... THiE new political movement in Ireland has already gathered about it a literature of defence, apology, and explanation. If pamphlets could help, us to an understanding of the matter, we ought not to remain Unenlightened. Mr. MacCarthy has contributed a book of advocacy which has the merit of being distinct and lucid, though it may not be difficult to show that his mild and apparently cogent ...

... THE DRAMA OF KINGS. * IN BUCHANAN, abandoning for the nonce the themes of low life by Which he won his earlier laurels, sets out with the ambitious object of Putting in poetical shape the higher lessons of recent events in Europe. E's new work is a trilogy of tragedies mounted by Lucifer and a corn- Pany of supernatural supernumeraries, and represented for the entertain- Ient of the Lord, ...

... T7HE AR TIS T. THE religion of Art is served as promiscuously as some Hindoo shrine by the Ganges. From the holy Brahmiin who communes closely with his deity, through the infinite orders of a tolerably respectable priesthood, the suite of his godship shades away to the tag-rag and bob-tail, who practise orgies for rites in the outer courts and whose inborn idleness counsels them their vocation ...

... 7170,o STORIES FROM FLORENCE. FLORENCE, Jaev. i6. 'TVo events have taken place in this city during the last week, both eminently illustrative of Italian manners and customs. Still more charac- teristic of Italy, however, is the way in which they have been received by te public in general; the one, of a purely personal character, having sensation, while the other, of essentially public ...

... THE T2ZEOR Y OF POLITICAL ECONOMY THE theory of Political Economy advanced by Professor Jevons in the volume before us consists, to adopt his own definition, in applying the Differential Calculus to the familiar notions of wealth, utility, value, demand, supply, capital, interest, labour, and all the other notions belonging to the daily operations of industry. In the attempt to employ ...

... - - .. I PEOPLE who have hitherto described rehearsals have dwelt chiefly on the paucity of gaslights and on the fact of the actresses being in everyday dress-peculiarities at which, without any great effort of imagination, one might have guessed before going in. A rehearsal is never a brilliant spectacle; on wet winter days when half the company are afflicted with colds it is apt to be a ...

... SAINT ABE. AB1rRIcAN authors have had a happy time in England lately. Especially fortunate have been the poets of America, and they most lucky who have least deserved the good opinion of the world. There seems to be a constant necessity for the gratification of a savage taste in some shape : in dress, in domestic furniture, in house building, in the collection of all sorts of earthenware ...

... BOTANY ASA FOURTH FUNDAIENTAL BRANVCW OF STUDY. $ THIs book is so remarkably distinguished from the ordinary run of school- books that no apology is necessary for calling the attention, not only of teachers but of all who are interested in education, to its pretensions and merits. Too many school-books, professedly compiled for the use of.- children, are really fit only to be hand-books for ...

... TWO SETS OF E TCHINGS.-, YW.n have more than once had occasion to call attention to evidences of the progress of the art of etching among artists and amateurs in this country. Last summer one of the most characteristic sets of plates ever done in ?? was published, and ought to have received earlier notice at our hands-we mean the long-promised and long-talked-of series by Mr. James Whistler, ...

... (jUR winter performances of music include nothing operatic, except pexhaps an occasional air from an opera in the body of a concert. They separate themselves naturally into oratorio performances, concerts of instrumrental music, chamber concerts, and concerts of a miscellaneous description. For the present leaving aside the oratorio performances and the admirable instrumental concerts of the ...

... Li THE HAR YE YS. ' (ITHE T Larveys reads like a brilliant improvisation by an old boy Ic.- a winter night's entertainment of his juniors. There is just such a carelesn incoherence of plot and inconsistency of character, and such foreshadowing of events that never come off, as we should expect in an improvisation; while the stirring incidents and vivid descriptions, the splendid cou-rage ...

... TIHE ATHANVASIAN CREED. & TI-iE Ashanasian Creed is just now occupying a certain amount of attention. We give below the titles of two books by able writers, in which it is. assailed and defended. Mr. Foulkes considers the question from the- historical point of view. We shall not venture to discuss on this occasioa the elaborate argument which he treats with characteristic abundance of learning ...