... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... )I| ; ?? Since the princely speculation a Alderman I, Joydell, at the end of the least and beginning oftthe present ee~atury, there) has be~len' no sueb suspe~rb I 'attemnptto illustrate'dur ohief of poets as that which ?? Virtue and Co. are now making i. their i | 'Imperial Shakespeare, edited by Charles Knight. ti, Thb Alderman set the first English painters of his ri time to work to ...

... I _ * ?? The twenty-fourth annual show of fat cattle,l sheep, and pigs, and of poultry, roots, corn, and implements, held under the auspices of the Bir- Iningham and Midland Counties Society, com- menced on Saturday with the judging, and to-day is thrown open to the general public. The collec- tion of fat oattle in Bingley Hall this year is slightly weaker in quantity and considerably poorer ...

... . . GLOBE. . iecg+t iho are interested in drsgtic~ ^stv l~,b~iahardofa little piece by Meoirs,~iiee8n e4u a i&!idrlea Dpaqasrce11e e bearing the title ,ofjar6el, wih wes'roduced at'be ThdAtre Frangais in may'qjt, and which ?? at that theatre unabated ppar*slty. n the pro notoof Mdme e3).GlrardriU6 Za 0Joe PhtPeur ,a, hq same house, nearly twentyyearsago, thn'efeid'o, ?? believe, been no ...

... I -v.: :! From the dayp of therenowne4 fi>ico6rboal'or to those of the no lese famous Hans Breitmann, Dutch cn'd German types of character have furnished American writers with opportunities for a kind of humour whilch is strictly of Transatldntio origin; and, in rcent years, these types havo been transferred from-the novel ahd the humorous poem to the stage, where they have enjoyed a ...