Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the partial or impartial character of M. de Custine's work upon _Russia_, it contains much matter which will be read at the present important crisis with considerable interest; and in reprinting it in their _Traveller's Library_, at a price which will place it within the reach of all classes of readers, Messrs. Longman have taken steps for securing to _Russia by_ M. De Custine a wide-spread popularity. Our valued correspondent MR. SINGER has kindly sent us a copy of a little offering to the manes of Shakspeare and Tieck, of which he has printed a few copies for private distribution. It is _The Midsummer Night, or Shakspeare and the Fairies, from the German of Ludwig Tieck_, by Mary C. Rumsay. The work, one of exuberant fancy, was written when Tieck was only sixteen, but only published by his friend Bulow in 1851. It is translated with great ability; and we regret, for the sake of the many who would wish to possess it, that MR. SINGER did not carry out his original intention, and publish it in aid of the funds for the monument to Tieck. _The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology_, No. I., March, 1854, is the first of a very valuable periodical, the nature and object of which are plainly indicated by its title. One very useful feature is its _Contents of Foreign Journals_, in which it records all the important contributions on sacred and classical philology inserted in the chief periodicals of the Continent. We have before us the publications of _The Arundel Society_, or _Society for Promoting the Knowledge of the Fine Arts_, for the fourth year: and they are indeed of a nature to effect the great object for which the Society was instituted. They consist of eight engravings on wood from drawings made by Mr. Williams, who was sent by the Society to Padua expressly for the purpose, from the frescos of Giotto in the Arena Chapel. The woodcuts have been executed by Messrs. Dalziel. With the rest of these prints will be issued a short description of the chapel and its frescos, prepared by Mr. Ruskin. The Second Part of Mr. Netherclift's _Autograph Miscellany_ contains fac-similes of the original depositions of their marriage by James II. and Anne Hyde; of an original letter from Luther to Cromwell, afterwards Earl of Essex; of a letter from Glover, Somerset Herald, to the Earl of Leicester; and of that portion of Sterne's _Sentimental Journey_ in which is related the episode of "The Dead Ass." The success which has attended the publication of Miss Burney's _Diary_, or, to give the work its more correct title, _The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay_, has induced Mr. Colburn to commence a new edition of it in seven three-shilling volumes. * * * * * BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES Wanted To Purchase. THE CIRCLE OF THE SEASONS. London, 1823. 12mo.