... WINTER HEALTH RESORTS IN THE SOUTZiP THE summer tourists have had their holiday, and are once more home again till next year's sunshine allures them to pack up and go forth from the hlomes of their fathers. These are of the working, able-bodied traveller kind-determined pleasure seekers, who will do and suffer much to get at the object of their quest. Travellers who will march footsore in ...

... 1. , .11 R I :inceo the Droduetioik 6 Mauw'e Peril at this . house, thr author, A F. Watts hi]iips, has made several h alteratiosainutbe or, Na,,idWthse alterations were tried Llast nig'ht, wve beliew tor the firsttime, with encouraging * Success.; Mr. Phillips, wve thin . has very judiciously strengtbened thesecond act, which wasrather weak near l its closes, by making the returned convict, ...

... (oROM OUR SPECIAL coRREspoNnDENT. The dinner offered by the Foreign Commissioners to the Imperial Commissioners was given on Satur-' day last at the Louvre Hotel, under the graceful chairmanship of Lord Granville. The record of it will remain as a memorial of the amiability of the foreign exhibition representatives. You will have received an account of the speech-making-and who among ...

... THEA TRICALS IN GERMANY. [THIRD ARTICLE.] WHAT are the pieces usually performed in Germany? The answer to this question is significant of the present condition of the Art. Thanks to the existence of Court Theatres there is still some strenuous effort to keep up the character of the stage, and stem the rush of vulgar appetites towards vulgar food. In Germany, as elsewhere, costumes and bare ...

... titevrltUtc' l Tw vrfile Tributaerics of Abyssinia and the #Sword ti .I-Toruters oftie Heamram Arabs. By Sir SAMUEL r. W. BAKER, M.A., ?? &A, Author of Si the Albert XNyaza Great Basin of the Nile, o &c. London: M~Iacmillan and Co. 1867. C Sir Samuel Baker has not only associated his ii own natme with the greatest geographical discovery t of the present century, but has given that discovery ...

... We could forgive any manager bad scenery, if he would contrive to give Us new plays with good wit in them, and plots showing that English playwrights have some inde- pendent power of construction. The wit is to be had by trusting in it; and in that sort of construction which gives to a play or novel a soul worth saving, Frane never was a match for England in the days when we had plays, and is ...

... Historiy of the United Net7herlainds, from the Death of Wiliamn the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce. By John Lothrop Motley, ?? Corresponding Member of the Institute of France; Author of ' The Rise of the Datch Republic.' In Four Volumes. Vol. IlI., 1590-1600. Vol. IV. 1600-1609. With Portraits. Murray. In his ' Rise of the Dutch Republic' Mr Motley traced the progress of the famous and ...

... BER MAJESTY S THEATRE. Her Majesty's Theatre is again open, and again filled ! by the lovers of dramatic song. In addition to the familiar voices of Madlle Titiens and Mr Santley, we have Madame Trebelli-Bettini, the beauty of whose contralto notes has long been appreciated by all discriminating critics of the lyric stage; but who has not had till recently the full opportunity of displaying ...

... MR. T. C. KINGS RET1YRN to the STAGE.S, HIS RECEPFION IN DUBLIN. (From the Evening Frenesn, October 19.) There is hardly an incident is our theatrical world which has created so much gentuine pleasure as the announcement that this old and deserving fatvourite would playin ' The Royal once again. After years of illness and hopeless prostration, Mr. Kitlg, to the welcome astonishmelit of his ...

... (From Le Follet, Journal du Grand gigne., The cold weather we have had lately has been the signal for the appearance of thoroughly winter toilettes so that their form, material, and style may be considered as per- fectly decidedoou. As far as in-door dresa is concerned, the naterials are much the saine asathese worn last month: bnt the walking costumnes have a much more wintry aspect than they ...

... PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS S&Lz Lysszz AM6-MArAoxB, MP. P. B.'Oanivearso. N Mondy, Novmberth, and during the week, her Xsadefs' Optetvagtill-poerom, the new romantie osyin four neta, ?? TEDDODE OP VENICE adap.tedbyAlBead' from Lord Byron's traed ?? Flie,w h additions fromithe play of Msi , ?? ?? rule- maisay Illustrated by eetosfo h.ee~O 1aie bDonizetti, and: thlno oevl nd BnaoVOi5 Moreadote wit now ...

... LITUV&ZY MI5GELLANMRA0.: I - - - - - 1 Tin TlfVsIorN =sA*D HxosMsrmiis-Contemporary with Salvator Rosa,' was the, celesrated ARessandro Stradella, remarkable not less for his romantic and tragical history-bhan foF his musical genius. While, yet a young men, and: haiing~ aerqered great -reputatioul at Venice, be' wase empidyad' by a noblemean of that 'd~ty to give in~structions in musie to a ...