... N~ ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.--There is not much to say about Mr. Gye's opening night. The opera selected was Rossini's Cuillanme Tell, the characters in which were sustained, with no exception of any moment, by the same artists to whom they were assigned on a similar occasion last season. M. Maurel, as the Sowiss patriot, exhibited marked improvement. His hand- some person and dignified bearing fit ...

... LITERATURE THE LIFE OF LORD MACAULAY. The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. By his Nephew, George Otto Trevelyan. In Two Volumes. London: Loogmans. Mr. Trevelyan's life of his uncle has one fault. It bas no index. We do not complain of this from any resentment at having been compelled by the omission to read the volumes through, for that is the reverse of a hardship, but because of the ...

... BIRMINGHAM ROYAL SOCIETY OF- I ?? SPRING EXHIBITION.-THE PRIWATE VIEW. Constancy is a ?? which wo never appreciato somuch els in times of trial or depression, and it is one for which the lirminglhesn public, therefore, ought to be very grate- fill, in theso days of comumercial decline and moteorological penance, to the local Society of Artists. Other notes andi amenities of the vernal ?? ...

... ANNADEL's RIVATL, by Dora Rnssell, author of The Vicar's Governess, &c, (3 vols,. Tinslev).-With regard to merit, Annabel's Rival stands, we think, about midway between The Vicar's Governess, Miss Russell's first and best work, and the less satisfactory novel published last summer, the title of which has escaped our memory. It is a perfectly natural and probable story, undisfigured ...

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... Tt* Dq- the Ctttarm BY R. D. BLACKMORE, AXiAor of LornZl Doone, Alice Lorraine, &Ac. CHAPTER XXXVI. MAY MORN IT was the morn when the tall and shapely tower of Magdalen is crowned with a fillet of shining white, awaiting the first step of sunrise. Once a year, for generations, this has been the signi of it-eager eyes, and gaping mouths, little knuckles blue with cold, and clumsy little ...

... MA CLEAN'S GALLER Y Tan twelfth annual exhibition of pictures at this gallery, wvhich wvas cpcned to the public on Monday last, contains a hundred and thirty-three examples by British and foreign rainters, all of which, it may be safely said, are above mediocrity, and many of which attain a high standard of excellence. A gallery of manageable size which can be viewed comfortably within a ...

... FR~INCE'S THEATRE.I Long-promised, oft-deferred Girofl.-Girofla was pro- duced at the Prince's Theatre on Monday night with an efficient cast and an excellent chorus. Thanks to the unwearying energy of the new musical conductor, Mr. F. Stanislaus, the piece had been carefully rehearsed, and went with a smoothness that left little to be desired. The libretto, which has been judiciously toned ...

... FASBIOI. AND VABITIB2. l -Sir James and Lady Power left Kingstown yesterday for England. Lady Burton left Kingstown yesterday for England. Major Rnox left Kingstown yesterday for England. Hon. 0. Ponsonby left Kingstown yester- day for England. Captain Stanton arrived at Kingstown yes- terday from England. Eon. Stanley Monk arrived at Kingstown yesterday fromn England. The following are ...

... I F-AHIONS FOR APRB. (J}oe L! loUu.) The fashlons of this saoso win, we think, he much adnilred by all whose artulate taste and just appreoiatior of the qualities oentulg til 616ganoo render their opinion o va. T!r 4 no longer any exaggeration of stle or out aflop by either tie gratdes modietes or their customer; striking eolotui i ?? and arieatres of shape and trimming are things of tho pas . ...

... BlROUGHTON'S CLASSICAL CHAMBER CONCERTS. The high obaraoter of theso concerts was fully ims. tained by the one which last evening brought the present season to at close. 'To admirers of classical chamber music this will at once be obvious from the select and artistic composition of the programme itself, which was as follows .- Trio, in E Minor, Op. 11D ?? ?? Srh. Moderato-Lorgletto-Scherzo and ...

... FOREIGN PICTURES AT THE PALL MALL GALLER Y TAKING a *wide sweep of selection from the Paris Salon, through the studios of Belgium, Holland, and Germany, Mr. Wallis is able to focus in the narrow limits of one small Gallery a very fair representation of contemporary Continental art. GenrIe has in all foreign schools so taken practical precedence of large religious, epic, or decorative art, that ...