... dances, they are propriety itself compared with our ballet; and they have no more to do with religion than a Christmas pantomime has with Christmas-day services. The Eabllee nautch is a clever parody on English manners. Enter a native, dressed up to represent ...

... were first prepared is their dislike of action and passion. This is nothing new ; but anybody who will give himself the trouble to e-amine ever so cursorily the illustrations to the Sandy at omne, or the Sunday JIagaszine, or any similar periodical ...

... Whittier. With Illustrations. (Boston: Ticknor and Fields. London; Trubuerand Co.) The Vision of Sir Launfal. By James ?? Lowell. With Illustrations. (Same publishers). Flower de Luce. By Hlenry Wadsworth Longfellow. With Illustrations. (Same publishers) ...

... NE, W BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. TnrE publishing season, now well advanced, is productive of an enormous number of new books and new ?? welcome old friends, and not a few duill or obscure or luckless ones, making another effort for public favour. For the ...

... is to put all brief explanatory notes at the foot of the page, but all illustrative or confirmatory! matter at the end of the volume-in other words, to keep rotes and illustrations apart from each other. But, in the case suggested by the volume before ...

... NE W COMTIEDIES. A m ?? has lately been compiled of the new pieces produced during the last twelve months at the chief London theatres. Scarcely a fifth of the uhole number belonged to the class of true or even nominal coinedv -%hile the rest wvere about ...

... ion. NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Two new magazines of a totally different nature have been commenced this:; year. One is Cassell's Magazine-a serial which in aspect is something like- Once a Week. It is amusing, has plenty of good illustrations, and appears ...

... its tricks, slides, slots, and all the apparently complicated machinery necessary to a Christmas pantomime. Mr. E. T. Smith is going to have a pantomime at Christmas at the Lyceum; It is to have a limited run of six weeks, when a melodrama will be produced ...

... pranks and divinations which accompany that festivity in 2; :North Coast and other Poems. By Robert Buchanan. With illustrations. (London: Routledge and Sons. IS67.) Scotland; it would make a kind of low life counterpart to Keats's Eve of St. Agnes. ...

... CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Oi books of the less showy but more permanently interesting quality, Mr. Pjamerton's Contemporary French Painters (London: Seeley and Co.) is a favourable specimen. In his preface, Mr. Hamerton tells us that twelve years of frequent ...

... productions according to the kindl or quality of the illustrations, and we shall do so with those before us, D] illgng literary criticism incidental to artistic. 'Ithe first division of illustrations would naturally be into ?? and recolourrcdl The former ...

... implied in the word gum. Bad taste of a broader and more vulgar sort is observable in the tone and language of much of A New Light, and in such ugly lines as these two which describe what the hero of Beatrice heard from his titled relations when ...