the high development of philology. The Grammar has
now been published; being compiled by Fuad Effendi, _mustesher_ of the
Grand Vizier, a man known for his high attainments--assisted by Ahmed
Djesvid Effendi, another member of the Council of Instruction. The work
has been printed at Constantinople, and translations will be made into
several languages: the French edition being now in preparation by two
gentlemen belonging to the Foreign Office of the Sublime Porte, who have
obtained a privilege of ten years for its sale.

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Among the new works just out, we notice a Spanish translation of TICKNOR'S
_History of Spanish Literature_, by Don PASCUAL DE GAYANGOS y DON ENRIQUE
DE VEDIA (_con adiciones y notas criticas_), Mr Ticknor having
communicated some notes and corrections to the two translators, who have
added from their own stores.

A LEAF FROM PUNCH

[Illustration.]

A Horrible Business. MASTER BUTCHER.--"Did you take Old Major Dumblebore's
Ribs to No. 12?" BOY.--"Yes, Sir." MASTER BUTCHER.--"Then, cut Miss Wiggle's
Shoulder and Neck, and hang Mr. Foodle's Legs till they're quite tender."

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Rather Too Much Of A Good Thing.

We see advertised some "Crying Dolls." We must protest against this new
kind of amusement. Just as if the real thing was not enough, but we are to
have an addition to an evil, that is already sufficiently "crying" in
every household. We wish the inventor of this new toy (which might be
called "the Disturber of the Peace of Private Families") to be woke up
regularly in the middle of the night, for the next twelve months to come,
by one of his own "Crying Dolls," and then he will be able to see how he
likes it. Let one of the Dolls also be "Teething;" for we should not be
astonished now to hear of "Teething Dolls," and "Coughing and Choking
Dolls," with other infantine varieties, and then the punishment of this
"monster in human form" will be complete. Dr. Guillotine perished by the
instrument he invented. The inventor of the "Crying Dolls" deserves a
similar fate. He should be shut up with all his toys in "full cry," until,
like Niobe, the crying was the death of him, and he was turned, by some
offended mythological deity, into the "great pump," of which his invention
proclaims him to be the effigy.

Mrs. Baker's Pet.