... {a .PUBLIC AM9USEMENTS, &0a. 'va'lnandnS eave.-lt.llan Opera ulnot.. 1'uiaer of Wales Theat-e'nfe ,Points of the Law, ?? The ATU4 1Dodge., Theatre RoyaL- :,The a -aried e ad .The RendszvOU%. 3oAJ AmPh~thOSAi15:Th6 Spectre Brdegroom, and The Gireat Cip., eye 3 o- sum ?? in the Pirate's Lair, 'The lron Casket. and other lEntertenmentL , Sew Btal Xusc flal. v-Cozilcrt, Avolo, ...

... Vi KID o Mauit Ter,, ind oe oree'apeioy ' litar; an4 aclni,,%e, 'but ~wi'usgi to eaient. London, Grlsgowe,, and Edllnburgh: Dluskie -.and o.I3D . , ?? _ ThiS bueful lvoiume, compiled' br'tbe late Adullral ?? W.tE Snth, mee ?? etlsl1og'deiloency hn nauthl literature., Marine' ditionriiies have .previously been pu~l~ishql, but pmost of -hem are now imperfect! b1y raon of the ?? y abagee ...

... ?? THE FIRST BLUE-BIRD. IY 1EMILY s. OAIEy. Whatever weight the hours lhave borne Along the path, of frost and snow, The world is never too forlorn For birds to sing a'gain; We know That earliest bods will soon expand, That Spring is pocsewhselo in the land, For hark! the bluo-bird singe. Somewhere the grass is green sgxio, The meadow mild with shower and ?? Out-bud the trees, upstarts the ...

... FOR L O VE. IN his new play, entitled For Love, produced at the Holborn Theatre on Saturday night, Mr. Robertson would seem to have set himself the task of expanding a plot suitable to a comedietta into the subject of a long melodrama in three acts. The story of For Love is of the slightest and simplest kind. One John Wyse, a young physician, is deeply attached, and has been almost ...

... BALLINA8LOB FAIR. BDtaLiNABLOE, Saturday. This morning, the second of the sheep fair, opened most unpropitiously. Heavy showers continued withbout cessation, and a more disagreeable spectacle than the fair green presented has seldom been witnessed at Ballinasloe. Theo exhibition of sheep this morning com- prised not only those unsold yesterday, but also consider- able numbers which had been ...

... El ittrature. - ?? NEW NOVELS. t Polly: a village Portrait. 2 vols. London: i Tinsley Brothers. 1867. The Confessions of Gerald Esteourt. By Florence e Marryat [Mrs. Ross Church]. 1 vols. London:f Richard Bentley. 1867. e Until the End: a Story of Real Life. By John p Pomeroy. London: Charles W. Wood. 1867.. d Bidden Fire. A Novel. 3 vols. London: Tinsley f, Brothers. 1867.b The White Cockade; ...

... I I I iTH ae PARIS CR~IITIC. T. ' rom' orn Sf.Osr Con SmPOND1T.)' In no departments of the Exhibition' has there been more scandali;misrepresentation, and provo- cation of bad blood than in those in which the cloths of the' several exhibiting and really compet- ing nations are spread. To begin with, let us observe what M. Georges Bell, the authority of the Patrie, has to say on the whole ...

... TO THE EDITOR Or THE DERBY MERCURY. Sir-I beg to call your attention to the following arrogant remarks, issued in your paper of September 25th, as under, viz. : Class 10-This is a Derbyshire class all over, and one which we are surprized the society, with so many practical men upon its committee, has allowed at all, for the very con- ditions are a hindrance to good.farming, and we have seen ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ROYAL ALEXANDRA TH ATRE A striking transition was made in the perform- anep at this house last night, from the quiet beauty of Le Nozze di Figaro, with its plots and counter-plotH of love-making,, to the fire and massiveness of Les Huguenots fuU of the heat and fury of religious warfare. J'udging from the attendance last night, war would seem to be more powerful than love, and 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 ...