... 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 ...

... 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; ...

... lrama. THE NEW EFFINGHAM THEATRE. NOw theatres are now the order of the day, and however stagvalit all other branches of trading enterprise May be, the providers of public amusements show no ,yptoms of fatigne and faintheartedness. Whitechapel has long boasted of one large and elegant theatre-the pavilion-and it nose has another, the Effinghain. known for soeme years as a saloon, and for ...

... THE PARIS EXHITION. I ?? I . 7T ? ; I II (PROM OUR SPICLat COBURSPONDENT.) The Exhibition is seeing gloomy days at its close. All is wintry and cheerless, as I observed in my last letter. And yet there is a sound of revelry- a faint tame sound as yet, but which may grow and brighten. There has been feasting enough all the summer in the restaurants, and they have not generally realised fortunes ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...