... SEUMITION ART TREASURES, 1857. The labours of the executive committee, in their efforts to form a gallery which shall worthily represent the modern English school of paintings, are being crowned with the most satisfactory results. A reference to the following lists of important contributions which have been recently added to those already announced leaves no room to doubt the entire success of ...

... LITERATURBE. Thse Good Old Yinaes; a Tate of -Atver9-ne. By the Author of1 Mary Powell. H all, Virtue, and Co. There is not so much raciness, individuality, and flavour of nationality in this tale as in many others 0 by the same author. It wants the solemnity af his- e tory, the earnestness of partisanship, the reality of biography. It is intended to illustrate the social p cnodition of one ...

... TPE DRAMAI, and THINGS TAATBJCAL. I [FAROM OUR OWN OOBRESPO1WENTJ g The drama is quieting dowfn a little. There was a great rush hast veek upon all our theatres, and indeed thie week alo, but it wee a fioker, if I may use the expression. I cannot discover that there is muc real spirit this Chrifit- mas in the theatrical camp to sustain a prolonged flame As to the comic business of all the ...

... Although we are not in a situation to farnish our readers with a long list of arrivals-indeed, if we were, it would be a circamstance unprecedented at this period of the year, when our fashionables for the most part, flookto their coun- try seats to dispense their bounty in the neighbourhood of their own domains-but our tradesmen must console them- solves with the ageurance that they never ...

... ART FOR THE MILLION. No. III.-BAXTER'S OIL PROCESS. Lanzi many years ago observed, in his History i of Painting, The age in which we live is by many t, called the age of brass, inasmuch as it has been less p productive of great names and great pictorial works, n yet I believe we might betterdenominate it suchfrom the number of engravings which have recently been carried to a high degree ...

... It is an ill wind that blows nobody good, and how ever the audiences of the Olympic may regret the loss of so good an actor as Mr. S. Emery, the inhabitants of Nortl Western London have reason to be glad of a circumstance by which they have gained him as manager of the Maryle- bone Theatre. His long professional experience, his own merits as an actor, and the favour he deservedly has found in ...

... = - % :I v ?? ?? ,rrES OF QUEEN IENRIBTTA MXARIA. e7a of quen Henridea iCala, indvuOiO n her private Corr68P t uoitls ('Charlkes ehe First. alectd fromn the Pub~lic 4rchives and Private Libraries of F'rance ad Engand. Edited by h~r Mste EVILLY GB; J~dZ ' Wley. I\ 'VTa Be wi3tE io juldge a work that pro. soes to be only the materials for historyby the or- standard of the interest we ?? ...

... The labours of the 'executive committee, in their efforts to form a gallery which shall 'worthily represent the modern English school of paintings, are being crowned with the most satisfactory results. A reference to the following lists of impoxtant contributions which have been recently added to those already annouxibel leaves no room to doubt the entire success of the Art Treasures ...

... The following is the award of the principal prizes:- The Colchester Cup (a piece of plate value 20 guineas), for the best general collection of domestic poultry sent for competition for the general prizes, consisting of not less than ten pens and five varieties, shown by any amateur exhibitor resident in the United Kingdom. Mr. George Botham, Wexham-court, Slough, Bucks. The Counties' Cup (a ...

... LITERA TUBE. ne Early Flemnish Pain ters: Notices of their Lires and Works. By J. A. CaowL and G. B. CAVAL- CASELLE. Murray. At a period when most of the other countries in Europe were living a national life in which the love of the beautiful and of the intellectual was scarcely perceptible, Italy and Flanders were making great strides into the realms of art. The feudal system, wonderfully ...

... * pastOGRAPHIC EXHJMTJOB.- A privet view took place frorday of the fourth an. . exhibition of the Photogrphic Society, Prince erl the Prince of Wales, and the Princess Royal, being Aong the ?? visitors. The exhibition is a remarkably ,xestimg oce, ant oomplete in every department. Taken whole the 4ispby of photographs exhibits a most marked piogress, both in manipulation and artistio merit. e ...

... 1FIN7E ABT$~ PHEOTOG}RAPHIC SOCIETY.-PRIATE VIBW OF EXHIBITION. i The exol-bitions got up under thc auspices of this r4 S&oiety are, if not the most striking and varied, if not the inost intrinsically valuable, certainly among the most interest- o: In& of any that are presented to the public. And the reason 15, a that phlotography isw a p~rogres.ive eat. The yearly visits to k the ...