... DOMESTIC MANAGEMENT. IN compiling the series of volumes announced on this title-page, Mr. Southgate has proved that he understands the art of using other people's brains. His books are admirably fitted for a dentist's parlour or the drawirg-room of an hotel. In moments of intellectual lethargy or physical discomfort extracts from well-known writers on a variety of subjects may afford a slight ...

... TEE dull season in music, of which the dulness has been made only the more apparent by the forced liveliness here and there of a few operas bouffes, is at last coming to an end. The Saturday concerts of the Crystal Palace began on Saturday; and a more interesting scheme than that of the new series has never been presented to the musical public. These concerts have long been distinguished from ...

... OF the whole vast collection of political journals, memoirs, and biogra- phies which have been published during the last thirty years, we doubt if there is one which either in interest or variety is superior to the present volumes. Among the twelve hundred pages to which it is extended we have scarcely found a single dull one. And though little further illus- tration of the political history ...

... $ MR. HUGHES is a painstaking and well-informed writer, and in many passages as readable and agreeable as we can expect to find him in a work studiously adapted to the purpose of speedy reference. We must object, however, to the elasticity of the limits he has assigned himself, which inakes i; somewhat difficult to ascertain on what points he may or may not be consulted satisfactorily. For ...

... 1IUGIJES'S GEOGRAPHY OF BRITISH HISTORY. -- . . I X I -- so -- r. -, ! - - :- MR. HGHIIFS is a painstaking and well-informed writer, and in many passages as readable and agreeable as we can expect to find him in a work studiously adapted to the purpose of speedy reference. We must object, howevcr, to the elasticity of the limits he has assigned himself, which makes i; somewhat difficult to ...

... THE PHIL HARYO-NIC THEA TRE. WHEREAis little to be said about Girofle-Girofla as given at the Phil- harmonic 'Theatre, except that it is very well played, and better sung thia wany would have thought possible at an English theatre. Miss Julia Mathews has a better voice than the lady who impersonated GirotfE' Girofia at the Opera Comique, and enters fully into the spirit of her part- perhaps ...

... A WE hear a great deal in these days of the function of thte seer. England has at the present moment a tolerable supply of this interesting class. Mr. Carlyle's example in raving at nearly every judgment the mass of men have formed is largely followed. We have among us, however, one seer whose achievements promise to outdo those of all rivals- Mr. Robert Buchanan. Most writers, however ...

... e MR. BATEMAN, entering upon the fourth season of his management of the y Lyceum Theatre, has reproduced the psychological drama of The 3 Bells, with, of course, the admired Mr. Irving as the representative of the guilty burgomaster Mathias. To this curious dramatic study by MM. Erckman-Chatrian, translated and modified by Mr. Leopold Lewis, the r success of the Lyceum during the past ...

... MR. REECE, in converting Les Cent Vierges into The Island of LS Bachelors has given himself a great deal of needless trouble, and has ts done both the authors and the composer of the original work much d unnecessary harm. In the first place, the Green Isles, to which, 11 according to the supposition of Al. Lecocq and his librettists, a cargo of s, marriageable young women was sent out, ...

... MR. BATEMIAN, entering upon the fourth season of his management of the Lyceum Theatre, has reproduced the psychological drarma of The Bells, with, of course, the admired Mr. Irving as the representative of the guilty burgomaster Mathias. To this curious dramatic study by MM. Erckman-Chatrian, translated and modified by Mr. Leopold Lewis, the success of the Lyceum during the past three ...