... no_ FRENCH PLAYERS. M. LESUEUR. M. Lesneur's career is a striking illustration of the fact that an actor cannot serve Art and Mammon. Endowed with singular gifts for the fine rendering of certain comic characters, M. Lesueur was induced to leave these to batten onfleries. That the extravagant combinations of wit and spectacle in which he took part were much improved by his presence is as ...

... (From the Uardenersr Biagazise.) i Hrrcurni GARSDE' .-BOeliq to be dressed with soot or wood ntises, and hoed up quite to the lowest leaves. Fow for succrs- lon. i1hey like a rich retentive boll. bow celery for the lMat time in seed pans, and place on a hot bed; but if no convenience of that kird sow on a warm dry border, and It will come up in time to make good plants for a late supply. Sow ...

... 1 ?? ?? ?? - ?? M ii 06?j THE PRINCE OF WALES IN THE TERAI MEASURING THE TIGER This is a sketch during the first days' shooting in Nepaul. The Prince of Wales has just shot a tiger, and several of the suite, including Mr. Bartlett, the taxidermist, with the Prince, have got down from their elephants to measure the animal. The party, writes Mr. H.Johnson,ourspecialartist, formned ...

... a, The annual stallion show in connection with n I the Durham County Agricnltural Society wvasts A heal yesterday, in the Oveanl Staud Euclosure of tb e the Durham Race Course. There was a numerous by attendance. The sum of £25 was offered by the ag d Society for the best thorough-bred and cart th e stallion. There were thoet entries for the thorough-breds, and nine for the cart stallions. E ...

... Por].TRY. | IiTTLAE CHILIDREN. 1 tbinik the stars are fair, Far in the deep blue air; And flowers are'surely sweet That conie the spring to greet. And birds are dear I know, The streams are clear that flow And field and forest bright As suaioer shines in light. But 0, the children fair, Than stars to mce are raro; And sweeter than the flowers And birds in sumoer bowers. And stream, and field, ...

... . a GEMS OF THOUGHT. KNsoWLroOn.-Avail yourself of all your knowledge without making a display of it. That machinery works best that is hidden from view. WRoes-DOING.-TOO Reany persons are far less-ashamed of having done wrong than of being found out. HURRY AND CUNNING} are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them over learned their master's trade. TnovsLES.-A person is ...

... ii: l?P.!IiL? MIE1MOIR AND CoOR1rSPONDrNCE OF CAROLINE HERSCHEL, by Mrs. John Herschel (John Murray).-The little sister of Thackeray's pathetic sketch rises oddly to our mind on reading these memorials of the elder Herschel's self-denying fellow-worker. But it is the little sister glorified-sweeping the heavens for nebulae and comets-a satellite, but the satellite of a star, and living ...

... THROUGH the mad March weather Violets mock the snow, Birds of every feather Make Love's music flow: April, dim newcomer, Smiling seems to say- Lo i imperial Summer Glows upon the way. Yet a tremour thrills us, Remembering wintry hours, Lest the Fools of April Come without the Flowers. Long ago, ere Lady Maud was wrapt in silk, She was sent through shady Groves for pigeons' milk Long ago this ...

... -0a CONCERT AT THE ROYAL AQUARIUM. The weekly concerts at the above institution have hitherto afforded little opportunity for critical comment. It istruethat the list of works performed at them comprises many important orchestral compositions, but these were generally mixed up with other works of such doubtful standing as to somewhat lower the artistic character of the concerts themselves. We ...

... ?? [P- !I) I ~i i SH2N TiE seeds of ?? taste sown by the School of Art Needle- work are already bearing fruit. The extravagant toun of last ?? has merged into graceful folds of drapery, the strained-back skirts are at all events modified, if not banished entirely. So much depends upon the cut of a tunic or skirt, and the correct adjust- n ent of pleats, that we advise our readers to provide ...

... I - VARI E' I ES. w; It AnvicC To AsPIRANTS.-If von go in for a Spelling Bee, T and are brought down at the first shot, mind not to be e' ?? s d le Nrw Foitm OF FoOT-AND-MIOUTHr DIsEAsE.-Skating d Rinks and Spelling Bees.-Jandy. r. Sr. PATREIC's D.,Y.-Cardinal Manning addressed a letter to his dock with reference to keeping the festival of d St. Patrick's Day, which stated that an indulgence ...

... LORD MACAULAY.' [FIRST NOTICE.] THE two volumes in which Mr. Trevelyan has given us the life of his celebrated uncle possess one great merit: they are an honest attempt at genuine biography. When we consider the boundless field for disquisi- tion, both political and literary, which is offered by the life of such a man, and the strong temptation to expatiate in it which must be felt by the ...