The Old Forest Ranger, by Major WALTER CAMPBELL, edited by FRANK FORESTER. (Published by Stringer and Townsend.) There is no better authority in all matters pertaining to wood-craft than that of the editor of this volume. A gallant and famous Nimrod himself, he has here introduced the work of a brother sportsman, whose adventures among the wild-beasts of Hindostan were second only to those of Col. Gordon Cumming, in Africa. While Cumming is the more insatiable slaughterer, Walter Campbell is as gentle, chivalrous, and kindly a hunter as ever speared a wild-boar, or cracked a tiger between the eyes. His book, which is reprinted from the London edition, is full of wild and romantic incidents, and will form as delightful a volume as can be found in the whole range of the sporting library.

Roland Trevor (published by Lippincott, Grambo, and Co.), is an odd narrative of the experiences of the author during the ups and downs of business life. The events to which it is devoted, are entirely of a personal nature, and scarcely of sufficient consequence to bring before the public. Every record of human action, however, must be allowed to possess some value; and in this point of view, the volume must be worth reading.

A new volume of Poems, by ALEXANDER SMITH, has recently been issued in London, and is attracting great attention in the English critical journals.

The London Athenæum, in a notice of Mutterings and Musings of an Invalid, Fancies of a Whimsical Man, Fun and Earnest, &c., published by John S. Taylor, in New York, remarks: "These books by one and the same American author, make up about the most dreary triad of volumes which we have met in that domain so thickly over-stocked with heavy goods that is called by bitter courtesy the world of light literature. Our friends across the Atlantic appear to be fond of humorous essays-Charles Lamb being with them a chosen author: but the announcement of "Fourth Edition" affixed to the second of these books, is enough to breed doubts as to their discrimination-or, at least, to suggest the idea that they are about to possess a fun and earnest'-as well as a language-of their own, into which the English will find it hard to enter without a dictionary."

Woman and her Needs, by Mrs. E. OAKES SMITH. The same journal says: "This is a vindication of the rights of woman, by an American lady. It is not quite so earnest as the well-known work of Mary Wolstonecraft; but it has in it a dash of transcendentalism, and contains some truth, with a good deal of over-wrought eloquence on the wrongs endured by the other sex. It is hardly by direct appeals, we imagine, to the one side or to the other that the evils complained of will be removed. The most effectual cure for want of harmony in the relations of man and woman, will be found in a wider and deeper culture of the human mind. Our early education is at fault; and the subsequent experience of even the finest class of minds, is incapable of adjusting some of those relations which press very heavily

The same journal thus speaks of the American edition of Shakspeare, edited by our accomplished countryman, Rev. H. N. HUDSON: "We have now to give a few words of strong commendation to such of the volumes as have been sent to us of the American edition of Shakspeare, edited by Mr. Hudson. The editor is an intelligent man, conversant with the variorum as with recent editions, able to appreciate and measure what modern taste and research have contributed to the subject, and with sense to discriminate and reject as well as freely to adopt. The introductory notices comprise critical as well as historical accounts of each play, embodying generally the best opinions and judgments; and the notes are never too long. Without offering any thing absolutely new on the subject, Mr. Hudson has made so judicious a selection from what it was desirable to preserve from previous collections

White, Red, and Black, by the PULSKYS, says the Athenæum, "has a certain freshness of style and novelty of thinking-an absence of sneers and fineladyism—a constant reference to national character and the influence under which it is formed, rather than to peculiarities of individual manner-somewhat unusual in books about America issuing from the English press. In fact, these oddly-titled volumes are a welcome addition to our stores of recent travel; and will prove acceptable to some for their amusing anecdote and gossip; to others, as an interesting supplement to the thousand and one stories of the Hungarian War."

Dumas is publishing in a journal the memoirs of his life, which, at all events, are decidedly amusing if only as specimens of stupendous Munchausen-like. fibbing. Among the other things, they reveal the hitherto unknown fact that the Revolution of July, 1830, was not accomplished by the people of Paris, but by Alexandre Dumas himself; that he and a companion, an artist, captured, unaided, a powder magazine, and took a regiment of artillery prisoners; that he is invulnerable to grape-shot, inasmuch as, in the Revolution, half a dozen cannons blazed away at him, one after the other, at only a few yards' distance, and left him unhurt; that he, though in those days a young man, scarcely known at all, talked grandly about what he would allow to be done, and what he would not allow to be done, to General Lafayette, M. Laffitte, and even to Louis Philippe himself, in whose household he was employed in the capacity of clerk.

Mr. SMITHERS being sick, sends for a Lady Doctress to attend upon him professionally. Being a singularly bashful young man, Mr. SMITHERS' pulse is greatly accelerated on being manipulated by the delicate fingers of the Lady Practitioner, whereupon she naturally imagines him to be in a high fever, and incontinently physics him for the same.

AN ANXIOUS INQUIRER.

AGGRAVATING BOY.-Man coming! Man coming! Got a big club'
AMATEUR SPORTSMAN.-Which way? Do tell me which way!
AGGRAVATING BOY.-Don't you wish you knew?

PRECAUTION.

PRETTY NURSEMAID-Dear me, Children! How often must I have to tell you how to wear your hats properly' Keep them well on your heads-so, or they'll be blowing off with the wind, and then there will be a pretty job to catch them again!

AN ORGANIC IMPEDIMENT.

SERVANT-There's threepence for you, and Master wants you to move on.

ORGAN-GRINDER -Threepence indeed! I never moves on under Sixpence D'ye think I don't know the walley o' peace and quietness?

figures, having two long loose ends on the left hand side. Four leaves of gold guipure mounted on wire come out on each side, the other two are higher up on the forehead, and lie on the hair, which is turned up and puffed Dress of a disposition pattern, the ground moire antique, with flowers in figured terry velvet. The body, pointed both before and behind, is plain, low, and trimmed with a band of velvet embroidered and bordered with gold. This band, resembling a bertha, goes quite round, and is about an inch and a half in width. The sleeve, short and puffed, is tightened round the arm by a band of embroidered velvet, three quarters of an inch wide at

most.

FIGURE 2.-FULL DRESS FOR EVENING.-Jane Grey coiffure of blonde, gold guipure and feathers This coiffure is placed very low behind. The guipure consists of bunches of gold grapes, with open intervals between them, it envelopes the back hair, and hangs down behind on each side. Dress of terry

nearly four inches wide behind and on the shoulder, but gradually diminishing to one and a half or two inches at bottom, where the points meet. Two No. 12 ribbons, folded back, are laid as chevrons on the forepart, and meet under a large bow of ribbon; there is a third bow at the point. The sleeves, short and puffed in ribs, have a bow of No. 12 ribbon, from which hang three long loops, like a page's shoulderknot. On the front of the skirt there are three chevrons of No. 18 ribbon, folded back: each extremity has a bow, from which hang three long ends of ribbon, each middle has a large bow These three chevrons are graduated in size. A small agrafe of diamonds in each bow; bracelets; a double necklace on the neck.

We must not omit to mention a novelty in chaussure adapted for balls. It consists of a boot, which presents perfectly the effect of a satin shoe and a silk stocking; the upper part being actually covered with a white silk stocking with open-work clocks.