... DRUR Y-LA.NB THEATRE. To open Drury-lsue in tile dog-days for stern legitimate and a bad imitation of the rude old farces-the company consisting of a collection of the inferior actors from the presently closed up theatres around-with an unknown American tragedian as star-all this forms a bold experi- ment; yet it was undertaken last night, under the manage- ment of Mr. SHERIDAN SMITH. The ...

... LORD N IIONAS HI I The re.issne, in a very convenient form, of Lord _qahou's careful and spirited history of the period betweein the Peace of Utrecht and that of Versailles, .s matter of congratulation to the reader rather than material for criticism on the work. The book before the world, and since 1836-the date of the oriinal preface--it has been amplyjudged, and, despite certain objections ...

... L YCRUM THEA TRE. . *-.A A new comic drama, called Vanided a She W4olf, was pro- | duced at this house last night. It has no pretensions to plot, or even to purpose; but the dialogue Is pointed, and the- acting was excellent, and to them alone the tolerable success of the piece must ee attributed. The title is absurd, and has no relation whatever to the drama. The learned and philosophical ...

... THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF THE MECHANICAL INVENTIONS OF JAMES 'WATT. Tho Origin andz Progrcss of tks Mckaanicarl In- rentions of James Wflatt. By JAMES PATRICK. MUIRHEAD, Esq., M.A. In 3 vols. London John Murray. Notwithstanding all the boasted ad+ ...

... -.a The seconi concert of the Academy of Music for the exhi- bition of the students took place yesterday at the institutiou, Tenterden-rtreet, Hatover square. The programme co0m1 priaed Beethoven's oratorio, The Mount of Olives, and a selection of miscellaneous music, vocal and instrumental. The acaderny still appears destitute of able tenor voices, and rtcourse was again had to the ...

... SPA NaIfHf LITERA TURE.* ?? - Three exceedingly handsome volumes, containing some fifteenl hundred Pages of history, biography, anecdote, analysis, and criticisix ; illustrating a I thousand years of a national literature, from the Last of the Goths to the Prince of the Peace, and accounting for thirty years of the life of the eminent Americau whose name is thus magnificently intro- duced to a ...

... The all-absorbing subject at present in connection with the Great Exhibition is the forthcoming fetsa at Paris, a programme of which we have already given. We believe that to-day the cards of invita- tion will be issued by M. Sallandrouze de Lamornaix to those persons who have signified their intention of being present. With respect to the arrangements for reaching Paris, we understand that ...

... L YCB UM THEA TR'E. The Lyceum play bill, which has for a long time appeared to be stereotyped, has at length been varied. Last night TMr. CHARLES MATHEWS' benefit took place, and that event was made the occasion of introducing to a London audience one of the most remarkable dramatic works which have te been presented for many a day. It was termed a st new comedy in three acts, and no hint was ...

... CEONDs ANNUAL .Ex±hilTly'Nwf rilr WORKS OF MODERiV GE'RMA °}ras16, AdW E OSVD.STREET, GermaS0 arc anf ?? people. A ?? rvdes, aud would seem to be inuherent in, for art pea 3 D iJ And no less remnarkable is thisjt Ib ?? diffusiou and apparcutly| felia~OU5 xs c tan it is distineguished by f Ipn ligunity by a true anld essential nation.| p ba lof sentirment and of expression. From' i;xesource ...

... GUSTA PUS CASA.* Iodesty is generally, if not always, the herald of yeI merit. The author of the present work, Teah though simply announced as a history of Vasa, contains much valuable matter re- pectilog the early history of Sweden, has not put his alne to his book. He is a philologist and a scholar. Eiarnestness of purpose to carry out a ,ell-projected design is visible in the very first tf ...

... 2ROMAS MOORB S MEMOIRS, JO URNAL, AND CORRESPONDENCE.* The noble editor of the Memoirs and Journals of Thomas Moore has lost but little time inl issuing a second instalment of the work. Two new volumes, the third and fourth, have just been pub- lished. They contain the diary, from Augast 1819l to October 1825-the record of the poet's life from I the, age of forty to that of forty-six. The ...

... TIE POETWCAL WOR6S OFE POI.E . Mr. James Hannay is a great admirer of works of Edgar Poe; and so, although perhaps ijen more modified way, are we. Mr. Hannay, h,, ever, has given a practical proof of his admirationl and of hie. interest in the poet, by bringing cut a neatly got up edition of his poems, prefac: with a biographical sketch containing, as We be lieve, nearly all, that is known of ...