... BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS.-AUTUMN EXHIBITION. [TuissP NOTIcE.] Whatever his merits or defects of execution, Mr. C. J. Lewis may always claim the' credit due to high artistic aim and feeling. His landscapos are never the mere transcripts of external nature, to which avorage artists limit their ambition; but in design, at least, veritablo ex- positions of the temper and mood of the ...

... TI!IE lDYNG G¢IRL. All Deatb, tbyinsiari ig et npon my check- i ;hIut is the hntut utn& soly fevered brow; t leave felt thly tra:etld omaing xvotk by week, And yet I fenr clot, D~nth, to meet thee now. Xiy spirit bowved lna nnceiaia for nawhile. Wechb dabrk rebellouusthou hes my heart was rife; It seemed so heard to dtie, wvhil yet thes smile Of loev unct f endlsidp brightenerl nali ay life. ...

... .Xiss HEATH in the Provinces. At this Theatre, last night, Mr Wilson Barrett produced for the ?? time his new dransa entitled ivoilighe, and the representation proved a success of the most marked chalraeter, the rapt attention and hearty plausilis of the audience alternating throughout. The piece is one of ike Caste model, and it is but just Lo the author to Fay that the literary merit of the ...

... , I ?? (From our Reporter.) BalliniSSle, Friday. The fourth day of the fair, appropriated to horses, dawned this morning in ram, and has con, tinned in showers more than suggestive of what is called the hunid humour of the Irish climate, The fair-green has disappeared in a thick coat of deep dirty mud, and through this bipeds and quadra. peds walk about in a fashion more easily imagined than ...

... AMUSEMENTS IN CALIFORNIA, (eInot our. owni COLRLn0svOeDETr.) SAN FiIANOISCO, SEPTEMBoER. 11, 1871.-Notwithstanding the election xceitemont for State officers, which has attracted thou- sands from the Theatres, the CALIWORNUIA TUiATmE has done well with the reappearance (after many years) of Mlrs. D. P. Bowers. She has lost nothing of herprestige. Latg Audley's Secret was produced last Monday ...

... VNFULVII LED. I em ii) log, 0 Lord I tillS ilyi'% l3rsdr? tire, ;titb ISV fittit ?a tls? tiflOW ?1Y limbs all 5.frsrnl1? aro lying Awrsirin?' their i?iiilC59 500- He cciiit? rrisli5* le?'5r to blind me, A blosidliorillil with poisoflOUS breath I lrcsr litre, Isis steps nra behind m? I mu theta, those fangs that are death. 'I'he worils tl'st I utter are madness, 'I'le siliiti?O I keep is ...

... THE CHA UCER SOCIETY'S SIX-TEXT EDITION OF THE CANTERBUR Y TALES.' IT is generally acknowledged that we have no autograph text of Chaucer. Among all the sixty MSS. of the Canterbury Tales which are extant, each of them professing to represent and to be Chaucer, there is no one that can be looked on as an exact transcript of the poet's own words. Yet there are some which, tested by various ...

... GEMS OF IllOUGHT. Wiie mesrssorly urged aud lpressed I powr hic teythought they bud ntick lv0011 workfiltli to whom nIO material isworth- Nature Is telii,tinwlte luxboratorythere reno waste prodlrt~ ~ittd cose fertility Of invention is incea- ~o 'oAGAINST L's -Whbat inextricable conl- worldfor s-srhivebern in, but for the variety is-bt ,e- fu~ stod is te faicos, thle voices, and, the hand. ~~ ...

... , ml? ?? I.. I ? r? 7, ? . -- M ? 'L -, I - r ?; . ,. !? . , i , , t, , ? ?? t ? ?? i i ?l Um'M ?, I . - i?, ?? It, ?? , , ' ' I :1 i 11, - ? .Bplnusz#>iie, d, ;~w ~ 4~ aF iifo tidsp~e&. By ;;Robert .Brownlif. ,London' Smith, Elder, mtd Co. T-3 Aftr the crushing def'eat,' b4lokr~e ,raeuse, of Nicias ad Denosthenes, a ,h,8t.0f, Athenian and other prisoners was. conelgned'~to~the riost ...

... DEFYNNOCK AG aICULTURAL SiHOW. On Tuerday the annual shlow in connection with the El above associaionoi wits hold at T1roeastle. Thse weather was lit laveisoable. Thes show, as regards cattle, Sheep, .to., Was3 2 reunsrkahbly good, and this remanrk will especially apply to IId cattle and horses, the formeor of which exhibited in hurms xqunieire. Some dlispute arose as to the prize awarded for ...

... THE LO NDON MUSIC EALLS. ROYAL (HOLBORe).-Three serio-comic sangstresses, a couple of comic vocalists of the stronger sex, two pairs of doettists, a trio of gymnasts, an acrobatic troupe (five in number), and Mr. Emile Duval, the chairman, formed the company which gave the enter- tainmonts at this place during the past week. Here surely was enough in quantity to satief' any amusemnt seeker, ...

... X. RIVIERB'S PROMENADE CONCERlTS. An evening devoted to Schubert on Wednesday afforded genuine pleasure to adusilera of orchestral works which cannot be heard freqUently. Indeed, after the lapse of so many years, Schubert is only beginning to be known as an orchestral writer. During the composer's lifetune, bis instrumental pieces were altogether ignored by the public ; and although Beethoven ...