... 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 ...

... LITER AT U RE. Part miusic ford Soprano, Alto, Tenor, and Bmse. Edited 2 by JOHN HULLAU. No. 11. London :Longinans, Green, Reader, & Dyer. THco is an excellent Number of this valuable publication, It consists of two Glees, two Madrigals, and a Part Song, Of the first, it is enough to montion their names, to satisfy *our readers who cultivate thle choral art that they are genuine. One is by ...

... TIUE PAPIS EXHIBITION. I Vln r-ll Iu'll ,Yrcsnonden [F[ro5a our oic Us0leudcuf. GI PA et1S, WedI l dlusdY a ' lluo gis L ?? ?? COEailait tcl in the ?? of lpiiCCS, m i mimnly instances, last July, will not have been fergottcn by thle public. the ( M l5 medals given a to ambitious shopkeopers for exhibiting goods, the mann- facturers of which nol o got silver or bronzo, and narticles of dn it, ...

... 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 ...

... I I i : T I . VOLUNTEER ARMOURIES AND j ' ;. . MAGAZINES. . V The following official notice hashbeen ihsued to commanding officers of volunteers:- War Offlce,;Oot. 9, 1867. ?? am direoted by Secretary Sir J. Pakingbla to inform you that, in consequence of the frequei:t representations which have been made to him xsepecting.the insecure state of the' armotrles and magtzlnes of the volunteer ...

... BNSIDE Ti~lt STILE. Vl both walked sowrly o er the yellowv grace, Beneath the sunset eky: And then he climbiei the Stile I did not pas3, And there we sald G~ood-bye. He paused one motnent, I leaned onl the stile, And faeed the hazy lanse: Bus noither of U9 .*poko until wie both Jast said Good-bye again. And I went homneward to onr ?? old farm, And he went ou hlB w ay: dI gi lB rom tUiG tinne ...

... 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 ...

... ~LTRAT-URE -~ .L AXD OTHR FoLs. By Robert ?? London: Bennett. 1867. tbook is not without special inte. trt tS ders. The author is the son of a dir ngaisbed In~ rmissionary and well-known writer bn philology, thetSev. Dr Caldwell, and was himself a student at Glasgow LUnivertity, where, in 1863, he gained the Poetry Prize, by the unanimous award of the judges. The verses of university prizemen ...

... KILMARTIN CATTLE SHOW, This show took place on Wednesday last, and was in every way as successful as formerly. Upwards of 90 lots of sheep were penned, and the day being very fine they showedtoadvantage, Thecattle also were quite up to the mark both in number and uality, the two-year-old stots belonging to Mr Jas. ampbell, Ormaig, being very much admired. We also noticcd on the ground the ...

... 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 ...

... ?? 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 ...