... led Cams.-The increase of clubs is at social fact. Institu- im tions for the encour agemient of celibacy aire increasing; hut of -this increatse is not only one of the great social facts of. the ~.preseist day; it is, mioreover, becoming so vast in dimensions, Wil So palatially, hiostelrie-like in interior arrangements, as to fri lead more than ever to thes belief that they are not so hi~ ...

... LITEPRATURE. I TRICOTRIN, BY OUIDAi ir LONDON: CHAPIAN & HALL, 19, PICC1ADILY. )- THE name of Ouida is in itself a sensation, and ?? if that desirable article can be obtained by the .g simple disregard of possibility, and the violation In of all laws of moral perspective, Ouida's readers is will have no cause to complain. They will find in is her works-we speak advisedly, her works, for 11 ...

... rTH-0 MAGAZ1NES. S Te'sple Bttr opens this month with -thO first five bliapteirs e of a new novol by tho authoress of ' Coraeth upr as a Plower,' ?? who, in a short address to thle ujislr l Iti British Pilblihc, or rathter to such rsneiber oir sociuers *f'tho sniie ras shall be uiri enncoia1p to sit do6 n an'd' rea-l the ensuiniig trhudand morving lov- story-true as the loves of wicked ...

... I sung the Age of Brass last week, A cursed each social hawk; But now my Muse shall change her therm And sing the Age of Cork. Oh, wondrous time ! when all the laud 'Is teeming with sedition, And Ministers repose sublime In hopeless inanition. Of abstract justice far too much My recollection numbers; I love the Goddess when she kicks Much'miore than when she slumbers But platitudes are just ...

... ART, LITERATURE, AN SCIENCE. Thtrnc apasoee 'neysal has -inst been naoptea inl Tr the military hands of Italy. This stop rinst necessarily Ur lod o tsunvesl se in all the theatres of thoe Peinsula. lis C The Teatro Pagliano of Florence has just been re- 0.W ,christened, For the future it is to be known as the :Cheruibini The manager wished to iname it after Signor Verdi, but the ?? declined ...

... OPENING OF THE SOUTH STAFFORD- f SHIRE EXHIBITION OF INDUSTRY AND ART. __ (Pnosi our. owac soPORTa'nc.) WOLVE RHAM~PTON, TOiiuRSDAY. In 'IlI0 manufacturing capital of thle black country is keop- IV] ing high holiday to-day. The SouithiShoffordsioirclIndustrial b( oond F ino Arts Exhibition is now a fact. This forelloon, a byth Egh Hn.th ErlofGrnie. Himisclf an11011o lord haingconsderlil ...

... J:D L I E W. creep ~rzrader r,(t bt i: A Recor d of Wrave I n English thoad Y The speak~ing counitries, in the y#iRars, 1363 and 1867. psi-fi By C. WncrrTWOna'nDaLES, M3.P. London: the *hanlanmid Co. reat 'The kceynuote of this -xick 'm~id v aried. work is ed ~trnelk inl thle two -words. whichl- conipol the title. ci T'he capr-ession, Greetma. Bdifein, 'as a maning0; Thai .w t iroeni, at ...

... THE ROYAL ACADEMy EXHIBITION. . 1-A FIRST VISIT BY A VISITOR. IT has beeni an' old practice of mine to take a first view of the national picture exhibition after Al f the critics have been, and whilst the public were door ak = crowding along the galleries and discussing the retn . pictures and the criticisms togetiear; and those date fwho have made similar early visits must have T often been ...

... A ISTE T0O0 S OUND. ?? 111112 tiltrI 1-o (''2o1 HillC1151Iv5I'-2 9 2'I'''It CDilvl rs., tadoa i: I'e iil2 ' It l'ercrpt '111221'''ll I;.t1lllwi''1- j i I, len Fealoi 0'C' in etI Ic, deep t.2::tra ?? iii '1 e'~c ?? ;t 11212 121(, EAd ad 'hr'1 ?? lrl. SoIl:l ?? do i. A l2I, tileinse ?? Ii . 02 ' 27t .5.2 t:1' hI22th'cast.mora110011 a IA! ?? well 121121 el2'fj :.1W01121, :1 022 1,'101 too la ...

... ART, LITEEAlTUAAND .SCIHOE. The late Lord Vernon's greet work o lelsfr6 4 aDant6, in three volumes folio, has recently ?? e.ispneted ~ ~ ~J h4'! Z of ~W 14t1rG'gtF 4ic Sori for. lecio a.r ~ sident ';Adnimira Sirl - Ucorg16k- F ?? ~ E 1, ti ?? of the orlntiti,.nMndy'hO jh ?? -Polarrgqsi w .nt-ilx'~sdh.p, ~itio, o''1,blca;,dioaal- 6frQ~by -tq Di~a,~ Mndes~on''uaoi being 4'nscaeaauch: ...

... LI TPRP TUBE. Th7re Crirls qF Fevbrshlcom. By F'LORENCE MAn- .YAT (1Trs. Ross Church). Tjondon: Richmaxd .Bentley, New Burlingtonsrtrect. :iitrs. Ross Church (Florence, Marryat) lovepw nd * ---Cronsequently excels in tho Sensational. This, ter last work, The Girls of Feversham, is r . ;rtten wi-h spccial care to omit anything that - y come under that exceptionable epithet, . nd ...

... AD . LV T RA T R . , I. S I E N C. I .E ?? ~ ~ ITERANC E',A SINE. -- - . l . , . .. I .. i TloTicket-of-Leave Man' ?? beendtfevived atli the rets Mato age ?? ~shbrtls lMi. Fdlieiien D idbe'icn.eecttd' a Member o:f Othd ,,Acsdimii des BetzArs intero f Hector Berlioz, The Viennese ohetaofmleusci~ns'i-sgoissg'en a. teutnde throesls ot %eaiayt St. Petereburg ?? 12. M. Nestor Roqupa saotoundertake ...