... 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 ...

... THE NE v Q JEEN'S THEA TRE. ON Thursday nioht the theatre which has been for some months in coarse of construction wvithin the -walls of what used to be called St. Martin's Hall, in Long-acre, was opened to the public. The house, which is to be called The New Queen's, is apparently rather larger than the Lyceumi, and without doubt a handsome addition to the list of London theatres. The ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 DRAMA TISTS.-No. VIII. .7OHN FOJTD.* OF all the dramatists John Ford is by far the most pathetic. More than any other he commands the source of our tears, the hidden spring of our tender emotions or, to use the phrase of Aristotle, Ford, of all that eloquent race, is the most tragical -7paytKuTrwror. It is trie that we find in Ford's plays none of the unaffected sentiment which ...

... YIRE PRINCE OF WALES'S THEA TRE. THE Prince of Wales's Theatre reopened on Saturday night with a per- formance of Mr. Robertson's comedy of Caste, the most successful production of last season. The run of this play has been suspended in London for sormie two months, but it must not be understood that the plaoers engaged in its representation have therefore been enjoying a holiday. and are ...