last on board the Royal Ade-
laide at Devonshire, concluded yesterday (Tuesday).
when Lieut. Charles Richards Tuckey, of her Majes-
ty's Chip Blenheim, tried on a charge of drunkenness
and incapacity (having been found guilty), was dis-
missed from that ship and placed at the foot of the
list of lieutenants in the Royal Navy.
The following appointments were made on Mon-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Henry H. M.
Magrath, to the Pembroke ; Charles S. de Strange,
midshipman to
G etohrge Princess
V.e
Wright, Royal
Dr. Edward
L. ;
Septimus Terry,
William M. Power, and Thomas Purcell, acting-
assist.-surgeons, to the Victory, for Hasler Hos-
pital; Dr. Alexander Mitchell, Peter Burgess,
Richard J. Sweetman, Dr. John Pringle, and Dr.
Thomas Redfern, to the Royal Adelaide, for Ply-
moutkiiospital.

TILE ARMY.
The Duke of Cambridge, as Field• Marshal Com.
raazding•in-chief, had a levee yesterday, at the
Horse Guards, which was attended by upwards of
00 officers.

A board of officers has officially inspected the new
cavalry barracks at Colchester, in order to report
upon their fitness to be immediately occupied by
troops.
A detachment of the Ist battalion of the Cold-
stream Guards,consisting of two officers and 95 men,
arrived at Eastbourne on Saturday, for a course 0
musketry instruction at the Government range.
CP.pt. Hathorne and Lieut. the Hon. Hencage Legge
i accompanied the detachment.

THE FRENCH CONSPIRATORS.—ImmediateIy afttr
the passing of the sentence on Greco, Trabucco,
Imperr.tori, and Scaglioni, they were conveyed to
the d apot for condemned prisoners at La Roquette.
Twa gendarmes were placed by the side of each, the
fo'.sr being taken in separate carriages. Up to
Saturday afternoon none of the prisoners had lodged
any appeal against the sentence. Mozzini, not
having surrendered, will be tried by default in
another session of the Paris Court of Assizes.
NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC CHU ItCH.—A new
Roman Catholic church, which has 'been erected in
Croydon, is to be consecrated by Dr. Grant, Bishop of
Southwark, on Thursday, the 10th inst. The sermon is to
be preached by the Rev. W. Q, Todd, D,D. Thq new
church is eituato la, the Wellesley-road.