... THE representations of King John and Macbeth at Drury Lane Theatre, although they cannot be expected to arouse enthusiasm, inasmuch as they comprise no display of histrionic genius of a high class, are yet creditable enough to the management, and deserving of public support. Mr. Chatterton's company is by no means strong, but the stage manage- ment is carefully regarded, and in special ...

... A GIRL'S ROMANCE., THis book might have been called a romance without romance, for it is singularly destitute of the contrasts, the brilliance, and the passion which sometimes make at any rate for a brief moment romance in this life some- thing dearer than the most comfortable of prosaic realities. The story is natural and probable it is carefully written and wholly unobjection- able, but ...

... THEA TRICALS IN GERMALANY. [FIRST ARTICLE.] THE Drama is everywhere in Europe and America rapidly passing from an Art into an Amusement; just as of old it passed from a religious ceremony into an Art. Those who love the Drama cannot but regret the change, but all must see it to be inevitable when they reflect that the stage is no longer the amusement of the cultured few, but the amusement of ...

... 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 ...

... ENGLISH MONA STICISM.* WCoNDERFUL is that turn of mind which in these days of diffused intelli- gence and critical inquiry sets some writers forward with pretentious octavos on subjects of which they have no real knowledge whatever, w~hether derived from independent thought or even from methodical digestion of original thought in others, and for the elaboration of which they deem it enough to ...

... LEIVES'S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. MR. LEWES'S History of Philosophy, in its present shape, stands alofle in English literature. Whatever may be thought of the views which it is its author's object to promote, his book is the most trustworthy, the clearest, the liveliest, and the most intelligent exposition of the views of the various philosophers of whom it treats which is to be found in ...

... A FATHER melancholy view of British dominion in Asia is presented in an ill-printed little pamphlet of twenty-two pages which lies before us. This unwelcome production bears no publisher's imprint. It is entitled, Papers relative to the proposed Establishment of Licensed Public Gambling Houses. Printed by De Souza and Co. Elsewhere we gather that it was published in Hong Kong, and was ...

... 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 ...

... ELIZABETHAN DRAMATISTS, No. VII.-WEBSTER.* THE traditions of the frame sanglant which had been inaugurated by Marlowe and Kyd, and had been carried on by Marston, were maintained with the force and concentration of superior genius by Webster. Webster did not write much, but what he wrote is of solid and enduring value. His characters are as definite and real as those of Shakspeare, though it ...

... * JUST as we shall soon be inundated with lives of King Theodore and histories and maps of Abyssinia, so this year we have been plentifully supplied with books on the working-classes. Like King Theodore, dlie working classes have recently brought themselves prominently forward, and- are now deemed worthy of serious consideration, and people are an.UOUS to know something about them and their ...

... HANDBOOK OF ABIYSSINVIA.; COMPARATIVELY limited as is our knowledge of Abyssinia, there are abundant materials available, both from ancient and modern sources, for COlvpiling a popular account of that country which might be at once nteresting and useful. MIr. Peacock, who is the first in the field to under- talze this task, tells us in his preface that the object the writer had in View in ...

... ON reaching the last page of the last volume of The Waterdale Neigh- bours we are still in the dark as to the sex of its author. It is something indeed to be able to say that one has really reached the last page of a three-volume novel, after a bond file reading of the whole, without any extraordinary self-sacrifice in the way of duty to the writer whose work one intends to criticise. ...