... IT. MR. SPEnDING, who probably knows more about Bacon than any other living mal, replies in the Conltcporazly to l)r. Abbott's attempted solution of the discrepancies between the theories and the prac ...

... 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 ...

... '3 ~ ~ TITE HAND OF ETIHELEERTA, A COMEDY IN CHAPTERS, by Thomas Hardy, author of Far from the Madding Crowd, &c. (2 vols.: Smith and Elder).-This book is unquestionably the work of a true artis ...

... r---11- TIIEAT~E ALTHOUGH Easter Monday has, like Boxing Night, lost some- thing of its importance in the theatrical calendar, Easter is still a time of exceptional effort among managers, and it happ ...

... ?? ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.--Mdlle. Albani comes back to us with her voice fresh and strong, singing with more and more facility, with more and more expression of the genuine kind, expression never overdo ...

... The Carrier was in no pleasant mood; his eyes were stern and stedfast, and the colour of his healthy cheek was deepened into crimson. He bore with a bent arm and set muscle the sceptral whip of the fa ...

... 9 - - I MESSRS. METZLER AND Co.-Four out of seven songs fiom hence are for contralto voices. A really pretty poem by G. T. Mletzler, The Child's Dream, has been set to music by Henry Smart, who wou ...

... 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 rain ...

... Where to go is the firest question asked by thousands on Easter Monday, and the response of their friends was in a, great many cases the Crystal Palace for in addition to the I adwtages of a popular resort where wet or dry a host of 'Visitors may find accommodation. It is worth while to compare the results of different years to show how it hag gradually dawned upon the popular mind that ...

... A most disastrous conflagration broke out on Tuesday even- ing at the Thdttre-des-Arts, Rouen, half an hour before the time fxed for the representation of Al. Aiubroise Thomas's opera hlamnlet, and just as the doors were being opened to the public. The calamity was caused by one of the footlights setting lire to the curtain. along which the flames rapidly communicated to theinflaimable ...

... -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 ...

... . Social Science and National Economy. By Robert Ellis Thompson, : M.A., Professor of Social Science in the University of Pennsylvania. (Sampson Low and Co.) Professor Thompson says that he has in the publication of the present work a twofold object in view. He desires, first, to furnish a readable * discussion of the subject of which it treats for the use of those who wish to get some ...