... 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 ...

... ` MRs. NORTON has been for too many years known to the public as a grace- ful and accomplished writer to require any introduction from the critics. Her pen, whether as that of an advocate or a novelist, has almost uniformly been employed in defence or in behalf of her own sex. In the first character the wrongs she so effectively portrayed carried to the minds of those who read her letters and ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... TELL WITH A VENGEANCE.' WHETHER the public has or not begun to weary of burlesques may perhaps be open to question, but there can be little doubt that the pro- viders of such entertainments are showing unmistakable signs of fatigue and exhaustion. Mr. Byron's latest production at the Strand Theatre is founded on the story of William Tell, although the Strand had been already furnished with a ...

... THEA TRICALS IN GERMAN7Y. [SECOND ARTICLE.] IN the previous article I touched upon the peculiar excellence of the German stage, as that of humourous realism--or the presentation of Chlaracter in its individual traits, with just that amount of accentuation which suffices to make it incisive and laughable, yet restrains it from running over into extravagance and unreality. The performance at ...

... THE EDUCA TION OF THE MUSCLES.* CCGe/eis jar/bits, a man who can perform the ' grasshopper jump, which is a peculiar sort of jump, in which we start from the squatting position, stretch the body during the leap, and come down again into the squatting position, is of course by so much the superior of a man who cannot. But' there are not many professions or trades in which advance- ment or ...

... PARTISAN LIFE WITH MOSBY.` IT is significant that, while modern civilization in Europe has long been crying out against guerilla warfare, and against the kindred system of privateering, guerilla warfare was regularly and formally established in the late civil war in America. At a comparatively early stage of the conflict a law was passed by the Confederate Congress authorizing the ...

... * SPECULATIVE psychologists who hold that the works of every genuine artist are a reflection of his personal character will find in this fresh collec- tion of musicians' letters a certain amount of confirmation of their favourite theory. From Gluck's letters, it is true, not much is to be gleaned as to the special type of his mind, except that he was unquestionably a man of considerable force ...

... WHETHER the Egyptian Hall received its name in commemoration of the height to which Egyptians carried the magical art, it is hardly worth while to inquire but a great deal of modern magic has been performed there, as if it were a peculiarly appropriate place, and now we have more. The performer announces himself as Rubini, without any Colonel or Mr., or Master before the name; just as we say ...

... MR. H I. ROSSETTT'S ESSAYS ON A RET. Wl have so little good, or even tolerable, writing on fine art in England in the slhape of books, that it is not much of a compliment to rank this volume among the best that our art literature has produced since Mr. Ruskin went off into political economy. Let him come back, and cut a smoother reed, And blow a strain the world again shall heed AMeanwhile to ...