Refine Search

THE VOICE OF AUTUMN

... I THE.VOICE OF AUTUMN. Thou lonely man of grief and pailn, By lawless power oppreosed, Bunt from thy priron-rend thy chain, I come to make the blest ; I have no springtide bods; and flowers, I bave no summer bee9 and bowers; But, oh, I have some pleavut hours, To soothe thy soul to rest. Plenty o'er all the quiet land Her varied vesture wceaves, And Rings her gifts, with liberal hand, To glad ...

LITERATURE

... y Iu/gazncl. D OOrs yoa Rxvntw.Bok.Msc oyEgavin;-, y &C., intended for review. left at thle establishment of Mr. hi C. MITCHELL, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street, London, 10 addressed -to the Editor of thle Derby Mereury, vs ill be forwarded and receive attentl on. 7The Poetical Works of Alexriadel' Pope. Edite by RoaazRTg CA9917THERS. la four volumes. London : IxNGANai, r, COOKE, and Co. ki The ...

THERE AND BACK AGAIN.*

... 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 ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... cSkTRATED lHANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN BELGIUM, ON THE UIUNE, AND THROUGH PORTIONS Or Runsnsn PRUSSIA.-Brad- ,isCr and Dlackloeck, Icaacehester, and 59, Flect-street, London. Here is a guide upon which the English tourist may impU- ?? rely for all the information ho may stand in need of, from g e moment of leaving his own fireside to his return home. That fstrcequirement of Englishmen, ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... THE OPIATE GIVEN AT DRTIlYi-LANE. The Adrienne Lecouvreeur, in which Rachel played so forcibly, was a 6rama of poison. The Betrothal, pro. duced last Monday night at Drury-lane, is, also, a drama of the same poisonous kind. It is said that Rachel went into a hospital purposely to study the fearful effects of paison, in order to reproduce them, as effects, in her acting. This is carrying one's ...

STATE OF TRADE

... STA TE OF 7RADE. DI2111 A 4 a The iron trade of the distr ct continuea to t ie satisfactory state. The furnaces of South Staffordshire East Worcestershire are in full work, and tbe denarrf r descriptions of manufactures continuously incresing cording to our information, the great firms are recr., b execute orders for delivery al; distant dates at exisgisr and that some have refused tenders at ...

THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO.*

... u-t INDIAN ARCHIPDLAGO.* id horace St. John tells us in his preface to e elaborate volumes that upon them have beeu laued tile labour of years. We can well believe. I~e ,tothig but indefatigable and long-continued trY, gleanilg from every variety of source, in every janguage, and of every age, could have accir 111ulased so vast a treasury of detail-ethnologicalj storical, and descriptive ...

PRINCESS'S THEATRE

... tR1NGE&S' -:TRBA TRB. - . This theatre closed last night, after a season of unusual duration, extending to within a few days of twelve months. The fact alone is aus evidence of great success. Sardana- ?? was performed for the sixty-fir&t time, a run almost unprecedented, when we remember that this magnificent drama was not produced until the middle of June, a period when managers used formerly ...

MUSIC AND THE DRAMA

... - Blackwood's MaJazine. The flourishing town of Bradford has been celebrating, by an appropriate musival festival, the opening of St. George's- hall-a handsome Palladian building, of the Corinthian orAer, built at an expense of 21,000L., and devoted to music. The performance began on Wednesday week, with the oratorio of St. Paul. On Thursday The Messiah drew animmense audience. On Friday ...

LITERATURE

... LITERA TUBE. ,H D ?? Cot~zl' 7ie ol' tic London Traders', Tiir)n ai o Cbie-*o-insc 'lh cs, uer, ..t o the M7th Centlry, pres neted to the CurI)oration Libruiy by 11. BeCIzifOY, L--s . By J. H. Buin-. The munificent gift of 'Mr. B3eaufov to the City has rendered it necessary that a proper cataloguo should he made of its contents: this has been ably done by Mir. Burn in thc present volume. The ...

TRAVELS IN INDIA AND KASHMIR.*

... TRA VELS IN INDIA AND IASHMIR.* | I If sympathy with his subject is one condition of good authorship in a bookwriter, these travels must be deserving of especial attention. Baron Erich von Schonberg is thoroughly oriental in his tastes, and quite an optimist in regard to climate, ,reed, and people. Brahminical temples are par- iicularly the objects of his esteem, and he never was more ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... LITERAlty NOTICF D.-- .,,A ?? ,S. 'uNcH ana IsrOGErEat arc both evcellent. They masy note be regarded as companions rather than rivals. A SeRMON ON the LeolUcATrION at.n itb the rev. Jel.tlea A . inerte DI, urilncipal of Hastwell Col- Ilge. (Longusans, Lond~o.)_.1'hj5 dliscourse pece in July last, in behalf of at school from a'portion of Sololnon's prayer at the dedication of the tomple,- Gimc ...