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DRAMA

... D:MA .. -| PRINCESS'$. Fr -Dyingsfr ovce, the new farce produced on Moundy Fr nhg~atdi Pnceaa'sl ias if we mistake not, a very lterel tr^anlation not only in title bet in plot, of M. or4be's Pr Itr 4*ieJ nwsAAfori, written for the delectation of gymimae Vt sadiences more-tban twenty years ngo. In its Engliea dgesa H' the'story is as follows:-CapiAin; Fioketon (Mr. G. Evbritt) ni -isailady ...

LITERATURE

... LITERATUBME 1 Magdalen Stafford, or, a Gleam of Sun8hine on a Rainy .Day. London: Bell and Daldy. We know not whether Magdalen Stafford be a veritable life history or no, but this we do know, that it is a true 'work-no truer book have we read this long ?? that the veil which the writer- lifts 'p reveals a genuine hunmon heart. We have little local colouring-no display of fine writing no dra ...

EMIGRANTS' GUIDE BOOKS.*

... I At no period in the put history of the United Kingdom have the young and active inhabitants of these islands had offered to them such a vast and prosperous field of enterprise as that which is now thrown open to them in the British Colonial Pos- sessions. In the old country every trade and profession is so overstocked that even those pos- sessing more than average advanta es find it diffi- ...

FINE ARTS

... FINE ARTS, THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. (SECOND AND CONCLUDING NOTICE). We resume our observations upon the more re- markable figure subjects which remain to be noticed by com. mencing do cape, as a musician would say, with No. 1, A A Yarn, by Mr. F. Stone. The expression of the false hypo- critical old bald-pate, spinning the yarn to the credulous younker, is capitally given, though the old ...

LITERATURE

... LITERA TUBE. I Ch~risti unity in China, Tartary, and Thibet. By M. L'AnutE Ruc. Vol. 111. London: Long. mans. -r This volume of the French Abb6's researches will ?p qual in irterest any ot'its predecessors. It carries 1858 thehistory of the Roman Catholic missions in China at tE from the establishment of the Mantchoo Tartar nect, dynasty to the commencement of the 18th centu ry. I an We derive ...

FINE ARTS

... I ~. . FINE ABT. E I PICTURES AND ETCHINGS AT THE FRENCH GALLERY. The room 'in Pal-mall lately oeopied by the French Exhibition i apgin, thanks to the enterpris i Mr. Gambarti well worth a visit The contents are calulated to afford the mean to the few unlucky prisoneral in London during tbis stsgnanl mouth of August of whiling away an hour very pleasantly. FPit and foremost, tse who ld not the ...

FRENCH LITERATURE

... LITERA2'UBB. I i I ?? . iAgfd!H LIIZ rMATU.U ?? bi ;: , .; *~ ; . Il . M. (kanietde Cassagnac opens his new weekly journal, piibshed at Paris, with an estimate of e prevalent literate idad' Ma'of France. Re does not take a very. cederfuliee of afbiirs, as will be seeni from ?? extrzacts fromr his firsta's'rtiole: _116 i ; li- We era by instinct two thigs-a military nation and a literary ...

DRAMA

... I. I HAYMARIKUT. Mrs. Wilkins (the widow of the lateiMr. Serjeant 'Wilkins) made her f9rt re.appearance upon the satee fthia theatre last evening, ii the part of Widow jGreen, in Mr. Sherdan KnowlBe's comedy of the.ora Cheass Judged by. the highest standard, even the performance ef Mrs. 11e E Marston in the amoe charaotei, and at the same theatre, last aultumn, Mrs. Wilkins's impersonatlon may ...

LITERATURE

... J - I Suq)plmnentary Despatches and Memoranda of Field Marehal the Duke of Wellington, K.G.- Indiat, 1797-1805. Edited by his son, the present Duke of WELLINGTON. Vol. I. The supplementary despatches and memoranda contained in this bulkyclosely printed volume range over a period of little more than three years-three years of service in India. A more wonderful supple- ment was never, perhaps, ...

DRAMA

... DBAMA. DRURY-LANEk. - On Saturday Mr. E. T. Smith, the lessee of this theatre, took his benefit at the close of the Italian operatic season. The opera given was Don Giovani, with the fol- lowing ?? Anna, Madame Viardot Garcia. Elvirs, Madame Sedlazek; Zerlina, Madame Persiani; Don Giovanni, Signor BadialM; Don Ottavia, Signor Naudin; Leporello, Signor Rovere; Commnendate, Signor Manfredi- ...

FINE ARTS

... FINE ARYS. I THE SOCIETY OF FEMALE ARTISTS. The second Exhibition of this Society proves that the ladies are determined upon keeping up their' separate maintenance. And who would not wish them to have the ftea of honourablc independence, a fair field, and plenty of !ayour ? They are, however, still bashful. Unlike the private views of other exhibitions, the lady managers are aetermined that ...

LITEATURE

... LIMARA TURE. Wyoming, it HiBstory, a irring Incidents, and .omantic Adventures. By GEORGE PFEC, DD. London: Sampson Low and Son. America has but few consecrated spots. There is a genius loci that hu~nt. her primeval woods, that soars on her loftiest mountains, that gives freshness to her purple prairies, that illumineiher vast waters; but shel no historyand point~s onward rather than dwell on ...