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London, England, 1841-01-28 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

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Nom JAN. 27.
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Lowest
Wind W. N.by W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

MISS STRICKLAND'S " LIVES OF THE 1
QUEENS o• ENGLAND."—It is gratifying to perceive that
Miss Strickland's charming work has been so appreciated
by the public, that the large impression of the first three
volumes has been sold, before the fourth volume could be
prepared for the press. A new and revised edition is now
in course of being issued, of which the first volume now
lies before us, its value enhanced by several important ad-
ditions. A more delightful performance has not been sub-
mitted to our notice for many a day, seeing that it lays
open the public and private lives of personages exalted
and illustrious, and of whom, except inasmuch as they
are politically concerned, the great historians have said
but little, Their sex adds greatly to the interest and
piquancy of the narrative of anecdote, and it i 3 the more
attractive from the circumstance that the British sceptre
is at present swayed by a female sovereign. A better pre-
sent for a lady than Miss Strickland's " Lives of the
Queen's of England," cannot be conceived.
PPTFI2 'l'l/12 Scour•,
EDITED BY Tueonoaz Nowt, ESQ., with Illustrations
by Pniz.—lf our readers recollect a book which made
no little noise in its day, called " Life in London," they
may, by changing the scene in their imagination from
London to Oxford, and calling the work before us, for the
nonce, " Life in Oxford," gain a very sufficing notion of
its general character. In a word, it shows forth, and
shows up, every species of "life" which comes now-a-
days within the meaning of that comprehensive term.
There is no species of " sport." no kind of fashionable
folly or license, no description of drollery, no phrase of
blatkguardism which wicked wits can invent, and booby
Lords and Honourables can practise at our seats of learn-
ing, that does not find its appropriate description and
illustration in these highly amusing pages. The College
Scout, who is here introduced to us under the auspices
of our great humourist, Mr. Theodore Hook, is
the most knowing hand of his knowing tribe ; and what.
ever lie knows, he knows how to tell in a lively and
striking manner. The book cannot fail to be popular.—
Naval and Military Gazette.
ARMY AND NAVY.—The February Number
of the United S6rviee Journal, and Naval and Military
Magazine, will contain, among other important papers—
The Fortifications of Paris—The Navy and Army of the
United States, in 1540—Raper's Navigation—Narrative
of Seven Weeks' Captivity in St. Sebastian, front the first
to the second storming of that place in 1531, by Lieut.-
Colonel Harvey Jones, R. E.—England's Wooden Walls :
the S, bile—Nelson at Bastia, by an Old Agamemnon—
Sketches from Military Life—The British Colonies con-
sidered as Military Posts; the Cape of Gsod Hope, by
Lieut.-Colonel Wilkie—Affairs at Buenos Ayres—Steam
Navigation—Attack on Santa Maria, in 1810—Attack of
Fort St. Jerome, St. Domingo—Garris—Despatches from
the East—General Distribution of the Navy and Army,
to the Ist of February, with all the Naval and Military In-
telligence of the Month.
MR. THOMAS HOOD'S NEW POEM—
" MISS KILLSIANSEGO, AND DER PRECIOUS LEG."—This
humourous production, we understand, will be concluded
in the February Number of " Colburn's New Monthly
Magazine and Humourist," which will also contain arti-
cles by Theodore Hook, Esq., Nimrod, The 0:d Forest
Ranger, Mrs. Trollope, &c.
DITCIILEY HALL, OxoN.—Sir Frederick
Johnstone Bart., and Lady Louisa Johnstone, arrived on
Friday last from Coon.he Abbey, the seat of Earl Craven.
The Dowager Countess Craven, and Earl and Countess
Craven, arrived on Monday, on a visit to Sir Frederick and
Lady Louisa, who receive a large party at the Hall during
I the week.

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