... ` MRs. NORTON has been for too many years known to the public as a grace- ful and accomplished writer to require any introduction from the critics. Her pen, whether as that of an advocate or a novelist, has almost uniformly been employed in defence or in behalf of her own sex. In the first character the wrongs she so effectively portrayed carried to the minds of those who read her letters and ...

... THE ADELPHI THEA TRE. M. CHTARLES DE BEttNARD'S stories of Le Gendre and La Peine dn. Talion having furnished materials for the popular comedy of it Still MWaters Run Deep and the exciting melodrama of Retribution, it was. naturally to be expected that recourse would be had to other works, of the admirable novelist the next time an English dramratist expe ijenced any difficulty in ...

... MR. H I. ROSSETTT'S ESSAYS ON A RET. Wl have so little good, or even tolerable, writing on fine art in England in the slhape of books, that it is not much of a compliment to rank this volume among the best that our art literature has produced since Mr. Ruskin went off into political economy. Let him come back, and cut a smoother reed, And blow a strain the world again shall heed AMeanwhile to ...

... ENGLISH MONA STICISM.* WCoNDERFUL is that turn of mind which in these days of diffused intelli- gence and critical inquiry sets some writers forward with pretentious octavos on subjects of which they have no real knowledge whatever, w~hether derived from independent thought or even from methodical digestion of original thought in others, and for the elaboration of which they deem it enough to ...

... A CHRONOLOGICAL PSALTTER.* TEE best educated Englishmen have been mostly accustomed to a coura- geously desultory course of classical reading, and may be tardy in appreciating either in profane or sacred literature the obvious advantages of a steady chronological method. Our canonical books, and the con- stituent parts of some of them, are far from being easily laid hold of in order of time by ...

... A GIRL'S ROMANCE., THis book might have been called a romance without romance, for it is singularly destitute of the contrasts, the brilliance, and the passion which sometimes make at any rate for a brief moment romance in this life some- thing dearer than the most comfortable of prosaic realities. The story is natural and probable it is carefully written and wholly unobjection- able, but ...

... THE EDUCA TION OF THE MUSCLES.* CCGe/eis jar/bits, a man who can perform the ' grasshopper jump, which is a peculiar sort of jump, in which we start from the squatting position, stretch the body during the leap, and come down again into the squatting position, is of course by so much the superior of a man who cannot. But' there are not many professions or trades in which advance- ment or ...

... THE NE v Q JEEN'S THEA TRE. ON Thursday nioht the theatre which has been for some months in coarse of construction wvithin the -walls of what used to be called St. Martin's Hall, in Long-acre, was opened to the public. The house, which is to be called The New Queen's, is apparently rather larger than the Lyceumi, and without doubt a handsome addition to the list of London theatres. The ...