... GOODI-NA TURED CRITICISM. NOT for the purpose of recurring to the particulars of the significant Circe business, but to show how the regular manufacture of such productions is fostered by good-natured critics, do we notice the matter now. The case itself is thoroughly and indisputably bad. The author of the im- posture was not indebted to a contemporary writer for an idea or a situation ...

... [Th,'e fbloiciny appearcd in 0ou7 T'Ivo Enlus lo:> u1F ?? I Although Mrs. Swanborough's talented company renewed their mirttl-moving exertions in their own charming little Theatre a ereek ago, their real grand start for the present season is to be reckoned from last Saturday night. The announcement of the first repro- sentation in London of a new burlesque from the facile and spark- ling pan ...

... COVENT.GAREW CONCERTS, BAehlADVnv~r - q L 1 I n -L e E neesinoven's magnificent Symphony in C Minor .was the great eature of Thursday night's programme. An attempt was made to encore the Andante con Oito, but common sense; fob ,once, tri- umphed, and the Symphony was allowed to proceed in Troper order. The Setorzo and Allegro Mlarziale were ?? well played; and the classical division of the ...

... : PUBLIO ADUSEINNTS DRUIW-LA(? The first Shlaksperian revival of the season was. brought out here ,on ,onda ynih.- T he tragedy of Kinf Jon wfan the pieoe'seiaoted; the oast being very siilar t'o that of lent eaton. ' Mr. Phelps ls now, confi sedlythainest interpreterbf the cbaiacterof the king, aadheplayed on Monday withlhisu ntaleareand disorinination. Mr. BarrySullivan :nde a vigorous and ...

... ?? FdONT EIGUOf JoOR * (iF . Panchl. Af] ~ST REsouriOE.-Cppnng L Wtt a,(evwrose hus- jb1u reies in remoining wii town,4whe he is dying ito go.t$!ie.t e ?? 5 w dear, you won'tpnld .hy -yenr bo~Ii, ?? 0~s and fthifigs' hbveid iito' thewCtift. 'roo~n~win~r ou?. 'ie tew~ep are tonmidg tb-:morroaw, an weett~~t~ je, Q wjtDd, evey ,n Isw ig I. X~esTASI'[A eL M A -bVlha prisonr \si *tal' tfrom the ...

... LS. I (FRgOM OUR OWN Ctsjy RES'ON.rDSENTS.) ABERDEEN. TalATtli ItOYAL.-(Mr. M Leiis, Manager.)-Mr. Henry Leslie's new drama, F/ae Hariner's Compass, was producel on Monday evening, and has since kept the ulace of honour in the bills. Nautical pieces have naturally a special interest for a large nunsber of the dwellers in a sea- port town like Aberdeen, and, doubtless, T/he Mariner's Cosmpass, ...

... We have before us Part I., Vol. II., of Bishop Percy's Folio Manscit : Ballads and Romances (published by Trubner and Co., for the Early English Text Society). We noticed the first in- stalment of this work a few months ago, and must now repeat the commendations we then expressed on the care and ability shown by the editors, Messrs. John W. Hales, Fellow and late Assistant Tutor of Christ's ...

... U1VEVW OF BOONI Ti FOBE8T AND T Frn;D. BY Q; @ S MRY. Seenzders, Otley.- The Old Shekarry ia beartily welcome whenever he may happon to tu up. He has always something fresh to relate, and some moving anecdotes by field ond flood to recount. In th portly volume before us be tells of elephant and tiger hunting inmIndia, of his adventures in the Crimea during the Russian war, of his trip to ...

... El ittrature. - ?? NEW NOVELS. t Polly: a village Portrait. 2 vols. London: i Tinsley Brothers. 1867. The Confessions of Gerald Esteourt. By Florence e Marryat [Mrs. Ross Church]. 1 vols. London:f Richard Bentley. 1867. e Until the End: a Story of Real Life. By John p Pomeroy. London: Charles W. Wood. 1867.. d Bidden Fire. A Novel. 3 vols. London: Tinsley f, Brothers. 1867.b The White Cockade; ...

... (FROMt OUlt OrTo CORRESPONDENTS) ALLOA. TlI~it., conceort seasons in. this stirring Scottish, town was Inaugurated on Monday lost with a musical ontertainment, isl which Miss eleni Icirk,1 Miss Emily ]Percival, and Air. T1. Maclavin wero thle ertlsis. Th po grainne woo felicioosly varied, SnO as to bring, Out t esta d te ooth ablihts of th e respective pdrformars. Miss Percival preshded o t th ...

... (noM OUR SPECIAL CORRSPODwsNT.) The new lease of life which the Emperor has given to the Exhibition will be, it is to be hoped, turned to account by British excursionists: not, however, on the plan of the Lancashire man given last week in the Athennurn. This provident gatherer of useful knowledge has misapplied his energy. I'm looking out, he said, all the strategic points of the place. You ...

... tteratute. Lan guaje and the Study of Lalujuage. Tqivelve Lee- thres on the Principles of Lingluistic Science. By WILLIAM DWIGHT WHITNEY, Professor of San- skrit and Instructor in Modern Languages in Yale College. London: Trubner and Cto. Professor Whitney tells us that he first developed the main argument of the present work in the form i of six lectures Oin the Principles of Linguistic I ...