... LITEBATURE. The Gordians Knot d. .48tor' of Good n f ri By SHIRLEY BROOKS. 'With illustrStions5 by John Tenniel. Riohard Bentley. Mr. Shirley Brooks is one ot the most realistio of our writers of fiction. In his writings we have no ideal, distant, or abstract world, no gentle re-touching of old traditions, or minute and careful elaboration of a few deep and simple elements of character; the ...

... LITERA TUBE. I Croeckford's Clerical Dtirectoryfor 1860. This is a biographical dictionary of the episcopal clergy of our day. It contains the names ot 17,500 deacons, priests, and biahopo, arranged in alpha- betical order, with a considerable body of information respecting each. For example, people were asking the other day for information about the position and antecedents of the Rev. James ...

... At the ADELPHI and the PRINCESS'S Theatres dramatic versions of Mr Dickens's Christmas Carol and of his Cricket on the Hearth have been revived with great success as Christmas entertainments. At the LYCEUM the Tale of Two Cities is in preparation. Mr Tom Taylor is the author of the adaptation, which will be produced with the author's sanction, ada not wholly without aid from his counsel. The ...

... 7 I, 4Ah',I go;l . L | MR;f. 31IN VUC$tARDiSi CONCBI T; j This keg, place at St. J=a )~ ?? nigh, wa i t wI drc-metasees A chtiq pi fail to create a etiton In the musical world. The de - Rtounutdia the siae of Mr. Richards, was- preratory for an extenilve tour in the provinces arranged by Mr. Willert Beale, and embracing a groat arbount of vowa and fnsten- mental talent. For this tour, to ...

... HUBIO. 11~ ~ -_ == I I -. TBS. G-LAGOW KUBIOAL PBBETIvA1 T. e anapa Istw tigbi; W# wileB4 a rucom achIeved, though in a different vsryu o the z - ?? evening. There was ouly one drswbak to tbe un- mibdl gaia oftbse ultos. Mr. Latabeth having at .IiYjaA metwitha alight Sooildat to his hand;, Sir MXinhW Shaw Stewart, the pildent of the metng, s that Mr. C. E. Horaley would supply h plan W man ha ...

... [From Punch.] SHORT AND (NOT) SwEnaT.-John Arthur Dogtear'em Roebuck, Esq., once a Bath Chap, and now a Sheffield Blade not always of the best temper. CHRISTMAS WAITS. Europe this Christmas waits to see What's to be done with Italy: Whether the despots mean to free her, Or sornewhat farther first to see her. The Pope, too, wailts, with visage grim, To learn what's to become of him ; Whether ...

... LITNBATURE. Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury. A Bliography. t By JAMES CsR IGIE ROBiEIRTSON, M.A., Canon of 1 Canterbury. Murray. I The arrogant pretensions of a sacerdotal caste to I be exempt from civil jurisdiction and allegiance, were represented in the twelfth century of English history by Thomas a; Becket. Unfortunately, in the nit-eteenth century we have seen them still raunpant, in ...

... L I T E R A T U R E. Tare GOxDtAS KsNor. A Story of Good and of Evil. By SnrcIRLEY BorooDsK. 1. Bentley, Nev 13urlington-strect. The next most difficult thing to writing a good uovel is reviewing it, aud precisely fixing its due place in the competitive struggle of those works of imaginlation, which every season force their way into the bands of the reading public. In some cases the author's ...

... I SACRED HA.MW tNIC SOCIETY. The performance of Samsaons last evening drew one of thogreatest crowds we have ever been in Exeter Hall. This oratorio is one of the greatest of the oighly mastersa workis; written in the zenith of his powetH, and itmmediately after Thc ffessials, it is in many parts little interior even to that unparalleled masterpiece in grandeur and beauty, It nevertheless did ...

... TJ STDMONIAZ IT HZI ART TREASNUMB I I ..XRJ.TJO COMJITRR Yesterday afternoon a mteeting was held, in. the Mayor's parlour, at the Manchester Town-hall, for. the pre- oestation. of a piece of plats to each of the seven membes of the executive committee of the late Art Treasures Exhibition. The chair wea taken by Mr. J. C. HARTERL. The seven testimoniale (which have already been described In the ...

... LITERA TURE. Vih Roman Question. By E. ABOUT. Translated from the French by H. C. CoAPE. Second edition. With a New Pteface by the Author. London. W. Jeffs.tb urpn A year ago the Roman Question was tbe Enropean question ot the day, and it is so more than ever now; and M. Edmond About's wittv and incisive boo is par excellesuce the book of The Roman Question. We are afraid to say how many ...

... LYCEUM. Of the pantomime at this theatre we spoke last week on hearsay evidence; we now bear our own witness to its character. The author of the introduction is Mr F. Talfourd, who is the writer also of this season's burlesque at the Strand. Mr Talfourd is the best of the stage punsters, and he has p~t into the story of King Thrush- beard much pleasant jesting, with a little-perhaps too much ...