... 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 ...

... -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 ...

... THESE sketches of Australian life and scenery have been taken in the flourishing colony of Victoria. Their chief interest is as reminiscences of its rapid progress in the last quarter of a century, and of the changes that time has wrought in the conditions of colonial society. The anonymous author professes to have had some literary experience, although he has let it rust through a long ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... I| Mr R. Dodson, whose clever and effective plays Anne Boleyn and Two Hundred Yeats Ago were so well received, has added to his laurels by the production of a vigorously written and exciting play, having the title of The Armourer, which was produced at the Britannia on Monday evening with complete success. The pesiod of Mr Dodson's drama is 1529, when Bluff King Hal sat uponl the throne of ...

... I On the evening of Tuesday last the Theatre in connection with that marvellous establishment in the St. Pancras-road,the raison ?? of which is the development ofnmuscle, was filled to reple- tion to witness a performance, by the members of the English Dramatic Club which has been organised, of M1r H. T. Craven's admirable comedy-drama entitled Coaes of Fire. Judging by the laughter and ...

... L LITERARY _, IELLANEA. Tmass A-ND HEAiH.-May would ifeem it an act of validalism to remoe a woll-urown trdflfrom the'neigh- bourhood of a dwellihg. 'ot, although 'wc love the pleasant green trees as much as any one, observations made from time toilne in various situations sliew that, in respect to health, a large quantity of foliage too close to a house is not desirable. In the fist instance, ...

... 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 ...

... TIIE LONDON MUSIC HALLS. THE BEDFORD. G, H. BogLENO'S BnFEFaT.-With justice 'ir H. G. MIe i call his benefit, which took place at the Bedford ;hiensEdaY evening, a monster entertainment. There was a elk Tb udience, cramming every portion of the Hall; a r05ter agrammne, including most of the popular artistes of the number of nearly one hundred; and Mr thejeljhimelf E in addition met with what ...

... Under the sole direction of Mrs W. H. Liston this pleasant little Theatre reopened last Saturday, with every promise of a successful season. The chief feature in the programme was a new comic opera entitled Pont, the music and also the libretto being from the pen of the well-knowr composer Signor Buca- lossi, whose Italian comic operas many English amateurs are already ?? with. The story of ...