... L I T E R A T U RJE. THE TESTIMsONY OF SCEPTICS TO Tie TRUT OF CHBISTIANIiTY. By the Author of Heroines of our Time. London: Darton and Co., 58, Holborn-hill. A book, written with the best intentions, but we have doubts as to whether it will answer its professed purpose, necessarily both from its size and aim a very small work; it deals with its subject so imperfectly that we fear there may ...

... AMERI CAN THIEIATRICAL&. NEW YORK, JAI. 26. ACADzmY ov Music.-.-The Gieea-anento was given for the second time last evening, with the same distribution as before- Madame Colson, Miss Phillips, Signori Brignoli and Ferri. The performance was then better than that of the first night, and gave great satisfaction to the audience. This evening Miss Hinkley makes her debQ in Brooklyn. WVINTEit ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA ?? (VRox OUU OWlS CoURNSPONISDNT1L) Mnsic IiLLr4,-The Choral Union were to give tboir last Concert for this seaslon on the evening of tile 21et. The programmue includes aeveral madrigas and Darprt songs by the members of the Cniou, on Overture by hei bad, ndr te ladeshi o Mr .lstieJun., and a selection fro th Opra f Periese ontheorgn, y M. alker. The very Clever andtalnte Brnei ...

... THEATRICAL REPRESENTATIONS AT MVIUSIC HALLS AND SALOONS. WHAT IS A STAGE PLAY?& (EXPRESSLY REPORTED POn X1 T1IH ERA.) In our last we gave a very elaborate account of the lengthened proceedings at the Lambeth Police Court, when this important question came on for hearing. The case, it will be remembered, was adjourned on the application of Mr. Sleigh (for Air. C. Morton, of Canterbury Hall) in ...

... A recent visit to this new establishment fully justifies us in saying that its claims upon public support not only in no way diminish, but they even increase. There is a very pleasing variety in the entertainments, from choice selections from English and foreign Opera, through all the gradations of choruses, madrigals, glees, duets, &c., &c., down to the laughter-provoking comic song. Miss ...

... A series of Twelve Wednesday Concerts is announced at these Gardens, the first of which transpired on Wednesday evening. The programme holds out promise of some attractive names for the course. On the evening referred to, the Concert opened with Haydn's Symphony in D major, played with evenness, and followed by a melange of Air and Cavatina, &c., wherein Signor Delle-Sedie may be mentioned ...

... MUSIC, CONCERTS, &c. | * E~Herr Blumner's Concert. Herr Sigismund BlMuner's concert, given at Hanover-square Rooms on Wednesday night, under the able conductorship of Mr. Alfred Mellon, proved one of the most agreeable and successful concerts we have ever attended. In addition to a complete orchestra of selected performers, we had the following soloists :-M. Vieux- temps, violin; and Herr ...

... FREDNCH AND FL-E]3ISEE GALLETRY OF Pictures. LIGazie AegrqUAL ExsHrvTIorX on Womxs oF Ann FBOo THEn FUBNH AND FxiMISH: SCoOOLe, 120, PALL.MALL. POrtoaotely, we defy augury, or else we might form a very 9loomy prospect for the coming season of pictorial exhibitione, were IwO to draw conclusions from the mediocre collection of pictures in this gallery, usually the emporium of some of the most ...

... BY CELINE. Writer of The Christmas Fairy, The Good Samaritan, Who is Ready, A Cheer for the Actors of England, &a., &c. I'll tell you a story, if you please to attend.-Limbo, by G. KNIGIET. Love Is a flower that in tbe human heart SpontaneouEly springs. Culture, we fiad, Can seldomo rear ?? Play. Yes, old as Adam, yet young as to-day, ?? sprin, with every hour, and scorn and ...

... TAEATRES V. MUSIC RALLS. Fine for playing a Ballet at the Surrey Gardens. [REPORTED EXCLUSIVEILY TOB 'T EtA.1 On Wednesday, the Lambeth Police-court was fully attended to hear the investigation of a case in which Mr. Bishop (Caldwell and Bishop), of the Surrey Gardens, was summoned at the instance of Mr. W. H. S wanboroungh, of the Strand Theatre, for that defendant on lst of April last, did ...

... I PROVINIAL THEArRICAL*' I VaXOUB OWNT CORRESPON!DENTS.) BRIS TOL. THELTRaIIROy~t..-.(Leosse,-Mr. J. H. Chtite.)-Ofl Monday eveninig, Hr. Arthur Stirling, the loadting Tregedlan of our dramaticomipanY. took hisl benefit, and hi's appeal was respond~d to byea very numesrou~es ad respectatle madiance, The performencos commrenced with. Victor HO90'e Bey Blue. Mr. Stirling, whu received a meet ...

... PROVINCIAL THEA rRICALS (waROM OUR OWN CORRISPOlID3N3T1U.) M ~~~ABERDEEN. ME~mMI~a ALL-Mss Kte Haley.a charseterlatic ?? of nol Ordnar ablit, lth regnig fvouiteatMr. Gray's Concerts here just now Thaddtio, w hae M. nd Ms. eggtt, comic Pactieits and Daners Mb .snu KelyScttita ocais; Mr. WI. Pigot, Bssffo Me. . Ninmo osicl Drector. ~isger Ac. ad BILOnI~ A iorma f Jruealemn and the Holy Land ...