... ?? 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... THE BROKEN BRANCH.' Ever since opera bouffe became so successful and profitable il Paris, and since opera boul1ffe gralually melted into comic oieras and sinec musical pieces occupied the principal attention Of playgeocis in the most Theatre-loving capital in tfle world, tue utuost energy has been exp.iended on the discovery of authors capable of suoplying a wide market. Well knowing the ...

... i {b. .. . I .OW N' CORRESPONIDENT.) I The four da~ys' visit of lf.l.l7L the Duke of Edinbeirgic to Liverpool during the past woeek h kept tise town in ass almost cotinueous ectmn an ashis visit hats becis for a theol thepurpose-to EaLY the foudsi1datiosustoseC of the iew Walker Are Gallryt, to iasgnorate the Liverdsool Triennial Musical Festival, and to oplen tic a aliaoen's ?? i5 ...

... 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 ...

... , A, t1laest of outr Metropolitan establishments the business is sh,-e the average. The Promenade Concerts at COVENT- ' itItN conutine to be exceedingly well attended. Ott Monday C-ext 1a dale LwImetlS-ShOIrigtOn Will make her ?? appear- ance ail seasot, alnd Oll the Monday following Madame Sinico wll33 apetih. The gland military and dramatic spectacle of pjdao1II Ccv? die LioIn is proving ...