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LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND ART SCRAPS

... LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC, AND ART | SCRAPS. 3' Mrs, Alfred Mellon will be the future dircetress at W the Adeliphi Theatre. .S40 Air. Arthiur .v Beckett has resigned the editorship ?? of the ('0'lol eIlNr, to undertake editorial duties on the 4 stall of another journal. vld The verses On Southeae Beach, in the October 13 number of Lon1, on &Bor ty, are by Mr. Edward Legge, sof the I1 'urccqrtc ...

LITERATURE

... TIE MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER. THREF Ve-a> c ndidathi:for popular favour have inredymdee ~ toheir appearance this autumn, ?? ,indeedy, for good or evil, it seems pretty certain that whil e iiost of our best works of tiction' make their first appearance in periodicals, much also of the Wit, wisdom, and philosophy of the day, aye, and 4 much g alsoof sound information, and just criticisin Iare tobe ...

PARTISAN LIFE WITH MOSBY

... 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 ...

A HORRIBLE STORY

... A RORRIBLE STORY. I, We commend to the notice of those *ho are so persistently eloquent on the subject of the pec'liar thirst of the African for blood, as illustrated by the massacre of some twenty individuals during the riots in Jamaica, an accbunt'given in isonday's Times of certain acts recently' perpetrated by the inhabitants-of Ardor, a' small town in Calabrin, about seven miles from ...

THE EXHIBITION OF ECCLESIASTICAL ART, AT WOLVERHAMPTON

... TElE EXHIBITION OF ECCLESIASTICAL I ART,' AT WOLVERHAMPTON. On Wednesday we gave a general description of the cn- tents of this exhibition, and explainod the eorts, shapes, uses, and symbolical meaning of the 'veotruente dis- playrdthere. Tothat notee a few rough notes may be added on the contrast presented by the ancient vestments exhibited at Wolverhanipton, and the modern ones hang- lg ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER. Blac1kwood's .2fat,,azine.-Under the heading of Work and Murder, Maga devotes an ar- ticle to the recent disclosures before ?? Unions Commissions at Sheffield and Manches- ter. I he writer does not expect from legislation either a cure or a preventative of such evils as have been laid bare. The true remedy (he conceives) must corne from the working nien tliemselv's, ...

THE WATERDALE NEIGHBOURS

... 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. ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... T--- l#>L: ?? - X l 'traomo OtnR b 8 cojO~ ?? !1 It'is undbniable that we'are not where'we'might,, f: could, and should have been in this Exhibition; -1 ' 'f took leavemontha sago to set forth the rbasons why fo we had failed, and- 'at the same time'to point' out' h the' importance of ',imurnediately 'disem iatinjg tho:; fi rough art an4.techsical education among our wage E classes. Thefault ...

PUBLIC AMMUKSEMENTS, &c

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, &C l 3osld Ale drATbltr&-`A Cure for the -attace, His First ChsmP5mag n8eand the French Ballet, hrinee of Wales Theatre.- M0eg' DIveraton, aind the Burleesque Helen. * EOygO Arophbtheatre,The Stranger,aud TheLady of Lyons. oyajl Colossesm Thstre. - The Iron Caskot, Tremont Binstrele, The wandering Boys, &c. Mengler's Grand Glrqnc-E uestrian Entertainm onts, &C ...

FASHIONS FOR OCTOBER,

... FASHIONS FOR 00 'OBER, (From Le Follet). According to the great preparations being made in the Paris houses, it appears that the coming winter season will abound in novelties. Many new patterns for the make of bodies have been shown by the mo- disls. Satisfied as they are that the gored skirts will be still preferred, they think that the bodies might be rendered a little more varied and ...