... Thle spring picture exhibitions are open, and the usual annual effort to persuade them- selves that they are an artistic people is being made by the, English. It recurs at this time of the year, when the Grosvenor Gallery, the New, and the Royal Academy are opened with as much certainty as laburnam begins to appear in the London gardens and squares. We are all unaffectedly fond of spring ...

... ANO THER OANSLA UGHT ON THE GREA T JENNER.* THE anti-vacciration movement has not been particularly strong in litera- ture. Mr. Whiles Story of a Great Delusion was for long the most 3mbitious and successful literary effort from the ranks of the medical heretics. Dr. Creighton's article in the EncyclopEedia Britannica, however, did perhaps more than anything else to bring the whole ...

... a OPENING OF THE pFfiJS EXHIBITION. The city presented i most brilliant and animated tscene on M'onday morning, enormous crowds wendviing their wav from all points to the Champ te Mars to witness the opening of the Exhibicion. The streets are everyw-here gaily decked iith fRgs. The 'weather is fine. Thle Exhibition wvas opened at tiwo o'clock in the afternoon by the President of the Republic, ...

... A LIMERICK LOVE SONG. br BYy FREFERICK LANGBRIDGE. H A song for the girl I love- us God love her ! A song for the eyes of tender shine, And the fragrant mouth that melts on mine, s The shimmering tresses uncontrolled ar That clasp her neck with tendril gold; The blossom month ard the dainty chin, St And the little dimples out and in- dc The girl I love- cl God love her! hi A song for the girl ...

... On Wednesday Afternoon, May 8th, at the Opera Comique Theatre, the Drama, by Herman Merivale and Florence Grove, entitled FORGET-ME-NOT. Sir Horace Welby ?? Mr W. I 'VERNON Prince Malleotti ?? Mr NUhcoMss GOULD Barrato ?? ?? Mr T. BINDLOSs ?? : . Mr SItRREt Porter ?? ?? Mr BLAKE Mrs Foley ?? ?? Mrs CANNINOE Alice Verney ?? Miss ROeBINS Stephanie ?? Miss GNEVIEVISE YAD Mrs Oscar Beringer has ...

... A Cornedietta, by Major Jocelyn, R.A., produced at the Royal Artillery Theatre, Woolwich, May Sd, 1339. Mr Edward Tyrrell ?? Capt. P. S3 Rb. Tos, R.A. Mr Robert Rogers ?? alj. H. N. BUNBURY, A.S.C. Mrs Honeydew ?? lrs BuxINtaR Miss Arabella Rogers ?? M Nr3 SUART Suzanne ?? M liss Rose CROFTON (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDRNT.) The author of Love at First Sildt has given us a sprightly, interesting, ...

... 1'r UxUacts front xe? 9Gds. .i - 0. BATIRNG AT AGUAS CALIENTES.-To the left, along the whole length of the canal or sluiceway, as far as the eye can reacb, are scattered hundreds of nativee of both sexes, and all agos lining the water's edge and disporting them- selves in. every conceivable state of ddshabflle. In fact, it might as well be stated that the assemblage is divided into two classes ...

... THE SPAISH- EXHUITIO.N. Considerable uncertainty appears to exist as Ito the Spanish Exhibition, and we may rtate that, though all the details are uot yet arranged, the xhihi- tiou will be hetd and opened probably at the end of the present month or during the first week in June. The great building is at present empty, but ready for the recaption of the exhibits. Those vwill not be numaerous ...

... Devonshire House was filled by an aristocratic audi- ence on Thursday afternoon, when an American comic opera entitled A7wezort, composed by Mr Robert Gold- beck, was the attraction. Newport is named after the popular American resort, and the subject of the opera relates to the adventures of a girls' school there. But the music only being performed it was impossible to form an exact judgment ...

... -a--C -0- ALL SOULS' DAY-SOUL CAKES. CHAPTErE II. The petition for a 0oul cake may find its inigin in a French custom, which may also have existed in England. At Dackirk, on All Souls' Day, a certain kind of roll is eaten by the people for the benefit of theirdeparted friends, and the greater the number of rolls each person oousumnee the greater the indulgence be obtains for the souls ...

... A notable dramatic feature of the week which has just closed may be considered to be the remarkable nsumber of afternoon representations given at nearly every theatre, either in association with benefits or the production of novelties. A special interest attached to the reappearance in London of Miss Genevibve Ward in Forget-Me-Not at the OPERA COMIQUE. The last weeks of Faust Up to Date are ...

... ?? P.&RIS EXHIBITION. (mnoX OURt SPECIAL corRR~sro0YiFeT,) C Paris, Wednesday Evening. the The Paris Exhibition is on a scale of suchs and magnitude that each succeeding day ouly serves be to increase ons's admiration of it as international big ie character in the most comprehensive sense. Ahu For the pressait, however, Oar admiration is 'Ot chiefly bestowed upon. the varied architecture, eta ...