MISCELLANEOUS.
Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland.
The Sketch-Book of the South.
Thaumaturgia, or Elucidations of the Marvellous, by an Oxonian, is a collection of facts, anecdotes, and information relative to magic and other practices of the supernatural or occult arts, in the ancient, the middle, arid the modern ages. Such a book ought to be very amusing : we suspect—but it is a mere suspicion, for our glances have been few and far between—that the Oxonian is hardly equal to his subject.
Old Maids, their Varieties, Characters, and Conditions, is a work that would either shock or enrapture the gentle creatures about whom it discourses, on account of the rich and almost gaudy elegance of garb in which it appears—its red and gold suggesting the idea of a soldier's uniform. The dazzling beauty of its exterior has, doubtless from the effects of contrast, led us to undervalue the interior. Our faculties, dazzled and spent with gazing on the outside, sunk down, unquestion- ably with their own weight, when they began to explore the inside.
We will rest from our labours with a good book, mid a seasonable— the Sixteenth Volume of the Sacred Classics; containing fourteen Sermons for Easter, selected from the best of our English Divines.
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