The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-05 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

THE ART JOURNAL for February is adorned with
three very beautiful engravings from lovely
originals—to wit Herbert's " Susannah," Webster's
" Spring," and Story's "Sybil." Each of these
works of art, in its way, being an undoubted master-
piece—the cost of the half-crown publication in which
they appear is reimbursed to the purchaser in the
engravings alone, to say nothing whatever of the
letterpress. Yet, included among that letterpress
will be found, as usual, contributions from art-
critics as eminent as Mr. Ruskin, as Mr. Fairholt,
and as the Editor, himself, Mr. S. C. Hall—the
last-mentioned completing this month his interest
ing memorial paper (illustrated with charming little
woodcut embellishments) on Robert Southey, the
late Poet Laureate.

TIIE INFANT'S MAGAZINE.—What next ? The
Schoolmaster, tired of being so much abroad, we
suppose, has come home at last, and so con amore
that he appears to be making himself quite at home
in every room of our households. We have for
more than a century had the Gentleman's Magazine.
We have for some time past had a choice of
Lady's Magazines. There are Magazines for the
Boys and for the Girls respectively. And now, lo
and behold, we have The Infant's Magazine, the
organ of the Nursery. A line from Bon Gualtier
(we would here suggest)—

And our Young England's penny trumpet blow !

might be appropriately adopted henceforth as the
motto of this pretty little prattling periodical
pennyworth of prose and poetry for Toddles and
Poddles, for Tom Tucker and Goody Twoshoes.

A NIGHT IN THE CASUAL WARD has been done
into verse by M. A., and published as a threepenny
pamphlet. If for no other reason, it is noticeable
as a fresh attestation of the brilliant " hit" made by
the Swell Sham-Pauper of the Pall Mall Gazette,
whose Rubicon was that " weak mutton broth,"
(and he must still
won a new and odd
sthhuatd,dehravtiongthpinaksseodf tihorohuagsh
kind of fame for—not John llollingshead, not
Anthony Trollope, not a thousand times not Charles
Dickens, as some were absurd enough to imagine_
but the genuine Swell Casual, the veritable Simon
Pure (?—after the mutton broth !) James Green-
wood.

TIIE STORY OF TIIE LOST LONDON has been told
effectively in a little penny pamphlet, the bulk of
which is simply a reproduction or compilation from
the accounts originally published in the newspapers.
It is a talc of disaster and heroism quite as enthral-
ling in its way as those older tales, descriptive re-
spectively of the Losses of the Amazon and of the
Kent East Indiaman.

TIIE FARMERS' AND GARDENERS' ALIIANACK for
1866, issued from the press rather after date with
the February instead of with the January magazines,
is a splendid shilling's worth of information, full of
value and interest to both farmer and gardener.

DR EDGAR SHEPPARD'S PAMPHLET ON BATHING
(Hardwick), we are pleased to see, has obtained the
honour of a " Second Edition." It is full of com-
mon sense and of sound, wholesome advice worthy
of being taken (as a first step towards health) by
many a valetudinarian.

THE BROWN BOOK for 1866 sustains its reputa-
tion. It is enhanced in value this year by several
additional advantages, among others by the prefix-
ing to it of a folding outline map of the metropolis.

ROUTLEDGE'S NUTTALL'S WALKER'S PRO-
NOUNCING DICTIONARY is a wonderful shillings-
worth of Philological Information. It is as good a
dictionary of the size as was ever published. It is
revised, amended, and enlarged throughout, and
that critically. And we don't wonder to read on
the very cover of it that the present issue of the
work is its 120th thousand !
THE INTELLECTUAL OBSERVER.---This is a useful
and instructive miscellany, which deals less with the
general reader than with the studious and scientific.
Happily the circle who take an interest in questions
of natural philosophy is now a much more extensive
one than it was even a few years back, and accord-
ingly the intellectual observer is not likely to lack
readers who can both enjoy its contents and profit
by them.
THE SUNDAY AIAGAZINE._A very good and con-
scientious journal, directed a little too much to
those who hold the same religious opinions as its
editor, but well written and well printed. Some of
the general articles are very good, but the magazine
does not equal " Good Words" in
the happy com-
bination of religion and literature, which all sects
may read without offence and with direct profit.

LE FOLLET.-If grouping a colouring could make
the fashions charming, certainly the plates in the
" Follet" would reconcile our fair dames and
demoiselles to the most extravagant of modes ; but,
to tell the truth, all that Parisian art. can do fails
to render the stiff, narrow figures presented to us
as attractive as usual. The general contents of the
magazine is of the ordinary character.

QUEENSLAND EMIGRATION.—The ship Southern
Ocean, 2,500 tons burden, belonging to Messrs. T.
M. Mackay and Co., sailed on the 30th ult. from Gravesend
for Queensland, Captain Robert Craig, commander; sur-
geon-superintendent, Dr. Levitt. The Southern Ocean is
the 73d vessel that has sailed on the land-order system of
emigration, under the immediate direction of the Queens-
land Government. She carries 438 souls, divided into
paying, assisted, and free passengers, and consisting of
members of families, 174 ; single men, 242 ; single
ferules, 22.