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where he failed in business. It seems that it was the 

 last speculation in hotel-keeping which ruined him, with 

 reference to which local wits used to say, ' It was not the 

 Lion but the Bear that eat him up.' 



« Our informant's father well remembered ' Tommy- 

 Lawrence,' (afterwards the eminent painter), when a boy 

 about thirteen years of age, when he showed unusual 

 talents for drawing. The father then was in business in 

 Broad Street, nearly opposite the ' White Lion,' and 

 young Lawrence used to amuse himself often by sketch- 

 ing some of his customers for him." 



Bristoliensis. 



Execution of Judas (2"'^ S. vii. 414.) — The same 

 custom as described in the Cork paper I have fre- 

 quently seen observed on board Greek, Russian, 

 Portuguese, and Spanish ships in our docks on 

 Good Friday. Sometimes the sailors cut ofF the 

 head or leg of the figure and set them on fire ; 

 sometimes half-burn the body, and throw it blaz- 

 ing into the water. Many people assemble about 

 foreign vessels on Good Friday to witness the 

 ceremony. S. Redmond. 



iHtSrpItaii?0ug. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Sketchbook of Popular Geology; heing a Series of Lec- 

 tures delivered before the Philosophical Listitution of JEdin- 

 6«r5f/i ?>y Hugh Miller. (Edinburgh: Constable.) 



This volume is a fragment of what the lamented author 

 designed to be his great work on the Geology of Scotland. 

 The occasion, however, on which it was composed, gives 

 it a unit3' of its own which entitles it to appear in a sepa- 

 rate form. The intellectual character of the audience 

 before whom these lectures were delivered, would natu- 

 rally task Hugh Miller's highest powers, and the volume 

 is as remarkable for pictorial power and happiness of 

 illustration as any of his preceding works. The young 

 student of geology will hardly be able to tear himself 

 away firom its attractive pages. The Preface, by the 

 author's widow, is full of piety and good feeling. 



The Story of Cawnpore. By Capt. Mowbray Thom- 

 son, Bengal Army, One of the only Two Siirvivo7-s of the 

 Cawnpore Garrison. (Bentley.) 



What a tragedy is there in those few words, " one of 

 the only two survivors of the Cawnpore garrison ! " The 

 present volume will be read with interest for its vindica- 

 tion of the defenders of the garrison from imputations on 

 their want of courage, for its details of the progress of 

 that horrid story of perfidy and cruelty, and for its show- 

 ing that the writer believes our countrywomen suffered 

 no dishonour from their murderei's. 



The Psychology of Shakspeare. By John Charles Buck- 

 nill, M.D. (Longman.) 



A work well deserving the attention of Shakspearian 

 readers for its great ingenuity. Mr. Bucknill endea- 

 vours to account for the extent and exactness of the 

 psj'chological knowledge displayed in the writings of 

 Shakspeare, by supposing that abnormal conditions of 

 mind had attracted his observation and been one of his 

 favourite studies. That the reader, as he peruses Mr. 

 Bucknill's Essays on Macbeth, Hamlet, Ophelia, King 

 Lear, Timon of Athe^is, Constance, Jaques, Malvolio, §-c., 

 will be instructed and amused, we cannot doubt: even 

 though he may not share the writer's surprise and asto- 

 nishment at Shakspeare's psychological acquirements, or 

 indeed admit their existence. 



Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. 5y W. Shakspeare. TTith 

 Notes, Glossarial, Grammatical, and Explanatory. (Rout- 

 ledge.) 



This little volume is intended for the use of candidates 

 for the middle class examinations, and is reasonably well 

 adapted for the purpose. But if Ave were the Civil Ser- 

 vice Commissioners, anxious to ascertain the fitness and 

 intelligence of any candidates for the public service, we 

 think our text-book would be Bradshaw — for we take 

 it, the man who could pass an examination in Bradshaw, 

 would prove himself possessed of intelligence equal to 

 anything. 



Rife Volunteers. How to Organize and Drill them. By 

 Hans Bush, M.A. With Illustrations. (Koutledge.) 



This is one of the signs of the melancholy change which 

 is coming over our literature. The movement for the 

 establishment of Rifle Corps is, however, at once patriotic 

 and judicious, and Mr. Bush's volume is well-timed and 

 instructive. 



Books Received. — 



Boswell's Life of Johnson. Edited by the Rt. Hon, J. W. 

 Croker. Part IV. (Murray.) 



This part of Murray's cheap and complete Boswell gives 

 us the life of the Great Moralist during the year 1773. 

 _ Lord Byron's Poetical Works, Murray's Complete Edi- 

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The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Complete in Ten 

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These two Parts of this handsome and cheap edition of 

 Moore contain his Irish Melodies, National Airs, Sacred 

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