... A UG UARVESiF F , .T AiW S.i,-If your correspondent, A Broad Churoh t Clergyman, had sisnpy said of a serspon which .I preached at a service, to which he gives the albove heading, , t S. Thomaa'S, Eegent-etraet, en Sunday last-thon h in actthe ~g1h THorylst Festival wos pot till e evening, when t asermoa woul be * p be4 by a sa vfhose earu tness ves hima rwr a Oeac~ few of uscan hope'=to ...

... ?? MA.TU B.L MAAGnES. Bar bears off the palm this rs Lynn Linton fiction (and, be it observed, the excels the gentlemanl) it would be. fh its romantic derartment. The nd Patricia Kemball, are stories he omornm run of novels, and we are if the latter do not lend Mrs Linton of the author of Middlemarel. for October has claims on the readers frem the fiction it includes. What ding his good ...

... A BONTO OP PERDOM. I d&ftmed a wondron- dream laS faghif, As people are colnt to say, When S spirit came in the clear stwlg£i: And sang to me a lay. A spirit, ah I so falir- With golden e3 en snd hair, And a voice divinely trne: And this was the harden of the ty- Listen I all men of inorta clay- Which she sang, and I sing to yet, Sing with a hope that bears me up, And amore ! impels me on, To ...

... THE NE W PARIS OPERA HOUSE. THis sumptuous and ambitious house, which will be completed within a few weeks, may be presumed to embody the most approved principles of theatrical arrangement. Its designer, M. Gamier, has studied all the newest monuments of the kind in Europe, and by the aid of logical arrangement has contrived to satisfy the demands of a foreign audience. A great national ...

... PIROVIN CAL THEATRICAL S. ?? ., ?? ?? Inm (FROM OUrI OWN COlRlESPONDENTS.) ABERDEEN. lieu ,tJ ys 0% OrrA MIousE.-(Lessee, Mr W. Goloiersatl)-After l0 eessfully in a round of Shakespearian characters, Mr Henry Lorlos) hid Miss Edith ?? are now pleasing the lovers of the Lrdiasitie and sensational with te slate's lesssir and Tie F'aece in rlathe diaI t- drafes which bring out to advanltage the ...

... ROYAL ALBERT HALL CONCEPT The mnisellaneous Fund iin~re~rf>.iA ool-s .. tile ulssessaneoous aai. uncertain cnaracter of the - ances given at the Albert Hall since the opelnilC Of tpi nificent building, rendered it very desirable tat control should be exercised, and the musical putin with great satisfaction the announcement that ,les Ewer, and Co. have taken the entire srrangonc5t5iN and will ...

... A COMIC OPERA BY WAGNER. Die Meistersinger von N i5rnerg. Von Richard Wagner. Volu- stdndiger Clavierauszug von Carl Tausig. London: Schott and Co. Messrs. Schott and Co. have sent us the vocal score of Wagner's Meistersinger von Niirnberg, arranged for piano- forte by the late excellent pianiste, Carl Tausig, of Berlin. The present work is one of those to which the critical phrase applies, ...

... JELIC AUSEMENTS. ThE THEATRES gers are now entering on the winter cam- Man with much energy, and a busy theatrical sea- pair is promised. The leading novelties of the week soril be found noticed below, but several other in- vinresting events are to be chronicled. Foremost amongst these must be placed the return of Mr. f Irving to the Lyceum, where he is again thrilling large audiences by the ...

... .PORTRAITS COATEMPORAZNS, B1. THkOPHILE GAUTIER used to say that he had written articles and tales enough to fill some. three hundred volumes, ce qui fait que tout le monde m'appelle paresseux et me demande d quoi je m'occupe. The boast was perhaps almost as much an exaggeration as that other saying about Gavarni, that he might have built a large house with the lithographic stones he had ...

... LORD L YTTON'S SPEECHES.i TnE fecurdity and versatility of Lord Lytton's genius hindered daring his lifetime the acknowledgment of his powers in all but the one thing in which his success was incontestable because it was acclaimed by the unleamned and uncritical masses of the reading population in En-land and America. Yet the popular master of fiction would have been pained to think that he ...

... SHIP AHOY. MR. FENN'S story of Ship Ahoy! has been arranged for representation by Mr. Roberts, and produced as an original nautical drama upon the stage of the Surrey Theatre, long famous for plays dealing with marine life and character. Ship Ahoy, however, is to be distinguished essentially from those entertainments of the past occupied chiefly with the glorifica- tion of the ...

... MESSRS. J. B. CRAMER AND Co.- Three Simple Songs, by Arthur Sullivan, are dedicated to young mothers. No. e, a Cradle Song, is a melody tuneful enough to please the youngest nurslng and to hill it to sleep ; it would be well to sub- stitute pussie for kitten as being a smoother and more vocal word. George Eliot has supplied the words for No. 2, Ay-De Mi, My Bird, the music of which ...