... 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 ...

... THE LIFE OF TAMES DIXON. * THE who would gain a knowledge not only of this man or of that man but of the great classes into which mankind is ever dividing itself should be a wide reader in biographical literature. By no other means can he gain an insight into the various forms of life and thought that exist outside his own little world. Though it is true that these forms are constantly ...

... A PEEP A T MEXICO. - IMR, GEIGER'S book makes no more pretensions than is implied in its ,modest title. He paid but a flying visit to Mexico, landing at Manzanillo, on the Pacific Coast, and passing through the capital to Vera Cruz; and he professes merely to record the observations that struck him in transit. But he more than performs his promise; his chapters give us the impres- sion of ...

... Crushed beneath his Idol. By A. C. Sampson. 3 vols. (Tinsley,) A servant getting rid of his master in some distant land, personating the dead man, and appropriating his money and estates is a common theme for a sensa- tion novel. The book before us is but a slight variation of this well-worn subject. The part that Fred Rolt is to play is evident from the beginning even to an inexperienced ...

... 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 ...

... .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 ...

... 'THE GENEVA CROSS, A IELODRA1,4A called The Geneva Cross, said to have been repre- sented with extraordinary success in the principal cities of the United States, has now been brought to England and produced upon the stage of the Adeiphi Theatre. The author is MIr. G. F. Rowe, who some few Seanons back won applause by his portrayal of the character of Mr. Micawber at the Olympic. T The ...

... CAEINET PICTURES IN OIL AT THE DUDLEY GALLER Y. THE individual excellence of any gallery of modern English paintings rrust be reckoned apart from a general progress noticeable of late years in the style and method of English painters. On all sides the meaning and uses of art have become better understood. The improvement is not to be loudly spoken of, for it is, in a large view of art, still ...

... PORTRAITS CONfTEJIPORAINS. * AL THtOPHILE 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 ...

... cAbIN'ET PCTURES IN OIL AT THE DUDLEY CA L L ER'Y. Tinl. individual excellence of any gallery of modern English paintings Must be reckoned apart from a general progress noticeable of late years in the style and method of English painters. On all sides the meaning and uses of art have become better understood. The improvement is not to be loudly spoken of, for it is, in a large view of art, ...

... ROMAN IMIPERIAL PROFILES. * IN Lockhart's Life of Scott, mention is made of an illustration to the Border Minstrelsy, which had rather a curious history. The engraving was designed by Grecian Williams, from a copy made by Clerk, of a, sketch by Scott himself. Though the product of the work of three draughtsmen, one of whom could not draw a straight line, while the two others had ...