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... LrIT J AT 0 BE entISTMAS ANNUAIA. ' gelgrnvia A.nnual.-Miss Braddon's Christ- The' is only a fair one. It contains nothing ?? numnirble in any way. It has a list of good veryl zuarr . but they must have been uninspired tatutoete 'jts, or in a bad humonr, for the stories bytbeiry 5cecnmonplace. Miss Braddon's stories- mery es and 'AGood Hater-are, of cos as, ?? Tite but are not up to.-her ...
... THEATRIOALS IN AUSTRALIA. (EROS OUR OWN CORRrSPONDENT,) MELBOURNE, OCT. 11, 1872.-Of course the sensation of the month has been the marvellous Lottie, who with her brothers Frank and Victor have been astonishing all beholders. It appears next to impossible to whet the appetites of the enthusiastic audiences that nightly greet her and most handsome offers have been made by enterprising caterers ...
... THE Winter Exhibition of the Society of British Artists is now open at the gallery in Suffolk Street, some seven hundred works in oil and water colours by members of the ...
... YUBI3JO AmOINTS, THE THEATRES, &C. r We should remind our readers that the ergagement of . Mr. C. Mathews at the Gaiety is drawing to a close, and , hiat the time for enjoying the interesting performances of this most nccomplieheo comedian is brief. Dnring the week the theatre has 1 eeu crowded to witness sho repre. lentation of A Gname of Speculation, whersin, as 611r. Afable Hawk, Mr. ...
... The eleventh winter exhibition of sketches and studies by by members of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours is characterised by a high degree of general artistic excel- lence and interest. There is now little to distinguish the winter exhibitions of the Old Water-Colour Society from the summer ones, except that the drawings composing the former are described in the catalogues as ...
... : THE Duke of Wellington has made a handsome contribution to our military literature in this volume. For although, like the prizeman Mr. Maurice, the writers have almost of necessity given their chief attention to the pressing want of the hour in our service-an improved system of tactics suited to our improved weapons-yet the changes they advocate are so great,. and the arguments for them so ...
... -The E;RATICS at St, George's Hall. T'wo pretty women, with an inexhaustible fund of go- aid . elegant properiies, good scenery, the ?? costuniec5 ot Harrison, an audience to ire numbered among the clitc of -ociety, alr excellent band, and the politest and most obliging ot steoards, did not succeed in making * rle Erratics' first perori armnc for tie wirnterseason, 1872 3, at St. ...
... LONDON: A Pilgrimage, by Gustave Dor6 and Blanchard Jerrold (Grant and Co.). In this work M. Gustave Dord has given us a collection of drawings, good always, or nearly always -for so ...
... $ THESE volumes contain sketches of a highly interesting family, and of a number of men whose names are as honoured as they are familiar. Francis, Julius, Augustus, and Marcus Hare- the most brotherly of brothers, as Landor called them-are vividly represented here, and so also is their ancestor Bishop Hare, a man of great learning, but wanting, one would imagine, in common-sense, since he ...
... Madame Norman-Ndruda, having recovered from her in- disposition, made her first appearance this season on Monday week at St James's Hall. The quartets selected were Schumann's in A minor, and Haydn's in F major, Op. 17, No. 2. Madame A. Goddard joined Madame Ndruda in 2ozart's D major sonata, and played also Beet- hoven's pianoforte sonata in A fiat, Op. 26. These pieces and their rendering by ...
... TIIE rHEA TRES AN American actot, who has just made his first appearance in this country at the ADELPHI Theatre, is likely to become a favourite with English playgoers. Mr. J. K. Emmett, whose name in ...
... The novelties during the past week have neither been numerous nor important, and the present aspect of the Metropolitan dramatic world may be indicated briefly. At COVENT-GARDEN Babil and Bjou has been performed every evening. At DRURY-LANE a new interest has been imparted to Mr. Hlalliday's dramatic version of 27ic Lady of the Lake by Mr. Sinclair and Mr. Fer- nandez nightly exchanging the ...