... CRIZTCAL AND SOCIAL ESSAYS.* THiEsr essays are a reprint from the New York Nation-a newspaper which has done much to show that American journalism may attain a far higher level than that to which we have been hitherto accustomed. It is written by men of ability for a cultivated audience, and is free from those appeals to popular ignorance and prejudice which deface the pages of most of its ...

... A CHRONOLOGICAL PSALTTER.* TEE best educated Englishmen have been mostly accustomed to a coura- geously desultory course of classical reading, and may be tardy in appreciating either in profane or sacred literature the obvious advantages of a steady chronological method. Our canonical books, and the con- stituent parts of some of them, are far from being easily laid hold of in order of time by ...

... THE PRINCESS'S THEA TRE. MR. VIN'ING, advertising the revival of the popular Irish drama of Arral- na-Pogue, records with pardonable pride that it has been represented in Paris and throughout the French provinces, the United States, California, and Australia, carrying with it a measure of delight unequalled by any drama in modern times excepting its twin sister, the 'Colleen Bawn.' ...

... FOR L O VE. IN his new play, entitled For Love, produced at the Holborn Theatre on Saturday night, Mr. Robertson would seem to have set himself the task of expanding a plot suitable to a comedietta into the subject of a long melodrama in three acts. The story of For Love is of the slightest and simplest kind. One John Wyse, a young physician, is deeply attached, and has been almost ...

... NVEW BOOK'S AND NVEW EDITIONS. The Grecian Maid, and other Poems. By Ckarles L. D. Cumming. (London: Griffith and Farran.) Although a large portion of this little book is- the fruit cf ti'e suthoi's poetical studies prior to attaining his majority, Mr. Cumming makes it an express stipulation with his critics that his poems shall be judged entirely upon their own merits, irrespective ...

... PIG-S TICKING.* IT is amusing to observe the point of view from which the sportsman in India regards whole districts of that favoured land. He obviously considers that the noble end for which they exist is to provide him with game. A large tract of country is thickly grown with jungle, through which crop out here and there rocky stretches of barren land, not a habitation or a road to be seen ...

... ` MRs. NORTON has been for too many years known to the public as a grace- ful and accomplished writer to require any introduction from the critics. Her pen, whether as that of an advocate or a novelist, has almost uniformly been employed in defence or in behalf of her own sex. In the first character the wrongs she so effectively portrayed carried to the minds of those who read her letters and ...

... THE ADELPHI THEA TRE. M. CHTARLES DE BEttNARD'S stories of Le Gendre and La Peine dn. Talion having furnished materials for the popular comedy of it Still MWaters Run Deep and the exciting melodrama of Retribution, it was. naturally to be expected that recourse would be had to other works, of the admirable novelist the next time an English dramratist expe ijenced any difficulty in ...

... THEA TRICALS IN GERMAN7Y. [SECOND ARTICLE.] IN the previous article I touched upon the peculiar excellence of the German stage, as that of humourous realism--or the presentation of Chlaracter in its individual traits, with just that amount of accentuation which suffices to make it incisive and laughable, yet restrains it from running over into extravagance and unreality. The performance at ...

... A 70URNVEY THROUGH ABYSSINIA.; THIS book is just what it purports to be. The style is unaffected and sometimes graphic. These, however, are not the only attractions of the narrative. It affords an interesting colo ([ail of Abyssinia and its people, taken on the spot by an intelligent Englishman, remarkably free from. the prejudices which generally distinguish our roving countrymen. A previous ...

... THE EDUCA TION OF THE MUSCLES.* CCGe/eis jar/bits, a man who can perform the ' grasshopper jump, which is a peculiar sort of jump, in which we start from the squatting position, stretch the body during the leap, and come down again into the squatting position, is of course by so much the superior of a man who cannot. But' there are not many professions or trades in which advance- ment or ...

... YONGE'S HORA CE.r *THE author of this translation is not that Mr. Yonge with whom the scholastic world is familiar through the medium of his classical dictionaries. Mr. J. E. Yonge is, we believe, that gentleman's brother; nor, indeed, is the Horace now before us the kind of work that would have been published for the use of schools; and its merit must be sought rather in its ...