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The Sultan of Turkey, Abdul Medjid Khan. A
Brief Memoir of his Life and _Reign. By the
Rev. Henry Christmas. London : J. F. Shaw.
At no period of our history was it more desirable
that the people of this country should possess a
well-grounded knowledge of the national and per-
al history of the individual and general
s of Turkey than at the present moment,
when we stand on the entrance to the first battle-
kid of a war undertaken in her defence, the dura-
tion and the final result of which no man can with
certainty foretel. The little volume before us con-
veys much information in brief space, and is
interesting on many accounts, chiefly, however,
from the numerous illustrative anecdotes, throwing
light on the personal history, intelligence, and
modes of thought evinced by the Turkish Sultan.
The present state and future prospects of the
Turkish empire likewise meet with a fair and intelli-
gent consideration, and, as the book is published
at a rate so cheap as to bring it readily within
reach of all classes, its author and its publisher
have laid the public under an obligation of no
inconsiderable value, in thus giving them access to
much valuable and well-arranged information on
points of general discussion and vital interest at
the present moment. From Mr. Christmas' valua-
ble little work we learn many pleasing anecdotes
of the liberality and the impartial distribution
of justice by the chief ruler of Turkey, and are
supplied with intelligence of gratifying acts of
toleration towards Christians generally, and Pro-
The volume is well worthy

resourc

stants in particular.
' an attentive perusal

stiges of Divine Vengeance ; or, the Dead Sea
lnd the Cities of the Plain. By William E,

Tayler

London

Wertheim and Macintosh,

The mysterious and awful nature of the calami-
ties and peculiar condition with which tradition
sical appearances have invested the locali-

and ph;

ties treated of tinder the above designation, added
to the intelligence relative to those places and
events which we find recorded in the sacred volume,
have invested every inquiry into their present and
past history, with an amount of interest rarely
accorded to such investigations. In Mr. Tayler's
little volume we have a faithfully compiled epitome
of all which modern research has elucidated in
illustration of the revealed truth. Much informa-
tion of a purely physical character is enriched with
speculations of a religious cast, by Mr. Taylor,
and each is so mixed up and interwoven with the
other,that they reflect mutual light upon each other.

of Ireland and the Irish

By J. G

DiniValter. London : John F. Shaw.

For many years it VMS a common and not an
unfounded complaint that the feelings, habits,
opinions, and modes of life and action prevalent
among the Irish people, were unknown to the
English, and unrepresented in the national litera-
ture of Ireland : some even went so far as to con-
tend that there existed no national Irish literature
in the ordinary acceptation of that term. How
true soever that may have been a few years ago, it
can hardly be charged as either a crime or a neg,lect
against the present generation, which sees volume
after volume, and tale after tale, issuing from the
press, having for their common object a delinea-
tion of Irish life and manners. That some of
these are unfaithfully rendered, and others unskil-
fully drawn, may indeed be true, and furnish
matter for regret, but at all events their very
multiplicity tells favourably as to the public desire
for information on those topics which throw light
upon the domestic rural life of Ireland. In Mr.
Wilralter, the subject has met with a bold and
observant artist, whose pictures glow with life and
animation ; and if the scenes he describes be not
at all times the most flattering to the self-love, or
complimentary to the moral aspect of society as
that is exhibited in his countrymen, the unamiable
appearance of the picture is, we fear, greatly more
attributable to the actual state of matters, physical
and moral, than chargeable to any obliquity of
vision or false drawing of the artist. His tales
bear the stamp of rough-and-ready delineation
prepared by personal observation. They are
graphic and suggestive.

The Irish Quarterly _Review. No. XIV.
Dublin W. B. Kelly.
The present number of this review opens with
an able, although it may be rather sharp, article
on " Literature and Poetry in Ireland," in which
no small amount of over-severity is mixed up with
much wholesome truth. The picture it contains
of Literary life in Dublin is spirited, and, we fear,
greatly too true. The second paper is devoted to
an elaborate and highly interesting biography of
" John Baum," the distinguished and able author

of " Tales by the O'Hara family." This biography
is cleverly and beautifully sketched, and is suc-
ceeded by an account of " The Historical Society
of Trinity College, Dublin," richly interspersed
with anecdotes of Burke, Plunket, Bishops Hamil-
ton and Jebb, and a host of others who, in their
youth justifying the appellation of " wild Hiber-
nians," in manhood and maturity shone out bright
ornaments of religious, political, social, and judi-
cial life. This paper is followed by one of great
merit, on " French Life in the Regency ;" and the
number concludes by two papers of a more ponder-
ous order; the one devoted to consideration of the
" Reformatory and Ragged Schools ;" the other
embracing some pointed strictures on Mr. John
O'Connell's committee's report to the House of
Commons on Emigration, Emigrants, and Emi-
grant ships. The review, as a whole, is so able
as to reflect much credit on the periodical litera-
ture of Dublin, and to add much valuable and
interesting material to the floating literary intel-
ligence of the day. -

SERIALS.—The following have been received,
and in most of them we gladly recognise the
features which have hitherto conferred on them a
claim to public favour. Our Friend, a monthly
miscellany for all classes, in which temperance and
sound morality, combined with relious feeling,
form conspicuous characteristics.—neChristion
Family Advocate is so conducted by its amiable
editress as to deserve its name.—The Monthly
.Towrnal of Industrial Progress, is, indeed, a re-
cord of the steps by which industrial progress is
maintained and fostered. It is liberally conducted
and marked by intelligence.—The Some Com-
panion is one of the most talented and judiciously
managed of all the cheap serials. Its contents are
varied and instructive ; and it is illustrated in a
style of great beauty. Punch, as fall of fun,
frolic, and pungent repartee as ever, continues to
solicit and obtain a large share of popular approba-
tion.

amusing work entitled
A LADY IN CARADA,—says Mr. Reginald. Fowler. in his 1
ii; litbn etrh. and Thither,"—in the
strict sense of the term
tallow candles,
e beef less so, because she has
spent her morning in salting bee
and other kindred household dutiesratiaton she would
nfallibly lose " caste"—that dire bug. bearshe does
ot. On one occasion a servant, who came. to Here
hired
lady friend of mine, entered the room, and immediatelyby
.ted herself on the sofa by the lady of the house ' • seru
,ughly ; asked the nature of thedutie;
she was expected to perform, and her salary ; and then
said abruptly—` Well, I likes these looks of you, and I
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tinized her ti

u.,... ; probably three days. I
recollect reading so
, in a book on life and manners
in the Western States, that a servant, believing that her
mistress had called to her, but, not being quite sure of V-
fact, ascertained it by the following question :--, T
maul, did you holler ? I thought I heard a yell,' "

stayed I should

where,