... PAdB I(Y AND VARIETIES. THE COURT.. Baden.Baden,Vill Hohenlobe, Wednesday. TheQaeeou, accompauned by Princess Bentricetravelled by special train yesterday morning to Darmstadt, and visited their Royal Hightesses the Prince and /Princess Louis of Hesse. Her MaJesty returned to Baden in the afternoon, and aa-ted shortly after eight. Lady Churchill said General Ponsonby were In atten. dance, ...

... 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 ...

... LITERARY N OTICD ES. I) In W acriflaan this zionth She plece of honour is assigned n to Mr. Matthew Arnold, whose paper is on 'The Church of England.' Wne contribution is not strictly speaking. an original one- or rather- it is the address, amplified vwe 0 believe, which the author delivered to the London clergy' at a- Sion College. As an exposition of the writer's viewss it 15 X, clear like ...

... PUBLIC AXUSENENTS. THE BANK HOLIDAY. Monday, although not a sunshiny, was a dry day, and multitudes of holiday makers left town for the sea-side bad elsewhere. The suburban lines of railway conveyed many thousands of pleasure seekers, and omnibuses and tmantcars on some favourite routes-such as those to Peckham, Brixton, Clapham, and Hornsey-were un- equal to the immense demand for seats. ...

... MR. FITZGERALD has compiled both a timely and a useful work. The merit of a work of this nature lies not so much in originality as in fidelity and in careful reference to authority. Much that has from time to time been made public must necessarily be reproduced. Important documents must be abstracted or reprinted in extenso, for the whole history of the enterprise, as well public as private, ...

... LORD ALBEMVARLE'S REMINISCEATCES.' FAMILY history is always interesting, and Lord Albemarle himself has. seen so much of the world, both at home and abroad, that his memory could hardly fail to supply him with a large amount of curious and enter- tamining matter. We think, however, he might have made more of the- Keppels of England. The first three Earls of Albemnarle were all men of great ...

... HER Al/A YESTY'S OPERA. PrENDBEG the completion of the National Opera House, Mr. Mapleson proposes to have a (I brief but brilliant season at Drury Lane, which, for one more sumnmer, will serve as resting-place for Her Majesty's Opera in its passage from its ancient home in the Haymarket to the abode now being prepared for it on the Thames Embankment. On the point of entering a new house, the ...

... VA RIET l'I ES. Ow! 1loanonRIL!-Tmnmny (siddeiily-fin his way hiorte w from Ohtorch). `What rid vyou take out of the Bag, a Marcm a! J only got Sixpeinee ! Lookli here l--Punch.. WI ea PIPING TIMES. Lc tu This must be a plsasmint nitd easy-going employer, who su advertises in the Tfese S issex Gazettei- au lITANTED, a CARTER. Will be allowed to do any- PIl v thin g he likes exceipt smoke in ...

... S . . I H OW. rhe $krbig W'r is PR n t teft of the many aldwi by Aiiichth repttdir 8'ti nefulrtasa of the Royal Dublin Society are main- tained..- I IlS 8tifcia 'inw*hittri'r k lblgslve as welb It is the gathering together of the best breediug etock i Irp4b, o qk 4 A0,qattle fiqo * good place too. On no other oocation is there annything like the same Ait ltia r1cultural circles. The effect on ...

... Fosra AND VERSZ e Francls Armstrong, M.A., Pro- o flr . stovry and Enuglish Literature in the p ?i coEtllege, C~ork, Queen's Urniversity in I,5g; hC~ s ?? poeticgift, of the sub- .ps;hare gold, wfhich he uses iD ian mdc'e bt ,eoflann~er He has thoughts of his C ieflt~ a 3 style 'of his own, which | ?? herd of imitators untoI foriginality. These me, s art !I ?? published volumes, Poems, -bl ...

... littratur.c. Debrett's Illustrated Peerage and Baronetage, Titles of Courtesy, and the Knightage, 1876. London: DEAN and SON, 160A, Fleet-street. a Debrett is well-known. Those whose business requires frequent reference to a work of this class know that De- brett's Peerage ia unrivalled for accuracy and conciseness, whilst, at the same time, no information of real value is omitted. The editor ...

... For twenty-three years the connoisseur has had the advani- tage of seeing a host of important continental works yearly at the pleasant Gallery in Pall-mall, and the exhibition this year will be found even more attractive than usual, seeing that it comprises many choice examples from the Paris Salon. A great many styles of art are here represented. In one place we look upon the dreamy, poetical ...