... -0 4P CO5MPETITION FOIR SCUIPTORS or ALL NATIONS.-The Prince Regent of Prussia has directed a monument to be raised at Berlin in honout of his father, Frederick William III. The statue is to be equestrian, in height and dimen- sions after the model of the celebrated monument by Rauch of Frederick the Great, a copy of which, on a reduced scale, it will be remembered, is in the Crystal Palace at ...

... LITERA TUBB. Zlistoire des Prtncipaux Ecrivains Francaia dtpuuis ?? de 1 Litorateure jusqe'd iws Jo?r:. Par ANrOi1N Rocim. Deus Tomes. London: Williams and Norgate. These modest volumes we earnestly recommend to all who desire to know something of the litera- ture of France. They are jus6 SO nifny degrees removed above an elemental work as to make it no disgrace for them to occupy a place on ...

... INTERNATIONAL ExYlIBITIOV OF 1S62. The following letter has been addressed to the Seeretary of the Society of Arts, by command of his Royal Ifighness the Prince Consort, president of the society, expressing the readiness of his Royal Highncss to place his name on the list of guarantors for the sum of £10,000, so soon as the sum of £210,000 has been subscribed:- Whin(sor Castle, April 9, 1860. ...

... LITERA TUBE. 1Iistory of the les2n of Jknry 1 R., K2ing of France and NavM9nre. From ?? unpub- ljihcd Sources, including MS, 'TDocuniwiits in the is, Bibliothelue Impdeiale and, the Archives du Iis Royamlle (le France. 2 vrils. London : Hurst eir and Blackett. ry fsEcoND Nso'rica.] ud We do not propese in these columns to follow at I Henry further in that varied career which even- m- tually ...

... THE THIRTY-FOURTH EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL SCOITISH ACADEMY, EDINBURGH. ' .hUf at~tlJsa1, Lfl~flJUfltefl (cOaMrsIcsAM.) On a recent visit to Edinburgh, we were gratified to observe the large number of visitors to the annual exhibition on the Mound, and the careful examination of the various paint. iags made by the greater part of those present. This augurs well for the prospects of art in ...

... = t= -T- ?? THE THR:FEESCORE A'N'D TEN-, I- - . A Pa I ?? (From the Gentleman's Magazine.) The following animated lines are, we undersand, the effusion of a veteran poet, the Rev. D:- Croly; and were produced by him at a recent select literary party at Brithtern on proposing the health of the senior Memtber in the Chair, himself well known as the Editor of Churebill, aflJ one of the oldest ...

... PICKINGS FROM PUaXCH,. A BULLYING BOY WELL WHIPPED. Oh, weep for the hour, When to Evelyn's bower The Lord Chief Justice with a birch rod came; * Master B. he looked aflfight, As very well he might, And wished he hadn't played such a cheeky game. Al aster B. has lots of tin, And he thought to save his skin By affixing to a cheqde his extremely solvent time; Dut Sir Alexander C.. Whipped the ...

... | THE THEATRE ROYAL-MISS GLYNm. Last evening this trigic actress parsonated Shakspere!s Ciepatra-a character peculiarly suited to that lof by and in passioned sty le in which thih lady canwalk'forth, lend ado'rna melt to regal1 pomp; andiinpart grace to *3man'a. the most elevated sphere. -Wie laswtight saw vividlygshadovd forth by MilsiGlyn the imnperious Queen of Egypt, iith her'fass-a ...

... 2111. GLA DSTOYVE oi lvil I 'OL 'INlTEl-R AfO 1 E.A1LW2-1. The dietribotion of prizes to tile successfiul tioniptlitcrs itt fthe, first annalt w'nitest of the Chester Artillery and Rlifle eI Vultunteters,, which caine off last wee!k onl their shocotinig II ground ait WVavertun, took place on Idoetilay ait Cheater, At I two o'clock tile tartifllry end riflo corps, inwqsiered in thin c Lillen ...

... JNEW PRILZIURA'oNVIo COSCEBT'S. The fourth concert took place last evening, and attracted one of the most numerous audiences we have seen on any i occasion at St. James's Hall. The following admirable pro- gramme was given :- 0vwrture (Meilca) ?? Cherlubini. Aria, ?? Questi ivveuturieri infari (It Seraglio), Signor Bcjle ui ?? ?? ?? ?? Mozart. Scena, Ah *conw rapida, ?? Mine. Bw--ghi Mamo t1 ...

... TFESTM]A'SLER PLA K 'lthe third and last representalion of the Trinuonmis of |l'laiius fouk place last evening in St. P'eter's Dormitory. The Westinjuster Play is always an attractivo enterlain- iceut, aud thiA year additional interest nttlches to it, inas- iitich as it will beh remalbered that there has been no play ;ince 18.58, and moreover the play of this year is the work of an author who ...

... THE BRITISH M.USEUMI-NATURAL HIS- tionl TORY COLLECTION. wvor Ini the last session of Parliament an idea, which ?? had been for some timte previously pondered ?? by theu art officials, as the managers and officers thait of the South Kensington Museum delight to callar themselves, assumed a definite shape. These say and officials had long meditated anl at'tack- upon the and treasures of the ...