... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... W ~~AT RB-igwh U:SU~~s Mr. Cr.A\EN'S historical drama at the Duiut's Theatre has given place to a new play, in two acts, from the pen of Mr. Robert Rleece, which bears the title, An Old Alan. At the Duke's Theatre, as at some others, the real business of the evening is burlesqute or extravagana ; but as the patrons of entertainments of this kind cannot easily be induced to occupy their stalls ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... ?? [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 ...