The Sun.
London, England, 1859-09-08 00:00:00

LITERATURE.

Little Tour in Ireland. By an Oxonian, wit"
illustrations by John Leech. Bradbury and
Evans.
This is a very pleasant volume, recording the
impressions of a brief tour in the Emerald Isle. It
is written with frankness and spirit, and is full of
incident and anecdote. Though replete with liv
liness and humour, it has no pretensions to being a.
comic work, and the author writes seriously and
sensibly enough on the troubles and difficulties of
Ireland and the " Great Famine." The illustrations
from the pencil of John Leech, are thoroughly cha-
racteristie, and we commend all who wish for in-
telligence respecting the Sister Kingdom
information and entertainment in these lively and
graphic pages.
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to seek

Martin F. Tupper has collected all his songs au;
letters on the subject of our national defences, and
published them under the title of " Some Verse and
Prose about National Rifle Clubs." There is much
truth and sense in many of his observations!
though there is a little too much of the fear of
France in them.

The great increase of painful affections 01 LW
nerves of late years among us will render a
en "OW'
work by H. Crowhurst Roods, M.D., very g:
ally acceptable. It is on the nature and treatment
of Sciatica, and the inflammatory disease of nervous
structures in general. The system pursued andDhe
r.
Roods seems to have been very successful,
appears to have carefully studied tho pathology °1
his subject.
The National Life-boat Institution has recently
published a very useful pamphlet of " Instructions
for the Management of Open Boats in Heavy Snrfs
and Broken Water ;" to which are appended "111;
structions for the Rescue and Restoration
.0'
Drowning Persons." It deserves to be widely or.;
culated, as it contains much useful information, an
may be the means of saving many lives.

" Lilwall's Mercantile Circular" is intended for
the use of wholesale houses, merchants, shippers,
&c. It contains all news relative to trade, raarke.r.'„
It
for manufactures, money market, &c.
probably be a useful business circular.

The indefatigable Mr. Cassel has added to the
numerous list of his cheap publications by the issuet
of a " Popular Natural History." It has a grea
number of woodcuts, and is well adapted fbt.
popular reading.
A new style of serial has been lately cornmelic.edi
as a means of communication between inercanti.e.
houses. " The Draper and the Clothier" is intendl
for this purpose, and purposes to be a " perreanello
record of news, advertisements, and .inforaatio.a_e
for all classes of manufacturers and dealers in Wail
fabrics. It is published by Houlston and Wright'

" The Universal Decorator" is a very elegailllfla
tasteful publication, likely to extend and cuL- s
the public taste in art. The coloured illustracetatio.uei
of the various styles of decoration are very g
r
and much of the contents is by able writers.
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A weekly journal has lately commenced Wide:
the title of Independenza ltaliana, which is °ill-
what of a literary curiosity. It is publishea
W. Jepps, foreign bookseller, in the Burlin,t°,,
Arcade, and is in three languages, Italian, Frerit_
and English. It upholds the cause of Italian inau(i
pendence, and seems to be written with sense al
spirit. The Italians who conduct it give their ser-
vices gratuitously.

A pamphlet has lately been published by3.les.'o,
Houlston and Wright, on congregational ice.singll3°
A.s most
.church-goers will admit that some
c
provement is necessary, it is likely to be verY.,tie
ceptable to those who wish to see our church 111"-0,
better conducted. It insists strongly on the neceef
sity of all singers singing the same words togeth
a.fact whose importance is generally comple,ite.4
dlsregarded. The pamphlet is so cheap, an tie.
directions so clear and practical, that all who
rest themselves in congregational singing sh°uld
purchase it.