... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE DRAKIA IN AUSTRALIA. tNMOU A COARUzSPON DENT.) MELBOUIRNE, AuGusr 23, 1867. Mr. EDITrs, Sir,-In your issue of June 23d there was an excel- lent letter, giving a very true account of the position of stock actors at the Australian Theatres. Permit irre to follow on the same side, in order that actors in England riray judge whether Theatricals are as prosperous here as is often unjustly ...

... FASBIONS FOR OCTOBER. Accordiog to the great preparations being made in the Paris teases, it appears that ohe coming winter season will abound in nevelties. hdany new patterns for the make of bodies have been shown by the mterlistes. Satisfied as they are that the gored skirts will still be preferred, they think that the bodies might still be rendered a little more varied and graceful. They ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... AXERICAN THEATRICALS. NEW YORK, OCToatest 7. Mr. Bateman's French Opera Company attracted large and enthusiastic audiences to the Fn.axcul ''lTEATIIE oel the three evenings they performed last week. Thte Duchess of Geroloteie continues the attraction, having been favourably received each evening, which justifies the Manager in not taking it from the bills. 'fite troupe is probably one of the ...

... (atOot OUR OWN CORRESrOIICSRITS.) ABERDEEN. TaRATue ROSYAt.-(Mssiager, Mr. M'Lehi.)-Aftcr a very successful run the barlesque of 1c/on, has bcen withdrawn, aod The Boeia/ensa,o Catherine flosuard, aud F/e F/o'ee Mosketeers have beens revivesi, thue chief characters being effectively represented by Misses Miortimer, Austiss, Celebridge, Mrs. Mliliward, and Messrs. Flinch, Waverley, Hill, ...