... ?? 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 ...

... I _I The third annual show of poultry and pigeons in Oxford was held in the Town Hall and Corn Exchange on Wed- nesday and Thursday last, and both in point of numbers B and excellence was superior to the preceding shows. Both P the above-mentioned buildings were filled in every avail- h able space with pens, the entries being about 100 in excess E of last year. The show is now only excelled ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

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... IPROMENADE CONCERTS-THE EXHIBITIOM TO TEE EDITOR OF THE} FREEMAN. SIR-I have read with much interest the letter of your London Correspondent in Saturday's Preemanr referring to Messrs. Gatti's concerts at Covent-garden, which have proved such a decided hit for the ma- nagers of those delightful entertainments. The large and appreciative audiences which nightly crowd Co- vent-garden are ...

... SRINS DURING the past month, and for the next fortnight to come, weddings have been and will be the order of the day, and a few hints as to the minor details of bridal attire may not be found unprofitable for those who are about to take part in wedding ceremonials. More often than not, the bride insists upon having her hair dressed by a fashionable eoiffeur, who changes the style which she has ...

... THPE OAPBIB N2.VLSON'COMPANYAM THE ODARIFF THETR. a. I . .. ; . 1 . .. - 1 .- . - . d' Wo preduction at the ThealbreRogal, Cardlif,.e 1 lpt pight of two popular diainas by e company 'in, . a which no ...

... IT IDOLATRY, a romance, by Julian Hawthorne (2 vols.: H. S. King and Co.).-In Mr. Julian Hawthorne's new story, as in Bressant, what first strikes the reader is the marvellous instance which each ...

... ABERGAVENNY HORSE SHOW AND AGRICULTURAL ABSSOMA- TION. a TLe 5n51uaI meeting on Thursday was held under L8 the most aufavourable cl)'oitatncel, torrente of V. rain f31aiug until about two o'look, when ...

... ti TIIE ART CLASS IN ST. JOHN',, sinRTSEA. 11 II I ?? I:-A to thu mlece I Atudents 'liilt>; ?? etit I Utat-aca pcic,' to the ca 'iceoef el ottidtcts in sam noti t ice 1'nib0 evei,? the ?? o h Su timar eiean St. johuc, Fo~ertoe, wete preoccited in the tnrm j cili irt Pa ill St.eo u 'sVt Po heth V-icar (be J1ev. Jouh Alre yeo 'I bi Ill Prlwo eo -sret 1 o 11, leicatilil Iv-dl 'the report, ...