... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... The History of Irish Periodical Literature, from the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century. Its Origin, Progress, and Results; with Notices of Remnarkable Persons connected with the Press in Ire- land during the past two Centuries. By Richard Robert Madden, M.R.I.A. Newby. The prudent literary workman, when he is about to launch a book into the world, is careful to say in his Pre- ...

... Better than Gold. Better than gold is the sweet repose Of the sons of toil when their labours close; Better than gold is the poor man's sleep, And the balm that drops on his slumbers deep. Bring sleeping draughts to the downy bed, Where luxury pillows his aching head: His simple opiate labour deems A shorter road to thle land of dreams. Better than gold is a thinking mind, That in the realms ...

... Or. Levy's Benefit Concert. 1\ - I. On Monday evening last Mir. Levy, the lead cod chief of English cornet players, appealed to his fricnds and admirers for the first time. The concert was given in St. James's 1-JLilI and the names of Messrs. F. Kingsbury, G. B. Alien, and Guglieline, figured ie the programme as conductors. With the so-calleid ?? Mr. Levy is, perhaps. the most popular soloist ...

... FASBIONS FOR OCTOBER. Accordiog to the great preparations being made in the Paris teases, it appears that ohe coming winter season will abound in nevelties. hdany new patterns for the make of bodies have been shown by the mterlistes. Satisfied as they are that the gored skirts will still be preferred, they think that the bodies might still be rendered a little more varied and graceful. They ...