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... Itterzature. l Louhl Crrib its Shor~es and slahnds, with NlotC6S WI of Coug Vash By Sir WILLIA -%ValDE . LoD. ViePresidenlt of the Royal Irish inc Academy, &ec. Illustrated with inumerouls wood ta engravingls. Dtiblin :MeGlashanl and Gill. rit Lodn Longmans land Co. bei Few portions of the BritishIse ar corntes atic beautiful or interesting than the westerncute r of Ireland. The beauty is ...

CRITICAL AND SOCIAL ESSAYS

... CRIZTCAL AND SOCIAL ESSAYS.* THiEsr essays are a reprint from the New York Nation-a newspaper which has done much to show that American journalism may attain a far higher level than that to which we have been hitherto accustomed. It is written by men of ability for a cultivated audience, and is free from those appeals to popular ignorance and prejudice which deface the pages of most of its ...

THE PARIS EXHIBITION

... (mROM OUR S&PECL CORsFSPONDENT.) Our official reporters continue to point out departments in which either the entire Exhibition is a failure, or in which we have failed. Unfor- tunately these unpleasant statements seldom admit of refutation, and most certainly when, after pointing out the splendid and complete exhibits in civil engineering and public works, which the French have on the Champ ...

MR. MURPHY AT BLACKBURN

... Ir spite of tbo Mlagisterial order closing the publlchouse, in tho DIusIC Hall connected with whioh Mumsri, Murphy 0a1d Houston were advertised to deliver their lectures, and ID spite of the general feeling in the public mind of which that order was the embodiment, these persons (baolted out by the tenant) effected an entrance on Monday night, and after some delay delivered the first of their ...

KELLS OCTOBER FAIR

... I ruyt-. A no Ma mu - _ . Ad l KIls Oar. 16.-Tbis fair wau held today. The on. supply of ktock en te ground ?? extensive, inclrnd. we lag a very large show of store cattle. In the beef hat dopartment the supply was fully an large as that of led last year, including numerous splendid fat bullo.k onr as wsll a finished heifers, and theresappeered to be ex. from an early hour a determination on ...

LETTERS OF DISTINGUISHED MUSICIANS

... * SPECULATIVE psychologists who hold that the works of every genuine artist are a reflection of his personal character will find in this fresh collec- tion of musicians' letters a certain amount of confirmation of their favourite theory. From Gluck's letters, it is true, not much is to be gleaned as to the special type of his mind, except that he was unquestionably a man of considerable force ...

Drama

... ?? V A-FTE ?? ?? ?? ?? . K\: I ' ST ; l l;The~ sppel tu be .considIrable vitality in Mr. 5Ailinfg;olpes'~ couedy of;. A bodyis Fiiend, which as first produced at ' the Hay arket in the early part of 1859, with Mr. Charles Mathews, , r. Compton, Mr. Bucketone, Mrs. Charles Mathews,_ Mvs, Wilkinst, and Miss- Reynolds in the principal charactere. Tliii'vitality 'has perhaps been shown more ...

THEATRE ROYAL

... THEATRE ROYAL, The memorable charge of the six hundred at Balaklava, was scarcely a more forlorn hope than that which devolve3 this week upon Mladlle. Beatrice in the endeavour to storm public opinion, under such a formidable croes-firo o counter attraction as she necersarily incurs at the hands of her immediate predecensor and successor- U r. Sothern and Miss Bateman. In such a cease ...

FASHION AND VARIETIES

... I FASHION ANDI pI'YAIETI. I TiUE LOR L0EUTENA ?? VI1T. tO LIUERI't. (ruOcr OUR cOIliiwrONlm'NT.) inelfsos;g, YIZ ENEIAAY, 4 ?? M.-1 110stln to comnittll- ?? a piece of Intelligence which resworioI at 2 p1 at. t1his alter loo, andi haoe Ijn hallcil will the gl,6mtait tl0ifac ?? all ?? of citirets as ?? viit of ti'J Val'risy Ia this ?? 111onl tile beclalon of turning the. flir.iiod of tlie new ...

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION

... -. I- .. 11 11from ouer own C02'rcesjPtlCfC,.J PA1NS, October 14, Amateur ahronauts WohWould anif they dared may now dare, and that with the greatest safety. At stated jilnS ivory A cek tf ccc is a balloon ascent on what may Ie calloel the lirnito I liability principle in the C(hamp do Marws. Tie I al!ooin, whica is a very large one, is tethered to tli earth by a rope long enough' however, ...