... EDWIN WILKINS FIELD.g IT is fitting that some memorial should be preserved of a man so gifted as the late Mr. Field, and Dr. Sadler's brief account of his friend is marked by good taste and just appreciation of his fine qualities. Boundless energy -and fulness of life were striking characteristics of Mr. Field. He did every- thing with his might, and his enthusiasm and intellectual ...

... TH OMA SINA. * THis is undeniably a pleasing story. It is not brilliant or sarcastic, and. contains neither sermons nor epigrams; but it is drawn with some know- ledge of human nature, though limited in degree. The men are neither anatomized nor idealized, but present themselves with precisely the rough and somewhat dull and commonplace outside in which they appear to- the uninterested of ...

... THE FRENCH GALLER Y. THE Easter Exhibition at No. i20, Pall-mall, is best known by the old name of the gallery where it is held; although within the last year or two a stricter nomenclature has extended the catalogue title so as to include the Continental schools generally. In point of fact, the collection does contain cabinet examples from nearly every country in Europe. But it rests its ...

... ROGERS'S BACCH-E OF EURIPIDES.* IN the preface to this translation Mr. Rogers has started a difficulty, which he endeavours to solve by an interesting hypothesis. The Bacchae, though in some respects one of the most poetical works of Euripides, seems to convey a moral quite unworthy of its author. The cause in which it enlists our sympathies is that of a gross and extravagant popular ...

... ' THE secret of living long is clearly to live well, if Mr. Collins be anm authority. And he tells us very frankly that he writes only for those who- can afford to do so. Unless, therefore, you, living in a country village,, can afford cold grouse, lobsters, peaches, Burgundy, and hock for break-- fast, and dinner on a corresponding scale, do not torment yourself by reading Mr. Collins's book. ...

... TR 0 . Marshal von Moltke, during his military mission in Turkey, found time to pay a visit to the supposed site of Troy, and he describes this visit in his recently published book:- I directed my footsteps (he says) towards a spot to which are attached the oldest of historical souvenirs, but where time has probably blotted out all traces of man's handiwork, towards Ilion. Strange to say, one ...

... MDLLE. ALBANI, who has come to us from Canada by way of Florence, is a welcome addition to our already numerous body of light sopranos. At the Pergola of Florence Mdlle. Albani achieved her greatest success in Ambroise Thomas's Mignon; at the Royal Italian Opera she has made a very favourable impression as Amina and as Lucia. Amina and Lucia are- at once the debutante's easiest and most ...

... A BOOK MJSNAMED.* THE Spanish governors of the seventeenth century were' monarchs in all things except that permanent interest in the office which tends so power- fully to mitigate tyranny. Of all these governors decidedly the most -magnificent was he who exercised sway in Naples. It was a saying among the grandees of Spain that one should not wish for this post, since it was -so painful to ...