... WE lately printed a letter from Azamat ?? k pointing out that really popular musical eat tailjments are unknown inl England, anid, wvhat is worse, there is even no thought of arranrig. them in any way. In another part of gtl same paper our correspondent found evidc IC confirmatory of his opinion. Ol WVedilesda afternoon a deputation had an interview With tloW First Commissioner of W Torks ...

... NEWV BIIS AN]D NEW EDITIONS, I)eslnosiuss Weapons of War, translated by xMr. ?? C. Black (]'ell and Daftly), is an interesting and excellent publicatioll, contailing urarly 2,000 very serviceable drnawings of arms and arn-our from the stone age down to ixrsipli and Arnstrong. It is well arranged, vell indexed, and] cc-utalns faesimiles of great numbers of the marlks and nuossogranis of ...

... THE Thd91tre de Chlny has not been fortunate of late. Le-Mledecin des Dames,proving unsuccessful, has been withdrawn to make way for a new comedy called La Tache Originelle, the failure of which is still more decided. The tache in question is not the original sin whereon theologians discourse but the bar sinister in the family 'scutcheon, and M. Ch. Frigoult, a provincial professor, ...

... DR. NEWbVTON'S PERFORHANCES. A CORRESPONDENT sends us an account of Dr. Newton's performances, at Cambridge Hall in Newman-street:- On the platform of Cambridge Hall has appeared a stout, well-made, decently dressed, ruddy-faced, white-haired, heavy-handed Apostle to, the Nations, who announces himself as a Doctor Newton, whose mission it is to cure all the ills that flesh is heir to by the ...

... - I I PARIS, S!ada Tlc French are really an impaticnt people, and j ournal Ihich the other day complained of the 1pidh with which Ministers were hurrying for- .,ard the comlmissions, parliamentary and extra- Vi,.iialutaty, their circulars and decrces, now dc- lc5 tllat the Cabinct has lost ground during the liich has lasted about a week, because no w reform has been announced. The iYe;;ns, by ...

... FROU-FROU' AT THE PRINCESS'S. I:N time we shall hear the last of Frou-Frou, and the name will be known only as that of a new kind of silk, which, though very much inferior to ordinary silk, looks like satin, and can be offered to the purchaser (vide advertisements) at the moderate figure of i6s. 6d. the entire dress. In the meanwhile we have to speak of another Frou-Frou -another ...

... A Ef SBOOKS AN!) SELF EDITI10,7S. Ancicnt Classics for English Readers: the Commentaries of C&sar. By Anthony Trollope. (William Blackwood and Sons.) In a racy and charac- teristic style Mr. Trollopc undertakes in this small volume to describe CzTsar's commentaries for the aid of those who do not read Latin. We are glad to meet this popular novelist in another field of literature, and ...

... TIlE WICKHAM CORRESPONDENCE.# HAD these two volumes contained half the number of letters and three times the number of notes which they now consist of, they would have been a great deal more useful. And we must once more, though it is a weary repetition, enter our protest against the increasing slovenliness with which works of this description are being edited. Sometimes this shows itself in ...

... ',qEZEJJEL. A ?? melodrarna, written by Mr. Boucicault and entitled 'Jezebel; or, The Dead Reckoning, has been produced at the Holborn Theatre. A main portion of the plot is avowedly of French origin, and may be traced to Le Pendu, a sombre play which obtained applause upon the Boulevards some fifteen years ago, and at a later date appeared in an English dress at the Grecian Theatre. Mr. ...

... * THE War Department is certainly not fortunate in its dealings Evith inventors, and, apparently, fails to please them just as signally as it fails to give satis- faction to its own servants We have sometimes been tempted to wvonder if any one could be found to say a good word for the War Office. Assuredly the well-contents are not to be found among the public at large, nor in that portion of ...

... Om, of the best things that can be said in favour of the highly attractive programme just issued by the director of the Italian Opera about to be esta- blished at Drury Lane is that it needs elucidation. AMr. Wood does not confine himself to a list of well-known works, nor to a catalogue of singers already celebrated. Nilsson, Monbelli, and Tre- belli ; AMongini, Santley, and Faure are, it is ...

... ?? BDOOKS AND NEWTF EDZIIO 'jV, I` Notes of a Season at St. Moritz in the Upper Engadine, aad of a Visit t:*) the Baths of Tarasp. By J. Burney YEo, M.B. (Longusans and ?? So l utcir has been wvritten, lately about St. Moritz, which promises to be onec of the most popuilar health resorts in Europe, that it mlight be supposed the subject was exhausted. Dr. Yco, however, deserves to be listened ...