... SHAXSPEARE'S MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. TO TIE EDITOR OP THr DAILY SNEWS [In comnmonl fairness we feel ourselves bound to X give a place to this letter. It appears to us, however, 'we must confess, to strengthen our ease. Mr. Phelps's Bottom Dwas the main attraction.] t Sit,-In a notice contained in your impression of Tue6- -day last, of a reading of the above play by Mrs. Fanny Koemble ...

... ?? r H e~ IT JQ'. (rnovar mtAQL COREU5PONDUNT).t ?? -> .~pe PARIS, FOB. 9. I hasten to announce to your readers the fact that WI the great Paris houses affected by the sale of the | 1 exclusive right to engrave the Palas de L'Indostrie, ap have combined- to oppose' thi most arbitrary, and, W7 they assert, unlawful proceeding. This' protest is la signedlby such men as Susse, &c., and is, ...

... SONNE'FS FOR-THE TIMES. TO THE NATION. Beware of mere delusive eloquence,- Your back'.ey'd clever talkers, who can male Evil seem good for place and party sake, Well skill'd in dialectic thrust and fence; Let common honesty and common sense Come to thy council board; no longer take For statesmen some few scornful consulars The scions of great families,-for such Less love the People's ...

... )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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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... LITh3ARY? TWOELLA1?XA. GEoRGE SAcD.-O n± find .ad e Ddevnt in-a ittle garret ,on the Qusi. St. ichael, where .her ?? frdend Jules Sadeau s~peedily found her. o She- was then absolutely destitute of . resources. As .for Jules Sanadeauo th@ so.l of a humble clerk, in the -Cus. tom., h. only ed a very moderate, allwance from his family,,audmW5 himself compelled to struggle against necessity. ...

... DRURY-LANE. A new farce, of anonymous origin, was produced here last night, under the title of Writing on the Shutters; and, although almost too trivial for description, it met with a very good reception. It turns entirely on the elope- ment of Miss Fanny Bung (Miss Love) daughter of Mr. Peter Bang, host of the Fly and Flower Pot (Mr. Glindon). The hostelry is situated near a country railway ...

... Gwven; or, the Cousins. By A. M. GoODRICH. John W Parker and Sen. There is a class of works of fiction which the Germans classify as the Te62dens-.Omaf. They are works with a tendency. They preach a moral. They are written to enforce some ethical truth. There are numbers of them, written with great power. They are most of them written with earnestness. The only fault that can be found with ...