... L I TBR AT UR E. JOSHUA MARVEL. By B. L. FAnJEON, Author of Grif. Tinsley Brothers, Catherine-street. Joshua Marvel is a pleasant and lifelike story, which has a freshness in the narration by no means common among novels of the present day. The plot is not very intricate, but this must not be accounted a fault, since the story is one of adventure and cha- racter rather than a series of ...

... PUBLIC AXUSEXENTS. 1TWEEDIE'S RIGHTS.' AT THE VAUDE- VILLE. Mr. James Albe-y, auth.:ir of the ,Two Rose; fi likewise the parent of the twvo-act comedy which hae just been prodne-d at the Vaudavilloe the plot of -which is ?? Tweedie (Mr. David James) is a maeter stonemason, whn has chpated his brother's Eon, Richsard Tweedie (Ur, Wyke Mooro) of his property-nameit. the stonemason business. ...

... THE great activity which reigns at Covent Garden became almost phenomenal towards the close of last week, when three operas, to wit, L'Etoiledu zord, L'Afi icaine, and Un Balso in ^Mascizera, we ...

... IIT A RAT U, RE Ve-h bi a pile of unpretending little ?? it6- tidef u, which we purpose to review in. quiok sucoes Sion.r . Fore ost among these is a welcome poetica contributionhfromrthe pen of ?? Windus, and publishedby;Hotten, of Plecadilly. Mr. .Windus does not load his .ideas in gorgeous and incomprehensible language, as many young poets of the period are ispt to do. . There is a ...

... THiE representation of Beaumarchais' comedy of Le Barbier de Seville by the company of the Theatre Fran~ais attracted a numerous audience to the Opdra Comique Theatre. Except in its operatic form the work is little known to English playgoers. It was adapted by George Colman the elder, however, and as The Spanish Barber appeared at the Haymarket in 1777, two years after its first ...

... T HiE TRIENNIAL HANDEL FESTIVAL. BECOND DAY. Yesterday's programme, according to past usage, was devoted to a selection from various works, sacred and secular, well calculated to exemplify the versatility of Handel's powers, and to prove-what is not sufficiently known to the general public--that his genius was many-sided, and could lend a grace and charm to the lightest as well as impart ...

... NORTTH WOOLWICH GARDENs. A Theatrical Fete. Tfie liberal and spirited ?? in which Mr. W. Hollaund has rfr the public reached a climax on Thursday last. A dis- ested compliment was paid by that gentleman to the whole of tile nlibers of the metropolitan theatrical companies, who were aleited to a special morning entertainment at the beautiful grounds I the North Woolwich Gardens. A fleet of ...

... AN ardent follower of Dllinger, who surely might have discovered foemen worthier of his steel, has thought proper lately to deliver himself of a diatribe against Mr. Murray's Handbook of Rome. He accuses its compiler and editor of incurring the risk of corrupting our young men and women by cunningly inserting Romish fables and assumptions under cover of suggestions respecting dinners to ...

... THE partisans of finality in opera can find no fault with the proceedings and performances at either of our great musical theatres. With the death of Meyerbeer, Rossini, and Auber, and the retirement of Verdi-who has taken to farming, as Thalberg took to wine-growing, as Alphonse Karr has taken to flower-growing, and as a much less eminent man, Siraudin, the vaudevillist, has taken to the ...

... FUNDAMENTALS. I TiE volume before us consists of a series of letters from the author to a friend, real or imaginary, who has or is assumed to have complained that ' amidst the dust raised by the conflict of opinion in this unsettled age he is beginning to lose sight of the landmarks which have hitherto been his guides. He is perplexed by the contradictions between reason and faith, ...

... N'fEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS. Little Sunshine's Holiday: a Picture from Life. By the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.) This is a pretty narrative of baby life, describing the simple doings and sayings of a very charming and rather precocious child nearly three years old. Little Sun- shine, who is no doubt a real personage, travels to Scotland with her ...

... THE Queen returned to Windsor on Tuesday for the express pur- pose of opening St. Thomas's Hospital on the following day. Her Majesty, with Prince Leopold and the Princess Beatrice, ...