... however, many fine passages in this tale, and that we may tempt our readers to look into the book for themselves, we will give a short outline of the principal incidents. for the title furnishes no clue to its contents. In the first chapter, two young Oxonians ...

... appro- priate to the, martial character of the music, and aito-' gether it formed a befitting introduction to the warlike story thatw ras about to be musiciallynarrated. The first chorus, Woe toIsrael, gave a very favourable impression - of the composer's ...

... heart;- and tells us- that, There can he a- tie which sorrow does, but strengthen, and which even guilt itself-if it stops short of base contamina- tion-cannot seVer. In Beiverley, Mr. Se-an afforded a fine. display of- that tragic power which can oul-y ...

... recover breath in the pit. All down Doadop Street, and a long way up Argyll Street, there was a coatidous array of carriages -in short, all bustle, bustle, around'the theatre avenues' and all excitement had expectiticn within its hciassic pals. That-expectat ...

... If the drunlkard believes this, which God forbid, what dsill he conclude? That, as he is without hope, he had better have a short lifC, and a merry one, and die with harness on his back- . Certainly there is William Danesbusry, who becomes a teetotaller ...

... inttrcourse, many letters passed between them, and by near.s of those written by Macaulay, 1r. Black allows him to tell his own story-addiug only those connecting links necessary to the completeness and 6ohesion of the narrative These letters, written for an ...

... dramatic art, was followed by an Anglo-Italian Opera Company of great excellence; Mr. Webster followed in melodrama, and the short career of Madlie. Iiccolomini was a complete triumph. Last night Mr. Glover crowned the whole with one of the most magnificent ...

... Dalziel. 1n2 Vols. London: James Hogg & Sons. Iv any one desires a few hours of light reading, this is the book for them. The story is racily told; the narrative is illustrated by discursive sketches on sundry subjects, and the whole is thoroughly interesting ...

... CTHE ROSE OF CASTILLB. The English Opera Company, under the direction of Miss Louisa Pyne and Mr. W. Harrison, comncel a short en. gagement last tight at the Theatre-RoyaL The opera was Balf' 'I Rose of Castille As the plot of this opera has long been ...

... distinguished men, and so many of them intellectually great. But every jilla, in and ground Kensington has its. story of some one whose story is so well worth telling; and no one could tell it so well as Leigh Hunt. In his pages he places before uswith ...

... of rhetoric and romance;. the liar and inurderer,. seducer and traitor, of whom we read' in plain unvarnished records; in short, the devil of history, not the hero of epics- tbp felon of holy writ; not the Satan of'the tine arts, is a more vulgar being-irch ...

... coti and din, AamSmih, Sorrollett, Socrates, Spinoza, Stephenson, roow qlgal, dm Stewat, witsynhn.and many others; the ?? story of each of 'whose lielsiaw1asuy h borpy rs *pf Shakspere is from the pen Of Thomas de Quincy, aud ex p ~ a inespecmenof that ...