than placing the original propagators of it where so many paths led towards them--and after fixing the place of public worship in the centre, my orthodoxy ceased to affect my scheme, for want of that technical knowledge which further detail would require--and having accomplished my favourite determination of planning a town without winding streets or crooked lanes. I offer it to the MIRROR as an amusing novelty for the entertainment of its numerous readers. I think it would be not inappropriate to call it the Royal City of _Victoria_. CHARLES MATTER. (To the ingenious designer of the annexed sketch, we are likewise indebted for the Plan for a Maze, in our Vol. vii. page 233. Mr. H. very pertinently observes to us "imagine what would have been said of this plan for a city, had Belzoni or Buckingham found exactly such a one in Assyria or Egypt,--of antique date?") * * * * * THE SELECTOR; AND LITERARY NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. * * * * * NEW EDITION OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS. It is rather late in the day to speak of what is technically termed the "getting-up" of this elegant edition of the most popular works of our time. There are now three volumes published--_Waverley_, in two vols. and one vol. or half of _Guy Mannering_. Each of the former contains upwards of 400 pages, and the latter nearly that number--beautifully printed in what we call a very inviting type, on excellent paper, of rich colour, and not too garish for the eye of the reader. The engravings to _Waverley_ are by Graves, C. Rolls, and Raddon, after E.P. and J. Stephanoff, Newton, and Landseer--a frontispiece and plate title page and vignette to each volume. To our taste the vignettes are exquisite--one by Landseer, _David Gellatley, with Ban and Buscar_, is extremely beautiful. The illustrations to the volume of _Guy Mannering_ are by Duncan, and C.G. Cooke, after Leslie and Kidd. The volumes are in substantial canvass binding. Their low price, a crown a-piece, is the marvel of bookselling, for were they only reprints without copyright, they would be unprecedentedly cheap. The whole series will extend to forty volumes, to be published in three years, and will cost ten pounds. Fifteen-pence a week for the above term will thus provide a family with one of the most elegant drawing-room libraries that can be desired. They will about occupy three _cheffonier_ shelves;--or what delightful volumes for fire-side shelves, or a "little book-room," or a breakfast parlour opening on a carpet of lawn--or to read by the hour, with a golden-haired lady-friend, and chat awhile, and then turn to the most attractive scenes in the novel, while we ourselves are perhaps enacting the hero in a romance of real life. Few novels admit of a second reading; but the _Waverley_ series will never lose their attraction--and to remember when and where, and with whom you first read each of them, may perhaps revive many pleasantries.