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The children of Lady Falmouth are blessed with a 

 mother who possesses that invaluable gift, the art of 

 making learning a pleasure ; and we doubt not many 

 a loving mother will be glad to find her labours light- 

 ened by the recently published Conversations on Geo- 

 graphy, or the Child's first introduction to where He is, 

 what He is, and what else there is, by Viscountess Fal- 

 mouth, Baroness Le Despencer. These conversations 

 strongly remind one of Mrs. Marcet's, and we can give 

 them no higher praise. 



Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the 

 partial or impartial character of M. de Custine's work 

 upon Russia, it contains much matter which will be 

 read at the present important crisis with considerable 

 interest ; and in reprinting it in their Traveller's Li- 

 brary, at a price which will place it within the reach of 

 all classes of readers, Messrs. Longman have taken 

 steps for securing to Russia by M. De Custine a 

 wide-spread popularity. 



Our valued correspondent Mr. Singer has kindly 

 sent us a copy of a little offering to the manes of 

 Shakspeare and Tieck, of which he has printed a few 

 copies for private distribution. It is The Midsummer 

 Night, or Shakspeare and the Fairies, from the German 

 of Ludwig Tieck, by Mary C. Itumsay. The work, 

 one of exuberant fancy, was written when Tieck was 

 only sixteen, but only published by his friend Bulow 

 in 1851. It is translated with great ability; and we 

 regret, for the sake of the many who would wish to 

 possess it, that Mr. Singer did not carry out his 

 original intention, and publish it in aid of the funds 

 for the monument to Tieck. 



The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology, No. I., 

 March, 1854, is the first of a very valuable periodical, 

 the nature and object of which are plainly indicated 

 by its title. One very useful feature is its Con- 

 tents of Foreign Journals, in which it records all the 

 important contributions on sacred and classical philo- 

 logy inserted in the chief periodicals of the Continent. 



We have before us the publications of The Arundel 

 Society, or Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Fine 

 Arts, for the fourth year : and they are indeed of a na- 

 ture to effect the great object for which the Society was 

 instituted. They consist of eight engravings on wood 

 from drawings made by Mr. Williams, who was sent by 

 the Society to Padua expressly for the purpose, from 

 the frescos of Giotto in the Arena Chapel. The 

 woodcuts have been executed by Messrs. Dalziel. With 

 the rest of these prints will be issued a short descrip- 

 tion of the chapel and its frescos, prepared by Mr. 

 Buskin. 



The Second Part of Mr. Netherclift's Autograph 

 Miscellany contains fac-similes of the original deposi- 

 tions of their marriage by James II. and Anne Hyde ; 

 of an original letter from Luther to Cromwell, after- 

 wards Earl of Essex ; of a letter from Glover, Somer- 

 set Herald, to the Earl of Leicester ; and of that 

 portion of Sterne's Sentimental Journey in which is 

 related the episode of" The Dead Ass." 



The success which has attended the publication of 

 Miss Burney's Diary, or, to give the work its more 

 correct title, The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Ar- 

 blay, has induced Mr. Colburn to commence a new 

 edition of it in seven three-shilling volumes. 



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