... 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 ...

... 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, ...

... OLD SAILORS. Mrz, Bx RON las written for the Strand Theatre a comedy in three acts, entitled Old Sailors, a sort of companion work to his Old Soldierr, there being, however, no connection between the two productions beyond that of sirnilarity of title. But as Old Soldiers proved remarkably suc- cessful, there stermed to be sufficient reason for contriving a play to be called Old ...

... THIE BEST OF HUSBANDS. THIS may be called a very striking book, if that name can be secured by unexpected events and thorough improbability. Its characters fall naturally into three classes, thus: the consistently bad, who drink, forge, or cheat at cards, and break the seventh commandment-this is represented by that worthy pair Richard Milbank and Dennis Blake; lay figures, capable of ...

... A First Japanese Book for English Students. By John O'Neill (Harrison and Sons.) However praiseworthy the Japanese love of acquisitive- ness may be, it has at least tended to increase the difficulties in the way of gaining a knowledge of the written language of the country. The existence of certain ancient scrolls in some of the Japanese temples proves beyond dispute that at one time the ...

... THE GREVILLE lE/IIOIRS.* [SECOND NOTICE.] WE have spoken of the ability discernible in Mr. Greville's sketches; of contemporaries, as well as in his observations upon current events. But neither his judgments upon character nor his calculation of conse- quences were invariably correct, and were both frequently modified by his own hand. It is clear, indeed, that with him, as with most of us, ...

... THE GOVERNMENT OF LONDON. The Sa/rrday Review maintains that Mr. Cross exercised a sound dis. cretion in withholding all expression of opinion on the Municipality of London Bill. The scheme is in some respects plausible; and it world be rash to assert that it may not possibly produce some kind of pablic benefit; but it is always necessary to beware when all men speak well of a measure, or ...

... TIE l'/IL I RIit1OATi C TI/IA TIX XFlS. --:1 .A d A.S { t vA- . ;ef o ?? rrn; I'HrRE is little to be said about GirotLe-Girofla as given at t'le Pil> lairmcrnic T heatre, except that it is very well played, and better sung tbtn rrany would have thought possible at an English theatre. Mliss Jalil Mathews has a better voice than the lady who impersonated Gimbal2- Gihofla at the Opr&a Comique, ...

... OLD SAILORS:' IqR. BYRON has written for the Strand Theatre a comedy in three acts, entitled Old Sailors, a sort of companion work to his Old Soldiers, there being, however, no connection between the two productions beyond that of similarity of title. But as Old Soldiers proved remarkably suc- cessful, there seemed to be sufficient reason for contriving a play to be called Old ...

... THE BEST OF HUSBANDS.e THIS may be called a very striking book, if that name can be secured by unexpected events and thorough improbability. Its characters fall naturally into three classes, thus: the consistently bad, who drink, forge, or cheat at cards, and break the seventh commandment-this is represented by that worthy pair Richard Milbank and Dennis Blake; lay figures, capable of ...

... 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 ...