... 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 corporation and by outside contributors, being contained in the collection. The walls of the exhibition wear thus a well-covered aspect, and vacant spaces are hard to find; at the same time it must be said that mediocrity ...

... 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 ...

... 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 some few of them show signs of that over-haste and quast carelessness which occasionally mar his workmanship-and often of marked excellence and beauty ; and the accompanying letter- press of Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, ...

... 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 indicates an Irish origin, is already very well known in the United States, where he has recently completed a professional tour, extending to one thousand nights ; but what is more re- markable the ...

... FOREMOST amongst the unselfish enjoyments of Christmastide are penny readings and parish tea parties. What shall we wear? is so often asked on these occasions that we intend to commence our fashion article with a few words of advice on the subject in question. Take for the foundation a moderately long, well-gored dress of black silk, and the variations which can be made thereon are manifold. ...

... * SucH is the title of a shilling pamphlet by Mr. T. B. Sprague, M. A., the Senior Wrangler of 1853, now a Vice-President of the Institute of Actuaries, and occupying a foremost position in the actuarial profession. This pamphlet is the first part of a summary and analysis of the accounts of the Life Insurance Companies of Great Britain and Ireland, as now for the first time exhibited by the ...

... 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 ...

... GREAT Battles of the British Navy, by Lieut. C. R. Low, R.N. (R'outledge). This interesting work will be especially valuable to all young students of naval history, to whom more ponderous books on the subject are unattainable. Though the volume bristles throughout wvitls minute statistical particulars, and such politico-historical information as will enable the reader to understand the cause ...

... 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 ...