... * IN his preface to this handy little volume, Mr. Warren tells us that, having been long engaged in art teaching, he has found, and still finds, almost all his pupils ...

... PU 'LIC A*UsEMENl~,, NATIONAL SrANDARD iTR .TA . A capital evening a amurement is ov affo Irded at this theatre by Mr. Byron's. drama U Jlde Dick's Darling, and the ooera boutfe 6of Guy Pawkms. In rtbe st, Mr. .T J . Tole playi .Untee Dick. with the miniled drollery. and pathon. that have rendered his actingdsoopular,; Andis aightlys ,monedbeforetbhe .curtaii~attihe close of eaebaet. ...

... TOodni. - = = - - - -- - , - , SOME CALL THE WORLD A DitEARY PLACE. Sonie call the world a dreary plae, And tell long tales of sin and woe As it there were no blessed trace Of sunshine to be found below. They point, when autumn winds are sighing, To -alling leaves and withered flowers; But shall we only mourn them dying, And never note their brilliant hours? They mark the rainbow's fading ...

... ?? THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THlE RongL GENERAL THEATRICAL YUND. (Mls-OtRTIeD ERX'IXL'5SlY FOil TuE ERA.) Under circunistances giving every reason for the warnnjest congratulatiun the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Icotival of this admirable Institution was celebrated on )lonl'y at thle St. James's Hall, Regent-street. 'On jcceding occasions we have had the pleasure of behold- il the Cairmlan a ...

... Mr. Sweasey's Benefit at the Royal Music HEal. The fourth anniversary of the commencement ofMr. J. S. Sweasey's proprietorship of this Hall was celebrated here on Thursday evening. There was a large attendance, the place being filled, although the prices of admission were high. From ten o'clock until the close of the entertainment the chair was occupied by Mr W. Holland, of the Canterbury Hall ...

... I T E A T R E R O Y A L. or MR. BARRY SULLVAN. T MNlr Barry Sullivan took his benefit at the Tbeatre l 1oyal. Despite the extremely un- '3:ourab'O ature ui the evening, the house wa5 r.c;;ed to ov-oflowircg in every part. The bill of -ea(fS d of the Gamester and Don CT3car .e 1:. n,'in both of which Mr. Sullivan sua. t d the Icaciog parts with consummate ability a^ pwcr. Fe was well ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... . CURBENT LITERATUBE. Few travellers have, we imagine, now-a-days t either the will or the power to clothe the records v of their journeys in the imposing, if somewhat . cumbrous, form of a quarto. Half a century ago, | however, this wag the recognised shape for books ] . of travel, and Mr. George Matheson has gone i back to the old custom, and gives us in Evylanwd t to Ielhi (Longmuans), a ...

... If the Calamities and Quarrels of authors are not about PI to be increased, the Curiosities of Literature have had a PI remarkable addition in the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli's s ...

... Portraits. By Augusta Webster. Macmillan. Mrs Webster achieved such a decided success in her translations from the ancient Greek drama and in her English poems that we looked forward to another work from her pen with considerable inte- rest. We certainly are not disappointed with the contents of the little volume now before us. Her 'P ortraits' prove that while she nourishes her mind with the ...

... MR. DISRAELFS NEW NOVEL- LOTHAIR. Lezgues poet intercallum, the author of Con- I ineby and Vivian Grey has launched another barque upon the crowded waters of fiction. Lao- ttair will puzzle many and disappoint more. t Stories were currant as to its political character, E and some of Mr. Disraeli's contemporary legisla-t tors must have felt not a little nervous when it was boldly announced ...