... )KV -,,1.WP*ESBTEA. , ONOUR OWN CO~xORRzs~qp*)T id *Tamuz~a ROYAL~,7,- .auldn te pawaa .prodoe~eef~h firs tie o Sau~d~K~~J' d~t, ad. ?? te Cava ry Randlflr *intended, Mle militiar Serginll .-Rd ?? zperoomsraries. It is ;8n'mOByfe1d0s&Ptnaltinek atshref yl s~ canedit'ab.loima pieicea'but. therely jb-'ueyo,~ei esitonj~wih h picp eggW-ffthe'.einbarkatiQn' or the~ troopsreirone0fihngwh ithe. ps, ...

... | CHARADES. Charades. By ANNE BOWMAN. London: G. Rout- ledge and Co. While we arc indebted to the Germans for our Christmas trees as a means of affording amusement at our most festive season of the year, we are equally under obligation to our more versatile neighbours, the French, for the introduction of that very popular class of juvenile entertainments known as charades. The object of the ...

... IR&SSIAN PA 7RONAIGEof LITERATVRE. The poetry of Ryleieff and Pouchkin had a widely ex, tended influence over the cultivated society of the empire. Pouchkiu admirably caught the spirit of the popular songs. He has been called an imitator of Byron but Herzen. while admitting the influence of the Eaglish poet on his earlier efforts, maintains, and we think with justice, the originality of the ...

... . At the meeting of this society yesterday, Mr. Scott Russell, ' F.11.S., Vice President, in the chair, the paper read was 3 On the Chalk Strata, considered as a source for the supply of Water to the Metropolis, by Mr. S. C. Homersham, M. Inst. C.E. The author commenced by stating that in many districts of Great Britain, where the soil rests upon clay, millstone, or other matter Impermeable ...

... . . mISS ROMEO,- Or rather,-11iss Cushman as Romeo, has appeared this week- at the HAxvU.RxHT. The curiosity isnot a novelty. We have before seen Miss Cushman as 3fiss Romeo; and though the lady lover is full of flame, itis the flame of phosphor; it shinew, but it does not burn, We could as soon warm our hands at a painted fire, as feel the impetuous passion of an ungowned Romeo. We look upon ...

... As a genial, intelligent, high-spirited companion over a country full of the picturesque, bristling with danger, and abounding in novelty, commend us to MPn. FPRANnj MARXA~TT. His M~fountsains and Mole- hills, or Recollections of a nt Journal (Longmau) may serve as a model of that style of travel-writing which is instructive without being formally didactic, and amusing without being ...

... '¢R. I{. a LO~S' PICTURE OF TzNalivU-' :R4JioNz't OF :THB GRUAT El BIlok OF 1 1861.', ' i r a : - - _ .One of;two O.nracters, the ?? the prbsaio, will necessarnly reveal itself in every il tteiolis;,whatever the nature of the subject illustrated or that of the illus- trating medium may be. Each of these very distinct and oppositeviews of the subject has its votaries. We, who feel that the ...

... ETHNOLOGY AND ARCH OLOGY. A few weeks ago we referred to a work entitled T2qpes of Mankind, published by Dr Nott and Mr Gliddon, and advocating many new principles respecting these sciences. We have now to record the close of a series of lectures upon the same subject by a friend of these gen- tlemen, Mr Luke Burke. These lectures were delivered at the Mary- lebone Literary and Scientific ...

... THE A DELPHI THEA TR E. A striking feature of the present theatrical season has consisted in the introduction, at this favourite abode of farce and the domestic drama, of ballet dancing, of a cha- racter and on a scale usually confined to the boards of the opera. With two such artistes as Mdlle. MARAQUITA and q Mdllc. BENONI, the attempt could hardly fail to meet with l the success which ...

... PROVICIAL tH~i~RIp.4L.S . I Barimix.-Tbe TLhiatrie reafin ?? iforthe P450ent.' It leseportd * however,-that it will shortly oe'h neof the' Ihiblin ?? The Colosseum, a ntei saloon. lately.-opened here, lisa been wall attended. It~is wnicely fitted jspplacajofadnsemenj .IoissStepheiis and~othersmein. tinue to attract good ?? and hsis'rmoustre b.ad. with Maodaime PIey6 and Miiis Dollby, apa ...

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... -ET LANDIfABRS OF ENGLISIH HISTORY.5 Whaat a large *subject is the History of England ' fow cane a writer satisfactorily deal with it in it smati volume like the one before us, sold for eig'iteenpience? flow can he compress into three hundred p igee the great story of two thousand years. flow delineate the most prominent events, and the general aspects of society, during the periods of Roman, ...