... OURRT LITE-E M ?? . o C7URRENT XLTERATURE. | t Kennare there is a nunnery wherein one o the sisters busies herself with producing literary. mvorks in honour at once of her country and her faith. The last of these productions is euntftlie 4 The Liberator; hip Life and .Times, P61itioal, Social, and -Religious (London: ULogma se Green, add Co., .1 vol.). As v; epqcpien qf' bookbinding, ...

... I The only fault we have to find with Colonel Corvin's In France with the Germans (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 2 'vols.) is the late riord ofBitsappearance. If it had been published immediately after the termination of the war, its success with the English publio would have been more decided. The contents, indeed, have already 1 appeared in an English magazine, in whole or in i part. ...

... SOCIETY OF BRIIISH ARTISTS. The Winter Exhibition of the above Society opened last Monday. With regard to the pictures, we are glad to notice that there are signs of advance, at least in the department of oil painting. The water colours show very poorly indeed, which causes us eome surprise, because the encouragement given to this delightful branch of Art was never so great as at the present. ...

... 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 ...

... HETY. THIE BRITIStj ORCYIESTRAL 90C0IY Native musical talent, which has long been neglected, despised, or altogether unrecognised. at iesgth stands aance of roreign someconidertio at he iends of thel British public. Its foeg some aonsideration at toc e of th ground for many years, flattered, rival peidlost sole occupant of tle honforb look shrewdly to its oneed idolir td lurel t wonare no to ...

... XYr. CHARLES DILLON. (From The Hamotpshire Telegraph, December 4th, 1872.) THEATrt ROYAL, POrTsMoUTH. -Mr Charles Dillon, the eminent tragedian, commenced a six nights' engagement at this place of amuse- ment onl Monday night, and a week of Sihakespearian revivals is the result. Mr Dillon made his first appearance in the tragedy of Macbeth, and before a densely crowded house. Although his ...

... JosrEP A.RCu. By F. ArTTENBOROUGE. Palmer, ?? is a biography of Joseph Arch, the champion of the agricultural labourers, and a man -who set a movement on foot that has stricken verror into the murky dens where priesticraft undlordism, and despotism lurk. Arch was born at Barford, a Warwickshire village, in 1825, his thther being, like himself, a labourer. He moxrried early, and by his industry ...

... LI T X RAT U R K JTTLEi TODGE. has been of late years no attempt at serions riting in the literature issued at the festive season of the year. Indeedomeof our festiveproductions ould tenpt us to imagine that writing for amusement bad been given up as Hopeless also. Recent Christ. ma, numbers of magazines have been conspicuous for their dulnes, and society is beginning to wake up to the fact ...

... LTORT I _TEO1t LMORT! (a Plea for Openine the E3st London museum on Sundays.i There's a shriek in the desert dark Of the mightg city near. And my spiuit goes forth to hark- O what may my spirit hear? It hesrs the harrowing cry Of the suffering, toiling bands, Thrnat down in the dust and the mire to-die, UInucconred by Christian iands. It hears the low deep wail Of languishing bodies and seels1 ...

... THE new and original play of Lost or Found, written by Mr. Crawford Wilson and produced at the Holborn Theatre, is a work of rather an obsolete pattern. The beautiful village maiden, who is betrayed by the profligate young squire, thereupon incurs the malediction of the tenant- farmer her father, becomes a mother without having been a wife, and generally undergoes much tribulation, has ...

... TRE LONDON NUBIC HALLS. TUE 1f~~g5EXTlerngh he kndnss of Mr. H. H. Lalce, the new CO-Oepoiti'o Agency Association for procuring engagemet herieomhrotdwMuinol~ Pofesinwhich is designated The Mo leusic hail Arleff' ?? a benefit in the cam- medlico oud ?? in Drury-laros on Wednesday eveninlg. From Some causes, amfoleg whlichl probably a place should hr assigne to tise incroosed charges ton', ud ...