... WHEN Don Preciso Gutierrez y Pillon received with his morning chocolate a letter informing him that a childless relation had left him one of the largest properties in the province of Embusteros, his first feelings of pleasure were strongly tempered with regret. His modest patrimony had hitherto enabled him to enjoy that sweet idleness which is the ideal of existence at Madrid. In a capital ...

... LESSING'S LA OCOON. - MISS FROTHINGHAM'S careful and clear translation of a work which has been more often praised than either translated or, we suspect, read will give those unacquainted with German a very fair idea of the famous work of the earliest and greatest of modern German critics. The simple and well-knit style of the author of the Laocoon suffers less by translation than might ...

... LESSING'S LA OCOON.X. MIsS IROTHINGHAM'S careful and clear translation of a work which has been more often praised than either translated or, we suspect, read will give those unacquainted with German a very fair idea of the famous work of the earliest and greatest of modern German critics. The simple and well-knit style of the author of the Laocoon suffers less by translation than might ...

... IN connection with the opening of the new French Opera now nearly conm. pleted, a discussion, which has the advantage of being interminable, has. been started on the subject of nationality in music. Three State per. formances are to be given for the inauguration of the house; and it has been naturally decided that the works represented should be French. But the question then arises whether the ...

... THE ALLEGED FRAUD ON THE STOCK EXCHANGE. This afternoon, for the fourth time, the hearing of the charge against Mr. Joseph Aspinall, Mr. Samuel Gurney Fry, Mr. George Parkyns Knocker, Mr. John Saunders Muir, and Mr. Charles Knocker, of having conspired together to defraud members of the Stock Exchange of a large sum of money, was resumed at the Mansion House. The Lord Mayor drew the attention ...

... CITY OFFICE, Chsanye-a1lcq, Cornhig'. F#ridaly, ?? o)'cbl)ck'. There is not much activity on the Stock Exchange this morning. The markets were somewhat depressed at the opening on the rumour of further difficulties in regard to the settlement, but these have since been overcome, arid though the markets are still flat there has been a recovery in some few securities. It, the discount market ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... SECOND EDITION, 2.30 p.m. THE FRENCH PERMANENT COXIMISSION. (SPECIAL TELEGRAM.) PARIS, Thursday, 11.30 A.M.-At the meeting of the Permanent Com- wission to-day, M. Alahy will demand the dismissal of the Prefect of Nice on the ground that he has favoured Separatist movements. The Right will put an interpellation to the Government respecting the recall of the OrCoiwqu. In II official circles no ...

... 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 ...

... CONCERNING the genius of Kaulbach criticism may have something to say, but of his laborious industry and untiring invention there can be nothing but acknowledgment. A series of photographs in course of publication by Mr. Frederick Bruckmann (Henrietta-street, Covent- garden) afford fresh proof of the fertility of the painter's powers. They are taken from paintings and designs left by Kaulbach ...

... IN connection with the opening of the new French Opera now nearly con. pleted, a discussion, which has the advantage of being interminable, has been started on the subject of nationality in music. Three State per. formances are to be given for the inauguration of the house; and it has been naturally decided that the works represented should be French. But the question then arises whether the ...