... I Torm Taylor and his 1 High Priestess in America, . ?? the following from the Afobile 3farcury of December. It shows in what estimation oar talented dramatist is hel by our American Cousins. Our readers will at once recognise the High Priestess as the fascinating young comedienne whose histrionic talents created such afecrore in Australia some year and a half ago. MISS JOEY GOUGENHEIM-A ...

... oIMrTUAR. I 7hs Story of Neow Zeaand, Past and Prseut, SSavage and Q Ci;sed. By ARTIMI-S. THOMSON, M.D., Su eon Major 68th Regiment. In two volumes. Murray. Dr. Thomson is well qualified for the task of describing that picturesque and promising regions the New LZealand group of islands, which ip Interest- ing not only to the friends of the colonist, but to the student of physiology and to ...

... , The latest brochure on Italian subjects is contri- buted by M. Hippolyte Castille, under the title of Le Pape et ?? As our readers have heard Bo much already in the shape of argument about the pope's temporal authority, we shall take the li- berty of passing at once so an account of two succes- sive interviews with Cardinal Antonelli and his holil ness, very strikingly narrated by the ...

... ?? ml?.4 III ,I ? E, 11 ,n ?? PhAesicdt, psitclcali, (i70 Rdri- coi ?? 1. B Mi. .5[. WILiINSO'N. London: bet I ?? l ?? 5;3d\ ii~d~ wl3t ;slfthe ex3101o which i wtil __ n~ emplOY te ?? I I' ,, 5tieral ttde-i3 a rather diffilt subject too 6i 1 . s! 6er ?? eloal with. In the first place, ph3 : -be r' lella; not, tin lt t knollw of, been ever cal II'r i le t ti teil,* in e Secoitl, it hlis all ...

... Dr Major's Elemnentary Praxis of Greek C(omnpositiol (1) is especially designed as a companion to Bishop Wordsworth's excellent Greek Grammar, but may of course be used in association with whatever other grammar teachers may prefer. The little book is a graduated series of questions and exercises, testing and practising most thoroughly the knowledge of the learner, and insuring, as far as an ...

... I I On Tuesday a Special General Meeting of the life governors, annual subscribers, and ordinary subscribers of this excellent institu- tion incorporated by Royal Oharter, for providing an asylum for aged and infirm actors and actresses, and the maintenance and education of children of the members of the dramatic profession, was held on the stage of ,the New Adelphi Theatre. The principal ...

... Original Papers Ilustrative of the Life and Writings of John Milton, including Sixteen Letters of State written by him, now first published fronm MSS. in the State Paper Office. W'Vith an Appendix of Documents relat- ing to his ?? with the Powell Family. Col- lected and Edited, with the permission of the Master of the Rolls, by W. Douglas Hamilton, of H.M. State Paper Office and University ...

... The DEMORALIZA-TION of the DRAMA.D- Married Ladies acting under their Maiden INames. In a former article we expressly observed, that however stringent our remarks, or outwardly pertinent to individuals our reflections might appear, we disclaimed the most remote intention of per. sonality either to actors or managers, and while confining ourselves to what we considered legitimate abuses in the ...

... tPUBLIC AMUSEMEXTSl LYCEUM THEATRE. The great theatrical event of the week has been the representation, on Monday evening, at this theatre, of Mr. Charles Dickens's Tale of TwO Cilia, dramatised by Mr. Tom Taylor. Many of the literary celebrities of London-editors, sub-editors, critics, wits, and Templars-were in attendance on the occasion. Even the dull scribbler of the Smnash-and-Spatter ...

... LTrBa rTUR of jiel: a raig of ferns in the Days ?At Lo, From an unpublished Ianuscript I t '8 c A5ADO- NI.D., leceased. 3 vols. .1 Slaunders, Otley, and Co. Londl' fiction to the circulating libraries VIf HPtive operatio n, and at this season of zelaturally look for some of those better tw ichs while they signalise in them- dr~uct; t of their authors, cast into the ca' anld trashy effusions ...

... mt THE MADRIGAL SOCIETY. 1i- This society, the oldest Heical association in Fng. lic land, and probably in Europe, goee oi icm way rijoicing , b and we may add, virea altyurit tueldo. Founded in 1741 by the worthy lawyer, Jobn lmnoye, who, by to doing, has to. gained a perennial name in musical Dlotory, it Uas, from that he day to thii, pursued the even tenor il ha cway, torough eWI ay the ...

... I uara. BIOYAL ENGLISH OPERA4 COVENr. GARDEN. Xr, Y090n4 W94090S new opera, Luritine, as we have already mendoned, hl been produced with great and well-duerved success; well-deseend as regards itsmusio, whichisentitlea to almostunmixedpraise; and s regatds its getting-up and performwane, which are admirable in every respe*, and do bonour to the company and the management, The libretto, however ...