... $ 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 ...

... 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, ...