... THEA TRICALS IN GERMALANY. [FIRST ARTICLE.] THE Drama is everywhere in Europe and America rapidly passing from an Art into an Amusement; just as of old it passed from a religious ceremony into an Art. Those who love the Drama cannot but regret the change, but all must see it to be inevitable when they reflect that the stage is no longer the amusement of the cultured few, but the amusement of ...

... * JUST as we shall soon be inundated with lives of King Theodore and histories and maps of Abyssinia, so this year we have been plentifully supplied with books on the working-classes. Like King Theodore, dlie working classes have recently brought themselves prominently forward, and- are now deemed worthy of serious consideration, and people are an.UOUS to know something about them and their ...

... PIG-S TICKING.* IT is amusing to observe the point of view from which the sportsman in India regards whole districts of that favoured land. He obviously considers that the noble end for which they exist is to provide him with game. A large tract of country is thickly grown with jungle, through which crop out here and there rocky stretches of barren land, not a habitation or a road to be seen ...