... L'ELISIR D'AMORE. WHILE the art of acting seems rapidly dying out in that form of the drama where good acting is an essential, it is developing, with singular felicity, in that form of the drama where it is an accessory. The musical drama becomes attractive by its actor-singers at the very time when the spoken drama is becoming intolerable. Is there on the European stage at the present ...

... Why is a dairymaid naturally the happiest of women? Because she always has her own wc/icy.. There are two directly opposite reasons why a man sometimes cannot get credit: one is, because he is not known; and the other, because he is. Mr. Copley, the celebrated portrait painter, and father to the late Lord Lyndhurst, once met a lady in the streets of Boston, who said to him, Ah, Mr. Copley! I ...

... fisingt4 from 'inIumb. vlvatlng5xoin ;ultltp?¢y. TSE NxEDLEWoMAN'8 EXCLAMATION.-Abem. A PARLIAMENTARY WIsn.-That Bismarek, baffled, may be Ia Count out. METEOROLOGIAL INTELLIGENCE.-This May the wea- thor has been peculiarly uuseasonable. At Whitsuntide the wind was Easter-ly. SCIENTIPIC INTELLIGENCE.-At the next meeting of the Royal Society a paper will be read On the heat of the moment. ...

... The Diary of the Right Hon. William Widham, 1784 to 1810. Edited by Mrs Henry Baring. Longmans. These selections from the diary of the finest gentle- man of his age, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high- souled Windham, as Lord Macaulay called him, are, very curious and very interesting. The diary was first taken in hand, with a view to publication, by the late Mr George Ellis, one of ...

... Sint allo. I 11 is I SALE OF THE LATE DR. WELLESLEY'S ovel COLLECTION.bo The late respected Principal of New Inn Hall, gros LOxford, Dr. Wellesley, was during his lifetime one of the luns most profound judges in certain difficult branches of ait tice inithis country. His collection of medlsa, especially tlosec of I of the Italian masters of the earlier and cinque cento rn periods, was one of ...

... Biama. OLYMPIC. On Saturday night this popular little theatre was suddenly turned into a comic opera-house by the produc tion of an English version, slightly burlesqued, of Al. Offen- bach's Barbe Bleue. Blue Beard is one of the latest works of this gay and sparkling French composer, and to do justice to the adaptation (which is by Mr. H. Bellingham) Mr. Horace Wigan has thought it advisable ...

... IIT:ER2ATURE. SuE DECALOGUE AND THE LOsDs. DAY, IS THE LIGET OF TEE GENERAL RELATION OF TEHE OLD ,JD NEW TEsTAMENTS: With a Chapter on Con- ?? of Faith. Bythe Rev. Wi. Mlilligan, .D., Profesaor of Divinity in the University of Aberdeen. Edinburgh and London: Black wood. 1&666 (Pp. 192 ) PROFESSOR MILLIGAN is well known to those who lbave been watching the progress of the Sabbath Controversy as ...

... I-JTEIATUnE. :, Law Goi: L.OSTOPPAQZ 11TRASIIU, A 1 ?? OlrFziEATTION{ nen DxLtVBY, ...

... COALITION- FAIR PLAY. (from. the Globe.) When Lord Derby rose so hastily last night to vin- dicate himself and party from the charge of having met the Government by surprises and unexpected tactics, he clearly forgot the part played by his son. It is no new thing for the Earl of Derby to promise fair play. The novelty would be in his keeping his promise. We have no right to be surprised, and ...

... THE GENTLE PHILOSOPHER. * THE twaddling essayists may at least congratulate themselves that they give much more trouble to critics than writers of brilliant parts and literature do. There is an inspiration about a clever man's book which puts the reviewer on his mettle, and makes his task a pleasant one. If you dislike his views, there is excitement in controverting them. If you sympathize ...

... vAF i3ol AND VARETTIE,. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, LivZAnPOOn, FPIDAY NIGUT-TIhO yacht raoe, owing to the failure of the wind, was not finished at the time the, Duke and suite had to land, and his Royal Highness was consequently unable to carry out his intention of delivering the Queen's Cup to the winner. As the Alert passed down the ?? with the Duke on board ahe was salated by the North Fort ...

... LIT?ATUTE? Enx B O~t' TEe B3ADIOAL By George Eliot, aU thor of *Adam Beds, &c, In three vo'lumes. Williamn Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh and L:ondon. A UTTLBg law;, a little love; a little sin and, tAhere- fore, a little hate and much BOrrOW; a touch of politics; anX election. riot, with a death or two; a singular act of renunciatifon, and a marriage ;-these are the apparently unfavourable ...