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ITH Christmas weather of the good old kind out of doors, we trust that our friends and subscribers will find no less cheerfulness than usual by the Christmas fireside. In spite of Almanacs, there is no doubt that Christmas Day-or, at all events, the holiday that marks it -will fall this year upon a Monday. We are glad to see that the publishers of the Cornhill Magazine intend to contribute to the amusement of our English family gatherings, by getting their first number ready for the Trade on Friday the 23d. Among the articles there will appear the opening chapters of a new Story by Mr. Anthony Trollope; Sir John Bowring contributes a paper on the Chinese; and Mr. G. H. Lewes one on Animal Life; Sir John Burgoyne points out the best mode of utilizing our Volunteer Force; and the Private Journal of an Officer of the For furnishes an interesting account of the search for Sir John Franklin, illustrated by a Map. shewing the whole progress of Arctic Discovery, engraved expressly for the Magazine; and lastly, although not least, part of a new Story by Mr. Thackeray, with illustrations by the Author, who also contributes the first of another series of papers. The number is printed on paper of the first quality and with new type; the design of the Wrapper is very appropriate and original. Altogether we deem the Cornhill Magazine such a shilling's worth as perhaps the world has never seen. We hear of large orders, of one house alone which takes a hundred dozen. Appealing to a different class-though many of the readers of the one, we fancy, will possess the other-is the Christmas number of All the Year Round-a wonderful quantity of original fiction for fourpence. The introduction is, of course, attributed to Mr. Dickens, and we may, we believe, with equal confidence, assign to him Master B.'s Room, and the Corner Room. We may add to these cheerful items, that there has been, during the fortnight, a good and steady demand for the varied and numerous illustrated books which the season has brought forth.

Our usual analysis of the list of new books since our last gives the following results :-
In Literature, Art, and Science.-Kemp's Shooting and Fishing in Lower Brittany; Potter's
Physical Optics, Part 2; Slade's Maritime States and Military Navies; Wedgwood's Dictionary
of English Etymology, Vol. 1; Prout's Reliques (Bohn's Illustrated Library) &
Impending Dangers of England; Art Journal, Vol. 1859; Paley's Euripides, edited by
Vol. 3; Walker's Critical Examination of Text of Shakespeare; Smith's Recollections of the
British Institution; Ballantyne's World of Ice; Ladies' Treasury, Vol. 3.; Grindon's Manchester
Flora; Poulton's New History of England; Waring's Arts connected with Archite
Bossoli's The War in Italy.

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In History and Biography.-Robertson's Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury; Ro and Correspondence, edited by Harcourt; Clayton's Notable Women, Stories of ** Chronicles of an Old English Oak, edited by Taylor; Wellington's Civil Correspondence Memoranda.

In Geography, Travel, and Research.--Thomson's Story of New Zealand, Past and Present; Richardson's Travels in Morocco, edited by his Widow; Sir John Bowring's Visit to the Philippine Isles.

In Divinity-Mansel's Limits of Religious Thought; Lee's Beauty of Holiness, Ten Lectures' Elden's Book of Prayers for Working Men; Kurtz's History of the Old Covenant, translated by Martin; Fletcher's Scripture Teachings for the Young; Hardwicke's History of the Articles of Religion, new edition; Reid's The Sheaf; Stewart's Outlines of Discourses.

In Fiction.-Volpe's Home and the Priest; A Life Struggle, by Miss Pardoe; Narragansett, or the Plantations: Miss Kavanagh's Seven Years, and other Tales; Mrs. Gatty's Human Face Divine; Sterne's My Village Neighbours; Day of Small Things, by the Author of Mary Powell; Brough's Ulf the Minstrel; Tales from Bentley; Cousens' Durndale, or Woman's Duties and Woman's Worth; Mrs. Ellis's Widow Green and her Three Nieces; Memoirs of a Lady-inWaiting.

Winter's

Educational.-Lund's Geometrical_Exercises; Wooler's Physiology of Education; Elementary Geometrical Drawing, Part 1; Schöpwenkel's Elementary Grammar of French Language; Lunn's Of Motion; Butler's New Introduction to Geography.

Medical.-Handy Book of Medical Information; Hawker's My Life, or Advice to the Consumptive; Epps's Consumption, its Nature and Treatment.

Juvenile.-Friswell's Out and About, illustrated; Christmas Tree, 1860; Kingston's Round the World; Little Estella, and other Fairy Tales; Barker's Four P's; Mrs. Cousens' Tales for the Young; Ruth and her Friends.

Illustrated Books.-Mackay's Whisky Demon; Gems from Shelley.

Commerce.-Mr. Morier Evans's History of the Commercial Crisis 1857-8.

Miscellaneous.-The Post-Office London Directory for 1860; Post-Office Directory of Hants, Wilts, and Dorset; Crawley's Handy Book of Games for Gentlemen; Raverty's English and Hindustani Technical Terms; Herring's Guide to the Varieties of Paper; Boulger's Master Key to the Public Offices; Crowe's Spiritualism, and the Age we Live in; Captain Crawley's Handy Book of Games; Ten Thousand Wonderful Things, 2d Series; Waite's Graceful Riding. New Editions.-Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon Dictionary; Mrs. Jameson's Early Italian Painters; Hellenics, by Walter S. Landor; Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, illustrated; Lytton's My Novel Vol. 1.; Reid's Oceola; Wonderful Things, '2 vols. 2d of Rogers's Sacred Minstrel; of Williams's Through Norway with a Knapsack; of Pycroft's Twenty Years in the Church; of Renée of France; of Scott's Costs in Common Law. 3d of Galton's Art of Travel; of Kingsley's Two Years Ago. 4th of Potter's Elementary Treatise on Mechanics; of Miss Adelaide Procter's Legends and Lyrics. 5th of Dean Ramsay's Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character. 9th of Trench On the Study of Words. 10th of Archbold's Poor Law.

Mr. Bentley announces as just ready, An Inquiry into Modern Editions of Shaksperian Literature, by N. E. S. A. Hamilton. This is, we presume, the pamphlet on the Collier-folio Shaks pere, which has been so long expected. The latest announcements of the same house also include Jean and Nicolette, or Truth Answers Best, by the Author of Moravian Life in the Black Forest; and Leonore and the Little Countess, by the Author of The Myrtle and the

Heather.

Messrs. Lockwood and Co.'s List includes Sunbeam Stories, by the Author of A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam, with illustrations by James Godwin and Florence Claxton; Many Happy Returns of the Day, a Birthday Book for Young and Old, by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cowden Clarke, &c.

Mr. Hotten, of Piccadilly, has in the press a volume of Political Sketches, by Mr. J. Hollingshead, Author of Under Bow Bells.

The Essex Gazette states that Mr. Anthony Trollope, the Author of The Warden and Doctor Thorne, will succeed Mr. George Neal, as Post Office Surveyor for that district.

A pension on the Civil List, of £125 a year, has been granted to the sisters of the late Dr. Lardner. The next name is that of Mr. F. Bridges, Author of Phrenology made Practical, as receiving a grant of £50 for his articles on Criminals, Crimes, and their Governing Laws. The latter grant is said to have been made on the recommendation of Lord Palmerston.

The readers who will take Captain M'Clintock's narrative to their firesides this Christmas will be glad to hear that the different scientific sections of the Académie have determined to receive Lady Franklin, on the occasion of her intended visit to Paris, with the honours usual only upon the reception of Royalty.

To judge from the remarkably brief advertisement now figuring in the papers, our old acquaintance, the Dial, so oft postponed, will appear as a weekly journal on the 7th of January. The Patriot informs us that Mr. Henry Blake, the original general manager, has resigned, and that Mr. B. Scott, the City Chamberlain, has withdrawn from the Company. We are afraid that the joint-stock principle has been found, in this, as in other cases, more favourable to deliberation than to vigorous action.

The Leader announces a radical change in its character-to commence on the 7th of January next. Instead of news and comments, it will be filled entirely with articles, under the title of The Leader, and Saturday Analyst. This sounds somewhat like an imitation of the Saturday Review, with of course a difference in politics, presuming the Leader will continue liberal as heretofore.

It is not often that our fortnightly obituary contains at once two such names as those of Thomas De Quincey and Washington Irving. Both had passed the allotted limit of man's lifethe first having been born in Manchester in 1786, the latter in New York in 1788. The difference between the periods of their literary débût is more considerable; De Quincey published his Confessions of an English Opium Eater, the work by which he first became famous, in the London Magazine in 1821. Irving's Salmagundi appeared in 1807, and in 1809 his famous History of New York was published, and gained at once a popularity which has never yet diminished. America can claim the credit of having first collected the scattered works of De Quincey, and the honour of having paid the Author for them. It was Ticknor and Fields, who, immediately after an article in our Eclectic Review had declared it "not probable that a collected edition of his works would ever appear," determined to publish them, and offered the Author a share of the profits of the series. The offer was accepted, and twenty volumes were the result; but the edition since published by Messrs. Hogg, of Edinburgh, with whom Mr. De Quincey was connected for many years before his death, is better known to English readers. En revanche, England can lay claim to some share in the fame of Washington Irving-not only because his mother was an Englishwoman and his father a Scotchman-but because some of his best works were written here. They certainly found noble encouragement from English booksellers; for the English edition of Bracebridge Hall, in 1822, Mr. Murray offered and paid 1000 guineas without having seen the MS,; for the Conquest of Granada, £2000, and for the Life of Columbus, 3000 guineas. A sojourn of seventeen years in Europe-the greater part of which time was spent in London-had indeed long accustomed our literary circles to regard Washington Irving as their own. Irving returned to New York in 1832; and after another visit to Europe, and a sojourn of four years in Madrid, as United States Minister there, finally returned in 1846 to his native land, where he died. He had just completed his Life of Washington, by the publication of his Fifth Volume-a fitting work to close his long and successful literary career. We much regret to record the death of Mr. Robert Bent, which took place on Tuesday, the 6th inst., after an illness of three days. He had been declining for some months. Mr. Bent's father established Bent's Literary Advertiser, in 1802.

Mr. Smiles, the Author of the Life of George Stephenson, is said to be preparing a Life of James Watt- a fit companion biography.

Harper's new Monthly for December contains an article which ought to be of peculiar interest on this side of the Channel, consisting of a number of Original Letters of Charles Lamb to his friend, Mr. Allsop, with comments by Mr. G. W. Curtis. Our readers if they should see the letters will, we hope, forgive such a passage as:-"Hurst and Robinson are gone! I have imagined a chorus of ill-used authors singing on the occasion:

What should we do when booksellers break?
We should rejoice. Da Capo."

It does not appear to have occurred to the gentle Elia to ask how a class, in his eyes so fortunate, could possibly be subject to break."

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It seems to be now an established principle that a weekly magazine, to be popular, must contain a serial story. Mr. Dickens has announced that the front page of All the Year Round will in future always be occupied by an instalment of a novel; and Messrs. Chambers of Edinburgh, pursuing the plan they have only lately adopted, announce a new Tale of Modern English Life to commence in their journal with the New Year.

Miss Agnes Strickland, the distinguished Authoress of the Queens of England, &c., has in the press a volume entitled Old Friends and New Acquaintances. Messrs. Burton and Co. are entrusted with the printing and publication.

The following may appropriately be termed a Christmas announcement:-The Christmas Week, a Christmas Story, by the Rev. Henry Christmas.

Mr. Frank Fowler, the Author of Southern Lights and Shadows, has written to the Athenæum endeavouring to show by parallel passages that his remarks in that work have been "grossly garbled" by Mr. Horne in his Australian Facts and Prospects.

The popular Authoress of John Halifax, Gentleman, and A Life for a Life, whose volume of Poems will be published by Messrs. Hurst and Blackett this week, has long been known among her friends for her poetic talents. For many years poems in Chambers's Journal including some spirited translations in a series of articles on Tasso - bearing the initials "D. M. M.,' were generally attributed to the Scottish poet, David Macbeth Moir, Author of Casa Wappy. These were, however, by Miss Dinah Maria Muloch, now known as the Author of John Halifax, and some of them will, we believe, be included in the forthcoming volume.

Mr. Anthony Trollope's West Indies and the Spanish Main has already reached a second edition.

Dean Milman has transferred the fund raised for the Caxton Memorial to the Printers' Pension Society, who have resolved to elect a pensioner as soon as the fund will yield a yearly income of £25. The Rev. Mr. Bellew has delivered a lecture on The Introduction of Printing into England, in aid of the Fund.

The announcement of a sort of Saturday Review for Manchester, and a local Punch for Liverpool, are the last items of newspaper progress.

A very decided success has been achieved in the United States by the new novel entitled Beulah, written, by the way, by a Miss Evans. Nevertheless, it is somewhat doubtful whether a reprint will appear here. The reason is curious. Though betokening a large amount of original