... I 21e Chassettr dVAfrique, and other Tales. By HUGE MUxLarNUX WALmsnEY, Colonel Imperial Ottoman Army. London: Chapman and Hall. Already known as the author of the Journal of a Bashi-Bazouk and of some Sketches of Algeria during the Kabyle War, Colonel Walrus- ley here comes forward as a writer of fiction, but of fiction based on fact, and having reference to the profession to which he ...

... 4ITERATURe. 1 Memoirs, Mi.ceUGi% and Ltegs of tuh lae LuCy ' Aikn, itwludon thse Addosed to the 1ev. Dr. Y' Vha;ng, fm 1821 to 182 Elited by P=W Hmzua Ls Bunioo, of the ler Temple Lou- S don: Longran and Co. . . Luw Aikin, whas death, about a yeakao, U1 severe another link between the present generation IN and that wbich immediately sucoeeded the genera- h tion of the Johnsous, Burkes, ad Reyn ...

... I (inm0 oun ows coOBRRsponxDirTS.) ABERDEEN, TwaIBAWS1 BOTA~-(-lManagar, Mr M'Lein.)-The Pantomime has now Riven place, at first price, to good Stink dramas, In which the strength Of the company is called into requisition. The Pantomime ls played as an afterplece for the accommodation of parties who cannot visit the Theatre during the early part of the evening. The Orange Girl Is underlined ...

... Louis Spohr's Autobiographky. Translated from the German. Copyright Edition. Longman and Co. The best biography is that in which, whether or not it coincide with any particular reader's notion of the amusing, the character and life of the subject of it has been repro- duced most faithfully. If the reproduction be complete, the rank of the book corresponds to the intellectual rank of the person ...

... LIT ER AT UR E. . FLowg oF Tisin Fx.ocx. By Pizocz EGAN, Author of Trbe ?? Girl, &o. London: W, S. Johnson and Co., 332, Strand111 snd elaborately worked out tale is written with an ?? d one inost necessary to be impressed an the minds of the objec tanueration in this age of over-civilisation and refinement. 01sing pglresented in these pages with the painful portrait of a man g'rvQ th and ...

... I Life with the Esquimacx. The Narrative of Captain Charles Franciz Ball. Two vols. London SAmpson Low and Co. The idea of an examination of the lands and islands adjacent to those terrible straits called the North-west Passage was suggested to Captain Hall by the accounts he had read of the various Franklin expeditions, and their fruitlessness. That the 105 men whom Captain M 'Clintock ...

... PUBLIC A31USEMENP LYCEUM THEATRE The Roadside Inn, produced on Satubimay lat by Mr. Feohter, is not unwisely described 'as a new dasna, although it is in most essential points simply a reptodtsdtion of Robert Afacairde We say, Robert Macaire, because the original drama is one of those pieces which become called by the name of the prin- cipal character. Had Paul Psi been called The Ina- ...

... MUSWC. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. The perfonnace at. Ex~eter-hail haxt evenn con. sed of Spojz' ortrio, The Lt J'wfgsrn and 1Esa. dslshn'. I dgc--ck, ah of whc a dcf d vrc of th. two gre st m ed cmpoer of the Peent cOt. Both of them are cusomnpuzar abort; and takse togeher their length is that dg 05 of the ordiny Exeter-hall performance The announcee t of two such works drew a vast aembesp. The ...

... 7 - Wf ROYAiL XXGLM9BlMRA. CVNG Ei' Last night «ti *.automine--which continugMA be as attractive' and praleti,, as rw by an opers ill one Act, called Constance the mueni by M3r. Frederic Clay, the libratto by Mr. T. W. oberton It i an agreeable little piece, end deserved its favourable recep- tion by a full houe. The drama is made up- of mateerial whiai have. aerved for numberlesa theatrical ...

... THE THEATRES, &Co MaOSeY's-.-The recent change of programme at this tre, the substitution of M. Gounod's universally popular Paust Thefa r evey a nchdinello, with the grand Christmas Pantomime, for Mr. L the npw and incomparable optical effect called the visible iec,,Billeg has been attended with the happiest results. Miss Louisa lI e's Gretchen is justly regarded as one of that ...

... lPUTBLI tAUS ?? T' -NEW AIELU'H TAEAI ?? . Amongst. the goods the gods provide us-at a period,' bt way, when a great deal that is sot 'good is provided for the giads-must he reckoneadiso re-appearance of Miss Bateman, at the New Adelb theatre. Ur. Webster appears .to hahe slotted to have io/thin'g new for Chtiatihas.; linit bor that ptlicy he has made amends by having something which is, not ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTO. The pantomimee still continue, at most theatree where they are played, to attract capital houses; the morning performances, although more frequent than ever, have drawn very large audiences, and must bring a large amount of current coin of the realm to managerial ex- ohequers. Amongst the most attractive pantomimes of the season is Sir Hugh lyddleton, at Sadler's Wells. ...