THE DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. The first paper contained in this month's " University," is a rather long one on " Shakes peare, his Biographers, and Critics." The subject might seem somewhat threadbare at this time of day, and in spite of not a few really good and new views taken in it, is not,-"we think, altogether free from the imputation of being in great measure a reworking of a well wrought mine. It is.'however, well worth reading in many respects, although scarcely lit to occupy the first position in a first class magazine. " The Yang-Tsze River and the Taepings," is a better article upon the whole, although even here we have to complain of some degree of sameness and want of liveliness. The subject is of course the progress of the Tacping rebel lion in ihe Celestial Empire, and remarks upon the effects, present and future, of this vory remarkable rebellion. To those who take the trouble of giving it a fair reading through, we doubt not it will afford much, both of amusement and of information. The " House by the Church-yard" is concluded. It was a very fair specimen of its class, and no more. Lively and rattling in style, sometimes funny, sometimes with only an attempt at fun ; it is much what a thorough Irish novel must be in nny hands less skilful than a master. The author is a clever man without doubt, but he has not theoA erflowing wit of Lever or the wonderful powor of reproduction so characteristic of Carle ton. " Sterne and his day " reminds us almost too much of the memoir oi Hogarth, which ap peared in the Cornhill. A dreary attempt at minute delineation of men and things which have passed beyond our kin, and can by no meaus be made lifelike, is, we think, objection able. And although the writer is not quite so inveterate a digressionist as Mr. Sain, ho is, nevertheless, too much so for our taste. " Little Flags " is continued in this volume, but will never, we venture to prophesy, take very high rank as a novel. It is not, of course, wanting in interest, and might do fairly enough for a second novel in a magazine, but we look for something better in the first position. 