... $ THE Life of Charles Dickens continues, both by its substance and by, its execution, to be a most interesting work. Its proper title, nevertheless,, would be, History of the Relations between Charles Dickens and John, Forster. From beginning to end John Forster is, in dramatic parlance,. never off the stage. Sometimes he addresses the hero, sometimes the hero addresses him. When the ...

... T- E TRE RECENT METEOR SHWEEB. - | Much interest has been excited by the recent occurrence of a fine display of shooting stars. It has been supposed by many that the falling stars seen on the evening of Wednesday, November 27, belong to the so-called November system, and that the display had simply been delayed 'ak;fortuight owing to some displacement 1 lthe syste ofl meteors, and it is quite ...

... AXUSEMENTS in HAMBURQ and BERLIN. (FROis OUR OWN CORRESPONDMNT.) HAMBURG.-J. W. Myers opened his new and elegant Cirque on Saturday, November 16th, and had a crowded audience. Tfhe building is constructed to accommodate 5,000 persons. It is very prettily decorated, and brilliantly lighted. The company includes M sdames ose PMadigan, Myers, Bonfanti, Studley, Felix, Cash- more, and GAtzs Messrs ...

... PROVINCIAL THEATRICALS, CFR1100 OUR ONVN CORRt,;SI'ONDHNTS.) ABERDEEN, Tur-ITtAS'tElne - (lassee, Air E. Irrice.)-Mr Plrice's drama of i'oor NeN held the bottldt alt last wreek, bet Mri Pi-ice so severely spraittad his loot ylliie p1 lying Quilp eil Wednaesday evening that be wes uneablc to appear in tiac part again that weck, which greatly noarrcd the effect of the piece. Another local ...

... I Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has added another to his series of Breakfast-Table books, under the title. of The Poet at the Breakfast-Table (Routledge and Sons. 1 vol.). Th'e ?? of the -work is the same as that with which we are already acquainted in the two previous volumes, and it is carried out in much the same fashion. We are once more introduced to the famous boarding- house, and to ...

... THE NATIONAL DOG SHOW AT IBRInGHAM. . Private judging is the rule at the Birmingham Dfog Show, and the judges ware occupied during the whole of Saturday at their wbrk,whioh is of a peculiarly arduous and dolicate nature. At no exhibition is there, perhaps, greater divergence of opinion as to the merits of the com- poting animals, aud never is the prize list so keenly criti- eisod. Critics, ...

... t ?? ic Ac . I ?? . . -; . . . ., I ?? . ~. . If THE BR TIsHN9IaS1TR S JThe institution r F ll es8*0isli uA above name commence its ;firt seqe of 'vie cog 15, :thursday night at St. James's-ball,. wherq the r'asina8g 1 performancs are to be ?? onbDeo. l9, Jan. 9, and 23, rand February 6 and 20 \. ?? ?? The nationality implfed by> th'o title of this scheme is Sto be,&rrqd pyt ?? as regard~s t ...

... MR MILL'S SYSTEM OF LOGIC. (First Notice.) A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive. Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. By John Stuart Mill. Eighth Edition. Long- mans. If the importance of a work may be judged by its in- fluence over the thought of the age in which it is written- if the value of a work may be estimated by ...

... [The following arrived too late to appear in Its proper place.] . TIMATR E ROYAL.-The engagement of Mr J. L. Toole was brought to a close on Saturday last. The previous evening was Sxed for his benefit, and he appeared in Uncle Dick's Darling, Paul Pry, and Thc Steeple Chase. The benefit had to be extended to the following evening. On Menday Mr and Mrs Bandmann. commenced a short engagement, ...

... T1IE THALIA Amateur DraMatic Club. The Thalia Amateurs gave a porsriusuace, on Monday evening at St. George's Hall, for the benefit of the Home for Little Boys at Farning-ham. It was the opinion of' one of the Club, expressed to a lady who formed one of the audience, that the perlormance went down, and, adopting his words without the meaning he intended to convey, there is no question ...

... 6 THE story of Hannibal has exercised the pens of few poets beyond Silius Italicus, who has covered it with a mythologic and gladiatorial garnish which could only have suited a prehistoric period. He has proved, however, that the theme is impressive in many features, but, at the same time, inordinately complex for even the epic form of poetry. A still greater difficulty must, we deem, have ...

... TEE LONDON MUSIC HALLS. SOUTHLONDN PALACE.-Mit. W. Joeoi1SON''s BENEFIT.- whecever we visit the Sooth Londofl we Usual l reed t ith orite estobliahtitetttf~lli sod last Nvedesday, Up0n tleo ccasion of Mi' John ?? fa ll;hel noe la'd Ien~r tila d tolles nppl aumse o o son's benefit, the capabilities of the facil srer tatert o dut bitt like themfaelscarpuelt bag, which was never so fl but that it ...