... NORMAND Y PICTURESQUE * MR. BLACKBURN knows how to travel,-a rare accom- plishment even in these days, when 'I hunger after knowledge as the Dead Sea after ghosts, therefore do I travel, is an adage of the million. But the million may not find what it seeks, and Mr. Black-burn does. All the more welcome, therefore, is the announcement of any new work, any new edition, bearing his name. We ...

... TAIE ST. _7AMES'S GALLERY A SMALL but choice exhibition of painting;s has been opened at the St. Janmes's Gallery, Xegent- -treet. The pictures are for the most part of cabinet sizei and all, or nearly all, be artists of established fairme. Among the works of especial interest rmiay be cited the Flo/a ri. Greuze, obtained on the recent disporsion of the renowned Demidoff collection. If somee ...

... GABDENERS' ROYAL BENEVOLENT Institution. 'fhe Twrenty-seventh Anniversary Festival of this Institutions was held onl Wednesday evening at the London Tavern, the Right lion. thle E~e o' Di-nny, K.G., is the chair. The Festival was well attended, aiid attracted a far Iarger number of visitors than has bees thle case in former years. I he flowers, terns, and fruit with which the room was; ...

... THEATRICALS IN SYDNEY, (FRO31 OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT,) MAY 20, 1870.--lMessrs. Lyster and Smith are not doing a very lucrative business at the PRINCE OF WALES OPERA HOUSE, owing to the inclement weather and the high price of admission. The Bohemian Girl, 3laritana, 11 Trovatore, and Erneani have been worn threadbare; but, as a kind of atonement, we havy had I Vespri Siciliani, which is just now ...

... TEE HAYMABEET TEEATRE.-Mr E, Arnott, anD actor new to London, appeared in the part of Claude, and acquitted himself creditably of a task beset with no ordinary difficulties. - Ar ArnoLt has algood appearance, pleasant voice, is remarkably unstagy, and is altogether free from rant.- Slandard, July 13th. Tue HAYMARKET TnEATRE.-Mr E. Arnott-new to us-has a fine figure, a clear musical voice not ...

... A Tour 'ioun d England. By Walter Thornbury. In Two Volumes. Hurst and Blackett. Mr Thornbury informs us that the work before us was undertaken at the suggestion of the late Mr Charles Dickens, who advised the author to branch as the crow flies, alternately north, south, east, and west, and to pick up from a bird's-eye point of I perspective all that he could of an historical, bio-E ...

... 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 ...

... STHEE READER IT is somewhat astonishing What rancour can do and will do. Here, in tlie D>i.ReWiew, with its green covers- its undeniable talent, and its Ultranmontane proclivities, one might have expected a bitter review of Disraeli's Lothair, but to have the charge of plagiarism brought against one, to have parallel passages printed as if the words were identical, to be told that a woman ...

... -, I D R B ATU B .E. By ?? ROADSO. ligle volume is quite out ofithe Common- t.4. ooectionaof shorb tales. The-style Ii 06 ie nd pIturesque-too, much 'so, w eO should to lad ttbe very practicali prosais taste of the 3Lp da ?? stories read like German stories- vS1 C,9 'DlmicidtV the grace of expression. and Imof idea wlioh invariably distinguish-the Jli5~j dsisan authors, whea they drop~into ...

... U tir.ttol Mercury. * f.dlowing the prices of provisions Nottingham the ear tiro of George the Third to j the hrune, and in the yeir his deserves to preserved;- y 1760. In 1800. .. s. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. Mutton per lb « o 2J . o 0 6 Beef per lb 0 0 . 0 0 7 Veal, shoulders 0 0 1} 0 0 5 V«d, piime parts 0 0 2} . 0 0 lt r o 3V . . 0 12 Cheese 0 0 0 3 . 009 Malo per strike fl' ...

... The Interior of the Earth. By H. P. Malet, E.I.C.S. Hodder and Stoughton. It may safely be said that we really know less of the interior of our own globe than we do of the surfaces of the far-distant sun and planets. By means of spectroscopic analysis we are every day obtaining a more exact knowledge of the constitu-M tion of the heavenly bodies; and a recent modifica- tion of the spectroscope ...

... celebrities. A great and some dilapidated old chair, which if he U*wl would prrbably have been cast into the wle and carted away with other rubbish, finds converted into an article of fabulous Instead of being called a chair, it is rebap-41 44 memorial; an auctioneer, who with difficonceal his emotion, holds it up before an audience, and, after an exciting competition . honour of possessing ...