The witty feuilletoniste, JULES JANIN, has published in a volume the letters he wrote from London during the Great Exhibition to the _Journal des Debats_. J. J., as everybody knows, is the most delightful journalist of art and society in the world, and all Paris anticipates the articles under his signature as a principal part of each day's satisfaction. Apropos of this new book of his, the London _Morning Chronicle_ says, "From the first line to the last, he has rioted in his own peculiar style--laughed, cried, sung, danced, in the same, and almost in every breath--jumped about in one page like a kitten catching its tail--and struck himself into an awful attitude of moral meditation, with an aspect as wise as Aristotle's, in the next--accomplishing all these literary feats by a most miraculous outpouring of words--capital words, fanciful, witty, fantastic, scholarly words--and jumbled, tossed, piled up on each others' backs--jerked this way and that--sharpened one against the other, glittering and gleaming, one by the aid of another--a perfect firework of words, Roman-candle sentences, and Catherine-wheel periods--rockets of epithets, and girandoles of antitheses!" But yet Janin's self-respect would not allow him to say that, in some instances, he has "sacrificed thought and sense, pith and shrewdness, to build up a barley-sugar temple of verbal prettiness, and to deck and wreath it with artificial flowers of rhetoric and of phraseology, which for a moment may seem to have smell, and sap, and savor, but which, upon closer inspection, too often reveal themselves in their true, and dry, and dreary substance of wire, and gauze, and calico." * * * * * One M. LEON DE MONTBEILLARD has published a work on SPINOZA. If that Philosopher has one characteristic more eminent than another, it is commonly supposed to be the precision and exactness of his logic. To say that Spinoza was a rigorous logician is a platitude, a truism. M. Montbeillard declines to walk in such a beaten path. He denies that Spinoza has any skill whatever in the science of reason, that he is a mere rhapsodist! * * * * * M. XAVIER SAURIAC, author of the Socialist tragedy entitled _The Death of Jesus Christ_, was lately tried, along with his two booksellers, for pernicious and insurrectionary doctrines put into the mouth of the Redeemer. They were heard by counsel, and the dramatist was admitted to plead at length; but the jury convicted the three, and the court inflicted long imprisonment, and fines. * * * * * MR. THEODORE MARTEN, a frequent contributor to the Edinburgh Review, and the author of the well-known _Bon Gaultier Papers_ in Tait's Magazine, has been married to the celebrated actress, Miss Helen Faucit Saville (best known without the last name). * * * * *