... L4ITE4RARY NOTICES. THE OCEs OF THE CHUERCH EnnurciTos Sorra-rr rOs I I IRELAND. By Rev. CHARLES SEAVER. [BeEfs W i. & G. Baird.]-The paper, which is now pub- ( jlished.inpamuphlet form, was read at the recent r meeting of the Social Science Association, and has a nowa annexed to it an appendix and notes. M~r. Scarer disposes of the case in an able and segges- s tive manner, for which the ...

... 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 ...

... THE LAST BOAT. Musing I sit upon the shore, Awaiting till the boat shall come, And bear me to my far-off home, To cease from wandering ever more. Wearled with waiting, pjnch'd with cold, D;in eyes of mine still watch the stream, Which rune as In an endlesg dream;- Runs now, will run, and ran of old. Ever unchanged the constant swirl In little whirlpools eddies still, The straws and leaves foat ...

... Mr. Charles Edmonde (of the house of Willis and Southe- ran) sends the following communication to the Tines:- ,,The extreme rarity of all the very early editions of the poems of Shakspeare is well known, but perhaps of all of them, with the exception of the ' Venus and Adonis' of 1593, which was the first published work of Shakspeare, the rarest and most curious is the remarkable collection of ...

... I4 Lord and Lady Headiord have left the Pr Ililtoss Hotel, for HillAbiwiogh Castle, Hillbsorougb. thb Sir Rowland Blennerhiosset has left the cOI Silton Hotel for London, Wt The Hon. S. R. W. Cotton and the Ho.I be Mre. Cotton have left the Billton Fotol for Hilhboroaugh Castle, Hillsborough. Captain Tisdale has loft the Bilton Hotel for Charlesfort, Rells. Mr. and Mrs. Barron Newell havv ...

... BAILINABLOR FAIR. (FROX oUR 5ikiOa1, MU.) BAL4UXiASO, TUXSDAr Ev i. '-The heavy Waia which fenl Jat ne ht softened the fair green go thoroughly that the asenmbling of the stock on it ihis' morning, amildst a transient ECA~OU of Sunuene, Ilestroyed 'every vestige of grass under foot, con- verting nearly the whole of the vast area into a ploughed field of sticky nud, throiugh which buyers' and ...

... titeraturt Three Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institwtion, on the Ancica Regime as it existed on the Continent tl beforc the Freuch Revolution. By C. KINGSLEY, A M.A., Professor of Modern History in the a University of Cambridge. London: Macmillan M and Co. f Professor Kingsley has prefaced his volume of lectures on the Ancien Regime with a long E statement of his views concerning reform ...

... I * - . . - fr. PAuI.'a (VirtUw and Co., London,)-Zvery. thing &bout the new comer is admdrable except the cover, which isdull, though there is a simplicity about its homeliness which many will appreciate. It does not flaunt in a hundred criours like BroaiCuy which ?? Herod. The editorship of Mr. A. Trol. lope guarantees the success of St. Paid's, and theugbi first numbers are rarely got up ...

... PuBLIC AMU RMEBTS, &a. I - I~:. . . BIoyslAIennd&The&t-atItaIlau Opera ItTrovatore. 'rinee of Wales T.4xatre.-landy kAndy, IXIon, and The Artfu dtAodge. Theatre oyal- The Married Rake, Leab, and The nlendeAVous. Royal Amp ?? Spectre Bridegroom,' lad .The Gr.eat City. BoYal 0,ewC Theatre.-Alone in the Pirate's Lair, oe Iron Casket, and other Entertainmeuta. ?? &o. eow Star ...

... 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 ...

... PRINCE OF WALES TUBATRE. 1TEME AND TinE. M One of the inevitablo drawbiast Of a great dramatic be success, such an VMr. Bouclooalt's Flying Scud1 han ~ lately achieved here, is the shficunlty of providing a worthy pri succenssr, and guarding -e~aint a fatal attioltusacx whent to the time for withdrawin~g the succesfu pise'. han arrived, W5J AB it would have been bopeloan to look for a new ...

... mteratum The Romance of Chaitiy. By JOHN nI LISrDE. London: Strahan. In this prettily illustrated volume Mr. do Liefde has included the substance of the larger work issued by him about two years ago under the title of Six Months among the Charities of Europe. He describes in its pages certain religious and charitable institutions, on the Continent, but chiefly in Germany and Holland, and by ...