EXTRACTS FROM NEW BOOKS

... ARCHBISHOP VVATE;LEY_ 'lAddressing A talented professor one day, he said, quite abraptly, 'Ar. ?? you are one if the first nen of the ?? Really, your Grace,' replied the flattered professor, bowing lolly, you are too kind, too complimentary. YoU ovec. estimate the value of my services and of my little pub. licatione, which owe their chief merit to the liberal use that I make of your Grace's ...

LITERARY, ARTISTIC, AND SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS

... LITERARY, ARTISMIC, AND SOUNTIFIC SCRAPS. The whole of the Pourtalea collection of pictures, statues, &c. will be sold in February and March next. The catalogue contains 2,O00 lots. St. Canice'u Cathedral, Kilkeany, is to be newly roofed, as a first step towaris its restoration. Mr. N. Deane, of Dublin, is the architact. An energetic attempt is ?? maie to obtain the erection of a statue of ...

BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL LITERARY ASSOCIATION

... BIRMINGHAM CENTRAL LITERARY ABBOOIATION. A converaz one was held last evening, In the Assembly I Boom of the Boyal Hotel, Temple How, in conneoblon with the Central Literary Assoelation. The members of the soclety with their friends mustered In large numbers. Al present were in evening dress, and the scene was one of much animation and gaiety. The bust of Shakespeare was placed within the ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

... PUBLIC -AMUSEMzNTBk MONI4MY AVENbMG0bORT Our Musical Mondays ?? nuuk>et, and the conoert of Monday next Wil be the la4t but a e of the pre.1?estvai series., To genuineo sle.m 1 l o ther a lON ,w1 rnot be a ver' sever6 one-more opesiy With our irennial deluge of sweet isoX3 , close woapeot-.for these entertalunmen have long e ese Ident bed' with the Intets of snusis , and ?? at thq present ...

PRINCE OF WALES' THEATRE

... PIINCE OF WALES' THEATRE. We were under the Impression until last night that Mr. Swanborough's autumnal seasonhad commenoed some three weeks ago. We even fancied we could remember Mr. Bncketone, and thejlesdig members of the London Hay. market Company, lending the ncat of their names and presence to the Inaugural performance, and being sue. eeded, after a ?? successful engagement, by an ...

THE GREAT FRUIT AND CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW

... THE GREAT FRUIT AND CEHRSANTHEMUM BELOW. Among our autumn shows, there io not one that appeals erore directly to popular ay mpathy or receives more general support than the exhibition whose name stands at the head of this article. For a man to ba learnedift the matte of bulW, a connoisseur in reapeot of dogs, and well up' in tre points of Corhin Ohines, Dorklugs, or any of the hundred and ...

SHAKESPEARE'S OWN PRAYER BOOK

... SHAKESPEARE'S OWN PRAYER Booes| The following letter appears in yesterday's TUmrs:_uk A book catalogue has thie morning reached me bestial Its title-page, In conspicuous red letters, the anaons ment that 9Shakespeare's own prayer book' Is ?? No doubt this catalogue will be very widely Gtcircu1. for Its leading announcement Is a rather startling one, ?? I am much more startled to find that my ...

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &c.,

... PUBLIC AMUSBMEM &5. Prince of Wales Theaetre.-The sle of St. Tropen. and The First Night. Roy.] Ajnhitheatre.-Shak~qpre'5 Play f Hn~ry the Eighth,' and The Ronnie Fishwife. New Adelphi Theatre.- The Woman of the World, bthS act of Ricbard 1lll-&~ u Bisc Ss Kgikeriki Royal Colosseum Theatre. -u w' Hkrk I the Performing ear the Tremont Mlinstrols,&c. Myers's Amnerican Bron. - ?? ...

AMUSEMENTS FOR THE WEEK

... I PumenE Or WEas THE Tnic.-Few of the per. formances given at this house have been more 3Y, thoroughly enjoyed than that of Shakopeare's he ' Comedy of Errors, layed during the past and er obe repeated ?? throughout the present brweek. Thelpiece is wel mounted, and the charac in tere generalY satisfactorily supported. Messrs. he Bancroft and Searle, who appear as the Antiplolj, make up so ...

FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER

... FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBEM. (From Le FoUet,) The present month offers great facility to the chronicler of fashions, as a decided stamp has now been given both to the form of costumes and the materialto be employed. We remark, as the winter season approaches; how much the basques are returning into favour: and we may afflrfl now that robes, whatever their tissue, will adopt them generally. It is ...

FASHIONS FOR DECEMBER

... I I (From Le Pollet.J Each month, as it arrives, seems to bring with it an increasing number of novelties; the best houses are crowded with new designs. La mode has been so varied and capricious for some time past that it has been no easy matter to select novelties for our readers. Formerly a dressmaker had but to say to her customer, Such a style isno longer worn- this.is the present ...