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and finish, and not sufficient pains taken with the eon, -
struction of the plot. The chief actors in the
story belong to a quiet country family, and the
different dispositions and peculiarities are well
pourtrayed. The characters of the three daughters
are well contrasted, and the brusque and uncon-
ventional Kate will enlist the reader's sympathies.
Teresa, the eldest, takes the most prominent part,
but is by no means the most pleasing. Though -
her trials were severe, hRr selfish absorption in •
her own interests prevents her from awakening
any vivid degree of interest, Edith appears but
little on the scene, but that little is gentle and
captivating. The portrait Of aunt Teresa is ably
drawn, an the perplexity as to her unacknow- •
ledged daughter is skilfully kept up. Teresa's •
mistaken pretensions are artfully introduced, and
those who delight in unravelling an entangled.
plot will find much gratification in guessing
the denouement. The conclusion is, however,
very defective. All the other actors are pushed off
the scene to make way for the two most prominent,
and even they are summarily disposed of. Those
who had excited our interest at the commencement
are dismissed in a few words at the end. Mr.
Forster is the type of a class who take advantage
of a specious exterior and superficial knowledge to
impose upon the credulous and unsuspicious. The
story, which is no doubt an early production, does
credit to itsanthor's taste and feeling, and promises
some works of higher excellence.

Tho Initials. By the author of "Quits." Bentley.
Mr. Bentley's cheap series, which has included
so many excellent works, has now reproduced this
popular novel. The clever authoress has achieved a
decided success in her last work, which has reached
a second edition; and those of her readers who have
not read her former fictions will now be able to
make the acquaintance of "The Initials" in a very
commodious form. The scene is laid abroad, and
it is in her descriptions of Continental life that she
excels. Her plot is not exciting, and her pictures of
domestic life among us are not very striking; but in
the delineations of the freedom and gaiety of Ger-
man peasant life she especially shines, and
represents it in a most attractive form.
The whole novel is contained in one volume, in clear
type, and the lovers of fiction are fortunate when
they have works of a supe'ior and original charac-
ter placed within the reach of all classes.

Practical and Economical Cookery. By Mrs.
Smith. Chapman and Hall.
The two adjectives prefixed to this work are
not often ingredients in the manufacture of domes-
tic receipts, and the complication of the directions, "
and the expense of the articles required by the ex-
perienced professor, are as alarming to the careful
housekeeper, as the omission of a few indispensable
rudiments of culinary instruction are perplexing to
the uninitiated. The little work before us is simple
and concise, clear in its directions, and moderate in
its requirements. The writer has been for 40 years
a professed cook, and has therefore the benefit of
practical experience. The great variety of dishes
will afford useful suggestions to many, and the
bills of fare may offer some acceptable hints in the
arrangement of a banquet. The directions for
carving are likely to be of service, and the little
work commends itself to public favour by its prac-
tical utility.

A Tramp's Wallet. By W. Duthie. Darton. •
These pleasant reminiscences by an English
goldsmith, of his wanderings in Germany and
France, are mostly reprinted from " Household
Wort." A stay of three years and a half on the
Co:Ainent has enabled him to collect anecdotes and
observations that form a very agreeable volume. It
is a pleasant and entertaining compilation, and
with its accounts of silver mines, Austrian jails,
Leipio fairs, mountain walks, French and German
workmen, and their national characteristics, it con-
veys a very good idea of continental life and
manners.

The New Quarterly Review. No. XXVI.
The New Quarterly has several very interesting
papers, and the general style maintains the cha-
racter of the serial. The most prominent questions
of the quarter are treated of, and several literary
ci iticisms pass under review the principal works of
the season. An article on the "Anti-spasmodic •
Shoo' of Poetry," has some Tensible remarks on
poetry in general, though not altogether free frog'
prejudice.

THE LATE GOLD DUST ROBBERY.

Last term a rule was obtained by the corpora-
tion of London for quashing an order made by two
learned judges relative to the disposition of certain
Turkish and Spanish bonds and other property,
found in the possession of Burgess, Pierce,
and Tester, who were tried and convicted at the
Central Criminal Court in January, 1857, for steal-
on Ar,l nn +ha
Crnith-
h Astern Railway. After the trial one-sixth of the'
property was restored by the order in question to
the South-Eastern Railway, as being part of the
proceeds of the said robbery. The remaining five'
sixths applied to certain Turkish bonds, which
Agar, the approver,, who was previously con-.
-Tided of forgery, bad handed over to Pierce
for investment for Fanny Kay and her
child by Agar. Pierce omitted to invest
them, and when he was apprehended the Turkish
bonds were found in his possession. The learned
judges, under the circumstances, directed in the
same order that the Turkish bonds amounting t°,
near 2,0001. should be invested for Fanny Kay and
her child, in accordance with Agar's intention.
The corporation of London claimed the properthi
under the Charter, as being entitled to take all
felons' property within their jurisdiction. This
merning°,the rule come on for argument before the
Court of Queen's Bench, when the Court held that
by the law felons' goods were forfeited, and that
the learned judges had no power to make the
order with reference b the Turkish bonds. That
put of the order was rescinded, and the result je,.
that Fanny Kay and her child will be deprived of
the benefit of the money, which will be handed
over to the sheriffs and under-sheriffs who were ill
office when the trial took place, they being entitled
to the property of felons, through the Corporations
towards defraying the expenses of their officers.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE-,

WEEK.

(From the Report of the Registrar General.)

The de tths registered in London, which in the
two previous weeks were successively 1,057 and
1,082, rose in the week ending last Saturday to
1,106, of which 576 were deaths of males, 'and 530
those of females. In the ten
years 1848-57 the
average number of deaths in the weeks correspond;
ing with last week was 1004, but as the deaths of
'act week occurred in an increased population, they
can only be compared with the average after the -
latter is raised in proportion to the increase, a cor-
rection which will make it -1,104. .Hence" it ap"
pears that the rate of mortality that prevailed last
week agrees with the average, as calculated from
ten years' experience at the end of May.
The births of last week exceed the deaths in the -
same period by 586.
By comparing the results of the last two weeks
with reference to the causes of death, it will be
seen that while zymotic diseases have decreased
from 269 to 259, and local diaereses from 420 to 406,
those of the " constitutional" class have increased
from 210 dea'hs to 265, and have produced the in'
crease in the total number of deaths which is shown
above. Phthisis (or consumption) is the special
disease to which this result is duo, for whereas it
was fatal in the previous week in 117 caw, lastweek it was fatal in 169. The corrected average
for this disease for last week is 149.. Small-pa
was fatal in 5 cases ' • measles decreased from 60 to.
45, whooping-cough from 72 to 61. There were 14
deaths from diarrhoea, the corrected average being
19. No case of cholera was returned. Of f"
nonagenarians whose deaths were registered, the
two eldest were widows, one of whom died et the
age of 96 yoars in Fulham Workhouse, the other
at 97 years in St. Luke's Workhouse.
Thirty-seven deaths are returned as having arise¢
from the developmental diseases of children, of
which 18 are ascribed to premature birth, 2 to
cyanosis, 3 to spina bifida, 3 to other malformv
tions, and 11 to teething.
Last week the births of 904 boys and 788 girls' •
in all 1,692 children, were registered in Lou'ct:
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848'
57 the average number was 1,527.