New EnmeNs.—Captain Sir F. L. M'Clintock publishes a third edition
of a story which will never lose its interest, the Fate of Sir John Franklin. (Hurray.) Captain M'Clintock commanded, as our readers will remember, the Fox, the vessel fitted out by Lady Franklin on the arrival of the relics of the Franklin Expedition brought back by Dr. Rae, and had the good fortune to discover the famous memorandum (ol which a deeply interesting fac-simile is given) which sketched the history of the expedition up to April 25, when the survivors, having abandoned their ship, were about to start for Back's Fish River. The present edition contains a sketch of the services of the o fficers, dte., who served in the Franklin Expedition, and is otherwise enlarged.—We have also to notice a second edition of Mr. Masterman's Seven Eventful Years in Paraguay (Sampson Low and Co.), with a new preface giving a brief additional narrative of events down to the death of Lopez. About this last there was something very tragic. What could be more so than the scene when the mother of Lopez threw herself, weeping bitterly, on her knees beside the corpse, while one of her daughters, whose husband had been shot by his orders, exclaimed, " Madre, do not weep ; this monster was neither a son nor a brother ! " Mr. Masterman seems rather to misunderstand the favour with which some journals regarded the cause of Lopez. Dislike to the aggrandizement of the great slave-holding Empire of Brazil was, without doubt, the chief motive. As for Lopez, he was certainly a man of striking ability ; a feeling that he was somehow in the right on the main question of the war, a passionate revolt against the injustice with which fate seemed to be treating him, working together with the steadily corrupting influence of personal power, made him into somethingliko a monster.. Theodorus of Abyssinia presents a carious parallel of oharacter.----.We have also received a new edition of Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste, by Shirley Hibbard. (Groombridge.)—Whoever wants information about aquariums, fern-cases, and fern-houses, aviaries, &o., cannot have a better guide than this book, which is, indeed, sufficiently well known not to need our recommendation.
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