... PRINCESS'S THEA TRE. The art of getting up nobly, picturesquely, and oor- rectly, a work of dramatic genius-of enshrining the per- sonages of the poet as they would probably have appeared in the country and the age in which the scene is laid-this art and the practice of it are of very recent origin upon our stage, certainly Rot dating back, at the furthest, more than a score of years. ...

... A THEN3-UM INSTITUTJ. A meeting of gentlemen connected with literature and journalism was held on Saturday afternoon, in the rooms of the Athenoaum Insurance Company, in Sackville-street, for the purpose of a eoniersational discussion on the features and the merits of the newly-started Athenanum Institute. From what fell from Mr.' Richmond, of the Athenaeum Insurance Com- pany, who took the ...

... I ASTLE AVON.* The idea of Wordsworth's Shepherd Lord is among the most beautiful in modern poetry, and was illustrated by the bard of Rydal Mount with all the force of his wonderfal genius for creating the soul of poetry in the form of the familiar and the common. The pastoral and the noble were associated in the exquisite verses which he devoted to this favourite theme. The author of ...

... T'HERE AND BACK AGAIV.* What is it that constitutes a good book of travels ? What is it which makes the narrative of one mau seem like the fresh picture of things rendered familiar to us in spite of their novelty, and the want of which makes the pages of another imitate the barren duliess of a handbook or the twaddle of a tea party ? In a few rare instances the subject of the travels is so new ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... EXHiBBINION OF THE NA 7IONAL IN STITUTION OF FIRE ARTS. The sixth season of this society of painters wras inaugurated upon Saturday by the usual private view at the Portland-rooms. There are as many as 337 works in oil suspended on the walls, with 63 water-colour drawings in the room appropriated to that department. As a whole, the collection can hardly be. deemed satisfactory. Like the ...

... 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 ...

... RXOYAL LENTE1RTAINMgENT AT GLOU- I(ESTER ROUSE. Ili: Xlolyil Highness the Duchess of Gloucester gave a !i; i :iuiit o1 Saturday laqt to their Majesties the i!CI0 AQiueei of Hanover, her Royal Highness thc Duchess °~ 1SuAl l ihc S' revie Highness tile Princess Adelaide of If ?? liihi Rl)al Highness tile Duke of Cambridge, tfii r 1 I 11 cersss the Duchess of Cambridge and the l yand tbebi Royal ...

... RCT.IC JO URNAVL.* . ..I A -f;P. hooks are not fessed that Arcrtiu L uv - 4 be cor books. One page reads wo- ieth} ad on chapter seems a double of; b ° s this to be wondered at. Al *i) a f preoi5Y similar phenomena I dble element of monotony in 'I ?? endure it, and that element thone aed in their accounts of their ,, _g-waiting for a lane of ?? I ,58 of bra crush between two )Freth hrough ...

... FINB ARTS. There has recently been on view in the show-rooms of Messrs. ColDaghi and Co. a noble work of art, Le Juge. ment de Marie Antoinette, by Paul Delaroche. The nabject, which is scarcely conveyed with accuracy by the Fganch title, is that of Marie Antoinette, after her trial and her sentence, being conducted back from the ferocious revolutionary tribunal to the Conoiargerie. From ...

... OL YMPIC THEA TRE. Australian subjects seem likely to become a fertile source of dramatic representations; and really, considering the extent and freshness of the field opened up by the Diggings, we have a right to look for something novel, exciting, and cha. racteristic at the hands of our theatrical writers. There ic no doubt but that the strange jumble of society congregated at the gold ...