... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND ART | SCRAPS. 3' Mrs, Alfred Mellon will be the future dircetress at W the Adeliphi Theatre. .S40 Air. Arthiur .v Beckett has resigned the editorship ?? of the ('0'lol eIlNr, to undertake editorial duties on the 4 stall of another journal. vld The verses On Southeae Beach, in the October 13 number of Lon1, on &Bor ty, are by Mr. Edward Legge, sof the I1 'urccqrtc ...

... LITI3&RX' XXSCdELLANIMA. 'ATInMN Insipid ;blif aend play-clubs as seldom xi possible. In visits of ceremony be sparing. WOMEN are a great mysteryi' j.ccording to Hailer women bear hunger longer than men; according t Plutsroh, they can resist the effects of wine better; ac cording tto Unger, they grow/ oider anud never bald;* ao carding to Pliny, tbey are seldomr attacked by lions (ot the ...

... -,PUBLICAMUStEMNS- Mr. D'ion'Bncicault's admrablaeIrishrmelodraama, Ar~rah.na.Pogue,wns reproduced at'this theatre on'! Mdonday evening, with scenery as splendid and deco- rations asbeautiful as when the play wask oiginally brdught ou~t here. in March, 1b. During the twe Cears hat' have' intervened, this drama has Deen played with marked.Iuceeessin AmErrca and AUstr- lia 'wbile its ...

... THE EXHIBITION OF ECCLESIASTICALI ART AT WOLVERHAMIPTON. Those who wish to be instructed in the mysteries of Ritual, and to learn the shapes and uses of Vestments, spey gratify their desire by visiting the above nsned exhibition, opened in the Sohool of Art, Darlington Street, Wolverhamspton. This is the third exhibition of the series. The first took place at Norwich, in 1865; the second at ...

... IMportant Invemtigation under the Copyright Act. At the Southwark Police-court, last Tuesday, Als. Robert Edtirn Villiers, the Proprietor of the South London AMusic Hall, Londo._ road, Southwvark, was summoned before Slr. Partridge, under the Copyright Act, 2Gth and 26th Vic., cap. 58, sec. 6, by Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick, Lessees of the Surrey Theatre, for Stloat lie did copy and ...

... Agricultural Hail and Fairy Palace. With this night (Saturday's) grand miscellaneous concert the miusical season at the Agricultural Hall positively terminates. That the projectors of these concerts have found them reiunerative it the highest degree is beyond a doubt, and it is only fair to acknow- ledge that everything has been done to present itse public with mn entertainment worthy ...

... London is seldom without its Professor of Legerdemain, ule thit natural restieg-place of the honourably light-fiegered gentleiseii who produce a bewildering array of tin cups from a hat of flie period, soems to be ?? Hall. Signor(?) nubici comenni;ecl his s'eevnces in the Minor Psoom on Monday last. He speaks Eegli.ii uneommonly like a native, and may safely dety all Italy to apprs:ceb him in ...

... TIE MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER. THREF Ve-a> c ndidathi:for popular favour have inredymdee ~ toheir appearance this autumn, ?? ,indeedy, for good or evil, it seems pretty certain that whil e iiost of our best works of tiction' make their first appearance in periodicals, much also of the Wit, wisdom, and philosophy of the day, aye, and 4 much g alsoof sound information, and just criticisin Iare tobe ...

... Letters of Distinguished Musicias: Gluck, Ha!,day, P. G. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn. Translated from the German by Lady Wallace. Longmans. Lady Wallace here translates another of the collections made by Ludwig Nohl in illustration of the lives of the musicians. Of four or frve men of mark letters are drawn from books and journals in which they have been scattered, and so brought together, that ...

... ?? So many readers are prepared to find pleasure in books like Captain J. T. Newall's Hog-hunting in the East, and other Sports (Tinsley Brothers), t that the author of that work can afford to be told o there are some others to whom the perusal of his 3 volume will afford none but painful emotions. It is the easy and self-satisfied commonplace of the ad- a mirers of what is called sport to ...

... AMU EMsl t8 FOR T .THE WEEK 1f {- I ROYAL ALEXANDRA THEATRE. The short ?? season, extending overtwelve perfdrmances, wilnveminence this evening at thi - theatre with the performance of the delightful opera- Le Nowe dt'Figaro. A'change w1ilbe - made in' the opera every night during - th-, .fortnight, the LHst embracing many of the finee [Productions of the great master which have V . become ...

... VARIIETI ES. LxTTTres. OF CREDIT.-]. V. U.-I'rnlll-. THE GREATEST AcIUEvAEINNT' ON RMeOnD.-COoilOl0 Pearson's. -Rid. Whrny is a widow's costsilso Eke a field of turnips?- Because ii's (s)wedes I-Pae. Tiem GROWTH Or Lo-teat.7-The last annual report of the Rleistrar General tells ?? plainly, and withoat reserve, that London is growing grca-er every day; and that within I its present bounils, ...