... A 70URNVEY THROUGH ABYSSINIA.; THIS book is just what it purports to be. The style is unaffected and sometimes graphic. These, however, are not the only attractions of the narrative. It affords an interesting colo ([ail of Abyssinia and its people, taken on the spot by an intelligent Englishman, remarkably free from. the prejudices which generally distinguish our roving countrymen. A previous ...

... THEA TRICALS IN GERMAN7Y. [SECOND ARTICLE.] IN the previous article I touched upon the peculiar excellence of the German stage, as that of humourous realism--or the presentation of Chlaracter in its individual traits, with just that amount of accentuation which suffices to make it incisive and laughable, yet restrains it from running over into extravagance and unreality. The performance at ...

... 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 ...

... LEIVES'S HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. MR. LEWES'S History of Philosophy, in its present shape, stands alofle in English literature. Whatever may be thought of the views which it is its author's object to promote, his book is the most trustworthy, the clearest, the liveliest, and the most intelligent exposition of the views of the various philosophers of whom it treats which is to be found in ...

... * 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 ...

... NVEW BOOK'S AND NVEW EDITIONS. The Grecian Maid, and other Poems. By Ckarles L. D. Cumming. (London: Griffith and Farran.) Although a large portion of this little book is- the fruit cf ti'e suthoi's poetical studies prior to attaining his majority, Mr. Cumming makes it an express stipulation with his critics that his poems shall be judged entirely upon their own merits, irrespective ...

... 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 ...

... ELIZABETHAN DRAMA TISTS.-No. VIII. .7OHN FOJTD.* OF all the dramatists John Ford is by far the most pathetic. More than any other he commands the source of our tears, the hidden spring of our tender emotions or, to use the phrase of Aristotle, Ford, of all that eloquent race, is the most tragical -7paytKuTrwror. It is trie that we find in Ford's plays none of the unaffected sentiment which ...