... It is scarcely necessary to remark that on Saturday evening the City Hall was crowded in every part, and that numbers unable to get ad- mission had to be turned away, a circumstance 'which always occurs when Mr Sims Reeves' name I is announced. The immense and increasing popu- larity our first (we had almost said only) tenor enjoys is nothing more than'what is due to his great talents, It is ...

... Mr Disraeli has written the following ' tencraL Preface to the collected edition of his works An American gentleman, with more than courtesy, has forwarded to me a vast number of notices of 'Lothair' which have appeared in the leading journals of his country. He tells me that, rrespective of literary 'organs,' ti Unon M Eg newspapers, and it is not imposse that Some notice of 'Lothair' might ...

... THEATRE-ROYAL-MR SOTHERN. A brilliant audience assembled last night in the Theatre-Royal, when Mr Sothern, the distinguished comedian, entered upon an engagement limited to six nights. He appeared in Oar American Cousin as Lord Dundreary-the part in which he first tickled Elnglish audiences, and in which he has now ac- quired a fame not bounded by these Islauds. Our American Cousin is ...

... LITBBATURB. TBQATBRLY RQvinTn No.ZV 25 o. 208i ti (SE(COND NOTICE,) WE Ix, I referring again to the Quarterly, we intend rec simply to notice the articles which do not relaete by to the great question of the day The first is a to] review, with long extracts, of Sir Henry Bulwer's mi Life of Lord Palmerston Sice the Quarterly is appeared the book has been published, and has NV already been ...

... SATURDAY EVENING CONCERT3, n Alrin, on Saturday evening, numbers Uinbl. ta; to gati' admission had to turn away front the Cityl D, I. This continued result of the annlouce. ,rh meat of Mr Reeves' name proves that his visit as t to Glasgoi v are too few and far between acj o- we would g. ladly hail any arrangement that wol.l er bringrhimoft eneramongstus. Insaying 0We look less toimmedi ate ...

... Li TI?RA TUIR. TILE 1ItSronY 01? SCIOrI.A\ND, FROOt Aunceout's li1) InvasiON TO TEli1: yhVLUTLON OF 1688S. By s C John H~ill 15urton. Vols. V., ?? VII. lb ~illiam Bisukilvood & sons, Edinubrgh and tli London.,v~ Wx owre Mr Ilill Burton an apolo~gy for beinlg G0 pe long in noticinlg th~ese last three volumes coup~let- tlh ing his I listery of Scotland during its existence th as an~inuepul;(ent ...

... . We returned to the Theatre-Royal last evening to discover whether the unfavourable impression with which we witnessed Mr Robertson's new coy play, Birth, on the night of its production, do: might not be due, to some extent, to the acci- wa dents inseparable from a new piece on the first titi night, especially when it is put on the stage by a pla mixed company, including a star of the ...

... LITrrATURB. ODY OX THE PROCLAMATION OF THEl FRCH s NI fEpuuLIC, September 4, 1870. By Algernon Charles Swinburne, London: F. S. Ellis, King WI Street, Covent Garden. ZIvR SwYINBURNE's Ode on the Proclamation of the wi Frenoh Republic is one of the least interesting of Ti bis poems. The subject is at fault, for it is too et, large for the poet's powers. Mr Swinburne's m successful poems have ...

... THE ANCIENT AND MODERN GER3IUNS. I (Froil tile EssisbuurUI QuEarterly l cuw. I Our fathers of old were renonlfldd As valorous IIone In war, Gigantic they scemed to the weaklirgo, Their swvordstrokes cleft deep and swept far; Their spears sped throsgh horse and through rider, Like lightning througfi breastplate arid helm Cad only could make them to tremble, And virtue was wisdorr with them. Of ...

... SCIEN0E1, L1-EBA TUBE, AND ART ITEMS. (Srom the Athenrelun.) A SIETHOD of preserving water from the poison- ous action of lead pipes has been invented by Mr Haines, 0.3. It consists in lining the lead pipe with another.of tin, and the two are so thoroughly united that, however much the pipe is bent, they do not separate. Tir Lamas are sow likely to do more for us in our intercourse with Tibet ...

... SCIENCE, LITERATURE, ITBMS.' Y (prom the Athenruni.) HERR SAUL, the landscape painter, has die0 Baden-Baden. For the last ten sears he lived in Paris, but he was, like other Gerr expelled soon after the comnmnenellnent o a!rs present war. THE Commander-in-Chief in lndia has ,o prize of £10 for the composer of the best ora piece of music sent in to the Soldiers' 1Or1n,'a Exhibition. The ...

... L I T E RA T U R E. -------0- ~~~~Now ti SACRED MUTSIC. elieds, und The Supjilcsscentoi flymts asid Tosse Book. Edited by the and Pon- Rev. 11. Bleowv-BQiiTUlWICiK. Third Edition wvith Al)- the fineI pentlix. odn oeio wr quently a London: ovelloEwer, 1 Co, introduct 'Wei~r the first edition of this, inl its way now unique, and insti work appeared, we hadl the satisfaction of joining auy ...