... I WVMENEVER the present Ministry falls, there is every prospect of its doing so with a dull crash, not an individual soul of them having saved himself by judicious ratting. This may signify nothing on the score of personal sympathies, but it is to be regretted on broad public grounds. A great abrupt political catastrophe will be offered to us, shorn of a whole series of interesting preliminary ...

... il;,R. FREEMAN ON THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTIOM,~ I MR. FREEMAN has given us plenty of evidence how prodigiously big a book he is capable of writing, and how long a way he can make even minor circum- stances go. In the present essay he shows the far more laudable skill of being able to write a small book on a big subject, and we hope the public sill appreciate it sufficiently to encourage the ...

... - A Member of the Church of England is anxious, it seems, to help the youthful Christian in his study of the wonderful life of the Son of Man, and to assist in making the transcendent beauty and value of the Gospel revelation understood and appreciated by all. By a happy instinct he has lighted on the undiscovered cause which has hitherto prevented the Gospels from being as well ...

... HER MIAJESTY'S OPERA. MR. MAPLESON'S company, already singularly strong, is yet to be fortified. Mdlle. Kellogg, of whom opera-goers will have preserved the most agreeable recollections, is said to have sailed last week from New York iti order to fulfil an engagement at her Majesty's Theatre, and the time must- now be drawing near for the promised appearance of Mdlle. Nilsson. In. the ...

... IN default of new operas we have at least the opportunity of hearing plenty of new singers, to say nothing of singers as good and better than new, who xeturn to us one after the other from the beginning to the end of the season. Ait Her Majesty's Opera the manager tempts the public with a succession of prima donnas, strengthened by Mdme. Trebelli-Bettini; at the Royal Italian Opera the ...