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Miss Martineaus new book has at last made its
appearance in London. 1t is called Letters on the
Lars of Mans Nature and Development, by H. g.
ATKINSON and HARRIET MARTINEAU; ! vol. octave.
Miss Martineau has also undertaken history Of
the British Empire during the last half century; it
is to be in six volumes or "a parts, which will
be put at the low price of IS. volume or Is.
part. Ofcourse it will be popular in its character
and tendencies. Mr. Roebuck's history of the
great constitutional struggle in England during
1880 and 1881, which resulted in the passage OF
the Reform Bill, will very shortly be published
Walter Savage Landor has al eighteen penny
pamphlet on Popsry, British and Foreign. The
eighth edition of Eliot Wsrburton's Crescent and
Cross has appeared \ work by Major Edwards,
called 4 Year on the Punjab Frontier, is also
among the novelties. DR.. Achill VINO was SO
long imprisoned at Rome has issued q volume OF
Important Discosures called Dealings nth the
InquiSitiOH. William Johnston, ESQ has printed
a work on England as u Is, which is said to be
a failure He however, thinks that England is
failure and so is even with his critics. He sees
nothing but ruin and despair in the future, the
Constitution having already been destroyed. Mrs.
jameson has a volume illustrated with eleven
etchings by her own hand, called Legends Of tie
Monastic Orders A two volume novel bears the
appeuation Of The FIRST Angel, bat as to what
paradise the angel hailsfrom we are notinformed.
Choice Specimens of MediGrQl Art Workmanship
is an elegant and successful publication, ilustra-
tive of the old manner of decorating houses.
No sort of intoxicating beverage, whether
wine, spirits, beer or cider, will be admitted to
place in the Worlds Fair. The continental wine
growers are in despair at the exclusion of their
products Two ladies of Southampton will ex
hibit gigantic piece Of Berlin embroidery. 1t
has cost them ten months labor, covers three
thousands square inches and represents Abraham,
the Father of all Nations, offering up his son
Isaac upon the Altar, with an Angel appearing in
the clouds, with distant landscape and scenery
On the top, looking through the foliage is sym
bolicsl representation Of the eye of the Almighty
fgurativey uttering the sublime expression inholy
writ. Lay not thine hand upon the lad"
group Of Statuary by Engel, Hungarian sculp-
tor will also be exhibited. 1t represents an cpl
sode from the conflict Of the Argoaauss and ANA
IONS.
Sir (. BULwER LYTToS has written new
play which is to be performed by literary ANA.
teurs for the benefit Of the proposed fund for dis
abled literary men.
The widow Of Listen, the surgeon. has iust
received the grant of pension Of 500 year
from the Civil List.
-MAcLIsE has painted Macready in the char
acter of Werner said to be excellent, better even
than Lawrence's Kemble as Hamlet. Cor5oud
has painted in water coors, for Prince Albert the
Cathedral scene from Meyerbeers Prophet.
Books may, after March I, be sent by mail
from England to any of the colonies, at ID for
those not exceeding ID, those not exceeding ID,
Is, not above ID, IS, and so On-always in ad-
vance. Each parcel must consist of only one
volume, must be open at each md like a news-
paper, and contain no writing but the address.
"A Californian correspondent of the Daily
Ae'es furnishes a curious picture Of the morals he
has seen in FL Dorado. He writes thus "Per.
haps the blacklist page Of American California is
the history or lives Of the females Husbands
arrive here with their wives and families, but
they are not generally long on shore when their
better halves cut connection for other and richer
men; so that the poor disconsolate husbands. in.
stead of mining for gold, have to nurse their wee
anes. Young damsels however ugly or de-
formed, are soon picked up and spliced Fire and
sword are no barriers TO mems passions here, nor
is age preventive
Travellers to Prussia must hereafter provide
themselves with passports il order, or they can't
get in.
A French criminal named Landas was lately
sentenced to forty years hard labor, Imprisonment
by the Assizes OF the Orne for robber;es and at
tempted assassination. This, With previous SEN
fences, makes above hundred years. in the gal
legs, 10 which he is condemned
In Australia there are the highest trees in the
world. One of an unknown kind has been found
there measuring go feet from the ground to the
owest branch. At the base this tree is 30 feet
in diameter and at the hight of the Grst branch 1a
eet at the ground its circumference is 100
Get at three feet high, l02 feet. This tree is
perfectly sound i. stands in forest Of sassafras.
Another sort Of great tree there is called Eneal-
,ptis gsgaHtea 1t rises to the hight Of 800 feet,
md often has 40 feet circumference. Its bark is
excellent for tanning, being twice az strong as
,ak bark.
"A public sale Of &c pictures and l9 designs
u by modern artists, took place at Paris on the
'7th uk. The concOurse was large, the hid