... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... MU~S~iC., UUIJII.YLAAE. EXTDAORDINAIIY ScCENE.-Th promised perform- ance of Norrma drew an immense audience here last night, but the promise was only in pert fulfilled, and a very rnuti~ lated and imperfect version of Bellini'e opera was the result, At the commencement of the evening an apology was offered for the absence of Signor Luigi Mei, who wee announced for Poliio; and the indulgence of ...

... LITERA TUBE. Socian aite Policial2 Morality. By WILLIAM LOVETT. Simpkin and Marshall. Mir. Lovett has been long known for his conscien- tious advocaev of radical reform, and for his earnest endeavours not only to procure social privileges for the members of the class to which he belongs, but to elevate them higher in the scale of society by education. Few men have laboured. so long and so ...

... DRURIY-LANE THEAITRE, We should dismiss, in a couple of sentences, the mass of undramatic and unpoetic verbiage which, ?? the ilroe of a five-act play, occupied three hours last night, bat far the circumstance that at the fall of the curtain the ?? sof the galleries applauded with much vehemence, the drop rose! and, after that, the two p'incipal actors in yhe Betrothal were called on, the ...

... DRURY LANE. In going through his range of characters at this theatre Mr. G. V. Brooks took the part of Iago on-Satur- dsy to Mr. Davenport's Othells. If Mr. Brooke baa any merit it is unquestionably his power, er rather his vigour, which-is, as we think, the characteristic of his robust style. There is farlees scope for this faculty in the character of lago than in that of Othello, so that his ...

... Drury-lane.-RflAPEAXAICE op Ma. G. V. Brooms. - The withdrawal of the patent-rights of the great theatres, and the opening of the minor houses without limit, for the enact- ment of the British drama, has afforded free scope for the gratification of whatever amount of dramatic taste the public possessees. Msangers are not slow in discovering the direction of the popular current, and, with such ...