... DRURY LANE. So favourable have been the auspices under which this theatre was reopened on Monday for legitimate dramatic entertainments; so admirable the spirit with which the undertaking has been welcomed, that we find our task of theatrical comment the lightest it has been for years. Thev who have la- boured earnestly and independently for a principle, can afford to rest when it is ...

... TUE TlUE. AND PATHETIC STORY . I .1 . . OF MARTAN. to r: (Corcttinuilfroin euv last.) c As soon as Sh h ecamie 8ufficieritly sensible, her first the excl'smation was, 'Whate is my letter? 1Oh? St. Albin, wvat how could'you frighte ins me ' SOe Maather a thous~and apologies, I hanided to ber the. ai objet of hr 'eclicitude, at lcl hal hastily doubled Iup: and nec thrust into hcr bosomn. Afer ...

... .A COLLOQUIAL POEM. a Jacob ! I do not love to see thy nose P Turn'd up in scornful curve at yonder Pig:t It would be well, my friend, if we, like hirm, tP Were perfect in our kind.-And why despise The sow-born grunter?-lie is obstinate, Li Thou ansivereat; ugly. and the filthiest beast g That banquets upon offal. Now, I pray you,r( Hear the Pig's counsel. Is be obstinate M We must not, Jacob, ...

... THE LITERARY EXAM INER. The Pleasant Coomedie of Patient Grissill. As ii hath heerie sundrie tines plaid iby the Right Honorable the Earle rf Nottingham (Lord Hiqh Admirall) his servants. Reprinted from the black-letter Edition of 1603. With an In- troduction and Notes. For the Shakspeare So- ciety. A right pleasant comedy indeed! A reprint that does honour to the Shakspeare Society. We were ...

... THE SHIAKSPERIAN GALLERY. SECOND sEIS~.,xR THE5 TrWENTY.PIRiST.' Hal LAUNCE. It a This iS one of thre mst niAturally-drawn. of all Shakspere's As&t Clowns, if, indeed, there is any difference in the complete Anp series. Unlike our modern maimes, he shows his humou just as It would be shown Is, real lif'e. There is. no effort, He for all flows froml hirn Spontaneously; thereajasno appeal to Baa ...

... le s Mariana in the moated grauge:-Measure for Measure. er With blackest moss the flower-plots Y, Were thickly crusted, one and all, RS The rusted nails fall from the knots id That held the peach to the garden-wall. The broken sheds looked sad and strange, Unlifted was the clinking latch, re Weeded and worn the ancient thatch le Upon the lonely moated grange. She only said, ' My life is dreary ...

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... EPITHALAM1UM. Vt atiiqg red wine high 'mid dances whirling f gemmed beauty let the festal fire-ligts Id cf wassail bound throughout the arohed ,n this nigght supreme, and joy to one and V red wine higb, pledge deep in goblets purple tide, is now before us swimming; b SOundilig mlusic, let the mirtlful song go ye and beating hezrt to the minstrelsy now 17bll the breezb is stealing past and ...

... The end of the year naturally makes us refer J. r to what has been done in the Theatrical World for the last twelve months. As claiming precedence from the period at which they commenced business, we head our list with the minors. G The New Strand, under the management of that S very gentlemanly 'mail and elever comedian, H. Hall, opened in Xpril last; and we can say that t the company ...

... FOREIGN' I CORRESPONDENCE AND MUSICAL INTELLIGENCE. We have already made mention of (he monument cons crated, to the glory of Moliere. The edifice will sooll be terill. nated. It is fonmed entirely of free stone, and reaches a fotrlh storv in heijlht. In the interior a space is left s0,$. ciently lerge for the person charged with its superiutendeice to lodge itl. The statue of ?? is to ...

... WINDsOR, WOdnesday.-Her M'ajesty and Prince Albert wrllied as usual in the new grounds and terrace. Her Majesty afterwards rode out it, a ponlly carriage and four, attended by tbe Countess of Sandwich and Lady Stanley. In anotlle, carriage were tbe Hon. iliss Lister, the Ho.hl Miss Murray the Earl of Aberdeen, and Admiral Sir Robert Otvway. iis Royal Highness Prince Albert was on horsebeack, ...

... DRURY-LANE THEATRE.-To those wvho may have enter- tained doubts of the all-absorbing interest felt by the public for the opening of this theatre under the management of Mr. AIacready, the dense line of carriages awaiting their turns at the box entrance, the wellidressed crowds at the pit doors, and the holyday faces of the myriads with which the galleries were besieged, must have afforded a ...