after eight hours' bombardment, had destroyed the
cattle of Gustafsorn, south of Hango, at the entrance of
the Gulf of Finland. 1500 Russians were taken prisoners.
A strict blockade of the Port of Riga has been
established.

The latest intelligence from the Baltic is dated the
28th. Three steam-frigates of the British fleet had
destroyed the outworks of the fortress of Hango. The
English had three men killed and some wounded. The
Russian loss was considerable. The Magicienne, by
which the news was brought to Copenhagen, had left
Sir C. Napier before Hango, on the 23rd, and he was
about to attack the principal fort.

The advices from New York are to the 13th inst.
They are destitute of interest.

NARRATIVE OF LITERATURE AND ART.

THE current of new publications has not resumed its
ordinary strength or fulness, and it is likely that the
war will continue to exert an adverse influence on it
for some time. There is no lack, meanwhile, of new
books and new editions that give us tidings or suggest
illustrations of the scene of conflict. In the past month
there have been published among others, The Nations
of Russia and Turkey and their Destiny, a small volume
by Mr. Ivan Golovin; the Last Days of Alexander and
the First Days of Nicholas, a curious record of personal
experiences by Doctor Robert Lee; Nicholas the First,
a brief memoir of his life and reign by the Reverend
Henry Christmas; Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and
Circassia, a cheap republication of Captain Spencer's
impressions of the East; Three Sermons on the War, a
small volume by the Rector of St. James's which may
stand here as the type of countless pamphlets containing
similar discourses preached on the Fast Day; The
Turkish Empire by Marshal Marmont, a translation
by Colonel Sir F. Smith of this celebrated soldier's
views as to military defences in the East, with comments
and notes that render its information applicable to the
state of things existing at present; The Cross and the
Crescent as Standards in War, a not very intelligible
piece of mystical exposition by Mr. J.J. Macintyre; a
third edition of the Handbook for Travellers in Turkey,
opportunely issued by Mr. Murray; Russia and the
War, a compact and well filled little volume by
Captain Jesse; a Personal Narrative of a Tour of
Military Inspection in European Turkey, in which
an English officer, Captain Rhodes, gives a complete
itinerary, day by day, of his journey in company with
a Spanish commission of inspection from Constantinople
to Omer Pacha's camp, where they arrived just
in time to witness the battle of Oltenitza; a Manual
of the Law of Maritime Warfare, compiled by Mr.
Hazlitt and Mr. Roche; a brief account of Schamyl
and Circassia, compiled chiefly from materials collected
by Dr. Frederick Wagner, with notes by Mr. Kenneth
Mackenzie; Russia and England, a description of
their relative strength and weakness by Mr. Reynell
Morell; some new, plain, large folded Maps of the
Danube, the Baltic Sea, the Black Sea, and Russia and
Turkey, published as shilling volumes by Mr. Collins;
and a volume by Doctor Waddington, the Dean of
Durham, on The Condition and Prospects of the Greek
or Oriental Church.

Of miscellaneous books, the chief of those published
during the past month that claim mention here, have
been The Castilian, and Supplement to Vacation
Rambles, two small posthumous volumes of poetry and
prose, printed during the life of their author, Mr.
Justice Talfourd, and now issued as final memorials of
his genius; Memoirs and Correspondence of Major
General Sir William Nott, a compilation chiefly of
public and private letters made by Mr. Stocqueler, at the
request of the daughters of the gallant Indian officer
whose exploits and fame it is meant to describe and
vindicate; a new volume of Dryden, in Mr. Bell's
Annotated Edition of the Poets, which contains by far
the best collection of his prologues and epilogues yet
made; a sketch of the Present State of Morocco,
translated for the Traveller's Library from the
French of Xavier Durrieu; a volume, by Mr. Hopkins,
on the Atmospheric Changes which produce Rain
and Wind; a volume by Mr. Alfred B. Maddock on
Affections of the Nervous System; a Journal of a Cavalry
Officer in India, of which the most interesting part has
reference to the Sikh Campaign of 1815-6; a collection
of essays by Mr. F. W. Newman, entitled Catholic
Union, and written with a view to "a Church of the
Future as the Organisation of Philanthropy;" a strange
but suggestive volume, by the Reverend James Smith,
called The Divine Drama of History and Civilisation;
a thoughtful and interesting series of essays, by Mr. B.
C. Brodie, on Psychological Inquiries; a collection of
much curious matter on the first struggles of the art of
printing and its cheap and universal diffusion in the
present day, brought together by Mr. Charles Knight
with the title of The Old Printer and the Modern Press;
a translation, by Mr. W. D. Arnold, of Dr. Wiese's
German Letters on English Education; a fifth volume
of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica; a
small volume by Lord Robert Grosvenor of Leaves from
my Journal during the Summer of 1851, describing a
visit to the German baths; a collection, with addenda
and illustrations, of Mr. Ruskin's Lectures on
Architecture and Painting, delivered last year in Edinburgh;
a large illustrated volume, by Captain Methven of the
Merchant Service, containing The Log of a Merchant
Officer viewed with reference to the Education of Young
Officers, to which Dr. Lyon Playfair prefixes an editorial
preface justly commending it as a valuable contribution
to technical education; a useful little manual of Lessons
in the Phenomena of Industrial Life, edited by Doctor
Dawes, the Dean of Hereford; a Report on the Administration
of the Punjab, published by the East India
Company; a treatise by Mr. William Fairbairn, the
distinguished civil engineer, On the Application of Cast and
Wrought Iron to Building Purposes; a treatise by Sir
David Brewster, More Worlds than One, the Creed of
the Philosopher and the Hope of the Christian, in reply
to Dr. Whewell's essay against a Plurality of Worlds;
a small volume of quite untenable arguments, published
at Boston but by an English colonial subject, to prove
that in Governor Pownall we have Junius Discovered;
the first part of a new Translation of Dante in the metre
of the original, by Mr. Brooksbank; a report, by
Lieutenant-Colonel Cotton, on Public Works in India;
some sketches of Syrian life, by Mr. F. A. Neale, called.
Evenings at Antioch; a brief essay, translated from the
German of Rudolph Keyser, on the Religion of the
Northmen; a compact and useful Cyclopædia of
Universal Biography, in one portable volume, edited by Mr.
Elihu Rich, with a careful indication of dates and
authorities, and executed by competent writers; two
volumes of Recollections of My Military Life, by
Colonel Landmann; and the first volume of a delightful
reprint of Selections from Sidney Smith. The selections
made by Colonel Mure from the Family Papers
Preserved at Caldwell, can hardly be described as
published, it being only issued to the subscribers of the
Maitland Club, but, with many rich incidental illustrations
of family history, it makes special additions of a most
valuable kind to our knowledge of Hume the historian,
and other celebrities of Edinburgh in his day.

In fiction, there has been published Angelo, a Romance
of Modern Rome; Counterparts, a novel by the author of
'Charles Auchester;' Claude the Colporteur, a tale
by the author of 'Mary Powell;' The Iron Cousin, a
novel, by Mrs. Cowden Clarke; a compilation, by the
author of 'Sam Slick,' of native sketches of American
life in bye-ways, backwoods, and prairies, which he
publishes to exhibit The Americans at Home; a tale by
Mr. Morton Rae, Bokinga; a translation, from the
Spanish of Villosloda, of the historical romance of Dona
Bianca of Navarre; and a tale called Edward
Willoughby, by the author of the 'Discipline of Life.'