... Mt. A THE ROMANCE OF YSEULTr is stated to be the name ofMr. Swinburne's forthcoming poem. MR. FREDERICK WILLIAMt BURTON will succeed Sir William Boxall as director of the National Gallery. Mr. ARCHIBALD FORBES, the well-known correspondent of the Daily News during the Franco-German war, has been dispatched by that journal to the famine-stricken districts of Bengal. A NOVEL By VICTOR HUGO, ...

... THE FESTIVITIES IN RUSSIA ST. PETERSBURG-VIEW OF THE ICE-HILLS A letter from our special artist explanatory of this subject will be found on page 175, so we will pass on to our illustrations of IN THE TRAIN-THE BOEHARA EMBASSY AT THE STATION- ENTRY OF THE IMPERIAL PARTY INTO MOSCOW In the train represents the night journey from St. Peters- burg to Moscow-a transit of 400 miles, occupying ...

... I 'I ADDE LPM, Mr. and Mrs. Billington, who have been absent for some. months on a professional tour, made their re- appearance in London at this theatre on Saturday even- tag, in a drama entitled Rough and Ready, which has been t written expressly for them by Mr. Paul Meritt. As far v as London audiencets are concerned, Mr. Meritt's play is t entirely now; but it was unfortunately brought out ...

... : d ,e LITZfRATUBE, SCIENCE, & Ads ITEMS. .I id From the Athensnmum to M. Gounod has, it is said, received a eemmis- sion to write a work for the Grand -Opera in re Pads. Ih Mr Mapleson proposes to commence the season le of er Majesty's Opera at Drury Lane Theatre .0 earlier than usual-probably the 17th of March. - Signor-Verdi has completed his Requiem n to the memory of Manzoni, and the ...

... TIHE GAIETY THEATRE. . The remarkable success which has attended the pan- tomime at the Gaiety, and which we predicted for it at the outset, shows no sign of diminution. The house a w as as crowded liast night in etery part as on the first . representation, and so long as the same value is given to the public, we have no doubt that for many a week to come we Nill have to record a shiilar state ...

... 0 (3?m m ?Pll ' Two LITrLE WOODEN SHOES. A Sketch. By Ouida. (Chapman and HIall).-We have in this Sketch, as it seems to us, far better work than in anything from Ouida's pen that has yet fallen in our way. Power of a sort her novels have, indeed, always manifested, but the power has generally been hidden and disfigured by exaggeration and glaringly bad taste. It would, perhaps, be ...

... Litrature. a o THE TWO MIDNIGHT CRIES OF SCRIP. O TURE.* e o of this little brochure we have the earnest appeal Oof a Christian writer to those who are as yet uncon. O cerned in matters of the highest spiritual import. o ance; and, though the appeal is brief, it is home. 0 thrust and full ot tenderness and yearaing solicitude. 0 It is like the leving voice of a father warning the urnisary son ...

... WHAT , i.4BVCOMES O1i SQLTE' - WALES COAL. I VV £I.Li.LUL LJ VV L.LI9 (WY OUR £PECIAL OIMM15s1ONEn.) Hill to CHAPTER VirI. cor coy. THE MIDDLEMEN. foil .After.having given. the allmount of consi- vye deration due to coal proprietors, coal mer- sib, chants properly so-called, shipowners, 'aid ser 1hipbrokers; I: should be guilty of casting a dir serious slight upon a very useful and meri- EV ...

... The remarkably mild weather we have had lately has really made the velvet and cloth costumes trimmed with fur, and the comnforttable winter wraps usually worn at this seasos, appear quite incongruous. Fur is now rapidly disappearing as a trimming, and its place is occupied by bands of curled feathers, also by psassementerie, cvhicle seems to be more elaborate every day, and well worthy of its ...

... ta etr a. A NJ.V LE.(;lND OF TIl, FORGET-ME-NOT. When b vyelie lost tier Lord. the Lord of Love, 11eeping ioiloe she Wandered, Li-tless by every we ll-kimion fihld and grove, And oi tier lost Love pondered. La-tly by Lethe's stresanl tier footsteps strayed Anl d ( 1 ' t' ?? idl, in, ighing, 'Thut I miiglht diri and inj' past bfo be mado Like dreamis witlh daylig it dying The big tears from ...

... I . OULIJIEIT LJT RIKATI ?? , a . We l qave q voluxme of interesting and thouhtfuil 'ritieolm i ''Uter Spits, y Robert Buchaenan (London :- :lenry S. King a tvol.). The essays of which it consists are reprinted from various rviews and imagawnis; but' tL4 author is justified in ?? them: as .a suleient value to.'merit reprodugtion. In the introductory paper o the I nature asid junctions of c ...

... The Milliner and Dressemakcr (Goubanld and Sons, d Covent-garden). This comparatively young fashion book i has earned for itself a good reputation in the trade and L- among ladies generally, and may now be regarded as a recognised authority on the special subjects with which it d deals. The numerous coloured fashion plaies are executed in a finished manner, and the cutting nut plates are is ...