... | AN OLD BACRELORi'S REASONS FOR I J NOT GOING.TO. ,APIN-Io. | Many thanks for your kind Invitation, Ilut really, my friend, I can't go; Aind my reason, without hesitation, For absenting myself you shall know. Your plc-nlo is auro to be jolly, I think, as your programme I loan; But for me to be there would be foUy, AB I am not a ladies' man. Of course I admire the dear creatures, The' you ...

... PUBLIC AMSEMEBNTS &v. Prince of Wales Theatre.-Mr. and Irs. AlW Wigan Btill Water- En Deep, and Seoret Ser9ile. Royal Amih -theatre.-Miss Maarotti The Lady of L ons,) and Ireland As It Wa' Vheatte ?? Japaneso thO%~e. sew Aedel Thro.-7be hying Ji Of the Derby lubst an th'ebk eger ?? ?? QuIxote. Ryal Coloselin Thieatef.-lConfaderate's Daughter, -marguektri's Iiadw%,' reterson's Louy ...

... I AflUt?It4? al ; . ?? i intV' ,~ -7 7 .-777,t,rM,, k J ROYAL M~ADXY. d ([Four s Notice.] In the genelu display of showy pictures by painters more bent upon attainingpopularsucces than any Q achievement in art, and the indifference or positive feeble- e ness of the academician painters generally, we find it e both hopeful and refreshing to see that there are some *s painters amongst us who are ...

... LEEDS. The weather on Whit-Monday-the dayr devoted in Leeds, as elsowhere, to those Interesting Sunday sobool gatherings which enlist on their behalf the hearts alike of young and old-is becoming as proverbial for its fine cha- racter as the Royal weather that almost invariably attends any out-door demonstration in which Her Majesty t takes part, and we are happy to state that yesterday was ...

... THE ROUND OF THE THEA TRES. THEi following is the first of a series of letters which we have received from a country gentleman who has lately made the round of the London theatres:- Like most people who live in the country and meditate on the won- derful things they read in the newspapers, I sometimes ponder on those incomprehensible compositions, the theatrical criticisms. Whether they are ...

... Under the title of Begged at Court, a Legend of Westmin.9ter (Chapman and HallL), Mr. Charles K night has furnished us with a very pleasant one- volume story of old times. The brief preface by which it is introduced mentions a fact with reference to the author which his many admirers and well-wishers will regret to learn. f Desirbus, writes Mr. Knight, of finding some literary occupation ...

... itittraturt. I A Song of Italy. By ALGERNON CHARLES SWIW- BurlNE. London: J. C. Hotten. It is with sincere pleasure that we find a singer of such splendid powers as Mr. Swinburne for- saking the very questionable vein on which he thought fit to enter in his volume of Poems and Ballads, and striking into a path full of all sweet and admirable things, of the loftiest visions and the grandest ...

... SCIENCE FOR FARM3fERS.i IN Con fmon with many other newspaper writers, we owe an apology to the farmers of England. Hitherto, it must be confessed, we have not enter- tained a high opinion of their scientific acquirements, and may occasionally have fallen into the foolish practice of speaking of the bucolic mind as vanting in cultivation. In the presence of Messrs. Seller and Stephens' hook we ...

... LITTFE-RATl URBO -4- - i - - - A WIRD'S.EYE VIEW. Qoth the boy- I'll climb that tree, And bring dlown a neat I know. QOth th girl-I will not see Little birds defrauded so; Cowardly their nests to take, .nd their little hearts to break, And their little eggs to steal;- Leave them happY for my sake, Surely little burds can feel ! QUoth the boy- My senses whirl; Until now I never heard Of ...

... THE PiRIS SALON FOR 1867. WE have already described the chief pictures of interest exhibited this year in the Salon ?? at the Palais de l'Industrie; some yet remain which deserve a few words of notice. The picture most poetical in con- ception and treatment must not be looked for among the grand canvasses -grand in aim as well as dimensions-nor even among the figure subjects properly so ...

... ASHES SORROWVS OF HYPSIP YLE.-. TuE drama of Hypsipyle has some very poetical details, in which a classical terseness of expression is happily combined with the dainty imaginativeness of modern minstrelsy. The versification is flowving and sweet, and for the most part thoroughly English in its forms there are but a few places where the study of lyrical variety has induced an equivocal or ...

... IJIo~HN T . i ~{ t r .71 7777777 ?? 1 t (IO110 QOPB 5P5OWhZ. CO83RSPOIDBNT)- l. ':.Whenji little befor six o'6lock, the news of the attdpta on the life Aof l the EmlExperor of Russia becameknown along the outer circle of the Exhi- 1 bitios-,tthe people were pouring out, undei; thi' g*eencalanopy. It was very fortunate that the I event did not take place and become known at ani epA ier hour, ...