... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... FRENCH PLA YS. The last two novelties produced at the St. James's Theatre were each a Comedy in two acts-the first, a sombre picture of unhappy married life, called Marguerite; the second a semi-farcical and not very interesting jimble of dramatic improbabilities, termed Andre. .Aarguoeite is the production of Madame ANOELOT, and possesses, both in cha- racter-drawing and in the development, ...

... Having discussed the few religious and historical pietures, and the numerous lardiape6 exhibited at the Suffolk-street Gallery, Pall-mall, we proceed to a description of the remaining pieces which we have not mentioned or have only named. The President has contributed four or five por. traits, of which we have not spoken, Nos. 15, 20, 148, 190. The same hand is discernible in these id in his ...

... Y|S 0~o1OF THE as USADES El its T6 .- - l 15distinguished writers who have re- A ~ t~i ustre on the literature of France reei~ 1l)lcenturysJoseph Michaud is not reeieikalmle the historic muse has had ?? votaries in any age or country than [~ret ?? writers who have consecrated ! A er service, and any historical school ,formled offour such names as Michaud, nie, b and Guizot. Bringing to the 8 t ...

... -H .IIA RR Y M UIR.* a uoteof CHauryMuir is struck in the first s fbeq and a story of predestinated sorrow opens the reader. As he proceeds, the impression The cypress lines the way-the shadow ?? frailty overspreads the sky-there is au Of ab ?? in the distance. The hero, isviabiechr Mr5 guir, is clearly he for whom the Nemesis lot, be it understood, in any melodramatic ?? in bsis own ...

... ANCIENT BOHEMIAN POEMS.+ The ancient Bohemian poems of Mr. Wratislaw's volume consist chiefly of the contents of a manu- script discovered in 1817 by M. Hauka at Krllov6 dvur or Koiniginhof (Queen's Court), a small town in the circle of Kdniggritz, in Bohemia. They are, chiefly warlike ballads of the usual kind, referring to the wars of the Bohemians with the Tartars of Kublai Khan and other ...

... THE' MUSICAL UNION. Mr. ELLA had provided for the second meeting for the aeason-which took place yesterday-a programme of so tempting a nature that we were not surprised to find the King street Bormrs crowded to the door. The selection per. formed included HAYDN'S noble quartet in B flat, Op. 71, which was the work with which the first meeting of the Musical Union was inaugurated; a duo for ...

... THE SOCIETY OP' ARTS. The eighteenth ordinary meeting of this sociely was held .ast night at their rooms, in Johu-street, Adelphi ; Sir John Boileau in the chair. The Dean of Hereford read an interesting paper on the importance of giving a self-supporting character to schools for the lahouring classes. The reverend gentleman entered into the consideration of this question in much retail, but ...

... Sufficient time has elapsed since the publication of Mary Bartou for a second novel by the same hand to be conceived and written with such care and thought as not to disappoint the numerous admirers of the authoress's first and most remark- able work. Ruth gives ample evidence of reflec- tion, ability, and exquisite taste; and, although a tale in every way different from the first, few ...

... BOYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Last night Gacsi returned, in Norma, looking as well, acting as nobly, and singing as gloriously as ever.. The house-the most crowded and brilliant of the season-wel! corned the great parima donna with a succession of those long-continued bursts of greeting which few, save Madame GRisi, can evoke; and then there went round a universal buzz of satisfactios to the effect ...

... I +4- At the last meeting of this society, Sir John Doratt, V.P., in the chair, The Rev. Dr. BINeis read a short paper On certain ancient Arab Qaeens, in which he questioned the truth of a diseovery lately announced by Colonel Rawlinson, to the effect that the Queen of Sheba who visited Solomon was the ruler of a northern district of Arabia, at no greatdistance from Palestine. Dr. Hincks ...